# Top 40 Marketplace Angel Investors in Austria in May 2026

## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 5
- 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.

## Schnidar Harald
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: mHealth, Software, Biopharma

Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Scientist and Inventor

## Patrick Poschl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Consulting

Patrick spent over 8 years in the financial service industry based in Vienna and London. Most recently before Scalable at Goldman Sachs in London, he was working in the team responsible for structuring of financial products and developments of electronic trading platforms. Patrick studied international business at the Vienna University of Economicsand Business. Additionally, during his studies, he was self-employed as an IT-specialist.

## Ariel Luedi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS

Ariel Luedi is a Founder at Hammer Team - Growth Accelerator. He attended the ETH Zurich.

## Peter Schicho
- Type: Angel
- Location: Villach, Karnten, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Billing, Payments

Peter Schicho

## Suvi Haimi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, E-Commerce

Suvi Haimi is the founder and CEO Sulapac, a company that develops fully biodegradable packaging material innovation made out of wood. Most recently, he was an adjunct professor at the University of Helsinki (Clinicum, Faculty of Medicine).

## Ingo Drexler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

## Carsten Maschmeyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

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.

## Roderik van Kessenich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Villach, Karnten, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Billing, Payments

Roderik van Kessenich

## Hermann Hauser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Hermann Hauser co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover and Peter Wynn. In his long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Hermann has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers (where he helped spin out ARM), Active Book Company,Virata, Net Products, NetChannel and Cambridge Network Limited. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited (acquired by Cambridge Display Technology), Electronic Share Information Limited, E*Trade UK and has supported many other start-ups.Hermann’s successes at Amadeus include: CSR plc (LON: CSR); Entropic Research Laboratory (acquired by Microsoft in 1999); Solexa (acquired by Illumina in 2007); and Icera (acquired by Nvidia in 2011). He is currently a non-executive director of XMOS, a company that is revolutionising re-configurable silicon chips; Intune Networks, a pioneer in the field of Optical Packet Switch & Transport; Tobii, the world leader in eye tracking and gaze detection; Plastic Logic, the first company to commercialize flexible plastic transistors (currently used in computer displays); and Cambridge Broadband Networks, a leader in point-to-multipoint wireless backhaul products.Hermann holds an MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Hermann holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough and from Anglia Ruskin University and was awarded an Honorary CBE for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector’ in 2001. In 2004, he was made a member of the Government’s Council for Science & Technology. In 2012 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his contribution to the translation of science into business, and in 2013 a Distinguished Fellow of BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT.Austrian by birth, Hermann speaks German, English and conversational Italian and French.

## 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.

## Klaus Hofbauer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Linz, Oberosterreich, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Apps, Music

Klaus Hofbauer - Owner @ karriere.at

## Joerg Floeck
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Apps, SaaS, Travel

Joerg Floeck - Managing Partner @ Speedinvest

## Ali Rezaei Ashtiani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce

Ali Rezaei Ashtiani

## Heissam Hartmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Shopping

Over 15 years experience in the Internet industry back Heissam Hartmann's solid knowledge about the online business.Prior to joining Rebate Networks as the Vice President of Eastern Europe, Heissam was Head of International Business Development at the largest German online fashion shopping club brands4friends. Before that, Heissam was CEOof the online postcard service AhaOho, which sent real postcards, and was soon successfully sold to Greetz.As the former Marketing & Business Development Director from the biggest German online video community MyVideo, Heissam, worked on new concepts for new media and video advertising within the online and media industry.He started his career as one of the first staff members at the German auction platform Alando.de, which was acquired by eBay in 1999. He grew with the company as Head of Entertainment on to the position of Senior Manager, helping to build up eBay Switzerland and Austria from the scratch.On an entrepreneurial level he co-founded various companies and, as a Business Angel, advises start-ups in building and growing their businesses. Following his passion he also co-founded fashion brands and personally supported motion pictures and music projects.As the founder of Passiontainment, he advises influential people from the entertainment & sports industries and celebrities on their internet strategies and by that, bridges the worlds between influential investors and up-and-coming startups.

## Erik Blachford
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Travel, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Currently a Venture Partner at Technology Crossover Ventures, Erik has previously served as CEO of Expedia, Inc. and IAC/InterActiveCorp's travel division, IAC Travel (including online travel businesses Expedia, Hotels.com, Hotwire, Classic Custom Vacations and Interval International), CEO at Butterfield & Robinson and CEO atTerrapass, Inc.His prior positions at Expedia Inc. included SVP of Marketing & Planning and various roles in product management. Erik is an active private company investor, serving on boards including Glassdoor, Zillow, Siteminder, Liftopia and Terrapass, and participates in non-profit boards including EcoAmerica, The Cutting Ball Theatre and the US National Council of the World Wildlife Fund.Erik holds a bachelor's degree in English and certificate in theatre from Princeton University and a master's in business administration from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business.

## Markus Weiss
- Type: Angel
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce

Markus Weiss is the Chief Financial Officer of Degussa Goldhandel. He previously worked at Porsche Automobil Holding and attended the University of Mannheim.

