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IBank Loan Guarantee Program

IBank’s Small Business Finance Center features a loan guarantee program designed to assist small businesses that experience capital access barriers. The Small Business Loan Guarantee program encourages lenders to provide funds to small businesses to help them grow and prosper.

Originally known as the Small Business Loan Guarantee Program (SBLGP), the SBFC received seed money in 1968 in an effort to reduce unemployment by supporting entrepreneurship and small businesses. The Finance Center promotes statewide economic development by increasing opportunities for entrepreneurs, the self-employed, microbusiness and small business owners to have better access to capital and other technical resources.

The Small Business Loan Guarantee program helps businesses create and retain jobs, and encourages investment in low- to moderate-income communities. The Small Business Loan Guarantee program is available to small businesses throughout the state of California and serves hundreds of small businesses each year.

Eligibility:

  • The business must have between 1-750 employees and be established as an entity including:

Sole Proprietor – Individual using legal name as business name that files a Schedule C, Schedule F, or has a fictitious business name or DBA statement
If the loan appears to be in the name of an individual, evidence of Sole Proprietorship will be required and may include a Schedule C, Schedule F, Seller’s Permit, and/or fictitious business name or DBA statement
Limited Liability Company
Cooperative
Corporation
Partnership
S-Corporation
Not-for-profit

  • We will not accept an individual as the borrower. It is permissible for an individual to be a guarantor or co-borrower on the loan, but the primary borrower must be a small business. We do not consider citizenship or immigration status for eligibility requirements, as long as the entity/individual meets the above criteria. Trucking owner/operators are eligible as long as they are registered as a legal business entity.
  • The business activity must be eligible under the program and in one of the industries listed in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) codes list.
  • Eligible uses of the Small Business Loan Guarantee program financing proceeds include start-up costs, construction, inventory, working capital, business expansion, agriculture, lines of credit and more.

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