Top 50 Wine And Spirits Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023
Top 50 Wine And Spirits Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023
| Investor | Wine And Spirits Europe investments |
|---|---|
| Federico Cerelli | 1 |
| Connie Schwaderer | 1 |
| Stefano Saccardi | 1 |
| Benjamin Darnault | 1 |
| Robert Wuttke | 1 |
| Heinz-Werner Nienstedt | 1 |
| Brownwyn Dunwoodie | 1 |
| Ian Wright | 1 |
| Ursula Burns | 1 |
| Milo Mitchum | 1 |
| Nigel Wray | 1 |
| Brett Akker | 1 |
| John McManus | 1 |
| Christian Mruck | 1 |
| Melanie Pfister | 1 |
| Will Greenwood | 1 |
| Jad Benabdelkhalek | 1 |
| Somdip Dey | 1 |
| Matteo de Brabant | 1 |
| Stefano di Blasi | 1 |
| Mauricio Lorca | 1 |
| Serena Cordero | 1 |
| Jonathan Goodwin | 1 |
| Jonathan Warburton | 1 |
| Nick Penny | 1 |
| Quentin Griffiths | 1 |
| Amelia Aragon | 1 |
| Michal Berski | 1 |
| Simon Gunning | 1 |
| John Magnier | 1 |
| Andy Appelbaum | 1 |
| Maurizio di Robilant | 1 |
| Fraser T. Smith | 1 |
| David Golding | 1 |
| Damien Byrne | 1 |
| Charlie Carroll | 1 |
| Ben Bilboul | 1 |
| Ann Elliott | 1 |
| Cliff Sirlin | 1 |
| Alexander Edward Chesterman | 1 |
| Andreas Etten | 1 |
| Euan Lonmon | 1 |
| Reto Graf | 1 |
| Chris Paul | 1 |
| Stephen Fitzpatrick | 1 |
| Alex Ikonn | 1 |
| Jim Mellon | 1 |
| James Murphy | 1 |
| Simon Blake OBE CCMI | 1 |
| Tomas Diago | 1 |
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Federico Cerelli
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Connie Schwaderer
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Stefano Saccardi is managing director at Gruppo Campari. He is also a board member of the company.
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- E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Tannico — Tannin is a project created by a team of web experts with a common passion for good wine. Every day we select carefully the best Italian and foreign cellars, and each bottle is tasted by our team of winemakers. If Tannico was a wine would have an attractive bouquet and a mixed blend, with great adaptability while maintaining its recognisability.
Benjamin Darnault
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Robert Wuttke
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- Recruiting, SaaS, Human Resources
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Germany, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — Build a successful company with EWOR
- MapJam — MapJam provides map publishing tools to personalize, brand, and add important context to maps. It also offers developers and enterprises vector maps that work seamlessly with great Open Source projects from OpenStreetMap, Mapzen, Leaflet, D3, Font Awesome, kolor.js, and others. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Lawn Love — Lawn Love is modern, on-demand lawn care. Get your #stressfree quote today at lawnlove.com
Heinz-Werner Nienstedt - Chairman @ Nienstedt
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- 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.
Brownwyn Dunwoodie
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Ian Edward Wright MBE is an English television and radio personality and former professional footballer.
