Top 15 Non Profit Angel Investors in Europe (October 2023)

Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.

Investment focus

Industry: Non Profit, Software, Venture Capital
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$1.7M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
Brewbot — Brewbot is dedicated to the wonderful world of beer and beerbrewing
Purple Elephant Ventures — We are Africa's first venture studio focusing on the travel & tourism sector. Our aim is to build businesses that will lead Africa's tourism industry to a greener future

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Mike Lee is Co-Founder of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Prior to founding MyFitnessPal, Mike co-founded NextC, a venture-funded startup focused on building online communities. During his 20 year tenure in the technology industry, Mike has held leadership positions at several other top start-upsin Silicon Valley, including Palm, Handspring, Beyond.com and Regis McKenna. Mike graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a B.A. in Economics.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Fitness, Wellness
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
Geography: United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Round size: Seed $375k–$3.1M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Super.com — Through rich rewards and everyday savings, Super helps you access more of what you want at better prices, escape overspending, and level up life.
SwingVision — Real-Time Automated Video Analysis for Tennis
Sunnyside — Cutback Coach is a developer of an alcohol tracking app to help people build healthier habits around their drinking. It offers a custom plan based on current drinking habits and goals, then set a daily reminder via text message that help users set the limit of their drinking habit.

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Brian Caulfield is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist and angel investor. He is a General Partner at DFJ Esprit (http://www.dfjesprit.com/).Brian currently sits on the boards of Datahug, Movidius, MTT, Clavis Technology and the Irish Times, Ireland's leading daily newspaper. He is also a personal investor in a number ofearly stage technology companies including Cicero Networks, GridStore and Teamer.From 2002 to 2007 Brian was a partner at Trinity Venture Capital. At TVC Brian sat on the boards of or led investments in AePONA (sold to Intel - Nasdaq: INTC), ChangingWorlds (Amdocs - NYSE: DOX), CR2, SteelTrace (Compuware - NASDAQ: CPWR) and APT (CSR LSE:CSR.L). Previously, in 1992 Brian co-founded Exceptis Technologies. Exceptis provided dispute management software for the electronic/card payments sector and was sold to Trintech Group (NASDAQ: TTPA) in November 2000. In 2001 Brian co-founded Similarity Systems, a business focused data quality management software company that was acquired by Informatica (NASDAQ: INFA) in January 2006. Brian was also a founder director and shareholder of Prediction Dynamics, which failed in 2004.Brian is a Computer Engineering graduate of Trinity College Dublin. Brian was the 2007 recipient of the Irish Software Association's "Technology Person of the Year" award. In 2010 he also received the Halo Business Angel Network's Business Angel of the Year award.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Mobile, Apps
Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 14
Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

Inclusio — The inclusio diversity and inclusion platform is designed to measure and positively shift the culture of your organisation. Contact us for more information.
Moby Bikes — Moby Bikes is an innovative start-up company focused on developing and bringing to market a range of electric mobility solutions for cities and individuals.
Marker Content — Marker Content is a female-founded online article marketplace where freelancers and copywriters can upload their pre-written or new articles free of charge. Businesses download the content for their marketing needs, edit and rebrand it and use it for their newsletters, blogs, social media posts and websites. Marker Content is the Shutterstock ofWords.

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Peter is a partner at Vitruvian; a venture partner at BlueYard and LocalGlobe; an advisor to Entrepreneur First, Future Positive Capital, and StrongMinds; and a Trustee of Frazzled Cafe, Doteveryone, and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. He is an angel investor/advisor in over 100 tech startups

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Apps, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series E, Angel
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 18
Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
Snap.hr — Sign up to Snap.hr now to get headhunted by 500+ other tech companies
Car Throttle — The internet's car community

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Victor Parker - Managing Director @ Spectrum Equity

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Education
Stage:Private Equity, Seed
Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

Total investments: 12
Round size: Private Equity $57M–$144M
Lead/follow: 58% lead, 42% follow

Portfolio highlights

ChangeX — Find and start ideas that will transform your community. ChangeX provides everything you need to jumpstart projects you are passionate about!
Ease — Ease is a purpose-built benefits administration system making the enrollment experience easy from start to finish. Because benefits matter.
DispatchTrack — Our last mile delivery platform leverages AI-powered route optimization and a real-time order tracker to elevate the customer experience. Book a demo today

