# Top 20 Photography Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026

## Max Jennings
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Marketplace, Photography

Max Jennings is the Co-Founder at Console.

## Jonathan Beddoes
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Photography, Film, Video

Jonathan began his entrepreneurial career at school aged 17 when he founded a web-hosting company which sold within its first year of trading. After developing an early taste of business success, whilst at university Jonathan co-developed a popular music software application that was downloaded by over 30,000,000 people. For his post-graduatestudies, Jonathan was the youngest person ever to complete a Masterclass in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Following academia, Jonathan joined Zugo in 2008 (a leading search solutions platform and aggregator) that became a cornerstone of distribution for major search engines (most notably Microsoft Bing). In late 2012, Jonathan exited from Zugo and subsequently co-founded Techtopia, a technology incubator located in the heart of 'silicon village' in North West London. Today, Jonathan remains a director of Techtopia, a product visionary, angel investor and an ambassador for the Internet industry.

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Lorenz Bogaert is the Founder and Director of FixForm.

## Sercan Alici
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Pet, Hospitality, Photography

Sercan Alici

## Robin Knox
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Network

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

## Pascal Cagni
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Internet

Pascal Cagni was born on October 28, 1961 and is a specialist in the European digital economy. He advises and invests in startups and contributes to their international development and expansion.Recruited by Steve Jobs in the early 2000s as General Manager and Vice President of Apple Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), he led a regionof 130 countries for 12 years in which revenues grew from $1.2 billion to over $37 billion. After starting his career as a consultant at Booz & Co, he joined Compaq Computers, established Software Publishing France (SPC), and then led Packard Bell NEC as the number one home PC manufacturer in Europe.Pascal Cagni holds a Master’s Degree in Business Law and is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris. He also holds an MBA from the HEC Group and is a graduate of the Executive Program of Stanford University (EPGC).

## Jeroen Seghers
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Video, Gaming, Mobile

From the age of 15, Jeroen has co-founded over a dozen companies which released various products reaching over 100 million users around the globe. He was heavily involved with the product development and marketing of Zugo, Wyzo and a leading file-sharing client.Jeroen obtained his BCS from Hogeschool Gent, specializing in software engineering,followed by a Master Class in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.When not flying from one continent to the next, he can be found in London where he serves as a director of TechTopia Ltd and chairman of FACEIT Ltd.Jeroen is also an active investor and sits on the board of various startups around the globe.Constantly on the look-out for new projects and building innovative marketing strategies.

## Alex Vratskides
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Publishing

Alex Vratskides is the CEO of Persado, which he co-founded in 2012. Previously, Alex co-founded Upstream in 2001 and served as the company’s CEO between 2004 and 2012. During his tenure, the company grew to become a global leader in mobile marketing, with mobile operator clients in more than 40 countries. Alex was responsible for setting Upstream’sstrategic direction and spearheading its international sales expansion and product innovation.Prior to founding Upstream, Alex worked as a management consultant at OC&C/McKenna Group, based out of Boston. He is the first angel investor for Luluvise, where he is also a board member, and serves on the board of advisors of Seyyer. Alex holds a BS in Applied Mathematics from Columbia University and a Masters of Engineering in Operations Research from Cornell University.

## Brent Hoberman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Brent Hoberman is chairman and co-founder of Founders Factory, an ambitious corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London, and also of Founders Forum, a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Brent is a co-founder and was founding chairman of Smartup, Grip &made.com, a leading European direct-from-factory consumer homewares retailer. Most recently, Brent co-founded Firstminute Capital, a London-based pan-European seed fund, backed by some of the world's top entrepreneurs. Brent co-founded lastminute.comin April 1998, was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. Technology businesses he has co-founded have raised over $500m. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund), the Oxford Foundry and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist, a YGL and one of the Prime Minister's Business Trade Ambassadors. Brent was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in the 2015 New Year's Honour's List.

## Paul Walton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Network

Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.

## Theo Osborne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, E-Commerce

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

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

Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneur First

## Mark Hirschfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Mobile, Photography

Mark Hirschfield - CEO & Director @ A.H.Field Properties

## Chris Burke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Software

EBlink board member Chris Burke’s career in telecommunications, IT and technology spans more than 30 years in both Europe and North America. He has held technical and management responsibilities at a telecom equipment supplier (Nortel), a fixed-line carrier (Energis), a wireless service provider (Vodafone), and a consumer device manufacturer(Research In Motion – RIM). His most recent public-company position, which he left in 2009, was RIM’s managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. From 2001 to 2004, Chris was chief technology officer (CTO) at Vodafone UK. From 1997 to 2000, he was CTO and chief information officer at U.K.-based Energis, where he helped take the company public and onto the FTSE 40. Previously, he spent 15 years with Bell Northern Research and its parent company Northern Telecom in a variety of roles, including software development, operations and ultimately sales.Chris, who has extensive experience in helping guide companies through stock offerings and acquisitions, has served on several boards of directors. He was chairman of Ubiquity Software during that company’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2005 and its 2007 sale to Avaya. He was lead independent director of March Networks during its 2005 IPO, director at Oz Communications when it sold to Nokia in 2008, and a director and investor in Dialog Semiconductor when it completed a successful secondary offering in 2009. He currently serves on the boards of Dialog Semiconductor and Kontron (both listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange), as well as several venture and private equity-backed companies. Chris divides his time between board positions, numerous advisory roles and his investment and advisory business, Buster Burke Ltd. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Can.

## Anthony Eskinazi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Video, Marketplace, Photography

Anthony Eskinazi - Founder & CEO @ JustPark

## Tom Hulme
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University.

## Nic Brisbourne
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Nic is the Managing Partner of Forward Partners, an "Applied VC" that backs early-stage companies from day one and provides them with a support team to supercharge their business.

## David Soskin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Travel, E-Commerce, Reputation

David Soskin is on the boards of mySupermarket.com and Cortexica Vision Systems where he is Chairman. He was a non-executive director of the Momondo Group (formerly Cheapflights) until October 2014 when Great Hill Partners acquired a majority stake in the business. Priceline Inc acquired Momondo in 2017 for $550 million.​He served as ChiefExecutive Officer of Cheapflights - which he joined in March 2000 upon the management buy-in - until April 2008. Under his leadership, Cheapflights grew from an attic-based operation into an international leader in online travel search reaching 8.4 million users in January 2008. During this period, Cheapflights won many industry awards and was included in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track of the UK's 100 fastest growing privately-owned technology companies for five years in a row. David was a Finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2006.

## Markus Kern
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Video, Mobile, Photography

Markus Kern

## Andy McLoughlin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Apps

Andy McLoughlin OBE is a Managing Partner at Uncork Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco.

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