EBRD Star Venture
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development · Multilateral startup programme
$155K24-month programme: strategy workshops, business advisory, investor access, plus $5,000 AWS credits and up to $150,000 Microsoft Azure credits
EBRD's 24-month support programme for high-growth tech startups in its economies of operation, including Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia and the West Bank and Gaza.
Key terms
- Non-equity advisory programme run by a multilateral development bank
- For pre-Series A startups with product-market fit, early commercial traction and technical founders
- Must be active in an EBRD economy, or have most development/engineering team there
- Excludes military, gambling and tobacco sectors
- Calls open country by country (current open call is Moldova/Ukraine); check the applications page for Arab-region calls
- Cloud perks require separate online application and approval
Eligibility
- Where
- Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Tunisia, Palestine
- Stages
- seed
- Needs VC/accelerator backing
- No
- Needs partner referral code
- No
- Must be incorporated
- Yes
- AI focus required
- No
- Students / researchers
- Not eligible
- Nonprofits
- Not eligible
Also required
- Also open in other EBRD economies (Central/Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Turkey) when calls run there
- Pre-Series A only
- Proven product/market fit and early traction
How to apply
Complete the ~30-minute online form when a call covers your country; shortlisted startups pitch to an international panel.
- Benefit
- in-kind
- Equity-free
- Yes
- Decision time
- —
- Credit validity
- —
- Deadline
- Periodic country calls
- Status
- Paused — next round TBA
Verified 2026-10-23 · source