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Iro Tsagareishvili

Axel - Georgian Business Angel Network

CEO

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Iro Tsagareishvili is the CEO & Partner of Axel - Georgian Business Angel Network, where she leads the investor community, startup investments, international partnerships, and cross-border co-investment initiatives. A four-time founder herself, Iro has spent most of her career building startups, communities, and initiatives around innovation and entrepreneurship. She was a co-founder at Fundraiser.ge, where the team has experimented with different crowdfunding models, including equity-based crowdfunding, with the goal of making startup financing more accessible in Georgia. Alongside her work with founders and investors, Iro is an invited lecturer at several universities, teaching and speaking about innovation, entrepreneurship, startup financing, and community building. She is particularly passionate about bringing people together, building strong investor and founder communities, and connecting emerging startup ecosystems with international networks and capital.

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Conference Room 2
11:10 AM12:50 PM
BAN Manager Programme

BAN Manager Programme: “How Should Cross-Border Syndication Actually Work?"

Speakers:
Iro TsagareishviliAxel - Georgian Business Angel NetworkCEODavid FranzenMax VenturesManaging PartnerAndrey KostyukAAlchemy Ventures LimitedGP, CEORita AnsonNORBAN NORWEGIAN BUSINESS ANGELS NETWORKSECRETARY GENERAL
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Cross-border syndication fails not for lack of goodwill, but because no one is structurally accountable for DD that a foreign investor can trust. Where it has worked, larger syndicates were measurably less sensitive to distance-related costs and earned higher returns — syndicate structure, not one person's individual trustworthiness, solved this. Left informal, the role defaults to volunteer labour that doesn't scale and burns out. Two fictional BAN managers negotiate a real institutional dilemma live on stage: how to build a working cross-border investment corridor without one network becoming dependent on the other. Through five audience-voted decisions, the room debates leadership, governance, and reciprocity, then builds its own "Corridor Charter" — surfacing what EBAN should provide as shared infrastructure, and what BANs should own themselves.
Axel Network
NorBAN
Max Ventures
AAlchemy
EBAN BAN Manager Club
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