# Top 50 Music Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023

## Ludvig Linge
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, Mobile Apps

Ludvig has a background as a co-founder of the company The Astonishing Tribe, TAT, and is an active angel investor. He is passionate about helping strong teams that want to combine design and technology to create innovative companies that really make a difference.TAT became during the beginning of the 2000s, the world leader in user interfacesfor mobile phones and delivered design and software for brands like Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Google. In late 2010, TAT was sold to Canadian Research in Motion, RIM, which makes BlackBerry handsets.

## Peter Gabriel
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, TV, Supply Chain Management

Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team.

## Per Brilioth
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Transportation

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

## Yasin Sebastian Qureshi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Audio, Music, Digital Media

Yasin Sebastian Qureshi is the Co-Founder of KlickOwn and the Founder and former CEO of Varengold Bank. At the age of 29 he was the youngest person ever in Germany to obtain a license to run an investment bank. He is also the founder and former CEO of The NAGA Group AG www.naga.com as well as the founder of AQUA Digital Rising www.aquarising.com.He is an entrepreneur, investor and film producer born in Germany and based in London. His investments range from finance, to Internet and media.

## Peter Bartlett
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Music, Digital Media

Peter Bartlett

## Matt Jellicoe
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Music, Digital Media

Matt Jellicoe

## John Michaelis
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Music, Digital Media

John Michaelis

## Den Dmytrenko
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, CRM, Wearables

Co-founder and General Partner at Roosh and co-founder of Reface, ZibraAI, and Ukrainian AI/ML community AI HOUSE, which are part of the overarching Roosh ecosystem, along with venture firm Roosh Ventures, upskilling project Gathers, AI R&D company Neurons Lab, venture studio Pawa. Forbes 30 under 30 Europe.In 2018, Den Dmytrenkoco-founded Reface, the company behind the viral face-swap video app. Shortly after, he co-founded ZibraAI, a deep-tech company that creates AI-generated assets for any virtual world or experience. Den wanted to continue building breakthrough companies based on ML and working with the best founders to introduce more companies and tech into the world, so he launched Roosh. What Den and his team do at Roosh is help pioneering entrepreneurs and disruptive technologies scale globally by building, developing, and investing in them. Part of the Roosh ecosystem, is Roosh Ventures, an early-stage, generalist venture firm that invests in Pre-seed to Series A stages in the EU and US markets. The firm supports its portfolio companies through added values derived from their expertise in AI and ML.In addition, there is AI HOUSE, a Ukrainian AI community that brings together talents, experts, and investors to provide educational resources and opportunities for industry talents. Complementing this, there is Gathers, an upskilling project focused on solving the growing skill gap within the AI/ML industry. Moreover, the robust ecosystem encompasses Neurons Lab, an innovative AI R&D company, and Pawa, an ML-based venture studio.Den also take the role of angel investor and seek out additional exciting opportunities beyond Roosh.

## Gustav Nordlindh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Uppsala, Uppsala Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music

Gustav Nordlindh is a CEO at Royal Streaming.

## Colin McInnes
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Music, Digital Media

Colin McInnes

## Jacob Key
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Insurance

Jacob Key is co-founder and general partner of Luminar Ventures. Jacob has made close to 20 early stage investments in companies such as Challengermode, Gavagai, Unacast and Pacemaker - and made 3 successful exits to date in Sportamore, Vera&John and Vetzoo.

## Andrew Scott
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Andrew J Scott, Founding Partner – based in London & San Francisco. 20 years in technology, founder of 6 startups; investor since 2014.As founder launched the world’s first location based social network (Playtxt 2001; patented), online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com, 2002), trust graph/recommendation engine using machine learning(Rummble, 2007; patented). In-between did strategy consulting for VCs and Corporates including Astra Zeneca, AT&T and Alcatel Lucent.Andrew is also co-founder of ICE, a non-profit global network of tech founders and investors, established in 2009.Specialisms include: D2C, social & market networks, B2B SaaS and quantum computing.

