IBAN Association - Italian Business Angels Networks Association (ONLINE)
Description
IBAN - Italian Business Angels Network is a no-profit organization, officially recognized and endowed with legal personality, founded on March the 15th 1999 as a result of the “DG Impresa” initiative promoted by the European Commission.
In Italy, IBAN Association supports and coordinates the equity investment activity of informal investors (“Business angels”) towards startups and SMEs. The association acts as main interface for any private investor, Business Angel Network (BAN) or Club deal in the Italian market; whilst at European level it is among the founding members of BAE - Business Angel Europe, the union of European business angels’ associations founded in 2014, thanks also to the support of IBAN, to represent the European business angels’ investors.
The Business Angels Network aims at providing managerial and financial support to entrepreneurs in order to build successful and longstanding businesses. Small companies, particularly startups, face growing difficulties in the access to finance. In this context, the business angels network intercepts the desire of several professionals, experienced company managers, executives and entrepreneurs who sold their company or simply want to contribute in the creation of new enterprises and jobs, and directs them to the common goal of supporting startups and SMEs.
