Public funding agencies in France (2026)
87 funders based in France. Filter by stage, sector or business model below. Contact details are part of Pro.
Initiative Pays de la Loire
Regional Initiative network for Pays de la Loire, a member of Initiative France, offering zero-rate honour loans including a transfer and takeover honour loan that raises buyers' equity and improves access to bank loans.
Initiative Pays Voironnais
Local association of the Initiative France network in the Pays Voironnais area. It grants zero-rate, guarantee-free honour loans to people creating or taking over a business, with mentoring and follow-up.
Initiative Portes de Bretagne
Local Initiative association in Portes de Bretagne, a member of Initiative France, providing honour loans and support to business creators, buyers and developers.
Initiative Rennes
Local Initiative association in Rennes, a member of Initiative France, whose main offer is the zero-rate honour loan that strengthens the founder's personal contribution and the company's equity.
Initiative Saône-et-Loire
Local association of the Initiative France network in Saône-et-Loire. It grants zero-rate honour loans through an approval committee to business creators and takers-over and lists its main financing tools on its site.
Initiative Sarthe
Local Initiative association in Sarthe, a member of Initiative France, offering honour loans, follow-up and mentoring to entrepreneurs creating, taking over or developing a business.
Initiative Sud Alsace
Local association of the Initiative France network in southern Alsace. It grants zero-rate honour loans through an approval committee and provides mentoring to business creators and takers-over.
Initiative Vallée de la Drôme Diois
Local association of the Initiative France network in the Vallée de la Drôme and Diois area. It grants interest-free, guarantee-free honour loans for business creation and takeover, approved by a committee, and offers…
Initiative Vannes
Local Initiative association in the Vannes area, a member of Initiative France, granting personal interest-free honour loans to strengthen the equity of business founders and ease access to bank loans.
Réseau Entreprendre 92
Réseau Entreprendre 92 is the Hauts-de-Seine association of the Réseau Entreprendre federation. It combines free mentoring by business owners with financing, and states that it lends more than €500K each year to the e…
Réseau Entreprendre 93
Réseau Entreprendre 93 is the Seine-Saint-Denis association of the Réseau Entreprendre federation. It states that it supports and finances entrepreneurs with high growth and job-creation potential in its area.
Réseau Entreprendre Adour
Association of business owners in the Adour area (Béarn, Bigorre, Landes, Pays Basque) that mentors business creators, buyers and growing companies and lends money to its laureates, with an average of 34,160 euros len…
Réseau Entreprendre Ain Val de Saone
Association of business owners in the Ain department, active since 2001, that mentors business creators, buyers and developers and grants honour loans, averaging 55 K euros per project according to its site.
Réseau Entreprendre Alpes du Sud
Association of business owners in the Alpes du Sud area that mentors business creators and buyers and grants honour loans, with 1.1 million euros committed, or 31,000 euros per project on average.
Réseau Entreprendre Alsace
Association of business owners in Alsace that supports business creators, buyers and developers with human and financial support, including honour loans that laureates say help obtain bank financing.
Réseau Entreprendre Artois
Association of business owners created in 2000 covering the eastern and central Pas-de-Calais that mentors business creators and buyers and grants honour loans, averaging 29,500 euros per project.
Réseau Entreprendre Auvergne
Association of business owners in Auvergne, active since 2004, that mentors business creators, buyers and developers and grants honour loans, with 715k euros of honour loans reported for 2025.
Réseau Entreprendre Bourgogne
Association of business owners in Burgundy, active since 2002, that mentors business creators, buyers and developers and grants honour loans to its laureates.
Réseau Entreprendre Bretagne
Réseau Entreprendre Bretagne is a regional association of business owners that supports entrepreneurs with mentoring and financing through the Réseau Entreprendre network.
Réseau Entreprendre Cote d Opale
Association of business owners on the Côte d'Opale and in Flanders that finances entrepreneurs through zero-rate honour loans and free mentoring. One cited case is a 60,000 euro honour loan, and the site states that 1…
Réseau Entreprendre Guadeloupe
Non-profit association in Guadeloupe that supports business creators through two to three years of mentoring and financial support in the form of a zero-rate honour loan, averaging 33,400 euros.
Réseau Entreprendre Guyane
Association of business owners in French Guiana that mentors business creators, buyers and developers and grants honour loans, averaging 30k euros per project.
Réseau Entreprendre Hainaut
Association of business owners in the Hainaut area of northern France (Valenciennes, Douai, Cambrai, Maubeuge) that mentors founders and acquirers and grants honour loans. The site states an average honour loan of 25,…
Réseau Entreprendre Haute Savoie
Association of business owners in Haute-Savoie that provides mentoring and financing for business creation, takeover and development. The site reports about 30,000 EUR lent on average per laureate entrepreneur.
Réseau Entreprendre Limousin
Association of business owners in the Limousin region that mentors founders, acquirers and growing companies and lends to them. The site reports about 35,000 EUR lent on average per laureate entrepreneur.
Réseau Entreprendre Loire
Association of business owners created in 1999 in the Loire area that mentors founders, acquirers and SME developers and offers financing as part of its programmes. It reports 439 laureate entrepreneurs supported sinc…
Réseau Entreprendre Loir et Berry
Association of business owners in the Cher, Eure-et-Loir and Loiret departments (Centre region) that combines mentoring with financing for entrepreneurs. The site reports an average of 32,500 EUR lent in 2020.
Réseau Entreprendre Loire Vallee
Association of business owners created in 2020 covering the Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loire and Indre departments, which mentors and finances business creators, acquirers and developers. Since 2020 it reports 85 companie…
Réseau Entreprendre Lorraine
Association of business owners in Lorraine that supports entrepreneurs with mentoring, training and zero-rate honour loans. The site reports 8,611,000 EUR lent and 364 laureate entrepreneurs supported.
Réseau Entreprendre Maine et Loire
Association of business owners in Maine-et-Loire that mentors entrepreneurs and grants honour loans to secure their financing plan. The site reports more than 6.5 million EUR of honour loans granted since 2010.