Recently the EU allocated billions to fund tech startups. But if you read the
bare minimum demands, you'll see how suspicious it is. Like, you
have to have a
female co-founder, when everybody in the trade knows it's very hard to find a trustworthy co-founder of
any kind.
I haven't heard of anybody getting these funds. I suspect the recipients were pre-selected before the announcement and the criteria was tailored to match them. And I also suspect, in some roundabout way, part of the money will end up in political campaigns or something.