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SME Guarantee Fund – innovative startup section

Fondo di Garanzia per le PMI – sezione startup innovative

Status

Open continuously

No deadline — apply whenever you are ready.

Always open
Amount
Not published

Public guarantee (not cash): direct guarantee 80% for investment loans and for start-ups, innovative start-ups, innovative SMEs and certain operation types; 50% for liquidity loans. Free/simplified access for innovative start-ups.

Funder

Mediocredito Centrale / MIMIT

public · national

Deadline: Open all year — No deadline; request through a bank or confidi.

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

Applied for by the lending bank on the company's behalf, not directly by the startup.

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Apply on the funder's site

Source. https://www.mimit.gov.it/it/incentivi/fondo-di-garanzia-per-le-pmi

"garanzia diretta e riassicurazione al 50% per operazioni di liquidità."

Last checked against the official page on 5 October 2026

Source: www.mimit.gov.it

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