# Top 15 Hospitality Angel Investors in Germany in May 2026

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

Nikolaus Hahne

## Carlo Kölzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Christian Vollmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

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

## John Vincent
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Developer APIs, Apps, Social Media

John Vincent is a Managing Partner and Co-founder at Revel Partners and was a Co-founder at EyeWonder. John attended Vanderbilt University.

## Nils Regge
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Drones, Travel, Software

Nils is a serial entrepreneur and company builder with a long-standing passion for health and biomedicine. At Apollo, Nils brings deal making skills, his impeccable business sense, and his expertise in growing early stage startups.Nils Regge founded company builder and investor TruVenturo in 2010, and he has taken part in over 30 financing roundsas an investor or co-founder among the companies he has cofounded. Of these, three have attained valuations over $100M, having attracted capital from top venture capital companies such as Insight Venture Partners, Highland Capital, and Harbourvest. Nils sits on the boards of multiple companies in his portfolio, helping to push them rapidly towards inflection points by focusing his teams towards only those activities that generate shareholder value. Nils has studied business in Hamburg and at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) in California. He also completed the EO Entrepreneurial Master's Program at MIT.

## Fritz Demopoulos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Travel, Hospitality, Tourism

Fritz Demopoulos has been an entrepreneur and investor within the media and internet industries for over 10 years. He co-founded Qunar.com, China's largest travel internet company; and Shawei.com, China's largest sports internet company. Fritz also had senior positions at Netease and The News Corporation.

## Lars Kamp
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Cloud Data Services, iOS

Lars Kamp is the CEO of Some Engineering. He attended the University of Passau.

## Kees Koolen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Travel, Infrastructure

Kees Koolen is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Koolen Industries. Previously Kees was COO, CEO and Chairman of booking.com. Kees was advisor to Uber from 2012-2017 concerning international rollout.

## Chris Young
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Content, Analytics

Chris Young is a Co-Founder and Partner at Revel Partners and was a CEO at Digital Broadcasting Group. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Skidmore College.

## Joe Apprendi
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Advertising, Digital Media, Video

Joe Apprendi is the Founder and General Partner of Revel Partners and was a CEO of America at Falk eSolutions. He attended Oberlin College.

## Thomas Falk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Advertising, Credit, Marketing

Thomas Falk is a General Partner and Co-founder at Revel Partners and was a Partner at Digital Capital Advisors.

## Christian Saller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Tourism, Travel, Hospitality

Christian Saller joined the team in 2013 and is managing the fund’s investments into Dreamlines, Easytaxi, Ozon and Onlinetours among others.Before coming to Holtzbrinck Ventures, Christian was CEO of flight search engine swoodoo where he was responsible for company development, from market entry to market leadership in Germany and the sale ofthe company to KAYAK. Then, in his role as Managing Director for Europe, Christian managed the European organization at KAYAK. As a member of the KAYAK management team he was also involved in the successful IPO on the NASDAQ and the subsequent sale of the company to Priceline.Before he worked at swoodoo, Christian first worked as an Investment Manager at a venture capital company and then held management positions in two start-up companies in the media sector. Christian began his career in 1998 at an international strategy consultancy company.Christian holds a doctorate „summa cum laude“ in mathematics and also received an MBA with distinction from the London Business School.

## Gleb Tritus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series D, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Transportation

Gleb is a tech entrepreneur, investor and innovator with passion for E-Commerce, Travel & Mobility Tech and Logistics. He founded and served as Managing Director of multifarious digital ventures, among others the live entertainment ticketing platform Todaytickets.Gleb led new digital business and strategic startup investments at theworld's largest aviation corporation Lufthansa Group and continues to support German multinationals in this regard as Senior Advisor.

## 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.

## Manuel Stotz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Hospitality, Commercial Real Estate

Manuel Stotz

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