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Top 45 Travel Angel Investors in Germany in October 2023

A list of 45 angel investors that invest in Travel startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 45 Travel Angel Investors in Germany in October 2023

Investor Travel Germany investments
Chris Hitchen 3
Samuel Shank 3
Ingo Drexler 2
Rolf Christof Dienst 2
Fritz Demopoulos 2
Franz Koch 2
Nathan Blecharczyk 2
Phil Quist 1
Dave Baggett 1
Volker Rofalski 1
Gary Lin 1
Gleb Tritus 1
Thomas Bachem 1
Marco Valta 1
Andreas Perreiter 1
Julian Weselek 1
Gerald Schoenbucher 1
Philipp Moehring 1
Carsten Berrar 1
Bo Mattsson 1
Heinz-Werner Nienstedt 1
Navid Hadzaad 1
Wolfgang Heigl 1
Christian Saller 1
Peter Read 1
Diego Berdakin 1
Niv Dror 1
Roland Berger 1
Kees Koolen 1
Julian Stiefel 1
Luca Ascani 1
Carsten Maschmeyer 1
Arya Bolurfrushan 1
Roland Grenke 1
Christian Vollmann 1
Ashton Kutcher 1
Florian Heinemann 1
Jochen Engert 1
Manuel Stotz 1
Svietlana Bauer 1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch 1
Svietlana Bauer 1
Dagmar Bottenbruch 1
Lucas Cranach 1
Nils Regge 1

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Chris Hitchen
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany

Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Holidu — Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals. Search and compare more than 15 million vacation homes and save up to 55% on identical accommodations.
  • Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
  • Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
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Samuel Shank
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States

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

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Investment focus

  • Marketplace, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Hitch — Hitch Offers Private and Shared Ridesharing Between Cities. Easily Book Online or via the Mobile App. Door-to-door and Station-to-station Rides Available.
  • Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
  • Thimble — Get business insurance by the job, month, or year with instant and customizable coverage! Start your quote and get insured in minutes.
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Ingo Drexler
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, E-Commerce
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Switzerland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
  • Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
  • Surfboard — Surfboard; Simpler, smarter and fairer scheduling software for customer support teams at scale. Click to learn more about Surfboard.
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Rolf Christof Dienst
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany

At Wellington some of his investments include healthcare specialists PST, MediMedia and Medigene, a biotech company focussed on cancer and autoimmune diseases,which he co-invested in in 1998, before it was taken public at the top of the market in 2000.Rolf now focuses on Wellington's Technology and Life Science fundraising and investor relation activities and sits on the board of some portfolio companies.Prior to founding Wellington, Rolf was president of the Munich-based Matuschka Group, one of the first German investment banks, for 22 years. During the 1980s, he built long-lasting relationships with leading U.S. VC groups and investors, gaining an invaluable insight at how the American VC model could be adapted to Europe. In 1984 he co-founded TVM (Munich/Boston), one of Germany's first privately held VC firms.His entrepreneurial initiatives include the foundation of the LMU Entrepreneurship Centre at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, the largest university in Germany. The main objective of this organisation is to familiarise students and scientists with the concepts of self-employment and entrepreneurship.From April 2007 to April 2009 Rolf was Chairman of the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK). He holds a law degree from the LMU Munich and has been a member of the Munich Bar since 1974. Rolf is married since 1976 and has five children.

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Investment focus

  • Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Fineway — 25$m+ funded, Munich-based travel SaaS startup. Running the most advanced B2B platform for individual travel. - Top3 Winner Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award 2019 - Top3 Winner Gründerszene Growth Award 2018 - Best Consumer Product @ EyeForTravel 2018 (London)
  • ResearchGate — Access 130+ million publications and connect with 20+ million researchers. Join for free and gain visibility by uploading your research.
  • Smart Reporting — Your top vendor for medical reporting and documentation software to enhance workflow productivity with our fully integrated reporting solution.
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Fritz Demopoulos
Angel

Fritz Demopoulos has been an entrepreneur and investor within the media and internet industries for over 10 years. He co-founded Qunar.com, China's largest travel internet company; and Shawei.com, China's largest sports internet company. Fritz also had senior positions at Netease and The News Corporation.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Hospitality, Tourism
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • Germany, Spain, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

  • Tourlane — Discover the world's most enchanting destinations and exciting hideaways on your perfect vacation. At Tourlane, our Travel Experts make planning your trip of a lifetime easy and worry-free.
  • BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.
  • TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy the world's largest travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
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Franz Koch
Angel

