AVI

One-liner: the Generalitat Valenciana's apex innovation agency (branded IVACE+i Innovació) — the strategic top-of-funnel funder that bankrolls the entire Sistema Valencià d'Innovació (clusters, REDIT tech institutes, universities, hospital research units, and — indirectly — startups that partner with any of them).

What a founder gets

• Money, but mostly at system level, not direct-to-startup: AVI's competitive grant lines (PIDI-CV, PIDI-STEP-CV, INNOVA-CV, PIDCOP-CV/STEP, Digitaliza-CV) are aimed at SMEs, tech centres, and consortia — a startup that has graduated to SME status doing R&D can apply directly; earlier-stage founders access AVI's money indirectly, via the clusters, REDIT institutes, or university OTRIs it funds.
• Access to the innovation-priority map: AVI's Comités Estratègics d'Innovació (CEIE) publish the sector "reptes i solucions prioritzades" (agri-food, automotive/sustainable mobility, decarbonization, circular economy, sustainable habitat, smart tourism destinations, aerospace, health, enabling technologies) — grant applications aligned to these priorities score higher. Useful as a roadmap for where GVA money is flowing next.
• Route into Compra Pública d'Innovació (CPI): AVI leads innovation-oriented public procurement — a genuine non-financial channel (market access) for startups whose product could be bought by a public body.
• Innoagents network: AVI funds "Innoagents," innovation agents embedded in universities, research centres, and business associations, who broker knowledge transfer to companies — effectively a free connector/scouting layer a founder can tap without applying for a grant.
• Indirect access to REDIT technology institutes (AIMPLAS, AINIA, AIDIMME, AITEX, ITENE, AIJU, etc.) and clinical research units (e.g. IIS La Fe) that AVI co-funds — these are where the actual labs/testbeds/pilot capacity live.

Who it's for

• Primarily SMEs, tech institutes, universities, hospital research units, and business clusters already embedded in the Comunitat Valenciana innovation system — not early idea-stage solo founders.
• Sector-agnostic (niche: any) but practically weighted toward the CEIE priority sectors above.
• Best fit: early-to-scale-stage companies doing applied R&D/innovation in cooperation with a university, tech institute, or cluster — AVI funds the collaboration, not the standalone startup.

How to engage

• Start at the "Programes d'ajuda" page (innoavi.es) to see which of the six annual competitive lines is currently open; each has its own telematic application requiring an electronic certificate (certificado digital).
• If not applying directly, engage via a cluster (e.g. AVIA, ATEVAL, AVAESEN) or a REDIT institute that already receives AVI funding — they act as the practical access point to AVI-backed programs and CEIE priorities.
• General contact: info@avi.gva.es · València (+34) 96 124 80 60 · Alacant (+34) 96 654 59 30 / 96 647 83 60 (secondary line listed on site).
• Offices: València — Ciutat Administrativa 9 d'Octubre, Torre 2, Carrer de la Democràcia 77 (accés per C/ Nou d'Octubre), 46018 València. Alacant — Moll de Ponent s/n, Edifici B, 03003 Alacant.

Key facts

• Full legal identity: Institut Valencià de Competitivitat i Innovació (IVACE+i) — the public brand for innovation policy is "AVI" / "Ivace+i Innovació"; the entity is the meeting point ("lloc de trobada") of all Sistema Valencià d'Innovació agents. status/verify: confirm whether AVI is a distinct legal agency from IVACE or a rebranded division — CLAUDE.md domain memory doesn't cover this distinction and the site itself uses "AVI" and "Ivace+i" near-interchangeably.
• Sistema Valencià d'Innovació 2026–2028: total budget €59,009,485 across the three-year strategy (strengthening clusters, institutes, universities, and startup ecosystem).
• INNOVA-CV 2026 (FEDER co-funded): includes INNOVAProD-CV (new product) and INNOVATeiC-CV (ICT/TEIC) lines; application window historically Apr 1–23 — status/verify for the live 2026 dates.
• Ivace+i Innovació 2025 call: processed 2,300 R&D/digitalisation applications with a combined budget of €85 million; SMEs filed >80% of registered applications, per AVI's own reporting.
• IVACE+i Cluster Program (co-run with clusters): 2026 budget €1.85M (of which €950k for 2026, a +5.5% increase); 2025–26 awarded €1,045,094 to 19 clusters; subsidy rate 50–100% of project costs, max €150,000 per action, across four cluster tiers (advanced, consolidated, emerging, and a fourth tier per the cluster registry). See raw/research/2026-06-30-official-cluster-registry.md.
• Six annual competitive-grant lines confirmed on-site: PIDI-CV, PIDI-STEP-CV (R&D for SMEs), INNOVA-CV (SME innovation), PIDCOP-CV/PIDCOP-STEP-CV (cooperative innovation/development), Digitaliza-CV (SME digitalisation), plus dedicated grants for REDIT tech centres doing R&D with companies.
• CEIE priority sectors (2026): agri-food, automotive & sustainable mobility, decarbonization, circular economy, sustainable habitat, mobility/transport/infrastructure, "undesired solitude" in vulnerable groups, nutrition & hospital diet, smart industrial areas, smart tourist destinations, emergencies, aerospace, health, enabling technologies.
• Gap identified: the org page previously listed runs:: [AVI Sistema Valenciano Innovacion 2026-2028](/finder/program/avi-sistema-valenciano-innovacion-2026-2028) and funds:: [IIS La Fe UCIE Clinical Testbed](/finder/program/iis-la-fe-ucie-clinical-testbed) — neither page exists yet in wiki/programs/ or wiki/organizations/. Flagging for a future ingest to create the Sistema Valencià d'Innovació 2026-2028 program page (it has its own budget/timeline distinct from AVI's general profile, per CLAUDE.md §3f) rather than inventing it here.
• Team/org-chart found (first capture, 2026-07-05): AVI has no single named Director/President figurehead on-site — the top listed role is Joaquín Martínez Gómez, Secretari General Tècnic, with Laura Martí Barranco, Subdirectora General de Programes d'Innovació as second-in-command. Below them, ~7 named Servei/ unitat heads (innovation in public procurement, strategic projects, talent promotion, programming/studies, SVI cooperation, press/communication) plus ~50 total staff. None of these names previously appeared in raw/trackers/contacts.csv — worth adding Martínez Gómez as AVI's working-level contact in a future contacts-tracker refresh (outside this ingest's scope, which doesn't edit trackers directly).
• Confirmed status quo: IVACE's Director General Santiago Lumbreras and Consellera Marián Cano (both tracked in raw/trackers/contacts.csv, dated 2026-06-30) remain the correct names for IVACE — no contradiction found on re-check 2026-07-05; the IVACE /contacto URL used in earlier passes now 404s (page path changed), noted for a future URL fix but not chased further this pass.

Relations

• Funds: IVACE+i Cluster Program
• Funds: REDIT
• Partners with: IVACE
• Funds: IIS La Fe UCIE
• Partners with: AVIA
• See also: AIMPLAS
• See also: AINIA
• See also: AIDIMME
• See also: AITEX
• See also: AIJU

Note: runs:: [AVI Sistema Valenciano Innovacion 2026-2028](/finder/program/avi-sistema-valenciano-innovacion-2026-2028) and funds:: [IIS La Fe UCIE Clinical Testbed](/finder/program/iis-la-fe-ucie-clinical-testbed) removed pending creation of those target pages — see Key facts gap note.