# Top 35 Medical Device Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## Agah Uğur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, CRM

Agah Uğur

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

Manny Kadre

## Carlos Gallardo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Carlos Gallardo

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

E. U.

## John Spearman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: TV, FinTech, Finance

John Spearman - Founder & Former Chief Executive @ Classic FM

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

Imran Hakim, Optometrist, Inventor, and Serial Entrepreneur.

## 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.

## Patrick Hurst
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: 3D Printing, Health Care, 3D Technology

Patrick Hurst

## Vince Proffitt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sandy Spring, Maryland, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Medical Device

Vince Proffitt is the Founder and President of Spartan Medical. He attended United States Air Force Academy.

## Robert Marshall
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1

Robert Marshall is Executive Chairman of Martlet Capital.

## Ali Karabey
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, iOS, Marketing

Ali Karabey is a managing director at 212, a venture capital fund that focuses on investments in internet, communication and technology companies.Karabey also currently serves on the boards of several e-commerce companies, including Butigo.com, an online fashion retail start-up focusing on fast fashion; Balerin.com, a front-runner in theonline personal care vertical; and Hazinem.com, an online jewelry store.After graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in finance, Ali resumed his career in Arthur Andersen’s New York office in the Corporate Finance department, executing mid-market transactions in the technology, media and telecommunications industries.In 2002, he joined Morgan Stanley Capital International and managed North American and European finance teams consecutively. He was also involved in the valuation, due diligence, and post-acquisition integration of acquisition targets.After Morgan Stanley, Karabey transferred to Deutsche Bank and focused on the bank’s principal investments.Prior to 212, Karabey moved back to Istanbul in 2008, where he provided consultancy services to clients in the government and private sector on PPP, project finance, and private equity advisory projects. Karabey is a member of Galata Business Angels, Istanbul’s premier angel investor organization, and also serves on the Endeavor Advisory Board.

## John Lloyd
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Health Care, Education, Wellness

John Lloyd

## Jim Breyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Financial Services, Software

Jim Breyer - Co-Founder @ Accel-KKR

## Flaviu Simihaian
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Rehabilitation

Flaviu Simihaian is the co-founder and CEO of Troy Medicare, the first pharmacy-powered, AI-driven Medicare Advantage plan. Flaviu also co-founded and is the chairman of Amplicare (previously iMedicare), a web-based SaaS platform that 7,000 pharmacies use to manage and grow their business.

## 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.

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

Dr. Desai brings a variety of medical industry, health policy, and clinical academic experiences to Avinger. Initially joining Avinger as a consultant in 2009, Dr. Desai helped to direct and publish the pivotal CONNECT study, which successfully established FDA clearance for Avinger’s Wildcat and Kittycat CTO crossing catheters. After joiningAvinger full time in 2012, Dr. Desai has expanded his focus to oversee health economics, reimbursement, clinical evidence generation, and scientific theory. In that time, Avinger has successfully published more than twenty manuscripts, clinical conference presentations, and case series. Most recently, Dr. Desai and his team successfully conducted and published the first ever peer reviewed Lumivascular manuscripts hallmarking a large European case series and the landmark CONNECT II clinical trial for the Ocelot catheter. Prior to Avinger, Dr. Desai served as a consultant and advisor for Incline Therapeutics, developing the IONSYS transdermal fentanyl delivery system. Additionally, Dr. Desai has consulted with pharmaceutical development targeting cancer therapeutics and healthcare IT development for capture of real time quality- metric assessment and implementation.Prior to management consulting, Dr. Desai served as a fellow in the US House Policy Committee, advising members of Congress on healthcare legislation. Additionally, Dr. Desai represented the US State Department and Rotary International as an Ambassador of Goodwill to Singapore where he led vaccine prophylaxis campaigns and lectured in the department of health economics at the National University of Singapore.Dr. Desai maintains his clinical practice as adjunct faculty at Stanford University in the department of Anesthesia where he completed his advanced anesthesia residency training. Dr. Desai holds an M.D. from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Oklahoma.

## Michael Bristow
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Real Estate, SaaS, Software

Mike Bristow, CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdProperty (www.crowdproperty.com), the leading specialist property peer-to-peer lender in the UK. Actual property development and investment experience lies at the heart of CrowdProperty meaning hands-on, expertise-led due diligence and loan monitoring. Lending is focused on the SME property developer market,a key segment for supplying much needed UK housing stock, which is poorly and inefficiently served by traditional funding sources.CrowdProperty's unique combination of data, analytics, tech, expertise, rigour, relationships, security, extent of value chain disruption and vision means we stand out in sustainably delivering a better deal to lenders and borrowers alike through high-quality, institution-grade lending with huge potential ahead.

## Inaki Berenguer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Enterprise Software

Inaki Berenguer is the President and Co-founder at iPronics Programmable Photonics.