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Retail, Travel
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Lesara — Lesara is the leading global agile retail pioneer for amazing fashion merchandise at best prices.The company has offices in China and Germany and since its launch in 2013 expanded into 24 markets in 7 languages across Europe, grew its assortment to more than 100.000 SKUs and the the team to over 300 employees.Lesara is operating a completelyvertically integrated supply chain and needs only 2 weeks from idea over design, production to product go-live for its collections.The company was awarded as fastest growing tech-company in Europe in 2016.
  • Horizn Studios — Horizn is a travel tech venture, headquartered in Berlin. Their hero hardware product is their Smart Luggage range. As first vertical, online player in the European luggage market, and Europe's first Smart Luggage brand, HS designs, develops and sells premium quality, innovative travel products at very competitive prices. Their products offerGPS, Chargers, Proximity Alerts, Travel App, Personal Travel Assistant, and more - subtly integrated in a very contemporary design.
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Nathan Blecharczyk
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Nathan Blecharczyk is the Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at Airbnb, a trusted community marketplace that connects people with unique accommodations in more than 34,000 cities and 191 countries. Blecharczyk oversaw the creation of Airbnbs engineering, data science, and performance marketing teams and currently plays a leading role in thecompanys business and product strategy. He became an entrepreneur early on, running a business while he was in high school that sold to clients in more than 20 countries. He earned a degree in Computer Science from Harvard University and held several engineering positions before co-founding Airbnb. As a guest, Blecharczyk has stayed in hundreds of homes using Airbnb and he is also a host in San Francisco, where he lives with his family.

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Investment focus

  • FinTech, Tourism, Leisure
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

  • Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
  • Cambly — Cambly gives English learners on-demand access to native English speaking tutors over video chat.
  • Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
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Phil Quist
Angel · Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States

Phil Quist is currently working at Creative Artists Agency and is the Founder of PQ Selects. He is also an Investor at Connect Ventures and a Board Member at Forbes. Prior to that, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley. Phil attended Southern Methodist University.

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Investment focus

  • Hotel, Hospitality, Information Technology
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • United States, Germany, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

  • Gumroad — Gumroad is a powerful, but simple, e-commerce platform. We make it easy to earn your first dollar online by selling digital products, memberships and more.
  • The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
  • Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
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Dave Baggett
Angel · Potomac, Maryland, United States

Dave Baggett is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Inky. As co-founder and COO of travel search provider ITA Software, he oversaw software development, operations, and customer relations, expanding the company to 500 employees. Google acquired ITA for $700M in April 2011. Dave has a B.S./B.A. in Computer Science andLinguistics from the University of Maryland, College Park and a S.M. in Computer Science from MIT. He is a Board Member of the Maryland Innovation Initiative, a Trustee of the University of Maryland College Park Foundation, and a Member of the UMCP Computer, Math & Natural Sciences Board of Visitors and Chair of its Entrepreneurship Task Force.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Travel, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • AutoSled — Autosled is a marketplace for vehicle shippers and transporters. Easily manage shipments and payments to optimize your transport process. Get started today...
  • point.me — Maximize your miles with our real-time search engine. Easily compare reward flights across airlines to find the best deal. So you get better flights, for fewer points.
  • Intelligencia — Intelligencia is an enterprise SaaS company that applies Machine Learning to assess and mitigate the risk in clinical development strategy/design.
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Volker Rofalski
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany

Volker Rofalski is the founder of WebStock AG, which he sold to BAADER Bank in 1999 and TradeCross AG, which he sold to VEM Aktienbank in 2005. Since then, Volker was director of Equity Capital Markets and authorized officer of the VEM Aktienbank. Prior to this, he held several managing positions in diverse industries e.g. CFO at ELA Medical &Porges and Internet2000 AG. He studied business economics at the University of Augsburg. Volker is a member of the supervisory board of several listed and non-listed companies.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
  • Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
  • Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.
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Gary Lin
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Gary Lin is the Founder and Managing Director of Purple Orange Ventures and EVIG Group. He was the founder and CEO of mobile ad tech company Glispa Global Group before that.He is a recipient of the prestigious Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Award which recognizes Glispa as one of the ‘Fastest Growing, Technically Innovative and EntrepreneurialCompanies’ in the world. Selected as one of Europe’s hottest startups by Wired Magazine (UK), Glispa now has over 250 employees from 45 nationalities and maintains its headquarters in Berlin with offices in San Francisco, Beijing, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Athens, and São Paolo.Gary has more than 20 years of experience leading high-performance digital and mobile marketing companies internationally representing some of the globe’s most innovative brands. Previously, Lin founded Glispa, LLC (in New York) and achieved an 800% three-year growth rate, placing the company in the Inc. 500 as the #1 fastest growing Advertising and Marketing company in the US in 2008. Additionally, Gary served as the General Manager in Brazil and set up teams in Hong Kong for Beyond Interactive, one of the first global digital agencies, now part of MediaCom (WPP).Gary graduated from the University of Michigan Business School with an emphasis in Marketing and International Business.

