This section promotes EBAN member services targeted to investors, entrepreneurs or intermediaries which are available to third parties.

EBAN members that would like to give visibility to their services through this section are welcome to contact Alberica Marzotto.

• Type of service: Matchmaking and Investor Services.
• Target audience: (Informal) investor.
• Geographic coverage: Asia, Latin America and Africa.
• Description: BiD Network sources and selects promising high growth business propositions in emerging markets. Entrepreneurs receive feedback on their plan and are connected to a coach. The best propositions are exposed to investors: they receive preselected dealflow that fit their criteria and preferences. In the 11 countries where we have a local partner, we can introduce investors to service providers (i.e. SME consultants, lawyers, accountants) that can facilitate and represent you before, during and after the investment.
• Contact: BiD Network, De Ruijterkade 107, 1011 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands | Tel. +31 20 7 555 000 | Maarten de Jong | www.bidnetwork.org
  

• Type of service: Business Angel Network, Businessplan Competition, Coaching of Growth, Seminars, Networking.
• Target audience: Entrepreneurs and growth companies.
• Geographic coverage: Nothern Bavaria, Germany.
• Description: netzwerk nordbayern organizes the Northern Bavarian Business Plan Competition, one of the most successful competitions in Europe. The core activities are specialized services and networking forums for business entrepreneurs and growth companies in Northern Bavaria. The goal is to create an effective networking platform and to provide, at no charge, a comprehensive range of services designed to promote the initiation and growth of companies. Within its business areas of business planning, financing and training, netzwerk nordbayern offers a number of valuable support services as seminars, coachings, access to financing and, not least, assistance in building up useful contacts.
• Contact: netzwerk nordbayern, c/o Hightech-Center-Nord, Neumeyerstraße 48, 90411 Nuremberg, Germany | Tel. +49 911597248000 | Fax +49 911597248049 | Michaela Müller | www.netzwerk-nordbayern.de
  

Foro de Inversión InnoBAN

• Type of service: Match-making.
• Target audience: Entrepreneurs, Business Angels, Advicers and InnoBAN team.
• Description: Secure online deal rooms where entrepreneurs can post business plans and develop pitches, and secure online deal processing systems through which investors collaborate to review business opportunities using the latest due diligence technologies.

Préstamos Participativos

• Type of service: Other Investment Vehicles.
• Target audience: Innovatives SMEs.
• Description: Cooperation between InnoBAN and ENISA to encourage more private investors and funding into Spanish innovative SMEs. ENISA is the National Company of Innovation. ENISA provides participative loans from €100,000 to €1,500,000 to innovatives companies that meet the criteria.

InnoBAN Entrepreneur Academy | InnoBAN Mentoring | InnoBAN Business Angel Academy

• Type of service: Investment Readiness Programmes, Business Angels Academy.
• Target audience: Capital seeking Entrepreneurs, Business Angels (active and potential).
• Brief description: Service on demand to provide capital-seeking entrepreneurs covering sources of business angels market, investment process, team building, presentation to investors, enterprise value, negotiation and exit management. | Service on demand to provide capital-seeking entrepreneurs with one-to-one mentoring services to improve their business in order to obtein equity. | Service on demand to provide business angels covering sources of business angels market and investment process

Additional information:

• Geographic coverage: Spain.
• Contact: InnoBAN, Red de Inversores Ángel para la Innovación, Doctor Cadaval 2, 4C, 36202 Vigo, Sain | Tel. +34 986 118 079 | Luis Fernández | www.BusinessAngelsInnoBAN.es | twitter: @InnoBAN

ImMediaTe Academy (Broadening the skill base support package)

• Type of service: Coaching, Mutual learning.
• Description: Offering business and technical courses, from short introductions to master classes on critical aspects of media literacy to creative talents and entrepreneurs, including management, marketing, IPRs as well as specialized technical skills. These courses may be complemented by "coaches in residence" schemes in selected companies.

ImMediaTe Market Forum (Going international support package)

• Type of service: B2B meetings, roadshows, international brokerage events, market trends.
• Description: Offering high-level insights from experts of the Media community and presentation of key trends, market opportunities, as well as concrete opportunities to companies to showcase their projects to an international audience of sponsors, distributors, brokers, co-producers and other potential partners and directly meet them in appropriate match-making sessions.

ImMediaTe Investment Forum (Investment readiness support package)

• Type of service: Organization of elevator pitches, facilitation of public/private co-investments.
• Description: Offering pitch sessions where selected companies can present themselves to an audience of international financial investors interested in closing deals with companies at different stages (seed, startup, growth, etc…). Special attention will be given to the possibility of creating conditions for syndicated, cross-border, public/private co-investments.

Additional information:

• Target audience: Digital media SMEs, practitioners in the field of Digital Media.
• Geographic coverage: Rome, Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris, Malta and, pending specific requests, other associate partners Regions.
• Contact: Michela Michilli, ImMediaTe project Director, www.filasinternational.eu/immediate/