Esade BAN is the business angel network run by Esade Alumni, founded in 2007 and based in Barcelona with activity in Madrid and Valencia. It acts as a meeting point between entrepreneurs and business angels, family offices and venture funds drawn from the Esade alumni community. Directory sources report more than EUR 45M deployed and over 300 startups financed, with individual investment tickets ranging from EUR 10,000 to EUR 1M and a focus on pre-seed and seed rounds. It was named Europe’s best private business angel network by EBAN in 2016 and won AEBAN’s Spanish network award in 2021. Sector coverage spans digital and SaaS models plus healthtech, edtech, foodtech, proptech and agrotech.
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Esade BAN is the business angel network run by Esade Alumni's Entrepreneurs and Investors Club in Barcelona. It recruits and trains private investors and channels them into early-stage Spanish companies, usually alongside other network members or venture capital firms rather than investing alone. Members include individual angels, family offices and risk capital companies, and membership is open beyond Esade alumni. The network is a founding member of the Spanish association AEBAN and of EBAN at European level.