We are working hard to offer you more and more online webinars on angel investing and entrepreneurship, in a series we're calling "Living Room Talks" - as all of us are staying connected from our living rooms.   Investing in and Building Deep Tech Businesses EBAN Board Member and Monte Carlo Capital Founder Ian Sosso will present how he invests in deep tech businesses, before introducing how, in the US, he has teamed up with a venture builder to source intellectual property from universities and build deep tech businesses. 2 April at 2:00 PM CEST   SPEAKER:  Ian Sosso Ian Sosso, winner of EBAN’s "best European early stage award" in 2019, is the founder of Monte Carlo Capital (MCC), a group of business angels, UHNWI and family offices investing in Europe and the US in early stage deep tech and highly disruptive businesses. MCC combines the best features of business angels and venture capital: a global group of sophisticated investors and family offices capable of taking businesses from seed all the way to exit, providing financing and helping management scale their businesses up internationally. MCC typically starts investing as pre-seed/seed, taking an entire financing round, and leads follow-ons too. Ian is also a managing partner of the Start Up Nursery fund, a fund dedicated to financing the creation of deep tech US university spin offs.

We are working hard to offer you more and more online webinars on angel investing and entrepreneurship, in a series we're calling "Living Room Talks" - as all of us are staying connected from our living rooms. Check out the recordings of our previous Living Room Talks on the EBAN Vimeo Channel Cross Border Deals - the Why and the How DanBAN - Danish Business Angels - invest around €25 million annually and have for years been investing outside the country. In fact, 20% of their combined portfolio of 500 companies are international. During this one-hour session, DanBAN Chairman and EBAN Board Member Jesper Jarlbaek will share tips and best practices on cross-border investing and how to approach it. 7 April at 3:00 PM CEST   SPEAKER:  Jesper Jarlbæk Jesper Jarlbæk is an angel investor and professional board member of a number of growth businesses. Jesper is currently Vice-Chairman of DVCA (Danish Venture Capital Association) and Chairman of BA Copenhagen, Denmark’s largest and most successful Business Angel Network. He is also a member of VL7. In 2009, Jesper was awarded the “Business Angel of the Year” title by DVCA. Jesper Jarlbæk is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Bang & Olufsen A/S, an NASDAQ OMX listed company. Jesper has previously served on the board of 3 other NASDAQ OMX listed companies in Denmark and one US listed company. He is the Chairman of CataCap, a Danish PE fund, as well as a member of the Board of Polaris Invest III fund, the second largest Danish PE fund.

We are working hard to offer you more and more online webinars on angel investing and entrepreneurship, in a series we're calling "Living Room Talks" - as all of us are staying connected from our living rooms. Check out the recordings of our previous Living Room Talks on the EBAN Vimeo Channel Investing in Space and Space Tech The current global crisis reminds us that space technologies (connectivity, Earth observation, …) are vital. Three space veterans and business angels, Candace Johnson, Anthony Clarke and Fabrice Testa will explain why investing in space is paramount, and will discuss the particularities of space tech investments. 8 April at 03:00 PM CEST     Speaker: Fabrice Testa Co-Chairman Luxembourg Space Tech Angels and chairman of EBAN Space Fabrice Testa is a serial entrepreneur and an innovator who successfully founded, co-founded or participated in the launch of multiple tech startups which created hundreds of jobs and generated multi-millions revenues. As an angel investor, he is the Chairman of EBAN Space Executive Committee and the Co-Chairman of the Luxembourg Space Tech Angels association. Fabrice Testa is also a mentor in several national and European startup support programmes. He holds a M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from University of Liege and a MBA from Solvay Business School. He also completed a number of post-graduate degrees at MIT in Strategy & Innovation and Machine Learning, and at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business in Venture Capital.       Speaker: Anthony Clarke  Anthony is professionally a Chartered Accountant and Chartered Legal Secretary having qualified whilst with the City of London based Deloitte Haskins & Sells. His early career post qualification was as a CFO and CEO of a number of U.K. based SMEs before becoming a serial angel investor nearly 25 years ago. During this period he founded the UK’s first Government backed Angel Co investment Fund in 2002 namely London Seed Capital where he was also its CEO. He also founded London Business Angels twenty years ago and sold this business and its associated Angel VC arm to City of London based Newable Group in 2017. He remains as an Investment Committee member of Newable’s private investment arm. Anthony joined the Board of EBAN in 2004 and served as its President from 2004/2009. He is currently President Emeritus of EBAN. He also co founded UKBAA in 2003 and was its Chair from 2004/2012. Anthony is a co founder and Managing Partner of early stage City of London based VC firm Seraphim Capital which was established in 2006. It manages circa 125m EUR which includes the world’s first Series A Space Fund notably Seraphim Space Fund which was launched in 2016. Anthony cofounded EBAN Space in 2016 and was its President until 2019. He is also a Board Member of the UK’s Space Research and Innovation Network ( SPRINT)           Speaker: Candace Johnson  Candace Johnson is a serial space entrepreneur and investor who founded or co-founded the following enterprises, SES ASTRA and SES Global, Loral Teleport Europe, Europe Online.  Today she is Vice Chair of NorthStar Earth and Space and Chair of the Corporate Advisory Board of Seraphim Space Capital, the world's largest fund dedicated to space-tech.  EBAN Space was originated during her presidency of EBAN and today she is a proud EBAN President Emeritus together with Anthony Clarke.  Candace is also a Member of the Board and Co-Founder of OWNSAT - Oceania Women's Network Satellite, which is one of the first and largest investors in Kacific, http://www.kacific.com where she has also been a Member of the Board. Ms. Johnson was also one of the original team of Iridium and brought them into the GSM-MoU at the time.  She is also credited for her work in helping bring about the creation of ILS - a private launch joint venture between Krunichev and Lockheed Martin in 1995 to market the Proton Launch Vehicle.  Amongst other awards and decorations, Ms. Johnson has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Women in Aerospace Europe and also the World Telecommunications Awards.  She has been decorated by the government of Luxembourg as a Commander of the Order of Merit for her role in growing SES to become the world's largest satellite operator at the time and also received the Officer of the Order of the Oak Leaf Crown from the Government of Luxembourg for her role in helping create SES ASTRA.  She has also been decorated by the Government of Germany with the Officer of the Order of Merit for her work in promoting private telecommunications throughout Europe and the world.  She has an Honorary Doctor degree from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University,  Masters degrees from Stanford University and the Sorbonne and her BA degree from Vassar.            

