Top 15 Life Science Angel Investors in Germany (May 2026)

Nico Wittenborn is an Investor at Adjacent.

Investment focus

Industry: Wellness, Software, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Germany, Belgium

Investor stats

Total investments: 29
Round size: Seed $1.6M–$5.4M; Series A $26M–$40M; Series B $9M–$88M
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

Captions — Say hello to Captions, the only camera and editing app that automatically transcribes, captions and clips your talking videos for you.
Backbone — Backbone is a mobile gaming controller with intuitive controls, clickable thumbsticks & zero latency that works with cloud and remote gaming.
Momentum — Momentum builds fundraising software and expert guidance for nonprofits

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Holger Hübner

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, SaaS, Audio
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

musicube — Good music deserves to be found. That is why musicube develops revolutionary music search technology. Music streaming services and other companies can forward any user request to musicube and get back high quality data in real time (e.g. to return playlists etc.).
RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
HorseAnalytics — HorseAnalytics empowers horse enthusiasts to monitor and improve health and training of horses by applying reliable technologies from health and sports supervision and combining constant and real-time scientific analytics.

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Thor Bjorgolfsson - Entrepreneur, Businessman and Adventure Capitalist Thor Bjorgolfsson, Iceland’s first and only current billionaire, is an investor and business innovator who is not afraid of risk. He has been an entrepreneur since childhood, making his first deal at the age of 10, when he purchased a stack of vintage Marvel comics withborrowed money.In 2004, he founded Novator Partners, an alternative investment firm. He has strategically developed the company to allow it to maintain maximum flexibility as well as to facilitate investments in both strategic (buy and hold) and financial (buy and exit) opportunities.With Novator, Thor leverages private equity as well as macro investments and manages assets across a variety of sectors and geographic locations. He is an active investor in emerging economies including Central and Eastern Europe as well as Latin America.Novator Partners has been a major player in telecom businesses. Thor is a stakeholder in a Polish telecom company called Play, which went public in 2017. In addition, he holds shares in WOM, a Chilean telecommunications firm.Bjorgolfsson’s first fortune was made in post-soviet Russia. At a time when others perceived Russia to be tumultuous, he saw an underserved market that presented an exciting opportunity to invest in great ideas and businesses. He co-founded and developed Bravo Brewery, which produced beer and alcopops. Bravo became one of Russia’s premier brewing companies, particularly through its popular Botchkarov beer brand. Thor sold the business in 2002 to Heineken for $100 million.With the sale of Bravo, he was able to diversify his holdings by reinvesting in new ventures, focusing on telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and banks. In a few years, he was able to turn that $100 million into a net worth of over $2.1 billion.A year after being featured on the 2007 cover of Forbes Magazine, Iceland went nearly bankrupt overnight and Thor found himself at the epicenter of the financial crisis. As a major shareholder in Landsbanki with personal guarantees of 350m euro, he refused to declare bankruptcy and eventually succeeded in paying off all of it. He then went on to invest in new businesses, re-establishing himself and being featured on the Forbes list of billionaires once again.During this time of rejuvenation, he wrote Billions to Bust and Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune, And What I Learned on the Way (2014). In the book, he shares his perspective of what it was like to be at the center of the storm and how he made it back to financial success. He proposes that the greatest strength an entrepreneur can possess is a positive attitude.The 52-year-old Thor was educated in the United States where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University. In 2005, he was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In spite of his intense schedule, Thor enjoys sharing his experience and business insight, making him a sought-after speaker. A multilingual Icelandic citizen, Thor spends most of his time in London, living with his wife and three children. Thor's personal passion is his collection of six motorcycles, which he rides whenever time permits.

Investment focus

Industry: Big Data, TV, TV Production
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
Geography: United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

Olvin — Using foot traffic analytics to help your business make the right decisions. Get started to access world class data and actionable insights.
DNEG — We are DNEG, one of the world's leading visual effects and animation studios for feature film and television, honoured with the Academy Award six times
ATAI Life Sciences — ATAI is a global biotech company builder that leverages a decentralized, technology- and data-driven platform model to serve millions of people suffering from mental health disorders. The company is committed to acquiring and efficiently developing innovative treatments that address significant unmet medical needs and lead to paradigm shifts in themental health space.ATAI Life Sciences was founded in 2018 and is based in Munich, Bayern, Germany.

