SME Guarantee Fund – innovative startup section
Fondo di Garanzia per le PMI – sezione startup innovative
Open continuously
No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.
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.
Mediocredito Centrale / MIMIT
public · national
Deadline: Open all year
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.
Quick — mostly identity and bank details.
Who can apply
- Stage: pre-seed and seed
- Locally registered entity required
Applied for by the lending bank on the company's behalf, not directly by the startup.
Related reading: How grant deadlines actually work
Source. https://www.fondidigaranzia.it/ · not human-checked
Verified on 14 August 2026
Source: funder's homepage — the programme page was not found
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