Date and Time: March 6th, 2019, 13:30-19:30 Venue: European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), Meeting room: JDE 51 (5th floor) Address: 99 Rue Belliard, 1000 Brussels, Belgium EBAN is delighted to invite you to join our 20th Anniversary celebration on March 6th at the European Economic and Social Committee premises in Brussels, Belgium. Since its creation in 1999, EBAN has served as the representative of business angels across Europe and has worked to help the European early stage market grow. We are excited to celebrate this great milestone together with our members, partners and our community. Join us for an afternoon of panels and speeches on how the angel market has evolved over the last 20 years, the role EBAN has played in this regard, and the outlook for the next 20 years of European angel investment. The event will end with a reception starting at 18:00. RSVP below by March 3rd:   DRAFT AGENDA: 14:00 - 14:30      Registration 14:30 - 14:55      Welcome and keynote speeches 14:55 - 15:30      Panel discussion with the founding members of EBAN 15:30 - 16:15      EBAN Under my Leadership - keynote speeches by EBAN President Emeriti 16:15 - 16:40      Speeches from EBAN and the European Investment Fund 16:40 - 17:30      Panel discussions featuring EBAN Angel of the Year Award Winners and EBAN Board 18:00 - 19:30      Reception

BiD Network is inviting all investors to an Impact Investment Trip between 10-16 March 2019. This trip will be extra special as you will visit both Rwanda & Uganda and meet the most promising businesses from both countries! The businesses in Bid Network's  portfolio operate in different sectors, such as food & agriculture, healthcare, renewable energy and financial services. They have one common denominator: they all have a positive impact on their communities, be it via job creation or a product or service that makes life better or easier. The businesses selected for you have gone through a thorough selection and our local investment experts supported them to become investment ready. Register by February the 10th Interested in joining this year's trip? The cost of the trip is 2,500 EUR, including accommodation, one-way flight Kigali - Entebbe, all other logistics and all meals, but excluding VAT and intercontinental flights. Space is limited, so register now to secure your spot! ‘The impact investment trip was very well organised. All businesses were well prepared, and the more businesses we saw, the more difficult it became to choose. After the trip, I invested in two businesses and I am still working on another deal.’ Carla Brokking - Angel Investor

Join Angels in MedCity's first investor workshop of 2019 in London on the 14th of March to learn about investing in life sciences companies. Angels in MedCity investor workshops aim to give potential angel investors who have a particular interest in healthcare and life sciences-based opportunities the information to be able to make these investments. This initiative is a partnership between MedCity and Newable. Workshop Programme - “Healthtech: Software vs Hardware” This workshop is aimed at individuals who would like to know more about investing in healthcare and life sciences. This workshop paves the way to the Company Pitching Event on 11th April at the Francis Crick Institute where you will have the opportunity to meet and invest in healthcare and life sciences start-ups and early-stage businesses.   Please note: this is an event targeted at an audience of investors. Medcity reserve the right to reject requests to attend from people not directly invited by the organisers.

We are pleased to invite you to the launch webinar for EBAN Health - March 21st at 15:00 CET our newest community bringing together all EBAN members interested in investing in health startups and/or learning about market and investment related trends in this sector. The first EBAN Health Webinar will serve to introduce the community, the activities it plans to offer and to discuss the barriers and opportunities when Investing in Health, with EBAN Health Committee members as speakers. Early stage investment in health tech startups presents the business angel with unique challenges and advantages. For example, investing in medical devices requires a certain level of sector expertise, but it can bring significant returns and create positive social impact at the same time. Barriers and Opportunities when Investing in Health March 21st at 15:00 CET   Speakers: Christine Bjarkby Christine Bjarkby is responsible for growth capital and business development within Connect Sverige. Christine has a broad experience from business development worldwide from large public global companies to small start-up companies. Christine has previously worked with investments as a representative of Invest Sweden, Entrepreneurship Network (Enterprise Network for Startup ICT) and Connect. Christine is and has been a board member of several startup companies and is herself a business angel. Christine joined the board of NordicBAN in autumn 2017. Andreas Lindblom Former CEO at Spring Securities, co-founder of Karolinska Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Training, group manager at Sales & Service at Itivity, and physiotherapist at the Karolinska Institute. Andreas holds degrees in physics and physiotherapy. Andreas is currently CEO of  SCIETY. Kevin Morningstar Kevin Morningstar is s 35-year veteran of the medical device industry.  A Colorado serial entrepreneur for many years, he co-founded Silverglide Surgical Technologies, Inc., a Boulder surgical instruments startup successfully sold to Stryker in a planned exit.  He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Michigan State University and currently consults globally in the medical device industry, digital health community, and startup ecosystem.  Kevin is an active angel investor and member of Rockies Venture Club, where he serves as Screening Committee Chair and as a general partner in Rockies Venture Fund I and Rockies Impact Fund.   March 21st at 15:00 CET

