# Top 50 Food and Beverage Angel Investors in Germany in May 2026

## Ralf Dummel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design

Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.

## Dagmar Wöhrl
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, SaaS, Sustainability

Dagmar Wöhrl

## 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

## Nils Glagau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Personal Health, Food Processing

Nils Glagau

## Christian Edler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Tillman Schulz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Snack Food

Tillman Schulz

## Stefan Lemcke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Fashion, Women's

Stefan Lemcke is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ankerkraut.

## Ludwig Cramer-Klett
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage

Ludwig Cramer-Klett is an Entrepreneur and Investor.

## Lea-Sophie Cramer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Sustainability

Lea-Sophie Cramer (born April 16, 1987 in Berlin , Germany ) is a German entrepreneur . She founded in 2013 together with Sebastian Pollok, the online retailer and manufacturer of Sextoys, Amorelie, whose CEO she has been since. The business magazine Forbes named her in 2016 as one of the "30 under 30 Europe", the leading youngentrepreneurs in Europe. [1]

## Tijen Onaran
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Education

Tijen Onaran - CEO & Founder @ Global Digital Women

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

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

## Dennis Aogo
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Cannabis, Software

Dennis Aogo is a German former professional footballer.

## Kağan Sümer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Fashion

Kağan Sümer is the CEO and co-founder of Gorillas.

## Wolfgang Mauer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing

Wolfgang Mauer

## Arman Anatürk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Wellness

Arman Anatürk is Co-Founder @ FoodHack.

## Moritz Heininger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Fashion, Blockchain

Advising and investing in (pre)seed startups around the world – focusing on go-to-market, B2B sales, internationalization, and company culture.Investments include Keen4Greens (keen4greens.com), HEAT (heat.io), Biovox (biovox.systems), Clearpool (clearpool.finance)I am currently building DiscoEat/ DIDIT.
With DIDIT, we are digitizing theway guests pay at restaurants. Within 15 seconds, guests can split and pay their bill, tip, leave a Google review and their email address. DIDIT is 100% customizable to the brand of the restaurant.Career Path:
- Consultant - Bain & Company.
- Managing Director DACH - Tink Labs/ handy/ hi.com (B2B hospitality tech).
- COO - Anchanto.com - Asia's leading eCommerce selling & logistics tech platform.
- ManagingDirector - foodpanda (Delivery Hero, formerly Rocket Internet) in Hong Kong and JakartaPersonal:
- Fun things I love: Traveling, Reading, Podcasts, Crossfit, Wake Surfing, Dogs
- Businesses I love: Food Tech, Restaurant Tech, web3, platform companies
- Tasks I love: Company building, Culture building, Organizational development, B2B Sales

## Frank Kühne
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nuremberg, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Frank is shareholder and chairman of the food ingredient supplier RAPS, as well as chairman of the ADALBERT RAPS foundation. Fifteen years ago, he took over the business from his father and guided it towards internationalization. RAPS is considered to be one of the leading savory ingredients companies in Europe. Additionally, Frank is engaged in ahandful of food tech startups ranging from growing to processing food, analytics, and replacing existing food.

## 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.

## Anne Lemcke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jesteburg, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Fashion, Software

Anne Lemcke is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Ankerkraut. She attended
Box Hill Institute.

## Fredrik Jung Abbou
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Apps, Grocery

Fredrik Jung Abbou is a CCO & Co-founder of KRY.

## Christoph Behn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Eyewear

Christoph Behn is the Chairman & Founder of better ventures. He previously worked at Die Kartenmacherei as an Advisory Board & Founder. Christoph Behn attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

## Nico Rosberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Logistics, Manufacturing

Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.

## Fabian Friede
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Grocery, Delivery, E-Commerce

Fabian is Sanity Group's Founder and Managing Director. He was the Co-Founder and CMO of locafox.de, a Berlin-based local commerce startup before that.

## Steffen Zoller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, E-Commerce, Beauty

Steffen Zoller - Founder & CEO @ Care With Care

## Felix Jahn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Gunnar Berning
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Food Delivery, Consulting

Gunnar Berning - CEO @ fromAtoB

## Marcus Borner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Ugur Samut
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Fashion, Wholesale

Ugur Samut - Co-Founder & Board Member @ Gorillas

## Julius Göllner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Finn Age Haensel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Norbert Lemken
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing

Norbert Lemken

## Tobias Fezer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing

Tobias Fezer

## Roger Hassan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ilford, Redbridge, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Grocery, Medical, Wellness

Roger Hassan is the Founding Partner at Shorea Ventures.

## Godo Röben
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Godo Röben is an Investor at Perfeggt.

## Jörg Kattner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing

Jörg Kattner

## Philipp Kreibohm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Michael Cortelletti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing

Michael Cortelletti

## Jochen Engert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Rental, Travel

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

## Günther Rodemeyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage

Günther Rodemeyer is an independent business angel.

## Ernst Ludes
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Software, Restaurants

Ernst Ludes

## Chengyuan Zhai
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Software, Restaurants

Chengyuan Zhai

## Erik Range
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Organic, Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Erik Range

## Georg Bader
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Smart Home, Electronics, Manufacturing

Georg Bader - Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Vitafy

## Benedikt Klarmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Smart Home, Electronics, Manufacturing

Benedict Klarman serves as Founder & CEO of Junglück.

## Andrin Bachmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet

Andrin brings his entrepreneurial spirit and investment experience to Piton.
He was a co-founder of Glocalnet, which became Sweden's 3rd largest consumer telecom service provider and was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange before being acquired by Telenor. Following this, he was a partner at M/C Venture Partners - one of the leadingprivate equity investors in the US telecom services space.
He was also one of two principals establishing an investment company that became QXL Ricardo PLC's largest shareholder in 2005, and was instrumental in the transformation of QXL leading to its sale to Naspers for around $1.9 billion.

## Martin Enderle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Big Data, Internet, Payments

Martin Enderle is a Co-founder & Board member at allmyhomes. Martin previously worked at CEWE Stiftung and Co. KGaA as a Member of the Board of Trustees. He attended Leibniz Universität Hannover and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

## David Brunier
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Restaurants, Food and Beverage

David Brunier is the Co-Founder and CEO of Flash Coffee.

## Dirk Schneider
- Type: Angel
- Location: Essen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Franchise, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage

Dirk Schneider is Co-Founder at BackWerk.

## Klaas Heufer-Umlauf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: B2C, Medical, Cannabis

Klaas Heufer-Umlauf is a TV moderator.

## Tobias Mehrer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Smart Home, Electronics, Manufacturing

Tobias Mehrer serves as CEO at Ranger Marketing (part of the STRÖER group).

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