# Top 40 Local Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023

## Bernardo Hernandez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile Apps, Apps, Delivery

Bernardo Hernandez is leading Spanish Business Angel. He graduated from ICADE, a top Business School in Madrid Spain in 1993. He has a Masters in Finance from Boston College and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.
At the age of 29, after 5 years as an analyst and portfolio manager in the asset management industry with companieslike Fidelity and Putnam Investments, he started his first internet venture idealista.com, now the leading real estate online portal in Spain. Since then he has participated in other online start-ups as a Business Angel, like floresfrescas.com, planetaki.com, 11870.com or the leading social network in Spain, tuenti.com.His latest venture is StepOne.com, a company that helps Spanish businesses to get established in the US. He is also member of the board at Bodaclick.com, the first Spanish internet company to go public.Bernardo joined Google in 2005 and is currently Director of Product Management and Managing Director for Zagat. He is based in New York.

## Mehrdad Piroozram
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Insurance, Apps, Financial Services

Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc

## Felix Ruiz Hernandez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Ride Sharing, Transportation, Mobile Apps

Félix Ruiz, founder of Tuenti and president of Jobandtalent. He has invested in startups Jobandtalent, Syltek, Vitcord, Fudeat, Glovo or Deporvillage. As a business angel does not follow any pattern, invest for the team. Bet on internationally scalable projects that do not depend on a single market. Personal investments are made as entertainmentwithout being involved in day to day. When it involves investors, it decides to be part of the company's operations, such as Jobandtalent. He is considered an architect and accelerator of companies, invests in the technology and restoration sectors. His two exits are Tuenti and Buytheface.

## Felix Haas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Travel, Leisure, Information Technology

Felix Haas is a Founding Partner at 10x Group. Felix previously worked at XING Events GmbH sa a CEO and Co-Founder. He attended Stanford University and Technical University of Munich.Felix is an active Business-Angel and Seed-investor in 25+ German startups, including founding engagements at Kaeuferportal, Hitfox, Sponsorpay and Kreditech.He isCo-Founder and Executive Chairman of IDnow, the first online solution for convenient and secure online identification of government IDs in Europe.Felix co-founded amiando in 2006 and served as CEO and Head of Product from inception to exit to public listed company XING in 2010.Previously, he founded TiberiumSun Networks, a website networks for computer games and entertainment news with over 285 million page monthly impressions.Felix is a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer 2010", "NYC Venture Fellow" by NYC Mayor Bloomberg and an advisor to the German Government for the "Young Digital Industry.He spent over two years in Silicon Valley, authored two patents for consumer internet products and enjoys flying planes in his spare time.Specialties: Interested in computer science and its applications, especially social consumer internet products. Focus on product development, team building, strategy, business development, talent management and software marketing.

## Tim Schumacher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Internet, SaaS

Tim Schumacher is a Managing General Partner at World Fund. Tim previously worked at Sedo.com as a Member Board Of Directors. He attended University of Cologne and Stockholm School of Economics.Tim Schumacher Co-Founded and was the longtime CEO of the publicly traded company Sedo AG, which currently has revenues of 130m euros per year andmaintains approximately 350 employees. Since 2012 he has dedicated his professional career to the German startup scene, acting both as a business angel and mentor for young companies with economic potential. His current startups, among many others, are Eyeo/Adblock Plus, Aklamio, Hitfox and Ecosia.

## Fernando Diana
- Type: Angel
- Location: Roma, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: News, Local, Fitness

Fernando Diana - Manager - Acquisitions & Sales Management @ CityNews

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster

## Colin Wiel
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: iOS, Communities, Location Based Services

An engineer, AI patent-holder, and serial entrepreneur, Wiel began his career at Boeing, where he designed algorithms to improve automatic control systems on airplanes. After running a java programming consultancy that built early e-commerce systems like Charles Schwab’s online trading website, Wiel partnered with Brien to launch Waypoint Homes in2009. Wiel led the tech, M&A, and fundraising teams at Waypoint all the way to the NYSE, where Starwood Waypoint Residential Trust (SWAY) debuted its IPO in 2014.In 2016 Brien and Wiel partnered again to create Mynd, a property management and real estate investing firm with 8,000+ SFR units under management across 25 US markets. Last valued at $807M by Silicon Valley venture capitalists in 2021, they’re going long again on Mynd and leaving it all out on the field.

