SME Guarantee Fund – innovative startup section
Fondo di Garanzia per le PMI – sezione startup innovative
Status
Always open
Open continuously
No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.
Amount
Not published
Free public guarantee covering up to 80% of a bank loan to an innovative startup, with simplified access and no credit scoring for the startup section.
Funder
Mediocredito Centrale / MIMIT
public · national
Deadline: rolling
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
quick
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Stage: pre_seed, seed
- Locally registered entity required
Applied for by the lending bank on the company's behalf, not directly by the startup.
Source. https://www.fondidigaranzia.it/ — checked 2026-08-14 · not human-checked