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- Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
Ursula Burns is a Senior Advisor at Teneo Holdings. She is also Chairman of the Board at VEON, and director of Uber, American Express, ExxonMobil and Nestlé. She will join Diageo’s board in April 2018.Burns was previously the Chairman of the Board of the Xerox Corporation from 2010 to 2017 and Chief Executive Officer from 2009 to 2016.Shejoined Xerox as an intern in 1980 and during her career she held leadership posts spanning corporate services, manufacturing and product development. She was named president in 2007. During her tenure as chief executive officer, she helped the company transform from a global leader in document technology to the world’s most diversified business services company serving enterprises and governments of all sizes. Shortly after being named CEO in 2009, she spearheaded the largest acquisition in Xerox history, the $6.4 billion purchase of Affiliated Computer Services.In 2016, Burns led Xerox through a successful separation into two independent, publicly traded companies – Xerox Corporation, which is comprised of the company’s Document Technology and Document Outsourcing businesses, and Conduent Incorporated, a business process services company. The separation of the two businesses enhanced their competitive positions and created significant value creation opportunities.Burns, who regularly appears on Fortune’s and Forbes’ lists of the world’s most powerful women, is now a Senior Advisor to global CEO advisory firm Teneo. She is a board director of Uber, American Express, ExxonMobil, and Nestlé, and the chairman of VEON. She will join the board of Diageo in April 2018. U.S. President Barack Obama appointed her to help lead the White House national program on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) from 2009-2016, and she served as chair of the President’s Export Council from 2015-2016 after service as vice chair 2010-2015.She also provides leadership counsel to several other community and non-profit organizations, including the Ford Foundation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation, Cornell Tech Board of Overseers, the New York City Ballet, and the Mayo Clinic. Burns is a member of the National Academy of Engineers and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Burns holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
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- CleanCo — Why Clean? A more positive approach to non-alcoholic drinks. It makes it easier to order at the bar and more sense for people who drink less, or not at all as part of a cleaner lifestyle.
- Goodera — Engage employees for social impact with Goodera. We curate, plan, and manage engaging volunteering programs for 10M+ employees.
- Evertree Insurance — The insurance industry is ready for change. By combining the most advanced technology with the warmth and knowledge of a human advisor, we give our clients the confidence that their most valuable assets are protected by the best product at the best price.
Milo Mitchum is a Los Angeles-based British music manager and Partner at Three Six Zero, an entertainment company responsible for selling tens of millions of records Worldwide, and guiding some of music’s biggest stars. Milo’s career in management, promotion, and as a record label executive, has given him an intricate understanding of today’sentertainment landscape at the highest level. He is known for his entrepreneurial approach to artist management, and has a client roster of some of the industry's most important cultural icons.
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- Gaming, Winery, Online Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rumor Rose — Rumor Rose offers premium rosé produced and bottled in Flassans-sur-Issole, the heart of the South of France Provence Region. It blends delicate citrus and fruit aromas with a well-rounded crisp and dry finish, suited for celebrations.
- Genpop Interactive — Genpop Interactive is a global consortium of top-tier software engineers, game designers, artists, and competitive gamers working together to create an original next-generation team shooter.
Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.
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- E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Glassette — Discover and collect beautiful, curated homeware from the best brands in the UK. Shop thoughtfully, live joyfully.
- Get A Drip — All of our Drips and Booster Shots are administered by our medical staff, consisting of GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
- Stubben Edge — Financial services for a new generation. Sign up free to sell better financial products, cheaper, faster and to more people with Flightdeck
Brett Akker is a Non-Executive Director at Much Better Adventures.
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- Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fy! — Fy is an e-commerce company that builds a mobile marketplace to shop online. It uses a combination of social content, machine learning, and a deep understanding of its products and suppliers to create a personalized experience for each shopper using the site and app. Fy was launched in 2017 driven by a mission to make the world of designdiscoverable, affordable, and instantly accessible through social commerce.
- Chargifi — Easy hybrid workplace management software supporting desk booking, conference room booking, Visitor management, and people coordination.
- Much Better Adventures — Join like-minded people on an award-winning adventure. Unique and flexible small group adventures without the logistical headache, helping wild places thrive one adventure at a time.
John McManus is the Marketing Director at HUX.
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
Christian Mruck
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- Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer
- Angel
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- The Original Experience — Explore the Original Pilsner!
Melanie Pfister
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Will Greenwood
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- Winery, Snack Food, Organic Food
- Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
- Fearne & Rosie — Hello! Berry nice to meet you. Our mum says it's really important that we eat the berry best food. So we squish together natural ingredients to make tasty, fruity jams, honeys and spreads. MORE FRUIT, LESS SUGAR Just for you! Love, Fearne and Rosie x
Jad Benabdelkhalek - General Partner @ Golden Record Ventures
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- Winery, FinTech, Payments
- Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
- Orbital — We bridge the gap between traditional and crypto financial solutions, providing a regulated, secure and frictionless experience for global businesses.
