Top 5 eSports Angel Investors in Germany (May 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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YuChiang Cheng
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | eSports, Video Games, Gaming | |
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Sumit Gupta
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, Argentina | Seed, Post-IPO Equity | SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Advertising | $2M–$2M |
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Christian Edler
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech | $497k–$30M |
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Joseph Tsai
Angel
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1 | United States, China, Germany | Seed, Series A, Series D | Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce | |
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Dan Gilbert
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Series B, Series A, Series D | Sports, Digital Media, Internet | $1.6M–$40M |
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YuChiang Cheng is the Chief Product Officer of Zwift. YuChiang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College. He lives in Silicon Valley and, when not playing golf, you’ll find him restoring classic cars, playing hockey and wrestling his dogs.
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Boom.tv — Your all in one hub for playing games, watching esports, and growing your fans!
- VENN — VENN is a new 24/7 post-cable network aimed at gaming, esports and entertainment audiences. Launching in 2020 and broadcasting live from studios in New York and Los Angeles, VENN will be distributed across a broad range of media platforms and offer original programming produced in-house and in partnership with some of the biggest names andcreators across industries.
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
Sumit Gupta is an Advisor at Boom Fantasy and Founder & CEO at Boom.tv. He is a 3x Entrepreneur (multiple exits), Angel Investor and Mentor. Founded 3 companies. Invested in 50+ startups including Discord, G2 eSports, BlockChain Capital, Blockstream, Blockcypher, Filecoin, Wag, Classpass, OpenDoor, HoneyBook, Managed-by-Q, Dishcraft Robotics.Mr. Gupta also runs Piazza eSports Ventures with pa articular focus on investments and incubating startups Infusing tech into eSports and Game Streaming. Investments include Discord, Vulcun/StreamLabs, BitKraft, G2 Esports. Startup Portfolio includes DrDisRespect stream team, Boom.tv, Rolocule Games, Boom FantasyPreviously, He served as a Founder & CEO of Bash Gaming, took the mobile gaming company to annual revenue of $75M, profitable and sold it to GSN for $170M. Previously as founder CEO of BitRhymes Apps, top 10 app developers in social space. Before that, I was part of founding team at Business Signatures that was sold to Entrust for $55M
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- Industry: SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Advertising
- Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: United States, Germany, Argentina
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ShareRoot — Creating value for businesses through social media and digital tools and optimising real-world evidence to advance technologies for life.
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
- Experimental — Experimental is a game development studio producing blockchain-based games that are not only incredibly fun to play but also allow users to monetize their gaming experiences. The studio developed CryptoWars (https://cryptowars.jp), the first fully decentralized strategy game played by thousands of users around the globe.
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.
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- Industry: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $589k–$9M; Pre-Seed $497k–$2.7M; Series A $24M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blobr — Get your branded developer portal to launch and grow adoption of your API products.
- Comet Rocks — Comet helps brands launch remote stores with one click checkout in any 3rd party online application. No redirects, more engagement, full control.
- Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
Joseph Tsai is the current Executive Vice Chairman of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Investor AB as a Vice President and Senior Investment Manager. Joseph Tsai attended Yale Law School.
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- Industry: Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
- Geography: United States, China, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cambium Carbon — Cambium Carbon is an early stage social enterprise start up focused on implementing systems-level natural climate solutions centered on reforestation and urban wood reuse.
- WNBA Enterprises — WNBA Enterprises is a privately held company that owns and operates women’s basketball teams in the United States. It assists basketball coaches at all levels in teaching the fundamentals of the game. WNBA Enterprises was founded in 1996 and is based in Secaucus, New Jersey. It operates as a subsidiary of National Basketball Association, Inc.
- Premier Lacrosse League — Premier Lacrosse League is the biggest stars in the fastest growing sport pioneering a new future for lacrosse designed for the fans.
Dan Gilbert is Founder and Chairman of Quicken Loans. He was an Investor at StockX. Dan Gilbert attended Wayne State University.
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- Industry: Sports, Digital Media, Internet
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series D
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Series A $1.6M–$6M; Series B $10M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
Portfolio highlights
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
- 100 Thieves — 100 Thieves is the premier lifestyle brand and gaming organization. Find out more about 100 Thieves and shop the latest premium apparel drops at 100thieves.com.
- WSC Sports — Our AI-driven platform enables sports media rights owners to automatically generate personalized sports videos in real-time to engage with each and every type of fan on every platform.
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