## Dennis von Ferenczy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Local, Marketplace, Translation Service

Dennis von Ferenczy is the Co-Founder and Chief Growth Officer of IDnow. Dennis previously worked at XING Events GmbH as a Co-Founder. He attended Technische Universität Berlin and the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

## Brendan Gill
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Local, Events

Prior to co-founding OpenSignal in 2010, Brendan spent over 10 years building solutions to help people understand and improve mobile service and experience. In 2007, he was part of the team that launched RepeaterStore, which provides signal boosting solutions to improve wireless cell and data reception in buildings, homes and vehicles. Brendan wasnamed in the Telecoms Business Power100 in 2017. He holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.

## Paul McGuire
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Local, Events

Paul McGuire is the Co-founder & CEO at tru.ID.
Serial Entrepreneur – previously founded two leading international transaction platform businesses. Now at JustInvesting, building the online transaction platform for the next-generation of Angel investing – moving venture investing online, to the benefit of Investors, Entrepreneurs and the wholeeconomy.
Prior to JustInvesting Paul co-founded Paymo, later acquired by BOKU, and led the company to become one of the leading mobile payments platforms, available in over 50 countries. Prior to Paymo, Paul co-founded mBlox, the world's leading mobile transaction network, where he led the company's sales and marketing organizations, guided the company's expansion into the European market, and led M&A efforts to acquire six companies.Before founding several start-ups in the telecommunications sector, Paul began his career in management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton.

## Per Brilioth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Transportation

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

## Pia Vemmelund
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sealand, Surrey, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Local, Travel, Software

Pia joined Momondo A/S in 2007 as Commercial Manager with responsibility for Sales, Online Marketing, Finance and Administration. She was promoted to Managing Director in mid 2012 following Thorvald Stigsen's move to a non-executive Group role.Pia has over 25 years' experience in the travel industry. Prior to Momondo she spent 19years with Scandinavian airline, SAS, in a variety of roles including Director Commercial Intelligence & Sales Support.

## Pere Mayol
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Communities

Pere Mayol - co-Founder - co-CEO & COO @ Avatar Cognition

## Marcin Kurek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Ride Sharing

Entrepreneur and Investor in E-business and Tech sector.Managing Partner and Co-founder at Market One Capital, a marketplace first VC fund based in Warsaw and Barcelona.
Managing Partner and Co-founder in Protos Venture Capital, an early stage VC fund.
Co-founder of Pomocni.pl group including niania.pl, remontuj.pl, pomocedomowe.pl
Investor andsupporter in +20 companies, i.e.
Docplanner.com (Znanylekarz.pl), Brainly.com, Unamo.com, Allani.pl, Restaumatic.com, Shoplo.com, Starofservice.com, Depilacja.pl, Pushpushgo.com.Main focus: marketing, product, business development

## Stefan Tengvall
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Local, Software, Mobile Apps

Stefan Tengvall is the President and Chief Executive Officer at Fragbite Group.

## Mariusz Gralewski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Education, Information Technology

Mariusz Gralewski is the Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of ZnanyLekarz. Mariusz Gralewski attended the Warsaw University of Technology.

## Nate Macleitch
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: iOS, Mobile, Android

Nate Macleitch - CEO @ QuickBlox

## Thibaut Rouffineau
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Local, Events

Thibaut Rouffineau - VP Marketing @ Canonical

## Constanze Buchheim
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Internet, Software, Advertising

Constanze Buchheim is a pioneering entrepreneur in Germany's digital economy and is regarded as a thought leader on the subject of "future leadership“ with a focus on building intrapreneurial cultures. For 15 years, she has been building and transforming digital teams in the new & old economy. In 2009, after having experienced thehypergrowth of spreadshirt and understanding that there is no market solution for companies in scale up situations, she founded the executive search consultancy i-potentials as an entrepreneur for entrepreneurs. As an advisory board member, angel investor and sparring partner, she prepares serial entrepreneurs and boards for the strategic challenges of future-proof leadership, recruiting and organizational and cultural architecture. In 2015, the Boston Consulting Group and "Manager Magazin" named her one of the 50 most influential women in German business. In 2020, she was selected by Focus magazine as one of the 100 Women of the Year.

## 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.

## Michael Brehm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Louis Pfitzner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Local, Sports

Entrepreneur (Salonmeister / Treatwell, CAYA, Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about company building (marketplace and SaaS) espcially when it's in the SMB space.

## Christopher Isak
- Type: Angel
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Collaboration, Cloud Infrastructure

Christopher Isak - Founder @ TechAcute

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

Christian Reber​ is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.