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Michael Spencer is Chairman of the Intercapital Private Group Ltd and a director of Bordeaux Index Ltd. Michael is the chairman of The Conservative Party Foundation Ltd and stepped down from his role as Treasurer of the Conservative Party in October 2010.Michael is 61. His interests include running, wine, art, politics and military history. Hefounded ICAP Charity Day in 1993 where for one day each year the Company’s global revenue, including broker commissions, were donated to charity. Over 24 years, the event raised nearly £135 million for 2,200 charities worldwide.Michael was named the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year 2010 and in April 2011, ICAP won a Queen’s Award for Enterprise in the International Trade category. As Britain's most coveted business prize, the Queen’s Awards recognise outstanding achievement by UK companies. The award is formally conferred by a Grant of Appointment and is symbolised through a presentation given by Her Majesty's Lord Lieutenants as The Queen's local representatives. This was the second time that ICAP received a Queen’s Award in this category, having been named a winner in 2005.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Cyber Security, Security
Stage:Seed, Series B
Geography: United Kingdom, Isle of Man

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.1M; Series B $17M–$100M
Lead/follow: 88% lead, 12% follow

Portfolio highlights

TapSimple — Hello! We're GiveStar (the new TapSimple) and we're giving fundraisers everywhere the tools they need to unlock more donations than ever before.
Youtility — Youtility is a free app that brings all your home finances into one place. Track, compare, switch and save, all in-app. Every year we spend over 50% of our salaries on home finances yet managing and tracking these accounts is a modern day nightmare. Youtility is on a mission to provide a simple and smart solution.
agora Digital Capital Markets Ltd — Digital Debt Capital Markets is a fintech company

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Marcel Hermann

Investment focus

Industry: Security, Non Profit, Association
Stage:Series A
Geography: Belgium

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Kaspard — Kaspard is a non-intrusive system that provides more security to residents while respecting their privacy.

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Lord Mervyn Davies

Investment focus

Industry: Retail, Fashion, Internet
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

CUDONI — Buy and sell preloved designer clothing, bags, shoes & accessories at Sign of the Times. Current season authentic pre-owned luxury fashion at sale prices.
TapSimple — Hello! We're GiveStar (the new TapSimple) and we're giving fundraisers everywhere the tools they need to unlock more donations than ever before.

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Dominic Burke

Investment focus

Industry: Finance, Insurance, Non Profit
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Cuvva — 500,000 people are chooosing radically better car insurance. Join them. Get a quote now. Insurance made easy.
TapSimple — Hello! We're GiveStar (the new TapSimple) and we're giving fundraisers everywhere the tools they need to unlock more donations than ever before.

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Anders Holch Povlsen is the CEO at Bestseller.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Education
Stage:Series B, Secondary Market
Geography: Denmark, Sweden, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 13
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Bambuser — We make live streaming go live shopping, empowering retailers with immediate conversion, feedback and engagement from their audience.
Plandisc — Plandisc is a effective planning tool for strategic planning within, for instance, the board of directors, the organisation or at the school.
Fashion Cloud — Smart, efficient and connected. - Meet Europes leading all-in-one platform for Content, Order and B2B. >>> Learn more

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Alex Khein is a Chief Executive Officer at BlueBay Asset Management.

Investment focus

Industry: CRM, SaaS, Video
Stage:Angel, Seed
Geography: Canada, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Angel $450k–$1.5M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

MediaCore — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Believe.in — Believe.in provides a white label technology that improves online fundraising, donation processing, and event performance of non-profit organizations.Available in multiple markets, languages, and currencies, Believe.in supports 2.8 million non-profit organizations globally and is easily customized and integrated into any non-profitorganization’s website and existing back-office toolkit.Believe.in was founded in May 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
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Shay is a founding partner of Frontline Ventures and one of the most active and experienced early stage technology investors in Europe. He was part of the core team of Delta Partners that raised 4 funds and €235m between 1994-2007. He has invested in 25 early stage tech companies and achieved exits over a number of cycles. He has deep networksamong investors and the entrepreneurial community in Ireland and USA.Earlier in his career Shay worked in industry with Exxon and Corning before joining McKinsey. Shay then returned to Ireland and spent seven years in the Irish start up scene as a founder/investor in two companies and CEO of a major food exporter before joining the venture capital industry.Shay has served on the boards of the Irish Venture Capital Association, the Trinity College Science Gallery and the Harvard Business School European Leadership Council.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, FinTech, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Ireland, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 10
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.1M
Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow

