ECLIPSE

Bringing private capital to innovation procurement

ECLIPSE is changing how public buyers, startups, and private investors work together.

We help groundbreaking startups tackle public sector challenges.

Key Benefits

For Startups

Access to public procurement opportunities.

For Procurers

Tools for effective evaluation & market insight.

For Investors

Engagement in cutting-edge innovation projects.

Our partners

The ECLIPSE project is also part of the Innovation Procurement Task Force

Eclipse Voices

  • "Unlike traditional procurement, which seeks to acquire existing goods or services, PCP targets R&D activities to create solutions that do not yet exist in the market."

    Donato Iacobucci,
    Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche and Rector's Delegate for Entrepreneurship

  • “In a PCP, the central question is not whether the market can generate ideas. The central question is how to fund promising approaches while keeping delivery risk and public exposure proportionate.”

    Aleksandra Gruszkiewicz, Managing Partner, Toro Ventures

  • "Aligning public goals with investor expectations is key—this is often managed through the careful crafting of contract conditions, including clear risk and benefit sharing."

    Donato Iacobucci,
    Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche and Rector's Delegate for Entrepreneurship

  • “When a contracting authority can show that a supplier reached a higher‑readiness band… conversations with investors become easier, faster, and more concrete.”

    Aleksandra Gruszkiewicz, Managing Partner, Toro Ventures

  • "For investors, the opportunities in PCP-funded innovations are immense: access to cutting-edge, radical technologies solving critical public needs, while the public sector essentially de-risks the early R&D."

    Donato Iacobucci,
    Professor of Applied Economics at the Faculty of Engineering of the Università Politecnica delle Marche and Rector's Delegate for Entrepreneurship

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