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European Union and France unlock €715 million for small businesses

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in France can now access loans with more flexible terms after the European Investment Fund (EIF) and Bpifrance, the French Public Investment Bank, struck a new deal. The loan guarantees are provided by the digitalisation initiative under the European...
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European guarantee for Invest-NL to expand financing options to innovative SMEs

Dutch National promotional institution Invest-NL has signed a new guarantee agreement with the European Investment Fund to cover a lending portfolio to innovative Dutch small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). The new guarantee enables Invest-NL to further enlarge its financing activities for...
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€700 million raised to support artificial intelligence and blockchain technology

The European Investment Fund (EIF) has signed the first six equity agreements with venture capital funds to support businesses under the EU's InnovFin Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain initiative. New agreements with tech equity funds in Austria, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and the Netherlands...
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€6m investment plan to help cultural and creative SMEs in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland

More financial support will be available for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from the cultural and creative sectors in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland as a result of a new finance deal. A €6 million guarantee from the European Investment Fund (EIF) to Estonian lender Finora Capital...
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EIF and Raiffeisen Bank sign €12m guarantee agreement to support SMEs in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The European Investment Fund (EIF) and Raiffeisen Bank have signed a guarantee agreement allowing the bank to increase its lending capacity to offer €12 million of new financing with better terms and conditions to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The EIF guarantee...
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‘Primo Space' has lift-off: First Italian fund to invest in space economy

The European Investment Fund is investing €30 million into ‘Primo Space', an early-stage Italian venture fund focused on space start-ups. The financing is backed by the Investment Plan for Europe, Horizon 2020 - the European Commission's Framework Programme for Research and Innovation - and the new...