Billiken Angels Network (BAN) is an organization of angel investors based in St. Louis, Missouri, that provides equity capital for growing companies, from seed stage to later stages of growth, in any industry, including high technology, medical and biotechnology, IT, apps, and consumer products.
The only exceptions made are for firms whose owners have a current or prior student, faculty or staff relationship to Saint Louis University.
BAN is a university-based angel network, founded in 2008 by Prof. Jerome Katz of the Entrepreneurship Program[1] at Saint Louis University's John Cook School of Business.
Given its university mission, BAN offers free public workshops to the St. Louis community on funding startups[2] and pitching to angels.
[4] These Fellows are volunteers from a variety of professions (medicine, law, engineering, finance, retailing, marketing, IT, etc.)