EIC Fund capital
Reported current metrics.
Official EIC Fund page reports capitalisation above €4bn and more than €1.4bn in signed investment agreements.
Institutional market intelligence
Evidence before enthusiasm.
This dashboard summarises official public information that informs our opportunity screening. It is not investment advice, a market forecast or a claim about PB INVEST portfolio performance.
Sport · institutions & economy
Sports innovation is becoming institutional infrastructure.
UEFA’s Innovation Hub has operated since 2018 and collaborates with start-ups, academic institutions and businesses. Eurostat separately shows a sizeable European sports economy and workforce.
Institutional signal
Innovation is moving from pilot theatre to operating practice.
UEFA’s programmes include open innovation, start-up collaboration and real-world pilots around major competitions.
For investors, the significance is structural: governing bodies now behave as active technology buyers, with procurement habits, integration requirements and measurable expectations.
EU sport jobs · 20241.6m
People employed in sport across the European Union.
Young workforce37%
Share of EU sport workers aged 15 to 29.
Manufacturers · 20235,000+
EU manufacturers producing sporting goods.
Turnover · 2023€8bn
Combined sporting-goods manufacturing turnover reported by Eurostat.
Finance · European innovation
Public-private capital is an important part of Europe’s scale-up stack.
The European Innovation Council Fund is an official example of how patient public capital can crowd in private capital around innovation. It is a reference point for ecosystem depth, not a proxy for sports-tech valuation.
European Commission
EIC scale indicators
Current institutional ecosystem metrics.
Portfolio300+
Companies across 25 countries.
Co-investors1,000+
Active co-investors reported by EIC Impact.
Private capital€5bn
Mobilised from private investors.
Leverage€3.5
Leveraged for every €1 invested by the EIC Fund.
Telecom · France
The fibre market is moving from deployment toward operating quality.
At March 2026, ARCEP reported 42.8m premises eligible for fibre, 94.9% coverage and 27.7m fibre subscriptions. Its quality observatory focuses on technician interventions, defect correction and remediation of incident-heavy networks.
Premises fibre-ready
Millions of premises, France.
45.1m premises were counted nationally at March 2026.
Fibre adoption
Share of fixed internet subscriptions.
Adoption continues to rise as the copper network progressively recedes.
5G active SIM cards
France, Q1 2026.
35.4m
active SIM cards on 5G networks
ARCEP’s Q1 2026 electronic communications observatory provides the official count. We keep this as a headline metric rather than manufacturing a percentage denominator that the source does not provide here.
PB INVEST operating lens
Where value can move as build-out matures.
Build
Coverage, capex discipline and construction quality.
Operate
Intervention quality, data coherence and service reliability.
Monetise
Adoption, wholesale utilisation, ARPU and customer economics.
Digital infrastructure · United States
$42.45bn of federal broadband funding changes the opportunity map.
NTIA’s BEAD programme funds planning, infrastructure deployment and upgrades, service to community anchor institutions, multi-unit residential connectivity, adoption and workforce readiness.
BEAD programme$42.45bn
Federal grant programme authorised under the IIJA.
Coverage50 states
Plus DC and US territories through state and territory allocations.
Use caseInfrastructure
Deployment or upgrade in unserved and underserved areas.
PB INVEST lensSoftware layer
Planning, network operations, asset data and execution tooling around infrastructure spend.
Sources & methodology
Primary sources, clearly separated from our interpretation.
Statistics are paraphrased from official institutional publications. PB INVEST commentary and qualitative scoring are our own interpretation and are labelled as such.
ARCEPFrench fixed broadband market, Q1 2026Coverage, premises and subscriptions
ARCEPFibre network quality observatoryIntervention quality and remediation themes
EUROPEAN COMMISSIONEIC FundCapitalisation, portfolio and investment agreements
EICImpact in numbersCo-investors, private capital and leverage
UEFAUEFA Innovation HubStart-up and innovation ecosystem programmes
EUROSTATEU sport in focusEmployment, manufacturing and turnover
NTIABEAD programmeUS broadband federal funding and eligible uses
Last research refresh for this package: 14 August 2026. External sources can change after publication.