Bpifrance

Bpifrance is France’s public investment bank. It finances and supports French companies at every stage of their development, from seed funding to scaling and international expansion.

For French Tech Barcelona founders, Bpifrance provides support in several areas: seed and innovation loans, guarantees for bank loans to establish operations abroad, export support through the French Tech pass, and co-funding for cross-border R&D projects. It is one of the schemes most often used by French startups setting up a team in Barcelona while retaining a French holding company. The fractional CFO guide explains how it works alongside Spanish schemes such as ENISA and CDTI.

Official website: bpifrance.fr