# Top 50 Impact Angel Investors in United Kingdom 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

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Mike Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Fitness, Wellness

Mike Lee is Co-Founder of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Prior to founding MyFitnessPal, Mike co-founded NextC, a venture-funded startup focused on building online communities. During his 20 year tenure in the technology industry, Mike has held leadership positions at several other top start-upsin Silicon Valley, including Palm, Handspring, Beyond.com and Regis McKenna. Mike graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a B.A. in Economics.

## Brett Akker
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce

Brett Akker is a Non-Executive Director at Much Better Adventures.

## 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.

## Jesper Lindhardt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Apps, Software

Passionate SaaS Startup and Growth CxO & Board Executive
I BUILD WINNING STARTUPS TO SCALE AND BEYOND
- Passionate and engaged SaaS growth phase leader and general manager with strong track record
- Commercial at heart, driven by ambitions, with a calm yet fighting mindset and the desire to learn from failures and courage to win
- Driver insuccessful execution of growing business, go-to-market strategies, venture capital funding, globalization, US and Europe entries
- Growing performance by strong hiring, motivating individuals and leaders with empowerment, result focus and respect across cultures and functions

## Matt Cooper
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce

Matt Cooper is Chairman of Octopus.
Before joining Octopus, Matt was Principal Managing Director of Capital One Bank (Europe) where he led the team guiding strategy and operations. He helped the UK arm grow from a start-up to a business employing more than 2,000 people and generating over £275 million in revenue.

## Curt Hopkins
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Fitness, Payments

Tech CEO, Chairman and venture builder in sustainable tech, fintech and the future of work.

## Giles Brook
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Snack Food, Retail

Giles Brook

## Stefano Martinetto
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fashion, Mobile Apps, Social Media

Stefano Martinetto is CEO at tomorrow ltd.

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

Shubhrendu Koche

## Richard Brooke
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Social Impact, Sustainability

Richard Brooke

## Preben Damgaard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Food and Beverage

Preben Damgaard - Director @ Axcess A/S

## Holly Branson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: CleanTech, Logistics, Transportation

Holly Branson Chief Purpose and Vision Officer at Virgin.

## 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.

## Sam Branson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: CleanTech, Laundry and Dry-cleaning

Sam Branson Co-founder at HiddenLight Productions.

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

Serge Chiaramonte

## Magnus Rausing
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

Magnus Rausing

## 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.

## Anthony Gutman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Analytics, InsurTech

Anthony Gutman - Managing Director @ Goldman Sachs

## Marcus Mosen
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Financial, Other, Payments

## Andrew Cocker
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Financial

## Marcus Exall
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Other, Energy, Software

## Rob Wylie
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Science/Engineering, Manufacturing, Sustainability

Co-Founder, Chairman @ WHEB


## Simon Franks
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Financial

Director @ Redbus Ventures
Chairman @ Franks Family Foundation


## Erik Nygard
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Financial

Founder and CEO @ Kofa


## Matt Wilkins
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Sustainability, Financial

Chief Information Officer @ Thought Machine


## Peter Gabriel
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, TV, Supply Chain Management

Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team.

## Riccardo Pozzoli
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Rental, Retail, Fashion

Riccardo Pozzoli

## Ross Mason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Created the Mule Project, Founded MuleSoft, gone public (MULE:NYSE). Work on their product direction, vision and strategy. Active investor and advisor.

## Kivilcim Cayli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Travel, Property Management, Leisure

Cayli began his career in 2000 and held various positions for Roche, Johnson & Johnson, Boston Scientific, and Turev. Founded and led two healthcare companies (Idea and Invivo) and two consultancy companies (Kanvas and Biovenka).He holds a BSc and an MBA, both from Middle East Technical University (aka ODTU).As a seasoned investor, he has 8personal investments including British, Irish, American, Swedish, and Turkish companies, and serves on the Board of some. He also consults startups on behalf of TUBITAK (Turkish Scientific & Technological Research Council). He is a member of BIC Angels and GAIN Global.

