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

We write success stories together

Best practice

Every year, more and more micro, small and medium-sized companies benefit from the SPS incentives with which we GROW TOGETHER and create successful business stories.

Meet some of the best practice examples

We have been cooperating with SPS since our establishment. With the acquisition of the start-up grant, we gained financial and mentoring support for the development of our idea in 2019, and in the last year of operation we have successfully overcome current challenges with the help of voucher support.

Eva Štraser, director of company Evegreen d.o.o.

Elaphe is a company in a cycle of accelerated growth, and we see the Slovenian Entreprise Fund as an institution that helps with this transformation through various forms of repayable and non-repayable financial incentives. In our cooperation so far, they have shown that they not only believe in our team and technology, but also help us in search of optimal forms of support that help achieve our goals in the direction of sustainable and energy efficient mobility.

Gorazd Lampič, director of company Elaphe d.o.o.

In our opinion, the Slovenian Entreprise Fund is the only institution in Slovenia that wholeheartedly wants to help high-tech companies. Through its activities, it enables faster growth both through the provision of funds, as well as through networking and other promotions. At the Fund, they see the potential and not just the barriers and specifics of a particular area, which is certainly very welcome, especially with complete innovations such as cell therapies.

dr. Lenart Girandon, director of company Educell d.o.o.

We have been successfully cooperating with the Slovenian Enterprise Fund since the establishment of HomeOgarden d.o.o. This cooperation enabled us to enter foreign markets more efficiently and our company to operate more stably, which is certainly due to the employees of the Fund, with whom it is a great pleasure to work.

Aleš Pfeifer, director of company HomeOgarden d.o.o.