Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN)

❓ Are you an #investor with a portfolio company fundraising again? ❓ Are you a #founder raising another round to fuel growth? Our friends at Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN) have a special pitching competition lined up specifically for you. #Connect2Scale Pitching Programme is a unique chance for #startups to present themselves for a tailored BA and VC investor audience! Startups who have already received angel funding are invited to be showcased for the international investor audience, including VC’s and Angel investors. This batch is organised online and the finals will be held live in Helsinki 🇫🇮 on the 18th of November. Who Can apply: ✅ Startups actively raising funding rounds of €150K – €2M. ✅ Based in or conducting business within any EU country. ✅ Have already successfully secured an investment by at least one Angel Investor. ✅ Startups from all industries are welcome! Apply & read more by 22nd of September here: https://lnkd.in/gPPDHZZp This program is part of the Connect2Scale project and is funded by the European Union.

🚀 Sign up for a AI for Ukraine Recovery Hackathon! From September 6-8, innovation will spark simultaneously in Kyiv and Tallinn in the AI for Ukraine Recovery Hackathon Unlocking $15,000 Prize Fund. EstBAN partner-of-the-year Civitta has joined forces to boost Ukraine in the AI front and Recovery! The hackathon will be made possible by powerhouses like the Ministry of Digital Transformation of Ukraine, the Ukrainian Startup Fund, the BRAVE1, Estonian e-Residency, UNICEF, Estonian Founders Society, Latitude59, sTARTUp Day, Civitta, Radar Tech and our🦄Unicorn Partner — the global AI company Helsing! You will have 48 hours to develop innovative solutions addressing the following challenges: ▪️ Damage Assessment ▪️ Cybersecurity ▪️ Effectiveness and Impact of Support ▪️ Mental Health ▪ Fight Against Disinformation Backing you every step of the way, meet experts who will provide challenge tasks and mentorship support: Serhiy Prytula Charity Foundation, UADAMAGE monitoring platform, CIPE Europe & Eurasia, Osavul and technical mentors from Helsing. The best AI solution will win a 2500€ cash price from the  global AI company Helsing. The partners of the "Mental Health" challenge are UNICEF Ukraine, the All-Ukrainian mental health program “How are U?” and the Coordination Center for Mental Health of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukrainе. UNICEF Ukraine provides a $10,000 prize fund for the teams participating in this challenge. 🏆 Top teams will share the $15,000 prize fund and secure spots in our pre-acceleration program. ⏳ Time's ticking, spots are vanishing! 🔗 Be part of the change: https://lnkd.in/dEWxVbmg AI for Ukraine Recovery Hackathon is organized by Civitta and Radar Tech, financed by the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs from development cooperation and humanitarian aid funds. #AIforUkraine

Another really good networking event held! We heard over many talks that started with a question - hey, how do YOU define deep-tech and how do you separate it from health-tech? Well, we hope everyone got answers to their questions and had fun times in #Tartu2024 Humal restaurant as there was quite a big crowd to catch up with. Also! So grateful to have awesome partners - the event was hosted in collaboration with Sparkup Tartu Science Park, Tartu Biotechnology Park, Startup Estonia and Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN) within the Estonian Health Tech week. 👩⚕️📡 Thank you all who were on stage and shared thoughts about health tech, cross-border investing, raising money and leading health-tech investments - Sigvards Krongorns (Verge HealthTech Fund), Erki Mölder, Tõnu Esko, Priit Salumaa (Better Medicine), Katrina Laks (Migrevention), Sven Parkel and moderator Vaido Mikheim. Until next time!

