FASTTRACK ACTION supports startups, entrepreneurs, and other innovators in building and growing their businesses by providing business acceleration activities, such as coaching and mentoring activities, portfolio management, and organisation of networking activities, such as events, investor meetings, and workshops where entrepreneurs and startups can come across with investors and corporates. In fact, FTA is an investment catalyst, working closely with the ventures to support entrepreneurs to learn how to become investment-ready and scale their businesses. FTA is a subsidiary company of Fasttrack Ventures (FTV), a Private Investment Fund that invests in early-stage deep-tech companies. FTA provides its services directly to stakeholders within the innovation ecosystem (e.g. funds, startups, business support organizations) mainly through the participation of EU programmes. FTA’s track record can be summarized as follows: i) 11 EU-funded projects in collaboration with more than 100 partners; ii) More than 27 million euros in grants managed by the projects FTA is involved in; iii) Almost 1700 startups supported by our programmes; iv) More than 150 startups funded by the projects FTA is involved in; and v) More than 350 investors approached for matchmaking activities.