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Organization Profile

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 26-50 of 91, newest dated evidence first
  1. GNU libmicrohttpd
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€300,000.00
    Date–
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  2. GPShell & GlobalPlatform Smartcard Software
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€114,000.00
    Date–
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  3. GStreamer (2023)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€203,000.00
    Date–
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  4. Haskell Cabal
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€320,000.00
    Date–
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  5. Incus
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€85,500.00
    Date–
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  6. JUnit
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€180,000.00
    Date–
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  7. KDE
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€1,285,200.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  8. Let’s Encrypt
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€402,800.00
    Date–
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  9. libmicrohttpd3
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€234,000.00
    Date–
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  10. Lodash
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€199,920.00
    Date–
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  11. Log4j
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€596,160.00
    Date–
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  12. Logback
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€180,000.00
    Date–
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  13. Mamba
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€349,875.00
    Date–
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  14. Mastodon
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€614,454.15
    Date–
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  15. Nix ecosystem supply chain security
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€226,000.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  16. Open Cloud Mesh
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€100,000.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  17. Open Web Docs
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€300,000.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  18. Open Web Docs (2025)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€220,000.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  19. OpenBGPd
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€200,000.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  20. OpenBLAS
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€263,000.00
    Date–
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  21. OpenJS Foundation
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€874,940.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  22. OpenMLS
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€195,000.00
    Date–
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  23. OpenPGP documentation for application developers
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€136,800.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  24. OpenPGP.js/GopenPGP
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€172,860.00
    Date–
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  25. OpenPrinting
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€190,750.00
    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