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Investment focus

  • Food and Beverage, iOS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Germany, Sweden, Finland

Portfolio highlights

  • Wellnow — Wellnow is a Health-as-a-Service platform which provides on-site health & wellbeing services to companies.Their goal is to sustainably improve the health and thereby the productivity and motivation of employees by giving them access right at their workplace to their curated network of health professionals (massage therapists, fitness trainers,yoga coaches, etc.). Companies use their digital platform to easily book and manage their on-site wellbeing offers, which are a vital part of most company's health & benefit programs. Their mobile app enables freelance professionals to get access to attractive and flexible jobs as well as manage their daily bookings and calendars to stay ahead of their busy lives while they are on the go.Mega trends, like increasing health awareness, an aging workforce, stress and burnout as well as the need for corporate health management and employee motivation, will boost the already €15 billion European market further in the coming years. Wellnow will be the #1 platform in Europe that seizes this opportunity and helps companies, their employees as well as health professionals to reach their goals and live a healthier life.They are currently a team of 25 motivated and talented people working right in the heart of Berlin, backed by top tier VC`s. Revenues grow fast and Wellnow is the category leader in the German market.
  • Epiclist — Epiclist is a visual discovery app, helping people to explore, plan and share curated activities and travel experiences around the world or just around the corner. Follow adventure heroes, get inspired from lifestyle and travel brands, and book curated activities right from the palm of your hand.- Massive demand: 50 Million people plan theirtravel on their phone in 2013- Huge market = $100 Billion: Global Tours and Activities market in 2013- Fragmented supply: 250.000 SMEs in Travel Business, 95% without any mobile presence- Lots of money: Average spending per adventure trip in 2013, from $593 in 2009.
  • Cooler Future — Cooler Future's mission is to create positive climate impact by investing in assets from companies that are actively reducing their carbon footprint. With Cooler Future’s intuitive, easy-to-use mobile app, anyone can track the CO2e impact of each euro invested, while generating financial returns at the same time.
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Gleb Tritus
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Gleb is a tech entrepreneur, investor and innovator with passion for E-Commerce, Travel & Mobility Tech and Logistics. He founded and served as Managing Director of multifarious digital ventures, among others the live entertainment ticketing platform Todaytickets.Gleb led new digital business and strategic startup investments at theworld's largest aviation corporation Lufthansa Group and continues to support German multinationals in this regard as Senior Advisor.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Software, Transportation
  • Seed, Series D, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Anzen — Anzen is a management insurance and operations tool using real-time HRIS and SaaS integrations to identify and avoid management risks. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
  • GlassDollar — GlassDollar is the go-to enabler of innovation partnering for large- and medium-sized corporations. Our marketplace of startup solutions and our Innovation Project management software help innovation teams to source, manage, and successfully scale impactful startup collaborations within their organizations.
  • NUMA Group — Life's hard. Travelling shouldn't be. Book a fully furnished room or apartment in some of Europe's coolest neighbourhoods and see how simple travel can be.
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Thomas Bachem
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Thomas Bachem “Tom” is a passionate entrepreneur, investor and founder of several startups and initiatives, including sevenload, Lebenslauf.com and the German Startups Association. Being an avid coder and designer since his early youth, he is currently building his dream university CODE and serves as Germany’s youngest university chancellor.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Internet, Education
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

  • Doctorflix — Doctorflix is a medical education platform that allows doctors around the globe to learn about methods of treatment while accelerating their system-required professional development. We are on a mission to build an engine that simplifies and democratizes the consumption and exchange of medical knowledge by interlinking doctors, hospitals, andpharmaceutical companies.
  • Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
  • WeAreDevelopers — Create a free profile and get access to 5.000+ pre-vetted developer jobs in Europe and countless hours of developer talks & coding sessions.
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Marco Valta
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry. As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • MIRA BEAUTY™ — MIRA BEAUTY is the world’s first universal store and collaborative library for makeup and skincare — made up of over 100,000 products and counting — which translates over 10 million product pages, reviews, and videos into one clear, simple, and personalized shopping experience. Community members are able to add products, post reviews, and answereach other’s questions based on their own, unbiased experience, all while shopping for the best products for their unique features and approach to beauty. For more information, please visit mirabeauty.com and @officialmirabeauty.
  • SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
  • Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
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Andreas Perreiter
Angel

Andreas Perreiter is a co-founder of amaysim, a mobile service company based in Australia. Previously, he was the managing director of ampage Ventures & Consulting. Perreiter studied at the Technical University of Munich.

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Investment focus

  • Information Technology, Software, B2B
  • Angel, Series B, Funding Round
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • vr-on — vr-on, www.vr-on.com, was founded in 2016 by industry experts with almost two decades of experience in virtual reality technologies. The high-tech startup, based in Munich, is winner of the “Innovations-Preis-IT” 2018. vr-on's mission is to democratize the use of virtual reality-related applications in enterprises. vr-on offers STAGE Cloudthe unique end-to-end cloud solution for multi-user enterprise VR applications.www.vr-on.cloud
  • Clevver — Clevver offers digital virtual office services, worldwide at over 130 high profile locations. Services include prestigious legal addresses, mail digitization and handling, local phone numbers in over 80 countries, incorporation services in over 30 countries as well as bank accounts for international businesses.Clevver’s cloud based platformoffers a one-stop-shop solution to digitally manage the legal structure of your international activities and keep your companies up to date on required filings with a Compliance Center. The Clevver software is also available as white label enterprise solutions that includes the services ClevverMail, ClevverAddress and ClevverNumber. With its subsidiary Clevver Legal Services LLP, Clevver also offers tax & accounting consulting services as well as special service incorporation projects.
  • Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.
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Julian Weselek
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Julian is the co-founder & CEO of Tourlane. Julian graduated as best in class from the London School of Economics before joining company builder Rocket Internet in Berlin. In 2016, Julian founded Tourlane with the vision of building the travel agent of the future and to provide the most seamless online booking experience for authentic multi-daytours. Tourlane is headquartered in Berlin and has raised a total of $81M USD from the world’s most renowned VCs such as Sequoia Capital and Spark Capital. Travel entrepeneurs that have invested in Tourlane include Airbnb co-founder Nathan Blecharczyk, GetYourGuide founder Johannes Reck, Qunar founder Fritz Demopoulos, as well as Trivago founders Malte Siewert and Rolf Schrömgens.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Leisure, Tourism
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Raus — Raus is a hospitality-tech startup that offers new opportunities to take a break from big city life. Raus serves as a welcome escape from the seemingly endless demands and constant stimuli of modern life with perfectly simple cabins, close enough for a spontaneous getaway, far enough away to completely unwind.
  • Tourlane — Discover the world's most enchanting destinations and exciting hideaways on your perfect vacation. At Tourlane, our Travel Experts make planning your trip of a lifetime easy and worry-free.
  • Valuecase — Work alongside your prospects in a single space. Align on milestones and set joint goals to close the deal. Handover to customer success.
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Gerald Schoenbucher
Angel · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Gerald Schoenbucher

