# Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in Germany in May 2026

## Jenny Saft
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Jenny Saft is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at OVIAVO. She attended Hult International Business School during 2013 - 2014.

## Thomas Madsen-Mygdal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Computer, Collaboration, Software

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and activist behind companies like Mondo, 23, Podio and the reboot festival.

## Sinan Güler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Wellness, Fitness

Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.

## Maximilian Tayenthal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology

Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.

## Roman Kirsch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.

## Ralf Dummel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design

Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.

## Gloria Baeuerlein
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: B2B, Apps, SaaS

Gloria primarily focuses on growth stage investments across all sectors in Europe and Australia. Prior to Index, Gloria worked at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based growth equity fund, evaluating investment opportunities in the DACH region and in software and fintech companies across Europe. Gloria started her career at MorganStanley where she advised technology and telco clients across Europe and the U.S. on financing rounds, IPOs and M&A transactions. Gloria graduated with a master’s degree in management from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

## Alper Akcan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, mHealth

Alper Akcan

## Ralf Reichert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Video Streaming, Music, Video

Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.

## Mustafa Vardalı
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care

Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

## Samuel Shank
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Marketplace, Mobile, E-Commerce

Samuel Shank is a Board Member at Operto Guest Technologies. He attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and the University of Virginia.

## Mustafa Sevinç
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care

Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon.

## Heidrun Twesten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Heidrun Twesten is a Founder & Managing Partner at Impacct GmbH.

## Ebru Dorman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Health Care, Apps, Fitness

Ebru Dorman

## Matthias Hilpert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

## Jan Wilmking
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Retail, Fitness

I believe in business can be a force of good. That’s why I invest in solutions for our world‘s most pressing issues. Passionate about human centred software, food tech, circularity, and mental positivity.
I was part Zalando's leadership team pre-IPO until 2019, several years in McKinsey in consumer industries, and am active as angel investorand mentor for early stage teams at TechStars and beyond.

## Yigit Ihlamur
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, mHealth

Yigit Ihlamur - Co-founder, General Partner @ Vela Partners

## Andreas Mihalovits
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

## Cornelia Hoppe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Sports, Medical

Cornelia Hoppe

## Murat Balcı
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, mHealth

Murat Balci is an angel investor.

## Joshua Kimmich
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports

Joshua Kimmich is a German professional footballer.

## Nils Wilde
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Apps, Music

Nils Wilde

## Hans Raffauf
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Fitness

Hans Raffauf is the co-founder of Clue. He is a technology and media entrepreneur from Berlin and, in addition to co-founding Clue, he is the co-founder of hy!, a creative event series that supports and connects Europe’s startup scene. Other founding projects include the hardware.co, betapitch, and the Berlin Tech Meetup.

## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Software

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

## Thorsten Mattig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Sports, Automotive, Marketplace

Thorsten Mattig

## Carsten Maschmeyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

## Lina Behrens
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Sports, Medical

Lina Behrens serves as the Managing Director at Flying Health.

## Michael Schweikart
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Michael Schweikart is a Co-Founder at Tomorrow.

## Cesc Fabregas
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Video, Sports, Publishing

Francesc "Cesc" Fàbregas Soler is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for English club Chelsea and the Spain national team.

## Björn Bauermeister
- Type: Angel
- Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship

Björn Bauermeister is the co-founder and Co-Founder & General Partner at Smart Infrastructure Ventures.Bjoern Bauermeister, CFA attended Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

## Thomas Weidner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship

Thomas Weidner

## Frederick Roehder
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Soccer, Natural Language Processing

Frederick Roehder

## Tobias Tschoetsch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Soccer

Tobias Tschoetsch is the founder and managing director of Tschoetsch holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and master’s degree in management from Berlin, Germany.

## Florian Körner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship

Florian Körner

## Christian Greb
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Soccer, Natural Language Processing

Christian Greb

## Alex Luik
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Soccer, Natural Language Processing

Alex Luik

## Inas Nureldin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Inas Nureldin - Co-Founder & CEO @ Tomorrow

## Robert Ermich
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Soccer, Internet

Robert Ermich

## Nikolaus Glasmacher
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Soccer, Natural Language Processing

Nikolaus Glasmacher

## Lea von Bidder
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Lea co-founded L’inouï, a premium chocolate production and retail chain in Bangalore, India. As COO, she was key to establishing the L’inouï marketing and operation strategy. She holds a Master’s degree in global entrepreneurship from EM Lyon in France, Zhejiang University in China and Purdue Krannert University in the USA. She obtained herBachelor’s degree from the University of St.Gallen and HEC Montréal in Canada. In between her studies, Lea worked for the marketing division of Procter & Gamble in Frankfurt and for a strategy-consulting boutique in Paris.

## Nicolas Kopp
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Sports, Banking

Nicolas Kopp is the US CEO of N26, based in New York. His vision is to bring N26’s mobile-first banking app to the millions of US consumers who are frustrated with traditional bank offerings. Nic joined N26 in 2015 as one of its first employees, heading up the Business Development and Operations team, which he built from the ground up. He wasinstrumental in establishing the firm’s key partnerships, including TransferWise, and led the development of N26’s premium account offerings. Nic’s experience spans from early stage fundraising to leading N26’s first international expansion into multiple European countries.Prior to N26, Nic spent five years at Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong. He holds a bachelor’s degree from University of St. Gallen in Switzerland and a master’s degree from the London School of Economics.

## Patric Fassbender
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Mobile, Soccer

Patric Fassbender is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Boxine.

## Sophie von Eberhardt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care

Sophie von Eberhardt - Executive Assistant @ Cipio Partners

## Gemma Bloemen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Apps, Sports

Gemma Bloemen is a Principal at Creandum. He Attended Yale University during 2006-2010.

## Dan Gilbert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Sports, Digital Media, Internet

Dan Gilbert is Founder and Chairman of Quicken Loans. He was an Investor at StockX. Dan Gilbert attended Wayne State University.

## Simon Staib
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Cycling, Fashion, Outdoors

Simon Staib - Co-Founder and CPO @ blogfoster

## Robert Kovac
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Sports

Robert Kovac is a professional football manager and former player who played as a centre-back.

## Sebastian Johnston
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Fitness, Internet

Sebastian Johnston

## Heinz-Werner Nienstedt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Rental, Travel

Heinz-Werner Nienstedt - Chairman @ Nienstedt

## Arthur Kosten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Leiden, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Apps, 3D Printing

Arthur Kosten is a Co Founder @ Booking.com.

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