# Top 50 FinTech Angel Investors in Germany in May 2026

## Verena Pausder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, Food Delivery

Verena Pausder

## Victor Jacobsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Payments, Financial Services

Victor Jacobsson is an Independent Advisor to startups and Investors.As an entrepreneur victor co-founded Victor has a masters degree from the

## Maximilian Tayenthal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology

Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.

## André M. Bajorat
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech

Andre Bajorat is the Head of Strategy Corporate Bank at Deutsche Bank. He attended the University of Cologne from 1994 to 1997.

## Dominik Richter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Cloud Data Services, Health Care

Dominik Richter is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at HelloFresh. In 2011, Richter, alongside co-founders Thomas Griesel and Jessica Nilsson, moved to Berlin to start a company together. After looking at different business models and industries, Richter said they quickly set their eyes on the grocery space. Dominik has passion forEntreprenuership, building great companies and the Internet.Sports guy (Soccer mostly)Great interest in trading, nutrition, fitness, health, politics and economics.

## Christian Gaiser
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Real Estate

Christian Gaiser is CEO of Bonial International Group, the global leading network of location-based shopping apps and technology, operating in 11 countries across 4 continents.Having spent time in Silicon Valley in 2008, Christian developed the concept for Bonial due to the entrepreneurial environment he was living in and the amount of flyersand mailers he was accumulating. He thought at that time that there must be a new and different way to reach the consumer that takes the time-honored circular into consideration. The concept was born. In 2008, Christian Gaiser and his team founded kaufDA in Germany, which was quickly honored in 2010 as “the star among location-based services in Germany” by W&V, Germany’s main magazine for communication and promotion. kaufDA has become Germany’s leading network for local retail promotions, initially financed by the venture capital divisions of Deutsche Telekom AG and OTTO Group. In early 2011, kaufDA was acquired by Axel Springer SE, one of Europe’s largest media companies. In just four years, German consumers have used kaufDA to actively open more than 5 billion digital circulars, with kaufDA continuously providing the latest information on more than 247,000 retail outlets in Germany.From Germany, Christian went on to launch the kaufDA concept as Ofertia in Spain, Bonial in France, Lokata in Russia, Guiato in Brazil and Retale in the United States. In 2012, the company was branded as Bonial International Group globally. Since the birth of kaufDA in 2008, Christian and his team have successfully serviced 600 retailers and 12 million consumers. Prior to Bonial, Christian worked in various positions at Goldman Sachs Private Equity in London, at McKinsey & Company in Vienna and Zurich, at the Monitor Group/Ermgassen & Co in London and at SAP Investor Relations in Walldorf. Christian is a graduate of the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar and HEC, Montréal.

## 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.

## Kilian Thalhammer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Kilian Thalhammer - Managing Partner @ Pearlscout

## Philipp Kloeckner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech

Philipp has been product manager and inhouse SEO at the market leading price comparison in Germany (Idealo.de) for 6 years. He specializes in the fields of accessability, crawlability and onpage optimization of websites with 1M+ subpages.Since 2011 Philipp Klöckner focuses on search consultancy and angel investing to share his experience insearch marketing, product and business intelligence with publishing houses, e-commerce companies and start-ups as an independent consultant and angel investor.

## Tamaz Georgadze
- Type: Angel
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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).

## Frank Freund
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Frank Freund is CFO & founder at SavingGlobal.

## Jochen Engert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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: 4
- 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.

## Lawrence Leuschner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Environmental Consulting, Mobile Apps

Lawrence Leuschner is the CEO & Co-Founder at TIER Mobility.

