# Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023

## Verena Pausder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, Food Delivery

Verena Pausder

## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Andrew Weisz
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Education, Apps

Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments

## Simon Franks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Health Care

Simon Franks is the founder of Redbus Group. Simon serves on the board of (or advisor to), a number of early stage companies. Simon has won a number of awards for business, including the Sunday Times Fast Track award. In 2013 Simon was selected as one of the world's 100 top innovators by British Airways and was part of the "BAUngrounded" flight for the 2013 G8 summit. Simon is also philanthropically and politically engaged, with a particular interest in issues pertaining to international development and separately, economic policy. Simon was an advisor to Ed Balls and the Labour Party on business, entrepreneurialism and innovation. Simon serves on the advisory board of the Labour campaign for International Development, the advisory board of Campaign Bootcamp, is International Chairman of the Lake Clinic in Cambodia and advisor to Tilganga Hospital in Kathmandu.

## Chris Bruce
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Recruiting, Internet, Human Resources

Chris was a benefit consultant when he co-founded Thomsons. His role spans every aspect of the business, from engaging with clients to the development of DarwinTM software. This means he is in close contact with HR and benefit specialists globally, understanding the changing benefit landscape.

## Paul Heydon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps

30 years as a founder, operator, investor, and advisor. Previously Paul was a Co-Founder and General Partner at LVP. Paul has invested in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity (NYSE:U), Matchmade, Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), AppOnboard, FRVR,Starform, Gameclub, Coherence, Lucid Sight, Doppio Games, Capture, Flick, EvenPrime, Tellie & Litho and others. Previously, he was an investment banker at Avista Partners, Commerzbank Securities & ING Barings. He has both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.

## Martin Ostermayer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Software, Apps

CEO of Shortcut Ventures GmbH in Hamburg, Germany.Martin Ostermayer is one of the CEOs of the venture capital firm, Shortcut Ventures, located in Hamburg, Germany. After graduating in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg, Ostermayer received his MBA from the University of San Francisco in 1998, majoring in telecommunicationsand business strategy.In 1999, he set up handy.de, which became Europe’s largest provider of mobile entertainment services with business partners Thorsten Rehling and Dirk Freise. They also created blau.de, the first independent wireless service discounter in Germany, in 2005. They led the company until 2011.

## Stefan Peukert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, Information Technology

Founder of Masterplan.com Founder of Employour Group (Ausbildung.de, meinpraktikum.de, trainee.de) - sold to Bertelsmann 2015

## Theo Osborne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, E-Commerce

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

## Michael Whitfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Recruiting, Enterprise Software, Internet

Michael Whitfield - Chairman @ hundo.careers

## David Helgason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

## Dirk Freise
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Software, TV

Dirk Freise - Managing Director @ non olet

## Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Health Care

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.

## Volker Hirsch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Macclesfield, Cheshire East, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, EdTech

Volker Hirsch is the Chief Commercial Officer of Medicines Discovery Catapult. He previously worked at Bibblio as a Chairman & Investor. Volker Hirsch attended the University of Hamburg.

## Nicolaus Schefenacker
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Restaurants

Nicolaus Schefenacker is the Co-founder and managing director at Sennder.

## Jaan Tallinn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-founder of Future of Life Institute.

## Reece Chowdhry
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures - an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote andpanel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY.Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures' investments.

## Klaus Nyengaard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps

Klaus Nyengaard is the co-founder and Chairman of GenieBelt, a SaaS-based platform that develops project management software. He is also co-founder of the investment club, Nordic Makers. He serves as the co-chairman of Treatwell, a beauty and wellness community marketplace.
Nyengaard has previously been CEO & Chairman of Just-Eat pre-IPO, andbuild a number of tech companies.
In 1994, Klaus Nyengaard graduated from Aarhus University with a specialized degree in economics and management.

## Jens Begemann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2C, EdTech, Children

Jens Begemann

## Ulf Stahrenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Education, Mobile Apps, Reading Apps

Ulf Stahrenberg is a product director at Oply GmbH. Prior to this, Ulf served as chief product officer at MONOQI. He held positions at Zalando, txtr, and Strategies4Change.

