It is a public interest limited company. It facilitates and completes the financing chain for value-creating companies in the Brussels Region. How? By providing concrete solutions to the financial needs of entrepreneurs, in the form of loans, equity investments or guarantees at key moments in the existence of their company: creation, development, innovation, internationalization, environmental transition, takeover-transfer.
It targets two specific audiences: on the one hand, start-ups, scale-ups and SMEs (investment from €100,000 to €5 million), and on the other hand, VSEs (small businesses, self-employed, shops and starters), social enterprises and cooperatives (investment from €5,000 to €150,000).
It is pursuing a dual objective:
1) to boost the economy of the Brussels-Capital Region by taking into account the orientations of its economic policy, in particular by pursuing the objective of economic transition towards exemplary economic models in social and environmental terms.
2) to apply rules of good industrial, financial and commercial management, as well as to obtain market profitability that takes into account investment risks, on the other hand.
It is a nameless open-ended financial institution. We facilitate and strengthen financial constraints for the development of the Brussels-Capital Region. What? Door concrete is exposed to your financial needs, in the course of time, in the participation of money, in the best possible moment in time: oprichting, uitbreiding, innovation, internationalisation, ecologische transitie, overname-overdracht.
It is rich in two specific areas: start-ups, scale-ups in KMO’s enerzijds (investing in 100,000 to 5 million euros) in zko’s, social ondernemingen in coöperaties and more (investing in 5,000 to 150,000 euros).