FiBAN - 10 years of Inspiring Private Investments - Book - Page 11
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
Executive summary of 2014
2016
2017
2018
Office
Jan D. Oker-Blom (Managing Director),
Claes Mikko Nilsen, Bea Brunfeldt
Chair of the Board
Riku Asikainen
“In 2014, FiBAN
rose to the same
rapidly rising growth
entrepreneurship league
as Slush, StartupSauna, Supercell, and
the whole student
entrepreneurship
movement. What an
awesome time!”
“We had sponsored
black MercedesBenz E-series cars
with chauffeurs to
transport special
guests and speakers
from the airport and
back.”
Riku Asikainen Chair of the Board
441
21,7M
287
217
Investor
members
Total
invested
Investment
transactions
Unique target
companies
Exit of the Year
2014
Kaj Rönnlund
The Switch & Fixura
Ari Korhonen
10
2020
Europe’s angels gather
in Helsinki
Other members of the board
Jaakko Salminen (Vice Chair),
Aarne Sipilä, Anne Berner, Ari Hyppönen,
Juha Kurkinen, Pekka Vartiainen
Business Angel
of the Year
2014
2019
In 2014, FiBAN arranged the biggest business angel
event in Europe of all-time at Slush 2014. The number
of members increased rapidly and FiBAN’s operations
with it.
The EBAN Helsinki business angel conference
arranged by FiBAN gathered over 350 attendees and
70 speakers around the world in Helsinki on November
17th and 18th.
Ari Korhonen. Vice President,
EBAN 2012-2016,
Business Angel of the year 2014
The conference was a massive push from the whole
FiBAN board and office, and one new employee was
recruited in the office due to the conference. There
was also a temporary event team working for FiBAN.
The time, money, and effort paid back: the event was
a success, and according to EBAN the event was the
best ever arranged for them.
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