# Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in Germany in May 2026

## Christophe Maire
- Relevant deals: 18
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Internet

CEO and Founder @ Atlantic Labs
Founder @ FoodLabs
Venture Capital Architect @ Neufund
Co-Founder @ gate5
Co-founder @ Plazes


## Michael Brehm
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Financial

Managing Director & Founder @ i2x
Partner @ Redstone


## Kai Hansen
- Relevant deals: 16
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Commerce/Shopping, Software, Internet

Founder and Partner @ Rheingau Founders


## Rouven Dresselhaus
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Internet

Managing Partner @ Cavalry Ventures


## Matthias Hilpert
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Other, Internet

CEO @ MH2 Capital


## Martin Sinner
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

COO @ 360dialog
Venture Partner @ Berlin Ventures
MD @ idealo


## Stefan Glänzer
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Media and Entertainment, Financial

Founder @ White Bear Yard
Founding Partner @ Passion Capital
Chairman / Co-Founder @ Rebate Networks


## Carsten Maschmeyer
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Science/Engineering

Founder and CEO @ seed + speed Ventures
Founding Partner @ Maschmeyer Group Ventures
Managing Partner @ ALSTIN Capital


## Florian Huber
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Apps

## Rolf Schromgens
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, Hardware

Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts
Co-Founder @ Monkfish Equity


## Lukasz Gadowski
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Commerce/Shopping

Founder and CEO @ Team Europe
Co-Founder @ Point Nine
Co-Founder @ Delivery Hero Korea
Founding Editor @ Grunderszene
Co-Founder and CEO @ Circ
Entrepreneur in Residence @ Target Global
Founder & Chariman @ Spreadshirt


## Christian Reber
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Internet

Co-founder & CEO @ Pitch
Team Member @ Advise.me


## Christian Gaiser
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Commerce/Shopping, Financial, Software

Co-Founder & CEO @ NUMA Group
Founder @ CG Partners


## Bjorn Kolbmuller
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Design, Software, Clothing/Apparel

Founder & Managing Director @ zenloop


## Sven Gabor Janszky
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Science/Engineering, Biotechnology, Hardware

CEO @ JANSZKY GmbH
CEO & Founder @ future.me
Co-Founder @ 2b AHEAD Ventures Fund
Co-Founder @ 2b AHEAD Ventures
CEO @ RULEBREAKER Management
President @ RULEBREAKER Society
Futurist & CEO @ 2b AHEAD ThinkTank


## Klaas Kersting
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Mobile

Founder and CEO @ Phoenix Games


## Maximilian Tayenthal
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial, IT

Co-CEO & Co-Founder @ N26


## Dagmar Wöhrl
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Health Care, Food/Beverage

## Felix Haas
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Financial, Science/Engineering

Executive Chairman and Co-Founder @ IDnow
Founding Partner @ 10x Group
Founding Partner @ FLEX Capital Management GmbH


## Charlie Songhurst
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, IT, Data and Analytics

Advisor @ Bear Robotics


## Stefan Jeschonnek
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial, Software, Commerce/Shopping

Founding Partner @ Discovery Ventures
Co-Founder & CEO @ Zeitgold
Founding Partner @ Discovery Ventures


## Oliver Roskopf
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Software, Financial

Founder & Managing Director @ Soyan VitaMed Natur


## Jan Deepen
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial, Software, Commerce/Shopping

Co-Founder @ SumUp
Co-Founder & CRO @ Zeitgold
Founding Partner @ Discovery Ventures


## Andre Schwammlein
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Hardware, Transportation

Founder and Managing Director @ FlixBus


## Philipp Kloeckner
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Financial

External Search Strategy Consultant @ Rocket Internet
Mentor @ Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator
Search & Product Consultant | Angel Investor @ Visual Meta
Search Strategy Consultant @ Home24
Search Strategy Consultant @ Lazada Group


## Andreas Burike
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: IT, Administrative, Software

CFO @ AnyDesk


## Thomas Bachem
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Education

Founder and Chancellor @ CODE University of Applied Sciences
Founder & Vice Chairman @ German Startups Association
Founder & MD @ Scaling Technologies


## Marco Valta
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- Focus: Commerce/Shopping, Software, Internet

partner @ Ambridge Capital


## Verena Pausder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, Food Delivery

Verena Pausder

## Christian Edler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

## Philipp Kreibohm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Legal

Philipp Kreibohm - born in 1976. After completion of his law studies and PhD at FU Berlin he co-founded Mundwerk AG in Berlin in 2001, which was sold to Excelsis Business Technology AG in 2004. From 2006-2007 Philipp was a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and in 2007 a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. In 2007 he became foundingManaging Director of Rocket Internet, before he founded FP Commerce in 2009. Later on, this company was renamed to Home24 AG, where he is still the Co-CEO.

