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Page 1: EBAN. Statistics Compendium 2014

Statistics Compendium EBAN 2014

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The Statistics Compendium is Europe’s most extensive annual research on the activity of

business angels and business angel networks. It provides information on the overall early

stage market, on how business angel networks operate and an insight into their investment

attitudes.

EBAN’s Statistics Compendium is based on the information provided by European business

angel networks (hereafter BANs), Federations of BANs, individual business angels and other

validated early stage investors which responded to EBAN’s Survey. The Survey was

conducted in 2014 and reported activities which took place in 2013. The collection of data

was persued through a web form activated from the EBAN website or directly e-mailed to

the Secretariat of EBAN through a pre-fomated survey.

The figures presented in this report are not representative of the entire European market.

Moreover, it is important to point out that the number of respondents differs y-o-y and not

all the identified players participated in the survey. Also the survey fails short on accounting

for the so called “invisible market”, which represents a consistent portion of the overall

business angels’ investments.

EBAN expresses its recognition to all contributors who provided data to the current research

as well as to Carlotta Larcher, student of Bocconi University (Italy) who directly colaborated

with the Secretariat of EBAN for the preparation of the Statistics Compendium.

DISCLAIMER

Due to its nature, the early stage investment market and especially the business angels investment

market is difficult to quantify. An important percentage of the total investments are informal and not

publicly reported.

The information presented and analysed in this document is based on self-reported data by investors

and thus cannot be verified. By no means this report can represent the full extent of the early stage

investment activity in Europe.

Knowing the underlying limitations of the publication, our main objective for this document is to

provide a better understanding of the European market based in the activities of a given sample.

The current compendium comprises information collected thought direct surveys from 65 business

angel networks, 4 national federations and 16 other early stage investors.

Additional data were collected from different sources namely from Zephyr, Crunchbase, market

reports, national publications, press articles and research papers.

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EBAN Secretariat Rue de la Science 14b 1040 – Bruxelles T : +32 2 626 20 62 F : +32 2 626 20 69 E: [email protected] W: www.eban.org

Copyright © 2014 EBAN. All rights reserved.

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Table of contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................................. 1

Overview of total European Early Stage Investment .............................................................................. 2

Overview of European Angel Market ...................................................................................................... 3

Angel Investment by Country .................................................................................................................. 5

Operational figures .................................................................................................................................. 7

Investment options ................................................................................................................................. 8

1. SECTORS OF INVESTMENT ......................................................................................................................... 8

2. DEVELOPMENT STAGE OF INVESTEE .......................................................................................................... 8

3. LOCATION OF INVESTMENT ....................................................................................................................... 9

4. CO-INVESTMENT ........................................................................................................................................ 9

5. DISTRIBUTION OF DEALS ............................................................................................................................ 9

6. SELECTION FILTER .................................................................................................................................... 10

Deal Flow ............................................................................................................................................... 10

Exits ....................................................................................................................................................... 11

Business Angel Networks Management ................................................................................................ 11

1. FUNDING SOURCES .................................................................................................................................. 11

2. SERVICES .................................................................................................................................................. 11

3. MEMBERSHIP ........................................................................................................................................... 12

4. CHARGED FEES ......................................................................................................................................... 13

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Executive Summary

Angel investment in Europe increased to 5.5 billion Euros in 2013, a growth of 8,7% from 2012,

remaining the main financier of European startups. The investors’ community grew to 271.000

investors which closed 33.430 deals last year. Overall, taking in consideration other early stage

investors operating in Europe, the sector reached €7,5b of investment in 2013.

Within the visible market, the United Kingdom continues to be the leading country with 84,4 millions

invested in 535 companies. Spain comes second with 57,6 million Euros of investment followed by

Russia with 41,8 million Euros. Despite the good performance of mature markets, it’s worth

highlighting smaller players such as Estonia, country with a recently created first business angel

network (BAN) which led to 4,7 million Euros of investment, making it the top performing country

when comparing the investment per GDP ratio.

The main sector of investment is ICT (32%), followed by biotech & life sciences (10%), mobile (10%)

and manufacturing (10%). The majority of the targeted companies (87%) are in early stages, notably

startup, seed and pre-seed stages. Despite the existence of many international investment networks,

cross-border investment remains marginal with 96% of the deals taking place in the country of the

investor.

Co-investment was the rule in 2013. Only 3% of the respondents to the survey didn’t co-invest with

other early stage investment players. This practice is most of all common between business angels

but was extended to many other players such as private and public early stage funds.