## Max Schnoedl
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Retail

Max Schnoedl is an independent board director, advisor and investor.He currently serves as Chairman emeritus of Springbrook. Previously, Max was President/CEO of Springbrook and COO, CFO and CSO of Accela. In addition, he also served as Board Chair of BRZ, Deputy Board Chair of Österreichische Post and Investment Committee Member ofÖsterreichische Beteiligungs AG. Prior to that, Max served as the Vice President of Deutsche Bank in San Francisco and New York, and previously held positions in Moscow, Russia and Frankfurt, Germany. Max holds an MBA from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of Vienna, Austria.

## Daniel Marwan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Internet of Things

Daniel Marwan

## Axel Kühner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Retail, Machine Learning

Axel Kühner is the CEO of Greiner. He attended VWA Stuttgart | Academy of Administration and Economics.

## 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.

## Heinz Senger-Weiss
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Internet of Things

Heinz Senger-Weiss

## Martin Kreiger
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods

Martin Kreiger

## Sjaak Fleer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods

Sjaak Fleer

## Zaid Al-Aifari
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, FinTech, Big Data

Zaid Al-Aifari

## Anne Lemcke
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Personal Health, Manufacturing, Bakery

Anne Lemcke

## Stefan Lemcke
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Manufacturing, Bakery, Cosmetics

Stefan Lemcke

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Amir Preindl
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce

Amir Preindl

## Ralf Dummel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Bootstrapped Debt Financing
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Bootstrapped Debt Financing

## Georg Kofler
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet

Georg Kofler is an angel investor.

## Emir Selimovic
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods

Emir Selimovic

## Markus Zengerer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods

Markus Zengerer

## Romain Afflelou
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Software

Romain spearheaded the digital strategy of Alain Afflelou Group before becoming an investor in numerous start-ups. He uses his fine-tuned analysis skills to support and invest in innovative start-ups. In addition to being a major shareholder and Co founder of Cosmo Connected a French start-up specialized in connected objects related to security andmobility.Romain is Director and Board member of Multiwave Technologies /develops breakthrough metamaterial technologies to improve people's lives.Serial investor in +50Tech companies6over6 (Acquired by 1-800 contacts)
Cityscoot
Clay Inc VR
Cowboy Bike
Epicery
Everoad (Ex Convargo)
Fithouse
Fré Skincare
Fokoya
Guillotine Vodka
Klassroom
Laminate Technologies
MeetFabric
Molotov TV
Multiwave Technologies
Nestor
Octopus
Officeriders
Onoff telecom
Pledg
Quiqup
Universal Standard
Shapr
Spendesk
Zipdrug...(Acquire by Anthem Pharmacy)

## Jutta Moll-Marwan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Internet of Things

Jutta Moll-Marwan is the Senior Policy Advisor at Federal Ministry for Agriculture, Regions and Tourism.

## Albert Schmidbauer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Food Processing, Food and Beverage

Albert Schmidbauer is the Founder and Owner of Biogena Group.

## Bas Godska
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Machine Learning

General Partner & Founder Acrobator Ventures, Tech Investment Fund.
Founder Acrobator.com, growth hack and marketing advisory firm.
Digital Dutchman, entrepreneur-turned-investor. eCommerce expert, growth hacker and marketeer since 2000.
Assisted 100+ companies worldwide as CMO, MD, board advisor, consultant.
Personal angel investmentportfolio, overall company value nearing $3BN, follow-ons raised (>$150 MN) from Accel, Iconiq, Insight Ventures, EBRD, Techstars, Acrobator Ventures. Ranked #1 Foreign Angel Investor in Russia (EWDN); Top 10 Angel Investor (Firrma.ru/SLON), Crunchbase: #1 Dutch (2019) & Top 50 EU angel investor. Techcrunch / Crunchbase: "Bas Godska is one of the most prolific Western investors in Eastern Europe."Roles Europe/Russia/CIS (2003-2019):
CMO lastminute.com ; Country Manager Sportingbet ; CMO Europe Ebookers.com / Orbitz.com ; MD Gogol Media.
CMO / dep. CEO Ozon.ru ; VP Marketing Gloria Jeans ; CMO Lamoda.ru (Rocket Internet) ; CMO Digital KupiVIP.ru ; eCommerce Director a.i. Enter | Svyaznoi ; MD myThings.com ; Guest Lecturer Digital Marketing at Moscow School of Management MBA (3 years).Portfolio:
miro.com; harver.com; travelata.ru (co-founder); Chocofamily Holding: chocotravel.kz, chocolife.me, aviata.kz, chocomart.kz (exit), lensmark.kz, rahmet.kz, chocofood.kz, iDoctor.kz, HRbot;
Newzmate.com (partial exit to Piano.io); storyterrace.com, getobjectiv.com; Crossss (sold to Leadhit); clockster.com; linkpizza.com; zakaz.ua; urbandine.nl; 6nomads.com, instreamatic.ai., omdena.com, aura-aware.com, awesomic.com, memoryOS.com,
VC investments: leapfunder.com; respeecher.com; letsenhance.io; studyfree.org.

## Christoph Prinz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Travel, Rental, Sailing

Private angel investor.

## Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, Service Industry

Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt is the Purchasing & Accounting at AGATEX Feinchemie GmbH. Nikolaus Bauer-Harnoncourt attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business)

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