GLOBAL BUSINESS ANGELS NETWORK

The Global Business Angels Network​ (GBAN) is a global community of business angel networks and organizations coordinated by the ​Global Entrepreneurship Network​ (GEN). GBAN brings greater public awareness and engagement to the role that business angels play in helping new firms start and scale. GBAN interfaces with entrepreneurs, policymakers, other early-stage finance actors and leading entrepreneurial support programs to strengthen the global entrepreneurial ecosystem. Whether helping... local entrepreneurial ecosystems recruit more investors, expanding geographic investment arenas beyond local markets or amplifying the angel “voice” to regulatory issue discussions, GBAN seeks to provide an inclusive, supportive community of early-stage investors around the world. GBAN promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration for and with other key actors in local and global entrepreneurial ecosystems by connecting business angels with other actors in entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world, increase public awareness regarding the role of business angels within entrepreneurial ecosystems including advancing the concerns of existing angels, welcoming new investors and increasing the overall ability of new firms to gain access to angel investors worldwide, and developing angel investor groups in burgeoning entrepreneurial ecosystems and help foster more communication between angel organizations around the world.More