## Jorg Mohaupt
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Music, Mobile Apps, Art

Jörg was appointed to the Board when Access Industries acquired the Company in 2007. Jörg is responsible for the media/online and telecom businesses at Access Industries, which he joined in May 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Jörg has been active in the media and communications space since 1992. Hehas, as an investor, been involved with several businesses dealing with sports rights (RGE Group, Digiturk), internet services (Bibit NV, Adyen, Speedera Networks) and content delivery (Casema NV, Comhem AB). Jörg’s current board positions include Tory Burch LLC, Rebate Networks GmbH, AINMT Holdings AB, RGE Group Limited, Icon UK Distribution Holdings Limited and Mendeley Research Networks. Prior board positions include Digiturk, Casema NV, Comhem AB, Bibit BV, VersaTel Telecom NV and Speedera Networks Inc.

## Andrew Gault
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Augmented Reality

Andrew Gault is tech startup founder with 20 years in technology; investor since 2012Ex-CTO with 14 patents issued & 28 filed. Started life at the European Space Agency, then co-founded GAIKAI in 2008 raising $45m from Benchmark, NEA and Intel; exiting to Sony for $380m. A Scotsman living on the West Coast since 2008, Andrew has an extensiveSilicon Valley network.Specialisms include: AR/VR, robotics, video tech/computer imaging and gaming.

## Holger Hübner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Audio

Holger Hübner

## Kristina Tunkrans
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music

Kristina Tunkrans is a former Partner at Cederquist, CEO of PRMD publishing/AtNight and Chief of Music, Epidemic Sound.

## Agnetha Faltskog
- Type: Angel
- Location: Jönköping, Jonkopings Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music

Agnetha Faltskog is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. She is a member of the pop group ABBA.

## Paolo Barberis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.

## Marcelo A. Benitez Albo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nuevo León, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, Musical Instruments, Media and Entertainment

Marcelo Benitez is a Partner Director at Stella Maris Partners.

## Danny Saucedo
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music, Sales, Sports

Danny Saucedo

## Shiv Prakash
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music

Shiv Prakash is a former VP of Investment at Hipgnosis Song Fund.

## Martijn Tjho
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, Education, Machine Learning

Martijn Tjho is teh Co-Founder and CEO at BIYU.

## David Cummings
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, Internet, Software

David has worked for IMI Plc, Lazard and KPMG.His early career at IMI Titanium was as a research and development metallurgist developing superconductors and titanium alloys. From 1986-2002, David worked at Lazard, where he became a Partner and the Managing Director running the TMT group in London. While there he gained a wide variety ofexperience in Corporate Finance, M&A, debt restructuring and equity capital markets based on over a decade of transactions in the TMT sectors. From 2004-2011, David was a Senior Director of KPMG Corporate Finance focusing on Business development and relationship building with medium to large corporations in the Telecom and Technology sectors.David is an active investor in early stage private technology companies and is a member of Cambridge Angels. His current portfolio consisting of 14 companies includes: Truphone , We7 , Grapeshot, Trigger (WebMynd), Ionscope, Centrix and Arachnys.

## Yat Siu
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software

Yat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze a messaging communications company that services over 40 million users today based out of Hong Kong.Yat has previously worked for Atari Germany, served as Director and Head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor, established Hong Kong Cybercity (the first free web page and e-mail providerin Asia, later renamed Freenation), as well as AT&T Solutions System Integration practice.He has been named a Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.It has been reported that Yat Siu sold Outblaze messaging to IBM to become Lotus iNotes.Yat is also responsible FON's operations in China.

## Xavier Niel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Xavier Niel currently works as the Co-Founder & CEO for NJJ Capital. Xavier Niel is the Iliad Group's majority shareholder and founder. He has been involved in the data communications, Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993, before dedicating himself full-time to developing the Group, he founded Worldnet,the first Internet service provider in France, which was sold to Kaptech (LDCom Group) in December 2000. He has been responsible for the Group's major strategic developments, from the launch of the ANNU service and the development of Internet access services based on France Télécom’s repayment scheme as a financial model to the launch of the Freebox project.

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Lorenz Bogaert is the Founder and Director of FixForm.

