The Access4SMEs -Seal of Excellence community aims at gathering high potential European companies that received from the European Commission a “Seal of Excellence” certificate and European equity investors.
The Seal of Excellence label means that the companies have been successful in a highly competitive evaluation process by independent experts in the context of the SME Instrument.
The Seal of Excellence certification demonstrates the high quality and business potential of SMEs’ projects. It allows these projects to have more credibility and visibility towards potential investors.
This support action is implemented by Bpifrance and other National Contact Points under the Access4SMEs project (a 30-month coordination and support action directed at National Contact Points in the domains of access to risk finance and SMEs, fostering the use of financial instruments (incl. through exchange of best practices) and including the establishment of this community of practice facilitating access to cross-border finance.