# Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023

## Sam Enrico Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports

Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr.
Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.

## Sebastien Borget
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

## Markus Ament
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Serial FinTech entrepreneur, Markus Ament, or Maex as he is known, has led many companies from early-stage startups to global leaders, loved by thousands worldwide.
He is currently CEO and co-founder at Centrifuge with the mission to create an operating system for global commerce, in order to fundamentally change how businesses transact andcollaborate.
Maex is co-founder and member of the board of Taulia and has transformed the company from an idea in 2009 to the market leading Financial Supply Chain company, connecting businesses to create a more efficient and profitable supply chain. With an enviable list of the of Fortune 500 clients and over 300 employees, Taulia has quickly become the recognized leader in the financial supply chain.

## Eric Larchevêque
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain

Serial experienced entrepreneur, Eric Larchevêque developped several French and European projects, including the Montorgueil Group, sold to Rentabiliweb in 2007, and Prixing, a mobile price comparator bought by HighCo in 2013. Passionate about Bitcoin and the high potential of distributed consensus technologies, he founds la Maison du Bitcoin, aParisian place for for startups working on implementation of Bitcoin technology, and first physical purchase counter of bitcoins in Europe. He’s currently CEO of Ledger, a startup addressing end user security on distributed consensus technologies such as Bitcoin.

## Ryan Sean Adams
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance

Ryan Sean Adams

## Thibaud Elziere
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Thibaud Elzière is the Founder at Efounders.

## Stani Kulechov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Como, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the cofounder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

## Itamar Lesuisse
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Gaming

Itamar is the co-founder and CEO of Argent. Prior to Argent, Itamar founded and led Peak, the top ranked mobile cognitive training service with over 50,000,000 users and 500,000 subscribers. Itamar led Peak to a profitable 8 digit per year business. He successfully sold it to Lagardere SCA in 2016.Before Peak, Itamar worked at Boston ConsultingGroup, Amazon and VISA. He holds a Masters in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering.

## George Burke
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing.

## Julien Bouteloup
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech

Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network.

## Alan Howard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.

## Eduardo Ronzano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.

## Anthony Sassano
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.

## Declan Kelly
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp.
Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.

## Errol Damelin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal.
Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

## David Hoffman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency

David Hoffman began his professional career starting in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. David has been consulting and advising blockchain startups since 2017, in order to ensure these new teams are building products that are in alignment with the ethos found in the cryptocurrency community. David has consulted for 12 cryptocurrencystartups, from various industries such as insurance, healthcare, supply chain management, and gambling
David operates a cryptocurrency focused podcast called POV Crypto, where prominent guests come to discuss their views and predictions about the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. POV Crypto is praised for it’s balanced arguments between the co-hosts and guests, in its attempt to bring unbiased arguments into the space. Additionally, David frequently writes articles about the Ethereum ecosystem, MakerDAO, and token economics, and is a leading advocate for the adoption of the decentralized finance industry.

## Nicolas Bacca
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Bitcoin, FinTech

Nicolas Bacca is a Computer Science Engineer specialized in smartcard technologies, fascinated about efficient coding. After 5 years at Oberthur Technologies developping mobile solutions and as head of the “Cards & solutions Innovation” team, he founded Simulity of which he was CTO and lead architect, and then Ubinity of which he is CEO. He hasbeen developing there many projects and solutions, including OS for smartcards, and software & hardware “Secure Element” solutions. Then he has created BTChip, first smartcard based security solution dedicated to Bitcoin, and has co-founded the Ledger startup, initiating the World most secure Bitcoin hardware wallet.

## Pascal Gauthier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, FinTech

Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.

## Charlie Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Charlie Lee is the Founder at Litecoin Foundation. Charlie Lee is the creator of Litecoin, the most popular alternative currency to Bitcoin. He is an engineer manager at Coinbase. Charlie earned a Bachelors and Masters degree in electrical engineering and computer science from M.I.T.

## John Lilic
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Internet

John Lilic is an early Bitcoin and Ethereum adopter and an early ConsenSys employee who spent six years with the company helping it grow to an international leader in the blockchain ecosystem. He is now running his own dedicated family office out of Switzerland while also serving as an investor and product development advisor at Polygon. John isalso a co-founder and treasurer at Code to Inspire, a 501c3 non profit dedicated to teaching Afghan girls how to code.

