{"id":15370,"date":"2019-01-07T08:46:45","date_gmt":"2019-01-07T06:46:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=15370"},"modified":"2019-01-07T08:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T06:52:00","slug":"startup-sofia-accelerator-to-support-sofia-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/startup-sofia-accelerator-to-support-sofia-entrepreneurs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Startup Sofia Accelerator\u2019 to Support Sofia Entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8720 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shutterstock_553990465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shutterstock_553990465.jpg 500w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shutterstock_553990465-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shutterstock_553990465-180x146.jpg 180w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shutterstock_553990465-50x41.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/shutterstock_553990465-92x75.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>At the initiative of Sofia Municipality <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Startup Sofia Accelerator<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2019<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> starts its activity in support of innovative, start-up and social entrepreneurs on the territory of Sofia Municipality. Its goal is to support entrepreneurs or startups for a period of 3 to 5 months in their process of preparing for application for funding from banks and investors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The initiative will be implemented with the participation of the Municipal Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium Enterprises (MGFSME), the Europe Program and Sofia Investment Agency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sofia Municipality has also announced the establishment of a Consultative Council in support of SMEs through financial instruments to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Doncho Barbalov, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">D<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">eputy <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">M<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ayor of the Finance and Economic Activity Division. The Council for Encouraging Entrepreneurship will primarily aim to implement the policies of the municipality to <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">support <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">small and medium-sized businesses through financial instruments and stimulating entrepreneurship in the capital.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the initiative of Sofia Municipality \u2018Startup Sofia Accelerator\u2019 starts its activity in support of innovative, start-up and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":8721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}