# Top 50 Education Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026 ## 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 ## 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 ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Paul Forster - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Paul Forster ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## 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. ## Bernie Sinniah - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Education, E-Learning Bernie Sinniah ## Will Brooks - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures ## Alister Jordan - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software Alister is currently Chief Executive of Coles Express, Coles Online and Corporate Affairs Coles Group. Before his current post at Australia’s second-largest food retailer, he was Chief of Staff to the Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd ## 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 ## Craig Pines - Type: Angel - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech, Education, Higher Education Craig’s leadership of Amerigo builds on more than a decade of experience driving growth and innovation in education. Prior to Amerigo, Craig was President & CEO of Deltak, a pioneering provider of online education services for leading American universities. In 2014, after leading the sale of Deltak to John Wiley & Sons, he became a ManagingDirector in Wiley’s Corporate Development group, identifying and executing acquisitions and strategic partnerships. Craig is passionate about building a dynamic and cohesive team culture that drives successful outcomes for Amerigo's students. He received a B.S. in Finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. ## Jason Weeks - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software Jason is CEO of vendorable.com, one of Australia’s fastest growing real-estate tech companies. He is also an investor in and advisor to Qwilr.com, as well as Realla (recently exited to CoStar). Previously Jason was Director and Head of Business Development at mining engineering company Vicon Services, which was sold to EnerMech in 2013 for A$30m. ## Wendy Tan White - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Wendy Tan White is the Chief Executive Officer of Intrinsic. She Previously worked at X, the moonshot factory as the Vice President, Moonshots at Alphabet, X.Wendy Tan White attended Imperial College London. ## Bart Swanson - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software Bart helps companies scale globally and has been active in the technology sector for more than fifteen years as an entrepreneur, mentor, and executive. Previously he was the Chairman of Summly (sold to Yahoo), COO at Badoo, an MD International at GSI Commerce (sold to eBay), a GM at Amazon.com (helping lead the international expansion from1998-2001), and was an MD at EMI Music Europe. Bart received an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, was a Fellow at the Lauder Institute, and has a BA in History from the University of Southern California. ## Ed Wray - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999. ## Ken Baumann - Type: Angel - Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: EdTech, Software, Education Ken Baumann is the Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors at SWEETSPOT. Ken was a star of ABC Family's Secret Life of the American Teenager which concluded its fifth and final season last summer. While working fulltime, he also founded a non-profit publishing company (Sator Press) that discovers innovative and challengingliterature. Ken's first two novels and a nonfiction book about the video game EarthBound were published last year. Ken is a seed investor in Memrise, an online learning platform combining art with science to provide game-like learning experiences. Passionate about learning and literature, Ken is currently a freshman at St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ken also donates his time to Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles raising funds for pediatric IBD. ## Anil D. Aggarwal - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Services, FinTech, Financial Services Anil D. Aggarwal is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Personatech. He attended Boston University School of Law. ## Jonathan Seaton - Type: Angel - Location: Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Education, Internet Jonathan Seaton is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Twinkl. ## Andrew McGill - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software Andrew is currently Non-Executive Director of ASX-listed Countplus Limited and Non-Executive Chairman of PM Capital. Previously he was Managing Director and CEO of ASX-listed Treasury Group Ltd and before that Andrew co-founded the leading Australian private equity firm Crescent Capital Partners. ## Renaud Visage - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet 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) ## John Lloyd - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Health Care, Education, Wellness John Lloyd ## Claire Davenport - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Corporate Training, EdTech, Events Claire Davenport ## 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. ## Lisa Stone - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Education, SaaS, Big Data Lisa Stone ## 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 ## Andy Murray - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Internet, Software, Education Former Tennis star; angel investor; business man ## Biz Stone - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Messaging, Mobile Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley. ## Ashley Cooper - Type: Angel - Location: Cardiff, Cardiff, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Software, Education Ashley Cooper - Chairman @ Properr ## Jonathan Goodwin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Internet Jonathan Goodwin is the Founder, Partner & Head of Merchant Banking of Alvarium & he attended University of Nottingham. ## Peter Hinssen - Type: Angel - Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, SaaS, EBooks Peter Hinssen is the Co-founder and Partner at nexxworks. ## Alwin Magimay - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Internet, Education, E-Learning Alwin Magimay ## 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. ## Stephan Thoma - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech, E-Learning, Corporate Training Stephan Thoma ## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness 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. ## Graham Clempson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Software, Information Services, Retail Technology Graham Clempson has over 30 years of experience in the Private Equity and Credit Markets, from the development of the European Leveraged Finance and High Yield Markets and as a principal in many of the largest Complex Secondary Private Equity Transactions over the past decade.In partnership with Coller Capital, Graham is Chairman of 3 PrivateEquity Funds in the UK, US and France, and serves as an Advisory Board member to MidOcean Partners (US) and Pearl Diver Capital (UK).Prior to founding Quartic Capital, Graham was Co-Founder and European Managing Partner of MidOcean Partners, and DB Capital Partners, and CEO of Morgan Grenfell Private Equity, following roles as Co-head of European Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust Company.Graham is Chairman of Pilotlight (www.pilotlight.org.uk) , a business mentoring Charity in the UK. He has an MA in Law from Oxford University. ## Joe Perkins - Type: Angel - Location: Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Education, Universities Joe Perkins is the Founder of Landscape. He previously worked at Coursematch as a Founder and Chief Product Officer. Joe Perkins attended Bangor University. ## Chris Hadley - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Fitness Chris Hadley - Managing Director @ Quadrant Private Equity ## Martin McCourt - Type: Angel - Location: Issy-les-moulineaux, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, EdTech, Events Martin McCourt is Leader in High Tech Growth & Transformation ## Gigi Levy Weiss - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Gigi Levy Weiss is the General Partner at NFX. He attended Tel Aviv University and the Finance Department - Kellogg School of Management. ## Kain Warwick - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft ## Elissa Grey - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Education, E-Learning Elissa Grey is a senior vice president at Essence Digital Limited. ## Peter Roberts - Type: Angel - Location: Harrogate, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Fitness, Training, Wellness Peter is a serial entrepreneur with a distinguished career in the leisure industry. Earlier ventures include the formation of Langdale Group Plc which sold for £29m in 1989 to Scottish & Newcastle. He set up nightclub company Luminar, which completed a successful IPO in 1998, food/pub chain Countrystyle Inns which sold in 1995 for an IRRof 35% and a Venture Capital Fund with Lazard Ventures. In 2000 Peter founded Golden Tulip Hotels, a budget hotel group, sold to Whitbread in 2008. In 2015 Peter was named a winner in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards and overall winner for the North of England.Peter is now involved with helping young entrepreneurs to develop their businesses. ## Jacques De Bruin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Fitness, Training, Wellness Jacques De Bruin, Managing Director at Gymfinity Kids Ltd and Non Executive Director at ALVA TECH LTD. ## Emma Cohen - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Education, E-Learning Emma Cohen is Chief of Staff & Operations @ DeepStream Technologies. 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