A presentation on ABAN and its activities on the continent with some statistics from VC4Africa and Disrupt Africa reports.

1. ABAN in Africa
EBAN CONGRESS 2016

2. ABAN in Africa
• Who we are
• Founding members
• Reach
• Focus Areas
• 2015
• What We See

3. ABAN – who we are
• Non profit foundation – since May 2015
• Africans investing in Africa
• Promoting a culture of angel investing
• Supporting the development of angel networks
• Getting many more (early stage) investors excited,
educated, connected and doing deals
• Catalyzing capital to help maximize Africa’s
entrepreneurial potential
• Engaging policymakers on ecosystem support

4. ABAN – Founding members

5. ABAN – reach

6. ABAN – focus areas
• Capacity building
• Training
• Research
• Best practices, tools
• Annual conference
• Advocacy
• Agenda setting
governments,
international bodies
• Sharing international best
practices
• Representation and
‘cross pollination’
• Evangelizing
• Giving a voice to early
stage investing
community
• Outreach academia, VC’s,
media etc
• Representing African
investors overseas

7. ABAN - 2015

8. ABAN – what we see
• Forming new angel groups does not immediately
translate into more ‘deals done’ (takes time)
• Local ecosystems are young but developing. Trust still
needs to be earned
• Large appetite to learn, to be involved… but litte
patience, little tools
• Different angel groups are in process of inventing
themselves (and probably re-inventing some wheels
while doing so)
• We celebrate funding rounds (exits not yet part of
the vocabulary)

9. 2016 survey based
research VC4Africa
& partners
ABAN – what we see
• 224 ventures out of 462 surveyed (48%) successfully
raised USD 73M from third parties
• USD 326K average external capital secured per
venture
• 66% of investments below USD 50K. 8% > USD 500K
• 33% of the ventures securing funds have been
successful in multiple rounds
• 140 investors (angel, early stage VC’s) from 25
countries

10. 2016 survey based
research VC4Africa
& partners
ABAN – what we see

11. 2015 News
Aggregated
research from
Disrupt Africa
ABAN – what we see

12. 2015 News
Aggregated
research from
Disrupt Africa
ABAN – what we see

13. 2016 survey based
research VC4Africa
& partners
ABAN – what we see
• A growing interest from African diaspora to
invest in startups in their country of origin
• The emergence and increasing number of
business professionals turning angel investor
locally
• A growing appetite for cross-border investing
across Africa generally.

14. THANK YOU!
TOMI DAVIES
PRESIDENT

15. We’d love to hear from you!
Web: abanangels.org
Twitter: @ABANangels
Facebook: African Business Angel Network (ABAN)
Linkedin: African Business Angel Network (ABAN)
Mail: secretariat@abanangels.org