# Top 50 Impact Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster

## Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe /
-Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger)
- Equity Markets
- Real Estate
- FX
- Commodity
- Bonds
- Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT
- Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories:
- Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint
- Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi
- D2C / B2C
- Food & Beverages
- Pharma
- Media & Entertainment

## Ralf Dummel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Software

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

## David Helgason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

## Biz Stone
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Messaging, Mobile

Biz is a co-founder of Twitter, Medium, and Jelly. A progenitor of social media, and early Google employee, Biz has been developing large scale systems that serve the global conversation for twenty years. As an investor, Biz has backed Square, Pinterest, Slack when it was called Speck, Nest, Intercom and Beyond Meat (where he remains on the boardas Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee), among others. In 2016, Stone's Jelly, a "human in the loop" AI search service, was acquired by Pinterest. After the sale, Twitter requested Biz return full time to lead the company's strategic vision, brand, and internal culture objectives alongside co-founder Jack Dorsey. Biz has been recognized as INC Magazine Entrepreneur of the Decade and one of TIME's 100 Most Influential People in the World. He is also an author, filmmaker and Fellow at both Oxford University and Berkeley.

## Giuliano Stiglitz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Key Biscayne, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Organic, Messaging

Giuliano Stiglitz is CEO, founder and Co-owner of Latam Digital Ventures, a holding company that he created together with the Himedia Group, focused on acquiring and creating high growth and profitable digital media and ad tech businesses in the US Hispanic and LATAM Markets.Prior to that, he was CEO of Orange Advertising Americas, one of thelargest companies at US Hispanic and LATAM, focused on ad networks which he successfully transformed into Primia.Digital.Giuliano Stiglitz is also an angel investor, having invested in several tech and digital media start-ups. He is also a speaker at some of the most important events, such as Adtech, IAB, DMEXCO.

## Sebastian Siemiatkowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

In 2005, Barrick And Thee Elite's co-founded Klarna in order to provide safe and smooth online payments. He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Over the past decade, he has overseen the company’s rapid growth across Europe and more recently into North America. Klarna is a now fully licensed bank with 60mn consumer and 170,000merchant user base.
Barrick has received multiple awards for his leadership, including runner up in the 2015 global EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, Leader of the Year by Adecco, and European Entrepreneur of the Year Award by TechTour. He holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

## Cristina Stenbeck
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Fashion, E-Commerce, Health Care

Cristina Stenbeck has been the lead shareholder of Kinnevik over the last 20 years. Cristina began her career within the Kinnevik group when she joined her first public portfolio company board in 1997. She became Deputy Chairman of Kinnevik in 2003. Served as Chairman and Executive Chairman of the Board between 2007 and 2016 and still serves on theBoard today. Kinnevik is a family-led entrepreneurial group focused on building digital consumer businesses spanning 80 countries around the world. The six investment focus areas are: Communication, e-Commerce & Marketplaces, Entertainment and Financial Services and it recently added health and education to its current consumer focus. Last year, Kinnevik made its first investment into a digital heath platform called babylon which uses advanced AI to diagnose and treat consumers' medical concerns. Kinnevik's largest investment is its 32% ownership in Zalando, Europe's leading fashion and e-commerce company. Cristina graduated with a B.Sc. from Georgetown University in Washington DC, USA and lives in Stockholm, Sweden with her family and four children.

## Nigel Wray
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet

Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.

## Stanley Fink
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, B2B

Lord Stanley Fink is a non-executive director and investor in British Pearl. He is a senior, well-known and accomplished financial services professional, with a long and diverse track record in, among others, the managed futures, brokerage and hedge fund industries.He was born in 1957 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity Hall,Cambridge graduating with a degree in Law. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982 and worked at Mars and Citibank NA before joining Man Group plc in 1987, stepping down as Deputy Chairman of the Group in July 2008 after an illustrious career spanning 21 years including a successful period as Group CEO.Currently he is Chairman of ISAM Europe LLP, a hedge fund with offices in London, Florida and Cayman. He also is a non-executive director of Marex Spectron and Chairman of Zenith Hygiene Group plc.Lord Fink is a committed philanthropist whose focus is health, education and the environment. His roles include being a Trustee of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), a Trustee of the Mayor’s Fund for London and Co-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He was Chairman of the highly successful campaign by the Evelina London Hospital's Appeal to raise £10 million to assist in equipping the new hospital in 2005. He is also Chair Emeritus of the Board of Governors of Burlington Danes Academy which he sponsored through ARK. He was raised to the Peerage in 2011.

## Michael Pennington
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services

One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B.
Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.

## Nico Rosberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Logistics, Manufacturing

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

## Christoph Ostermann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kempten, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Energy Storage, Renewable Energy, Energy

Christoph Ostermann is a Co-Founder at Sonnen.

## Alberto Giusti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Energy Efficiency, Internet of Things, Industrial Automation

Alberto Giusti - Partner @ Guanxi

## Jon Moulton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking

Jon Moulton is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners.