## Mario Götze
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

## Thomas Visti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Grant
- Focus: Robotics, Software, Manufacturing

Thomas Visti - CEO @ Mobile Industrial Robots

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

## Deborah Quazzo
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Education, EdTech, E-Learning

Deborah Quazzo is a Managing Partner at GSV Ventures and a Co-founder at ASU+GSV Summit. She was a Founder and Managing Partner at GSV Advisors. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Business School.

## 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 Nothacker
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Procurement

David Nothacker is the Co-Founder & CEO at Sennder.

## Feliks Eyser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Learning, Internet

Feliks Eyser is the founding partner of JETPACK.

## Martin Villig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Education

Martin is co-founder of Bolt.eu, Estonian Founders Society, Garage48.org, Good Deed Education Foundation and kood/Jõhvi coding school.
Read more from http://martinvillig.com

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Thibaud Elzière is the Founder at Efounders.

## Daniel Schütt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, SaaS

Founder of Masterplan.com, a corporate education company. Prior to Masterplan.com Daniel founded Employour what was sold in 2015 to European Media Company BERTELSMANN.

## Julien Codorniou
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Matteo de Brabant
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: News, EdTech, FinTech

Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.

## Thierry Petit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Fashion

Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to:
• Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic).
Today Showroomprive.com is:
• A team of 500 employees
• A community of 20 million members in Europe
• A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development:
Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi
Health : Feeli, Lifen, May,
Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent
Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted
Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot,
Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor,
FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October
RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot
Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners
Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital
VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE.
More info : http://www.made-for-all.com

## Alexander Edward Chesterman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company.
Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.

## Christophe Maire
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem.

## Thomas Bachem
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Education

Thomas Bachem “Tom” is a passionate entrepreneur, investor and founder of several startups and initiatives, including sevenload, Lebenslauf.com and the German Startups Association. Being an avid coder and designer since his early youth, he is currently building his dream university CODE and serves as Germany’s youngest university chancellor.

## Marton Hegedus
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Training, E-Learning

Marton Hegedus

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster

## Stefan Glänzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media

Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.

## Nick Hungerford
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, EdTech, Finance

Nick is the founding CEO of Nutmeg. Following a business degree at Exeter University, Nick worked at Barclays in the areas of product, banking and wealth management. Nick was a Divisional Director at Brewin Dolphin and has an MBA from Stanford University in the United States. Nick's industry and investment views are respected globally and hefrequently appears on Bloomberg, CNBC and BBC and has been quoted in the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and many international publications. Nick has been a guest lecturer at academic institutions including Harvard, Stanford and London Business School and has represented UKTI around the world, promoting the benefits of doing business in Britain.

## Julius Koehler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Apps

Julius Koehler is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sennder.
He was the Head of Sales at Styla and Senior Director of Business Development at WATCHMASTER.COM.

## Renaud Visage
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups. Sample from 40+ portfolio companies:
- Sqreen (exited to Datadog)
- Meero ($290M in funding)
- Algolia ($184M)
- Alkemics ($54M)
-Builder ($29M)
- Verve ($28M)
- Fox Intelligence (€18M)

## André Schürrle
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fantasy Sports, EdTech, Gaming

André Schürrle

## Jean Stephane Arcis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Web Apps, Education, Mobile Apps

Backed by 20 years’ experience in the enterprise software market, Jean-Stéphane Arcis became one of the co-founders of Talentsoft in 2007. Before Talentsoft, he was the Sales Director for Oracle Applications, General Manager for France and the Benelux Union at Siebel, and Vice-President for Europe at Vignette. Arcis was actively involved in theintroduction and development of ERP and CRM software in Europe. He graduated from ESCP Europe and holds an MBA from INSEAD.

## Will Martin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Stephan Thoma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: EdTech, E-Learning, Corporate Training

Stephan Thoma

## Charles Wiles
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Education, E-Learning, Software

Charles is the co-CEO and Co-Founder of Zzish, one of Europe's leading education technology growth ventures.

## Chris Hitchen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.

## Carsten Maschmeyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

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