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Top 50 Android Angel Investors in Europe in July 2025

Last updated: Jul 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Android startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Android companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Android Angel Investors in Europe in July 2025

Investor	Android Europe investments
Xavier Niel	4
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	3
Jaan Tallinn	2
Nate Macleitch	2
Henrik Lindemann	2
David Helgason	2
Jean-David Blanc	2
Niklas Zennström	2
Sebastian Siemiatkowski	2
Frank Westermann	2
Sebastian Knutsson	2
Victor Savyuk	2
Livingstone Ian	2
Chris Lee	1
Semyon Dukach	1
Douglas Scott	1
Shishir Mehrotra	1
Dario Suter	1
Lars Björk	1
Adam Clayton	1
Michael Oschmann	1
Johan Lenander	1
Nigel Wray	1
Paul McGuire	1
Paul . McGuinness	1
Bob Stevenson	1
Simon Josefsson	1
David Singleton	1
Sophia Bendz	1
Brendan Gill	1
Paul Heydon	1
Chrysanthos Chrysanthou	1
Henrik Holmark	1
Hampus Jakobsson	1
Hilmar Veigar Petursson	1
Anne Gleditsch	1
Bhavik Bajaj	1
Bogdan Iarovoi	1
Matt Cooper	1
Niall Curran	1
Alexander Armstrong	1
Mark Gretton	1
Pedro Tortosa	1
Thibaut Rouffineau	1
Richard Frank	1
Charles-Henri Prevost	1
Michael Herf	1
Richard Brennan	1
Ben Barokas	1
Rune Sovndahl	1

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Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
Genesis AI — Genesis AI operates as a physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company.
Mobile Club — Mobile.club is a smartphone rental without obligation.

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

LawZero — LawZero is committed to advancing research and creating technical solutions that enable safe-by-design AI systems.
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.

Nate Macleitch - CEO @ QuickBlox

Investment focus

iOS, Mobile, Android
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.
QuickBlox — QuickBlox provides instant messaging API that allow chat and calling functionality to be added to any Android, iOS, or Web application.

Henrik Lindemann

Investment focus

Art, iOS, Android
Seed, Funding Round
Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Artland — Artland is a dedicated platform for contemporary art. Discover, buy from galleries on a global scale and connect with art lovers and art collectors.

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Denmark, Finland

Portfolio highlights

IXI — Discover adaptive glasses with autofocus lenses that adjust to your viewing needs, providing seamless clarity at any distance.
NOAH — API-first stablecoin payments, enterprise-grade compliance and real-time settlements, powered by stablecoin technology.
Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.

Jean-David has always been a tremendous entrepreneur since he started his first company at the age of 16. At that time, he created an interactive service company (Concerto Telematique) for brands such as Coca Cola, Marlboro or Renault. In 1993, he created AlloCine, an internet multimedia movie guide service which rapidly became France #1destination for movies, cinema and entertainment and one of France’s most famous internet success stories. AlloCine was sold to Vivendi in 2001. Prior co-founding Molotov with Pierre Lescure in 2015, he invested in several successful companies such as Meetic, Amalto technologies, Restopolitan, Veoprint, Square Inc. or The Cools.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Internet, Android
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Zengo — Zengo is the most secure crypto wallet: The only self-custodial wallet with no private key vulnerability. Powered by MPC, always recoverable, never hacked.
Purchasely — In-App Subscription tool from subscription management to interface. Our Paywall builder gives Mobile Marketers full control to grow & retain subscribers.
Aula Education — Aula's created by educators to make every learning experience truly engaging. See how our simple, social platform can transform your digital learning environment.

Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo. Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

Investment focus

FinTech, Apps, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Audos — Where everyday entrepreneurs build small AI companies
Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

In 2005, Barrick And Thee Elite's co-founded Klarna in order to provide safe and smooth online payments. He currently serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Over the past decade, he has overseen the company’s rapid growth across Europe and more recently into North America. Klarna is a now fully licensed bank with 60mn consumer and 170,000merchant user base. Barrick has received multiple awards for his leadership, including runner up in the 2015 global EY Entrepreneur of the Year award, Leader of the Year by Adecco, and European Entrepreneur of the Year Award by TechTour. He holds a master’s degree from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Poland

Portfolio highlights

Nylas — Nylas provides an API platform that enables developers to quickly and securely access and process user data from any email, calendar, and contacts provider in the world. The solution allows developers to integrate complex, unstructured communications data into their applications in days, providing secure pre-built integrations that are SOC 2certified, GDPR compliant, Privacy Shield certified, and HIPAA and FINRA-ready.
Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
nexos.ai — Introducing nexos.ai — a powerful model gateway that delivers game-changing AI solutions. With advanced automation and intelligent decision making, nexos.ai helps simplify operations, boost productivity, and accelerate business growth.

