# Top 50 Agriculture (agtech) Angel Investors in Europe in June 2026

## Clemens Kaiser
- Type: Angel
- Location: München, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Forestry, Software, Image Recognition

Clemens Kaiser is the Managing Director & CTO at KLEO Connect. Clemens Kaiser attended Technical University of Munich.

## Peter Carlsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Food and Beverage, AgTech

Peter joined Tesla from NXP Semiconductors where he was responsible for purchasing and outsourcing. As CPO, he took the purchase organization from a tactical decentralized structure to a strategic global commodity organization.
Before starting at NXP, Peter was CPO at Sony Ericsson. Peter had a total of 13 years experience from different roles withEricsson and Sony Ericsson in Sweden and the US. He led the team that built and implemented Ericsson's framework for Supplier Quality Assurance.
Peter has a Master's degree with specialization in Production and Quality Control from Luleå Technical University in Sweden. In his spare time he enjoys running, mountain biking, golf, cooking and travel.

## Renaud Visage
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Building the world's largest event technnology company with Eventbrite (NYSE: EB).Helping start-ups scale with seed fund Point Nine Capital.Angel investing in bold and ambitious European and U.S. start-ups.  Sample from 40+ portfolio companies:
- Sqreen (exited to Datadog)
- Meero ($290M in funding)
- Algolia ($184M)
- Alkemics ($54M)
-Builder ($29M)
- Verve ($28M)
- Fox Intelligence (€18M)

## Daniel Skavén Ruben
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Pet, AgTech

Daniel Skavén Ruben

## David Rowan
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Information Technology

David Rowan is editor of the UK edition of WIRED magazine, which won 2009 Launch of the David Rowan is Editor of the WIRED UK, the technology and trends magazine covering online brands, gadgets and the culture that surrounds them.   David has reported on technology for The Times and Channel 4 News, the latter requiring him to illustrate the newiPod Video from the set of a porn shoot. He's also written for The Sunday Times and Telegraph Magazines, and edited the Guardian's on-line content.  David has curated an exhibition of British creative talent at the Government's Cabinet Forum conference. He has also addressed the TEDs, and frequently contributes on Newsnight and the Today programme. He also writes a monthly column for GQ.   David is in touch with many of the world's leading trend-setters and spotters. In presentations he looks at how the net is disrupting almost every sector, how apps change consumer behaviour and why 'social commerce' is killing traditional marketing. He reveals the 10 trends that will change your market in the next decade - and what you should be doing now to protect yourself.

## Romain Sautrau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Agriculture, AgTech

Romain Sautrau is a Investment Director at Supernova Invest. Romain attended INSEAD.

## Ingo Baumann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Forestry, Software, Image Recognition

Dr. Ingo Baumann is a founding partner of BHO Legal. He specializes in national and European high technology and research projects. His clients are mainly leading institutions and companies in the space industry. Dr. Baumann studied law in Münster and Cologne. He received his doctorate from the Cologne Institute for Aerospace Law under Prof. Dr.Hobe on the international law of satellite communications.

## Thierry Petit
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Fashion

Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to:
• Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic).
Today Showroomprive.com is:
• A team of 500 employees
• A community of 20 million members in Europe
• A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development:
Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi
Health : Feeli, Lifen, May,
Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent
Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted
Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot,
Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor,
FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October
RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot
Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners
Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital
VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE.
More info : http://www.made-for-all.com

## Thomas Peruzzi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Farming, Livestock, Agriculture

Thomas Peruzzi - CTO @ Virtual Minds

## Nick Boyle
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biofuel, Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence

In 2010, Nick founded Lightsource Renewable Energy, then just a six-person start-up, which quickly grew over 5 years to become Europe’s largest solar developer and operator and a recognised global leader. In his role as Group CEO, Nick’s dynamic leadership and vision has driven the company to tremendous success and in December 2017, Lightsourceannounced a strategic partnership with BP which has committed aggressively to accelerate the low carbon transition. The company has rebranded to Lightsource BP in affirmation of this powerhouse commitment which is set to shape the future of global energy delivery. Nick previously sat at Board and Senior Director level in a number of leading retail financial service companies. Throughout his career, Nick has always been recognised for his entrepreneurial skill and success in pairing retail financial products with low-risk, predictable investments.

## Michael Gutsmann
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Farming, Livestock, Agriculture

Michael Gutsmann is a CFO at Bigpoint.

## Xavier Buck
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: SaaS, Farming, Software

Xavier has been an Internet entrepreneur since 1996. After co-founding several ventures like Datecenter Luxembourg, EuroDNS, eBrandServices and DomainInvest, Xavier's current role consists in deploying the group's international activities with a special focus on the domain name industry, internet traffic and traffic monetization. Xavierholds chairman positions in his formerly founded ventures and is director of a series of companies including DomainTools.com, eBrandServices, OpenRegistry and LeftoftheDot.

