# Top 15 Cannabis Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023

## Christian Angermayer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain

Christian Angermayer - Founder & CEO @ Apeiron Investment Group

## Maria Raga
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video, Retail, Travel

Maria Raga is the CEO of Depop. Since being promoted to the position in 2016 from VP of Operations, she has presided over every element of the business from finance and engineering to marketing and product. An open and collaborative CEO, Maria is dedicated to her team, which has grown to 150+ employees in 5 offices worldwide in the last threeyears alone. Perhaps most importantly, since she took over as CEO, she has raised close to $100M in funding, which has helped to grow and nurture the community on Depop - now 13 million users. Prior to Depop, Maria held successively roles at Groupon and Privalia. Having graduated from Insead MBA, Maria joined Bain & Company as a consultant. Born in Valencia, Spain, Maria now resides in London with her husband and 2 children. In her spare time, Maria enjoys connecting with Depop’s entrepreneurial Gen-Z constituency and promoting women in the workplace

## Mario Götze
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

## Augustin Paluel-Marmont
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Cannabis

Augustin Paluel-Marmont is the founder of Michel et Augustin.

## Irina Elena Haivas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology

Irina Haivas is a Principal. Based in London, she works on sourcing and due diligence of global investment opportunities.Irina focuses on businesses that use advanced technologies such as machine intelligence or robotics and automation, to transform large industries. She also focuses on the intersection of science and technology, including nextgeneration biology, as well as on companies in healthcare.Before joining Atomico, Irina was a growth and PE investor at GHO Capital Partners, where she invested, among others, in enterprise software and AI/ML businesses and focused on the intersection of science, healthcare and technology. Before that, Irina was part of the leadership team of Bain & Co. in Europe and the U.S., where she worked directly both with private equity firms on investment diligence, as well as with corporates on Innovation and Product, Go-to-Market, BD and acquisitions, and organisation scale-up. While at Bain she seconded in an operational role at Medtronic, one of the world’s largest medical engineering companies.Irina is a former surgeon, having studied medicine at Freiburg University in Germany and Iasi Medical University in Romania. She was a surgical fellow at Harvard Medical School before completing an MSc (Dist) in International Health Policy at London School of Economics.Irina speaks Romanian, English, advanced German, and conversational French.

## Karan Wadhera
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, Software, Health Care

Karan Wadhera is a Managing Partner at Casa Verde Capital. He is an experienced finance professional and investor, as well as an advisor for several young companies. Spending over a decade in Asia as a senior executive with Goldman Sachs and Nomura, he has had significant international experience. Karan holds a BA in Finance from Babson College.

## Alyssa Milano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Retail, Sports, Fashion

Alyssa Milano is an American actress, producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is best known for portraying Samantha Micelli on the ABC sitcom series Who's the Boss? (1984–1992), Jennifer Mancini on the Fox soap opera Melrose Place (1997–98), and Phoebe Halliwell on The WB television series Charmed. Milano is currently working withUNICEF to educate American youth to the issues crucial to that country's evolution. She launched UNICEF's pivotal "Trick or Treat" campaign last fall as an official spokesperson, and has plans to work with UNICEF on numerous projects in the future, with any and all proceeds returning to the organization.Milano also has her own clothing and jewelry line, TOUCH by Alyssa Milano. Recently she has joined forces with the NFL, NBA and NHL to make TOUCH available to fans of football, basketball and hockey as well.

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Apps

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Julien Codorniou
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps

Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.

## Michelle Tempest
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Cannabis, Life Science

Michelle Tempest

## Fiona Pathiraja
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Wellness

Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, an early stage healthtech VC fund based in London and Copenhagen.

## Dennis Aogo
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Cannabis, Software

Dennis Aogo is a German former professional footballer.

## Alexis de Galembert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Cannabis

Alexis de Galembert

## Klaas Heufer-Umlauf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: B2C, Medical, Cannabis

Klaas Heufer-Umlauf is a TV moderator.

## Yan Hascoët
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Banking, Finance, Cannabis

Yan Hascoët

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