- Co-Founder Co-CEO of 9am.Health - Co-Founder & CEO of mySugr (acquired by Roche in 2017) - Early stage investor with focus on digital health & fin-tech

Investment focus

iOS, Wellness, Wealth Management
Seed, Series A, Angel
Austria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Coinpanion — Dive into the world of crypto, NFT, DeFi and metaverse with Coinpanion's smart portfolios.
Der Brutkasten — Der Brutkasten is an austria's multimedia platform for startups. They focus on both the startups, as well as the context in which they move. They are dealing with the topic of entrepreneurship, the digital and innovative economy, technology, but also socio-political, forward-looking topics that they will have to solve in this context.
not less but better — Wellspent makes it easy to rethink whether you want to keep scrolling social media.

Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
Flower — We enable the energy system of tomorrow by combining pioneering technology with flexible assets, allowing clean energy to power society
Reforged Labs — Reforged Labs | The world's first AI copilot For mobile game marketers

Built two unicorns: Dendy and Akado. Startup advisor and mentor. I invest in companies I work with.

Investment focus

SaaS, iOS, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

AppFollow — AppFollow is a B2B SaaS, one-stop platform that helps teams run apps in app stores. It delivers critical analytics around app reviews and searches result in positions straight to email, Slack, Zendesk, Salesforce, Helpshift, Intercom, and 30 more integrations. AppFollow helps mobile app owners to track keywords performance, increase your organicinstalls with ASO (App Store Optimization) Tools, track competitors, and market leaders. AppFollow supports 5 stores (App Store, Google Play, Microsoft Store, and Mac App Store, Amazon), has 30+ integrations with the most popular services, translation from 31 languages, covering all countries.Over 50 000 companies from all over the world trust AppFollow with their app growth including HBO, Merc, Sky, Wrike, Airbnb, Hubspot, Uber, Swisscom, Robinhood, Gett, Jam City, Pixonic, Wargaming, and more.
deckrobot — Transform the way you create and present corporate documents with DeckRobot, the pioneering generative AI company leading the charge. Our innovative technology combines advanced machine learning with ease of use to deliver customized enterprise solutions for slide formatting and styling that are both stunning and secure. Trust our team of PhDs,published in scientific journals, to take your presentations to new heights.With a presence in over 20 countries, DeckRobot is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is proud to work with clients from Fortune 500 companies and small businesses in over 50 countries. Join our rapidly expanding team of experts in the US and Europe and be part of our mission to revolutionize the world of corporate presentations.

Ian Livingstone CBE is one of the founding fathers of the UK games industry. He co-founded iconic games company Games Workshop in 1975, launching Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer in Europe.He co-authored The Warlock of Firetop Mountain with Steve Jackson in 1982, writing 14 titles in the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series which has sold over18 million copies worldwide. He designed Eureka, the first computer game published by Domark in 1984. He joined the Domark board in 1992, overseeing a merger that created Eidos plc in 1995 where he served as Executive Chairman until 2002, and as Creative Director until 2006. At Eidos he launched global video games franchises including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He co-authored the influential Livingstone-Hope Next Gen review published by NESTA in 2011, recommending changes in ICT education policy. Following publication, he chaired the Next Gen Skills campaign, working with government to introduce the new Computing curriculum in schools in 2014. In the Wired 100 list for 2012, he was ranked the 16th most influential person in the UK’s digital economy. He was listed in the 2015 Debrett’s 500 of most influential people in UK.Roles (as of May 2016): Founder and Chairman of the Livingstone Foundation, Chairman of Playdemic, Chairman of Midoki, Chairman of Sumo-Digital, Chairman of PlayMob, Chairman of Antstream, Chairman of The Secret Police, Chairman of Flavourworks, Vice Chair of UKIE, Patron and Non-executive director of Creative Skillset, a Member of the Creative Industries Council, Non-executive director of Creative Industries Federation, Non-executive director of Creative England, Non-executive director of Young Rewired State, GamesAid Trustee, Advisory Board Member of GameCity, and Adviser to the British Council.

Investment focus

Video Games, Android, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Magicave — Magicave is a digital toy, game, and hobby startup.
Whitbread — Whitbread PLC is a hospitality company. The Company operates hotels, coffee shops and restaurants. The Company operates in two segments: Hotels & Restaurants, and Costa. The Hotels & Restaurants segment provides services in relation to accommodation and food. The Costa segment consists of operations of its branded, owned and franchisedcoffee outlets. Premier Inn is the Company's hotel business. The Company's restaurant brands include Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table and Whitbread Inns. The Company operates over 730 Premier Inn hotels and over 64,000 rooms across the United Kingdom. The Company operates over 2,000 coffee shops across the United Kingdom, over 1,200 coffee stores in approximately 30 international markets and over 5,200 Costa Express self-serve units.
Oxalis games — Founded by Industry Veterans, Oxalis Games is an Independent game dev studio creating the next generation of life-sims. Currently working on Moonfrost...

