Pedro Bandeira
Founder of YAngel
Pedro Bandeira
Founder of YAngel
Aveiro, Aveiro
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2023 - Current
Serving Business Angel Investors and Angel Funds Unlock the full potential of the Angel inside you by participating in programs and masterclasses tailored for new Angels. Learn what it takes to invest in startups as an Angel by joining other Angels, new and experienced, to accelerate your learning curve. Discuss new business models and technologies, meet extraordinary Founders and Angels, impact the world with new solutions, have fun and make money.
Co-Founder & Board Member
2023
Co-Founder & CEO
2019 - 2023
Building an international network of professional angel groups to transform the Angels industry, reducing amateur and informal practices, while providing a hassleless and fulfilling experience for angels and startups. Helping managers to build their angel groups and to implement professional processes to raise their success rates. Building an Angel Institute for research and training. Building a Fund of Angel Funds (FoAF). Providing mechanisms to enhance involvement between angels and entrepreneurs, because this is what being an angel is about. Providing mechanisms to promote liquidity and exits, because angel investing should not be a long-term non-liquid investment activity and returns are essential for investing dynamics.
Co-Founder & CEO
2014
Scouting the best startups; negotiating deals with startups; preparing startups for investment by business angels; advising startups in the seed phase. Scouting the best business angels; preparing business angels for investment in startups; helping investors to add value to startups. Exiting and distributing gains. A group of 67 angels from 11 different countries. Invested in 27 startups with an external valuation of 3 times the portfolio investment.
Founder & CEO
2013 - 2014
Online video courses. A dead startup.
Founder & Consultant
2012 - 2014
Mentoring, training and consulting services for entrepreneurs. Creation and development of business ideas. Modelling and validating new businesses.
Trainer
2009 - 2012
Healthcare Director
2010 - 2012
Planning, coordinating and supervising healthcare services (nursing, medicine, physiotherapy and nutrition).
Trainer
2009 - 2011
Nurse, Manager, Marketer, PR, etc.
2008 - 2009
My nursing station where I learned, for the first time, what is a "one-men business".
Education
Nursing
2003 - 2007