{"id":12878,"date":"2018-07-05T02:18:37","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T23:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/?p=12878"},"modified":"2018-07-05T02:19:55","modified_gmt":"2018-07-04T23:19:55","slug":"300-business-angels-at-eban-annual-congress-2018-in-sofia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/300-business-angels-at-eban-annual-congress-2018-in-sofia\/","title":{"rendered":"300 Business Angels at EBAN Annual Congress 2018 in Sofia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_12810\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12810\" style=\"width: 404px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12810\" src=\"http:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EBAN-European-Business-Angels-Network.jpg\" alt=\"EBAN-European-Business-Angels-Network\" width=\"404\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EBAN-European-Business-Angels-Network.jpg 960w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EBAN-European-Business-Angels-Network-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EBAN-European-Business-Angels-Network-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EBAN-European-Business-Angels-Network-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EBAN-European-Business-Angels-Network-219x146.jpg 219w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EBAN-European-Business-Angels-Network-50x33.jpg 50w, https:\/\/investsofia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/EBAN-European-Business-Angels-Network-113x75.jpg 113w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 404px) 100vw, 404px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12810\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Source: EBAN European Business Angels Network<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Europe\u2019s largest and most influential Business Angel event, The EBAN Annual Congress 2018, took place in Sofia, 25-27 June, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">at the same time as Europe\u2019s most influential technology event &#8211; Webit.Festival Europe 2018<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The EBAN conference brought more than 300 elite business angels and investors to Sofia from across Europe, Africa, Asia and the North America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was the 18th edition of the annual flagship event by EBAN organized in collaboration with Eleven Ventures and the Bulgarian Association of Business Angels. This year the Congress focused on Digital Transformation, bringing together Business Angels, venture capitalists, corporates, policy-makers and innovators, Seed Funds, Early Stage Market Players and The European Trade Association for Business Angels members. 56 startups pitched their ideas to expert jury members and investors at the EBAN Sofia Startup Competition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A part of the EBAN Annual Congress, European Innovation Council (EIC) pilot workshop took place on 27 June 2018. EIC presented their<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/easme\/en\/sme-instrument\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> SME Instrument<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that supports top-class innovators with funding opportunities and acceleration services. The Bulgarian <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.endurosat.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Endurosat<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was presented at the workshop as one of the EIC SME Instrument funded companies, listed amongst Europe\u2019s 200 most promising startups. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">EBAN Sofia 2018 booklet is available at <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebansofia2018.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BOOKLET-FOR-WEBSITE-COMPRESSED.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.ebansofia2018.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/BOOKLET-FOR-WEBSITE-COMPRESSED.pdf<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Europe\u2019s largest and most influential Business Angel event, The EBAN Annual Congress 2018, took place in Sofia, 25-27 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":12811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newsletter-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/investsofia.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}