# Top 50 Medical Device Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023

## Pierre Rigaux
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ougrée, Liege, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Sports, Medical Device

Pierre Rigaux

## 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

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Apps

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Simanta Das
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Education

Simanta Das is a Managing Partner at Stalhmarg and Founder of Rising Stars Ventures.

## Paul Heydon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps

30 years as a founder, operator, investor, and advisor. Previously Paul was a Co-Founder and General Partner at LVP. Paul has invested in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity (NYSE:U), Matchmade, Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), AppOnboard, FRVR,Starform, Gameclub, Coherence, Lucid Sight, Doppio Games, Capture, Flick, EvenPrime, Tellie & Litho and others. Previously, he was an investment banker at Avista Partners, Commerzbank Securities & ING Barings. He has both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.

## Dino Giusti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wellness, Health Care, Medical Device

Dino Giusti

## Chip Hance
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Chip Hance

## Juan Knuth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sant Cugat Del Vallès, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Digital Media

Juan Knuth

## Carlos Gallardo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Carlos Gallardo

## Daniel Caille
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Elderly, Medical, Software

Daniel Caille

## Tim Jackson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Tim Jackson is the Founder, CEO, General Partner & Partner of Walking Ventures & he attended University of Oxford in in 1983.

## Mark Bamforth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

Mark Bamforth is the Operating Partner at Ampersand Capital Partners.

## Martin Tajur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Recruiting

Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

## Ariel Poler
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Social Media, Internet

Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

## Luca Trevisan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Siena, Toscana, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Luca Trevisan Sales Manager and Business Coordinator.

## Ragnar Sass
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Ragnar Sass has strongest skill is to find the best people and keep them rocking in speed of 200 km/h. He has organized 20+ Hack-a-thons Garage48 in Eastern Europe + West & East-Africa. He advise other founders and share experience where it could help.

## Hampus Jakobsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.

## Guillaume Richard
- Type: Angel
- Location: Le Mans, Pays de la Loire, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Software, Health Care

Guillaume Richard is the Founder, Chairman & CEO at Oui Care.He attended EDHEC Business School.

## Tim Dempsey
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Tim Dempsey is a Managing Partner at Epiphany Capital. He graduated from the University of Manchester.

## Laura Iris Ferro
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical Device

Laura Iris Ferro

## Ali Omar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

## Bob Davis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Social Network

Bob Davis is a General Partner at Highland Capital Partners and an Executive Chairman at Highland Transcend Partners. He was a CEO at Lycos. Bob attended Northeastern University and Babson College.

## Giovanni Leo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Giovanni Leo is the Partner at Efficient Frontier Investing.

## Sacha Loiseau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Gaming

Sacha Loiseau is the Chairman and Founder at Mauna Kea Technologies. He attended Polytechnic university.

## Yves Beudin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

Yves Beudin

## Siddarth Satish
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device

Siddarth Satish is the Chief Executive Officer of Gauss Surgical. He founded the company in 2011 and served as CTO and Chairman of the Board until 2015. In his operating roles, he has led the company from invention through six US/EU regulatory approvals (including FDA De Novo), and into its commercial phase of growth. Siddarth previouslyserved as an EIR at StartX, Stanford’s Startup Accelerator, and as a SIMdesign Fellow at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.S. in Bioengineering from the UC Berkeley/UCSF Joint Graduate Group in Bioengineering, and he is a named inventor on over 25 issued or pending patents.

## Adam Niewinski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

Co-Founder and General Partner in OTB Ventures Graduated from the Warsaw School of Economics and is also Alumni of Stanford University - Graduate School of Business. Founder and CEO of Expander (Poland) as well as Co-Founder of Platinum Bank (Ukraine). Adam Niewiński started his professional career in 1997 at The Boston Consulting Group where heworked as a consultant specialized in financial services sector. As of 2000 he was building a team, acquired financing and subsequently established Expander, which became probably the first polish FinTech. Since 2002 up till 2017 had been associated with the UniCredit Group where he started working in the Central Brokerage House of Bank Pekao S.A. as Deputy CEO responsible for all business activities (investment banking and wealth management). Next, he became CEO of Xelion Investment House – a failed corporate start up that he successfully relaunched to become a leading platform for Personal Financial Advisers with $1b of AuA. In 2015 he was appointed Deputy CEO of Bank PEKAO SA responsible for Private Banking Division as well as Small and Mid Corpo acquisition and financing. He was also the Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Xelion Investment House, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Private Equity Managers, Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Central Brokerage House of Bank Pekao S.A., Member of the Supervisory Board of Pekao Investment Banking, and Member of the Management Board of the Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts by the Zachęta Gallery – National Gallery of Art.

