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EBAN Annual Congress 2017

Where Investors Meet the Future

The EBAN Annual Congress is one of Europe’s largest and most international business angel events held annually by EBAN in cooperation with its best members. After 17 successful editions of the event, the last of which in Eindhoven 2015 and Porto 2016, this year’s edition of the event is coming to Malaga on the 7-9 of June 2017 and will be hosted by the City of Malaga and Promalaga at the grand Palacio de ferias y congresos de Malaga.

The EBAN Annual Congress 2017 will be a spring of new ideas and trends, bringing together the world’s most eminent business angels, entrepreneurs and opinion makers, and enabling networking and dealmaking with experts in the field. We are expecting more than 500 participants from the early stage investing market as well as 100 startups from all over Europe and beyond.

You can find more information about the event here.

EBAN Winter University 2016 – Zagreb, Croatia

The EBAN Winter University is one of Europe’s largest and most international business angel events held annually by EBAN in cooperation with its best members. After 14 successful editions of the event, the last of which in Helsinki 2014 and Copenhagen 2015, this year’s edition of the event is coming to Zagreb on the 29-30 of November and will be hosted together with the Croatian Business Angels Network and in cooperation with the City of Zagreb at the grand Vatroslav Lisinski opera hall.

You can learn more about the EBAN Winter University here

EBAN Business Angel Survey

The European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds and Early Stage Market Players (EBAN) in collaboration with the European Commission conducts a research entitled: “Understanding the Nature and Impact of Business Angels Funding in Research and Innovation”. The Hellenic Business Angels Network (HeBAN), as a member of EBAN, asks the Greek business angels across the country to contribute to this research.

Click here to visit the survey.

Note: Keep in mind that you can skip any questions you don’t wish to answer and that all responses will be treated with absolute confidentiality.

The deadline for taking the survey is 4 November 2016.

6 Reasons To Quit Your Job and Become an Entrepreneur

Quitting your job and jumping into entrepreneurship is a lot like jumping out of a plane and free-falling, wondering whether the parachute will open to save you. It’s a scary thing, leaving the comfort of a 9-to-5 job and venturing into the world of entrepreneurship — so scary that very few ever overcome the fear enough to take the plunge.

So, what’s the best way to overcome that fear?

Learn why you should quit your job and be an entrepreneur, while watching this really helpful and entertaining video !

European Summer Academy on Technology & Entrepreneurship in Thessaloniki

Digital Transportation applications aim to provide innovative services relating to different modes of transport and traffic management and enable various users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and ‘smarter’ use of transport networks. Topics, such as P2P car rental, car/ride/bike sharing, smart parking, real-time traffic/fleet management, multi-modal transit public solutions, mobile applications are only a few examples of application areas. Digital Transportation applications often use open-data and gamification mechanics in order to provide the basis for smart, urban and sustainable mobility in a better environment, society and economy. The global market of Digital Transportation has been estimated to about 6.5 trillion EUR by McKinsey, a significantly fragmented market providing the ground for innovative applications to grow and take a share.

The Thessaloniki Summer Academy aims to select 40 high-school, undergraduate and graduate students from all around Europe with an entrepreneurial interest in Digital Transportation applications. The Academy will be held in the South East European Research Centre (www.seerc.org) and the Hellenic Institute of Transport (http://www.imet.gr) with emphasis on interaction, team-work, experimentation, engagement, implementation and testing, coaching from experts and entrepreneurs, visits to ‘hot spot’ areas, etc. Students will get access to state of the art laboratories of the Hellenic Institute of Transport and work hands-on with real-life data sets. The academy will assist future entrepreneurs to form teams, design prototypes from their ideas, develop innovative business models and prepare pitches.

Whether you have technical skills or just an entrepreneurial interest in Digital Transportation Applications, we invite you to join the Thessaloniki Startiy7 Summer Academy! Apply here by 20 May!

The academy will be held in English.

PRACTICAL INFO

EVENT:European Summer Academy on Technology & Entrepreneurship in Thessaloniki

START: July 4, 2016 8:00 am

END: July 15, 2016 5:00 pm

Thessaloniki, Greece

EMAIL: info@startify7.eu

Congratulations to HeBAN Member ‘Starttech Ventures’ for Winning the EBAN Award at Porto

HeBAN on 26th May 2016 traveled to Porto, Portugal and had the opportunity to participate in the EBAN Award ceremony in the Palacio da Bolsa. We are excited for and proud of our co-founder Dimitris Tsingos and his company Starttech Ventures for winning the award of “The Most Successful Business Financed by Early Stage Investors”.

Dimitris Tsigos accepting the Award

“Starttech Ventures exited from AbZorba Games to Novomatic, making a 9.3x return on capital invested. Their portfolio company Epignosis scaled up more than 100% in revenues for the third consecutive year. Their SaaS product TalentLMS ranked No.1 in the World by GetRank for Q3/2015 in Cloud LMS market. Over the year they have made six new investments, three of which were international (Israel, Russia, USA) and four follow-on investments as well as co-founding HeBAN to champion the development of early stage investments market in Greece. EBAN is excited to give this award to our Greek members proving that the country is able to support entrepreneurship and successful early stage investing even in tougher times.”