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Public support
Public entities supporting Startup Valencia.
The Generalitat Valenciana has subsidized the VDS (Valencia Digital Summit) 2024 y 2025 as part of the funding program under the Directorate General for Strategic Projects titled ‘Grants to entities for the promotion, development, and execution of activities and events of public, sociocultural, or economic interest in the Valencian Community.’
Startup Valencia has received grants for non-economic activities carried out by entities within the entrepreneurial ecosystem of the Valencian Community that promote, support, and publicize the entrepreneurial culture by the ‘Conselleria de Innovación, Industria, Turismo y Comercio de la Generalitat Valenciana’:
EMENTI 2024: ‘Training, Mentoring and Support’ (€50,000) and ‘Information, Awareness and Dissemination Activities’ (€100,000).
EMENTI 2025: ‘Entrepreneurial Project Support, Incubation and Acceleration Activities’ (€20,000) and ‘Information, Awareness and Dissemination Activities’ (€80,000).
To reinforce the innovative ecosystem through fairs and events, the Valencian Startup Association has received funding in 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 from the ‘Department of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism’.
Within the programs ‘Promotion of Entrepreneurship, Cooperatives and Social Economy 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, ‘Llamp Tech Transfer 2022 and 2023’ and within the framework of the ‘Strategic Plan of the Valencian Industry 2020’, the Valencian Association of Startups have received funding from the ‘Department of Innovation, Industry, Commerce and Tourism’.
In order to promote tech based entrepreneurship and add technology and innovation in the economic sectors of the city of Valencia via startups, Asociación Valenciana de Startups has received funding from Ayuntamiento de València in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025.
Within the program ‘Proyectos de Dinamización Territorial (Dinamiza-CV) 2018, 2019 y 2020’, Asociación Valenciana de Startups has received funding from IVACE Generalitat Valenciana, as well as for the development of the VDS 2021.
Within the program ‘Fortalecimiento y Desarrollo del Sistema Valenciano de Innovación para la mejora del Modelo Productivo’, the Asociación Valenciana de Startups has received funding from the program ‘Acciones complementarias de impulso y fortalecimiento de la innovación’ by Agencia Valenciana de Innovación Generalitat Valenciana in 2018 for the project ‘Innovación Abierta con Startups’ and in 2021 and 2022 for the project ‘Tech Transfer para impulsar startups.’
Given the interest, objectives, and anticipated impact, the Territorial Cohesion and European Projects Unit of the Diputación de Valencia has granted a nominative subsidy for the organization of VDS (Valencia Digital Summit) in its 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 editions. Startup Valencia has received a nominative grant of 100,000 euros from the Diputación de Valencia for the 2024 event, 75,000 euros for 2023, and 50,000 euros for each edition in 2021 and 2022.
Co-founded by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) of the Valencian Community 2014-2020, as part of the Union’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.