We are working hard to offer you more and more online webinars on angel investing and entrepreneurship, in a series we're calling "Living Room Talks" - as all of us are staying connected from our living rooms. Check out the recordings of our previous Living Room Talks on the EBAN Vimeo Channel Myths and Realities of Early Stage Investments in the Global Crisis As the president of the International Investor Organization INVESTORO and Board Member of EBAN, Vitaly Polekhin will share his vision of the current situation in the world, how it affects the early stage investment market and transforms people's behavior towards the greater use of explosive technologies and services, as well as what opportunities this opens up for venture investors. 9 April at 2:00 PM CEST   SPEAKER: Vitaly Polekhin Vitaly Polekhin is the President of the International Investor Organization INVESTORO and the National Business Angels Association (Russia), as well as the Head of SKOLKOVO Investor Club. He was recognized as Angel Investor of the Year 2015 by Russia Venture Awards. Vitaly is shareholder and Supervisory Board Member of Addventure, Texdrive (Genezis Capital) and Venture Angels venture funds. Vitaly holds a PhD in Philosophy, Executive MBA from Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO, an MBA from Lomonosov Moscow State University and completed a number of programmes at MIT Sloan School of Management, UC Berkley Haas School of Business, Harvard Business School (Private Equity and Venture Capital programs).

The Global Hack is an online hackathon designed to share and rapidly develop ideas for urgently needed solutions in the face of the current crisis, as well as to build resilience post-pandemic. The online event will run from 9 April to 11 April. We would like to make sure that the changes are positive and this is why we joined forces to help out at The Global Hack - biggest hackathon in the world. Some of the coolest superstars in the tech community and global media are already on board but we also need your help to share the call and bring experts from your network to the hackathon as mentors. The task is simple: let us know that you are on board and register here, bring talented experts from your network on board and share the registration link with them. Don’t forget to join and invite your network to the event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/164922557944001 And LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/events/theglobalhack6650674199755051008/  

EBAN continues to offer more and more online sessions throughout the month of April - take a look at the agenda for the next three weeks and register below! Recordings of our Living Room Talks are already online on our Vimeo channel - check them out now. Running an Angel Network during the COVID-19 Crisis During this 1-hour interactive session, members of the EBAN BAN Manager Community will share insights and tips about what it's like to run a business angel network during times of crisis like the global COVID-19 outbreak. 15 April at 14:00 PM CEST                                                      Amel Gaily                       Amparo De San Jose                  Anca Albu                         Branko Drobnak     Managing Director                   Director of IESE                       Managing Director             President at the Business            at FiBAN                                                                                           at SICTIC                               Angels of Slovenia                                                                                                       Irma Borst                                                       Laura Egg                                                         Sisse Melsen     Founder / CEO at                                                 Managing Director                                               Head of Operations      MatchingWINGS                                                           at aaia                                                                   at DanBAN

  Join Techne Bytes LIVE with Peter Cowley: President of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN), former chair of the Cambridge Business Angels and was UK Angel of the Year 2014 will be live via zoom for free this Tuesday at 7 PM CEST .  

