
Line of Financing for Special Purpose Vehicles Owned by Business Angels
IFD-FC&QC-BA-01/16(Applications closed)
Call for Tenders to select financial intermediaries that will receive financial resources from the Equity and Quasi-Equity Fund (FC&QC), managed by IFD – Instituição Financeira de Desenvolvimento, S.A., within the financial instrument Line of Financing for Special Purpose Vehicles Owned by Business Angels.
This call for tenders is governed by the Portuguese Public Procurement Code and intends to select and finance Special Purpose Vehicles owned by Business Angels, as defined in the call and annexed product data sheet.
The financial intermediaries are entitled to submit applications to this call through the certified platform VortalGov. This call was also published in Portuguese Diário da República and in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Special Purpose Vehicles owned by Business Angels
- Majority ownership by BA (individuals);
- BA certified by IAPMEI;
- Focus of activity: Participation in companies;
- Co-financing by FC&QC between €300 000 and €750 000 per SPV.
Investment Priorities
- IP 3.1 Creation of companies and start-up phase;
- IP 3.3. Strengthen SME skills in the development of new products and services; Innovative projects at the process product, organisation or marketing level.
Investment Type
- Minimum 70% in equity and quasi-equity instruments;
- Consolidation or restructuring operations are not allowed.
Eligible Final Beneficiaries (SME)
- Has not operated in any market;
- Has operated in any market for less than seven years since the first commercial sale;
- Requires an initial investment of risk financing which, based on a business plan prepared in order to enter a new product market or a new geographic market, is higher than 50% of its average annual turnover in the previous five years.
Investment Period: until 31/12/2019.
List of Committed Operations
List of SPV with co-financing from the FC&QC
Relevant documents of the call (in English):
- Call for Tenders (IFD_CE 2016.05.11 BA 3.2 Aviso de Abertura de Concurso EN.pdf);
- Selection Criteria Matrix (IFD_CE 2016.05.11 BA 6.2 Anexo C – Critérios de Seleção EN.pdf);
- Extension of the Deadline for Submission of Proposals (IFD 20160626 FCQC BA Prorrogação-Prazo CE EN.pdf);
Remaining documents from the Public Procurement process (only in Portuguese):
- Programa de Concurso (IFD_CE 2016.05.11 BA 1. Programa de Concurso.pdf);
- Caderno de Encargos (IFD_CE 2016.05.11 BA 2. Caderno de Encargos.pdf);
- Aviso de Abertura do Concurso (IFD_CE 2016.05.11 BA 3.1 Aviso de Abertura de Concurso PT.pdf);
- Anexo A – Modelo de declaração de acordo com o CCP (IFD_CE 2016.05.11 BA 4. Anexo A – Modelo Declaração.pdf;
- Anexo C – Matriz de Critérios de Seleção (IFD_CE 2016.05.11 BA 6.1 Anexo C – Critérios de Seleção PT.pdf);
- Prorrogação do Prazo de Apresentação de Candidaturas (IFD20 160626 FCQC BA Prorrogação-Prazo CE PT.pdf);
Porto, July 18, 2016
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