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Michael E. Novogratz is the CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners. He was formerly a principal and a member of the board of directors of Fortress Investment Group LLC and Chief Investment Officer of the Fortress Macro Fund. Mr. Novogratz joined Fortress in 2002 after spending 11 years at Goldman Sachs, where he was elected partner in 1998. Mr.Novogratz founded and serves as the Chairman of the Board for Beat the Streets, a non-profit organization which builds wrestling programs in New York City public schools and is also the Honorary Chairman of USA Wrestling Foundation. Mr. Novogratz is Chairman of The Friends of the Hudson River Park. He also serves on the board of the Acumen Fund, NYU Langone Medical Center, Princeton Varsity Club and The Jazz Foundation of America. Mr. Novogratz received an AB from Princeton University in Economics, and served as a helicopter pilot in the US Army.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Stage:Seed, Series B
Geography: United States, India, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 20
Round size: Seed $7M–$7M
Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

Portal — Portal is a financial services company that trades crypto anywhere without putting coins at risk, all from within a controllable wallet. Founded in 2018, Portal is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Verandah — Verandah is story based conscious luxury resort brand retailing amongst the top 100 in the global luxury resort wear space with design roots strongly based in India. Verandah also has a line of 100% Italian made sustainable swimwear to compliment the season-less ready to wear line.
Cambrian Biopharma — Cambrian is developing a raft of new companies and therapies to extend healthy lifespan, bringing proven scientific and organizational expertise to exceptional research teams worldwide.

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Andrew Keys is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Andrew Keys. He previously worked for ConsenSys as a Head of Global Business Development. Andrew Keys attended Loyola University Maryland.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Finance, Blockchain
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, India, Norway

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

Evertas — Evertas brings this unchanging approach to the new space of crypto assets. Our goal is to help crypto realize its full potential, for everyone.
Aligned — Aligned is building a suite of products and services aimed to empower the growing decentralized financial movement spanning high performance computing, mining, staking and liquidity provisioning while supporting decentralization with immutable, full-stack infrastructure for DeFi.
Molecule — Molecule is a collaborative platform, where stakeholders in drug development work together to accelerate the process of bringing novel therapeutics to patients. We connect leading researchers to investment opportunities by turning intellectual property and its development into a liquid and easily investable asset.

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Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Investor stats

Total investments: 61
Round size: Seed $16k–$2.8M; Angel $96k–$643k; Series A $1.6M–$28M
Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow

Portfolio highlights

frats — frats' goal is to become a solution-oriented company in the party, event, and festival market for sustainable products.
Futurised — Futurized makes processes simple and intelligent by providing businesses with software robots that automate all unpleasant and complex operations using AI.
Bildungs urlauber — The goal of Bildungsurlauber.de is to make complicated topics simple. First and foremost, we assist you in locating the appropriate seminar for you by using simple filter options - regardless of whatever federal state you work in.

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Jan Bohl is an entrepreneur and angel investor based in Berlin. Jan Bohl graduated in business administration from both ESCP Paris and Technical University of Berlin. He started his career as a management consultant in the media practice group with PricewaterhouseCoopers.Since 2000 he is co-owner and CFO/COO of Ableton, an internationallyrenowned maker of music software having offices in Berlin and Los Angeles. Since Abletons foundation more than 1.7 million musicians, DJs, sound designers have used one of Ableton’s software programs. Ableton has been nominated several times in the German Technology Fast 50 ranking of Deloitte in which the fastest growing technology companies are listed in. Jan built up the commercial organization of Ableton and has successfully lead this division since 2000. Next to the established software business Ableton released its first hardware product called PUSH in March 2013. With entering the hardware market Ableton expects to significantly increases its market share in the computer based music production market in the coming years.Besides his role within Ableton Jan Bohl has been a mentor and coach to founders and managers of start up businesses especially in the area of technology/Internet. Jan is an active business angel investor.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, CleanTech, GreenTech
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
Geography: Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

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Labforward — Labforward is building the laboratory of the future. We are creating the operating system of the lab by connecting data, devices, and researchers.
Hawa Dawa — Hawa Dawa manufactures and develops air quality monitoring systems. Karim Tarraf, Matthew Fullerton, Yvonne Rusche, Jannai Falschberger, and Birgit Fullerton founded it in 2016, with its headquarters in Munich in Germany.

