Funding for SA small to medium export businesses

New Market Entry provides small to medium-sized export businesses with funding to help them enter into an additional new market.

Overview

Funding is available for eligible activities, including:

• export plans, market research, market entry strategy
• market access
• marketing, branding and promotion
• freight and logistics optimisation
• export training, mentoring and coaching
• outbound business support.

Matched (1:1) funding of up to $15,000, minimum $5,000 is available.

Applicants can apply for the New Market Entry funding when they have exhausted their $30,000 allocation under the Export Accelerator stream.

Check if you can apply

To be eligible, you must:

• be a registered SA business with an Australian business number (ABN)
• be registered for goods and services tax (GST)
• have a minimum annual turnover of $75,000
• have less than 200 full time equivalent employees
• have generated sales revenue for a minimum of 24 months in SA
• have a tradeable, export-ready good or service that is made in SA
• be able to commit and contribute 1:1 matched funding towards the proposed costs.

Additionally, your business must be from, or supporting one of the following priority sectors:

• creative industries
• defence industries
• energy and mining
• food, wine and agribusiness
• health and medical industries
• hi-tech
• international education
• space industries
• tourism.