Here you will find information on some of the grants and subsidies that may be of interest.

Aid for self-employed workers, entrepreneurs and social economy entities

• Aid for the promotion of CSR and work-life balance
• Aid to workers who are self-employed
• Extension of the flat rate for freelancers
• Program for the promotion of collective entrepreneurship
• Single payment of the contributory benefit
• Help for the payment of Social Security contributions, after capitalizing the unemployment benefit

More information: Portal of the Community of Madrid

Innovation Check Program of the Community of Madrid

It is about facilitating the access of small and medium-sized companies to technology and innovation, through the direct granting of aid, in the form of subsidies, aimed at SMEs and, with special preference, those belonging to non-traditional sectors. commercial, financial or real estate and whose business model is not based on the generation or development of technological innovations. Thus, it is about promoting the implementation of innovation and the transfer of scientific and technological knowledge by small and medium-sized companies, as an added value and as an instrument for increasing their productivity.

More information in the next link: Innovation Check Program

Dynamic aid and incentive guide

Complete and updated guide to grants and incentives with an open application period

This guide from the General Directorate for Industry and Small and Medium Enterprises includes all the aid and incentives for companies, granted and called by the general administration of the State, regional administrations, local administrations and other public bodies.

More information: Dynamic Guides and SME platform

The help portal offers the following services:

• help finder
• Prebuilt queries
• Registration of inquiries in your profile

Venues for entrepreneurs

If you are an entrepreneur and you are looking for a place to develop your business project or activity, the Social Housing Agency of the Community of Madrid makes available to Madrid entrepreneurs, an offer of premises for lease, under very advantageous conditions.

Here you have all the information about the premises for entrepreneurs: characteristics, location, rental advantages…..

Support in the search for financing

In addition to aid and subsidies for SMEs and the self-employed in Madrid, various financial institutions have financing lines for entrepreneurial projects

More links of interest

• Search engine for grants and incentives for companies
• Grants and incentives for business creation
• Entrepreneurship: portal of the Community of Madrid
• Subsidies and incentives for hiring the Community of Madrid 
• Contract guide. Public State Employment Service (SEPE)
• Guide types of Sepe 2023 contracts
• Grants from the Community of Madrid
• Grants from the Community of Madrid 

Microbank social microcredits

With the aim of promoting self-employment and encouraging entrepreneurial activity, the Madrid City Council has signed an agreement with the financial institution Microbank to support access to financing for the establishment, consolidation or expansion of micro-enterprises, self-employed businesses and self-employment projects .

In addition, especially, a financing line is established aimed at business projects of an innovative nature.

To access these lines of financing it is necessary to provide a business plan and get a favorable feasibility report of the project prepared by Madrid Emprende, as a MicroBank collaborating entity.

Interested entrepreneurs can contact us requesting appointment.

For more information consult the conditions in  micro bank

Other financing lines

ICO Companies and Entrepreneurs Lines

What does it finance?

• Investment projects, business activities and/or need for liquidity or expenses.
• Digitization projects and, in particular, those aimed at promoting teleworking solutions included in the program Accelerate SMEs.
• Rehabilitation of houses and buildings.

For whom?

1. For freelancers and entrepreneurs.
2. Individuals and communities of owners.

More information and other possible lines of financing at: www.ico.es

ENISA lines

ENISA actively participates in the financing of business projects feasible and innovative. Have 5 lines:

1. Young Entrepreneurs. Aimed at young entrepreneurs who want to create companies. Objective: to provide the necessary financial resources to recently established SMEs, created by young people, so that they can undertake the investments required by the project in its initial phase.
2. Entrepreneurs. Aimed at entrepreneurs who want to create companies with a clear competitive advantage. Objective: to financially support SMEs promoted by entrepreneurs, without age limits, in the early stages of life, so that they undertake the necessary investments and carry out their project.
3. Increase. Aimed at supporting the business projects of companies interested in expanding their business or achieving competitive improvement.
4. AgroInnpulse. Aimed at promoting the digital transformation of companies in the agri-food sector and the rural environment. 
5. Digital Entrepreneurss. Aimed at promoting female digital entrepreneurship.

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Financing for SMEs and the self-employed.

Investment:

• Entrepreneurs Line.
• International Line: establishment abroad.
• Investment.
• ICO SGR Investment.

The Business Angels or private investor are natural persons with extensive knowledge of certain sectors and with investment capacity, who promote the development of business projects with high growth potential in its early stages of life, providing capital and added value to management.

Private investors help cover the lack of financing faced by entrepreneurs in the early stages (associated with high levels of risk and lack of liquidity); they differ from traditional investors and venture capital, in their involvement in the management of the company.