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

## George Robinson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Mobile Apps

George Robinson is the Founder of Oxford Investment Consultants LLP. He attended the University of Oxford.

## Nicolas Berggruen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Nicolas Berggruen is the Founder and Chairman of the Berggruen Institute. He attended New York University.

## Fred Moll, M.D
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Medical Device, Health Care, Medical

Frederic H. Moll, M.D. serves as Chief Development Officer of Johnson & Johnson’s Digital Surgery Group. Prior to Johnson & Johnson, Dr. Moll was CEO of Auris Health, Inc., located in Redwood City, California. Prior to Auris, Dr. Moll founded Hansen Medical and served as the company’s first CEO, and in 1995, founded Intuitive Surgical,Inc. (Nasdaq: ISRG).Dr. Moll earned a M.D. from the University of Washington, School of Medicine, a M.S. degree in Management from Stanford University’s Sloan Program, and a B.A. degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

## Ilkay Gundogan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Social Impact

Ilkay Gundogan

## Evan Cheng
- Type: Angel
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology

Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University.

## Jon Claydon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, App Marketing

Jon Claydon

## 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.

## Jonathan Milner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.

## Maurice Ferre, M.D.
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Medical Device, Medical, Health Care

Dr. Maurice R. Ferré was the founding President and Chief Executive Officer of MAKO Surgical Corp, serving from 2004 until the acquisition of the company by Stryker Corp. for $1.7 billion in 2014.In June 2007, Dr. Ferré received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 award for emerging companies in Florida. In 1993, he foundedVisualization Technology, Inc., a medical device company for image-guided surgery, where he served as Chief Executive Officer until 2002 when the company was acquired by GE Healthcare, the healthcare division of the General Electric Company. Dr. Ferré served as Vice President of Strategic Development for GE Navigation, a Division of GE Healthcare, until 2004.Dr. Ferré holds an M.D. and a Master’s degree in Public Health from Boston University.

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

Elan Katz, CEO at Quick RX.

## Martin Varsavsky
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Social Media, Health Care, Mobile

Martin Varsavsky is an Argentine/Spanish entrepreneur, founder of ten companies over the course of his career.
In 1984, while still in college, Martin started his first business, Urban Capital Corporation, one of the early leaders of the loft movement in downtown Manhattan.
This was soon followed in 1986 by Medicorp Services, a Canadianbiotechnology company, a pioneer in AIDS and PSA testing.
Martin's third business, Viatel Ltd., Martin’s first venture into the world of telecom, was founded in 1990. This company is best known for inventing call back and building the first pan European fiber optic network ahead of liberalization. Martin’s best-known ventures were founded during the last decade. In 1998, Martin started Jazz Telecomunicaciones (Jazztel), Spain’s second largest publicly traded telecom operator.
In 1999 Martin founded Ya.com, Spain’s third largest internet web site/DSL provider that includes the second largest Spanish language web agency www.viajar.com. But not all of Martin’s companies were successful.
In 2000, Martin started Germany’s leading cloud computing company, Einsteinet, and the company was sold in 2003 at no return to him or investors. In 2005, Martin founded Fon. With over 23 million hotspots, Fon is the largest WiFi network in the world. The company is headquartered in Madrid, Spain but its customers are worldwide. Its investors include Atomico, British Telecom, Coral Group, Skype, Google, and Index Ventures. In 2014 Martin joined the Supervisory Board of Axel Springer, the largest media company in Germany. In 2015, Martin founded Prelude Fertility, which raised $200M in financing and is now one of the largest networks of fertility clinics in the United States. Prelude Fertility offers egg freezing, IVF, and egg donation. In 2017, Martin started VAS Ventures in partnership with Axel Springer to invest in early stage ventures across Europe and the USA. In 2019, Martin launched the MVB fund, a $200M fund of funds based in Spain. MVB invests in top performing venture capital funds and pre-IPO technology companies. Martin also manages the Varsavsky Foundation and is best known as the founder of two large educational projects in Latin America – Educ.ar (Argentina) and EducarChile (Chile) and the Safe Democracy Foundation.
Martin was Ambassador at Large of Argentina from 2001 to 2005. He is also on the Board of Trustees of the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation, and is a Member of the Board of Directors at Instituto de Empresa, Spain’s leading business school, where he taught entrepreneurship for eight years. Since 2012 he teaches entrepreneurship at Columbia University and New York University.
Martin has written numerous articles on business and international relations that have been published in several international publications including El Pais and Newsweek. Martin is also a frequent speaker at conferences around the world and an active blogger. He is the recipient of various honors and rewards.
Martin received his BA, from New York University, and holds a MA, in International Affairs and an MBA from Columbia University. In his spare time, Martin enjoys spending time with his family, cycling, piloting, photography and sailing.
Martin is married to Nina Varsavsky and has seven children.

## 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

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