“I’m pleased to have been able to impart some of my knowledge and experience to the audience here in Santo Domingo. He was also the European Angel of the Year in 2008 and the winner of the Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2015. Officiated by the head of the delegation to the European Union in the Dominican Republic, Ambassador Alberto José Navarro and the Deputy Minister for the Development of SMEs in the DR Ministry of Commerce, Industry and SMEs, Ignacio Mendez, participants from Haiti and the Domincian Republic received expert insights from Nelson Gray, a business angel with over 20 years of experience investing in some 42 companies across the world and has provides training and mentoring to entrepreneurs and angel investors. More than 70 angel investors, entrepreneurs and business development associations attended the workshop which focused on increasing awareness of alternative sources of capital for early stage business development, in particular, angel investing. Escipion Oliveira, Deputy Executive Director of Caribbean Export. Furthermore, this initiative provides an opportunity for both DR and Haitian firms to benefit from exposure to the entire regional angel network via the joint action of the Agency’s regional and bi-national programmes” expressed Mr. The DR has some fairly advanced angel groups and their inclusion to the Regional Angel Investor Network (RAIN) supported by Caribbean Export and the World Bank will certainly strengthen the region as a whole. “Promoting innovative ways of funding SME’s including supporting the development of the angel investment climate within the DR and Haiti is a key activity for the Agency. Key participants from Haiti also included Root Capital (an agricultural impact investor) and Yunis Social Business (a social impact investor). The Caribbean Export Development Agency (Caribbean Export) has commenced their expansion of the Angel investment footprint within the Dominican Republic and Haiti following the hosting of the first Bi-National Angel Investment workshop in collaboration with several partners, including the Centre for Innovation for Business Development and Entrepreneurship (CIDE) at the Iberoamerican University (UNIBE), the DR Ministry of Commerce, Industry, the Ministry of Commerce in Haiti, the Haitian Chamber of Commerce and two angel investor groups in the DR, namely ENLACES and NEXXUS. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 28 June, 2017.
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