NEXT Amsterdam partners with Business Angel Institute to bring angel education to the Netherlands

The Business Angel Institute (BAI) is set up as an independent initiative with the aim to foster the business angel ecosystem in Europe. The BAI is offering a high quality training program for early stage investing. The early stage training program builds a solid foundation for successful angel investing. It delivers specific best practices as well as underlying principles and a broad spectrum of perspectives.

Together with NEXT Amsterdam the BAI is expanding its program to the Netherlands. The first courses will be given during the Amsterdam Capital Week on September 25 to 28. For more information you can contact Timan Rebel.

Independent

NEXT and the BAI believe that business angel education should be independent. To guarantee the independence there are partnerships set up with most of the early stage VC funds in the Netherlands, as well with later stage funds and private banks. These partners will act as a stamp of approval and will endorse the program to their own connected business angels.

ISO certified

The Certified Business Angel (CBA) is the world’s first independent, international certification of individual business angels (ISO 17024). It is a registered trademark and based on the verification of a candidate’s grasp of the standardized CBA Body of Knowledge. Candidates who have positively passed a written and an oral exam with one of the independent ISO-certified examination partners will receive the right to hold the CBA.