# Top 50 Wine And Spirits Angel Investors in Europe in October 2023

## Federico Cerelli
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Federico Cerelli

## Connie Schwaderer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Connie Schwaderer

## Stefano Saccardi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits

Stefano Saccardi is managing director at Gruppo Campari. He is also a board member of the company.

## Benjamin Darnault
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Benjamin Darnault

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

Heinz-Werner Nienstedt - Chairman @ Nienstedt

## Brownwyn Dunwoodie
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Brownwyn Dunwoodie

## Ian Wright
- Type: Angel
- Location: Woolwich, Greenwich, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Ian Edward Wright MBE is an English television and radio personality and former professional footballer.

## Ursula Burns
- Type: Angel
- Location: Norwalk, Connecticut, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A

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.

## Milo Mitchum
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Winery, Online Games

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.

## Nigel Wray
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet

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.

## Brett Akker
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce

Brett Akker is a Non-Executive Director at Much Better Adventures.

## Christian Mruck
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer

Christian Mruck

## Melanie Pfister
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Melanie Pfister

## Will Greenwood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Winery, Snack Food, Organic Food

Will Greenwood

## Stefano di Blasi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Stefano di Blasi

## Mauricio Lorca
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Mauricio Lorca

## Serena Cordero
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Serena Cordero

## Jonathan Goodwin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Internet

Jonathan Goodwin is the Founder, Partner & Head of Merchant Banking of Alvarium & he attended University of Nottingham.

## Jonathan Warburton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

Jonathan Warburton

## Nick Penny
- Type: Angel
- Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer

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## Quentin Griffiths
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Internet, GreenTech

Quentin Griffiths is the Co-Founder and MD of ACHICA.

## Amelia Aragon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Amelia Aragon

## Michal Berski
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

Michal Berski is the CEO & Founder of Curlsmith.He Previously worked at L'Oréal as the Senior Manager.

## Simon Gunning
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

Simon Gunning is the CEO of Campaign Against Living Miserably.

## John Magnier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Fermoy, Cork, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

John Magnier is Ireland's leading thoroughbred stud owner and has extensive business interests outside the horse-breeding industry.

## Fraser T. Smith
- Type: Angel
- Location: Taplow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

Fraser T. Smith is an English record producer, songwriter and musician.

## David Golding
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

David Golding

## Ann Elliott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Great Linford, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

Ann Elliott

## Cliff Sirlin
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile

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.

## Alexander Edward Chesterman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Reto Graf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Travel, Tourism

Reto Graf - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ EAT.ch

## James Murphy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

James Murphy is the Founder/CEO at New Commercial Arts.

## Simon Blake OBE CCMI
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

Simon Blake OBE CCMI is the Chief Executive Officer of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England.

## Robert Wuttke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Recruiting, SaaS, Human Resources

Robert Wuttke

## John McManus
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

John McManus is the Marketing Director at HUX.

## Jad Benabdelkhalek
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, FinTech, Payments

Jad Benabdelkhalek - General Partner @ Golden Record Ventures

## Somdip Dey
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Apps, Brewing, Delivery

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.

## Matteo de Brabant
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: News, EdTech, FinTech

Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.

## Andy Appelbaum
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile

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.

## Maurizio di Robilant
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits

Maurizio di Robilant is the president and founder of RobilantAssociati.n He led the company since 1984.

## Damien Byrne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

Damien Byrne is the Founder at HUX.

## Charlie Carroll
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

Charlie Carroll is Founder at Flat Iron.

## Ben Bilboul
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

Ben Bilboul - Chief Executive Officer @ Karmarama

## Andreas Etten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Energy, E-Commerce, Trading Platform

Andreas Etten - Founding Partner @ 10x Group

## Euan Lonmon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, B2C, Retail

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.

## Chris Paul
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Sports, Health Care

Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.

## Stephen Fitzpatrick
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage

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.

## Alex Ikonn
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits

Alex Ikonn is the Co-Founder of Intelligent Change. He previously worked at Luxy Hair as a Co-founder. Alex Ikonn attended York University.

## Jim Mellon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma

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.

## Tomas Diago
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, Legal

Tomas Diago - Founder & CEO @ Danel Capital

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