# Top 50 Hospitality Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023

## Frederic Halley
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Hospitality, Information Technology

Frederic is an investor focusing on early-stage technology companies in Europe. Some of his area of interests include Retailtech, Saas, AI and traveltech. He has a long experience working with technology companies as an operator, an advisor or a Non-Executive Director (NED) / Board Member.

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Lorenz Bogaert is the Founder and Director of FixForm.

## Michael Bristow
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, SaaS, Software

Mike Bristow, CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdProperty (www.crowdproperty.com), the leading specialist property peer-to-peer lender in the UK. Actual property development and investment experience lies at the heart of CrowdProperty meaning hands-on, expertise-led due diligence and loan monitoring. Lending is focused on the SME property developer market,a key segment for supplying much needed UK housing stock, which is poorly and inefficiently served by traditional funding sources.CrowdProperty's unique combination of data, analytics, tech, expertise, rigour, relationships, security, extent of value chain disruption and vision means we stand out in sustainably delivering a better deal to lenders and borrowers alike through high-quality, institution-grade lending with huge potential ahead.

## Jared Schrieber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Hospitality

Jared Schrieber - Co-Founder & Board Member @ Numerator

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Thibaud Elzière is the Founder at Efounders.

## Ricardo Schaefer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate

Ricardo Schaefer - Partner @ Target Global

## Michael Conyers
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Hospitality

Founder and former CEO Resdiary

## Martin Sinner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Martin Sinner is the COO at 360dialog.

## Jean-Romain Lhomme
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Angel, Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, Apps

Jean-Romain Lhomme - Investor / Chairman @ Comet Meetings

## Nicolas Brumelot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel Accommodations, Travel, Tourism

Nicolas Brumelot - Co-founder and President @ MisterFly

## Rupert Loman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Digital Entertainment, Video Games, Media and Entertainment

Rupert Loman

## Jeremy Yap
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests in the Europe, North America, and Israel.

## Jordi Ber
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palma De Mallorca, Islas Baleares, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Hospitality, Real Estate

Jordi Ber is Founder & CEO at Scoolinary.

## Alexandre GRUX
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Hospitality, Events, Travel

Alexandre GRUX is the CEO and Co-Founder of Hyperlex and also working at Réseau Entreprendre Paris.
He was the Head of Research and Innovation at Kyriba Corporation and Co-Founder of Odyssey 38.
Mr. Grux graduated from Normal School Superior of Cachan with an MS in Numerical computations and mathematical optimization major.

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster

## Lorenzo Franzi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SEM, Apps, Software

Lorenzo is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ZipJet. ZipJet is an urban pick-up & delivery service for laundry & dry cleaning in London and Berlin. Previously, Lorenzo worked with McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Prior to McKinsey, he worked with Voice.ee a micro polling start up. Lorenzo started-off his professional career at JPMorgan in London. Lorenzo holds an MBA from INSEAD and Msc in Finance from the University of Maastricht.

## Vikal K
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Hospitality, Restaurants, E-Commerce

Vikal Kapoor of New York, NY is a global executive, investor and futurist with a keen sense of the global forces and next-gen tech that unlock value for founders, investors and markets that yield socially positive consequences. He focuses on the confluence of strategy, sales and tech as applied to VC, PE and LP backed cos including success atProton Enterprises, Bloomberg, SevenTrain Ventures, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

## Andrew Weisz
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Education, Apps

Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments

## Chris Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment

Chris Lee is an investor at Facemoji. The Attended University of Nottingham.

## Charles Petruccelli
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Tourism

Charles Petruccelli

## Lord Rumi Verjee
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Hospitality, Restaurants

Lord Rumi Verjee is the Founder of Domino’s UK & The Rumi Foundation.

## Matthias Hilpert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

## Nikolaus Hahne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Pet, Internet, Software

Nikolaus Hahne

## Björn Lindberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Hospitality

Former CCO TradeDoubler and iZettle

## Tony Jamous
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Developer APIs, Mobile

Tony Jamous is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He has made over 15 direct investments in global technology companies with a focus on developer tools, platforms models, impact, FinTech and HR Tech. Five of his companies have realized an exit to-date.Tony is currently building the future of work through his new venture Oyster, a distributedtalent enablement platform that allows growing companies to tap into the global talent pool and offer their remote workers around the world a great employment experience. Priori to Oyster, Tony co-founded and led Nexmo, a leader in CPAAS (Communication Platform As A Service) acquired by Vonage in 2016. Tony started his career in 2004 in the cloud, communication and mobile industries. At mBlox and Boku, Tony opened up global messaging and payment services. Tony holds a Masters in Computer Science from Grenoble Institute of Technology in France and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development in Switzerland, with a focus on leadership development and organization behavior.