The most relevant evidence of angel activity in addition to the investment per si, is the number and

level of activity of business angel networks across Europe. These angel groups have been growing

consistently and are today estimated at 468 BANs and show a strong internal dynamic with an

average of 16% of new members. Although providing a critical and wide range of services to

entrepreneurs and investors, BANs and angel Federations are not yet monetizing adequately the

service they provide and are still relying mostly in funding from external/ parent organisations.

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Overview of total European Early Stage Investment

EBAN, initially created as an European Business Angels Network, has in the past years extended its reach

to different actors and investors of the European early stage investment ecosystem. As a result of that

enlarged commitment, we start this report with an overview of the overal European early stage

investment market, comprisinginformation collected by EBAN together with data recently released by

EVCA1 on early stage investments. An estimation of the gross figures of the equity crowdfunding market

was also produced by EBAN based in 2012 data released by Massolution 2 and recent trends.

Unfortunately no system is yet in place to identify a more precise situation of the crowdfunding market

in Europe.

The total European early stage investment market is estimated to be worth 7,5 billion Euros. Business

angels represent the biggest share of the investment market with 5,5 billion Euros of investment,

followed by the venture capital industry investing 2 billion Euros in early stages. Equity crowdfunding

investments are still marginal but expected to grow considerably in the coming years.

7,5 b€ 5,5b€ 2b€ 80 m€ European Early

Stage Investment Business Angels Early Stage VCs Equity

Crowdfunding

Fig. 1 - The three main areas of early stage investment in Europe. Figures in M€.

1 EVCA 2014 (http://www.evca.eu/research/activity-data/annual-activity-statistics/)

2 http://www.massolution.com/

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Overview of European Angel Market

The European angel investment market increased 8,7% in 2013, reporting a new record of 5.543 million Euros of investment. The market has been growing in all of the monitored items: investment amount, number of investments and number of business angels. The impact in the economy through jobs created is also increasing as a consequence of the increased amounts in play.

2011 2012 2013

Visible market 427 509 554

Reported by BANs or Federations

298 330 431

Investment by non-reported BANs

129 179 123

Share of visible market 9% 10% 10%

Non-visible market 4317 4590 4989

Total Investment 4.744 5.099 5.543

# Investments 26.158 29.130 33.430

# Jobs created 154.597 178.813 184.170

# Business Angels 241.444 261.430 271.000

Fig. 2 - Break down of angel investment by visible and non-visible market; Investment values in million Euros.

As the table above shows, we can only perceive angel investment through the visible part of the market.

The estimation of the visible market is an assumption EBAN considers taking into consideration previous

surveys and reports published3. As for 2013, we considered a visible market of 10%, at the same level of

the one reported in 2012. By visible market we consider activity undertaken by investors gathered in

business angel networks and which either have a direct relation with EBAN or those reporting through a

federation. It also comprises networks from which access to information is limited but its existence and

activity is known by other players of the industry.

The chart below illustrates the number of business angels operating in BANs as per comparison with the

full estimated angel market.

Fig. 2 – Comparison of business angels

operating associated to BANs and total

estimated number of business angels.

3 «Evaluation of EU Member States’ Business Angel Markets and Policies” CSES, 2012

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Business angel networks have been growing in number at an average of 17% for the past 10 years. In 2013, the

number of active networks increased to 468.

Fig. 3 – Number of active business angel networks in Europe.

As mentioned above, not all BANs are affiliated to federations or are directly monitored by EBAN. Our

estimation comprises 123 BANs (26%) which are either operating in countries where access to information is

more difficult or which operate without being linked to any national body or international network.

Fig. 4 – Comparison of directly monitored networks with total number of BANs in Europe.

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Angel Investment by Country

The United Kingdom continues to be the leading European angel market with €84,4 million of

investment having reported an annual growth of 24%. Spain, Russia and France are the following biggest

players. This year we were able to directly monitor 26 countries, nine more than last year which

considerably increases the perspective and the diversity of the European market.

Fig. 4 –Angel investment by country

The chart below features the evolution of business angel investment by country. While market growth

varies considerably from country to country, we observe a positive evolution in mid-table countries

which may demonstrate a greater maturity of these markets. This happens with Turkey, Portugal,

Switzerland, Ireland and Belgium. On the other hand, other traditionally active countries such as Finland,

Sweden, Italy and The Netherlands report an activity decrease.

# BAs # BANs

# Companies

financed

BA Inv.

2013

M€ YoY

BA Inv.

