Billiken Angels Network

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Billiken Angels Network (BAN) is an organization of angel investors based in St. Louis, Missouri, that provides equity capital for growing companies, from seed stage to later stages of growth, in any industry, including high technology, medical and biotechnology, IT, apps, and consumer products. BAN invests between $50,000 and $500,000 in its initial investments, and can invest more in follow-on rounds. BAN primarily invests in firms that are based within a 100-mile radius of St. Louis. The only exceptions made are for firms whose owners have a current or prior student, faculty or staff relationship to Saint Louis University.

St. Louis independent city in Missouri, United States

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BAN is a university-based angel network, founded in 2008 by Prof. Jerome Katz of the Entrepreneurship Program [1] at Saint Louis University's John Cook School of Business. The University provides a sidecar fund that co-invests with BAN's angel members for initial and follow-on investments. A portion of BAN's member dues help support the Entrepreneurship Program's educational and co-curricular efforts, and BAN members are obligated to help the Program out at least twice a year. Given its university mission, BAN offers free public workshops to the St. Louis community on funding startups [2] and pitching to angels. [3]

Jerome A. Katz is an American professor, consultant and author who specializes in entrepreneurship. He is the Coleman Professor of Entrepreneurship at Saint Louis University in St Louis, Missouri and Director of the Billiken Angels Network.

BAN's angels are accredited investors. But one unique aspect of BAN's membership is the group of Billiken Angel Fellows. [4] These Fellows are volunteers from a variety of professions (medicine, law, engineering, finance, retailing, marketing, IT, etc.) who support the angels through assisting in the screening process and performing due diligence on behalf of the angels. The BAN was recently rated as one of the most active angel investing groups in the Midwest by the Angel Resource Institute with the third highest deal flow among Midwestern Venture organizations. [5]

The Angel Resource Institute (ARI) is a United States-based nonprofit organization that carries out research and education activities related to the field of angel investing. It was created in 2005 by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation as a purely charitable sister organization to the Angel Capital Association (ACA), previously founded by Kauffman, which is a not-for-profit organization representing the leading angel investment groups in North America.

BAN is a member of the Angel Capital Association, the professional trade group of American angel investor organizations.

Companies in which BAN has invested include Aisle411, BusyEvent, [6] and EndoStim, greetabl [7] and Helper Helper. [8]

aisle411

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References

  1. ↑ "Saint Louis University's Entrepreneurship Program Ranked Among Best in the Nation by The Princeton Review | John Cook School of Business". business.slu.edu. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  2. ↑ "'Funding Your St. Louis Startup' : Saint Louis University  : SLU". www.slu.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  3. ↑ "Got Funding? Keys to Creating Fundable Business Plans Workshop". Eventbrite. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  4. ↑ "The Growth of the Billiken Angels Network | Techli". techli.com. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  5. ↑ "Arch Angels, Billiken Angel Network among most active angel groups in Midwest - St. Louis Business Journal". St. Louis Business Journal. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  6. ↑ "BusyEvent scores with Billiken Angels, other investors - St. Louis Business Journal". St. Louis Business Journal. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  7. ↑ "Greetabl's Pre-Seed Round - CB Insights". CB Insights. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
  8. ↑ "Volunteer opportunity app lands angel financing - St. Louis Business Journal". St. Louis Business Journal. Retrieved 2015-10-22.
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