EVPA and Social Value UK will use their in-depth knowledge of the practice of social impact measurement and management to help you learn how to maximize the impact you are generating. This course is especially designed to support the funders, venture philanthropy organisations and social investors (VPO/SI) in understanding how to measure and manage impact at the portfolio level. If you are interested in: understanding and measuring the impact you generate improving your existing impact measurement system without burdening too much your investees learning how to use the data you collect to take relevant decisions on your day-to-day activity and maximaze the use of your resources and you want to do it by: learning through real-life case studies and group work discussing openly with experienced practitioners sharing challenges and learnings with your peers ...then the Social Impact Measurement and Management Training is the course for you! *Deadlines for submission of applications: 1 March 2019

EBAN’s Scaleup of the Month is an initiative designed to give visibility to the best EBAN member portfolio companies actively raising follow-on investments to scale. This month's webinar will take place on the 26th of March at 12:00 pm CET. During the webinar, selected entrepreneurs together with the investor backing them will present their companies to a jury of investors and an international audience for a chance to become the Scaleup of the Month. Each pitch lasts for 6 minutes and is followed by 4 minutes of Q&A from the jury. After all companies have pitched, live scoring from the jury and the audience determines the winner on the spot. Register below to be part of the live audience.

FutureScope is hosting its 2019 FutureScope Event, on the 28 of March, in Dublin, Ireland. FutureScope is Ireland's number one innovation event and the only conference dedicated to exploring new business opportunities arising from emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence, AR/VR, data analytics, IoT and 5G. FutureScope brings together leaders from the technology ecosystem to share perspectives on the implications of disruptive technologies, providing valuable insights to businesses at all stages of the innovation lifecycle. Keynotes, panel discussions, innovation showcases, tech demonstrations, innovation challenges, pitch battles, workshops, and structured networking come together to create an event that attracts start-ups, scale-ups, multinationals, innovative corporates, and the investment community. FutureScope offers the perfect platform for identifying mutually beneficial collaborative partnerships.  

Join our upcoming EBAN Space Webinar on an Optimal Pitch for a Space Tech Startup - 1st of April at 12:00 PM CEST. Space Tech Startups founders will learn during this webinar about the general guidelines to deliver an optimal pitch as well as how to open and close, which posture to use and how to play with their voice. Moreover, they will know how to prepare a great slide deck supporting their pitch and how to make efficient rehearsals. The Webinar features EBAN Space Executive Committee Member and  Co-Chairman of Luxembourg Space Tech Angels: Fabrice Testa. How to Prepare and Deliver an Optimal Pitch for a Space Tech Startup April 1st at 12:00 PM CEST   Speaker Fabrice Testa Fabrice Testa is a serial entrepreneur and a space geek who successfully founded, co-founded or participated in the launch of multiple tech startups which created hundreds of jobs and generated multi-millions revenues. During his journey, he pitched a lot raising millions from angels, VCs and lenders. Fabrice is also an angel investor, member of the Executive Committee of EBAN Space and Co-Chairman of the Luxembourg Space Tech Angels association. He sees a lot of pitches giving him a very special insight

EBAN, in collaboration with Seedstars and ABAN, invites you to our Business Angels Workshop, taking place on the 3rd of April in Lausanne, Switzerland, together with the Seedstars Investors Forum on the 4th of April, and the Seedstars Summit on the 5th of April. Join us in Lausanne to learn how to invest as a Business Angel in emerging market based startups! This hands on workshop will feature case studies from angel investors that have invested in Latin America, India and Africa with lessons learned and the best practices on how to expand your portfolio to include also startups from these regions of the world. Consider that emerging markets now represent over 84% of the world population and knowing that the majority of the extra 1.8 billion consumers that will be part of the "consuming class" in 2025 will be living in these markets how can you, as a Business Angel, benefit from the investment opportunities in emerging markets? For discounted tickets for EBAN members, contact: info@eban.org The Business Angels Workshop will feature Khaled Ismail, a Cairo based angel investor with a portfolio of startups based throughout the entire African continent; Kim Neel Wyon, a Danish angel investor based between Copenhagen and Malmo, presenting his experience investing in India; and Martin Johnson, angel investor based in Sophia Antipolis, France, presenting his experience with Carcool in Chile. The Business Angels Workshop take place at the Beaulieu Congress Centre, while the Seedstar Events will take place at the Swiss Tech Convention Centre, on the EPFL university campus.

The Young Entrepreneurship Startup School (YESS) Project is hosting their Mobilizing the Startup Ecosystem of Epirus event in Mpizani, Greece on the 3rd of April. YESS aims to create the first Cross Border incubator for innovative start-ups in the fields of tourism, design, bluegrowth,  and e-health within the Regions of Apulia, Achaia, Ionian Islands and Epirus. Mobilizing the Startup Ecosystem will feature key panelist discussing the future of the startups in each sector and presentations from international speakers. Join YESS and explore the entrepreneurial opportunities in the south of Italy and Greece.