## Colm Lyon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Local, Guides, Travel

Colm Lyon - Founder and CEO @ Fire Financial Services

## David Pritchard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, CRM

David Pritchard serves as an advisor of Hassle.com.
David was Founder and Managing Director of OpenTable Europe. David has enjoyed a 30 year transatlantic career as a senior operating executive in primarily US based software before becoming an angel investor.

## Luca Lani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: News, Local

Luca Lani is a Founder & CEO at CityNews.

## David Singleton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Local, Events

Current positions: Chairman, Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia; Member, Board of Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management, Engineers Australia; Member Standards Australia Strategy Committee; Council Member Swinburne University of Technology and member of Audit and Risk Committee.Former positions: Group Board member andDirector, Arup Group Ltd; Chairman Global Infrastructure, Arup Group; Member Living with Environmental Change Strategy Board UK; CEO and Chairman, Arup Australasia; Chair Buildings Standards Sector Board Standards Australia; Chair and Director Australian Construction Industry Forum; Director Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation; President and Chair Association of Consulting Engineers Australia; Director Association of Consulting Engineers Australia; Chair National Engineering Registration Board; Member Advisory Board, University of Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership.Other achievements: OPM Program, Harvard Business School 1996-98; One of Australia's 100 Most Influential Engineers in 2004 to 2007 inclusive; One of five finalists as "CEO of the Year", Equal Opportunity in the Workplace Agency, 2002; Director of RedR Australia Ltd 1998-2001.

## Ruben Ferreiro
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

Ruben Ferreiro - President & CEO @ VIKO GROUP

## Douglas Scott
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: iOS, Local, Events

Douglas Scott

## Marcel Beemsterboer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, 3D Printing

Marcel Beemsterboer - Owner @ Zeeburg Ventures

## Michael Ströck
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Information Technology

Founding partner and investor at Calm/Storm Ventures. Previously founded companies in consumer e-commerce (KochAbo; exit to Marley Spoon in 2015) and enterprise SaaS (Gustav; YC S17). Launched and grew successful open source projects (Vienna RSS; over 10 million downloads), as well as various community and charity projects (FounderTalks.org,Chancen:reich).I‘m especially passionate about the very early stages of company-building and have a track-record of early stage investments in my own companies, as well as healthcare and health-tech startups like Mediclass, hi.health and Probably Genetic (YC W19). Other notable investments include Flaviar (YC S14), Joblocal.de (Exit 2015), Kiko, Biloba and an investment as one of the first limited partners in Austrian venture fund Speedinvest.

## Ben Barokas
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Advertising, Software, Brand Marketing

Prior to founding AdMeld, Mr. Barokas was Vice President of Advertising for JumpTV. He also spent 6 years at AOL in a variety of online advertising leadership positions including senior manager on the team that developed and launched the AOL video platform. Mr. Barokas served on the IAB's Broadband Committee.

## Adam D’Angelo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Adam D’Angelo is a Founder and CEO of Quora.He previously served as Chief Technology Officer at Facebook, where he oversaw new product development and managed the engineering team. In addition, he guided the site’s architecture and infrastructure to ensure scalability as the site expanded.Prior to serving as CTO, Adam led the FacebookPlatform team and, as an engineer, built the initial infrastructure for news feed, ad targeting and delivery, and worked on scalability and optimization. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the California Institute of Technology.

## Bobby Healy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A

Bobby Healy is an experienced inventor and technology entrepreneur specialising in booking engine software. He joined CarTrawler in 2005 having begun his career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age. Prior to joining CarTrawler, Bobby founded Eland Technologies which he later sold to airline technology giant SITA and remained asCTO until 2005. His booking solutions are now in use by 80% of the world's top 20 airlines. Bobby continues to be an avid computer programmer and is a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry, ancillary revenue and online distribution.

## Stephan Schubert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Internet

Stephan Schubert works as a Managing Partner at STS Ventures

## Matthew Le Merle
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Local

Matthew Le Merle is a Managing Partner of Keiretsu Capital and Fifth Era (www.fifthera.com). Matthew was formerly the Co-President of Keiretsu Forum in San Francisco and is an expert on digitization having advised leading technology companies including eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft and PayPal on how to drive and benefit from emerging digital valuepropositions.

## Reece Chowdhry
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures - an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote andpanel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY.Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures' investments.

## Stefan Glänzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media

Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.

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