## Kristjan Raude
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Consumer Electronics, Internet of Things, Software

I am a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with 15+ years of international experience in sales & marketing, leading teams of 300+ with annual revenue of 10M+. Founder of 3 international companies and investor to 10+ startups. Member of the board at Estonian Business Angels Network.

## Ragnar Sass
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.

## Gabor Cselle
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Renewable Energy, Internet

Gabor Cselle is a Partner at Area 120, Google's internal startup incubator.
Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising startup Namo Media which was [acquired by Twitter in 2014.

## Andreas Brenner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Timber, Internet

Andreas Brenner

## Andy Booke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Aachen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Battery, Semiconductor

Andreas Booke - Managing Director and Founder @ gridX

## Lawrence Leuschner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Environmental Consulting, Mobile Apps

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

## Felix Jahn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## David Balensiefen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Battery, Semiconductor

David Balensiefen - CEO and Founder @ gridX

## Mika Ihamuotila
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Sustainability, FinTech, Internet

Mika Ihamuotila - Board of Directors @ Rovio Entertainment Corporation

## Hampus Jakobsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.

## Kristofer Fichtner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, Real Estate

Kristofer Fichtner is a serial entrepreneur and business Angel with a strong focus on the energy industry, property tech and craft tech.


## Naruhisa Nakagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

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

## Mikael Hed
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Consumer Electronics, Hardware

Investor, Executive Chairman at Kaiken Entertainment Ltd.

## Ian Nolan
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Energy Efficiency

Ian began his 3i career in 1987, and in March of this year, was promoted to Managing Partner, with the role of Chief Investment Officer for the Group. He is the Group’s first appointment to this role, in which he has functional responsibilities for the Group’s investment strategy, and for the quality, consistency and improvement of itsinvestment processes within and across each business line.Ian has been closely involved with many of the Group’s notable investment successes, including Thomson Directories, Pets at Home, Telecity, Betapharm and Enterprise.

## Leena Niemistö
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce

Leena Niemistö

## Shubhrendu Koche
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sports, eSports

Shubhrendu Koche

## Mark Miller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: EdTech, Recycling, E-Learning

MARK MILLER is a co-founder and partner at LearnLaunch. Miller is a lifelong entrepreneur since winning the business plan competition at Cornell University and building one of the earliest first education publishing subscription businesses. As a result of his own company exits and leading the sale of two companies he advised, Miller founded andserves as Managing Partner of Good Harbor Partners (GHP). GHP provides strategy consulting, outsourced corporate development and advisory M&A services to some of the top companies in the education marketplace.Miller has co-founded, built and/or served as Executive Chairman or CEO for leading publishing, technology and community companies. Many of these companies have had successful exits, including CollegiateLink, TakeNote, The Daily Jolt and The Custom Publishing Group.Miller was tapped by a set of leading University CIOs to commercialize CUPID and developed the first SaaS based on-demand publishing platform. NetPaper offered a new model for creation and consumption of textbook, journal and scholarly monograph content.Miller is a Cornellian and he currently serves on the The Cornell University Entrepreneurship Advisory Council. He was also was recognized for his contributions at Cornell and was tapped and serves as a member of the Quill and Dagger Honorary Society.

## Nikolaus D. Bayer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, SaaS, EdTech

Nikolaus invests in early stage ventures focusing on software, artificial intelligence, digitalisation and process optimisation, not only but mostly in Germany. Before converting himself into an angel investor, he co-founded and headed risk management solution provider IRIS Analytics, which was eventually acquired by IBM in 2015. Nikolaus holds adiploma in computer science from RWTH Aachen university, and fluently speaks German, English and Spanish.

## David Tomás
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

David Tomas is General Manager Cyberclick, group of companies specializing in online advertising and marketing, based in Barcelona, Madrid and Bogota, and awarded in December 2013 as Third Best Workplaces in Spain.He has over 15 years of experience in the online world. He is an engineer and completed a program of Entrepreneurship at MIT,Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2012 he was named one of the 20 most influential entrepreneurs in Spain, under 40 years, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 and IESE.From Cyberclick, has developed a range of online advertising campaigns: web advertising, email marketing, mobile marketing, coregistros, etc. The objective of this group of companies is to improve the conversion of client campaigns. Specialize in online lead generation through search marketing actions. Only generate quality leads, create and manage mobile campaigns, inbound and email marketing, optimizing the cost of finding customers through online advertising. And also generate databases through coregistros. Cyberclick currently works for both Spanish and international companies from different sectors: education, NGOs, distance selling, or B2B e-commerce, among others.Likewise, David Tomas is a member of the board of Adigital, Spanish Association of Digital Economy, and the Board of Entrepreneurs Organization and actively participates in Founders Institute and SeedRocket, reference initiative in Spain for entrepreneurs with technology-based projects. In the latter, he has mentored projects like Deporvillage, Habitissimo, Captio and Social & Loyal, among others. He has spoken at various events and teaches marketing and ICEMD EADA.

