# Top 50 Climate Angel Investors in Germany in October 2023 ## Ralf Dummel - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas. ## Judith Williams - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Wellness, Sales Judith Williams ## Felix Jahn - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others. ## Christoph Behn - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Eyewear Christoph Behn is the Chairman & Founder of better ventures. He previously worked at Die Kartenmacherei as an Advisory Board & Founder. Christoph Behn attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. ## Christian Dahlen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co. ## Frank Thelen - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Transportation Frank Thelen is the Founder & CEO of 10xDNA Capital Partners. He previously worked at mytaxi - The Taxi App as an Investor. Frank Thelen attended Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. ## Torsten Reil - Type: Angel - Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Computer Torsten Reil is Co Founder and CEO at Helsing. He holds a BA in Biology from Oxford University and an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from Sussex University. Prior to founding NaturalMotion, Torsten was researching for a PhD in Complex Systems at Oxford University’s Zoology department, from which he spun off NaturalMotion.Torsten hasbeen named amongst MIT’s TR100 global top innovators, Next-Gen’s 25 People in the Games Industry, and Develop magazine’s 25 Game Changers. ## Nico Rosberg - Type: Angel - Location: Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Logistics, Manufacturing Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion. ## Andy Booke - Type: Angel - Location: Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Renewable Energy, Battery, Semiconductor Andreas Booke - Managing Director and Founder @ gridX ## Andreas Brenner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, Timber, Internet Andreas Brenner ## Michael Brehm - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Machine Learning Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and starting an investment company, Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000’s, he was Executive Director andInvestor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing, but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style, as well as their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship. ## David Balensiefen - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Renewable Energy, Battery, Semiconductor David Balensiefen - CEO and Founder @ gridX ## Kristofer Fichtner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Marketplace, Real Estate Kristofer Fichtner is a serial entrepreneur and business Angel with a strong focus on the energy industry, property tech and craft tech. ## Lawrence Leuschner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Environmental Consulting, Mobile Apps Lawrence Leuschner is the CEO & Co-Founder at TIER Mobility. ## Gabor Cselle - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, Renewable Energy, Internet Gabor Cselle is a Partner at Area 120, Google's internal startup incubator. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising startup Namo Media which was [acquired by Twitter in 2014. ## Philipp Kloeckner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech Philipp has been product manager and inhouse SEO at the market leading price comparison in Germany (Idealo.de) for 6 years. He specializes in the fields of accessability, crawlability and onpage optimization of websites with 1M+ subpages.Since 2011 Philipp Klöckner focuses on search consultancy and angel investing to share his experience insearch marketing, product and business intelligence with publishing houses, e-commerce companies and start-ups as an independent consultant and angel investor. ## Sten Tamkivi - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing Sten Tamkivi is the Chief Product Officer at Topia (formerly MOVE Guides). He was previously co-founder and CEO of Teleport (acquired by Topia), the place to scout for startup people. He co-founded the company as an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz.Sten has been a tech entrepreneur since 1996. After founding a few companies in Estonia, he joined Skypeas an early executive, ran the original R&D office, and held several global product leadership roles for 8+ years.He has an MS in Management from Stanford GSB. ## Julius Göllner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Julius Göllner is the Co-Founder of ARRtist, SinnRec, GSL - Global Sales Leaders, F&P Stock Solution GmbH, MOODJA, and SIP Distribution. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of eNugget Ventures and the Advisor and Investor for different companies.Julius attended Technische Universität Chemnitz, Yale School of Management, and TampereUniversity. ## Georg Kofler - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet Georg Kofler is an angel investor. ## Mario Götze - Type: Angel - Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency Mario Götze is a professional footballer. ## Daniel Krauss - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Rental, Construction Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network. ## Hanno Renner - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software After working as skipper of sailing yachts for many years next to his studies, Hanno decided to become the captain of a startup. He co-founded Personio in 2015 with three study colleagues with the goal of digitizing HR management and Recruiting processes for small and mid-sized enterprises. Having build and led several teams while the company grew,he now in the CEO role is responsible for aligning all functions of the business around the shares vision of building the category leading HR Operating System for SMEs in and providing all resources necessary to reach this goal. Hanno holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Technology Management from TU Munich and CDTM, studying abroad at Columbia University in New York. ## Johannes von Borries - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Automotive, Information Technology Johannes loves to see new technologies and products entering the market. One of his most memorable moments was the day when he received the first order for an inspection system his former company, Nanda Technologies, had developed. Now, as an investor, he enjoys supporting teams to achieve this same moment and to grow their company beyond it. Withmany years’ experience in the VC industry and being a successful founder himself, he is well-acquainted with the ups and downs of a startup. ## Paul Schwarzenholz - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, Information Services Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop ## Wolfgang Mauer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Wolfgang Mauer ## Michael Cortelletti - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Michael Cortelletti ## Joko Winterscheidt - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Textiles, Organic Food, Manufacturing Joko Winterscheidt is Founder at GoButler. ## Wilfried Gillrath - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Marketing, Recycling, Wind Energy Wilfried Gillrath served as CEO of the LichtBlick Group. ## Friedrich A. Neuman - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Mobile