# Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Germany in May 2026

## Christian Vollmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

## Felix Jahn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 12
- 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.

## Carsten Maschmeyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Jochen Engert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Rental, Travel

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

## Kai Hansen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software

Kai Hansen is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor from Berlin, Germany, and Founding Partner of Rheingau Founders.He studied business administration with focus on entrepreneurship and marketing at the EBS Business School in Oestrich-Winkel (Germany), Auckland and Buenos Aires.During his last year at university Kai founded his firststartup, sportme, a social community for athletes, with Philipp Hartmann and Dr. Tobias Johann in March 2007, before going on to create Rheingau Founders together. Since then Kai has been actively involved in founding and developing 20 more startups.As Founder & Managing Director, Kai was recently responsible for the success of Lieferando, a European delivery service startup which was acquired by the market leader Takeaway.com in 2014 for more than US$100mn. With Lieferando Kai build a fast growing, multinational marketplace in a highly competitive environment and learned what it takes to make a startup successful. At Rheingau Founders, Kai is responsible for new ideas and business model development. With his extensive operational knowledge he also provides the portfolio companies with hands-on advice and strategic guidance, especially with developing efficient processes and operations.

## Dr. Cornelius Boersch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

## Michael Brehm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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.

## Hanno Renner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 10
- 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.

## Christophe Maire
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 9
- 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.

## Tim Schumacher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Internet, SaaS

Tim Schumacher is a Managing General Partner at World Fund. Tim previously worked at Sedo.com as a Member Board Of Directors. He attended University of Cologne and Stockholm School of Economics.Tim Schumacher Co-Founded and was the longtime CEO of the publicly traded company Sedo AG, which currently has revenues of 130m euros per year andmaintains approximately 350 employees. Since 2012 he has dedicated his professional career to the German startup scene, acting both as a business angel and mentor for young companies with economic potential. His current startups, among many others, are Eyeo/Adblock Plus, Aklamio, Hitfox and Ecosia.

## Chris Schagen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.

## Mario Götze
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

## Michael Wax
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.

## Martin Sinner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Martin Sinner is the COO at 360dialog.

## Matthias Hilpert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

## Rolf Schromgens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology

Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

## Christian Edler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

## Frank Freund
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Frank Freund is CFO & founder at SavingGlobal.

## Christian Dahlen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Julius Göllner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Ingo Drexler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

## Thomas Bachem
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Chris Hitchen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- 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.

## Rouven Dresselhaus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.

## Mirko Novakovic
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Currently CEO of Instana.

## Daniel Krauss
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Johannes Reck
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Florian Heinemann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services

Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation).

## ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Ride Sharing

ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz

## Lothar Stein
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Information Technology, Energy, Railroad

Lothar Stein - Mentor @ SINN Power

## Frank Thelen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Roman Kirsch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.

## Paul Schwarzenholz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Information Services

Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop

## Lukasz Gadowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Verena Pausder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, Food Delivery

Verena Pausder

## Carsten Thoma
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Carsten co-founded hybris in 1997. He is responsible for global operations, marketing and corporate planning of the company. After successfully driving the hybris North America market entry Carsten led the team that managed the acquisition of iCongo in August 2011. His relentless pursuit for talent has resulted in a highly motivated and passionateworkforce and unique corporate culture as that is at the center of the company’s success. He began his career at Hewlett Packard, where his ideas for a standardized and flexible e-commerce software were the starting point for what would become hybris. Carsten studied law and also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration

## Andreas Burike
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Human Resources

Andreas Burike - CFO @ AnyDesk

## Philipp Kreibohm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Legal

Philipp Kreibohm - born in 1976. After completion of his law studies and PhD at FU Berlin he co-founded Mundwerk AG in Berlin in 2001, which was sold to Excelsis Business Technology AG in 2004. From 2006-2007 Philipp was a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and in 2007 a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. In 2007 he became foundingManaging Director of Rocket Internet, before he founded FP Commerce in 2009. Later on, this company was renamed to Home24 AG, where he is still the Co-CEO.

## Finn Age Haensel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: SaaS, Cloud Management, Transaction Processing

Finn Age Hänsel, 36, studied Business Administration in Germany, Hungary and New Zealand. Following a 4-year engagement at BCG, he joined Rocket Internet in Australia from 2011 to 2013, as a Managing Director. After founding the largest australian online fashion retailer, THE ICONIC, he went on to become the Managing Director of theProSiebenSat1-Incubator, EPIC Companies. In 2015 he founded the Berliner Berg brewery and became a Business Angel for multiple Berlin start-ups including CrossEngage, SMACC and Einhorn. In November 2015, he joined Movinga as CEO. Finn is also board member in the German Start-up Association. Just recently, he founded the Sanity Group, a European Cannabis company, together with Fabian Friede.

