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Our mission: growing the early stage investment asset class, from an estimated 4 billion euros today to 10 billion euros, up from 1 billion euros 5 years ago!

EBAN serves business angels, business angel networks, seed funds and other early stage investment professionals across Europe.

EBAN is the representative in Brussels through direct and indirect membership of more than 250 business angel networks in Europe. These in turn federate some 20.000 angels, and receive about 40.000 business plans a year. EBAN brings together over 113 member organisations in 26 countries today. Through direct and indirect membership, EBAN reaches out to 300 groups, 20.000 angels and 40.000 entrepreneurs. EBAN was established in 1999 by a group of pioneer angel networks in Europe with the collaboration of the European Commission and EURADA.

EBAN is the networking platform enabling its members to

• Stay on top of trends in the early stage investment market in Europe
• Build new relationships, new business opportunities by networking with peers across border.
• Get answers to day-to-day challenges: don’t reinvent the wheel, we might have the solution!
• Access our resource center and get ongoing capacity building opportunities
• Be represented under one voice representing the interests of early stage investors near European policy makers

Our members are

• Business angel networks
  
• Federations of networks
  
• Seed funds
  
• Individual angels
  
• Associate members
  

Our five pillars of activity are

• Professional standards
• Benchmarking - Research and Networking with peers
• Lobbying
• Awareness and Capacity building
• Cross-border syndication and co-investment support