Portfolio highlights

Appital — Real-time visibility, full transparency and maximum control over the bookbuilding and deal distribution process in publicly listed equities.
ChangeX — Find and start ideas that will transform your community. ChangeX provides everything you need to jumpstart projects you are passionate about!
Linked Finance — Fast, no hassle business loans, working capital and stocking loans from Ireland's largest peer to peer (P2P) commercial finance provider.

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William S. McKiernan, Bill founded CyberSource Corp. in 1994 and served as its Chief Executive Officer from December 1997 to January 1, 2010. Mr. McKiernan served as Chief Executive Officer of Beyond.com corp., from 1994 to March 1998. From 1992 to 1994, he was employed by Network Associates (formerly known as McAfee Associates, Inc.) a developerof computer security software, where he served as President and Chief Operating Officer during its initial public offering since October 1992. Prior to joining McAfee Associates in 1992, Mr. McKiernan served as Vice President of Princeton Venture Research, Inc., an investment banking and venture consulting firm from 1990 to 1992. He also held management positions with IBM/ROLM, a telecommunications company, and Price Waterhouse. He is the Founder of CyberSource Limited and serves as its Executive Chairman. He served as Chairman of the Board of Cybersource Corp. since December 1997. He Founded Beyond.com, an online reseller of computer software, in 1994 and served as its Chairman of the Board since March 1998. He serves as a Director of Vertical Software, Inc. He served as a Director of Cybersource Corp. since December 1997. Mr. McKiernan holds a B.S. from Boston College and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Bitcoin
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

ChangeX — Find and start ideas that will transform your community. ChangeX provides everything you need to jumpstart projects you are passionate about!
Signifyd — Put CX at the heart of ecommerce operations. Strike the perfect balance between conversion and fraud prevention.
Bitnet Technologies — Bitnet provides a digital commerce platform enabling enterprise-scale merchants to accept bitcoin payments. Bitnet’s engineering, product, and business development team help in building and managing the world’s largest payment gateway, CyberSource (NASDAQ: CYBS), which was sold to the world’s largest payment network, Visa (NYSE: V), for $2billion in 2010.

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John O'Farrell is a general partner at the Andreessen Horowitz. John was responsible for partnerships, mergers and acquisitions and strategic transactions for Silver Spring Networks. He has more than 25 years of the US and international experience in corporate/business development and operational roles in the Internet, enterprisesoftware and telecommunications industries.Prior to joining Silver Spring Networks in January 2008, John was Executive Vice President, Business Development, for Opsware Inc. During his tenure at Opsware, John was responsible for four successful acquisitions, major strategic partnerships with EDS and Cisco, and other strategic transactions culminating in the sale of Opsware to HP for $1.65 Billion in September 2007. Prior to Opsware, John was Executive Vice President, International, for Excite@Home, where he founded the international division and grew it to $70M in annual revenues. Earlier in his career, John held positions in the United States and Europe with organizations including MediaOne Group/US West, Booz Allen and Hamilton, Telecom Ireland, the European Commission, Digital Equipment and Siemens.John has an MBA degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar, and a Bachelor of Electronic Engineering from University College Dublin, where he graduated with First Class Honors. John speaks English, German, French and Portuguese.

Investment focus

Industry: SaaS, Software, Analytics
Stage:Series B, Series A, Series D
Geography: United States, Ireland

Investor stats

Total investments: 14
Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

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ChangeX — Find and start ideas that will transform your community. ChangeX provides everything you need to jumpstart projects you are passionate about!
Granular — Corteva Agriscience software and digital solutions give the real-time, field-by-field information needed to maximize yield & manage input costs.

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