Somdip Dey, FRSA, also professionally known as InteliDey, is an Embedded Artificial Intelligence scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, AI art & music creator and TED speaker. Dey is the CEO of Nosh Technologies. He was named an MIT Innovator Under 35 Europe and a World IP Review Leader for his contributions to developing numerous embeddedartificial intelligence to fight food waste. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).Born on December 13, 1990, in Kolkata, India, Somdip Dey is the only child of a painter mother, Soma Dey, and a commercial artist father, Sudip Dey. Dey attended South Point High School in Kolkata, India and went to study bachelor's in Computer Science at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, where he graduated with a first-class degree. Throughout his schooling, Dey had a passion for visual arts and theatre.After graduating with a Computer Science degree Dey pursued a career of an engineer, a scientist and an entrepreneur. In 2012, Dey invented a digital QR authentication system that was adopted by institutes around the world to stop the generation of fake degree certificates. In 2013, he moved to the U.K. to pursue master's study and while pursuing his MSc at the University of Manchester in 2014, his parents had a car accident that made him the family's sole breadwinner. Sending money to his family to support them left Somdip with an empty bank account and he was left to collect food waste from dumpsters. This led him to co-found Codeepy, a start-up committed to co-developing the world's first crowd food-sharing platform. It won the 3Scale API Award at the Koding's 2014 Global Hackathon & inspired entrepreneurs to develop similar solutions. In 2020, Dey co-founded Nosh Technologies, which developed an AI-powered food management app to reduce food waste in the household, and Dey also assumed the role of CEO of the company. Dey is also a TEDx speaker.In regard to visual arts and theatre, Dey made his first debut in the documentary, "Unity" (2020), talking about his experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dey produces music using AI algorithms and releases them under the stagename InteliDey.
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- Apps, Brewing, Delivery
- Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Foodstuff — Foodstuff is a place for indies to kick-ass online without the big chains stealing the limelight.
- ROUND — Every great idea deserves a great domain. Establish your brand by investing in a quality domain name.
- Lister's Brewery — Lister's Brewery is a wine and spirits company that produces a wide range of fine ales, cask and keg, and beers that are known for their consistency and quality. The company aims to satisfy the beer drinkers that prefer traditional styles of beer that they can return to time and again.
Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.
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- News, EdTech, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
- 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.
- We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
Stefano di Blasi
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Mauricio Lorca
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Serena Cordero
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Jonathan Goodwin is the Founder, Partner & Head of Merchant Banking of Alvarium & he attended University of Nottingham.
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- E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- BridgeU — BridgeU offers world-class university and careers guidance for global secondary schools. Empower your students. Inform your guidance strategy. Improve outcomes.
- Farmdrop — The UK's first fully certified organic supermarket, Planet Organic offers 1000s of products for delivery across the UK. From food and drink to health and beauty, we think carefully about everything we sell so you don't have to.
- MyTutor — MyTutor provides secondary school learners with online access to over 7,000 Russell Group university students, reducing the time, hassle and cost of finding a subject expert locally.Lessons take place in their innovative online lesson space, which allows parents to substitute expensive tutors coming to their house, for live, one-to-one sessionswith young, bright and successful undergraduates. If the pupil forgets something, every session is recorded, so they can play it back after.They also partner with schools and universities to provide larger contracts for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. School teachers stay up-to-date with the programme through a personalised online dashboard.The company has grown at 3x YoY for the last three years, with 200,000+ bookings and applications from 50,000 tutors. At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed.MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant.
Jonathan Warburton
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
Project Lead
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- Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer
- Angel
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- The Original Experience — Explore the Original Pilsner!
Quentin Griffiths is the Co-Founder and MD of ACHICA.
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- Apps, Internet, GreenTech
- Series A, Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- OLIO — Let's not waste our wonderful world. Connect with your neighbours to give away food & other household items, plus lend & borrow, for free.
