Access to finance - Belgium
Updated 06/2013
Access to EU finance
This site will help you to apply for finance supported by the European Union. To access EU finance, click on your country to locate banks or venture capital funds that provide finance supported by the EU:
National sources of finance
Business support organisations can advise businesses on how to find financing.
Resources
Public Financing
Indirect Support
The Partnership Fund is a federal institution that supports independent businesses (start-ups, self-employed entrepreneurs, professionals and SMEs). Funds are disbursed through banks and financial institutions.
The Walloon SME finance and guarantee company (SA SOWALFIN):
- provides financing for the establishment, growth and transfer of SMEs, granting extra loans as a supplement to bank loans;
- guarantees loans extended by banks.
Sowalfin aims to be the sole source of finance for Walloon SMEs and microbusinesses.
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SOWALFIN
Flanders Investment & Trade (FIT) promotes sustainable international companies, for the benefit both of companies located in Flanders and abroad, through synergies and through the expansion of networks, and the heightened expertise generated through integration.
Certain Chambers of Commerce finance innovative projects and introduce start-up entrepreneurs to potential partners.
Direct Assistance
The Brussels Regional Investment Company (SRIB) offers financial support to companies starting up, reorganising, and expanding in the Brussels-Capital Region.
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Brussels Regional Investment Company (SRIB)
The EcoSubsiBru Portal contains a database listing various forms of assistance as well as institutions available to support your company in the Brussels-Capital area.
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EcoSubsiBru Portal
The Walloon Region portal provides a listing of available sources of finance.
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MIDAS - public support in the Walloon Region
- The Walloon Region offers an investment grant and exemption from property taxes to entrepreneurs seeking to invest locally.
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Investment Support in the Walloon Region
The goal of Flanders Investment & Trade is to promote sustainable business in international companies established both in Flanders and abroad.
Private Financing
The Belgian Knowledge Centre for SME Financing (BeCeFi) is a national reference centre for the financing of small and medium-sized enterprises. BeCeFi offers a range of information on sources of finance available at the national level.
The Business Angels network ‘Be Angels’ introduces entrepreneurs seeking finance to private investors. Business Angels offers capital, expertise, their address book and their business experience.
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Be Angels
