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!

EBAN is pleased to announce that we are launching a new e-pitching collaboration with EBN (European Business and Innovation Centre Network), titled "Mondays for Innovation". This initiative will serve to bring together EBAN's network of investors with EBN's network of startups in order to showcase innovative solutions to the current COVID-19 crisis. Join us for two different Mondays for Innovation sessions planned on May 4th and May 18th at 3:00 PM CEST to hear 5-minute pitches from companies working on concrete and innovative ways to tackle the spread of the virus! Each session will cover 2 different sectors: Session 1: Medical and Infection Support Technologies May 4th at 3:00 PM CEST Sectors covered: Infection Support Technologies and Materials (i.e. 3D printing of protection and respiratory materials). Medical (i.e. Medication; vaccines and medical diagnosis).

May 5, 2020 12:00 PM This webinar is designed to gain a better understanding of the public funding opportunities that are available in Europe for space-related business. We will (i) help you navigating through the main programs that are available, (ii) examine key issues including what can be funded, who has access and how much an entity can receive and (iii) provide you with guidance, tips and recommendations to increase your chances to get funding and save your time. Speaker: Alexandre Mencik, Entrepreneur Alexandre Mencik is an entrepreneur, co-founder of startups, director, board member, mentor and business angel. He has wide experience in representing and managing the business interests of aerospace organizations. He has a background in spacetech from the CNES in France and in space resources, received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Louvain in Belgium and holds a Master's degree in Air and Space law from McGill University in Canada, with a secondment in Business at Yale in the US.

  HBAN next webinar will be MedTech Investment; 2020 & Beyond, a moderated discussion and Q&A with Colin Henehan, Chairperson of the HBAN MedTech Syndicate and Richard Watson, Managing Partner of DBIC Ventures on Wednesday 6th May at 2pm.  Moderated by HBAN Syndicates Manager Julian Seymour, Colin and Richard will discuss the MedTech sector and investment landscape in the current climate. Colin will discuss and take questions on the relative stability of the sector and how Medtech Investors view investment opportunities in the current market.

Date: 7th May At  11.00 CEST Astropreneurs and SpaceUp are EU projects aiming at offering support to space-tech entrepreneurs in the start-up and scale-up phase, respectively. In this webinar you will learn more about the support you can obtain to boost your business idea and your company, and, especially, how to join the two EU programmes. Astropreneurs is a space-tech start-up accelerator, turning space-related ideas into viable businesses and promoting opportunities for entrepreneurs coming from space and non-space sectors. The Astropreneurs three-month coaching programme includes business and technical mentorship, support to fund business ideas and access to the Astropreneurs network. SpaceUp supports innovative European start-ups adopting space technologies to accelerate their business and become world-leading companies. Via its Space Academies, SpaceUp provides selected companies with technology transfer, networking, outreach and matchmaking with potential partners and customised business services. Astropreneurs and SpaceUp are projects financed by the EU Programme for Research and Innovation (Horizon 2020).

  Join us for our next Living Room Talk on AI in Health! Al in Health 12th May at 12 PM CEST Artificial Intelligence is increasingly making inroads in healthcare applications, although the field is still in its initial applications. During this one-hour Living Room Talk, find out from AI expert Angelo Dalli how AI can assist doctors and medical practitioners in various ways, from better diagnoses, to drug discovery and constant intelligent pro-active monitoring. Learn about the vision for the future of AI in healthcare and the personalized approach that it can enable, leading to a better quality of life, and better, healthier outcomes for all of us. The webinar will also feature a case study on SOM Biotech, a company that repurposes drugs using AI.   Angelo Dalli Bio  Angelo Dalli is an AI expert and serial tech entrepreneur, combining deep technical ability with commercial acumen. Angelo founded 9 startups, was involved in 4 IPOs, invested in numerous Technology, Entertainment and Fintech companies, and secured investments from EU funds, Angel Investors and VCs. Angelo is an EBAN member, WBAF senator and BAM president, and was twice named as Malta’s Top Entrepreneur of the Year in 2014 and 2019. Holding a Ph.D. in Computer Science, Angelo authored over 23 papers about Artificial Intelligence, Language Processing and Search Engines. Angelo won a bronze medal at the 1995 International Olympiad in Informatics.     Raúl Insa Dr. Raúl Insa has more than 20 years’ experience in multinational pharmaceutical companies, such as Parke-Davis (Pfizer), UCB Pharma, Uriach Group (Palau Pharma) and ISDIN (Esteve), working on drug development from drug identification to commercialization. He received his Medical training and his PhD in Clinical Neurology at the University of Alicante, Spain; an MBA from ESADE Business School in Barcelona and an Executive Education Program from IESE, Barcelona. He has also attended a couple of biotech leadership programs from Harvard Business School, Boston. More than 45 publications and papers, 7 chapters in books, 87 congress communications and 12 pharmaceutical patents.