## Paco Gimena
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palma, Islas Baleares, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Hospitality, Marketing Automation

Paco Gimena is Co-Founder at Mola since November 2012. Paco is a Medical Doctor (Phisician), IESE MBA as professional drive, Managing Director of hotel chains in the past, and "internetero" as actual life project. Through Mola Paco is currently involved in supporting, financing and accelerating the following companies: Alquiler.com -Calzadoo.com - Bankimia.com - Destinity.com - Grupea.com - Salud.es - JobLinker.com - Zoco.com - Mola Gestion - Mola.fm - Mola Representations UK - - Playspace.com - Minics.com - PriceBets.com - BelleVip.com - Socities.com - ToTombola.com - PortBooker.com.

## Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Retail, Health Care

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.

## Brad Bao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps

Brad Bao is a Co-Founder and Chairman at Lime (formerly LimeBike), the largest and leading micromobility company. He also currently serves as the founding Managing Director of Kinzon Capital , a cross-border fund that investing in early-stage technology companies in both US and China, focusing on mobile and internet-related investments. Believingin the synergy between the two largest market and innovation of US and China, Kinzon Capital is positioned to bridge the gap and bring them together.
Investments include:
Volta
Discord
Doc.ai
AirMart
Alcove
Cabana
Circle (smart gym)
ePal
Firefly
Flex
Zero & (Zero And, previous EnjoyFuji.com)
Gotit
Kiwi Drop
Lyte (powerbank sharing)
Made Renovation
On Deck
Shackle
Spout Clinic
TellUs (real-estate investing & saving)
Velo Bikes (adam's startup)
Visdom (financial planning saas)
WorkStreamPrior to joining Kinzon Capital, Brad served as the General Manager of Tencent America, and VP of BD of Tencent Games for over 8 years, during that time Brad built the Tencent US branch from scratch, and was responsible for the overall P&L including investments, strategy, globalization, BD, and overall operation. He led and participated in investments including Hi-Rez, Fireforge, Zam, and more, and served as board member of several.Brad obtained bachelor degree in International Marketing from Wuhan University, and received his MBA from Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

## Boris Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Enterprise Software

Startup Enabler & Angel Investor. In 2011 I co-founded Cardwise that later became Xpenditure NV an innovative product for managing expenses. Which was acquired by Sodexo Group (EURONEXT:SDXOF) in March 2017 after a very succesfull growth phase with more then 6000 customers globally (eg. Deloitte, Henkel, PWC,....) Reinvested partly in the newventure with Sodexo & iAlbatros. We launched this new corp-up venture in June 2018 under the name of RYDOO and I'm acting COO and board member.. Next to that I'm also investing in promising early stage startups with Tumbzup bvba.In the early 90ies I've been involved in commercialisation of the first Internet solutions. My passion has always been making new innovative products marketable towards B2B markets. I've pioneered in the internet sector and have been involved in the launch of Europe's first Internet service providers PING (Eunet) and Yucom (JV BT & ING), now both part of Belgacom (BELG:BB).Later, I became Chief Commercial Officer at SpaceChecker and after the acquisition by Punch Telematix, I became Country Manager. Punch Telematix is now owned by Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB). In 2007, I joined Massive Media (publishers of Netlog & TWOO), a leading European on-line community that has recently been acquired by IACI (NASDAQ:IACI). As Director of Business Development, I successfully set-up the complete business development strategy and team from scratch.

## Sri Pangulur
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Computer, Information Technology

Sri oversees sales and business development at Trace Data. Sri brings over 15 years of experience as a VC, investment banker and entrepreneur.
Sri Pangulur is Head of Business at Trace Data. Prior to joining Trace Data, Sri was an early sales leader at Cloudflare and Sociable Labs. Before being an operator, Sri worked in the venture capital andinvestment banking industries at TeleSoft Partners and Lehman Brothers. Sri is also an active venture capital investor, investing in seed stage to growth stage companies. Sri graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Finance from Case Western Reserve University.