## John Taysom
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

John Taysom started the Reuters Venture Capital Fund in Palo Alto in 1995 making 82 investments in internet and web infrastructure and services including Verisign, UltraDNS, Digimarc, ZeroKnowledge and Intertrust. He was a member of the Board of Digimarc pre and post its Nasdaq IPO, a Board member at Intertrust and a Board member at TIBCO throughits Nasdaq IPO. To date, seventeen of his investments have achieved an IPO.John acquired the Fund in an MBO in 2002. Now London-based with a seed portfolio of thirty US and UK start-ups; one has achieved an IPO and several have been acquired by Experian, Linkedin, Tesco, BMC and others.In 2011 and 2012 John took a Fellowship at Harvard to work on privacy issues and holds EU and US patents on a method of improving privacy online. For 2015 John is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and a Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, at UCL. He is a member of the Board of the Web Science Trust; chairs Performance Horizon, a fast growing UK startup; is a Governor at Hurstpierpoint College; and runs a small farm in Devon.

## Oleg Malskyy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Music, Events, Music Streaming

Oleg Malskyy

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Apps

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Kim Fai Kok
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Men's, Music, Women's

Kim Fai Kok

## Erik Segerborg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, Analytics, E-Commerce

Erik Segerborg

## Mattias Danielsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, Marketing, Mobile Apps

Mattias Danielsson is the CEO at Yubico.

## Andrea Dusi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Verona, Veneto, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology

Entrepreneur and investor.
After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.

## Karen Chiftalaryan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Music, Events, Music Streaming

CEO at SHOW4ME.

## Oliver Tilloy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music, Banking, Internet

Oliver Tilloy, Founder of Techmind.

## Ronny Shibley
- Type: Angel
- Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Music, Privacy

Ronny Shibley - Co-Founder & CTO @ Gorillas

## Marcus Watson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Audio, Music, Internet

Marcus Watson

## Jason Epstein
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Apps, News, Music

Jason Epstein, an affiliate partner at Stonecourt Capital, is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist who has identified and developed profitable business models for a multitude of struggling companies, turning them into high-value firms. He currently sits on the Board of Harmonix Music Systems, EG7 Games, and Cold Iron Studios.Previously, Mr. Epstein was the Managing Partner of a private equity firm which he helped grow to $12.3 billion in assets under management. He also founded eLink Communications in 1998, when he was just 20 years old. As CEO, he helped raise nearly $100 million across a dozen cities. Mr. Epstein is committed to making value-driven investments and works closely with his alma mater Tufts University, Moon Valley Nurseries, and Change Summer. Most recently, he and his wife partnered with Tufts to develop a graduate certificate in Environmental Social Governance (ESG) investing. Mr. Epstein and his wife live in New York City with their three children.

## Christophe Maire
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem.

## Marco Valta
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace

Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry.
As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.

## Andrea T. Orlando
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, SaaS, Music

Andrea T. Orlando is the Managing Partner in Italy at Startup Wise Guys.

## Roberto Condulmari
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Music

Roberto Condulmari graduated from La Sapienza University in Rome. Co-founder of Kairos Group, he began his career at Citibourse Milano (Citicorp Group) as Senior Analyst, before joining Gemina as Manager of the Research Department, and then moving on to Giubergia Warburg in the same position, which he held for six years. He was named top Italiananalyst in the Extel and Institutional Investor surveys from 1993 to 1998.

## Andreas Spechtler
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: B2B, Music, Artificial Intelligence

Andreas Spechtler

## Neel Sachdev
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Music, Internet, Social Media

Neel Sachdev is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Neel represents financial sponsors and their affiliates on the financing of multi-jurisdictional leveraged buyouts and other complex financing transactions in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Neel advises on a wide range of complex financing transactions includingsponsor led leveraged financings, asset backed lending and securitisations, commercial paper and capital markets deals and derivatives.

## Niko Alm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, Digital Media, Music Streaming

Niko Alm

## Lukas Scherzenlehner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Waidhofen, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Music, Digital Media, Music Streaming

Lukas Scherzenlehner - General Manager @ Cleen Energy

## Sebastian Knutsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Music, Public Transportation

Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.

## Marc Menase
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Advertising

Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor

## Oli Farago
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, Financial Services

Oli Farago Founder & CEO at Coyote Software. He attended Culford School during 1996-2002.

## Sebastien Borget
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

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