Finance your business transfer

Loan guarantees

• 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.

Equity investments

Loans and cash advances

• 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.

• 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.

• Cooperative Buyout Support Program (in French only)

  ​Investissement Québec
  ​If you are a member partner of a cooperative, you may be eligible for funding to buyback a business.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

Grants, contributions and financial assistance

• 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.