Ready to start investing in startups — but unsure where to begin?
NorBAN’s popular introductory course is designed for aspiring angel investors who want a structured, practical foundation before making their first investment. Gain the essential knowledge, frameworks, and tools needed to navigate early-stage investing with confidence and discipline.
NorBAN will try to offer this training course at least twice a year as an open course for anyone to attend, with one class each during spring and fall. In addition there might be any number of custom courses held in collaboration with partners or customers that can have access restricted to certain groups.
Overview
Angel investing can be highly rewarding — but it requires knowledge, discipline, and a clear framework. This course equips you with the fundamental tools and insights needed to make informed decisions and improve your probability of achieving positive long-term returns.
The course covers the most important topics you need to understand when entering the startup investment landscape, divided over four main parts:
Part 1: Understanding Angel Investments
Part 2: Picking the right startups and founders
Part 3: Due diligence, contracts and tax considerations
Part 4: Value creation and Portfolio Building
Throughout these training sessions held by our experienced angel investors, you will learn:
- Core investment terminology
- How to source quality deal flow
- How to assess pitch decks and founders
- Due diligence and startup valuation fundamentals
- Investment and shareholder agreements
- Relevant tax incentives
- Post-investment value creation
- How to build a diversified angel portfolio
Key Objectives:
✅ Develop foundational literacy in angel investing and learn core investment terminology
✅ Build a structured investment decision framework for evaluating opportunities, including market, team, product, and risk assessment.
✅ Enable effective deal sourcing and selection, how to access quality deal flow and filter opportunities efficiently.
✅ Strengthen skills to critically assess startups, through pitch decks, founder presentations, and underlying business models.
✅ Introduce practical approaches to due diligence and valuation principles
✅ Understand basic legal and financial structures including term sheets, shareholder agreements, and investment contracts.
✅ Clarify portfolio strategy and risk management with diversification, capital allocation, and the power-law dynamics of venture returns.
✅ Prepare investors for post-investment engagement and how to add value beyond capital to your portfolio.
✅ Increase awareness of tax and regulatory considerations, including relevant incentives and compliance factors.
✅ Accelerate entry into the angel investing ecosystem by building networks, confidence, and readiness to make your first investments.