How does a growing SME find its financing nowadays?

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The available funding for starting companies differs enormously from the growth capital being released for larger companies. For the growing Flemish SME as we all know it, it is far less evident to attract capital than for a promising start-up. Fortunately? there are still a few possibilities left, but as a manager looking for funding, you should be cautious.

How does a growing SME find its financing nowadays?

share#square at Monard d’Hulst

The available funding for starting companies differs enormously from the growth capital being released for larger companies. For the growing Flemish SME as we all know it, it is far less evident to attract capital than for a promising start-up. Fortunately? there are still a few possibilities left, but as a manager looking for funding, you should be cautious.

Bram Delmotte from Monard Law and Jan Lagast van Participium explain why:

Mixed funding = success

Crowd + angel + private placement + government funding + VC + bank + … = success

Jan Lagast attended quite an interesting event today about business financing in Flanders, organized by Agentschap Ondernemen. The most important sources of business financing were presented in one day. Luc Colebunders (photo) , President of the new Belgian Federation of Crowdfunders, closed the day with an interesting thought. “Look for a mix of sources for financing and use one source as a leverage for the other.”