09/04/2020 (Agence Europe) – In cooperation with the EIB group's European Investment Fund, the European Commission launched, on Wednesday 8 April, the ESCALAR (European Scale-up Action for Risk capital) pilot programme to support venture capital and private equity investments in 2020 for high growth European companies (scale-ups). An envelope of €300 million has been made available through an EIB guarantee to raise up to €1.2 billion of private investment. The ESCALAR initiative, which...