## Tamaz Georgadze
- Type: Angel
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Tamaz Georgadze As CEO he leads Raisin and takes in particular care of partner bank acquisition, business development, legal and regional expansion efforts. Prior to building and scaling Raisin, Tamaz has spent 10 years with McKinsey & Company, the last 3 years as Principal leading also McKinsey Savings and Investment products Service Line forEMEA countries. He served some of the very largest retail, universal and wholesale banks throughout Europe and in Asia. Tamaz holds a PhD in agricultural economics, graduated with honors in law (both from University of Giessen) and international economics (from Tbilisi State University).

## Tim Marbach
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Rental Property, Real Estate

Tim is a global entrepreneur and venture investor. He started his first company bonial.com in 2008 and sold it to German media conglomerate Axel Springer SE in 2011. In 2013, Tim relocated to South East Asia and has since co-founded and invested in many successful consumer internet companies through his private internet holding company Asia VentureGroup. Those companies have successfully raised several hundred million USD in follow-on venture capital and employ several thousand employees across the global. Those companies include HappyFresh, iPrice Group, iMoney (sold to iSelect), FlowerChimp, audibene (sold to Sivantos/EQT), Scalable Capital (sold to BlackRock), Jewelcandle (sold to Equistone), Vicampo (sold to Burda), CARS24, Movinga, Homebell, Fave, Stoyo and many more.

## Peter Schuepbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: Langenthal, Bern, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Angel
- Focus: Education, Mobile, iOS

Peter Schüpbach , 53, investor and founder of SwissCommerce a platform and incubator for niche market ecommerce.He founded in 2008 Fashion Friends Ltd - the first online shopping club for designer clothes and accessories in Switzerland. Before starting his career, he worked for various Internet start-ups as a business angel (Xing, StudiVZ,plazes, NetMoms etc.) operate. In addition, he was until mid 2008 Chairman and principal shareholder of Geneva Logic, a leading software provider in the education market, which was acquired by Netop A / S.He is also a partner in the NewBorn Ventures, which invests in various Internet and software projects or is engaged. Peter Schüpbach he was named "Swiss Business Angel of the Year 2005".He was co-founder in 1986 of the software vendor Miracle Software AG and was more than 10 years as its CEO. He led the company with over 350 employees and offices in several countries in 2000 to the stock market. Had but a year later the operation close. Peter Schüpbach is married and has three children.

## 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

## Joachim Bernecker
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Joachim Bernecker

## Jens Schumann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Jens Schumann, born on 6 June 1973, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LOTTO24 AG on 19 June 2020. Before that, since 2 May 2012, he was already Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is one of the two founders of today's ZEAL Network SE (former Tipp24 SE) and was Managing Director and a Management Board member of Tipp24SE from 1999 to 2009. Jens Schumann has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL Network SE since July 2011. From 1998 to the formation of Tipp24 SE, he worked as a business consultant at Icon Medialab AG. Schumann studied law at the University of Münster from 1993 to 1998 and finished his studies with the first State Exam.

## Volker Rofalski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce

Volker Rofalski is the founder of WebStock AG, which he sold to BAADER Bank in 1999 and TradeCross AG, which he sold to VEM Aktienbank in 2005. Since then, Volker was director of Equity Capital Markets and authorized officer of the VEM Aktienbank. Prior to this, he held several managing positions in diverse industries e.g. CFO at ELA Medical &Porges and Internet2000 AG. He studied business economics at the University of Augsburg. Volker is a member of the supervisory board of several listed and non-listed companies.

## Torsten Reil
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Felix Haas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Information Technology

Felix Haas is a Founding Partner at 10x Group. Felix previously worked at XING Events GmbH sa a CEO and Co-Founder. He attended Stanford University and Technical University of Munich.Felix is an active Business-Angel and Seed-investor in 25+ German startups, including founding engagements at Kaeuferportal, Hitfox, Sponsorpay and Kreditech.He isCo-Founder and Executive Chairman of IDnow, the first online solution for convenient and secure online identification of government IDs in Europe.Felix co-founded amiando in 2006 and served as CEO and Head of Product from inception to exit to public listed company XING in 2010.Previously, he founded TiberiumSun Networks, a website networks for computer games and entertainment news with over 285 million page monthly impressions.Felix is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2010", "NYC Venture Fellow" by NYC Mayor Bloomberg and an advisor to the German Government for the "Young Digital Industry.He spent over two years in Silicon Valley, authored two patents for consumer internet products and enjoys flying planes in his spare time.Specialties: Interested in computer science and its applications, especially social consumer internet products. Focus on product development, team building, strategy, business development, talent management and software marketing.

## Martin Ott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Legal, Information Technology, Internet

Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix

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