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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 51-75 of 91, newest dated evidence first
  1. OpenSSF Scorecard
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€215,000.00
    Date–
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  2. OpenSSH
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€200,000.00
    Date–
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  3. OpenSSL Foundation
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€405,888.00
    Date–
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  4. OpenStreetMap
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€384,000.00
    Date–
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  5. OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€165,000.00
    Date–
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  6. p5.js Documentation Organization & Accessibility
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€450,000.00
    Date–
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  7. Package-URL (PURL)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€549,000.00
    Date–
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  8. Pendulum
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€449,850.00
    Date–
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  9. PHP (2023)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€205,000.00
    Date–
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  10. PHP (2025)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€223,680.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  11. phpseclib
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€50,000.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  12. PHPStan
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€210,000.00
    Date–
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  13. Pipewire
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€155,000.00
    Date–
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  14. Processing
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€249,900.00
    Date–
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  15. Prossimo
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€1,436,729.00
    Date–
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  16. Python Package Index
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€1,056,672.77
    Date–
    Source ↗
  17. Python Software Foundation
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€86,000.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  18. R Project
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€392,000.00
    Date–
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  19. Reproducible Builds (2023)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€353,430.00
    Date–
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  20. Reproducible Builds (2025)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€475,000.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  21. Rosenpass
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€269,000.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  22. RubyGems & Bundler (2023)
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€668,400.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  23. RuntimeTypeInspector.js
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€90,000.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  24. Rust Foundation
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€826,957.00
    Date–
    Source ↗
  25. rustls
    ProgramUnspecified
    Amount€344,300.00
    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