- On Friday 27, the nine suitable finalists of SME 2025 were introduced, a fund allocating $ 135 million to bring concrete solutions to digitalization, training and local employment.
Only 2.6% of this sector training of access to tax exclusivity, despite representing 98% of total companies in Chile.
Within the International Day Framework of Microenterprise and Small and Middle Enterprises (SMEs), the otion of the Chilean Chamber of Construction (CCHC) this Friday made a main day to FIT SME 2025, in which the nine finalist projects of the fund presented their proposals to a specialized jury. These presentations will determine the winners of the call, which will be announced on July 15.
Fit Pyme 2025 seeks to identify, finance and climb specific solutions that allow entrepreneurs to advance digitalization, enter specialized training, and generate local employment sustainable. With a total investment of $ 135 million, this second publication of the fund has focused on closing structural gaps that limit the sector competition.
With 149 total proposals, José Esteban Garay, General Manager of CCHC OTIC, said that “Increasing the level of applications in relation to the previous version is important. This reflects that we are reaching a larger audience with this type of initiatives. in the pound. “But I would like to highlight the quality of the jury, because it was the very high level, which allowed us to generate influence in thousands of SMEs in the pound. “
Among the finalist projects that were presented this Friday are Sofan Spa Sof-Aia; Digital transformation pyme through personalized IA agents of Nestercom Limiteda; Inacap technological awareness; Intelligent management of compliance compliance; Latam Market Mifa; Renee and group works with love; Optigestion of your growth partner; Impulse to Biobío de irade’s SMEs; and Cachapoal digitize qi consultants.
In the CCHC OTIC founding room, the atmosphere was of waiting among the participants, who, in a six -minute space, presented their projects in the chosen jury. From the capital, but also from the regions, various contenders showed their solutions to judges of companies and institutions such as BCI; Innovation forum; Walmart Chile; Microsoft Chile; Rizola Abani and Agua; CCHC OTIC; BHP Foundation; Chile Women’s Economic Forum; Corfo; Starting Chile; and Blue Express.
Sebastián Arias, Deputy Manager of Early Financing of Corfo and Judge of the event, showed regional and local work arguing that “independent of the region where we are doing something, the important thing is to really identify a problem worth solving. etc., and then reach a solution through experimentation.
In that line, Fit SME 2025 Day joins other initiatives promoted by CCHC OTIC such as SME and Talent SME, which specialized training pilots, digital diagnoses and strategic alliances with entrepreneurial actors. These actions have allowed the expansion of the SME participation in training and processes of technological development with territorial focus.
Alejandra Garcés, Jurado and the director of the BHP Foundation’s Country Program stated that “it seems interesting to link the SME issue with civil society organizations working in social investment because they also need to seek capital, to post projects and be effective in using resources.
CCHC OTIC will continue to make the results of these initiatives visible, and publicly share the three winning projects since July 15, in order to facilitate their repetition and promote its approval in other regions of the country.