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, B2B
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • dao — We use modern technology to revolutionize residential property management
  • Foodcircle — Foodcircle is a digital wholesale solution that facilitates and accelerates trade between suppliers and buyers of organic foods at competitive prices. Our global network comprises certified organic partners that are committed to the highest quality standards. As a state-of-the-art digital wholesaler, Foodcircle is providing innovative value chainsolutions alongside best-in-class service to food manufacturers Europe wide.
  • Myos — Myos was started in 2018 in Berlin by experienced e-commerce and financial experts. As a fintech company, they are rethinking working capital, dedicated to helping merchants globally grow to scale, fully digital and flexible. In doing so, they go completely new ways of assessing risks and collateral based on big data and machine learning, whichonly became possible with marketplaces such as Amazon.
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Philipp Moehring
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Philipp is an earliest stage technology investor in Berlin. He invested in more than 100 companies across various sectors, including open source software, ML/AI enabled SaaS, and deep tech from synthetic biology to materials science.

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Investment focus

  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Levity — Train your own AI on documents, images, or text data to perform daily, repetitive tasks so your team can reach the next level of productivity. No code required.
  • consalio — The advisor spend management solution that helps management to stay in control of the advisor spend.
  • Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
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Carsten Berrar
Angel

Carsten Berrar

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Virtual Reality
  • Funding Round
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Inflight VR Software GmbH — Post-Covid, a vast majority of airlines worldwide will be in an existential crisis. In 2020, more than 40 airlines went out of business. In a post-Covid world, airlines are forced to find new revenue streams while at the same time ensure a high passenger satisfaction.The Inflight VR entertainment system allows airlines to monetize theirpassengers & offers them an immersive state-of-the-art experience. The Inflight VR technology: (i) Generates revenue through pay-per-view, advertising & eCommerce. (ii) Captures the undivided attention of the passenger. (iii) Levels up the guest experience through immersiveness.The Inflight VR entertainment system is proven on the market with landmark clients such as Qatar Airways, Singapore Airlines or FlixBus(>10k users) and taps into a tremendous demand from the travel industry. Passenger engagement & feedback is excellent across the board (average usage time of > 80 minutes & satisfaction rate of >90%). With Inflight VR, every passenger generates a revenue potential of more than €7.
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Bo Mattsson
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden

Bo Mattsson is a director of Previously, Mattsson founded Cint and served the same company as its chief executive office, chairman, and general and sales manager. Hewas also the head of Swedbank Securities.Mattsson holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and an MBA, both from the Stockholm School of Economics.

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Investment focus

  • Internet, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
  • Påmind — Påmind is a Swedish company founded to give customers control over their existing everyday contracts, ranging from mortgages to insurances. The customer is reminded each time a contract expires, Påmind AB then help the customer to renegotiate the agreement and ensure that the customer is offered the best terms. All this is done without the customerhaving to do anything.
  • Hackyourcloset.com — Cultivate your closet with a digital consultant. Keeping up with our closets can take hours and hours. Subscribe in less than 5 min.
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Heinz-Werner Nienstedt
Angel · Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

Heinz-Werner Nienstedt - Chairman @ Nienstedt

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Rental, Travel
  • Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • VRdirect — VRdirect is the Virtual Reality platform that enables enterprises to create use case-driven VR solutions that truly support real-life business processes and deliver concrete business value.
  • Vicampo — Vicampo GmbH engages in online sale of wine. The company is based in Mainz, Germany.Vicampo operates a marketplace for wines that allows users to buy directly from wineries. The company has selected over 25,000 experienced and emerging winemakers from Germany who ship their wines directly to customers. The quality of wines is tested not only by thecompany’s experts but also by the customers who are asked to reviewproducts.
  • Zizoo — Zizoo is a leading boat holiday platform. Zizoo is digitalising and transforming the boat rental industry (worth an estimated €33 billion), which is 10 years behind any other travel sector. They are building a global digital booking platform and website connecting suppliers (charter companies) to travelers worldwide, similar to “Booking.com forBoats”. Zizoo also provides charter companies with a powerful inventory management tool and business intelligence.They are making boat holidays affordable and accessible to everyone (bookings starts from €20 a day).Zizoo is a boat rental marketplace where you can select a boat in a location of your choice and book it as easily as a hotel room. They are not an agent; they simply connect holidayers with charters for an amazing experience on the sea. No booking fees, a simple online booking process, real time availabilities, a professional service – without the additional hassle of contacting several companies.
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Navid Hadzaad
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Navid Hadzaad is a co-founder at Zapp.

