Company Requirements
To be able to apply for this financing line, your company must meet the following requirements
- Be a Spanish company with export potential and an SME. Associations and foundations are excluded.
- Have an own product or service that can be marketed internationally and an own brand. For service companies, these services must be provided abroad.
- Not be a commercial or manufacturing subsidiary of a foreign company.
- Have revenue exceeding €300,000 (fiscal year 2025):
- If this threshold is not reached by 2025, the revenue at the time of application may be considered, provided justification of sales (quarterly VAT returns, invoices, etc.) is submitted, to be evaluated at ICEX’s discretion.
- Exception: Newly established technology-based companies have no minimum revenue requirement (it is reduced to zero).
- A company is considered newly established if it has been in existence for no more than 5 years since the registration of its articles of incorporation in the Commercial Registry or the Registry of Cooperatives (7 years in biotechnology, energy, manufacturing, and other strategic sectors or those with proprietary technology).
- Have at least one employee who assumes responsibility for the international project and maintain its own website.
- Must not have participated in ICEX startup programs (PIPE or ICEX Next), except for companies that participated between 1997 and 2012 and had revenue of more than €1,500,000 in the last fiscal year.
- Have no outstanding payments to ICEX.
- There is no limit on the percentage of international sales relative to total revenue (special emphasis is placed on companies that are consolidating or strengthening their international position and on those that must be global from the outset).