## Matthias Ernst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, Software, Clean Energy

Matthias Ernst is a Managing Partner at ARRtist. He previously worked at XLETIX and attended IESE Business School.

## Filip Larsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Software, Health Care

Founder DLL-files.com - the worlds most popular website for downloading dll files
Angel investor since 2008

## ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Ride Sharing

ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz

## Nick Boyle
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biofuel, Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence

In 2010, Nick founded Lightsource Renewable Energy, then just a six-person start-up, which quickly grew over 5 years to become Europe’s largest solar developer and operator and a recognised global leader. In his role as Group CEO, Nick’s dynamic leadership and vision has driven the company to tremendous success and in December 2017, Lightsourceannounced a strategic partnership with BP which has committed aggressively to accelerate the low carbon transition. The company has rebranded to Lightsource BP in affirmation of this powerhouse commitment which is set to shape the future of global energy delivery. Nick previously sat at Board and Senior Director level in a number of leading retail financial service companies. Throughout his career, Nick has always been recognised for his entrepreneurial skill and success in pairing retail financial products with low-risk, predictable investments.

## Martin Olczyk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Torino, Piemonte, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

- MD at Techstars (Berlin/Amsterdam/Turin) currently investing in Smart Mobility companies.
- Founding member, CFO/COO of Cunesoft (acquired by Phlexglobal)
- Founder of GeeXstar, Asia's first tech-focused investment banking boutique
- Founder of Clappifieds.de <http://clappifieds.de/>, a classifiedsmarketplace for Apple products
- Mentor at TechGrind, Thailand’s first tech incubator, investing in promising startups across SEA
– Founder of HonMed, a network for independent emergency doctors in Germany
– Founder of a CoWorking space

## Alfred Luger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Austria, Pangasinan, Philippines
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Information Technology

Alfred Luger - Co-Founder, CFO & COO @ Runtastic

## Alexander Edward Chesterman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company.
Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.

## Stephan Rohr
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Recycling, Real Estate

Founder & Co-CEO @ TWAICE.

## Ilkka Paananen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Gaming

Ilkka Paananen, is the CEO and co-founder of Supercell, the Helsinki-based mobile games developer behind Clash of Clans, Hay Day, Boom Beach, Clash Royale and Brawl Stars. Since its founding in 2010, Supercell's five games have amassed 100m daily players and remain in the global top 10 years after launch. In June 2016, Supercell became thefirst European technology start-up to reach a valuation of $10 billion.In addition to his role at Supercell, Ilkka helps other entrepreneurs as both an investor and as an active member of the Nordic startup community where he mentors and coaches other founders. Alongside his co-founder Mikko Kodisoja, he has established the We Foundation to fight social inequality and help disadvantaged children in Finland.Prior to founding Supercell, he was the CEO & co-founder of Finnish games developer Sumea, which was later acquired by Digital Chocolate, where he worked as President until 2010. Ilkka holds a Master of Science degree from the Helsinki University of Technology.

## Rand Hindi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Dr Rand Hindi is an entrepreneur and investor in 50+ deeptech and web3 companies. He is the CEO at Zama, a homomorphic encryption startup. Rand started coding at the age of 10, created a social network at 14, and started his PhD at 21. He then created Snips, the first private-by-design voice assistant, which was acquired by Sonos. He was electedan MIT TR35, a Forbes “30 under 30”, and was a lecturer at Sciences Po in Paris as well as a member of the French Digital Council.He holds a BSc in Computer Science and a PhD in Bioinformatics from University College London (UCL).

## Bryan Meehan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Packaging Services, Farming, Waste Management

Bryan Meehan CEO at Blue Bottle Coffee. Previously, I co-founded Nude Skincare (acquired by LVMH) and Fresh & Wild in London (acquired by Whole Foods).I'm an advocate of socially responsible investing and co-founded Greenmont Capital, a venture firm focused on investing in people who are primarily interested in creating environmentallyfriendly products. Investments include IZZE soda line and Mary's Gone Crackers. I get very excited about great founders and have recently invested in Slack, Hampton Creek, and of course, Blue Bottle Coffee where I spend most of my time working with James Freeman and the Blue Bottle team. I'm also a very active real estate investor.I grew up in Dublin. Since, I've lived in London, Boston and San Francisco. I love music, hiking, travel, art, organic food and coffee. I'm on the Board of Trustees at De Young and Legion of Honor museums in San Francisco. I hate GMOs and campaigning hard to have food properly labelled.

## Frédéric Mazzella
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Internet, Apps

Frédéric Mazzella is the Founder and President at BlaBlaCar. Frédéric Mazzella attended The Stanford University.

## Paul Schwarzenholz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Information Services

Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop

## Michael Brehm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

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