Finance your business transfer

• Société d’Investissement Jeunesse Loan Program (in French only)

  société d'investissement jeunesse
  ​Are you aged 18 to 40 and the owner of an innovative technology business? You could receive a loan of up to $150,000.

• Ambition ME 

  ​Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
  Obtain financing in the form of investment, support from specialists and access to an international network to propel the development and growth of your medium-sized Quebec company.

• BDC Business Transition Loan 

  Business Development Bank of Canada
  Get a repayable loan with terms tailored to your business if you are thinking of buying a company, making a merger or acquiring a competitor in order to expand your operations.

• BDC Capital — Growth & Transition Capital — Buying a business 

  Business Development Bank of Canada
  Get repayable financial support of up to $35 million to increase your working capital to buy a competitor's or supplier's business. You can also obtain guidance and support from a team of experienced professionals to help you find the optimal financing structure in order to raise more capital. There is 2 solutions depending on the clients needs.

• Community Futures Program 

  Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
  Get funding for starting or growing a business in a rural or disadvantaged area of the province of Quebec.

• ESSOR — Investment 

  Investissement Québec
  Get a loan of $100,000 or more for manufacturing-innovation projects and $250,000 or more for the creation of a new business or expansion/modernization of an existing business.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - Beauce (in French only)

  ​Conseil économique de Beauce
  Get a loan of up to $10,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - Côte-de-Beaupré (in French only)

  ​Développement Côte-de-Beaupré
  Get a loan of up to $10,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - MRC Les Moulins (in French only)

  MRC Les Moulins
  Get a loan of up to $10,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - MRC Papineau (in French only)

  ​MRC Papineau
  Get a loan of up to $10,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - MRC d'Abitibi-Ouest [PDF](in French only)

  MRC d'Abitibi-Ouest
  Get a loan of up to $10,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - MRC d'Arthabaska (in French only)

  MRC d'Arthabaska
  Get a loan of up to $10,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - MRC de Bellechasse (in French only)

  ​MRC de Bellechasse
  Get a loan of up to $10,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - MRC de Maskinongé (in French only)

  ​MRC de Maskinongé
  Get a loan of up to $10,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - MRC de Témiscouata (in French only)

  ​MRC de Témiscouata
  Get a loan of up to $10,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - MRC de l'île d'Orléans (in French only)

  MRC de l'Île d'Orléans
  Get a loan of up to $10,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - MRC de la Jacques-Cartier (in French only)

  ​MRC de la Jacques-Cartier
  Get a loan of up to $10,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Nicolet-Yamaska Agri-Food Investment Fund (in French only)

  Service de développement économique de la MRC de Nicolet-Yamaska​
  You could receive financial assistance of up to $10,000 to start or expand your non-conventional-sized agri-food business.

• Quebec Business Transfer Fund 

  Centre de transfert d'entreprise du Québec
  Get specific business transfer funding to promote entrepreneurial growth and succession of existing businesses.

• SOCCA — Term loan for Indigenous businesses 

  Native Commercial Credit Corporation
  If your First Nations business is looking to start-up, expand, acquire a new business, you can get a competitive term loan to help cover up to 70% of the costs, so long as you can contribute at least 10% of the costs yourself.

• Société d’Investissement Jeunesse Loan Program (in French only)

  société d'investissement jeunesse
  ​Are you aged 18 to 40 and the owner of an innovative technology business? You could receive a loan of up to $150,000.

• Fonds Jeunes Promoteurs (JP) - MRC de Minganie (in French only)

  ​MRC de Minganie
  Get a grant of up to $4,000 to help you buy or start your first business.

• Group Recovery Support Program (in French only)

  Centre de transfert d'entreprise du Québec
  ​Do you want to transfer or buy a business? If so, you can receive funding to help you.

• Quebec Economic Development Program 

  Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions
  ​Find out about financial and other resources that can help you develop your Quebec business.

• Recyc-Québec — Ecocentre network optimization - Stream 1 

  ​Recyc-Québec
  ​Get up to $100,000 in funding to cover up to 70% of the expenses related to the implementation of a new ecocentre that must accept, sort at source and promote the reuse, recycling or recovery of various wood residues.

• Support for the purchase of a first commercial fishing business (in French only)

  MAPAQ
  Are you thinking of acquiring your first fishing business? If so, you may be eligible for financial support to do so.

You can also consult our other directories of financing programs.

You could also avail yourself of non-financial resources to succeed in your business venture.