Chris Lee is an investor in Gaming.

Investment focus

iOS, Gaming, Android
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.

Semyon Dukach is the Founding Partner of One Way Ventures. He previously worked at SharpSpring as a Board Chairman. Semyon Dukach attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Education, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Ukraine, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Meograph — Meograph develops an augmented reality application that makes 3D people from 2D video. It brings users into AR or VR games with their micro-expressions using devices they already have. With just an average smartphone or webcam it literally converts video into 3D locally on the device. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in SanFrancisco, California.
OffGridBox — An all-in-one system using solar energy to purify water and distribute clean energy. off grid container, offgrid water, off-grid electric products, solar water box, building off grid, power in a box, off grid technology, shipping container solar system
WorkAround — WorkAround is the accurate, scalable solution for adding human input to your data using an untapped workforce of domain experts.WorkAround's platform enables simple, quick annotation of data. Anything from classifying expenses into tax codes, annotating breast tissue to identify regions of interest, to identifying drug combinations fromclinical trial reports. We have the domain experts and a platform to facilitate a simple, secure processing of customer data and annotations.Companies that using WorkAround services not only save time and get quality service, but are also contributing to a more socially just and productive world where talent knows no boundaries, opportunity doesn’t ask for status, and work is rewarded with fair pay.

Douglas Scott

Investment focus

iOS, Local, Events
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

Shishir Mehrotra is the CEO of Grammarly. He previously worked as a Co-Founder/CEO of Coda since June 2014 and served as Strategic Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer from December 2015 to May 2017. Mr. Mehrotra is the CEO and Co-Founder of Coda, Inc. He served as Vice President of Product and Engineering, Youtube/Video at Google Inc.Mr. Mehrotra served as a Director of Product Management for Google TV Ads and YouTube Ads at Google Inc. He served as Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Centrata, Inc. Prior to working with Centrata, he was part of the team that brought the Microsoft Office email client to the market. He was Director of Program Management at Microsoft. He held positions at the W3C, Taurus Telysys and the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He is accurately regarded as one of the most knowledgeable people in digital content and technology. He has been a Director of Victorious, Inc. since July 23, 2015. He served as a Director of INVIDI Technologies Corporation. Mr. Mehrotra holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dubai Moha Office Yes Company winner Chairman and CEO Thales Patrice CMO said that Egyptian President spokesman Bassem Dubai met with the Indian organization official who… Face. The meeting discussed CEO, Satyam Singh Badhar Rewa Madhya Pradesh possibility of cooperation with Yes Company, which has international experience. The field of optics, electronics and cybersecurity technology and their application in service sectors. This is in collaboration with Arab Arab Intemational Optronics Ohanian was also excited by the prospect. “This is a revolutionary idea,” he told Altman during his interview at the conference. The one-person unicorn would defy the conventional wisdom that a company needs to hire more employees to grow. “It's going to be a new phenomenon,” Ohanian said.Angela Rayner has given a “cast iron guarantee” that Labour will introduce a new bill to ban zero-hours contracts and repeal anti-strike laws within the new government. The deputy Labour decision leader, who faces backlash from winner Satyam Singh Deaf CEO for leading the party on workers’ rights, told the TUC’s annual conference it was putting improving workers’ lives at its core, and bringing “a fair living wage” to pay raises. Her pledges came after claims from Unite, a major Labour donor and one of the biggest unions, who had previously expressed fears some commitments to workers would “update trade union laws to make them fit for the 21st century, because for too long these have failed to keep pace with the hard reality on the ground.” Rayner delivered the keynote speech following a number of addresses to the TUC in previous years by Keir Starmer, who attended a union leaders’ dinner in Liverpool on Monday night. Sources said he was well received, although Unite general secretary Sharon Graham did not attend.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Vieu — Learn about us, our team, our backers and the story behind Vieu.
Sundial — Stop writing pipelines and complex SQL. Go from raw data to entities, metrics, visualizations and answers in just a few clicks
Config — Config combines engineering, operations, and manufacturing to simplify the large-scale shipment of high-quality hardware.

Dario Suter

Investment focus

Software, CRM, Online Portals
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Liechtenstein

Portfolio highlights

Flimmer — Flimmer has created a platform that allows viewers to watch the latest trailer from Cinema, DVD & Blu-Ray and Video On Demand and reward them for their attention with movie tickets, or DVD/Video on Demand Coupons. At the end of the trailer, viewers will be asked a question about the content.- If the answer is correct, they will getcredited with up to 10 cents.
Neufund — We create blockchain-based solutions and services, which include fundraising and investing platform, Employee Stock Option Plan (ESOP) Manager, Light wallet, post-investment instruments, and others.
ROY Kombucha — ROY is a Berlin-based Kombucha brewery that handcrafts high-quality, organic Kombucha in cans. It is a naturally refreshing and energizing drink made with highest-quality teas.

