# Top 20 InsurTech Angel Investors in Germany in May 2026 ## Taavet Hinrikus - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary. ## Rouven Dresselhaus - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge. ## Dr. Cornelius Boersch - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen. ## Svietlana Bauer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Travel Svietlana Bauer ## Michael Wax - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto. ## Patrick Andrae - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Home Services, Professional Services Patrick is the CEO & Co-Founder of HomeToGo, an independent vacation rental metasearch engine .Previously, he was a Director of Business Development in Home24. He also worked for German Embassy in Dublin, Hogan Lovells and Rocket Internet. Patrick has a law background and holds PhD in Business Law from University of Muenster. ## Tushar Ahluwalia - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, InsurTech Tushar Ahluwalia is the Co-Founder and CEO at Razor Group. ## Jeremy Yap - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Mustafa Suleyman - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software Mustafa Suleyman is a Co-founder and CEO at Inflection AI and a Venture Partner at Greylock. He was a Co-founder and Partner at Reos Partners. ## Kai Hansen - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software Kai Hansen is a successful serial entrepreneur and investor from Berlin, Germany, and Founding Partner of Rheingau Founders.He studied business administration with focus on entrepreneurship and marketing at the EBS Business School in Oestrich-Winkel (Germany), Auckland and Buenos Aires.During his last year at university Kai founded his firststartup, sportme, a social community for athletes, with Philipp Hartmann and Dr. Tobias Johann in March 2007, before going on to create Rheingau Founders together. Since then Kai has been actively involved in founding and developing 20 more startups.As Founder & Managing Director, Kai was recently responsible for the success of Lieferando, a European delivery service startup which was acquired by the market leader Takeaway.com in 2014 for more than US$100mn. With Lieferando Kai build a fast growing, multinational marketplace in a highly competitive environment and learned what it takes to make a startup successful. At Rheingau Founders, Kai is responsible for new ideas and business model development. With his extensive operational knowledge he also provides the portfolio companies with hands-on advice and strategic guidance, especially with developing efficient processes and operations. ## Andreas Burike - Type: Angel - Location: Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Software, Human Resources Andreas Burike - CFO @ AnyDesk ## Karl-Heinz Flother - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, CRM, SaaS Karl-Heinz Flother - Member of the Advisory Board @ Favendo ## Michael Schmitt - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Michael studied Computer Science at TU Munich and UC Santa Barbara. The dot-com bubble caused him not to finish his Ph.D., but he has come to terms with that by now.He worked for Google since the days when it was a real start-up. He has been one of three engineers who moved from Mountain View to start the Zurich engineering office, which is nowthe largest Google engineering office outside the U.S. Some of his roles were Lead Engineer for Google Groups (Mountain View), Lead Engineer for Google News (Mountain View) and Engineering Director for Google Maps (Zurich).When Michael finally realized that Google is no longer a start-up, he resigned and became an angel investor. ## Ingo Weber - Type: Angel - Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Beauty, Fitness, InsurTech Ingo Weber - Founder and CEO @ Carcharodon Capital ## Felix Ohswald - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Travel, Leisure I believe everybody has a hidden talent and it needs a trigger to develop the full potential. My trigger was my brother when we set the foundation for building GoStudent, the best funded K-12 EdTech startup in Europe. My vision is to scale GoStudent to become the No. 1 global school helping children to unlock their full potential. ## Jessica Holzbach - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: InsurTech, Insurance Jessica Holzbach co-founded Penta and served as its Chief Customer Officer on the Management Team for over 4.5 years since its inception to scale with over 30.000 customers, +150 employees, and more than a 45million in venture funding collected. She started her career by studying General Management before completing her Master in Finance. Inbetween her studies, Jessica worked as a digital strategy consultant for banks and insurance companies. She founded her first company in 2016, before switching back to banking with Penta in 2017. As CCO and MD, she was responsible for Penta's growth and was honored by Forbes on the “30 under 30” list, Capital on “Top 40 under 40” and won the German Startup Award of 2021. Currently, she is taking on several advisory roles in the Venture Capital scene and acts as an active Angel Investor in the Fintech industry. ## Julian Teicke - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, Restaurants, Human Resources Julian Teicke has 4 current jobs including Co-Founder & Non-Executive Chairman at handly, Co-Founder and CEO at wefox, and Founder at EMPAUA. Additionally, Julian Teicke has had 1 past job as the Co-Founder & COO at DeinDeal. He attended the University of St.Gallen. ## Oliver Roskopf - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Financial Services Oliver Roskopf began his digital career at Rocket Internet in 2008. Following this, he became one of the founding team members who created online matchmaking site, eDarling, where he worked until 2010. In 2010 he took up a position as Managing Director of Citydeal, who were later acquired by Groupon. During his time with Groupon Germany herelocated to Sao Paulo in Brazil, returning to Berlin in 2011 to head up marketing for online retail giant, Zalando. He is currently working on a new venture. ## Raffaele Terrone - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services Raffaele Terrone currently works as Chief Financial Officer at Scalapay. He previously worked at ICAMAP as an Investment Director. ## 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. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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