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The National Development Bank (NRB), in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT), is launching a new guarantee programme to support investment and the reconstruction of Ukraine.

On Monday, February 2, 2026, the National Development Bank (NRB) will start accepting applications for interest-free loans under the renewed successful financial instrument Expansion Loans OPTAK. The tool was created in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade. It is designed for sole traders and small and medium-sized enterprises to support their investments.

The National Development Bank, in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade, is launching a proven financial instrument called Expansion of OPTAK Loans, which is intended for sole traders and small and medium-sized enterprises across industries. The program will offer interest-free investment loans.

The IPO Fund 2025+, a new fund of the National Development Investment Fund for equity financing of small and medium-sized companies, has today started cooperation with the Prague Stock Exchange. It will support companies that decide to look for money for their development through the issue of shares on the Start Market stock market.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MPO), in cooperation with the National Development Bank (NRB), is once again launching one of the most successful guarantee programs to support entrepreneurship. The new National Guarantee product under the GUARANTEE 2024–2030 programme builds on the previous M-Guarantee programme and is intended for sole traders and small and medium-sized enterprises that want to obtain bank loans to finance their operational and investment projects. The Ministry of Industry and Trade has allocated CZK 578 million for this support instrument.

The National Development Bank (NRB), in cooperation with the Ministry of the Environment (MoE), is launching a new guarantee product, the Transformation Guarantee, which is intended for small and medium-sized enterprises operating in the so-called coal regions of the Czech Republic – the Moravian-Silesian, Ústí nad Labem and Karlovy Vary regions. CZK 500 million has been allocated for the programme from the Just Transition Operational Programme.

The National Development Investment (NRI), a subsidiary of the National Development Bank, has announced a call for applications under the new IPO Fund 2025+ program. Its aim is to support the public offering of shares (IPO – Initial Public Offering) of small and medium-sized enterprises and mid-cap companies, and at the same time to strengthen the development of equity financing in the Czech Republic.  The program was created in cooperation with the Ministry of Industry and Trade.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MPO) together with the National Development Investment (NRI) are preparing a new investment instrument aimed at supporting cutting-edge technologies – the DeepTech Fund. The DeepTech fund is intended to significantly improve the financing of start-ups in the early stages of development, which often lack capital in the Czech Republic. The Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to allocate up to one billion crowns for the fund in the first stage.

The National Development Bank, CZ (NRB), in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of the Environment, has prepared a programme to support small and medium-sized entrepreneurs to help them rebuild their businesses affected by recent floods.

The National Development Bank (NRB), together with the Ministry of Industry and Trade and the Ministry of Finance, is preparing two programmes for entrepreneurs affected by the September floods. The NRB will provide SMEs in flooded localities with preferential loans for business recovery after the flood with an allocation of CZK 1.5 billion (EUR 60m) and will also offer guarantees for commercial loans worth up to CZK 3.5 billion (EUR 140m). The NRB is going start accepting applications for both programmes on 1 November 2024.

After twelve years in the family business, Richard Uhlíř has now become the new CEO of Imedex. It is a critical milestone in the company's life cycle, which poses both risk and a huge opportunity for its further development. "What seemed impossible at first eventually materialised within six months. Also thanks to a great cooperation with our banker and the National Development Bank, we managed to find the right way to carry out my repurchase of a 100% business share in the company," outlines the new owner and CEO of Imedex.

"In thirty years of our company history, we gradually moved up from a small garage to the first league. As a family business, we have strong roots in our hometown, but at the same time we are looking ahead and making plans for the future. It is invaluable to have a good financial partner on your side to turn your business visions into growth. For us, the Czech-Moravian Guarantee and Development Bank, today the National Development Bank, is such a partner who helps us finance our development while giving us crucial advice and support," says Lucie Vejdová, Managing Director of IMS-Drašnar.

A wicked winter reigns over the Olomouc Region. A bunch of boys puts on ice-skates and enters an ice-bound pond with hockey sticks in their hands. Few steps and they are in the middle of a sulphurous smoke where one can see not a bit. That is exactly the memory Zdeněk Černý carries through his life. That is why, when in 90´s he had a chance, he commissioned production of wooden briquettes. Although Czechia is not so radical to ban sulphur containing fuels promoting ecological methods yet, the BIOMAC company has become the largest briquette producer in Europe and one of the top three producers of pellets in the Czech Republic.

Josef Hronovský worked as a purchaser in Elton, Nové Město nad Metují, involved in trading with machined components at the end of 80´. “As I saw the possibilities to react to demand in a more flexible and cheaper way than our collaborators supplying the than rigid state companies did, I decided to start my own business in this sphere as soon as it would be possible,” Josef Hronovský recalls.

Stanislav Němeček was involved in R&D for more than ten years. He tested materials and analyses their degradation. He liked his work but he regretted that the research results had not been implemented into practice. And he also had a little bit problems in respecting authorities. Together with his colleague, they established the Matex PM company in 2005 ranking today among the top Europe companies active in development and application of laser technologies. Different approaches to further development of the company led to split of their co-operation. So, the RAPTECH company appeared, and Mr. Němeček is standing on a starting line again.

Upright pianos and grand pianos “Petrof” are renowned worldwide. You can find them in La Scala and in the Sydney Opera House. They are especially popular in China. There are many famous names associated with playing them, such as Paul McCartney, Jitka Fowler Fraňková and one of the best Argentine pianists Antonio Formaro. They are bought by private persons, schools, theatres, cultural houses and philharmonic orchestras. Petrof sales approximately two thousands pianos annually. In 2019, the company had a successful year, but then, the pandemic hit the business.