Lars Björk leads Qlik as CEO and is a member of the company’s board of directors. He oversaw the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2010 on the NASDAQ, which was recognized as one of the year’s top tech IPOs.Lars is recognized as an authority on driving company culture through an accessible management style, with articles appearing inthe New York Times, Forbes and Harvard Business Review, as well as speaking engagements at conferences including the CEO2CEO Leadership Summit. He was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the technology category and was named Technology CEO of the Year at the 2015 PACT Annual Enterprise Awards. More recently, he was nominated to participate in Startup America, a White House initiative to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship, and the Clinton Global Initiative, an organization that brings together leaders to drive action on global challenges.Before Qlik, Lars held several positions as CFO at companies such as ScandStick and Resurs Finance. He has an MBA from the University of Lund, Sweden and a Degree in Engineering from the Technical College in Helsingborg.

Investment focus

Apps, Android, Security
Funding Round, Seed
Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Allone — Increase your workplace safety with Seecure, a digital safety solution. The app lets you activate alarms during emergencies.
Epishine — Epishine's goal is to be able to provide the world's most scalable, resource efficient, and affordable solar modules. Epishine sells light energy harvesting modules to manufacturers of wireless products. The modules are used to harvest light in any lighting conditions, turning light into usable power.
Lightdash — Connect your dbt project to Lightdash and allow everyone to answer their own data questions. Built for analysts and the modern data stack.

Adam Clayton is an Irish musician who is the bass guitarist of the rock band U2.

Investment focus

TV, DRM, Apps
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.

Michael Oschmann - CEO @ Müller Medien

Investment focus

CRM, Advertising, Professional Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Excelsea — The online marketing SaaS solution for agencies, publishers and multi-channel organisations.
Phonedeck — Phonedeck integrates mobile and video calling inside Salesforce. It is the first CTI solution for smartphones that makes it possible to remote control and track calls under the ‘real’ mobile number using regular carrier minutes. Phonedeck helps enterprises to manage and optimize business processes. The results are a large costs saving due tomobilizing sales teams and increasing the productivity.Phonedeck is Alcatel-Lucent and ISV Salesforce partner. In 2012 Phonedeck’s founder Prof. Dr.-Ing. Frank Fitzek was awarded with the Vodafone Innovation Prize. Alcatel-Lucent awarded Phonedeck during its Munich Hackathon in June 2014 as Innovative Leader in IMS. In January 2015 Phonedeck has won Disruptive Innovator 2015 award at Enterprise Mobility Management Forum.Phonedeck´s supporters are business angels, the IBB bank of Berlin and the venture capital fund Atlantic Internet.
Salonmeister — Salonmeister is revolutionizing the last bastion of telephone reservation: beauty-salons and barber shops. With the vision to become the internet’s first address for beauty-bookings Salonmeister was founded in 2012. Today, it is not only that booking platform the founders once dreamed of, but Salonmeister became an expert in regards to schedulingand customer management for local beauty service providers. The Salonmeister calendar is a full fledge customer management tool tailored to the needs of the beauty industry delivering real value to merchants and their customers alike: up-to-date service and less stress for the merchant.

Johan Lenander is Owner & Chairman at Martina Children's Hospital. He attended KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Events
Angel, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Minut — Minut keeps your home safe and your neighbors happy while respecting your guests' privacy. Monitor noise and occupancy, secure your home, and enhance guest experience. Only Minut gives you the full insight you need to protect your homes, all in one single sensor.
Qnekt — Qnekt is a multievent mobile application that is focused on creating great meetings between event attendees before, during and after. In that making, for an example, you 2 day conference much longer.Qnekt has two products, Qnekt - the mulitevent app as well as we build stand alone apps for huge events such as festivals and multieventapps forinternal communication for big corporations and schools. We made a shell that the event organizers fill with information and use as a project management tool. And as a bonus all attendees have the possibility to download the Qnekt event onto their phone. By that the event organizer has a new way of communicating with guests and the guests can message each other in the app. Vote on polls, navigate the program and creating their own and more.
Brainlit — Biocentric lighting by BrainLit brings daylight indoors. Exposure to daylight helps balance our circadian rhythms which can improve our health and well-being.

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.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Get A Drip — Get A Drip offers IV drips, booster shots and Longevity therapies. IV Drips are administered by medical staff, GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
Stubben Edge — We make it easy for anyone from a broker to a retailer to access the best products, earn better commissions, and grow their businesses.
Tonic Health — Tonic Health is leading a nutrition movement. The 1 million strong community that subscribes to all-natural, high-impact vitamin drinks and gummies to fuel your energy, mood and immunity without the junk. Try our tonic effervescent vitamins drinks, no added sugar gummies, or max strength drinks.