EBAN continues to offer more and more online sessions throughout the month of April - take a look at the agenda for the next three weeks and register below! How to Craft a Killer Pitch What makes a business pitch effective? In this webinar powered by the SpaceUp project, EBAN Board Member Audra Shallal will go through the key elements of an elevator pitch. 23 April at 11:00 AM CEST     SPEAKER: Audra Shallal   A bilingual (English, French) American national and French Resident, currently founder and Managing Director of an International Strategic Management Firm, Audra maintains two streams of specialization: Entrepreneurship Business Planning and Pitch Coaching-Investor Ready Programs. She has over fifteen years of experience in strategic management, business development, business and marketing plans, and product development in a wide range of industry sectors. She consults for international organizations such as OECD, UNEP, UNIDO and the European Commission, gives conferences and teaches courses on Entrepreneurship, Business Plan Development, and Entrepreneurial Finance to the Grandes Ecoles such as ENSCP, X, ParisTech, CELSA. Audra has played a key role in launching the Enterprise Financing Network within the MENA-OECD Investment Programme which creates a unique platform to connect entrepreneurs, financiers, research bodies and policymakers in order to improve the conditions for financing entrepreneurship. She is past Vice President of the Femmes Business Angels (FBA) and the American Club of Paris and currently serves on the Board of the Nordic Female Business Angels Network (NFBAN), Les Business Angels des Grandes Ecoles (BAdGE), European Business Angels Network (EBAN), the Advisory Board of Tenmou-Bahrain First Business Angel Company, and the Executive Board of the MENAOECD Enterprise Financing Network.

We are working hard to offer you more and more online webinars on angel investing and entrepreneurship, in a series we’re calling “Living Room Talks” – as all of us are staying connected from our living rooms. Check out the recordings of our previous Living Room Talks on the EBAN Vimeo Channel How to Manage a Crisis: One Month On In a follow-up to the first Living Room Talk on how angel investors and startups can deal with the COVID-19 crisis, EBAN President Peter Cowley and EBAN Vice President Emeritus Riku Asikainen will look back on how the situation has developed and update their recommendations as needed. Join this one-hour session to hear their latest advice for entrepreneurs working to keep their businesses afloat and for angels who want to support their portfolio companies in these uncertain times. 23 April at 12:00 - 01:00 PM CEST   Speaker: Peter Cowley EBAN President Peter Cowley, a Cambridge university technology graduate, founded and ran over a dozen businesses in technology and property over the last 39 years. He has built up a portfolio of over 70 angel investments with eight good exits (including more that is 107X and returned all invested cash) and twelve failures. He is the President of the European Business Angel Network (EBAN), former chair of the Cambridge Business Angels and was UK Angel of the Year 2014. He has mentored hundreds of entrepreneurs and is on the board of nine startups. In 2011, he founded and has since run Martlet: a Corporate Angel, investing (currently £8M) from the balance sheet of Marshall, a £2.5bn revenue Cambridge engineering company. He is a fellow in Entrepreneurship at the Cambridge Judge Business School and on the investment committee of the UK Angel Co-fund. He has also had 16 years’ experience as chair, treasurer and trustee of the boards of seven charities. With his son, Alan, Peter is sharing his and others’ experience and anecdotes in order to educate angels and entrepreneurs via The Invested Investor which publishes two books and 75+ podcasts. Peter is a public speaker on entrepreneurship and angel investing throughout the world.     Speaker: Riku Asikainen Being one of the first e-commerce entrepreneurs in Europe, Riku’s entrepreneurial career started already in 1988. Having sold his first company in Finland and second in France, he became one of the first professional angel investors in Finland. In the meantime, Riku has actively participated in building the startup ecosystem of the region through angel networks and Startup Sauna Accelerator. With 30 years and almost 50 companies of experience, Riku is the go-to guy to help your beautiful company to grow.

  Joint EBAN/EIC eHealth Scaleup of the Month Webinar - April 29th at 13:00 CEST EBAN and EIC are pleased to invite you to attend the fifth joint EBAN/EIC eHealth Scaleup of the Month Webinar - an initiative designed to give visibility to the best EIC companies that are raising follow-on investments to scale. This edition will focus on eHealth companies and will take place on the 29th of April at 1:00PM CEST - so mark your calendars already! As a webinar attendee, you will be able to vote for your favorite Scaleup live and play a role in awarding the title of the April Scaleup of the Month!