Investment Readiness

Telefónica – Agentic AI Open Call


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The Investment Readiness Programme (IRP) is part of the European Partnership on Innovative SMEs. The partnership is co-funded by the European Union through Horizon Europe.

Start Date: 4 February 2026, 12:00 AM CET
End Date: 31 March 2026, 11:59 PM CEST

How to participate

Recently the Eureka Investment Readiness programme hosted an online session with Telefonica’s innovation arm, Wayra where they promoted a new open call on Agentic AI launched through the telco alliance Alaian.

You can access a recording of this session using this link.

At Alaian, twelve major global telecommunications companies have come together in a unique alliance with the mission of reinventing the industry by discovering the most disruptive startups and the potential to provide access to a network of 1.5 billion customers. This telecommunications alliance has a presence in more than 70 markets and access to a global technology, infrastructure, and investment ecosystem.

Alaian are interested in use-cases from startups and scaleups (pre-Series A to Series B) developing Agentic AI solutions in any of the following fields:

  • Omnichannel Customer Care & Experience: Agentic systems enabling seamless voice, messaging, and digital interactions.
  • Internal Process & Operations Automation: Autonomous agents executing complex end-to-end workflows.
  • Agent-Assisted Software Development: AI agents accelerating code generation and integration.
  • Network Automation & Autonomous Operations: Self-optimizing and intelligent network operations.
  • Cybersecurity & Fraud Prevention: Proactive infrastructure and customer protection.
  • Hyper-Personalization of Services: Dynamic services adapting to user behavior.
  • Edge Computing & Distributed Agentic AI: Low-latency, real-time distributed intelligence.

Apply to Alaian’s open call until 31 March using this link.

Alaian will invite a select number of applicants to pitch in front of alliance members on 23 April.

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