## Will Brooks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Michael Pennington
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B.
Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.

## Matteo Fago
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Travel, Farming, Big Data

Matteo Fago

## Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing

Girolamo Vimercati Sanseverino

## Ian Hogarth
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

## Giovanni Onesti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing

Giovanni Onesti

## Omid Ashtari
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce

Omid Ashtari has held operational roles at Google (business development, strategic partnerships), Foursquare (MD Europe), Citymapper (President), and Streetbees (COO). Currently he is an angel investor and advisor to early stag startups. He serves as the business advisor to the Mayor of London. He blogs on www.startuppragmatism.blog andwww.thefullspectrum.blog

## Hampus Jakobsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.

## Henri Seydoux
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Wireless, Fruit, AgTech

Henri Seydoux founded Parrot in 1994 and has been its CEO ever since its inception. Parrot is today one of the major players in the civil drone market. Self-taught, Henri started his career in 1978 as a trainee and then as a journalist for the magazine Actuel. In 1982, he joined the company SSCI as a developer and then, the company Micro Archi. In1986, he created BSCA, a company that specialized in rendering 3D computer images and served as CEO until 1990. In 1991, along with three other partners, he founded Christian Louboutin, a luxury shoes company.

## Claes Dinkelspiel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, AgTech

Mr. Claes Dinkespiel serves as the President and Chief Executive Officer at E. Öhman J:or AB. Mr. Dinkespiel serves as the Chairman of Nordnet AB. He serves as the Chairman of the Board of Svenskt Rekonstruktionskapital AB, Gummesson Gruppen AB, Premiefinans AB, Stockholms Köpmansklubb, MPS Holding AB, and Fastighets AB Trianon. Mr. Dinkespielserves as a Director of Aldano AB. He is Member of the Board in different companies like the foundation City University, Siliviahemmet, Arvid Lindman AB, E. FBN Sweden Service AB, Malon Fastighets AB, MPS Holding AB, Telereit Holding AB, Stiftelsen Silviahemmet, and others. Mr. Dinkespiel has been a Director of Nordnet AB since 2001. He served as a Director of Prevas AB since 2000. Mr. Dinkespiel served as the Chairman of the Board of Emric AB, SalusAnsvar AB and E. Öhman J:or Fondkommission AB. He served as a Director of Salusansvar AB since 1999. Mr. Dinkespiel served as a Director of Intellecta AB (publ). He served as a Director of Småföretagsinvest AB. Mr. Dinkespiel served as a Director at Öhman J:or Fondkommission AB, and Fylkinvest. He holds an M.B.A. from Insead, France, and a B.Sc. in Economics from Stockholm School of Economics.

## Arvi Tavast
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Software

Arvi Tavast is the Director at Institute of the Estonian Language.

## Fulvio Basili
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing

Fulvio Basili is a Private Investor at WallFarm and also the CEO and Founder of Ecosafey.

## Stefan Hedelius
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech

Stefan Hedelius

## Thomas France
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Information Technology

Entrepreneur, Investor

## Vivianne Holm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech

Vivianne Holm

## Alexandre Yazdi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Internet

Alexandre Yazdi is the CEO at Voodoo.

## Vera Baker
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, B2B, AgTech

Vera Baker is an Angel Investor for Atomico, and an Investment Advisor to The Jua Fund, an early-stage, Pan-African, Venture Capital Fund that invests the first check into exceptional founders at the pre-seed and seed stage. Additionally, she works directly with budding startups as a Director at the Founders Institute Paris Chapter and a mentor tounderrepresented founders at the Colors Accelerator in Paris and the Unconventional Accelerator in the Nordics.

## Marco Houwen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Farming, Livestock, Agriculture

Marco Houwen, together with his partners LuxConnect and Datacenter Luxembourg, founded LuxCloud S.A. in April 2010.This partnership sets out to attract international SME and SMI, out of the field of Software development, to the Grand Duchy. LuxCloud will put Luxembourg firmly on the International Internet map and deliver services to SMB’s allover Europe.In 2000, Marco, in association with Xavier Buck, founded DCL Group, a leading Internet and e-commerce company, now recognized as one of the biggest Internet success stories in Luxembourg. Companies in the Group include Datacenter Luxembourg, LuxCloud, EuroDNS, e-Brand Services and voipGATE, to name but a few.Passionate about the promotion of Luxembourg, Marco is co-founder and President of LU-CIX A.s.b.l. and as such, contributes actively on the promotion of the Luxembourgish e-commerce hub.In addition to his role as LuxCloud CEO, Marco is CEO of Datacenter Luxembourg and a board member of the DCL Group.

