SLOVENE ENTERPRISE FUND

The Public Fund of Republic of Slovenia for Entrepreneurship or shortly The Slovene Enterprise Fund (the Fund or SEF) is established with purpose of improving the access to financial resources for different development – business investments of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) including with financial resources for SMEs start-up and micro financing in the Republic of Slovenia. Every year the Fund is offering proper financial solutions for development – business projects in... Slovenian entrepreneurial sector via financial engineering, which is majorly based on financial instruments with refundable means (loans, guarantees for loans, subsidised interest rates, venture capital) which allows combining of financial resources of different financial institutions (financial lever). Through offering favourable financing resources want to ensure that state aid are distributed in all phase of development life cycle; from seed companies, start up’s and till the phase of further growth and development. According to the mentioned lines the Fund closely co-operates with other domestic and international financial institutions such as commercial banks, the European Investment Fund (EIF) and the European Mutual Guarantee Association (AECM).More