2012

M€

Jobs

created

Average

Inv. per

company (€)

Average Inv.

per BA (€)

Average Inv.

per BAN

(M€)

UK 4350 38 535 84,4 24% 68,3 2354 157.757 19.402 2,2

Spain 2520 63 245 57,6 -8% 62,5 1485 235.102 22.857 0,9

Russia 220 13 165 41,8 n.a. 808 253.030 189.773 3,2

France 4320 83 376 41,1 0% 40,9 1807 109.176 9.502 0,5

Germany 1510 37 185 35,1 26% 27,9 916 189.838 23.258 0,9

Finland 490 12 208 26,4 -7% 28,4 916 126.683 53.776 2,2

Sweden 762 11 110 19,4 -17% 23,2 506 175.909 25.394 1,8

Turkey 450 10 61 14,7 40% 10,5 400 240.984 32.667 1,5

Portugal 611 13 73 13,8 19% 11,6 497 189.000 22.581 1,1

Switzerland 424 7 44 13,3 15% 11,6 130 302.273 31.368 1,9

Ireland 480 6 59 13,2 9% 12,1 286 222.966 27.406 2,2

Denmark 155 5 102 11,8 n.a. 539 115.882 76.258 2,4

Belgium 350 6 67 10,0 96% 5,1 332 149.254 28.571 1,7

Italy 760 11 43 9,9 -10% 11,0 282 230.233 13.026 0,9

Netherlands 810 11 58 9,8 -3% 10,1 281 169.310 12.123 0,9

Poland 160 4 38 6,6 n.a. 233 173.158 41.125 1,6

Estonia 52 1 83 4,7 n.a. 457 56.108 89.558 4,7

Norway 110 3 19 4,2 n.a. 88 222.105 38.364 1,4

Austria 240 2 24 2,9 n.a. 132 121.000 12.100 1,5

Bulgaria 52 2 37 2,9 n.a. 163 77.027 54.808 1,4

Greece 52 2 18 2,1 40% 1,5 99 116.667 40.385 1,1

Lithuannia 80 1 18 2,0 -81% 10,9 77 112.556 25.325 2,0

Luxembourg 80 1 17 1,6 433% 0,3 59 94.118 20.000 1,6

Croatia 25 1 10 0,8 n.a. 42 75.000 30.000 0,8

Serbia 25 1 6 0,7 -7% 0,7 28 108.333 26.000 0,7

Cyprus 39 1 2 0,6 n.a. 14 310.000 15.897 0,6

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Fig. 5 – Evolution of angel investment by country (2012-2013); Amounts in M€

A different perspective is provided below when compared the reported angel activity with each

country’s GDP. In this case, a smaller country gains prominency (Estonia), while countries with higher

GDP push the average down to 0,000028 ratio:

Fig. 6 – Ratio angel investment/ GDP. GDP figures of 2013 from the International Monetary Fund

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If we bring the comparison to the level of business angel network’s activity, we notice that Estonia, with

a single operating BAN, take the leadership position on a chart that leaves the European average at

€1.184M. On the other hand, France, a country with a mature network of angel networks (83), fails to

achieve more activity from its existing BANs.

Fig. 7 – Performance of BANs by country

Operational figures

The amount invested per company has decreased in the past three years. European investment per deal

remains considerably lower than the one recorded in the US (€260k).

At the BAN level, the average investment amount rises to 1,184 million Euros, an annual increase that

shows a tendency for aggregation in BANs.

Individual angel investment remains in the average of 20.000 Euros. With angel syndication becoming a

common word across Europe, one could have had expected this figure to decrease.

2011 2012 2013

Average Investment per company (€) 181.400 174.833 165.787

Average Investment per BAN (€) 1.041.616 1.107.081 1.184.378

Average Investment per BA (€) 19.653 19.480 20.437

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Investment options

1. SECTORS OF INVESTMENT

Preference of investment goes to the ICT sector as the charts below demonstrate. Apart from ICT, there is

an homogeneous distribution of investment with manufacturing, biotech, life sciences and mobile health

care & medtech recording the top preferences of surveyed early stage investors. There is no significant

difference between sector preferences when considered per deal and per value.

Fig. 8 Sectors distribution in 2013 by investment amount (left) and number of deals (right)

2. DEVELOPMENT STAGE OF INVESTEE

Investments concentrated in earlier stages (pre-seed, seed

and start-up). Despite the low amounts per comparison

with the other stages, evidence was recorded amongt buy-

out/ turnaround and pre-IPO stages.

Fig. 9 Investments by investee’s development stage

Stages of development: Pre-seed - Financing of ideas and research projects,

with the aim of building a commercial company around it later on.

Seed - Financing provided to research, assess and develop an initial concept before a business has reached the start-up phase.