- Farmdrop — The UK's first fully certified organic supermarket, Planet Organic offers 1000s of products for delivery across the UK. From food and drink to health and beauty, we think carefully about everything we sell so you don't have to.
Amelia Aragon
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Michal Berski is the CEO & Founder of Curlsmith.He Previously worked at L'Oréal as the Senior Manager.
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
Simon Gunning is the CEO of Campaign Against Living Miserably.
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
John Magnier is Ireland's leading thoroughbred stud owner and has extensive business interests outside the horse-breeding industry.
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- Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
Andy Appelbaum is a Managing Partner at RiverPark Ventures. Andy previously worked at Co-Founder at Managing Partner as a AC Angel Fund. He attended New York University School of Law and Binghamton University.Andy is a career entrepreneur who has founded a portfolio of high growth businesses in industries ranging from Dry Cleaning to FoodDelivery to Energy. Andy began his career as an attorney for Latham & Watkins. He received his law degree from New York University School of Law and graduated summa cum laude from SUNY Binghamton. Andy is also an active Angel Investor and a member of New York Angels.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Tag (Acquired) — Share your journey & travel through the eyes of your closest friends, favorite celebrities, athletes, and DJs. Tag was acquired by Cyber Dust in September 2015.
- WayBetter — WayBetter is disrupting the wellness category by turning the hard work of better health into fun, social games. Founded in 2011, WayBetter’s mission is to grow a global community where people inspire each other and build better habits in order to get fit, lose weight, and improve their mindset. By focusing on motivation, behavior change, anddeveloping positive habits, WayBetter offers its members a pathway to real, lasting results. The company was awarded a $1 million NIH grant to develop a smoking cessation game with researchers at Brown University. More than 1.2 million people have played in a WayBetter game, and we’re just getting started.
- Mouth Foods — Mouth Foods is an online destination for small-batch foods. It features products such as beverages, condiments, candy, snacks, spreads, and other foods from hundreds of talented makers around the United States. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
Maurizio di Robilant is the president and founder of RobilantAssociati.n He led the company since 1984.
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- E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Tannico — Tannin is a project created by a team of web experts with a common passion for good wine. Every day we select carefully the best Italian and foreign cellars, and each bottle is tasted by our team of winemakers. If Tannico was a wine would have an attractive bouquet and a mixed blend, with great adaptability while maintaining its recognisability.
Fraser T. Smith is an English record producer, songwriter and musician.
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- Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
David Golding
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
Damien Byrne is the Founder at HUX.
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
Charlie Carroll is Founder at Flat Iron.
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
Ben Bilboul - Chief Executive Officer @ Karmarama
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
Ann Elliott
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
Cliff Sirlin is a career entrepreneur who has founded and operates a portfolio of high growth businesses. Cliff is also an active Angel Investor. Cliff received his law degree from New York University School of Law. While at NYU, Cliff also studied at the Stern School of Business. He earned his BA in History from Colgate University. Cliff’saccomplishments have been profiled by CNBC; Inc. Magazine; Success Magazine; and Crain’s Business.Cliff also is a frequent lecturer at the NYU Stern School of Business.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Litographs — Litographs creates art from literature. We design t-shirts, scarves, tote bags, and posters from the text of classic books.
- Greatist — Greatist | Health and Fitness News, Tips, Recipes, and Exercises
- Flyby Robotics — Flyby Robotics is a developer and operator of autonomous drone delivery systems. the fleet of lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles that easily integrate with merchant's native order systems
Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company. Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.
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- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
- Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
Andreas Etten - Founding Partner @ 10x Group
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- Energy, E-Commerce, Trading Platform
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- enmacc — The enmacc OTC platform is a energy trading platform for the future of the global energy markets. We are building a next-generation trading platform, powered digital RFQ technology, that will help you to trade smarter, faster and better.
- NAVINUM — NAVINUM provides e-commerce services of sell wine and beverages. They lead to the best wines by combining the offers of their shop partners with editorial recommendations and soon the personal taste profile of their users.
