INVESTORS

Our investors, better known as Business Angels, are high net worth individuals who invest on their own, or as part of a syndicate, in high growth businesses. In addition to money, Business Angels often make their own skills, experiences, and contacts available to the company. The majority of CYBAN’s Business Angels make investments for financial reasons. However, there are also other motives for investing; for example, taking an active part in the entrepreneurial process, and the enjoyment of reliving the thrills of entrepreneurship through the mentoring process of young startup teams.

At CYBAN we take the leg work out of looking for exciting companies, and are a quality, rather than quantity network. We provide our investors with expertly screened deal flow, selecting the 15 most innovative businesses from the 100+ business plans we will review each year. 

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BENEFITS

COMMUNITY OF INVESTORS
CYBAN investors are successful entrepreneurs, public and private company board members, directors, and finance professionals, some of whom have been individually investing successfully for many years. Our investors represent a broad spectrum of the Cypriot economy and use CYBAN as a platform for both access to great investment opportunities as well as to network with each other, exchange knowledge and experiences, and form informal investment syndicates for unique opportunities.
INVESTOR DEVELOPMENT

If you are new to angel investing, you can learn a great deal by investing alongside more experienced CYBAN investors. In addition, CYBAN offers regular investment workshops to all its members to ensure that all investors have the necessary skills required for successful angel investing. CYBAN welcomes both experienced and new investors to join the network, providing unrivalled service for all. CYBAN organizes several angel investing workshops every year, where experienced investors from EBAN and GBAN share their knowledge and experiences with CYBAN members.

INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIES

CYBAN’s deal sourcing can be both proactive and reactive. Most of our deal sourcing comes directly from interested startup teams, but also through our members, and through their networks and interactions with other players in the ecosystem. The wide and varied nature of the companies expected to present to the network will allow our investors to leverage not only their financial capital but also their intellectual capital through both executive and non-executive positions.

TAX INCENTIVES

CYBAN played an instrumental role in Cyprus’ Income Tax law amendment, which introduces a tax relief for investors in qualifying small and medium sized innovative enterprises, including startups. It allows independent investors in such enterprises to deduct the cost of the investment from their taxable income for the year in which the investment is made. The deduction is limited to 50 percent of taxable income for the year or €150,000, whichever is less. Any cost above the 50 percent limit may be carried forward for deduction against taxable income of subsequent years, subject to a 50 percent limit, for a maximum of five years. In order to qualify for relief, the investor must retain the investment for at least three years.

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