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Investment focus

  • B2B, Apps, SaaS
  • Funding Round, Seed
  • United States, Denmark, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Bonnet — Bonnet is the easy way to charge your EV on the go. Access more than 3000 public chargers around the world. It's the must-have app for electric vehicle drivers everywhere.
  • Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
  • Amaranthine — We connect, support and invest in the world's top technologists.
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Wolfgang Heigl
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany

Wolfgang founded NFQ back in 2002 – originally purely as a technology company to support his various ventures.He has found success as both as an entrepreneur and investor. His successes include investing in OXID in 2003, which today is the leading German Enterprise Open Source E-commerce solutions provider. He is also known as the founder ofswoodoo.de, which became the biggest flight search engine in the German speaking region and was sold in 2010 to Kayak.com. His recent investments include GetYourGuide, Kiveda and Dreamlines.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Tourism, Leisure
  • Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • HAPPYCAR — As a metasearch engine HAPPYCAR offers customers an extended transparency of offers showing insurance packages, kilometer fees and one-way fees, among many others. By providing an easy, user-friendly booking process and a free customer service hotline in case any questions arise, they ensure that their customers can enjoy a hassle free rental cartrip. To conclude, customers benefit from HAPPYCAR by saving time and money.HAPPYCAR (www.happycar.de) is one of the fastest growing online car rental companies in Europe. HAPPYCAR is operating within the tourism sector as a meta-search engine for rental cars. Their goal is to provide the best prices for rental cars worldwide, while comparing all offers of their partners. To achieve this, HAPPYCAR has access to more than 1.000 car rental companies for eight countries through Europe and worldwide destinations – further expansion is going on.
  • Tourlane — Discover the world's most enchanting destinations and exciting hideaways on your perfect vacation. At Tourlane, our Travel Experts make planning your trip of a lifetime easy and worry-free.
  • GetYourGuide — Find, compare, and book sightseeing tours, attractions, excursions, things to do and fun activities from around the world. Save money and book directly from local suppliers.
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Christian Saller
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany

Christian Saller joined the team in 2013 and is managing the fund’s investments into Dreamlines, Easytaxi, Ozon and Onlinetours among others.Before coming to Holtzbrinck Ventures, Christian was CEO of flight search engine swoodoo where he was responsible for company development, from market entry to market leadership in Germany and the sale ofthe company to KAYAK. Then, in his role as Managing Director for Europe, Christian managed the European organization at KAYAK. As a member of the KAYAK management team he was also involved in the successful IPO on the NASDAQ and the subsequent sale of the company to Priceline.Before he worked at swoodoo, Christian first worked as an Investment Manager at a venture capital company and then held management positions in two start-up companies in the media sector. Christian began his career in 1998 at an international strategy consultancy company.Christian holds a doctorate „summa cum laude“ in mathematics and also received an MBA with distinction from the London Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Tourism, Travel, Hospitality
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Brazil, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Enpal — Kostenlose Planung von Solaranlagen. Gewinnbringende & schnelle Umsetzung von Photovoltaikanlagen inklusive professionelle Installation & Netzanschluss. Zum Festpreis!
  • Flip — Flip is the employee app empowering all employees from firstline to desktop. It does so by combining top-down and bottom-up communication tools such as newsfeed and chat with intuitive integrations in the existing corporate HR and IT landscape. Flip empowers employers by enabling them to reach all employees at the same time with just two clicks.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Stuttgart, Germany.
  • GetYourGuide — Find, compare, and book sightseeing tours, attractions, excursions, things to do and fun activities from around the world. Save money and book directly from local suppliers.
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Peter Read
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Apps, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Series E, Angel
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany

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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Diego Berdakin
Angel