Hey investors! Maybe it's time to expand your investment scale and meet up with Polish startup and investor ecosystem. Study trip to Warsaw happens during the Deep Tech CEE Summit & Challenge so it's a good reason to travel a bit. So let's go to Poland 🇵🇱 within our 4NGELS project. Sign up for here👇

We have done some research and have prepared a reading-material/ textbook for all the angel investors out there! 🌍 Within our 4NGELS project we have learned that not many investors dare to do cross-border investments. And yes - you should not only be careful doing high risk investments, but you should also educate yourself before considering it. So please download our guidebook from EstBAN's website 👉https://lnkd.in/d582_sxa - This guidebook walks you through the whole Estonian startup-investment ecosystem. This is good use for investors outside of Estonia or local investors who are interested in becoming an angel investor. 👉 https://estban.ee/4ngels/ 🫶 Also - let us know what's missing and what you'd like to know before doing high-risk cross-boarder investments? This guide is part of the 4NGELS project, which is an international programme organized by four business angel networks: Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN), Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN), Business Angels of Slovenia, COBIN Angels. The programme is coordinated by Civitta. We bring together investors from Estonia, Finland, Slovenia and Poland to strengthen the level of cross-border investment between our business angel networks. Thank you Ivo Remmelg, Merlin Seeman, Yrjö Ojasaar, Hugues Flament for your input for the guidebook. Have you downloaded it yet? 👉 https://estban.ee/4ngels/

Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN) will go to the Estonian Health Tech Week in Tartu in the end of August. We will also host our own event, but we encourage everyone interested in health innovations to take part of the whole program👇 Throughout the week, attendees will be able to explore the diversity and capabilities of the Estonian e-Health, health tech, biotech, and healthcare ecosystem. Come and learn the most digitised health tech ecosystem from inside out and meet various key players of Estonian health tech ecosystem during the whole week, including Health Founders Estonia.

👋 Hey, angel investors! Do you have a portfolio startup, looking to secure further investment funding? Then invite your startups to the European Angel Investment Summit in Brussels, Belgium on October 15 - 16 and have them pitch to top international angels directly on stage! Applications are open until September 15th so get them prepared and apply today! Applications can be made here: https://lnkd.in/eeRZpxXe  If the startups in your portfolio gets chosen they will have access to: 🎫2 Complimentary EAIS Tickets 📣A pitching slot during the event 💻Profile listed on the EAIS website with promotional campaigns  ✏️All #EAIS24 workshops and sessions 🤝Networking opportunities facilitated by the Brella app 💲Additional tickets and discounts for their team 💡Possibility to have an exhibition stand Have you already bought your tickets to the European Angel Investment Summit? If not then you can still get your discounted tickets as an EBAN - European Business Angel Network member! Email [email protected] to get your code to buy them today: https://lnkd.in/dfRpwmv

Sign up for a fireside chat already this Wednesday, August 7th (online) where Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN) Managing Director Karin Künnapas and Naimul Abd, the Serial Nordic Ecosystem Builder from Connect Sverige Region Öst chat about Estonian startup scene and spread some advice for upcoming investors and founders in the Nordic region. Check it out! 👇

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Great news about the Estonian food-tech startup Raw Edge! 🎙️ While Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN) team was super busy organizing the EBAN Annual Congress Tallinn 2024 in the month of May, our friends from the #4NGELS project went on a study trip to Slovenia! 🇸🇮 Business angel community from Slovenia, Finland, Poland and Estonia visited #Ljubliana and Slovenian startup scene, and attended the Podim Conference – where the 4NGELS Pitching Competition was held and Raw Edge – the cool 🇪🇪 food-tech company won and will get a syndicated investment from internatioinal angel investors that had signed up for the 4NGELS project! 🏆 Take a look at the photos from the Slovenian study trip and let’s celebrate Raw Edge’s international attention! More information about the syndicate and investment soon! Congratulations Kristel Vene, PhD and Mariliis Mia Topp 👏👏👏 3 best startups that pitched at PODIM Conference during the 4NGELS study visit to Slovenia were: SOLIDU from Lithuania 🇱🇹 MediMatcher from Finland 🇫🇮 Raw Edge from Estonia 🇪🇪 As many of you know, EstBAN is part of several international business angel networks’ common projects that all aim to encourage cross boarder investments and help to ease international networking and connections. 4NGELS is made up of Estonian Business Angels Network (EstBAN), Finnish Business Angels Network (FiBAN), Business Angels of Slovenia, COBIN Angels and led by Civitta.