Capital Funding
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Bridging Funding
Bridging Loan Objectives:
To provide for working capital needs.
Type of Funding:
Short-Term Loan (Up to 1 Year)
May be backed by some form of collateral such as sureties, cessions, etc.
R50k – R5million
Target Clients / Sectors:
Businesses that have secured firm contracts from clients (business to business transactions only).
Website: https://www.sefa.org.za/
Equity Funding
Equity Funding Objectives:
Provide collaborative venture funding
Type of Funding:
Through its wholesale lending, sefa provides facilities (debt/equity) to intermediaries, joint venture, partnerships (Specialised Funds) and other collaborative relationships.
Target Clients / Sectors:
This enables sefa to extend it’s reach of making funding available to small businesses across South Africa.
Gauruntees Funding
Equity Funding Objectives:
Provide credit gaurantee products to lenders
Type of Funding:
The purpose of the scheme is to issue a range of credit guarantee products to lenders (commercial banks and other financial institutions) for SMME borrowers whose access to finance is impeded by the fact that they do not have collateral required by the lenders. SMMEs would normally require finance in order to establish, expand or purchase existing businesses.
Target Clients / Sectors:
For SMME borrowers whose access to finance is impeded by the fact that they do not have collateral required by the lenders.
Website: https://www.sefa.org.za/Admin/ProductsServices/Product.aspx?ContentSelectionID=938
Working Capital Funding
Co-operative Incentive Scheme (CIS)
Objective:
To improve the viability and competitiveness of co-operative enterprises.
Cost sharing grant for:
Working Capital
Business Development
Operating Equipment
Technology and Systems
Target Clients / Sectors:
Registered primary co-operatives
Website: https://www.dsbd.gov.za/about-dsbd.html
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Grant Funding
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Grant Funding
Seda Technology Programme (STP) – Technology Transfer Fund (TTF)
Objective:
To facilitate technological innovation and accessibility of technologies and technical support for small enterprises.
Cost sharing grant for:
Machinery and Equipment.
Business Development Services.
Target Clients / Sectors:
Small enterprises particularly enterprises in the 2nd economy.
Website: https://www.seda.org.za/MyBusiness/STP/Pages/AboutSTP.aspx
Grant Funding
Black Business Supplier Development Programme (BBSDP)
Objective:
To assist Black enterprises to improve their competitiveness and sustainability.
Cost-sharing grant for:
Tools, Machinery and Equipment
business development
Target Clients / Sectors:
Majority Black owned enterprises with predominantly black management teams.
Website: https://www.dsbd.gov.za/about-dsbd.html
=48&subthemeid=
Grant Funding
Co-operative Incentive Scheme (CIS)
Objective:
To improve the viability and competitiveness of co-operative enterprises.
Cost sharing grant for:
Working Capital
Business Development
Operating Equipment
Technology and Systems
Target Clients / Sectors:
Registered primary co-operatives
Website: https://www.dsbd.gov.za/about-dsbd.html
Grant Funding
Manufacturing Investment Programme (MIP)
Objective:
To stimulate investment in the manufacturing sector and create jobs.
Cost sharing grant for:
Qualifying investment costs.
Target Clients / Sectors:
Local and foreign-owned manufacturers that wish to
establish a new production facility;
expand an existing production facility; or
upgrade an existing facility.
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/financial_incentive.jsp?id=2&subthemeid=
Grant Funding
Technology and Human Resources for Industry Programme (THRIP)
Objective:
To improve the competitiveness of South African industry, by supporting research and technology development activities, and enhancing the quality and quantity of appropriately skilled people.
Cost-sharing grant for projects that:
Promote and Facilitate Scientific Research, Technology Development and Technology Diffusion and
Includes a Human Resource Development Component.
Target Clients / Sector:
Industrial and growth sectors of the DTI.
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/financial_incentive.jsp?id=52&subthemeid
Grant Funding
Business Process Services (BPS)
Objective:
To attract investment and create employment in South Africa via offshoring activities.
Tax Exempt grant for:
Each offshore job created and maintained.
Target Clients / Sectors:
Enterprises performing Business Process Services.
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/financial_incentive.jsp?id=6&subthemeid=
Grant Funding
Capital Projects Feasibility Programme
Objective:
To facilitate feasibility studies that are likely to lead to high-impact projects which will stimulate value-adding economic activities in South Africa.
Grant:
Up to a maximum of 55% of the total costs of the feasibility study.
Target Clients / Sectors:
New projects
Expansion of existing projects and
The rehabilitation of existing projects that fulfil the objectives of the programme.
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/financial_incentive.jsp?id=4&subthemeid=25
Grant Funding
Clothing and Textile Competitiveness Improvement Programme (CTCIP)
Objective:
Aimed at structurally changing the Clothing, Textiles, Footwear, Leather & Leather Goods manufacturing industries by providing funding assistance for these sectors to invest in competitiveness improvement interventions.
Cost sharing grant for:
qualifying costs
Target Clients / Sectors:
Companies in the clothing and textile sector.
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/financial_incentive.jsp?id=35&subthemeid=
Grant Funding
Foreign Investment Grant (FIG)
Objective:
To compensate qualifying foreign investors for the costs of moving qualifying new machinery and equipment from abroad to South Africa.
