# Top 50 Construction Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023

## Ali Omar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

## Christian Hülsewig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Construction, EdTech, Marketplace

Christian Hülsewig is a Founder and CEO at Schüttflix. He attended Bentley University 2004 - 2008.

## Xavier Niel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Xavier Niel currently works as the Co-Founder & CEO for NJJ Capital. Xavier Niel is the Iliad Group's majority shareholder and founder. He has been involved in the data communications, Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993, before dedicating himself full-time to developing the Group, he founded Worldnet,the first Internet service provider in France, which was sold to Kaptech (LDCom Group) in December 2000. He has been responsible for the Group's major strategic developments, from the launch of the ANNU service and the development of Internet access services based on France Télécom’s repayment scheme as a financial model to the launch of the Freebox project.

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Lorenz Bogaert is the Founder and Director of FixForm.

## Martin Tajur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Recruiting

Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Matthias Hilpert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

## Alexander Ross
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SEM, FinTech, Blockchain

Alexander Ross - Partner @ Illuminate Financial

## Peter Neubauer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Architecture, Construction

Peter Neubauer is the Software Engineer at Meta.He attended Royal Institute of Technology.

## Lukasz Gadowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- 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.

## Giuseppe Zocco
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Retail

Giuseppe Zocco is the Co-Founder and Partner at Medicxi Ventures.

## Daniel Krauss
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Rental, Payments

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.

## Emil Sjödin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: B2B, Pet, Software

Emil Sjödin has been serving as Chief Executive Officer at RefinedWiki since December 2013.

## Florian Huber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Starnberg, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, SaaS

Florian Huber is a Founder and long-term CEO at united-domains AG, a Founder at chainEurope, a Venture Partner at Signature Ventures, and a Founder and Chairman of the Board at neubau kompass. He was a Seed Investor at foodora. Florian attended the University of Bayreuth.

## Andre Schwammlein
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Rental, Construction

Andre Schwammlein is the CEO of FlixBus DACH. Andre Schwammlein attended FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.

## Max-Josef Meier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Computer

Max-Josef Meier is the CEO and co-founder of FINN.

## Felix Jahn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Thomas Hagedorn
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Construction

Thomas Hagedorn

## Jochen Engert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Rental, Travel

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

## Lasse Kieffer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Robotics, Navigation, Construction

Lasse Kieffer is an Entrepreneur and investor.

## Lorenzo Franzi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SEM, Apps, Software

Lorenzo is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ZipJet. ZipJet is an urban pick-up & delivery service for laundry & dry cleaning in London and Berlin. Previously, Lorenzo worked with McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Prior to McKinsey, he worked with Voice.ee a micro polling start up. Lorenzo started-off his professional career at JPMorgan in London. Lorenzo holds an MBA from INSEAD and Msc in Finance from the University of Maastricht.

## Ben Naftzger
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SEM, SaaS, Software

WAS: First Atlassian biz hire, scaling ops, sales & marketing from $1M > $1B
NOW: Investor. Advisor. Marketer. Scaler. Mentor. Dad. Husband
STILL: Student. Country-kid. Environmentalist. NerdI love investing in and advising high potential, high growth startups, helping with category design, product market fit, marketing, scaling, tractionand growth, sharing my lessons learned from 1.5 decades at Atlassian.Previously spent 15 years at Atlassian, coming in as first Atlassian business hire and one of two ‘lieutenants’ to founders where I was focused on all GTM (website, inside sales, product marketing, promotion, channel program) & scaling operations (customer support, ecommerce, process automation, knowledge base, scaling technical support, NYC office expansion, EULA & pricing) to $10m. Lead sales & marketing (commerce, sales operations, customer service, renewals/success, pre-sales, acquisition integration, SF office expansion, exec team member) to $50m in Sydney. Headed Demand Generation in San Francisco to $100m. Moved to Amsterdam to run EMEA Sales & Marketing through to $300m. Returned to San Francisco to run International Marketing through to $1b.Previous experience in Management Consulting (Cambridge Technology Partners & Novell), Investment Banking (Malaysian/Chinese Family Office), Digital Production & Management (ninemsn & Village Roadshow), Web Development & Entrepreneurship (multiple projects during DotCom).

## Thomas Visti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Grant
- Focus: Robotics, Software, Manufacturing

Thomas Visti - CEO @ Mobile Industrial Robots

## James Clinghan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Construction, Manufacturing, Building Material

James Clinghan is a Managing Director at Trusted Business Partner Ltd.

## Hakan Koc
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: SaaS, Beauty, Software

Hakan Koc is the founder and managing director of AUTO1 Group. He was previously the chief product officer at Home24.de.
Koc holds an LLB from Bucerius Law School.

## Jonathan Teklu
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Solar, Rental, Software

Jonathan Teklu is the Venture Partner at CREANDUM. Jonathan Teklu attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Carmen Alfonso Rico
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Gaming

Lucky friend, family girl. Always chasing the “why” and “so what” of everything. Food explorer. Book lover. My Spotify running playlist is embarrassing. Obsessed with the power of communities and looking for #customerlove in the weirdest places. Lawyer and economist, previously @MorganStanley, @FelixCapital. Launched a D2C brand from my living room(RIP). From Spain but call London home. I collect exotic stamps on my passport.

