SEF is a leading national financial fund for support of SMEs, start-ups and scale-ups, using effective financial and substantive incentives to reduce gaps in access to finance and substantive support and enables co-financing of various business services (vouchers).

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Financial incentives

SEF offers SMEs (small, micro and medium sized enterprises) better access to favourable sources for growth and development: start-up incentives, seed capital, venture capital, micro loans and loans, guarantees, special incentives.

Start-up incentives

Non-refundable incentives
for start up companies

Microcredits and loans

For small investments, working capital and liquidity of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises

Seed capital

For young, innovative and high-tech companies with growth potential

Guarantees

For faster, easier and cheaper process of obtaining and securing bank loans

Venture capital

For high-tech and fast-growing, globally-oriented companies

Special incentives

Non-refundable incentives for growth and development of specific target groups

Content support

SEF offers SMEs (small, micro and medium sized enterprises) content support programmes:

Vouchers, Content support for innovative young companies, prospective entrepreneurial ideas in schools and faculties.

Vouchers

Simple and quickly accessible small-value incentives for SMEs for a variety of business services

Innovative young companies

All for the rapid global growth of start-ups and scale-ups
in the form of various specialized programs

Schools and colleges

SEF is a partner of the POPRI competition – for the best idea among young people, SEF provides a financial prize

Together, we create your success story…

Every year, an increasing number of micro, small and medium-sized enterprises benefit from our (SEF) incentives, helping all of us to THRIVE TOGETHER and generate powerful and successful business stories.

Success stories are part of our mission – learn more about them.

EDUCELL d.o.o.
is a biotechnology company, which focuses on developing new cell therapies and offering them to those in need.

“The Slovenian Enterprise Fund is one of the few institutions in Slovenia that wholeheartedly wants to help companies,” says Educell CEO Dr. Lenart Girandon.

LUMAR INŽENIRING d.o.o.
is a Slovenian manufacturer of zero-energy prefabricated buildings.

“At Lumar, we have also worked very well with the Slovenian Enterprise Fund, which has helped us to accelerate our digitisation and green transition process,” says Lumar CEO Marko Lukić.

DEWESOFT d.o.o.
is a privately owned Slovenian company engaged in developing customer-focused tests and measurement solutions.

“Given the growth of the company, this was the right time and place to apply for the SEF incentives, and we are grateful for that,” says Dewesoft company director Andrej Orožen.

ENERGEN d.o.o.
is a well-recognised energy service company, which is engaged in research and engineering in the field of energy efficiency and renewable energies.

“In the past, the Slovenian Enterprise Fund has helped us achieve our goals with various financial incentives,” says Energen CEO Marko Seršen.