Business angel

Business angel , or sometimes also “providential investor”, is an English expression corresponding to angel investor in American. The phrase supplanted the devoted French expression, more general, of “investor with in an individual capacity”.

A business angel is a fortunate individual, often a contractor or manager having succeeded, who brings funds to companies in phase of launching, in general in exchange of a participation in the capital, and which makes them benefit from its track records and its relations.

The amount brought is generally intermediate between what a contractor can raise thanks to his family or his friends, and who seldom exceeds a few hundreds of thousands of euros, and the minimal amount of investment of funds of Capital-risque, which is, him, in general about the million euro.

Situation in the Hexagon

The business angels would be only of one to a few thousands in France, investing annually around 20 million Euros. Figures much lower than those of the Anglo-Saxons. That is regarded as a handicap with the economic dynamism. People of good will, and local institutions have sought for several years to develop this practice by creating lans (first created in 1998 in the Hauts-de-Seine: " Invest' Essor"), and a federation of these networks " Angels" France; , created in 2001, by Andre Jaunay, and whose Claude Rameau is currently the president. There exist lans and some networks sets of themes (a network of women, another dedicated to sustainable development). Since 2004 a particular inciting tax statute was arranged: the unipersonal Company of investment at the risk (SUIR). According to its originators this measurement aims cultivating the taste for danger near the individual investors and at supporting the starting of SME at strong potential. However the impact of this measurement was very limited, this is why the finance law 2006 softens the device.

The French State launched in 2006 a call for projects to support the existing networks.

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