STADIEM has organised two open calls with 299 eligible applications over both calls and selected 81 promising startups and scale-ups that entered in two cohorts (41 cohort one, 40 cohort 2) of the 4 phase STADIEM program with cascade funding. As outcome of the two Match Phases where relevant start-ups and scale-ups from STADIEM were matched with European companies, 75 innovative projects between European start-ups and scale-ups and media companies were proposed, 32 (2x 16) of them were selected to enter the two Develop Phase to develop with support of the corporate the innovative solution, 22 (2x11) were selected to join the Integrate Phase to integrate the solution and pre-test it (including technologies, business processes, ..) and finally 10 were selected to publicly pilot (1x 4; 1x 6) the solution with the corporate. In total 3.6 million € of third-party support funding was distributed to the beneficiaries, with a beneficiary reaching the pilot stage receiving a maximum grant of 155.000€.
In order inform, activate and engage the European media-ecosystem around the four hubs, the open calls and the STADIEM Innovation program, a community building strategy was executed, including showcasing the STADIEM solutions and program at 26 major international media conferences (IBC, Slush, Big Score, Future Week, Latitude59, ...) to different stakeholders via STADIEM events, boots, workshops or participation in events of other networks (FMH event Slush and SXSW).
STADIEM has developed a joint pan-European framework for an effective, market driven start-up and scale-up growth support structure following a start-up to corporate supplier model approach. The framework was implemented and validated during the STADIEM Innovation Program. The impact analysis of the STADIEM Program highlights the project's short business impacts (business leads, valuation, ARR, ...) and the longer term business impacts for the beneficiaries with min 4 exits, min 5 investment rounds and min 10 business deals. It highlights STADIEM's relevance for the EU media policy agenda, in particular STADIEM as a targeted financial intervention able to catalyse innovation and business value for the media sector.
STADIEM developed 5 scenarios to continue its journey as pan-European accelerator for the media sector, identified 5 potential funding opportunities and presented individual exploitation plans for each of its six partners to allow the further sustainability of its results in the partner's ecosystems. The project has generated a program framework handbook, an operational portfolio with operational and legal documentation for implementing the program, a communication platform to interact with the program beneficiaries and to generate business intelligence for program owners, a portfolio of innovative scale-ups and start-ups and a database of relevant actors for start-up and scale-up driven innovation in the media. The handbook, portfolio and the instructions for building the communication platform are published as deliverables on the STADIEM website. The list of names of beneficiaries (startups and scaleups/media companies) participating in the STADIEM program is published in the community tab on the website. The database is confidential.
