Transaction Costs Support for social finance intermediaries
Pays social finance intermediaries in the EU and ESF+ Associated Countries to cover due-diligence, legal and business-development costs on risk-capital investments under €1 million into social enterprises.
Transaction Costs Support for social finance intermediaries is a single-stage ESF+ Project Grant from the European Commission that pays social finance intermediaries in the EU and ESF+ Associated Countries to cover part of the transaction costs tied to long-term risk-capital investments in social enterprises — due diligence, legal advice, travel, business development support and setting up an impa…
The call funds financial intermediaries that make long-term risk-capital investments — equity, quasi-equity or hybrid financing — of less than EUR 1,000,000 per investee into social enterprises and mission-driven enterprises. It is meant to catalyse small investment tickets that otherwise would not happen because the transaction costs are disproportionate to the investment size, and it favours cross-border and innovative social finance schemes.
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