Long years at the helm of transport and tourism companies, (Corsica Ferries, Nouvelles Frontiéres Reseau, Stradeblu) Deep insight in european cultures and languages, have found interest and pleasure in founding, mentoring and sponsoring start-up businesses in very diverse fields.Chairman of Restopolis , sold to La Fourchette, Tripadvisor inoctober 2014, Investor in Wineverse and Checkbonus, founder of THE GIRA, travel and communication, Founder of Proteam, CEO of Pneusmart BV.
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- E-Commerce, B2C, Retail
- Angel, Seed
- Italy, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Pneusmart — Pneusmart is a pan-european tyre retailer. It has offices in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy and is growing fast in all markets. Pneusmart provides an innovative solution to source tyres for both cars, vans and motorcycles. It provides a full service experience to consumers, delivering tyres to stations in its vast fitting network to ensure asmooth customer experience. The company is expanding fast into a complete car service solution.
- Wineverse — Siamo una enoteca dedicata alla vendita online di vino pregiato. Offriamo oltre 350 vini italiani selezionati da Luca Martini, miglior sommelier del mondo 2013.
- restOpolis — With Restopolis book your table at a restaurant online free and you have access to a series of promotions that allow you to eat spending up to 70% less.
Reto Graf - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ EAT.ch
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- SaaS, Travel, Tourism
- Seed
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Somm'it — Restaurant profits are low. Somm’It thinks beverages are the main driver for profit within restaurants, but are not leveraged enough because of management complexity, lack of tools, skills, and expertise.Somm’It is the automated sommelier for every restaurant. Restaurants can also optimize the management of beverages through data intelligence,easy stock management, dynamic purchasing, and reliable, in real-time management of the wine lists.
- TrekkSoft — The leading online booking solution for day tour companies. Use a centralised booking system that connects your online and offline sales channels to simplify back-end booking management.
Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.
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- Food and Beverage, Sports, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, France, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Scout - Make Money Moves — Our mission is to make investing fun, relatable, and safe. Scout is an investing platform that allows you to build investment portfolios aligned with your interests. Think: eco-friendly brands, Women-led companies, Bitcoin, and the most popular Gen Z stocks. With Scout, you choose what you invest in, and we risk-manage your portfolio so you caninvest safely.
- Buoy — Zero sugar liquid electrolytes and ionic trace minerals that blend with any beverage, even alcohol and coffee. No sugar, no stevia, no dextrose, no flavorings and no artificial ingredients. Gluten and major allergen free. Vegan and non-GMO.
- Mitchell & Ness — Mitchell & Ness Nostalgia manufactures and retails apparel and accessories for men and women. It focuses on offering consumers a range of licensed apparel from the NFL, NBA, NHL, and AFL; and non-licensed active wear. The company offers adjustables, banners and pennants, bottoms, buckets, fitted products, fleece products, jerseys, outerwear,shirts, slouch products, snapback products, and strapback products; and headwear, duffle bags, gloves, scarves, and socks.
Stephen Fitzpatrick is founder and CEO of Vertical Aerospace and OVO Energy. Recognising the potential of EVTOLs to transform air travel, Fitzpatrick resolved to bring together the best technologies from aviation, energy and automobile industries. Today, the company is closing in on its mission of decarbonising flight.A serial entrepreneur,Stephen Fitzpatrick believes in the power of human ingenuity, directing his attention to forming businesses that solve the world’s biggest problems.In 2009 he founded OVO Energy, overseeing its growth to the biggest independent provider of power in the UK, offering customers energy that is cheaper, cleaner and simpler than rivals.Stephen Fitzpatrick’s expansive experience, as founder of an energy company and former owner of F1 team, Manor Racing, led to his setting up Vertical Aerospace. In 2021 the company announced conditional pre-orders for 1,350 aircraft from American Airlines, Avolon, Virgin Atlantic, Marubeni Corp, Iberojet and Bristow Group for an estimated $5.4bn. In December of that year, Vertical Aerospace listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Today the company is poised to launch the most advanced aircraft of its type ever designed, the VX4, with test flights expected to run in 2022.
