BANC travels to Canada

October 18, 2017

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  • The Business Angels Network of Catalonia highlights that 79% of investments in the State are local and remakes Barcelona’s role as an entrepreneurial ecosystem.
  • The event of the Canadian association NACO gathers more than 500 international investors.
More than 500 Business Angels from 12 different countries have met from October 2 to 5 in Canada at one of the most important international private investment events in the Americas. The National Angel Capital Association (NACO), the only national industrial association for Business Angels in Canada, has organized the World Event Investment Summit, an event that was attended by BANC as a representative of private investment in Catalonia and Spain. Albert Colomer, director of the Business Angels Network of Catalonia (BANC), starred in a round table with other personalities of the investment sector in Europe. The director of the network answered several questions that served the audience to understand how the sector evolves in Spain and if it is increasingly global. BANC also highlighted the role of Barcelona as an entrepreneurial ecosystem, where more than 300 companies are created each year, joining the more than 2000 existing start-ups.

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