> With the Sovereign Tech Fund, we invest globally in the open software components that underpin Germany's and Europe's competitiveness and ability to innovate.
Not globally funded, but does invest globally.
However, they say:
> The Sovereign Tech Fund invests in open digital base technologies that are vital to the development of other software or enable digital networking. We invest in projects that benefit and strengthen the open source ecosystem. Examples include libraries for programming languages, package managers, open implementations of communication protocols, administration tools for developers, digital encryption technologies, and more. (...) We are currently not looking for user-facing applications, such as messaging apps or file storage services. If this changes, we will announce it here.
So, a browser wouldn't qualify, but an HTTP(S) library does, and perhaps even a browser engine would..?