Cash grant:
To compensate qualifying foreign investors for costs incurred in moving qualifying new machinery and equipment from abroad to RSA.
Target Clients / Sectors:
Foreign investors that have been approved for the MIP.
Website: https://www.investmentincentives.co.za/expenditure-capital/foreign-investment-grant
Grant Funding
Production Incentive (PI)
Objective:
To assist the industry in upgrading its processes, products and people.
Upgrade grant facility or an interest subsidy facility or a combination of both.
Target Clients / Sectors:
Clothing and Textile manufacturers.
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/financial_incentive.jsp?id=36&subthemeid=25
Grant Funding
Critical Infrastructure Programme (CIP)
Objective:
To support competitiveness by lowering business costs and risks
Provide targeted financial support for physical infrastructure and
Cost-sharing cash grant:
Target Clients / Sectors:
Private investors/companies and
Municipalities
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/financial_incentive.jsp?id=3
Grant Funding
Aquaculture Development and Enhancement Programme (ADEP)
Objective:
To stimulate investment in the aquaculture sector.
Reimbursable cost-sharing grant for qualifying costs.
Target Clients / Sectors:
Primary, secondary and ancillary aquaculture activities in both marine and freshwater.
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/financial_incentive.jsp?id=56&subthemeid=26
Grant Funding
Support Programme for Industrial Innovation (SPII)
Objective:
To promote technology development in South Africa’s industry. The programme focussed specifically on the development phase, which begins at the conclusion of basic research and ends at the point when a pre-production prototype has been produced.
Two types of Grants:
Non-repayable grant covering a percentage of ‘qualifying’ costs incurred in the development activities of a specified development project.
Levy-based grant based on a percentage of sales over a fixed number of years.
Target Clients / Sectors:
Significant advancement in technology for South African registered companies and the intellectual property to reside in South African registered company.
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/financial_incentive.jsp?id=48&subthemeid=
Grant Funding
Manufacturing Competitiveness Enhancement Programmer (MCEP)
Objective:
Encourage enterprises to upgrade their production facilities, processes, products and up-skill workers.
Non-taxable grant:
Calculated as a percentage of Manufacturing Value Added (MVA)
Target Clients / Sectors:
Manufacturing enterprises in operation for more than one year.
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/MCEP.jsp
Grant Funding
Automotive Incentive Scheme
Objective:
To strengthen and diversify the automotive sector through investment in new and/or replacement models and components.
Taxable cash grant:
Based on a percentage of the value of qualifying investment in productive assets.
Target Clients / Sectors:
Light motor vehicle manufacturers.
Component or deemed component manufacturers.
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/financial_incentive.jsp?id=37&subthemeid=
Grant Funding
Sector Specific Assistance Scheme (SSAS)
Objective:
Sector Specific Assistance Scheme (SSAS)
Objective:
Developing industry sectors as a whole
Developing new export markets
Stimulating job creation
Broadening the export base
Proposing solutions to factors inhibiting export growth
Promoting broader participation of black owned and SMME’s to the economy.
Cost sharing grant:
Target Clients / Sectors:
Export Councils,
Joint Action Groups and
Industry Associations
Website: https://www.thedti.gov.za/financial_assistance/financial_incentive.jsp?id=8&subthemeid=26
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Risk Funding
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Risk Funding
Agro-Industries Unit
Objective:
Invests in agro-processing businesses focusing particularly on value addition, upgrading technologies and reducing importation of raw materials and final products.
Type of Funding:
Start-up and existing businesses
Debt / Equity
Quasi-equity
Trade finance
Guarantees
Bridging finance
Venture Capital
Target Clients / Sectors:
Projects that create jobs in the agro-processing sector.
Website: https://www.idc.co.za/sbu-overview/agro-industries.html
Risk Funding
Chemicals & Allied Industries Unit
Objective:
Invests in business ventures and projects in a number of chemical industry sub-sectors. Also focusses on ceramic, stone and concrete products.
Type of Funding:
Start-up and existing businesses
Debt / Equity
Quasi-equity
Trade Finance
Guarantees
Bridging Finance
Venture Capital
Target Clients / Sectors:
Chemicals and allied industries
Website: https://www.idc.co.za/sbu-overview/chemical-products-and-pharmaceuticals.html
Risk Funding
Risk Capital Facility Programme
Objective:
To provide risk finance to companies owned by historically disadvantaged people, improving the financial structure of undercapitalised companies.
Type of Funding:
Equity
Quasi-equity
Business Support Programme – Business Planning, Training and Mentorship.
Target Clients / Sectors:
SMEs in IDC mandated sectors.
Website: https://www.idc.co.za/home/idc-products/special-schemes/risk-capital-facility-programme.html
Risk Funding
Forestry and Wood Products Unit
Objectives:
To finances projects and investments in the forestry, sawmilling, pulp, paper, furniture and wood industries, as well as those involved in biomass, renewable energy and energy efficiency.
Type of Funding:
Start-up and existing businesses
Debt / Equity
Quasi-equity
Trade Finance
Guarantees
Bridging Finance
Venture Capital
Target Clients / Sectors:
Forestry and Wood Product Industries
Website: https://www.idc.co.za/about-the-idc/15-finance-by-sector/forestry-and-wood-products/51-forestry-and-wood-products.html