## Kain Warwick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

## Nicolas Louvet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Analytics

CEO of Coinhouse, a Paris-based Blockchain startup and a seasoned Venture Capital investor (Sofinnova, Serena Capital, Société Générale Private Equity and Ecomobilité Venture).
Founder of Keya Capital, a consulting company which advises large Corporate in their CVC and Corporate Innovation activities.As a Partner in VC fund, he invested in
-Dataiku (colead, Series A)
- FinalCad (lead, Series A)
- Lengow (lead, Series B)
- Ouicar (sold to SNCF) (lead, Seed and Series A),
- Solutions30 (IPO), (lead, Series B)
- TR Com (sold to Bull) (colead, Seed)
- Sensitive Objects (sold to Tyco Electronics) (lead, Seed and Series A, B)
- and 15+ other companies...
He has also personally invested in several companies : Ledger (seed, Series), Assoconnect (Seed), Zeenea (Seed), Atria Gestion (seed) Skills:
- Entrepreneurship, company management, business development
- Venture Capital investment (seed to growth capital) in Tech sectors (software, AI, tech, smart cities, telecom, retail) in Europe
- Fund management and creation
- Corporate Finance (fund raising, build up, merger, acquisition)
- Corporate Strategy (business model, growth strategic plan, competitive positioning)

## Andreas Mihalovits
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps

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

## Nicolas Steegmann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.

## Thomas France
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

Entrepreneur, Investor

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

## Den Christian Bocassa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Social Media, Social Network

Den Christian Bocassa is the CEO and Founder at Ethereum Enterprises.

## Jason Choi
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital.

## Bilal EL ALAMY
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Bilal EL ALAMY - Co-founder and CEO @ EquiSafe

## Claire Balva
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Bitcoin, Internet

Claire Balva is the CEO of Blockchain Partner, the leading startup on blockchain consulting in France. Blockchain Partner was created through the merger of Blockchain France and Labo Blockchain in 2017.
It gathers 3 poles of expertise – strategic, technical and legal – allowing companies to fully embrace the potential of blockchain technologies.

## Guillaume Princen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Payments, E-Commerce, Financial Services

Guillaume Princen

## Damien Guermonprez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Internet, Software

Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.

## Piotr Smolen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Mobile Apps

Piotr Smolen is the Co-Founder and CEO at symmetrical.ai. Attended SGH Warsaw School of Economics.

## Shana Fisher
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Fashion

Shana Fisher is the Managing Partner of HLVP, a NY Based venture fund focused on early stage investments. From December 2003 to June 2010, Ms. Fisher served as IAC's Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning & Mergers and Acquisitions, and prior to that as the Senior Vice President of Business Operations for IAC. Previously, Ms. Fisherserved as Vice President and Director, Media and Technology Mergers and Acquisitions and Corporate Finance for Allen & Company, LLC. In this capacity she led principle investments and advised publicly traded technology firms, private telecommunications firms and media companies. Prior to Allen & Company, LLC., Ms. Fisher was a program manager for the Microsoft Corporation. Ms. Fisher received her B.A. from Hampshire College with a triple major in Sculpture, Philosophy and Linguistics and attended the Master of Arts program at New York University's ITP.

## Pietro Invernizzi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Payments

Pietro Invernizzi is the Investor Stride.VC. Attended King's College London.

## Julien Romanetto
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Internet

Jlien Romanettois the Co-Founder and Product at Arianee. Julien Romanetto attended Université Paris-Est Créteil (UPEC)l.

## Mario Götze
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

## Carlos Blanco
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Carlos Blanco is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Profe.com, Chairman and Co-Founder of PropTEX, and Co-founder of Casum. He is a former Co-founder at Verone. He attendedCarlos Blanco is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in multimedia, telecommunications, and project management. He has founded a number of companies which includeServiFutbol.com, New- Info, Diser 2000, OACE Servicios Informáticos, Insap Consulting, Grupo ITnet, First Tuesday, Akamon Entertainment, Conector Startup Accelerator, and more. Blanco also works as a mentor, speaker, lecturer, and moderator at various institutions and events.Blanco holds master’s degrees from the University of Navarra, the University of Pompeu Fabra, and the University of Autònoma de Barcelona.

## Pierre Laurent
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain

Pierre Laurent is the co-founder of atka capital .

## Luca Ascani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Nicolas Julia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods
enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

## Jamie Broderick
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain

Jamie Broderick

## Albert Essien
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain

Mr. Albert Essien was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Ecobank Group in March 2014.Executive director of the Group since 2005, he has held several senior positions including Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, in addition to serving as Group Executive Director for Corporate Bank & Investment Bank.Prior to that, he was theRegional Head for Anglophone West Africa (excluding Nigeria) and Niger and Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) regions.Mr. Albert Essien started his banking career in 1986 with the National Investment Bank in Accra, Ghana. In 1990 he joined the Corporate Banking Department of Ecobank Ghana before becoming 7 years later Country Risk Manager. He was appointed Deputy Managing Director in 2001 and became Managing Director in December 2002. Albert Essien has a degree in Economics from the University of Ghana (graduated in 1979) and is an alumnus of the Executive Development Program of INSEAD (France/Singapore). He is also an honorary fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana.

## Florian Reike
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, Enterprise Software

Florian Reike is the Co-Founder at Advanced Blockchain AG.

## Serge Chiaramonte
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Serge Chiaramonte

## Alexander Rindom-Andersen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Software, Freelance

Alexander Rindom-Andersen is the Co-founder & CEO @ Naetion

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