Diego Berdakin the founder of several consumer internet companies including BeachMint, the Santa Monica based social commerce company he co-founded in July 2010 with Josh Berman. Beachmint was backed by New Enterprise Associates, Trinity Ventures, Accel, Anthem, Scale & Goldman Sachs. Conde Nast acquired majority ownership of Beachmint in thesummer of 2014. Diego was also a founding partner at FabFitFun, a women’s media an ecommerce company, Re/Done a vertical ecommerce company, iEscrow an online payment processor and escrow company, and Weaving Capital.Prior to this, Diego was the Executive Vice President and co-head of News Corporation’s Slingshot Labs — which was the digital R&D arm of Newscorp. In this role, Diego was co-head of the incubator responsible for product, strategy and marketing. During his tenure at Newscorp he built standalone companies for MySpace, Fox and the Wall Street Journal.He is currently an adjunct professor at the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California where he has been teaching since 2012. He teaches two classes: CNTV 474 and 499. Both are focused on undergraduate and graduate students across the cinema and business school. In 2015 Diego was a finalist for the Steven J. Sample Teaching Award at USC.Diego is also an investor in several notable companies including: Dropbox, Uber, FlipKart, NastyGal, Munchery, Whisper, GoEuro, Postmates, Ring.com, HackerOne and Represent.com. Diego holds a bachelors of science from Northwestern University in Political Science where his focus was campaigning on the social web.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Media and Entertainment, Computer
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Peru, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
  • Jinx — Shop Jinx for ready-to-devour premium dog food and dog treats. Free shipping and 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
  • MegaBite Food — MegaBite is a multibrand cloud kitchen restaurant that operates premium gastronomic brands and sells them at midrange prices to middle class of LATAM. We receive orders only through digital channels that integrated with our kitchen software and hardware and operate out of rented, ready to use dark-kitchens. Our modular growth model makes usultrascalable, like no other restaurant business model before: We can open a new kitchen with 10x to 20x less CAPEX and 6 to 9 times faster than a comparable traditional restaurant that can sell the same amount of orders. We currently operate in Mexico and Peru and have been growing at an average of 30% MoM in our 13 months since start of operations.
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Niv Dror
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Niv Dror is a Managing Partner at Shrug Capital.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, Marketplace
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Eight Sleep — The #1 Smart Mattress with bed cooling technology, designed to help you fall asleep faster and stay asleep. Try it at home for 100 nights, risk-free.
  • Command E — Command E develops an easy keyboard shortcut to open any document, contact, file or record from the cloud. Command-E on Mac and Control-E Windows. Your data never leaves your computer.
  • Levels — Levels helps you see how food affects your health with data from biosensors like continuous glucose monitors (CGMs)
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Roland Berger
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany

Roland Berger is a Founder of Roland Berger, Munich and has been the Roland Berger GmbH's Honorary Chairman since 2010. Today, Roland Berger has grown to become one of the world's top five strategy consulting firms with 50 offices in 36 countries. The company has a workforce of 2,400 and advises leading international industrial andservice enterprises, as well as public institutions. From the company's foundation in 1967 until 2003, Roland was Chief Executive Officer of the firm, and until 2010 Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Prior to founding his strategy consultancy, Roland was employed as a consultant and ultimately partner at a leading American consulting firm based in Milan and Boston. Roland has been appointed to various expert commissions by several German state governments and the federal government. From 2007 to its dissolution in 2014, Roland was a Member of the High Level Group on Administrative Burdens under the leadership of former Bavarian State Premier Dr. Edmund Stoiber, appointed by the European Commission. Roland is a member of several supervisory boards and advisory councils of national and international companies, foundations and organizations, including Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA (Chairman of the Audit Committee), Bad Homburg; Prime Office REIT-AG, Munich (Chairman of the Supervisory Board); RCS Mediagroup S.p.A.(Vice-President), Milan, Italy. Roland also serves on several international advisory boards, including those of Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt, MillerBuckfire in New York and The Blackstone Group in New York. Since 1996 Roland has been a Lecturer and Visiting Professor and since 2000 Honorary Professor for Business Administration and Management Consulting at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus. Furthermore, Roland was appointed a member of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations in 2012. Since 2002, Roland has been on the Business Advisory Council of the State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt and was appointed to the Globalization Council Portugal by the Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva. Previously, German President Roman Herzog had appointed Roland to the President's Advisory Council for Innovation. Roland has also actively participated in over 20 federal government commissions under Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder. Roland is a member of several supervisory boards and advisory councils of national and international companies, foundations and organizations and invests in many private and listed companies as well as startups. Roland was Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Finland in Bavaria and Thuringia from 1996 to 2015. Roland is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Roland Berger Foundation, which he set up personally with an endowment of EUR 50 million. The Roland Berger Foundation is dedicated to the global protection of human dignity and human rights. Each year it confers the Roland Berger Award for Human Dignity. The Foundation also helps gifted children and young people from underprivileged families across Germany and Italy to gain access to the best possible primary and secondary education. Outside work, Roland pursues his interest in modern art and owns a large collection of artworks, mainly by contemporary artists from Europe, the US, South America and China. Roland also loves classical music and supports the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Bavarian State Opera, among others. Roland loves hiking and cross-country skiing, especially in the Swiss region of Engadin. Roland studied business administration in Munich and Hamburg. (MBA from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich).