Early stage and start-up - Financing provided to companies for product development and initial marketing. Companies may be in the process of being set up or may have been in business for a short time, but have not sold their product commercially.

Expansion - Investment aimed at reaching the scale of industrial production, upgrading the production facilities and attracting further employees.

Buy-out and turnaround - liquidation phase or corporate renewal.

Pre-IPO - Financing is provided for a company expected to “go public” within six months to a year. The funds are often used to finance various requirements prior to making a public offering or some other major restructuring event.

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3. LOCATION OF INVESTMENT

Cross-border investment remains marginal as investments in the same country of the investor accounted

for 96% of the deals made in 2013. Deals inside and outside the investors’ region are 52% and 44%

respectively. Investment in other European countries accounted for 4% of the deals while investment

outside Europe represented only 1% of investments.

4. CO-INVESTMENT

As per the data collected, co-investment is the norm. Investing alongside other business angels is the major

preference but other types of investors also play a vital role as the chart below details.

Fig. 10 Co-investment in 2013

5. DISTRIBUTION OF DEALS

New deals accounted for 61% of networks’ activity in 2013 followed by follow-on rounds which

represented 1/3 of a network’s deals. Exits represent 6% of deal activity.

Fig. 11 Distribution by types of deals

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6. SELECTION FILTER

The majority of business plans received still remain unselected for further evaluation. In fact, only 23% of

business proposals are circulated for a more serious assessement by investors or the investment

committee. As a result, for every 100 business plans received only 6 achieve funding. However, if we

exclude re-investments, the investment rate decreases to 4% of successful investments as follow on

investments represent 33% of investments.

Fig. 12 Funding funnel

Deal Flow

Personal recommendation is the leading deal flow source for many investors. However, representing only

20% of total leads received, we can say the market is fairly open nowadays to non-related individuals who

can approach investors in events, through the internet amongst many other means.

Fig. 13 Deal flow sources in 2013

100

23

6

Business Plans received

Business Plans evaluated

Deals funded

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Exits

Investors and networks of investors are more used to report investments than exits. In many occasions,

especially in the context of business angel networks, these are difficult to track as investors hold no

obligation to report back to the network. Nevertheless, according to the figures reported, exits represented

6% of the total deals of a network and in 53% of the situations they generated a positive return to the

investors.

Business Angel Networks Management

1. FUNDING SOURCES

Both business angel networks and business angel federations have as main sources of funding external

financiers such as parent organisations, sponsorship or regional development funds (national funds and

European funds represent no more than 11% of funding). Activity related sources of funding remain low

with fees from bsuiness angels and success fees recording only 20% of revenues in BANs and 15% in

Federations. The remaining sources of funding are not negletable and comprise revenues associated with

the organisation of events and trainings.

Business Angel Networks (BANs) Business Angel Federations

Fig. 14 Funding sources of BANs and Federations.

2. SERVICES

Services provided by Federations and BANs are very alike and express the role of these organisations in the

ecosystem. It’s worth noting that training and the promotion of interaction between entrepreneurs and investors

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either offline in events or online through specific platforms play a significant role. Services which may be perceived as

more technical (eg. syndication, due diligence support or co-investment schemes) are only provided by some of the

surveyed organisations.

Fig. 15 Distribution of services offered by BANs and by Federations in 2013

3. MEMBERSHIP

BAN’s demonstrated a considerable dynamic in the evolution of membership reporting an average

of 16% new members and 8,6% leaving members. There are a multitude of sources of new

members and as expected in an informal sector, current members and word of mouth play a

major role in the attraction of new members.

Fig. 9 Business angels’ recruitment channels

Active angels - investors who participate in metings on a regular basis and who are actively looking for

investments, represent 53% of membership. According to the surveys received, women investors represent

today only 4,1% of BAN’s members. Although the figure goes up to 20-30% in some networks, the average

states a clear under representation of women in the sector.

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4. CHARGED FEES

Fees charged by BANs (and Federations in the case of membership fees) diverge considerably and show

signs of a still imature market in which many of the services provided in the previous point are executed

free of charge. Less than 60% of European BANs charge fees to their investors with membership costing

between €200 and near €600 per year. On the other hand, fees charged to entrepreneurs range from €200

to €600 for company presentations and from €145 to €750 for processing of application, although only 15%

of respondents charge for these services. Several BANs also propose a success fee to entrepreneurs which,

according to the surveys collected, ranges from 3 to 5%. To charge success fees to investors is not yet a

common practice.

Fig. 10 Charged fees by BANs.