# Top 15 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in United Kingdom in May 2026

## Naruhisa Nakagawa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Manufacturing, Beauty, Environmental Consulting

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

## Stuart Gardner
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Funding Platform, Delivery Service, Sustainability

Stuart Gardner

## Marc Benioff
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

Marc Benioff is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Salesforce. Marc Benioff attended the University of Southern California.

## Paul Massara
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Machine Learning, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Paul has extensive experience in the energy and service sectors in Europe and North America. Having stepped down as CEO of Electron he is now an Advisor to the Board, as well as being an Adviser to Habitat Energy, a member of the Committee on Fuel Poverty advising the UK Secretary of State for Energy, and Chair of Medicinema, a charity that buildscinemas in hospitals.He has served on the Executive Committee of two of the largest utilities in Europe, Centrica Plc and RWE/INNOGY. From 2006 to 2009, he was President and Founding Partner of Genesis Capital Corporation, a Canadian private equity company investing funds in small and medium-sized industrial businesses. From 1997 to 2005, Paul held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility with Centrica plc, Direct Energy North America, in Toronto. His tenure there culminated in his role as President of Canadian Operations and serving as a Member of the North American Board and the North America Executive Committee. His leadership enhanced the Company’s growth from $700,000MM to $2.7Bn, and from 600 to 3,000 employees.

## Kerry Ritz
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, B2B, Energy

Kerry Ritz works with early-stage business in the following areas: CEO support (everything to do with running the business); international growth and expansion; market or investor positioning; setting up and running a Board; building a team, interactions with investors (pre and post fundraising); sales, business development and marketing. Mostrecently he was Entrepreneur-in-Residence at the ABN-AMRO/Techstars Future of Finance Programme in Amsterdam. He is an international advisor to SeedStars and is a mentor with Techstars, MassChallenge, and WAYRA. He is also on the investment committee as an Expert Judge on the EU EIC Accelerator which provides grant and equity to deep-tech, high growth SME’s. Previously, he was an evaluator with EIT-Health for both Innovation and Accelerator and was a member of the Investment Committee for the COVID-19 emergency grant programme in 2020; judge at EIT-Mobility; advisor and evaluator to the Director General, Research & Innovation Foundation, Government of Cyprus; evaluator at Africa for Heroes; and judge at MassChallenge in Switzerland and Israel.He currently sits on several Boards as an independent Director and is an advisor to several early-stage and high growth companies. He is also an active angel investor with investments in the UK, EU, and US. Kerry has a broad range of international experience with both start-ups and corporates. He was Managing Director of MassChallenge UK. Prior to that, he was Chief Marketing Officer of FTSE 250 Euromoney Institutional Investor plc, where he was responsible for marketing, sales, customer service, fulfilment, marketing technology, product management, and customer insight including their migration to a digital business. He has also been CEO of Palringo and VP Business Development for EVRYTHNG, both innovative early-stage VC-backed start-ups. Kerry has a track record of bringing innovative and disruptive businesses to market: he was the President of Vonage UK and was one of the Founding Directors and one of the first 20 employees of “3”, the first 3g mobile operator in Europe. Although Kerry is originally Canadian, he has been in Europe for more than 30 years and has lived in the UK, France, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

## Yishan Wong
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Convertible Note
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, News

Yishan Wong - Co-founder and Director @ Sunfire offices

## Martin Schrimpff
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, SaaS

Martin currently works as the co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. He used to worked for PayU as founder and head of global sales.

## David Pitt-Watson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, GreenTech, Biotechnology

David Pitt-Watson - Visiting Fellow @ Cambridge Judge Business School

## James Hall-Smith
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Internet of Things

James Hall-Smith experienced infrastructure investor with a focus on the energy transition.

## Simon Dunn
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering

Simon Dunn

## Philip Walsh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Sustainability, Renewable Energy, Environmental Engineering

Philip Walsh

## Rahul Munjal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Delhi, Delhi, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, InsurTech, Renewable Energy

Rahul Munjal - Chairman & Managing Director @ Hero Future Energies

## Harry Seekings
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, Renewable Energy, Internet of Things

Harry Seekings is a Senior Executive in infrastructure investment management.

## Somayeh Taheri
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy, GreenTech, Blockchain

Somayeh Taheri is a CEO and Co-Founder at UrbanChain.

## Mo Hajhashem
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy, GreenTech, Blockchain

Dr. Mo H. is a Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at UrbanChain.

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