EIC partner services for deep-tech innovators 

For EIC Pathfinder, Transition and Accelerator beneficiaries, commercial progress often depends on answering a difficult question: is the opportunity ready for investment, partnership, market entry or scale, and what could stop it?

Sabzeh Partners provides an individualised commercial and investment-readiness due diligence assessment for deep-tech ventures and innovation teams. The service is designed to test commercial potential, identify the assumptions that need evidence, and clarify the risks most likely to affect funding, strategic partnerships, market entry or scale-up.

What the assessment covers

Early-stage readiness:

For Pathfinder and earlier-stage Transition projects, the assessment focuses on unmet need, potential applications, value proposition, IP and commercialisation routes, team or spin-out readiness, evidence milestones and financing pathway.

Later-stage readiness:

For later-stage Transition and Accelerator companies, the assessment can also cover customer evidence, competitive position, business model, pricing, financial assumptions, funding requirements, regulatory dependencies, execution capacity and investor materials.

Expected output

The beneficiary receives a written due-diligence report and management debrief identifying:

• Evidenced strengths

• Unsupported assumptions

• Material risks

• Information gaps

• Priority actions for remediation

The intended outcome is an evidence-based assessment of commercial and investment readiness, together with a practical plan for addressing the weaknesses most likely to impede funding, partnership or market progress. 

This service is for EIC-backed ventures preparing to raise equity investment, venture debt or other appropriate growth capital.

Sabzeh Partners helps beneficiaries clarify how much capital is needed, why it is needed, which value-inflection milestones it should support, and how the investment case should be presented to credible investors.

The work can include investor-readiness assessment, refinement of the business and investment case, strengthening of the investor narrative, pitch materials, financial model and data room, investor targeting and a structured engagement strategy. Where agreed, Sabzeh Partners can also support investor outreach, meeting preparation, due-diligence responses, negotiation strategy and transaction progress.

Typical areas covered

• Funding strategy and financing pathway

• Investment proposition and investor narrative

• Pitch materials and data-room readiness

• Investor targeting and prioritisation

• Value-inflection milestones

• Investor engagement planning

• Due-diligence and negotiation support

Typical outputs

A clearer funding case, stronger investor materials, a focused investor-engagement process and improved readiness for capital discussions.

This service is for EIC-backed teams that need to decide which markets, partners or commercial routes are worth pursuing before committing scarce time, credibility and resources.

Sabzeh Partners helps beneficiaries prioritise international opportunities, identify suitable customer, distributor, licensing, co-development or strategic partner routes, and prepare for credible market-facing engagement.

Typical areas covered

• Market-entry logic and prioritisation

• Customer, distributor, licensee and strategic partner mapping

• Commercial positioning and partner proposition

• Route-to-market options

• Distribution, licensing and co-development models

• Outreach preparation and meeting support

• Partner-fit assessment and negotiation support

Typical outputs

A prioritised internationalisation or partnership strategy, an actionable engagement pipeline and hands-on support to convert qualified opportunities into credible commercial relationships.