Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Time: 17:30-20:00

Venue: Onassis Cultural Center107 Syngrou Avenue, 11745 Athens

Deloitte’s “Scaling up Greece and beyond” event, exclusively for selected technology driven scale-up companies will take place on Tuesday, January 24, 2017 in Athens.

Topics will include:

• Scale-ups Financing Trends
• Global state incentives for Scale-ups and recent developments in Greece
• Upcoming challenges and opportunities for Scale-ups

Among the distinguished guest speakers, Prof. Panayiotis Ketikidis, co-founder of HeBAN, will discuss about the role of Angel Investors in Scaling ups ecosystem. The title of his presentation is “Partnering with Business Angels from Start-up to Scale-up to Exit”.

Below, you can find the event’s full program:

Μετράμε ήδη τα πρώτα εικοσιτετράωρα του 2017 και, όπως συνηθίζεται με κάθε είδους ανασκόπηση στις τελευταίες ημέρες ενός παλιού χρόνου ή στις πρώτες ενός νέου, θα ρίξουμε μία «ματιά» στη χρονιά που πέρασε για ένα πολλά υποσχόμενο και δυναμικό «κομμάτι» της ελληνικής επιχειρηματικότητας: την τεχνολογική, διαδικτυακή και startup.

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Ο Δημήτρης Τσίγκος γράφει για τη μοναδική ευκαιρία, σε παγκόσμιο επίπεδο, που παρουσιάζει η Ελλάδα για επενδύσεις υψηλού ρίσκου όπως δηλαδή είναι οι επενδύσεις σε Startup εταιρείες.

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A brief overview of 2016

Another year comes to an end. 2016 was another year with many challenges. The economic crisis in Greece is still prevailing but this does not discourage young entrepreneurs and startuppers to come up with new innovative business ideas and try to put them to the market. Business Angels play an ever increasingly important role in this process providing their own money, experience and networking to help support the entrepreneurial ecosystem, economic growth and new jobs.

HeBAN’s was founded to advocate growth by fostering the creation of a sustainable Business Angels network in Greece and establish early stage investment as an asset class in the country. In the pursuit of that goal we have organized and participated in a number of successful events in 2016, such as:

• StartTech Ventures’ Demo Day in Athens on January 28
• World Business Angels Forum in Istanbul on February 21-23
• Innovation ID conference in Thessaloniki on April 19
• EBAN’s annual congress 2016 – Scale up for Europe in Porto on May 25-27
• European Summer Academy on Technology & Entrepreneurship in Thessaloniki on July 4-15
• Business Angels & Startups Opportunities workshop in Thessaloniki on July 14
• Business Angels Forum III in Thessaloniki on November 1
• EBAN Winter University 2016 in Zagreb on November 29 -30

We are looking forward to many new activities and opportunities in 2017.

Stay connected!!!

We wish you a happy holiday season, a Merry Christmas and a prosperous and productive Happy New Year!!!

The sky is not the limit!

HeBAN at the EBAN Winter University 2016 on 28 – 30 November in Zagreb

HeBAN attended the EBAN Winter University 2016 on 28 – 30 November in Zagreb. The event was organized by CRANE, the Croatian Business Angels Network, and EBAN under the high auspices of the President of Croatia. 1200 attendants from around the world gathered to listen to inspiring keynote speeches and panel discussions dealing with topics, such as the role of governments for supporting startup growth, global scaling, impact investment, gender equality in entrepreneurship and early-stage investment, open innovation and latest trends in startup development, public-private co-investment schemes, virtual reality, innovation from space research, and many more. The new EBAN CEE committee was launched for furthering and coordinating BAN cooperation in that particular region. Experienced entrepreneurs and business angels shared their insights about best practices and future challenges in the startup industry. The audience enjoyed listening to the exciting life stories of distinguished personalities, such as: Dov Moran from Israel, the inventor of the USB stick; Bruce Dickinson, the lead singer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden, jumbo pilot and serial entrepreneur; Esther Dyson, serial entrepreneur and business angel as well as cosmonaut; and many others.

Some of the many remarks worth remembering:

“Don’t sleep – dream!” (Dov Moran, inventor of the USB stick)

“If you take gravity out of the equation the sky is not the limit.” (Martin Mössler, European Space Agency ESA BICs)

 “Do not be redundant, learn new stuff and do something useful with your knowledge” (Esther Dyson, serial entrepreneur and business angel)

Many qualified startups presented and pitched their business ventures. Investors and entrepreneurs could get into direct contact to engage in further closer talks. The event had an excellent organisation and gave ample opportunity to participants to exchange opinions and make new friends.

In parallel to the conference the ‘CISCO Entrepreneur in Residence Programme’ and the ‘Global Investment Forum’ took place.

The next EBAN Winter Academy will take place in Munich in December 2017.

We are glad to see our participation in Business Angel Investment Forum III released in the latest Newsletter of EBAN. In the Newsletter you can find the list with the most infuential women in the Startup and Venture Capital Space, the latest study of the Kauffman Foundation and other EBAN members’ successes. In addition, it includes information about Microsoft Accelator London Program and upcoming events.

You can read the whole Newsletter here.