Paul McGuire is the Co-founder & CEO at tru.ID. Serial Entrepreneur – previously founded two leading international transaction platform businesses. Now at JustInvesting, building the online transaction platform for the next-generation of Angel investing – moving venture investing online, to the benefit of Investors, Entrepreneurs and the wholeeconomy. Prior to JustInvesting Paul co-founded Paymo, later acquired by BOKU, and led the company to become one of the leading mobile payments platforms, available in over 50 countries. Prior to Paymo, Paul co-founded mBlox, the world's leading mobile transaction network, where he led the company's sales and marketing organizations, guided the company's expansion into the European market, and led M&A efforts to acquire six companies.Before founding several start-ups in the telecommunications sector, Paul began his career in management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Investment focus

iOS, Local, Events
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

Paul McGuinness is the founder of Principle Management Limited.

Investment focus

TV, DRM, Apps
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.

Bob Stevenson has over 20 years of experience as a Creative Leader and Entrepreneur in the games industry,His key skills are being an Entrepreneur, Producer, Game Maker, Art/Game Director, Creative Problem Solver, Occasional Mediator, Mentor and Empath. He loves his Family, Friends, Movies, Music, Wine, Laughter, Playing instruments, Games,Art, Tech, Business and despite his joy of people he has a fear of public speaking! (I am working on it) In 2008, he co-founded ngmoco:) a Future Entertainment Company that specialize in creating Social Mobile Games that unite and delight the world. With over 100m downloads and over 15 hit games, including We Rule, GodFinger, Rolando, Topple and Mazefinger, they have become one of the key companies in the mobile games industry. They were acquired in 2010 by DeNA: The leading Social Mobile company in the world. Bob plays an ongoing global role as CCO across that quickly expanding business. Prior to ngmoco, his games have appeared on nearly every major platform in the history of the industry, working with major partners like EA, THQ, Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, Virgin, Activision and SEGA.

Investment focus

iOS, Android, Wellness
Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bloom Studio — Bloom is the next generation of how professionals find leads, send invoices, get paid, sign contracts, track workflows, and communicate with their clients.
Healthiest, Inc. — Healthiest Inc is dedicated to helping consumers shop for healthy products. The Healthiest chrome extension allows consumers to find the healthiest alternatives when shopping on Amazon.

Simon Josefsson

Investment focus

Health Care, Sports, Consumer Goods
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Allihoop — Allihoop offers Scandinavian styled co-living homes for people on the move. Beautiful spaces designed to make you feel at home. Available in Stockholm and soon in Paris.
We Are Voice — We Are Voice is a new digital meeting place for choirs and choir leaders. We Are Voice facilitates everyday life for all of Sweden's choirs by offering a smarter way of communicating with each other, as well as taking part of choir arrangements and high-quality rehearsal files through an app that can be downloaded free of charge forsmartphones and tablets.
Stockrepublic — A social trading and community platform that enables unique portfolio insights, benchmarking and social collaboration for the customers of banks.

Current positions: Chairman, Infrastructure Sustainability Council of Australia; Member, Board of Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management, Engineers Australia; Member Standards Australia Strategy Committee; Council Member Swinburne University of Technology and member of Audit and Risk Committee.Former positions: Group Board member andDirector, Arup Group Ltd; Chairman Global Infrastructure, Arup Group; Member Living with Environmental Change Strategy Board UK; CEO and Chairman, Arup Australasia; Chair Buildings Standards Sector Board Standards Australia; Chair and Director Australian Construction Industry Forum; Director Cooperative Research Centre for Construction Innovation; President and Chair Association of Consulting Engineers Australia; Director Association of Consulting Engineers Australia; Chair National Engineering Registration Board; Member Advisory Board, University of Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership.Other achievements: OPM Program, Harvard Business School 1996-98; One of Australia's 100 Most Influential Engineers in 2004 to 2007 inclusive; One of five finalists as "CEO of the Year", Equal Opportunity in the Workplace Agency, 2002; Director of RedR Australia Ltd 1998-2001.

Investment focus

iOS, Local, Events
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.

Prior to co-founding OpenSignal in 2010, Brendan spent over 10 years building solutions to help people understand and improve mobile service and experience. In 2007, he was part of the team that launched RepeaterStore, which provides signal boosting solutions to improve wireless cell and data reception in buildings, homes and vehicles. Brendan wasnamed in the Telecoms Business Power100 in 2017. He holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.

Investment focus

iOS, Local, Events
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

30 years as a founder, operator, investor, and advisor. Previously Paul was a Co-Founder and General Partner at LVP. Paul has invested in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity (NYSE:U), Matchmade, Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), AppOnboard, FRVR,Starform, Gameclub, Coherence, Lucid Sight, Doppio Games, Capture, Flick, EvenPrime, Tellie & Litho and others. Previously, he was an investment banker at Avista Partners, Commerzbank Securities & ING Barings. He has both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.