## Evelyn Bourke
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: InsurTech, Insurance, Software

Evelyn was appointed Bupa’s Group CEO in July 2016, having been Acting Group CEO from April 2016. She is also a member of the Bupa Board and Nomination & Governance Committee.She has a strong track record in global executive management and extensive experience in financial services, risk and capital management, and mergers and acquisitions.Evelyn joined Bupa as CFO in September 2012, from Friends Life where she was Chief Executive Officer of its Heritage division. Previously at Friends Provident, she was the Executive Director responsible for strategy, capital and risk and, before that, Chief Financial Officer.Evelyn grew up on a dairy farm in Ireland and she’s the eldest of six. She was one of the first two women in Ireland to qualify as actuaries. She began her career with New Ireland Assurance and Bank of Ireland. She holds an MBA from London Business School and was previously a Non-Executive Director of the IFG Group in Ireland. Evelyn is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Bank of Ireland Group plc and a member of their Audit Committee and Nomination and Governance Committee.On becoming Group CEO in April 2016, Evelyn established a clear Strategic Framework to focus the organisation on delivering for customers.Evelyn believes strongly in promoting diversity in the workplace and empowering people to deliver high standards of service and care for customers.

## Richard Branson
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Financial

Founder @ Virgin Group
Partner @ Metric Capital Partners
Founder @ Virgin Wines
Founder @ The Spaceship Company
Founder @ Virgin Voyages
Founder @ Virgin Records


## Alexandro Sances
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Transportation, Manufacturing, Automotive

A highly driven Senior Director and Executive with +25 Y in Management and Consulting experience, within the Telecommunication, Insurtech, Mobility, Telematics, and Space sectors and in Digitalization, IT, IoT, and Big Data areas.Always interested in the scouting of new technologies (ie: blockchain, AI, VR/AR/MR, ...) Active Mentor ofTechItalia:LAb Acceleration Program

## Nicolas Cary
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Dental, Bitcoin, FinTech

Nicolas Cary is the Co-Founder & Vice Chairman at Blockchain.com.

## Felix Schaal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, SaaS

Felix Schaal is an engineer and angel investor based out of Europe.He co-founded the German direct marketing company Felix has been also the chairman of the advisory board ofPrior to starting his entrepreneurial career, Felix has worked at His investments include Berlin-based startups such as Felix is also an active supporter of non profit organizations, e.g. 

## Jonathan Seaton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Education, Internet

Jonathan Seaton is the co-founder and chief executive officer at Twinkl.

## Eduardo Ronzano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, IT

Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.

## Somayeh Taheri
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy, GreenTech, Blockchain

Somayeh Taheri is a CEO and Co-Founder at UrbanChain.

## Siraj Khaliq
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Logistics

Siraj is a Partner on the investment team at Atomico. As a former computer scientist and co-founder/CTO of the successful Atomico investment The Climate Corporation, Siraj now continues his love for entrepreneurship “on the other side of the table” as a venture capitalist. He focuses on companies enabled by machine learning, AI and computervision, (particularly in intelligent assistants), IoT, Agtech, and works with a number of portfolio companies.Siraj founded The Climate Corporation in 2006, a company that pioneered the use of machine learning in helping farmers to optimize crop yield. Climate (acquired by Monsanto in 2013 and now a subsidiary) still sits at the vanguard of precision agriculture, an industry that is expected to play a key role in delivering the yield boosts needed to feed humanity in the decades ahead.Prior to this, Siraj was an early engineering hire at Google in 2001, and one of the founding engineers for the Google Book search project. He holds an MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University, and a BA Hons in Computer Science from the University of Cambridge, UK. Siraj speaks fluent English, advanced Urdu, and just enough German to be dangerous.An enterprising child, Siraj taught himself to code in C at age 13, and wrote and sold his first piece of software, a database for medical research, at 15. He is a fan of functional programming languages, and still enough of a geek to spend the occasional weekend trying out new languages and frameworks.

## Yishan Wong
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Science/Engineering, Financial

Yishan Wong - Co-founder and Director @ Sunfire offices

## Marc Benioff
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, IT, Other

Marc Benioff is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Salesforce. Marc Benioff attended the University of Southern California.

## James Hall-Smith
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Internet of Things

James Hall-Smith experienced infrastructure investor with a focus on the energy transition.

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