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Michel Lurquin

Investment focus

Industry: News, Life Science, Social Media
Stage:Seed
Geography: Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Labiotech.eu — Labiotech.eu covers the global biotech industry, read by 150,000+ monthly visitors. Hope you'll enjoy our Biotech News!

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Bertrand Landel - International Business Operations & Development @ Ender Diagnostics

Investment focus

Industry: News, Life Science, Social Media
Stage:Seed
Geography: Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Labiotech.eu — Labiotech.eu covers the global biotech industry, read by 150,000+ monthly visitors. Hope you'll enjoy our Biotech News!

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Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 164
Round size: Seed $2M–$10M; Pre-Seed $125k–$4.2M; Series A $1.7M–$18M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Induced AI — Induced AI works to automate browser tasks. It runs a cloud to complete manual tasks on a browser with human-like reasoning capabilities.
Parallax — Receive money as if you were abroad. Save big with best rates and lowest fees. Withdraw instantly.
Proof of Play — We are a team of veteran game developers and entrepreneurs creating onchain games and open source technology. Our vision is simple: to create generation-defining games that fundamentally grant power and ownership to the players who play them.

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Investment focus

Industry: Software, Blockchain, Health Care
Stage:Seed
Geography: Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Molecule — Molecule is a collaborative platform, where stakeholders in drug development work together to accelerate the process of bringing novel therapeutics to patients. We connect leading researchers to investment opportunities by turning intellectual property and its development into a liquid and easily investable asset.

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Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

Investment focus

Industry: Publishing, Information Technology, Digital Media
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 6
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
Journal of Medical Insight (JoMI) — The Journal of Medical Insight (JOMI) is a surgical journal publishing high-definition, peer-reviewed video articles for surgeons, physicians, and medical students.

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For the last 10+ years, I've had the rare fortune of working with world-class entrepreneurs - as a venture or angel investor, startup team member or growth advisor - in the US and in India. Experience: US VC - Investor @ NEA India VC - Principal & Founding Member @ Lightbox (ex. Kleiner Perkins India and Sherpalo) Startup ops in the US- VP, Bus Dev and early employee @ EverFi (one of the largest edtech networks globally) Startup ops in India - Key leadership responsibilities related to 4 Lightbox companiesCurrently, I am especially spending a large portion of my time on blockchain startups and cryptocurrencies. INVESTING: Lots of learnings from working on early to growth stage investments. US: Millennial Media (IPO, acq. by AOL), OPOWER (IPO, acq. by Oracle), Gilt Groupe (acq. by Saks / Hudson Bay), ChannelAdvisor (IPO), AddThis (acq. by Oracle), EverFi, Suniva, Videology, Credibase, new crypto and blockchain projects India: Droom, Melorra, Paymate, Zoomin, Stalkbuylove, Fynd, The Better India, Mech MochaSTARTUP OPERATIONS: Hands-on experience in both hyper-growth and turnaround situations. Wore a few hats as an early employee and head of BD at EverFi (one of the largest edtech networks globally having served 16MM students and raised $250MM), led strategic finance projects for NEA companies Suniva and AddThis, and interned at InMobi. Owned or helped solve problems across strategy, M&A, senior hiring, int'l expansion and fundraising while working closely with management at Droom, Melorra, Paymate and Zoomin

Investment focus

Industry: Software, E-Learning, Information Technology
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
Geography: India, United States, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 19
Round size: Pre-Seed $165k–$2.7M
Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
StayQrious — StayQrious Neoschool is an online after-school program that teaches your child self-learning skills, social skills, emotional resilience, and problem-solving skills that are essential to thrive in the real-world.
Molecule — Molecule is a collaborative platform, where stakeholders in drug development work together to accelerate the process of bringing novel therapeutics to patients. We connect leading researchers to investment opportunities by turning intellectual property and its development into a liquid and easily investable asset.

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Günther Strunk

Investment focus

Industry: Video Games, Life Science, Therapeutics
Stage:Pre-Seed
Geography: Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.

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