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Sovereign Tech Agency

aka Sovereign Tech Fund / Agency, Sovereign Tech Fund
GovernmentSovereign Tech & Public-Interest Digital InfrastructureActivewww.sovereign.techX ↗
A German public entity (subsidiary of SPRIND) administering the Sovereign Tech Fund, which makes strategic investments in foundational open-source software components critical to digital infrastructure, security, and innovation. It runs multiple funding programs including direct investments, resilience/bug bounties, fellowships, standards support, and challenges, and has deployed over EUR 24M to 60+ projects globally since 2022, operating under public procurement rules with a focus on open-source sustainability.1,2

Programs

3 programs on file
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Sovereign Tech Fellowship
0 grants tracked
2026 cohort: deployed, closes 2026-04-06
Sovereign Tech Fund
0 grants tracked
No cadence on file
Sovereign Tech Standards Network applications
0 grants tracked
2026 pilot applications: closed, closes 2026-05-19

Awards

91 on file
Showing 1-25 of 91, newest dated evidence first
  1. ActivityPub
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€246,521.00
    Date–
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  2. ActivityPub Test Suite
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€152,000.00
    Date–
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  3. Apache Arrow
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€297,440.00
    Date–
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  4. Apache Maven
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€450,000.00
    Date–
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  5. Arch Linux Package Management
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€562,800.00
    Date–
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  6. Babel
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€260,000.00
    Date–
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  7. Bundler & RubyGems (2022)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€200,000.00
    Date–
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  8. Cascade
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€160,000.00
    Date–
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  9. chatmail
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€497,000.00
    Date–
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  10. conda
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€247,555.00
    Date–
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  11. conda-store
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€256,800.00
    Date–
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  12. coreutils
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€99,060.00
    Date–
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  13. curl
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€195,000.00
    Date–
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  14. Debian CI
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€180,480.00
    Date–
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  15. Domain
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€993,600.00
    Date–
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  16. Drupal (2023)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€278,700.00
    Date–
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  17. Drupal (2025)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€201,000.00
    Date–
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  18. Eclipse Foundation
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€515,200.00
    Date–
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  19. Fedify
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€192,000.00
    Date–
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  20. FFmpeg
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€157,580.00
    Date–
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  21. FFmpeg (2026)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€280,350.00
    Date–
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  22. Fortran
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€816,000.00
    Date–
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  23. FreeBSD
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€686,400.00
    Date–
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  24. GFortran
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€360,000.00
    Date–
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  25. GNOME
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€1,000,000.00
    Date–
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Programs
91
Awards
91
Grantees
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Known USD
0
Live rounds
no open or announced rounds on file
Active
Status
Focus Areas

open source software, digital infrastructure / base technologies, programming-language libraries, package managers, communication protocols, developer tooling, encryption / security, maintenance & sustainability.

Typical sizeVaries widely by project; published examples range from ~EUR 99,060 (coreutils) to ~EUR 1,436,729 (Prossimo/Rustls)
Sources
  1. www.sovereign.tech
  2. www.sovereign.tech/programs/fund