SEF – Slovene Enterprise Fund
Ulica kneza Koclja 22
2000 Maribor
Slovenia
+386 2 2341260
+386 2 2341282
info@podjetniskisklad.si
http://www.podjetniskisklad.si
Maja Tomanič-Vidovič – Director
The SEF is a public financial fund for financial support to Slovenian micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) with favourable guarantee, credit and equity lines for the growth and development of the SMEs and start-up lines for new enterprises.
The purpose of SEF’s operation is to improve access to affordable financial resources in the market. To achieve that purpose the Fund offers financial instruments in the form of: Start Up Incentives to young enterprises (start-ups less than 12 months old) in the first development phase, Seed Capital to young enterprises (less than 5 years old) in the second development phase and their entrance on the market, Venture Capital for the fast-growing innovative enterprises in the third development phase in the form of capital investments and mezzanine loans together with private investors through venture capital companies, Microcredits represent direct credits of the Fund at an affordable contractual interest rate and Guarantees as collateral for bank loans with interest rate subsidy that represent the largest share of the approved funds of the Fund.
| Year of creation individual entities or association | 1992 |
| Do you (your members) benefit of a public counter-guarantee that allows deponderation (capital relief)? | Yes |
| Do your guarantees provide deponderation (capital relief) for member banks subject to capital requirements (Basel agreement)? | No |
| Do you (your members) dispose of an internal rating/scoring system? | Yes |
| Do you (your members) use..? De minimis or GBER or Regional guidelines or Notification | De minimis |
| Is the activity subject to state aid regulation? | Yes |
| Other SME support instruments offered by your organisation/your members Subsidized loans or Mezzanine financing or Venture capital or Coaching or Mediation services | Subsidized loans, Mezzanine financing, Venture capital, Coaching, special start-up incentives, seed capital |
| Types of guarantee products provided by your organisation/your members | Loan default guarantees, Working capital loan guarantees, Project guarantees |
| Are you/your members financial intermediary for EU-programmes? CIP/COSME or Structural funds or Progress or RSI/RSFF Horizon 2020 | CIP, COSME, EaSI, ERDF, ESF |
| Type of scheme guarantee or counter-guarantee | Guarantee, Countergarantee |
| Product typology guarantee or counter-guarantee or co-guarantee | Guarantee, Counter-garantee |
| Profit / Non-profit oriented dividends to public shareholders are not considered as profit orientation | Non- profit oriented |
| Supervision statute i.e. mono-product banking licenses, financial intermediary statute, non-supervised. For associations, please state statute of members | Financial intermediary statute |
| Size of businesses supported i.e. large companies, SMEs, micro-enterprises, independent/self-employed | SMEs |
| Sectorial focus i.e. agriculture, industry, crafts, retail, liberal professions, cooperatives, etc. | General, can also be focused on specific target groups |
| Geographic coverage i.e. local, regional, national | National |
| Structure / Network i.e. central scheme with regional offices, central scheme only, association network | Central scheme only |
| Legal form of members of an association: i.e. fund, development bank, development agency, cooperative or mutual societies, bank, foundation, association, limited company, etc. | Fund |
| Legal form of single guarantee entity or association: i.e. fund, development bank, development agency, cooperative or mutual societies, bank, foundation, association, limited company, etc. | Public financial fund |
| Shareholder structure Private / Public (in %) | 100% Public |
| Ownership i.e. fully mutual, funded by SMEs, banking associations, fully public, fully private, private-public, mixed models | 100% owned by the Republic of Slovenia |
| Type of organization National Promotional Bank (NPB), National Promotional Institution (NPI), Private, Mutual, Mixed | NPI |
Downloads
| FINANCIAL INCENTIVES application/pdf | 940,22 KB | |
| GRAPH image/jpeg | 232,65 KB | |
| BROCHURE application/pdf | 3,34 MB |
