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Grants

Sercotec Seed Capital for New Businesses

Capital Semilla Emprende

Status

Status not published

Regional convocatorias with defined windows announced on sercotec.cl.

Check with the funder
Amount
3,500,000 CLP

Competitive fund promoting the creation and formalisation of new businesses, historically awarding around CLP 3.5 million per beneficiary for investment and working capital plus technical assistance.

Funder

Servicio de Cooperación Técnica (Sercotec), Chile

public · national

Deadline: One call a year — Regional convocatorias with defined windows announced on sercotec.cl.

Your odds
Not published

This funder does not publish a success rate. We rank it using the rate observed across similar programmes and label it as an estimate rather than implying we know.

Effort
major

Major bid — written case, budget, possibly partners.

Who can apply

Chilean residents starting a business; aimed at micro-enterprise formalisation rather than technology startups.

How to apply

  1. Register on the Sercotec platform.
  2. Apply during your region's open convocatoria.
  3. Evaluation and ranking.
  4. Award, then execute the investment plan with a Sercotec agent.

What you will need

Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work

Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.sercotec.cl/programas/capital-semilla-emprende/ · not human-checked

Verified on 14 August 2026

Source: www.sercotec.cl

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