Apps, Battery, Organic Friedrich A. Neuman studied Business & Economics in St. Gallen, Switzerland. After his studies he moved to Berlin to start his first company. Later he led business development at Glispa. In 2012, Friedrich joined Rocket Internet and co-founded Dropgifts, a social gifting platform active in 25 countries with 120 people. Together with MariusSchulze, Friedrich is the founder and CEO of Run a Shop and founding partner of MAKERS. At MAKERS, Friedrich is responsible for Finance and Operations. ## Dr. Gregor Heinrich - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Recycling, Manufacturing, Sustainability Dr. Gregor Heinrich is a CTO at creditshelf Aktiengesellschaft. He attended Leipzig University. ## Alf Arnold - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Recycling, Manufacturing, Sustainability Alf Arnold is a member of Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg. ## Beate Rosenthal - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Recycling, Manufacturing, Sustainability Beate Rosenthal ## Norbert Lemken - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Norbert Lemken ## Jörg Kattner - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Jörg Kattner ## Michael Wax - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto. ## Christoph Ostermann - Type: Angel - Location: Kempten, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Energy Christoph Ostermann is a Co-Founder at Sonnen. ## Tobias Fezer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing Tobias Fezer ## Christian Vollmann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de. ## Stefan Lemcke - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Fashion, Women's Stefan Lemcke is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ankerkraut. ## Christian Gaiser - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Real Estate Christian Gaiser is CEO of Bonial International Group, the global leading network of location-based shopping apps and technology, operating in 11 countries across 4 continents.Having spent time in Silicon Valley in 2008, Christian developed the concept for Bonial due to the entrepreneurial environment he was living in and the amount of flyersand mailers he was accumulating. He thought at that time that there must be a new and different way to reach the consumer that takes the time-honored circular into consideration. The concept was born. In 2008, Christian Gaiser and his team founded kaufDA in Germany, which was quickly honored in 2010 as “the star among location-based services in Germany” by W&V, Germany’s main magazine for communication and promotion. kaufDA has become Germany’s leading network for local retail promotions, initially financed by the venture capital divisions of Deutsche Telekom AG and OTTO Group. In early 2011, kaufDA was acquired by Axel Springer SE, one of Europe’s largest media companies. In just four years, German consumers have used kaufDA to actively open more than 5 billion digital circulars, with kaufDA continuously providing the latest information on more than 247,000 retail outlets in Germany.From Germany, Christian went on to launch the kaufDA concept as Ofertia in Spain, Bonial in France, Lokata in Russia, Guiato in Brazil and Retale in the United States. In 2012, the company was branded as Bonial International Group globally. Since the birth of kaufDA in 2008, Christian and his team have successfully serviced 600 retailers and 12 million consumers. Prior to Bonial, Christian worked in various positions at Goldman Sachs Private Equity in London, at McKinsey & Company in Vienna and Zurich, at the Monitor Group/Ermgassen & Co in London and at SAP Investor Relations in Walldorf. Christian is a graduate of the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar and HEC, Montréal. ## Just Beyer - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Funerals, Printing, Software Just Beyer ## Peter Mertens - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Automotive, Information Technology Peter Mertens ## Christian Reber - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Apps Christian Reber​ is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016. ## Robert Maier - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Software, Service Industry Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. ## ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Ride Sharing ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz ## Lukasz Gadowski - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. ## Chris Adelsbach - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures ## Mark Miller - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech, Recycling, E-Learning MARK MILLER is a co-founder and partner at LearnLaunch. Miller is a lifelong entrepreneur since winning the business plan competition at Cornell University and building one of the earliest first education publishing subscription businesses. As a result of his own company exits and leading the sale of two companies he advised, Miller founded andserves as Managing Partner of Good Harbor Partners (GHP). GHP provides strategy consulting, outsourced corporate development and advisory M&A services to some of the top companies in the education marketplace.Miller has co-founded, built and/or served as Executive Chairman or CEO for leading publishing, technology and community companies. Many of these companies have had successful exits, including CollegiateLink, TakeNote, The Daily Jolt and The Custom Publishing Group.Miller was tapped by a set of leading University CIOs to commercialize CUPID and developed the first SaaS based on-demand publishing platform. NetPaper offered a new model for creation and consumption of textbook, journal and scholarly monograph content.Miller is a Cornellian and he currently serves on the The Cornell University Entrepreneurship Advisory Council. He was also was recognized for his contributions at Cornell and was tapped and serves as a member of the Quill and Dagger Honorary Society. ## Nikolaus D. Bayer - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, SaaS, EdTech Nikolaus invests in early stage ventures focusing on software, artificial intelligence, digitalisation and process optimisation, not only but mostly in Germany. Before converting himself into an angel investor, he co-founded and headed risk management solution provider IRIS Analytics, which was eventually acquired by IBM in 2015. Nikolaus holds adiploma in computer science from RWTH Aachen university, and fluently speaks German, English and Spanish. ## Johannes Reck - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Software, Transportation Johannes Reck is the Chief Executive Officer at GetYourGuide. He leads the company’s long-term vision and strategy.Johannes co-founded GetYourGuide in 2009 while attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and has grown the company into the leading booking platform for incredible travel experiences. Under Johannes’ leadership, over 30million tickets have been booked to date via the GetYourGuide website, mobile app, and partnership network. GetYourGuide has raised over $650M from investors such as the SoftBank Vision Fund, Battery Ventures and KKR. Johannes leads GetYourGuide’s 550-person global team from its headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Johannes originally hails from Cologne, Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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