The Financial Institution for Development (IFD) promotes a Public Financial Instruments Disclosure session, on October 9, 10:00 a.m., at the Portuguese Business Association (AEP).
During the session, the characteristics of various financial instruments will be presented in detail to the entrepreneurs, such as Mutual Guarantee Financing Lines, among which the Capitalize Plus Line, where the financing term can be extended up to 12 years, with a capital shortage up to 3 years; the Coordination Line with Business Angels, accredited by IAPMEI, whose target audiences are startups and SMEs that develop new products and services or the Co-investment Line with Venture Capital Funds, with the same business focus but for investments of larger size.
For IFD president Henrique Cruz, this session of dissemination of Public Financial Instruments is a great opportunity to detail and present to entrepreneurs the characteristics of the various Financial Instruments available. "Small and medium-sized enterprises and mid caps are the engine of the national economy. With this session the IFD intends to disseminate the various financing instruments available and to clarify the entrepreneurs how they can access the financing and co-investment lines made available by IFD and its partners, which allow to bridge market failures in access to financing, "he explains.
Among the companies that have already received IFD funding are MindProber, the world's most innovative market research firm in the Insight Innovation Exchange North America 2017; Findster, a company that closed a seed round worth € 3,000,000, from a single investor; SenseiData, which has investors as one of the largest retail groups in the world, the German Metro Group and the American accelerator Techstars.
It is recalled that the IFD designs, structures and operates financing solutions that can bridge market failures in the access of SMEs and mid cap companies to financing and has contributed to the development of the corporate sector and for the creation of wealth and employment.
Program
09:30 Registration of Participants
10:00 Welcome session - President of AEP Dr. Paulo Nunes de Almeida
10:10 Opening of the work with host intervention - President of the IFD Executive Committee, Henrique Cruz
10:25 Financial support instruments for companies presenting practical cases
11:15 Clarification
12:00 Finance for Growth - AEP
12:15 Closing