Like venture capital entities, these are investors who are committed to a business project, without getting involved in the day-to-day, but providing added value. In addition to capital availability, these private investors tend to have a high level of knowledge in the sectors in which they invest. This knowledge, its management capacity and its network of contacts are very valuable for promoting the development of business projects that have high growth potential, in exchange for medium-term profitability.

As a legal form, they usually adopt that of a limited company. These investors usually organize themselves by forming networks. In some cases with the aim of converting in others as a form of cooperation in general.

Main features:

• They invest their own money
• It is invested in the initial stage of the life of a company
• Your investment decisions may be other than strictly financial motivations (job satisfaction, etc.)
• They invest in areas close to their place of residence
• The amounts invested are much lower than the average dedicated by venture capital entities in each operation
• Profitability is generally lower than that obtained by venture capital entities

Main networks operating in Madrid

• Network of Private Investors and Family Offices. The objective of the Network is to facilitate contact between entrepreneurs in search of financing and investors in search of investment opportunities.
• Business Angels Network madri+d. Network specialized in technological projects of the Community of Madrid during its first years of life.
• Keiretsu Forum. The largest international network of private investors. In Spain it is promoted above all by the Caixa, the EOI and the Chambers of Commerce.
• IE Business School entrepreneurship. The Venture Days is IE's investment forum. It is quite focused on the best projects of the students or members of the business school.
• Spanish Association of Business Angels Networks. It brings together 25 of the main Spanish networks.

The Innovative SME Seal is created by virtue of the Order ECC/1087/2015, of June 5, which regulates obtaining the Small and Medium-sized Innovative Company seal and creates and regulates the Registry of Small and Medium-sized Innovative Companies (BOE of June 11, 2015).

It is a recognition that is granted to small and medium-sized companies that have a great character innovative so that these SMEs can take advantage of and combine tax incentives which, without this seal, are incompatible.

The objective is the development of an environment favorable to the R&D in SMEs so that innovation is systematically incorporated into the production model of our SMEs.

This new certification aims to expand the bonuses and tax benefits to these small and medium-sized companies, as well as to bring them closer to public procurement more easily.

How to get the stamp?

The application for the Seal can be made by SMEs that are in any of the following circumstances:

• Have received public funding in the last 3 years (without revocation) through:
  • Public calls for the VI National Plan for Scientific Research, Development and Technological Innovation or the State Plan for Scientific and Technical Research and Innovation.
  • Grants for carrying out CDTI R&D projects
  • Aid from the 7th R&D&I Framework Program or the Horizon 2020 Program of the European Union.
• Having demonstrated its innovative character with its activity:
  • Because it has its own patent in exploitation for less than 5 years
  • Because you have obtained in the last 3 years a Motivated Binding Report or IMV favorable
• Have demonstrated their capacity for innovation with one of these certifications:
  • Young Innovative Company (JEI), (AENOR EA0043)
  • Innovative small or micro-enterprise, (AENOR EA0047)
  • R&D&i management systems, (UNE 166.002 Standard)

A Registry is created in which all innovative SMEs will be recorded. Registration will be carried out at the request of the interested SME, carrying out the procedures electronically. These are: declaration as SME; not having had total revocation of justified public financial aid; be up to date with the Administration (Treasury and SS) and justification of the condition of innovator.

Advantages: what is the seal for?

With the Seal, SMEs can obtain better tax advantages for their investment in R&D&i, such as:

1. Match incentives that are not compatible for the rest of the companies:
   • Bonuses to Social Security by Research staff: reduces by 40% the share of common Social Security contingencies for researchers on staff.
   • Tax deductions for R+D+i: that allow reducing the Corporation Tax up to 42% of the investment made in R&D and up to 12% of the investment made in Technological Innovation (IT).
2. Do use of the Seal for advertising and commercial purposes, since it improves the image of the brand
3. Access to certain aid, financing or mechanisms for which the seal is necessary, such as participation in tenders for Public Purchase of Innovation, or the ICO financing facility.

How to get the Innovative SME Seal

The registration request as it is done from the website of the Ministry of Innovation, electronically and free of charge. The company must be registered in the RUS (Unified Registry of Applicants) to start the application for the seal.

During the application process we will be asked for information:

1. Company data
2. Data of the applicant
3. Company information: number of employees, turnover, annual balance
4. Provide the document that proves that you are an Innovative SME, as we have seen in the requirements section, for example:
   • documentation on the granting of public aid
   • the own patent in exploitation
   • a copy of the resolution of the positive binding reasoned report
   • or the copy of the official certification recognized by the Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness
5. Electronic signature

Then we must wait for the resolution of the Ministry, which can take from a week to 4 months. If you do not get any response within this time, it is most likely that your request has been accepted and you can now download the stamp.

The Seal expires at 3 years and you can renew it as long as you continue to meet the requirements.