It’s a particularly busy time in the South African entrepreneur-investor world over the next week as Johannesburg hosts GEC 2017 – the Global Entrepreneurship Congress. SABAN is co-hosting cocktails for investors and agripreneurs on Wednesday 15th March, contact us if interested in attending. This afternoon SABAN hosts its first angel investor training session in Cape […]
Sara Weinheimer, Founder of podcast series BroadMic looks at her top 5 lessons learned in years of angel investing. The article was published on linkedin. When I first started out as an angel investor, I didn’t know any other women who were doing what I was doing. If you look at the data, my experience […]
There is light ahead on the tough, dark road faced by local entrepreneurs, with the launch of the South African Business Angel Network (SABAN), a professional association for the early stage investor community reports Linda Doke for itweb.co.za In South Africa, more money is chasing fewer deals. – Mvi Hlophe SABAN co-founder SABAN is part […]
South Africa needs more risk investors, particularly those aimed at investing in talented black entrepreneurs that struggle to access mentorship and funding. Written and published by Stephen Timm on smallbusinessinsight.org Speaking on Thursday at the Cape Town launch of the South African Business Angel Network (Saban) Entrepreneur and SABAN advisor Vuyisa Qabaka (pictured below) said while the venture […]
And launch of the Wall of Fame for Technology Enabled Businesses in the Western Cape South Africa’s pursuit of a more equitable and growing economy requires exponential growth in entrepreneurial mindset and endeavour. Angel investors have a critical role to play in achieving this growth – they bring the networks, acumen and access to financing […]
The Harvard Business School’s Professor Josh Lerner and Professor Antoinette Schoar of MIT Sloan School of Management published a paper that explores the rise of angel investing and compares it to venture capital. Using data from two large angel startup groups, the authors were able to show results that encourages attention to this mode of […]
SABAN (South African Business Angel Network) is a non-profit, professional association for promoting the South African early stage investor community. Established in 2016, SABAN represents a sector that plays a vital role in South Africa’s future, notably in the funding of Start-Ups. SABAN members fuel SA’s growth through the creation of wealth and jobs The […]
With the South African Business Angel Network – SABAN – launching in Johannesburg on August 24th, 2016, South Africa can claim its first national non-profit association whose purpose is to “galvanize and grow angel investing” in the country. Chris Campbell is an entrepreneur based in South Africa who has been on the front line of […]
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