Claire Munck is currently in San Diego attending the Angel Capital Association’s 2008 Summit: the largest gathering of angel investing groups in North America. The Angel Capital Association (ACA) is the North American organization of angel groups. F...
The mapping exercise analyses existing training programmes for angels and entrepreneurs relating to access to finance. The programmes have been classified according to their relevance to the research conducted by the partnership:
- Investment readiness programmes concern comprehensive training courses for entrepreneurs from the support to business plan creation to the presentation of sources of finance available on the market;
- Investor readiness programmes are understood as comprehensive programmes for business angels or potential angels on the compelete process of investment and relationship with entrepreneurs.
The project aims to develop and test a training curriculum, on the one hand addressed to business angels networks in order to improve the capacity of informal investors, and on the other hand to prepare entrepreneurs to present their enterprise project to those informal investors. This means that two different curriculum have to be developed and tested.
The project is led by Finance South East (UK). 9 european countries are represented in the partnership:
- EBAN (Belgium - Europe)
- Nebib (Netherlands, www.nebib.nl)
- MBAN (Malta)
- UNIBAN (Spain, www.uniban.org)
- Parkudden (Sweden)
- BAMS (Belgium, www.bams.be)
- IBAN (Italy, www.iban.it)
- Netzwerk|Nordbayern (Germany, www.netzwerk-nordbayern.de)
- BAND (www.business-angels.de)
