FiBAN - 10 years of Inspiring Private Investments - Book - Page 21
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Executive summary of 2019
Other members of the board
Reima Linnanvirta (Vice Chair), Ali Omar,
Esa Mäkeläinen, Markko Vaarnas,
Saga Forss, Teemu Varpanen
Office
Reidar Wasenius (Managing Director H1),
Amel Gaily (Managing Director H2), Heidi
Tawast, Johanna Ahtiainen, Reetta Ilo,
Wasim Al-Nasser
Chair of the Board
Janne Jormalainen
670
54,2M
790
426
Investor
members
Total
invested
Investment
transactions
Unique target
companies
Exit of the Year
2019
Business Angel
of the Year
2019
Syndicate: Leena
Niemistö and Niklas
Geust, Verso Foods
Ali Omar
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2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Biggest business angel
gathering of the year in
Helsinki
“The year 2019 will
be remembered
particularly for the
EBAN Helsinki 2019
conference and the
introduction of several
new ventures, which
FiBAN launched and
implemented: FiBAN
Follow, new training
projects, and the impact
investment toolbox.”
In 2019 FiBAN had the privilege of being chosen to host
the annual EBAN conference. EBAN Helsinki 2019 was
arranged in the beginning of June at the Cable Factory together with Arctic15. The conference was the largest business angel gathering in Europe that year, and it
brought over 500 business angels to Helsinki for twodays of keynotes, panel discussions, networking, and fun.
Janne Jormalainen, Chair of the Board
EBAN Helsinki 2019 conference.
Nordic Angel Program (NAP) which was an international
cross-border training and investing program for business angels ran through 2018 and 2019. NAP was jointly
run in EstBAN, DanBAN, BAN Norway, and FiBAN. NordicBAN acted as the coordinator.
As a tribute to the success, the Nordic Angel Program
won the EBAN Award for Best Individual/Organisation
Globally Engaging the Early Stage Investment and Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in June 2019.
FiBAN moves its headquarters to the startup campus located in an old
hospital.
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