## Anna Alex
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, Information Technology, Big Data

In 2012 Anna together with her co-founder Julia launched OUTFITTERY with the vision to create a shopping experience for men that is convenient, fun and inspiring. Today, OUTFITTERY serves individual outfits to over 600k men in eight countries and Anna is one of the most famous female entrepreneurs in Europe. In 2016, she was voted amongst Europe’s“Inspiring Fifty”, the 50 most inspirational women in tech. Prior to OUTFITTERY Anna lead the IT of the Swiss group buying platform DeinDeal in Zurich. She studied economic sociology in Freiburg and Paris.

## Dan Magnuszewski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Buffalo, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, B2B, Retail

Dan Magnuszewski - Cofounder & CTO @ ACV

## Stefan Scherer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: AgTech, Agriculture, Sustainability

Stefan Scherer is the CEO and Shareholder of smaXtec. He previously worked at Alicona Imaging as a Founder and CEO. Stefan Scherer attended Graz University of Technology.

## Romain Liot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Agriculture

Romain Liot is the COO and Co-founder of Adore Me. He previously worked at McKinsey & Company as Business Analyst. Romain attended INSEAD and EDHEC Business School.

## Anders Frankel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, FinTech, Consumer

As founder and CEO Anders has been a part of APSIS from the very first day - literally! He is a passionate marketer and works to simplifying the life of digital marketers with powerful and user-friendly technologies.

## Cory Levy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Cory Levy is the Founder Advisor of Humaning.

## Adrien de Schompre
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Banking, Farming

Adrien de Schompre

## Axel Stepken
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Software, Carbon Capture

Axel Stepken was born in Essen, Germany. He graduated with a degree in Electrical Engineering from the RWTH Aachen and achieved his PhD in High Voltage Engineering in 1989.Upon completion of his PhD, Axel Stepken worked at ABB where he held several Management positions in Germany and Indonesia within the Power Transmission and DistributionSegment. He joined TÜV SÜD AG as Member of the Board of Management responsible for the INDUSTRY and the former PEOPLE Strategic Business Segments as well as the Strategic Region ASIA. In June 2007 Axel Stepken was appointed the Chairman of the Board of Management.

## Solène Navellou
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Agriculture

Solène Navellou

## Mikael Ahlström
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: AgTech, Internet of Things, Professional Services

Mikael Ahlstrom is the Chairman of the Board at Curitas Ventures. Mikael Ahlstrom attended INSEAD.

## Konstantin von Unger
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS

Konstantin von Unger is a an experienced investor in technology companies and an independent Board member. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Shareholders' Committee at Henkel AG and as the Chairman of the supervisory board at the Henkel Family Office. Konstantin attended London Business School and Brown University.

## BARRE Rachel
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: AgTech, Farming, Agriculture

BARRE Rachel

## Cécile Guillou
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Agriculture

Cécile Guillou - Executive Director of Franprix @ Groupe Casino

## David Hollidge
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1

David is a founding partner of West Hill Capital and has been operating in the venture capital fundraising market for over 16 years. David has played a key role in executing over 100 public, pre-IPO and private capital rounds for UK and international companies operating in a broad range of sectors during numerous economic cycles.

## Heinz Ferchau
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Robotics, Agriculture, Industrial Automation

Founder of Ferchau Engineering

## Bryan Meehan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Packaging Services, Farming, Waste Management

Bryan Meehan CEO at Blue Bottle Coffee. Previously, I co-founded Nude Skincare (acquired by LVMH) and Fresh & Wild in London (acquired by Whole Foods).I'm an advocate of socially responsible investing and co-founded Greenmont Capital, a venture firm focused on investing in people who are primarily interested in creating environmentallyfriendly products. Investments include IZZE soda line and Mary's Gone Crackers. I get very excited about great founders and have recently invested in Slack, Hampton Creek, and of course, Blue Bottle Coffee where I spend most of my time working with James Freeman and the Blue Bottle team. I'm also a very active real estate investor.I grew up in Dublin. Since, I've lived in London, Boston and San Francisco. I love music, hiking, travel, art, organic food and coffee. I'm on the Board of Trustees at De Young and Legion of Honor museums in San Francisco. I hate GMOs and campaigning hard to have food properly labelled.

## Matthew Freud
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Matthew Freud is Founder at freuds

## Josephine Henning
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Farming, Organic, Agriculture

Josephine Henning

## Valentine Baudouin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, AgTech, Farming

Valentine Baudouin Barbelivien

## Others Others
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Software, B2B

Others Others