## Josefin Landgård
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Women's

Josefin Landgård is the Founder and CEO of Mantle. Previously she served as the Co-Founder and COO at KRY back in March 2014 to September 2018.

## Ina Schlie
- Type: Angel
- Location: Walldorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Learning, Training, Biotechnology

Ina Schlie serves as co-chair of the female investor network encourage ventures.

## Maciej Frankowicz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology, Information Technology

Maciej Frankowicz is the CEO and Partner at Shape.vc. He is also an Investor in AdTonos, Scanye, Sherlock Waste, and Aether Biomedical. Prior to that, he was the Business Developer and co-founder of AudioTrip.

## Jean Dessain
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology

Jean Dessain - Non Executive Director @ OneLIFE

## Emil Sjödin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: B2B, Pet, Software

Emil Sjödin has been serving as Chief Executive Officer at RefinedWiki since December 2013.

## Steen Thygesen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Debt Financing
- Focus: Medical Device, Product Design

Steen Thygesen is the CEO of Audientes. He previously worked at Star as a Managing Director, Nordics. Steen Thygesen attended London Business School.

## Richard Leparmentier
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device

Richard Leparmentier

## Maria Rankka
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical Device, Medical, Health Care

Maria Rankka

## Fabio Faltoni
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Fabio Faltoni is the President of Kell.

## Leonid Shapiro
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Nanotechnology

Leonid Shapiro is a managing partner at Candesic. He is also a partner at Brookstreet Equity Partners. Prior to joining Brookstreet, Leonid served as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company.

## Penny Schiffer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Finance

Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai

## Guillaume Glaunès
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Apps

Angel Investor

## Stine Molgaard Sorensen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Software, Health Care

Stine Molgaard Sorensen is the Co-founder and COO of Radiobotics.

## Paul Thandi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Paul is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the NEC Group, the UK’s leading live events business, which owns; the NEC, ICC, Vox, Resorts World Arena, Utilita Arena Birmingham, The Ticket Factory and Amadeus.He was appointed Group CEO in 2006, bringing over 20 years’ experience in the media industry.Paul has since transformed the Groupinto a customer-centric and data-led organisation, whilst increasing its portfolio of businesses and venues, and leading the company through changes of ownership in 2015 and 2018.

## Ingela Hallberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Medical Device

Ingela Hallberg

## Cliff Emmons
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Cliff Emmons is the Chief Executive Officer of Oxys.

## Ferrante Gaetani,
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Medical Device

Ferrante Gaetani,

## Rosario Bifulco
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Art, Medical, Blockchain

Rosario Bifulco, president of the auction house Finarte S.p.A.

## E. U.
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Social Impact

E. U.

## Yann Fleureau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device

Yann sets the vision and strategic direction for Cardiologs and is the guardian of company culture. He is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is recognized as a thought leader in the application of AI in healthcare. Yann graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Biology from Ecole Polytechnique Paris (X) and the Silicon ValleyInnovation and Entrepreneurship program at UC Berkeley.He was recently named one of MIT Technology Review's Innovators Under 35 in Europe and BNP Paribas European Innovator of the Year. Yann is passionate about the intersection of new technology & clinical practice and is excited to be building a leading company that will help usher in a new era for healthcare worldwide.

## Björn Andersson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsingborg, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Medical Device

Björn Andersson is members of the board at Techinova AB.

## Håkan Svanberg,
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device

Håkan Svanberg,

## Ali Ciger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Machine Learning

Ali is the Head of Vaccines for Pfizer Germany. He was previously part of the global rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine.
He is investing at early stage Digital Health startups, being part of Sprinboard Health Angels (www.springboardangels.com).
He is also a Newton Fellow, the joint program of London Business School and Local Globe.

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