The Business Angel Investment Workshop

1. The Business Angel Investment Workshop
   The 20th IEF conference is hosting a unique workshop on Business Angel Investing and its evolution and development funding the local ecosystems worldwide. The workshop aims to involve those considering entering in this activity, first-time comers, angel investors that want to improve their results, the start-up community and researchers working in the field of entrepreneurship, to encourage the emergence of a sophisticated angel funding ecosystem.
   The main objectives are to:
   • Attract new players to help grow the business angel investing community in Portugal.
   • Highlight good practice to date in business angel investment and how to avoid pitfalls and overcome barriers to such investment.
   • Better integrate the business angel investment community in the wider entrepreneurship and economic ecosystem.
   • Facilitate productive interactions with the research community to help develop robust ex-ante and post hoc evaluation measures and evidence-based state of the art positioning of angel investment funding for start-ups.


2. The Workshop Structure
   To help meet the objectives stated above, the workshop will be structured in three parts:
   • Part 1: Telling the story of Business Angel Funding
   • Part 2: Fine-tuning the practice of angel funding
     • Presenting the Angel Canvas
     • Individual work on the personal Angel Canvas to address their
       • Individual Angel Goals
       • Risk Profile
       • Involvement Profile
       • Preferred Startup Maturity
       • Preferred Verticals
       • Preferred Geography
       • Preferred Business Models
       • Secret Sauce
       • Preferred Investment Vehicle
       • Annual Investment Amount
       • Ticket Per Startup
       • Portfolio Plan
     • Plenary to discuss individual answers
   • Part 3: Pitching Session for Start-Ups
     • Startup 1 pitching (5min)
     • Q&A (10min)
     • Startup 2 pitching (5min)
     • Q&A (10min)
     • Discuss important questions and founders’ answers


3. Programme
   

   Time	Session	Speakers and Facilitators
   9:00	Introduction to the Workshop	Rui Falcao and Heitor Benfeito
   9:15	Part 1: Telling the Story of Business Angel Funding	Rui Falcao, Jay Mitra
   9:45	Part 2: Fine Tuning the practice of angel funding	Rui Falcao, Pedro Bandeira, Heitor Benfeito, Nick Hixson, Sudip Roy
   11:15	Coffee break
   11:30	Part 3: Start-Up Pitching	Pedro Bandeira, Sarah Sommersguter
   12:45	Lessons from the Day	Rui Falcao, Heitor Benfeito
   13:00	Close of Workshop

4. Workshop Fee
   Entry fee for the workshop: Euro€50
   Payments should be made to the account details provided in the registration link, or cash at the workshop reception desk.
   Workshop included with full conference registration.
   REGISTER HERE: https://bit.ly/4dDSt3u