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Investment focus

  • Information Services, Financial Services, Apps
  • Series A, Series B
  • Germany, Denmark, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

  • Flip — Flip is the employee app empowering all employees from firstline to desktop. It does so by combining top-down and bottom-up communication tools such as newsfeed and chat with intuitive integrations in the existing corporate HR and IT landscape. Flip empowers employers by enabling them to reach all employees at the same time with just two clicks.The company was founded in 2018 and is based in Stuttgart, Germany.
  • ALOHA — Healthy plant-based foods, snacks & meal replacements. Best organic plant based protein bars, shakes and powders. Nothing artificial. Welcome to ALOHA!
  • Balance Re — Bringing life to reinsurance
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Kees Koolen
Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Kees Koolen is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Koolen Industries. Previously Kees was COO, CEO and Chairman of booking.com. Kees was advisor to Uber from 2012-2017 concerning international rollout.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Travel, Infrastructure
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • The Netherlands, Brazil, Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Holidu — Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals. Search and compare more than 15 million vacation homes and save up to 55% on identical accommodations.
  • Wundermart — Wundermart lobby shops are the perfect unmanned addition to the F&B service in hotels. Powered by smart technology and driven by data, our small 24/7 grab, pay and go convenience shops our built to fit any hotel.
  • Jutter Speijs — Wundermart lobby shops are the perfect unmanned addition to the F&B service in hotels. Powered by smart technology and driven by data, our small 24/7 grab, pay and go convenience shops our built to fit any hotel.
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Julian Stiefel
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Julian Stiefel is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at WHU Inside Business.

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Leisure, Tourism
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
  • marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
  • Mindsurance — At Mindsurance, we believe that a thriving workforce starts with prioritizing mental health. Our range of evidence-based solutions empowers businesses to create a supportive environment that nurtures employee well-being. From targeted training programs to confidential counseling services, we offer a holistic approach that addresses the unique needs of your organization. Join us in fostering a healthier, happier, and more engaged workforce.
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Luca Ascani
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 2 investments in the past 12 months

Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United Kingdom, Italy

Portfolio highlights

  • Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
  • Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
  • Superlayer — Superlayer drives better performance for sales teams, leveraging and automating best practices to close more deals in less time.
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Carsten Maschmeyer
Angel · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany · 21 investments in the past 12 months

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.

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Investment focus

  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany, Austria, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

  • theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
  • Futurised — Futurized makes processes simple and intelligent by providing businesses with software robots that automate all unpleasant and complex operations using AI.
  • AnimalChat — The messenger app AnimalChat makes communication with pet owners easier and more efficient. It's used to counteract the drastic lack of staff in the animal industry. As veterinarians we know how bad the situation is, but luckily as software specialists we also know how to fix it. With AnimalChat we free up valuable time for businesses andempower them to offer a better digital experience for their customers.
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Arya Bolurfrushan
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Arya H. Bolurfrushan is a Founder & CEO at AAICO. He attended Harvard Business School from 2008 to 2010.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Education
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • Oliv — Oliv.com is a career marketplace based in Dubai, made for the youth of the Middle East. We connect students and graduates to employers for internships, part-time & graduate jobs. Launched in 2013, we set out to tackle a huge problem - a 30% youth unemployment rate in the MENA region. Oliv helps university students and graduates launch theircareers. And we're pretty good at it.Today, Oliv is home to thousands of students and graduates where their ambitions are aligned to opportunity. More than 1,000 businesses from startups to Fortune 500s use Oliv to hire top emerging talent to maintain a healthy talent pipeline and grow their business for the future.Our goal is to make launching careers simple, personal and rewarding. That's Oliv.
  • The Applied AI Company (AAICO) — AAICO is a leading AI technology company with a team of renowned Silicon Valley-based engineers, applied AI experts, and seasoned entrepreneurs.
  • Jingle Pay — Join now and get your ZERO fees, forever FREE account.
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Roland Grenke
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Roland Grenke - Co-Founder @ Acapela

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Investment focus

  • Banking, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • Mapify — Mapify is a social travel platform where people can visualize, find and plan travel experiences.By developing a website and app which launched in November 2017, the company has attracted users worldwide to share trips and spots in more than 160 countries and has continuously been trending on several country App Stores worldwide. The company hasraised $330K from MIT’s Sandbox Innovation Fund and renowned angel investors.Mapify is based in Berlin, Germany.
  • Amie — Meet the all-in-one calendar. Schedule time for todos, events, and contacts with joy. Try it for free!
  • Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.
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Christian Vollmann
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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

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Investment focus

  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany, Ireland, United States

Portfolio highlights

  • xolo — Xolo is a 3D printing firm that offers a volumetric printing solution to various industries.
  • marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
  • Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
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Ashton Kutcher
Angel · Los Angeles, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist.Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigiesand entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.”Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others.Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children.Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car.Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV's hit series, “Punk'd,” and The CW's reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.

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Investment focus

  • Software, E-Commerce, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

  • QD-SOL — QD-SOL uses nanoparticles to produce green hydrogen in half the time.
  • HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
  • The Fabricant — A digital fashion house leading the fashion industry towards a new sector of digital-only clothing.
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Florian Heinemann
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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).

