Who is funded? (Eligible to apply)

Entrepreneurs and start-UPS (including the self-employed and freelancers), business successors and successor, the young entrepreneurs who start a business, consolidate a young company (up to three years after the start of business activities), as a managing Director or managing Director of a company to participate in a company as part of a corporate successor to take over.

What is funded? (Purpose)

Promotion of investments, for example, 

  • Land and buildings, construction costs, furniture 
  • Commercial vehicles, plant and equipment 
  • intangible assets (licenses, patents) 
  • Material and goods in stock (usually only original equipment) 
  • first participation in the fair 
  • Buying a business or company share 
The funding is granted, in what amount? (The type and amount of support)

Loans with equity character, mind. 10 % of own funds, to be increased to up to 50 % of the total financing requirement, max. The €500,000.

  • Interest rate: 0,40 % in the first year to the third year, to 2.82% from the fourth year of the term of the loan
  • Runtime: 15 years, ten years fixed-rate
  • Eradication: Seven-year period of grace, in this period, the interest plus the guarantee fee, then be repaid in quarterly Installments, plus. the interest on the outstanding amount of the loan
  • Unscheduled repayment is possible against payment of a prepayment penalty
  • Payout 100 %, 100 % exemption from liability for the Bank

You do not receive your loan directly from KfW but from a financing partner such as your bank.

Contact information

Via principal bank to KfW
Tel.: +49 (0) 800 539 90 01 (the call is free of charge) 

Further information
Ansprechpartner

Via principal bank to KfW
Tel.: +49 (0) 800 539 90 01 (the call is free of charge)