## Karl-Heinz Flother
- Type: Angel
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, CRM, SaaS

Karl-Heinz Flother - Member of the Advisory Board @ Favendo

## Diana zur Löwen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, EdTech

Diana zur Löwen

## Carsten Maschmeyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Dr. Cornelius Boersch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Jonathan Weiner
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Jonathan Weiner - Venture Partner @ Oak HC/FT

## 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.

## Tim Marbach
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Michael Hock
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Payments, Banking

Michael oversees all finance, tax, legal and regulatory topics as well as all people & organization activities at finleap. He is also responsible for the investment management.Michael has many years of experience in the corporate M&A and venture capital investment business. Previously, he held the roles of Managing Director and SeniorInvestment Manager at Holtzbrinck Digital and Digital Science for almost six years, where he was most recently responsible for global strategic investments in the Digital Science & Education segments. During this time he took over numerous board and advisory board positions at leading digital companies and was also interim CEO at myphotobook. At the beginning of his career, he gained experience in various positions at Siemens in corporate finance and investment in Munich and Boston, before assuming responsibility for the CFO division at VC boutique smac partners.Michael holds an Executive MBA from the Technical University of Munich as well as a Diploma in Business Administration from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart.

## Rouven Dresselhaus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Marcus Borner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

Marcus Borner is a university drop-out and founded his first company reBuy.com when he was 17 years old. Rebuy became Germany's re-commerce leader, raised ~40M€ in venture capital, now employing over 500 employees and with annual revenues of over 70M€. Besides rebuy Marcus has been shareholder in over a dozen companies from many industriessuch as insurance, food delivery, saas and adtech. He is currently founder and CEO of OptioPay.com a Berlin based fintech-company creating the first payment solution software for marketing payouts. OptioPay offer diverse payout options to increase flexibility and value for payment recipients. Backed by international venture capital investors and banks as shareholders, OptioPay is run by a diverse team of over 30 experts from 12 nations, who love to work hard and have exceptional passion for changing how people receive money.

## Oliver Roskopf
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Financial Services

Oliver Roskopf began his digital career at Rocket Internet in 2008. Following this, he became one of the founding team members who created online matchmaking site, eDarling, where he worked until 2010. In 2010 he took up a position as Managing Director of Citydeal, who were later acquired by Groupon. During his time with Groupon Germany herelocated to Sao Paulo in Brazil, returning to Berlin in 2011 to head up marketing for online retail giant, Zalando. He is currently working on a new venture.

## Michael Stephan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, PaaS

Michael Stephan is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Raisin DS.

## 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.

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

Christian Reber​ is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.

## Carlo Kölzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Small and Medium Businesses, Banking, FinTech

Carlo Koelzer is a founding partner and member of 360T’s Group Executive Board and Deutsche Börse Group Management Committee member. Furthermore he is Global Head of FX of Deutsche Börse Group. Carlo started his investment banking career as a financial analyst for Hess & Co., New York, in the field of mergers & acquisitions and blocktrading. Later, he worked for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Frankfurt and New York. Carlo has extensive in-depth process knowledge of Capital Markets notably Global Markets, Global Equities, Trading, Sales, Risk Control and Financial Accounting. Prior to founding 360T, Carlo headed a task force within the Internal Audit Group of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson.

## Roland Grenke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, Financial Services, FinTech

Roland Grenke - Co-Founder @ Acapela

## Hanno Renner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## 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.

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Oliver Hehl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Walldorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Banking, Apps

Oliver Hehl

## Heiko Hubertz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Digital Media

Heiko Hubertz - Founder & CEO @ Oxolo

## Frank Strauss
- Type: Angel
- Location: Metropolitan, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking

Frank Strauss is a Member of The Management Board at Deutsche Postbank.

## Mario Götze
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

## Thomas Bachem
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Niklas Ostberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: SaaS, E-Commerce, Health Care

Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Östberg is the Co-Founder and CEO of Delivery Hero. He holds a Master of Industrial Engineering & Management from Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm & ETH Zurich.Following five years as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman, Niklas co-founded Pizza.nu (later OnlinePizza.se) where he served as afull-time chairman. After winning the Swedish market he was responsible for building up market leading companies in online food ordering in Poland, Finland and Austria. In late 2010, Niklas convinced Team Europe to develop the concept to the German market under the name of Lieferheld (Lieferheld.de) and got the license to use the technology and know-how from the original Swedish company.After a successful market entry into the competitive German market, Niklas Östberg and his team decided to launch the business model internationally under the name of Delivery Hero in May 2011. The company has since then expanded the concept organically and through acquisitions into 34 international markets, and is today the largest global platform for online food ordering with 200,000+ local restaurants in its network, processing more than 10m orders monthly.What initially was a small vision narrowed to the Swedish market has today expanded into a global vision to provide a platform of choice, convenience, reliability and quality. Or, in essence, an entire food court in your pocket.Niklas’ vision is to transform the industry. Therefore services of Delivery Hero will reflect changing eating habits just as new opportunities in technology and logistics.

## Raffael Johnen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial, Payments, Software

Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".

## Stephan Schuller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Debt Collections, Embedded Systems

Stephan Schuller

## Lucas Cranach
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Health Care

Lucas von Cranach is like a Football. He was a supporter of 1. FC Cologne long before he was set to become an entrepreneur in the football industry. It all started in the early days of the smartphone when Lucas realized that there was no service providing fans with live scores and results. He started out with a simple SMS-service delivering livescores to the fans’ pockets. Only a few years later this service has turned into one of the most successful football-apps around the globe connecting more than 20 million fans.

## David Schneider
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Small and Medium Businesses, Marketplace, Environmental Consulting

David Schneider is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Zalando SE. He previously worked at Gondrand International AG as a Key-Account-Manager. David Schneider attended
WHU – Otto-Beisheim School of Management.

## Sekip Can Gokalp
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Other, Hardware

Şekip Can Gökalp is the founding partner of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network.
Gokalp's previous experience includes his time as a regional business development manager of Netlog and a part-time interactive marketing lecturer. He also contributes regularly to publications related to his field.

## Ingo Weber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Beauty, Fitness, InsurTech

Ingo Weber - Founder and CEO @ Carcharodon Capital

## Robert Maier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Service Industry

Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Heissam Hartmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Shopping

Over 15 years experience in the Internet industry back Heissam Hartmann's solid knowledge about the online business.Prior to joining Rebate Networks as the Vice President of Eastern Europe, Heissam was Head of International Business Development at the largest German online fashion shopping club brands4friends. Before that, Heissam was CEOof the online postcard service AhaOho, which sent real postcards, and was soon successfully sold to Greetz.As the former Marketing & Business Development Director from the biggest German online video community MyVideo, Heissam, worked on new concepts for new media and video advertising within the online and media industry.He started his career as one of the first staff members at the German auction platform Alando.de, which was acquired by eBay in 1999. He grew with the company as Head of Entertainment on to the position of Senior Manager, helping to build up eBay Switzerland and Austria from the scratch.On an entrepreneurial level he co-founded various companies and, as a Business Angel, advises start-ups in building and growing their businesses. Following his passion he also co-founded fashion brands and personally supported motion pictures and music projects.As the founder of Passiontainment, he advises influential people from the entertainment & sports industries and celebrities on their internet strategies and by that, bridges the worlds between influential investors and up-and-coming startups.

## Klaas Kersting
- Type: Angel
- Location: Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Mobile

Klaas Kersting is a serial entrepreneur (Gameforge / flaregames / Phoenix Games) and Seed-/Early-stage investor in startups in games and e-commerce. He served and serves as board member and advisor to several of his investments.Most recently, in 2019, Klaas founded Phoenix Games, a company aiming to help game founders to achievemore - both financially as well as commercially. In 2008 Klaas Kersting was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. Gameforge was awarded 'Red Herring 100 Europe', and 'Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars'. Furthermore, he was selected 'Technology Pioneer 2009' by the World Economic Forum.

## Andreas Burike
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Human Resources

Andreas Burike - CFO @ AnyDesk

## Florian Heinemann
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Commerce/Shopping, Software

Founding Partner @ Project A Ventures
Investor/Business Angel @ AdScale
Investor/Business Angel @ netmoms


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