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EBAN ASBL - The European Business Angels Network

EBAN

EBAN is the pan-European representative for the early stage investor community gathering over 150 member organizations in more than 50 countries today.

Lobbying Activity

Response to EU Space Law: Union law for safe, secure and sustainable space activities

10 Sept 2025

EBAN Space & Defense, https://www.eban.org/eban-space/ the European Business Angels Network trade association body for early stage investment and innovation in Space and Defense is honoured to provide some remarks for the EU Space Act Consultation. First, we would like to congratulate the European Commission on drafting this timely regulation to address the growing geopolitical, cyber, and physical risks to the European Unions space infrastructure and services. We are also very impressed by the efforts taken to make certain that the input and views of all public and private players in the Ecosystem are represented. Our EBAN Space and Defence Committee at EBAN is delighted to present a series of recommendations for the EU to consider. Please find our recommendations mentioned in the annexed file. We are your disposal for any questions and comments.
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Response to European Innovation Act

11 Jul 2025

EBAN suggests focusing on: - creating the sandbox regulatory framework 28th regime as the means to harmonize the regulatory frameworks that are fragmented across Europe. - create incentives for pension funds and other instiutional investors to invest in VC funds from early to later stages. - go beyond pari-passu co-investment schemes to crowd in more private market players, specifically for funding of strategic innovations in their earliest stages. - provide recommendations to member states to create fiscal incentives for private investors to invest in startups - create public-private co-investment schemes targeting business angels that invest in startups developing strategic innovations (ex. defence, deeptech, quantum, etc)
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Meeting with Marc Lemaitre (Director-General Research and Innovation) and

25 Apr 2025 · Second meeting of the European Startup and Scaleup Forum. Discussion on the draft building blocks of the EU Startup and Scaleup Strategy structured along the identified obstacles and possible solutions.

Response to EU Start-up and Scale-up Strategy

12 Mar 2025

Besides the 28th Regime initiative, the EU Commission could focus efforts also on: 1. creating incentives so that pension funds and insurance companies become investors in the European VC asset class (as LPs of VC funds). In the US, VC funds regularly fundraise from such entities. In Europe, only very few institutional LPs are investing in VC funds. The Commission could develop a guarantee scheme to crowd-in such institutional investors, reducing investment risks and integrating ROIs when needed. Yozma funds in Israel have worked in a similar manner to give guaranteed minimum returns to retail and institutional LP investors in VC Funds. 2. Earmark a part of the EU Commission research and innovation budget to be used by national development banks and promotional agencies in member states to develop public-private co-investment schemes with business angels. The benefits of such schemes have been proven already across multiple member states. The accelerate the development of angel investment ecosystems, promote syndicated investments, and play a strong crowd-in effect on private capital. Member states that want to develop national level co-investment schemes with business angels can use the EU budget earmarked for this purpose to finance those schemes.
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Meeting with Alexandr Hobza (Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné)

20 Jan 2025 · EBAN introduced their network of business angels and its objectives.

Meeting with Alice Guedel (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque), Lauro Panella (Cabinet of Commissioner Maria Luís Albuquerque)

20 Jan 2025 · Overview of the EBAN ecosystem and the state of business angel investing across the EU

Meeting with Andreas Schwarz (Cabinet of Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva), Elena Martines (Cabinet of Commissioner Ekaterina Zaharieva)

20 Jan 2025 · Overview of the role of Business Angels in financing innovative start-ups and the challenges faced in the European business angel market.

Meeting with Valdis Dombrovskis (Executive Vice-President) and

25 Feb 2020 · EU's political priorities, possibility to contribute in Project Syndicate, Capital Markets Union, venture capital, business angels, funding escalators

Meeting with Aare Järvan (Cabinet of Vice-President Andrus Ansip)

28 Nov 2018 · Introductory Meeting