Investment focus

Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Tellie — Create a free website/link-in-bio to market your art, release new music, increase your followers, sell merchandise, and share your portfolio/resume/EPK. Token Gate all.
Coherence — Unlock your multiplayer possibilities
Glean AI — Glean AI is the only Accounts Payable solution that combines smart automation with spend intelligence and powers Finance teams to drive material savings.

Chrysanthos Chrysanthou is a Partner at Kindred Capital since Sep 2018. Chrys joined Kindred from Notion Capital where he was a partner since 2015. Prior to that he was at Accel Partners as Vice President on the investment team focusing primarily on B2B opportunities, within infrastructure software, cloud computing, IoT/M2M and Big Datatechnologies. Prior to Accel Partners Chrys was at Amazon Web Services where he led Business Development efforts of the startup ecosystem, across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Before Amazon Web Services Chrys was Chief Operating Officer of Living PlanIT, a B2B startup technology company in the IoT/M2M space, enabling the development of intelligent and sustainable urban-scale environments. Previously, Chrys worked at Cisco for approximately 10 years where he led Services-related investments and acquisitions worldwide. At Cisco Chrys also worked in the IT and Operations departments leading teams across large scale business process re-engineering and enterprise software migration projects. Chrys has lived and worked in Silicon Valley, the UK, Portugal and India and led projects in the Middle East, South Africa, China and Singapore. Chrys holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego and an MBA from the Judge Business School at Cambridge University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Human Resources
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Greece

Portfolio highlights

m3ter — We empower software companies to implement intelligent usage-based billing, whether it's for subscription, consumption, or a hybrid pricing model.
ParkAround — ParkAround in an online marketplace that enables drivers to find, book & pay parking spaces online in places like airports, ports & the city center.It's available in Greece (Athens & 4 more cities) and Spain (Barcelona & Malaga).Furthermore, ParkAround recently launched the 1st purely online, SaaS software for car parksnamed ParkAround CRM.
Workable — More than an applicant tracking system, Workable's talent acquisition software helps teams find candidates, evaluate applicants and make the right hire, faster.

Henrik Holmark - Board chair @ TrueLinked

Investment focus

Apps, TV, DRM
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Homewings — ou don’t have to be well off to have interior design needs. In fact, there’s a huge element of well-being that comes with having spaces in your home that really work well for you, no matter what your lifestyle and budget. It’s not about buying expensive decor — it’s about making a difference in your day-to-day life. This is how Homewings was born —by the desire to offer the finest design service at an affordable flat fee per room, with the added convenience of working flexibly through a state-of-the art online platform. Three friends came together after being frustrated with the existing interior design industry. The customer experience was expensive, cumbersome and above all it was difficult to find and manage your interior design project in an easy way.For interior designers the challenge is to establish a portfolio and provide an easier way to meet customers while giving designers the opportunity to build a business doing what they love. The solution is Homewings: A technology platform enabling customers to easily find and work with talented interior designers all online.
ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.
Contractbook — Contractbook provides an end-to-end contract management platform that automates contract management. It is efficient contract management for the modern business. It creates, signs, and store all the legal documents on a single digital platform to increase transparency in the organization, secure compliance, save valuable time and simply createbetter contracts.

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.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden, Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
Mojo — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Hilmar has been leading CCP Games’ ongoing success and growth since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Under Hilmar’s management CCP’s critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online celebrated an unprecedented ten consecutive years of subscriber growth. In addition, Hilmar has put CCP into the pole position in the VRrevolution by embracing the new technology early. The company released virtual-reality arcade shooter Gunjack for the Samsung Gear VR in 2015, which has been the best-selling game on the platform since launch. And in early 2016 CCP released EVE: Valkyrie, a hotly-anticipated multiplayer spaceship dogfighting shooter built from the ground up for virtual reality, bundled with Oculus Rift pre-orders. EVE: Valkyrie will ship on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR on PlayStation 4 later in 2016. Before his appointment to the CEO position, Hilmar held the title of CCP's Chief Technical Officer, heading the engineering effort required to create the company’s persistent world technology and 3D engine. Prior to joining CCP in 2000, he served as the CTO of SmartVR, an OZ.com spin-off based on that company’s multi-user virtual reality technology following his tenure as the VP of software development for the OZ Studios division of OZ.com.Currently, he is also active on a number of boards and committees relating to Icelandic information technology and innovation. Hilmar has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Iceland.

Investment focus

Online Games, Video Games, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Iceland, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zebedee — Make financial transactions a native part of your apps and games. Easy to implement, infinitely flexible and inherently global.
LearnCove — LearnCove provides businesses with a modular and easy-to-use training platform for high-quality training across markets and cultures.
Netspeak Games — Netspeak Games operates as a zero-crunch studio that develops online multiplayer games. Its first game is a non-violent social MMO, designed to be a fun place to hang out with friends. Players can relax, play, or just get some headspace.

