european business angel investment overview 2012 - european business angels network (eban)

European Angel Investment Overview 2012

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Key learnings

• 5 billion Euros barrier reached

• 19% visible angel market growth(

• 460 business angel networks identified

• 26k business angels operating through BANs

• Fast growing markets: Finland, Ireland and Turkey

• 2.913 companies financed and 17.881 jobs created(1)

• For every 100 BAs, 16 companies get funded

BA – Business Angel BAN – Business Angel Network (1) Recorded through BANs only

Introductory note

• Sources:

– Direct statistics provided by EBAN Members

– Deals published by investors

– Published information from credible sources (eg. government agencies, Bureau van Dijck…)

Number of BANs in Europe

286

BANs from which data was collected

298

Amount Invested by BAs members of BANs (M€)

Extrapolated to existing networks Directly observed

329

179

298

129

427

509

Amount invested: Size of Visible/ Invisible Market

4.745 M€ 5086 M€

427M€

509 M€

2011 2012

Visible Market 9% 10%

Amount invested: size of market

European angel investment still represents only 30% of US activity

Number of BAs* in BANs

241.444 261.054

2011 2012

“formal” market 9% 10%

21.730 26.105

*BAs who made at least 1 investment in the past 3 years.

Investments made and Angels operating through BANs

Mill

ion

Eu

ros

Average investment amount by BANs (k€)

Average = 1,1M€

7100

Visible market growth/ decline (amount invested)

838%

250%

175%

116%

Light areas: markets with <10M€ of investment

Impact in the economy Exclusively observed through BANs

Companies Financed

2.913

Jobs Created

17.881

Average Investment per Company €174.800

For every 100 Business Angels, 16 companies get funded

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