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- Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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- The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
Alex Ikonn is the Co-Founder of Intelligent Change. He previously worked at Luxy Hair as a Co-founder. Alex Ikonn attended York University.
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
- Lunata Beauty —
Jim Mellon is an international investor with interests in several industries. After leaving Oxford, where he studied PPE, (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) he worked in Asia and the United States for two fund management companies, GT and Thornton, before establishing his own business in 1991. His business operations include two components, alisted fund management company called Charlemagne Capital, and an Asian mining group, Regent Pacific.In addition, Mr. Mellon is Co-Chairman of West African Minerals Corporation and Regent Pacific Group. He is on the board of a number of public quoted companies, including Brazilian Gold Corporation, Charlemagne Capital Limited, Manx Financial Group, Plethora Solutions, Polo Resources, Port Erin Biophara Investments Limited, and the Speymill plc. He is the life tenant of a trust which owns the Burnbrae Group, which has substantial assets in the biotechnology, financial services, property, mining and leisure sectors. Mr. Mellon spends most of his time working on startup ideas and investing. His book, “Wake Up!” was published in 2005; his second book "10 Investments for the Ten Years Ahead" was published in 2008. In 2012, he co-wrote "Cracking the Code" which focuses on the biotechnology sector and how to profit from it. Mr. Mellon lives in the Isle of Man, Brussels and Ibiza and is an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
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- Amy — Amy collects and analyzes information from all over the web and provides actionable insights about your leads, prospects and clients, all in one click.
- Monaco Foundry — We are a team of Serial Entrepreneurs, former Senior Government Advisors and Fortune 500 Executives. A global venture accelerator that invests in early to mid-stage companies and their growth through a unique sweat equity model.
- The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
James Murphy is the Founder/CEO at New Commercial Arts.
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
Simon Blake OBE CCMI is the Chief Executive Officer of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England.
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Lucky Saint — Lucky Saint specializes in the manufacture and supply of non-alcoholic beer.
Tomas Diago - Founder & CEO @ Danel Capital
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- E-Commerce, Apps, Legal
- Seed, Series A
- Spain, United Kingdom
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- Uvinum — Uvinum facilitates the online purchase of wines, beers, spirits, wine accessories and gourmet products. It also publishes descriptions, ratings, consumer reviews, and recommendations of each item it sells.Customers can search for wine and beer based on the type or the country of origin. The wine portfolio includes red, white, sparkling,pinkish, sweet, alcohol-free, bio, generous, and magenta wines.Ale, Craft, Blonde, Strong Ale, Stout, Pilsener, and Ambrée are some of the beer types available in Uvinum. Distillates, accessories, and gourmets are classified by type and brand. The distillates tab has details of Whiskey, Vodka, Rum, Absinthe, Bourbon, Tequila, Brandy, and more. Cups, ice buckets, coolers, decanters, and corkscrews are some of the accessories available. The gourmet tab contains details of jams, tonics, syrups, vinegars, oils, and more. Uvinum also sells gift boxes and packs.Uvinum was launched by Albert Garcia in December 2009 and is operated from Barcelona, Spain.
- Populetic — Populetic is an international legal services company focused on the resolution of claims arising from incidents in the air transport of passengers and luggage.Since its founding in 2014, the company has stood out for its entrepreneurial nature and its international vocation. Their team is composed of specialized lawyers in the field, computerscientists, programmers and translators, all of them with the same identity: specialization, empathy towards the client, technological innovation, independence and ethics. Their mission is to provide quality legal services to resolve The most effective way possible conflicts between their customers and airlines.
- The PayPro — The PayPro is an online tool designed around the needs of professionals and small businesses to make payments in over 30 currencies, avoiding the hidden charges of the banks. By using The PayPro, its users’ small and medium-sized enterprises have access to mid-market rates and many other features that improve their company’s profitability.ThePayPro was launched in 2015 and is based in London, England.
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