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Innovation loans

Explore innovation loans. This directory lists repayable public funding, including low-interest loans, soft loans and repayable advances from development banks, innovation agencies and public investment funds, with the terms, amount and eligibility on every listing.

Showing 145-168 of 206 grants

QDB — Qatar Development Bank logo
Between cycles

Al Dhameen — Credit Guarantee Program

🇶🇦QDB · Qatar

Provides Qatar-based businesses with QDB-backed credit guarantees that reduce collateral requirements for bank loans.

Energy TechIoT & Edge+1
Korea Technology Finance Corporation (KIBO / KOTEC) logo
Between cycles

Baby Unicorn — Market Development Funding

🇰🇷KIBO · South Korea

Funds Korean venture-stage companies with market-development support and loan guarantees to accelerate scaling.

₩300M
UK Defence Innovation (formerly DASA) logo
Between cycles

Defence Innovation Loans

🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom

Provides United Kingdom Defence Innovation Loans financing for mature defence solutions needing capital before full commercialization.

DefenseHardware+2
£100K – £1M
Delaware Division of Small Business logo
Between cycles

Delaware Site Readiness Fund

🇺🇸DSB · United States

Invests research teams and institutions for Delaware Site Readiness Fund in built environment and manufacturing.

Built EnvironmentAdvanced Manufacturing
SENA — Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje logo
Between cycles

Fondo Emprender — Línea Crecer (Reimbursable Seed Capital)

🇨🇴SENA · Colombia

Funds Colombian small businesses paired with SENA mentors through the Línea Crecer seed support for early growth.

AgritechFood Tech+1
COP 50M
Bpifrance logo
Between cycles

i-Démo Generic Call No. 5 — September Round (AAP Générique, relève septembre)

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Funds large industrial initiatives with shared public and repayable financing for technology scale-up.

AIClimate Tech+7
Netherlands Enterprise Agency logo
Between cycles

Innovation Credit (Innovatiekrediet)

🇳🇱RVO · Netherlands

Funds Dutch firms developing high-risk new products or processes through repayable government loans covering project costs.

€30M
Bpifrance logo
Between cycles

Innovations in Biotherapies & Bioproduction — September Round (relève septembre)

🇫🇷Bpifrance · France

Funds biotherapy and bioproduction innovation in healthcare and synthetic biology.

BiotechMedtech+1
Korea-Israel Industrial R&D Foundation logo
Between cycles

KORIL-RDF Feasibility Project

🇮🇱KORIL-RDF · Israel

Supports early-stage Korean-Israeli industrial research through feasibility studies that test joint collaboration potential.

AIBiotech+8
$100K
Banco Português de Fomento logo
Between cycles

Linha BPF Invest Export

🇵🇹BPF · Portugal

Funds Portuguese exporters in micro and medium-sized firms with guaranteed loans for investment and working capital.

National Technology Innovation Fund (Quỹ Đổi mới công nghệ quốc gia, NATIF) logo
Between cycles

Loan-Interest Subsidy Program (Hỗ trợ lãi suất vay)

🇻🇳NATIF · Vietnam

Offers Vietnamese enterprises interest support to reduce financing costs on innovation loans over the project lifecycle.

UAB ILTE — Investments for the Lithuanian Economy (formerly INVEGA) logo
Between cycles

Loans START (STARTUOK)

🇱🇹ILTE / INVEGA · Lithuania

Provides early-stage loans for Lithuanian micro and small firms that blend financing with completion-based repayment relief.

AIHardware+3
€3M
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority logo
Between cycles

NY Green Bank — Clean Energy Financing

🇺🇸NYSERDA · United States

Supports New York clean energy developers through debt financing and predevelopment loans.

Energy TechClimate Tech+2
Iowa Economic Development Authority logo
Between cycles

Private Activity Bond Program

🇺🇸IEDA · United States

Offers Iowa borrowers access to tax-exempt financing via private activity bonds for public-benefit oriented projects.

Built Environment
Banco Nacional de Comercio Exterior, S.N.C. logo
Between cycles

Pymex — SME Foreign Trade Financing

🇲🇽Bancomext · Mexico

Funds Mexican foreign-trade-focused firms with concessional credit for working capital and project financing.

Advanced ManufacturingMobility+1
Innovation Norway (Innovasjon Norge) logo
Between cycles

Regional District Funding

🇳🇴Innovation Norway · Norway

Funds companies in Norwegian district areas developing their business through regional grants and loans.

Scottish EDGE logo
Between cycles

Regional EDGE

🇬🇧Scottish EDGE · United Kingdom

Supports Regional EDGE programmes for early-stage Scottish businesses across four regions via local delivery partners.

£10K – £50K
Scottish EDGE logo
Between cycles

Scottish EDGE Main — Round 27

🇬🇧Scottish EDGE · United Kingdom

Supports early-stage Scottish businesses with blended grant and loan funding for scalable growth across sectors.

AIBiotech+8
£10K – £100K
Scottish EDGE logo
Between cycles

Social Enterprise EDGE — Round 27

🇬🇧Scottish EDGE · United Kingdom

Supports asset-locked Scottish social enterprises and charities with mission-led funding to drive community and social impact outcomes.

AIBiotech+8
£75K
Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) & Elevate Ventures logo
Between cycles

SSBCI Legend Fund — Indiana Small Business Loan Participation

🇺🇸IEDC / Elevate Ventures · United States

Invests in Indiana small businesses through loan participation pathways with mission-oriented lenders.

Advanced ManufacturingHardware+1
$5K – $1M
British Business Bank logo
Between cycles

Start Up Loans

🇬🇧BBB · United Kingdom

Funds UK founders starting or growing a young business with a government-backed personal loan and 12 months of mentoring.

£500 – £25K
DOE Office of Energy Dominance Financing (Loan Programs Office) logo
Between cycles

Title 17 Section 1703 Innovative Clean Energy

🇺🇸DOE LPO / EDF · United States

Supports clean energy projects in fossil, nuclear, and renewable tracks through federal financing pathways.

Energy TechClimate Tech+1
$100M
UK Defence Innovation (formerly DASA) logo
Between cycles

Defence Innovation Loan/26 Cycle 5

🇬🇧UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom

Offers United Kingdom defence innovation teams a government-backed low interest loan route through an official loan programme.

DefenseHardware
£250K – £1.8M
KfW Bankengruppe logo
Between cycles

KfW Umweltprogramm

🇩🇪KfW · Germany

Supports German companies with subsidised loans for environmental protection, climate action, circular economy, biodiversity, and resource efficiency upgrades.

Climate TechEnergy Tech
€25M

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