Francisco Banha

Who is Francisco Banha?

Francisco Banha is a Portuguese Entrepreneur specialized in the areas of Management, Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship. Within these scopes he created the companies Gesbanha, Gesventure and GesEntrepreneur which act in these three areas respectively.

Having created his first company in 1986 in the Management and Accounting area, he soon realized the market potential existent at the level of national Venture Capital yet to be explored.

Thus, in 1999 he created Gesventure, a Portuguese company catalyst of Venture Capital. Since then, he has supported directly 14 companies in raising 16.4 million euros resorting to Venture Capital and to Business Angels. The work developed by this organization is perceptible to the public through two annual events – Gesventure’s Meetings and Venture Capital IT – and in an extensive participation in other initiatives, from the organization itself or from other organizations.

In 2000, Francisco Banha established the Business Angels Club, the first one in Portugal, which at the present counts with 65 registered members.

In 2006 Francisco Banha created a partnership with the Canada-based CGInternational and created GesEntrepreneur, company that bets in Entrepreneurship Education based in programs focused in the learning-by-doing methodology. The new company dedicates itself to Entrepreneurship Education, mainly in prisons and in the educating environment, since the first years of school until university.