## Thomas Bachmaier
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Construction, Internet, Software

Thomas Bachmaier

## Anthony Danon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Construction, Artificial Intelligence

Anthony caught the entrepreneurial bug while working at a Fintech startup in the Enterprise SaaS cashflow management space. He joined Anthemis in June 2014, where he collected a range of experiences in his first year – from M&A in the payments space to innovation consulting for banks and portfolio support in the VC environment. During thefollowing years at Anthemis, Anthony focused on sourcing, evaluating and executing seed and series A fintech investments, primarily in European companies such as TrueLayer and Tide. Anthony supported startups in areas ranging from milestone planning and strategy, to business development and follow-on capital support. He isalso an active part of Seedcamp’s Investment Forum and a mentor to some of their portfolio companies.

## Ferdinand Dietrich
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Ferdinand Dietrich - CCO & Co-founder @ Storebox

## Gerhard Kornfeld
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement

Gerhard Kornfeld

## Laura Raggl
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Procurement

Laura Raggl

## Niki Stadler
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Navigation

Niki Stadler

## Peter Steinberger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1

Founder of PSPDFKit

## Reinhard Manzl
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Navigation

Reinhard Manzl

## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Software

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

## Gunnar Hagman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Construction, Sustainability, Building Material

Gunnar Hagman is an former chief executive officer at Skanska.

## Aksel Lund Svindal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Aksel Lund Svindal

## Sander van de Rijdt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Construction

After studying at the Vienna University of Technology and Vienna University of Economics, Sander worked for an international consulting group. From 2006, he has launched several IT companies in partnership with Ibrahim. At PlanRadar, he’s mainly responsible for management and finance.

## Guillaume Lestrade
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.

## Tobias Schuele
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1

Tobias Schuele - Founder & Managing Director @ Foodspring

## Thomas Witt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: CMS, SaaS, Software

Tech entrepreneur of the first internet hour ► CTO for the last 25 years ► Started programming at 8 ► Plugged into the internet since 1990 ► Co-founded my first software company right after high school ► Angel Investor: Started a CTO Angel Collective »Expedite Ventures«, (pre-)seed investments & hands-on mentoring for tech founders - especiallyfirst-time tech founders, female founders and immigrant founders.All my angel investments are done through Expedite Ventures.

## Dan Nilsson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Software

Dan Nilsson

## Christoph Jentzsch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mittweida, Sachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Construction, Computer Vision

Christoph’s background is in Theoretical Physics and developing optimized software solutions for high performance computing on specialized hardware. Christoph has been part of the Ethereum project since 2014 as Lead Tester, securing and shaping the core protocol while working on the backend of the C++ client. At the end of 2015, he co-foundedSlock.it, working on the decentralized sharing economy through the connection of Blockchain and IoT. On of the projects, Share&Charge was recently granted the German mobility award.

## François Van Uffelen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, Internet

François Van Uffelen - Founder and Managing Director @ Babelway

## Laurent Rouach
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Architecture

Laurent Rouach

## Alexander Alscher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Construction

Alexander Alscher

## Stefan A Heitmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SEM, Construction

Dr. Stefan A. Heitmann is the CEO & Founder at MoneyPark AG. He attended University of Cologne.

## Alexandre Brochot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Construction

Alexandre Brochot is the Co-founder of Saqara.

## David Rosskamp
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Internet

David Rosskamp is the founder and managing partner of Magnetic. Magnetic is a global technology investor backing transformative companies and technologies across venture phases. The firm funds companies and technologies from the earliest to their growth stages and works closely with entrepreneurs, from co-designing companies to growth financing.His investments include a larger group of successful global technology companies from a wide area of fields.Before Magnetic, he was a technology investor at Earlybird and built up Saatchi Art, the world's largest art platform, gallery and community. David holds an M.A. with distinction from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a Master of Law and Business from WHU School of Management and legal degrees (Staatsexamen, LL.B.) with distinction from Bucerius Law School and the University of Texas School of Law.

## Ian Davis
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Scheduling, Construction, Machine Learning

Chairman of the Nominations and Governance Committee.Appointed to the Board in March 2013 and as Chairman in May 2013.Ian spent his early career at Bowater, moving to McKinsey & Company in 1979. He was managing partner of McKinsey’s practice in the UK and Ireland from 1996 to 2003. In 2003, he was appointed as Chairman and WorldwideManaging Director of McKinsey, serving in this capacity until 2009. During his career with McKinsey, Ian served as a consultant to a range of global organisations across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors. He retired as senior partner of McKinsey & Company on 30 July 2010.Ian serves, as a non-executive director, on the Boards of Johnson & Johnson Inc, BP p.l.c and is a non-executive member of the Cabinet Office Board. He is also senior adviser to Apax Partners LLP.

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