Business Angels

El Business Angels o inversor privado son natural persons with extensive knowledge of certain sectors and with investment capacity, who promote the development of business projects with high growth potential in its early stages of life, providing capital and added value to management.

Los inversores privados ayudan a cubrir la falta de financiación con que se encuentran los emprendedores en las etapas iniciales (que se asocian a elevados niveles de riesgo y falta de liquidez); se diferencian de los inversores tradicionales y del capital riesgo, en su implicación en la gestión de la empresa.

Al igual que las entidades de capital riesgo, se trata de inversores que apuestan por un proyecto empresarial, sin involucrarse en el día a día, pero aportando un valor añadido. Además de disposición de capital, estos inversores privados suelen tener conocimientos elevados en los sectores en los que invierten. Estos conocimientos, su capacidad de gestión y su red de contactos, son muy valiosos para impulsar el desarrollo de proyectos empresariales que tienen alto potencial de crecimiento, a cambio de una rentabilidad a medio plazo.

As a legal form, they usually adopt that of a limited company. These investors usually organize themselves by forming networks. In some cases with the aim of converting in others as a form of cooperation in general.

Main features:

• They invest their own money
• It is invested in the initial stage of the life of a company
• Your investment decisions may be other than strictly financial motivations (job satisfaction, etc.)
• They invest in areas close to their place of residence
• The amounts invested are much lower than the average dedicated by venture capital entities in each operation
• Profitability is generally lower than that obtained by venture capital entities

Main networks operating in Madrid

• Network of Private Investors and Family Offices. The objective of the Network is to facilitate contact between entrepreneurs in search of financing and investors in search of investment opportunities.
• Business Angels Network madri+d. Network specialized in technological projects of the Community of Madrid during its first years of life.
• Esade Ban. Network promoted by the ESADE Alumni Entrepreneurs and Investors Club. His preferred model is co-investment.
• Keiretsu Forum. The largest international network of private investors. In Spain it is promoted above all by the Caixa, the EOI and the Chambers of Commerce.
• IE Business School entrepreneurship. The Venture Days is IE's investment forum. It is quite focused on the best projects of the students or members of the business school.
• Spanish Association of Business Angels Networks. It brings together 25 of the main Spanish networks.