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Internet, Financial Services
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany, Brazil, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

  • itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
  • Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.
  • CODE University of Applied Sciences — Become a Software Engineer, Interaction Designer or Product Manager. Get a degree that prepares you for reality and allows you to work in interdisciplinary teams on projects you care about.
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Jochen Engert
Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 4 investments in the past 12 months

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

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Investment focus

  • Software, Rental, Travel
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

  • Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
  • LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.
  • WeSki — Experience winter's magic with WeSki. Explore, and compare endless ski holiday combinations and build your perfect ski package holiday in just few clicks.
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Manuel Stotz
Angel

Manuel Stotz

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Investment focus

  • Travel, Hospitality, Commercial Real Estate
  • Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • NUMA Group — Life's hard. Travelling shouldn't be. Book a fully furnished room or apartment in some of Europe's coolest neighbourhoods and see how simple travel can be.
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Svietlana Bauer
Angel

Svietlana Bauer

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Mobile, Travel
  • Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Etvas — We help businesses to bring more diversity and empathy into the everyday life of their customers.Etvas is the customer engagement platform for extra- services that optimizes customer touchpoints to drive better monetization, boost retention and prevent churn.Our cloud API-based marketplace connects to all providers of services with customers ofbanks, insurers and E-Tailers, while using machine learning for individual offering
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Dr. Cornelius Boersch
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

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Investment focus

  • E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

  • Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
  • Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
  • Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.
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Svietlana Bauer
Angel

Svietlana Bauer

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Investment focus

  • SaaS, Mobile, Travel
  • Pre-Seed
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Etvas — We help businesses to bring more diversity and empathy into the everyday life of their customers.Etvas is the customer engagement platform for extra- services that optimizes customer touchpoints to drive better monetization, boost retention and prevent churn.Our cloud API-based marketplace connects to all providers of services with customers ofbanks, insurers and E-Tailers, while using machine learning for individual offering
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Dagmar Bottenbruch
Angel · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany

Dagmar Bottenbruch is a dual national of the US and Germany. She has 30 years of experience (13 of these in Italy) in Corporate and Investment Banking with First Boston, Credit Suisse and as the General Manager of Rabobank Germany. Since 1999 she has been involved with start-ups, initially with Selftrade Italy, an on-line brokerage company. In 2007she began investing in start-up companies and has a portfolio of 12 companies, including GoEuro, Zizoo, Vaamo, Sharegein and Curensea. She advises companies on strategy and finance and sits on various advisory and supervisory boards, including the DMK, Germany's largest dairy company, BXR, a private equity company and Flocert, a Fair Trade company. She has a BA degree in Biological Psychology from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Rental, Travel, Sailing
  • Angel
  • Germany

Portfolio highlights

  • Zizoo — Zizoo is a leading boat holiday platform. Zizoo is digitalising and transforming the boat rental industry (worth an estimated €33 billion), which is 10 years behind any other travel sector. They are building a global digital booking platform and website connecting suppliers (charter companies) to travelers worldwide, similar to “Booking.com forBoats”. Zizoo also provides charter companies with a powerful inventory management tool and business intelligence.They are making boat holidays affordable and accessible to everyone (bookings starts from €20 a day).Zizoo is a boat rental marketplace where you can select a boat in a location of your choice and book it as easily as a hotel room. They are not an agent; they simply connect holidayers with charters for an amazing experience on the sea. No booking fees, a simple online booking process, real time availabilities, a professional service – without the additional hassle of contacting several companies.
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Lucas Cranach
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investment in the past 12 months

Lucas von Cranach is like a Football. He was a supporter of 1. FC Cologne long before he was set to become an entrepreneur in the football industry. It all started in the early days of the smartphone when Lucas realized that there was no service providing fans with live scores and results. He started out with a simple SMS-service delivering livescores to the fans’ pockets. Only a few years later this service has turned into one of the most successful football-apps around the globe connecting more than 20 million fans.

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Investment focus

  • Apps, Software, Health Care
  • Pre-Seed, Angel, Seed
  • Germany, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

  • handly — handly is becoming the leading company in the Service Tech industry. We enable people to create their ideal living environment, while empowering home service companies to build their business and saving time for a quality life.
  • FANtium — FANtium is the platform for FANs to support athletes they support, interact with them, and share their real-world achievement.
  • TILT — TILT app allow users to discover small brands, buy through videos, livestreams, and eard rewards.
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Nils Regge
Angel

Nils is a serial entrepreneur and company builder with a long-standing passion for health and biomedicine. At Apollo, Nils brings deal making skills, his impeccable business sense, and his expertise in growing early stage startups.Nils Regge founded company builder and investor TruVenturo in 2010, and he has taken part in over 30 financing roundsas an investor or co-founder among the companies he has cofounded. Of these, three have attained valuations over $100M, having attracted capital from top venture capital companies such as Insight Venture Partners, Highland Capital, and Harbourvest. Nils sits on the boards of multiple companies in his portfolio, helping to push them rapidly towards inflection points by focusing his teams towards only those activities that generate shareholder value. Nils has studied business in Hamburg and at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) in California. He also completed the EO Entrepreneurial Master's Program at MIT.

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Investment focus

  • Drones, Travel, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

  • NUMA Group — Life's hard. Travelling shouldn't be. Book a fully furnished room or apartment in some of Europe's coolest neighbourhoods and see how simple travel can be.
  • Albora Technologies — High-precision geolocation open ecosystem that delivers accurate positioning coordinates ubiquitously, specially addressing problems in challenging environments.
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