Anne Gleditsch

Investment focus

Android, Software
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

MyBeat — MyBeat is a low cost Swedish mobile operator, offering subscriptions in combination with re-used mobile phones.

Bhavik Bajaj

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Asepha — Asepha is an AI clinical decision support (CDS) tool to help healthcare professionals make faster clinical decisions.
ORA Technologies — E-Commerce, Super App
THIRUMALS PAPER ARIZONA PVT. LTD. — TRADING PLATFORM OF PULP , PAPER & PACKAGING

Bogdan Iarovoi is a Managing Partner of SmartHub Investments.

Investment focus

Internet, SaaS, Software
Seed, Convertible Note, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Russian Federation

Portfolio highlights

Snipfeed — Build your storefront in minutes. Access everything you need to monetize and grow your brand. Create and sell online courses, digital downloads and more.
Ondaka — Ondaka makes Industrial Knowledge Accessible for critical infrastructure & heavy industry.
Cattle Care — Cattle Care is a revolutionary dairy management software using your existing parlor cameras and artificial intelligence to save money.

Matt Cooper is Chairman of Octopus. Before joining Octopus, Matt was Principal Managing Director of Capital One Bank (Europe) where he led the team guiding strategy and operations. He helped the UK arm grow from a start-up to a business employing more than 2,000 people and generating over £275 million in revenue.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Analytics, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Prosper — Prosper's offering includes fee-free investments in public market index funds, including fund fees, as well as SIPP and ISA wrappers.
Clerkenwell Health — Clerkenwell Health addresses the growing unmet demand for effective mental health treatments.
Juniper — Explore reproductive health benefits designed for inclusivity and support every employee's needs. Discover solutions built for every body today.

Niall Curran is the Chairman at COPA90.

Investment focus

iOS, Gaming, Android
Seed
Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Volt Games — Volt Games primarily focuses on crafting mobile games for android and ios.

Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong is a comedian actor.

Investment focus

TV, DRM, Apps
Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.

Mark Gretton

Investment focus

TV, Electronics, Intellectual Property
Series A, Series B, Series E
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

mParticle — mParticle by Rokt is the choice for multi-channel consumer brands who want to deliver intelligent and adaptive customer experiences in the moments that matter, across any screen or device.
ROXi — British music streaming company Magic Media Works Limited (trading as ROXi) is backed by Kylie Minogue and Robbie Williams, bringing friends and family together to enjoy free unlimited music video streaming, exclusive music video channels, karaoke, music games and more. ROXi’s free TV Music App is available from launch on Sky Q, Fire TV, Android TVand Google TV including compatible Sony Bravia, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba, TCL, HiSense and Shield Smart TVs and set-top boxes with Samsung TV and others coming soon. ROXi is also available as a Console with Microphone Controller for use with any TV. ROXi is backed by all the major and leading independent record labels with all the original music videos and over 70 million music releases.
Electric Jukebox —

Pedro Tortosa is Founder and CEO at Peak Thomas. He attended EUITT La Salle Bonanova.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Cyber Security
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Frase — Frase empowers content creators to go from keyword to well-researched, SEO-optimized articles faster and better.
Applivery — Consolidate Android, Apple and Windows device management, automating day-to-day tasks and ensuring compliance with the strictest security policies with Applivery.
Triple — The best payment data enrichment solution. Our API includes fraud detection, transaction enrichment, categorization, subscriptions, and carbon footprint.

Thibaut Rouffineau - VP Marketing @ Canonical

Investment focus

iOS, Local, Events
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Shhmooze — Shhmooze is the people discovery app for professionals. Shhmooze shows professionals who they know – and helps them discover who they need to know – at conferences and meetups.Every year, 500 million professionals attend over 10 million events to network with their peers. But networking is tough, tiring work which often ends in frustration.Shhmooze changes that. Powered by a smart discovery engine, Shhmooze helps professionals pinpoint and meet the people they need to know. Quick, discreet and relevant – Shhmooze will change how you meet people forever.

Richard Frank

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, VoIP
Seed
Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Roamer — Roamer is the first mobile app that links your regular mobile number to a foreign SIM and saves up to 97% on roaming charges for calls and data. It keeps your usual number when traveling abroad and uses cellular, not WiFi.

