European Investment Bank Partners with Anocca to Strengthen Governance and Investor Preparedness Ahead of Potential Listing

European Investment Bank Partners with Anocca to Strengthen Governance and Investor Preparedness Ahead of Potential Listing

(IN BRIEF) The European Investment Bank has launched its first pre-IPO advisory agreement, partnering with Swedish biotechnology company Anocca to support its preparation for a potential future stock-market listing. Delivered through the InvestEU Advisory Hub, the initiative focuses on strengthening governance, internal controls, and investor readiness while also improving environmental and social standards. The agreement builds on a prior €25 million venture debt investment from the EIB and reflects a broader strategy to support innovative European companies throughout their growth journey. By helping companies access public capital markets, the EIB aims to deepen Europe’s financial ecosystem, enhance competitiveness, and support the goals of the Capital Markets Union, while enabling firms like Anocca to scale within Europe.

(PRESS RELEASE) LUXEMBOURG, 18-Mar-2026 — /EuropaWire/ — European Investment Bank has entered into its first pre-IPO advisory agreement, marking a new step in its efforts to support European companies in accessing public capital markets. The initiative, delivered through the InvestEU Advisory Hub, is designed to help high-growth businesses strengthen their readiness for potential stock market listings while reinforcing Europe’s capital markets and long-term competitiveness.

The agreement has been signed with Anocca, a Södertälje-based biotech firm focused on developing advanced T-cell immunotherapies for cancer treatment. This approach leverages a patient’s own immune cells, which are engineered to better identify and attack cancer cells, representing a promising frontier in oncology.

Through this advisory support, Anocca will receive guidance to enhance its governance structures, internal controls, environmental and social standards, and overall preparedness for engaging with public investors. The aim is to position the company for a potential future listing on a European stock exchange, ensuring it meets the expectations and requirements of capital markets.

This collaboration builds on an existing relationship between the two organizations. In 2022, the EIB provided €25 million in venture debt financing to support Anocca’s clinical development pipeline and the expansion of its manufacturing capabilities. The new agreement extends that support beyond financing into strategic advisory services, reflecting a broader approach to nurturing innovation-driven companies across different growth stages.

EIB Vice-President Karl Nehammer emphasized the importance of enabling European companies to scale and secure funding within the region. He noted that expanding advisory services to include IPO preparedness represents a key step toward strengthening Europe’s financial ecosystem and ensuring that innovative businesses can grow and remain competitive globally.

For high-growth companies like Anocca, access to public markets is a crucial milestone, providing opportunities for long-term funding and expansion. By supporting IPO readiness, the EIB contributes to the development of deeper and more integrated European capital markets, aligning with the objectives of the Capital Markets Union.

Jacob Michlewicz, Chief Financial Officer of Anocca, highlighted the value of the advisory support in accelerating the company’s next phase of development, noting that access to the EIB’s expertise will help streamline preparations as the company explores its future listing options.

The advisory programme is set to run throughout 2026, during which Anocca will continue evaluating its pathway toward a potential stock-market debut in Europe.

Background information  

EIB Group 

The European Investment Bank (EIB) Group is the financing arm of the European Union, owned by the 27 Member States, and one of the largest multilateral development banks in the world. In 2025, the EIB Group signed €100 billion in new financing and advisory services for over 870 high-impact projects under eight core priorities that support EU policy objectives: climate action and the environment, digitalisation and technological innovation, security and defence, territorial cohesion, agriculture and the bioeconomy, social infrastructure, strong global partnerships and the savings and investments union. Beyond long-term loans for large infrastructure, the EIB Group crowds in private investment for high-risk innovative projects and businesses, with a growing role in Europe’s markets for venture debt, venture capital, guarantees and securitisations.

The European Investment Fund (EIF) is the subsidiary of the EIB Group specialised in providing guarantees and equity to improve access to finance for small and medium-sized businesses and startups across Europe. Acting as an anchor investor, through its extensive network of partnering banks and investment funds, the EIF mobilises private investment and nurtures the ecosystem of venture capital funds to support innovative European entrepreneurs.

In 2023, the EIF together with six Member States (France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Belgium and the Netherlands) launched the European Tech Champions Initiative, a fund-of-funds to scale up innovative startups. As of February 2026, this initiative has already enabled the creation of 13 European venture capital mega-funds and scaled up 3840 companies, including 11 unicorns (with more than €1 billion in capital).

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EIB Advisory

In addition to financing, the EIB Group offers advisory services that help public and private clients develop markets, build capacity and support high impact investment projects. In 2025, EIB Advisory helped accelerate project delivery and crowd in finance for 179 projects worth more than €80 billion in the European Union and beyond.

InvestEU

The InvestEU programme provides the European Union with long-term funding by leveraging substantial private and public funds in support of a sustainable recovery. It also helps crowd in private investment for the European Union’s strategic priorities such as the European Green Deal and the digital transition. InvestEU brings all EU financial instruments previously available for supporting investments within the European Union together under one roof, making funding for investment projects in Europe simpler, more efficient and more flexible. The programme consists of three components: the InvestEU Fund, the InvestEU Advisory Hub, and the InvestEU Portal. The InvestEU Fund is deployed through implementing partners that will invest in projects using the EU budget guarantee of €26.2 billion. The entire budget guarantee will back the investment projects of the implementing partners, increase their risk-bearing capacity and thus mobilise at least €372 billion in additional investment.

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SOURCE: European Investment Bank