## Lothar Stein
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Information Technology, Energy, Railroad

Lothar Stein - Mentor @ SINN Power

## Florian Heinemann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services

Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation).

## Julius Göllner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Julius Göllner is the Co-Founder of ARRtist, SinnRec, GSL - Global Sales Leaders, F&P Stock Solution GmbH, MOODJA, and SIP Distribution. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of eNugget Ventures and the Advisor and Investor for different companies.Julius attended Technische Universität Chemnitz, Yale School of Management, and TampereUniversity.

## Roman Kirsch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Health Care

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

## Michael Baum
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Grant
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

Michael Baum is a successful Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur who has built billion dollar companies. Michael is the founder and CEO of FOUNDER.org, an early investor in young innovators solving world problems. FOUNDER.org provides audacious innovators an unrivaled experience through it’s company building science, deep mentoring and earlyfunding. Having created over 3,500 jobs, 150 millionaires and more than $6B in shareholder value, Michael is driving the next generation of inspired game-changers.

## Robert Maier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Service Industry

Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Michael Wax
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.

## Peter Mertens
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Information Technology

Peter Mertens

## Marcus Borner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Financial Services, FinTech

Marcus Borner is a university drop-out and founded his first company reBuy.com when he was 17 years old. Rebuy became Germany's re-commerce leader, raised ~40M€ in venture capital, now employing over 500 employees and with annual revenues of over 70M€. Besides rebuy Marcus has been shareholder in over a dozen companies from many industriessuch as insurance, food delivery, saas and adtech. He is currently founder and CEO of OptioPay.com a Berlin based fintech-company creating the first payment solution software for marketing payouts. OptioPay offer diverse payout options to increase flexibility and value for payment recipients. Backed by international venture capital investors and banks as shareholders, OptioPay is run by a diverse team of over 30 experts from 12 nations, who love to work hard and have exceptional passion for changing how people receive money.

## Tim Marbach
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Rental Property, Real Estate

Tim is a global entrepreneur and venture investor. He started his first company bonial.com in 2008 and sold it to German media conglomerate Axel Springer SE in 2011. In 2013, Tim relocated to South East Asia and has since co-founded and invested in many successful consumer internet companies through his private internet holding company Asia VentureGroup. Those companies have successfully raised several hundred million USD in follow-on venture capital and employ several thousand employees across the global. Those companies include HappyFresh, iPrice Group, iMoney (sold to iSelect), FlowerChimp, audibene (sold to Sivantos/EQT), Scalable Capital (sold to BlackRock), Jewelcandle (sold to Equistone), Vicampo (sold to Burda), CARS24, Movinga, Homebell, Fave, Stoyo and many more.

## Johannes Reck
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Transportation

Johannes Reck is the Chief Executive Officer at GetYourGuide. He leads the company’s long-term vision and strategy.Johannes co-founded GetYourGuide in 2009 while attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and has grown the company into the leading booking platform for incredible travel experiences. Under Johannes’ leadership, over 30million tickets have been booked to date via the GetYourGuide website, mobile app, and partnership network. GetYourGuide has raised over $650M from investors such as the SoftBank Vision Fund, Battery Ventures and KKR. Johannes leads GetYourGuide’s 550-person global team from its headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Johannes originally hails from Cologne, Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

## Felix Jahn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others.

## Dave Morin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Mobile, Internet, Software

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

## Jochen Engert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Rental, Travel

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

## Matthias Wilrich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Delivery Service, Mobile Apps

Matthias Wilrich is the VP Vehicles and Supply Chain at TIER Mobility.

## Christian Vollmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

## Andreas Kupke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Drones, Biotechnology, Satellite Communication

Andreas Kupke is the COO at Finanzcheck.de.

## Joachim Drees
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Railroad, Software, Logistics

Joachim Drees was born on November 20, 1964 in Düsseldorf.He studied business administration at the University of Stuttgart and did his MBA at Portland State University.Following his degree, he worked at various management consultant firms and the privatization agency (Treuhandanstalt) in Berlin. Drees held managerial positions in the DaimlerTruck Group and at Mercedes-Benz Trucks from 1996 onward, including as Commercial Director of the Gaggenau Transmissions Unit and as Head of Commercial Vehicle Controlling.In 2006, Joachim Drees joined British investment company HgCapital LLP as Partner for Portfolio Management.From 2012 onward, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Drees & Sommer AG with responsibility for Finance & Controlling, M&A, Human Resources, Administration, and Internationalization Support.Joachim Drees has been CEO of MAN SE and of MAN Truck & Bus SE (formerly MAN Truck & Bus AG) since 2015.He is also a member of the Executive Board of TRATON SE.

## James Higa
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Jose, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Consumer

James Higa - Founder. Managing Partner. @ Offline Ventures

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