## Wolfgang Heigl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Leisure

Wolfgang founded NFQ back in 2002 – originally purely as a technology company to support his various ventures.He has found success as both as an entrepreneur and investor. His successes include investing in OXID in 2003, which today is the leading German Enterprise Open Source E-commerce solutions provider. He is also known as the founder ofswoodoo.de, which became the biggest flight search engine in the German speaking region and was sold in 2010 to Kayak.com. His recent investments include GetYourGuide, Kiveda and Dreamlines.

## Tom Blomfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

## Paul Dubrule
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Hospitality

Paul Dubrule is the Co-Founder and Director at Accor.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Graham Paterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Logistics, Elder Care

VP Product at Trint.

## Peter Csillag
- Type: Angel
- Location: Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Hospitality, Human Resources, Information Technology

Peter is the founder of Starchema.

## Maximilian Bittner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, Logistics, Marketplace

Max is part of the executive team of Lazada.com, a leading regional online department store founded by Rocket Internet in Southeast Asia. As CEO, Max is responsible for the performance of all 5 operating countries as well as overseeing regional buying.Max started his career at Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking division in London. Followinghis MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company in Germany. Over these 4 years at the firm, Max worked largely with Media and Retail clients as a consultant. During his time at McKinsey, he also joined the private equity firm 3i plc for 6 months on a secondment.Max initially joined Rocket Internet in Germany as a regional partner before taking on the role of CEO at Lazada.Max holds a bachelor degree of economics and history from University College London and a MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management in Chicago

## Michaël Blockx
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Marketing Automation, Apps, SaaS

Michaël Blockx

## Wim Derkinderen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Wim Derkinderen is the Founder, Director, and Board member of FixForm.

## Abdullah Haider
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: B2B, Apps, Video

Previous co-founder of price runner. Angel investor witin e-commerce and online business models since 2006.

## Paolo Giovine
- Type: Angel
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Hospitality, Restaurants, Food and Beverage

Paolo Giovine joined PubCoder as Chairman in 2016. Paolo Giovine attended at University of Turin.

## Richard Flint
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Employment, Recruiting

Richard Flint

## Itai Tsiddon
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Apps

Itai co-founded Lightricks, an Israeli unicorn with over $200m of revenues in 2021 which has raised over $200m, more than half of which in liquidity, over the past decade.Itai has led deals (issued lead TS) and/or served on boards in >$15b of cumulative enterprise value companies with over $1b of cumulative revenue. Among those areFrame.io (C/D lead, board until sold to Adobe for 1.3b in 2021); Forter (led series E in 2020 at $1.25b prior to a $3b round in 2021); Gcash ($2b round in 2021) and several earlier stage companies such as Commandbar ($19m Series A) and others. He lives in NYC, invests internationally as an agile solo GP in a highly concentrated manner, and usually writes checks of $1-30m

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

## Andrej Henkler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Logistics

Andrej Henkler is the Founder & CEO at Leblon Capital and Owner of Blue Sky Entertainment B.V.

## Thomas Juhl
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Hospitality

Thomas Juhl - Chairman of the board @ UnitPal

## Anthony Danon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Construction, Artificial Intelligence

Anthony caught the entrepreneurial bug while working at a Fintech startup in the Enterprise SaaS cashflow management space. He joined Anthemis in June 2014, where he collected a range of experiences in his first year – from M&A in the payments space to innovation consulting for banks and portfolio support in the VC environment. During thefollowing years at Anthemis, Anthony focused on sourcing, evaluating and executing seed and series A fintech investments, primarily in European companies such as TrueLayer and Tide. Anthony supported startups in areas ranging from milestone planning and strategy, to business development and follow-on capital support. He isalso an active part of Seedcamp’s Investment Forum and a mentor to some of their portfolio companies.

## Patrik Hedelin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: B2B, Apps, Video

Patrik Hedelin is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of eEquity & he attended Stockholm School of Economics in 1990.

## Anna Lagerqvist Christopherson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Hospitality

Anna Lagerqvist Christopherson

## Jorge Pellicer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Hospitality

Jorge Pellicer

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