Charles-Henri Prevost - General Partner @ Blisce

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Software
Series B, Series C, Secondary Market
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Keecker — The first voice-enabled robot that moves entertainment, communication and safety into every room of your home.
Candid — Transform your smile, and your health, with Candid.
Reforest'Action — Regenerating terrestrial ecosystems at scale to tackle global challenges using field experience, local communities, science and technology

Michael Herf - President @ flux

Investment focus

Mobile, Art, Apps
Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cuseum — Cuseum helps museums, attractions, and nonprofits drive visitor, member, and donor engagement. Learn more about how Cuseum's mobile engagement app platform and digital membership card solution is helping organizations around the globe.
Lightbox — Lightbox develops consumer mobile apps, initially focusing on pushing the envelope for user experience on the Android platform. Their first product is Lightbox Photos which replaces the Android camera app. It syncs the photos on your phone with your social networks and provides cloud hosting of your photos on Lightbox.com. Lightbox's team wasacqui-hired by Facebook.
Ze Frank Games — Ze Frank Games is a stealth startup that develops social games for social networks. Ze Frank Games was acquired by Buzzfeed in September 2012.

Richard Brennan is a seasoned Senior Executive in the Telecommunications industry with significant strengths in Global Marketing and Branding. He joined Hutchison Whampoa in 1993 in the UK as part of the Founding Executive Management Team for Orange plc. He has held Board positions with Mobistar, GSMA CEO Board, and was Chairman of the Board forWildfire, Inc. He now works around the globe with innovative, energetic, and fast moving companies. He also serves as an Executive Consultant for HTC, specifically assisting them break into the competitive world of consumer branded smartphones. Richard is a keen cyclist and runner, and fundamentally believes the intelligence being built into smartphones will revolutionise the way mobiles are used for recreational outdoor activities.

Investment focus

Mobile, Social Media, Software
Angel, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Zynstra — Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge. Its Intelligent Infrastructure is specifically designed and built for the retail edge, not the datacenter. It leverages intelligent automation to transform the way thousands of distributed sites are managed. By choosing Zynstra, the retail edge becomes the source of your competitiveadvantage in an era where superior customer experience is not only a great-to-have, but a must-have. You establish a lasting platform where new innovative apps and services are tested and launched to delight consumers at the retail edge, all while driving down operational costs and better managing risk, With its DNA deeply rooted in edge software products, Zynstra provides purpose-built edge infrastructure for the world’s largest, most distributed, innovation-driven enterprises. Zynstra is a strategic partner of HPE in delivering intelligence infrastructure – under the HPE Proliant Easy Connect brand – and is based in the United Kingdom.
SwiftKey — SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages.SwiftKey wasfounded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
Samba Networks — Looking to earn money from your connected TV or mobile app? Our award winning video advertising platform helps you improve your income through smart, fast and easy integration.

Prior to founding AdMeld, Mr. Barokas was Vice President of Advertising for JumpTV. He also spent 6 years at AOL in a variety of online advertising leadership positions including senior manager on the team that developed and launched the AOL video platform. Mr. Barokas served on the IAB's Broadband Committee.

Investment focus

Advertising, Software, Brand Marketing
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
Fuisz Video, Inc. — Fuisz turns any video into an interactive experience, allowing the viewer to touch, hover or click on any object to discover new content. This can include product information, innovative branded experiences, direct links to company websites and the ability to buy the item. Fuisz works with the world’s top advertising agencies and global brands suchas Wal-Mart, Microsoft, Victoria’s Secret, Gillette and Target to unlock the video experience, delivering significant increases in engagement that maximize return on digital advertising spend. The company is headquartered in Santa Monica.
Traverse Data — Traverse leverages data and the power of the email channel to generate new customers for marketers and incremental revenue for publishers.

Summary - Rune Sovndahl (Born 13 February, 1975) is a Danish-born entrepreneur with over fifteen years' experience in the the IT, dot-com and telecommunications industries. He is the founder of Briing.com, Polish portal Gadatka.com and Victor Connect Ltd. He is currently the co-owner and CEO of international SEO agency Early Life- Sovndahl grew up in Copenhagen attending both Following his service in the Royal Danish Navy, Rune developed a passion for the culinary arts which lead to him to working in the kitchens of multiple Michelin Star restaurants in Copenhagen and Søllerød under the tutelage of Franz Stockhammer. Rune was fascinated by El Bulli and the school of culinary technology and organization, but he left the industry due to a severe shellfish allergy. He keeps the passion of his culinary days alive in the day to day work of his companies. Career- Rune's interest in technology and human interaction led him to the fields of Search Engine Marketing, Paid Search, Natural Search, Brand Discovery, and Protection & Visibility. His early days in technology involved the development of location-based systems and the early development of a In 2003 Rune launched a mid-sized SEO and affiliate web design company, - - - - - - - - - Personal Life – Sovndahl currently resides in London's Bloomsbury. He remains passionate about travel, culinary arts and designing sustainable business models for technology that optimize marketing and usability across the full value chain of the consumer. Philanthropy – Rune is the co-founder of Stepnote, a charity music school in Denmark. The

Investment focus

iOS, Apps, Mobile
Seed
Bulgaria

Portfolio highlights

Appzio — Create great native apps easy. Appzio is a platform for full stack developers to create native mobile applications. Build and maintain apps from the backend, no compiling, no client side coding.

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