# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Europe in June 2026

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 23
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 21
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Xavier Niel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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

## Olivier Pomel
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Olivier Pomel is based out of New York, New York and is the CEO and Co-Founder of Datadog. Olivier previously worked at Wireless Generation as Vice President of Technology. Olivier Pomel attended the CentraleSupélec.

## Mehdi Ghissassi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 15
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Mehdi Ghissassi serves as the Head of Product Management at DeepMind.

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).

## Mandeep Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.

## Will Brooks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Will Martin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 13
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Jeremy Yap
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 12
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe.

## William Tunstall-Pedoe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 11
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.

## Thomas Wolf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology

Thomas Wolf is the Chief Science Officer at Hugging Face. He previously worked at Cabinet Plasseraud as a European Patent Attorney. Thomas Wolf studied at 
Pierre and Marie Curie University studying Statistical / Quantum Physics.

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD.

## Bertrand Diard
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 10
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

A serial entrepreneur with deep international experience, Bertrand Diard is the co-founder of Syroco, the next generation innovation lab that looks at improving the systemic efficiency of energy and transportation industries. 
Before Syroco, Bertrand had co-founded and managed Talend, one of the most successful open source vendors in the world andone of the very few French companies traded on the Nasdaq stock exchange, and Influans, an ultrapersonalization marketing platform that was sold to Ogury in 2018. Bertrand is also a board member for BonitaSoft, CybelAngel, Hull.io, iBanFirst and The Galion Project and was the president of Tech In France for several years. He launched alongside Serena Capital, Serena Data Ventures, the first European fund dedicated to data and artificial intelligence, and invests as a Business Angel in innovative startups.

## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Fitness

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.

## Jonathan Milner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.

## Ali Omar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 9
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence

Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

## Chris Schagen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear.

## Eduardo Ronzano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce

Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.

## Christian Dahlen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Information Technology

Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP  and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co.

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

## Nadav Rosenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Software

Nadav leads Taboola’s expansion and operations in Europe and Australia.Prior to joining Taboola, Nadav was a member of the founding team of Groupon UK & IR, taking part in building and managing Groupon’s business in the UK.Before joining Groupon, Nadav worked as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company in London.Nadav isbased in London and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.

## Florian Douetteau
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 8
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

Florian Douetteau is based out of United Kingdom and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Dataiku.

## Andreas Mihalovits
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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

## Luca Ascani
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app,  Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes  Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.

## François Derbaix
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Francois Derbaix is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Indexa Capital. He previously worked at Toprural as a Founder and CEO. Francois Derbaix attended the Catholic University of Louvain.

## Markus Villig
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Markus Villig is founder and CEO of Taxify. He attended University of Tartu.

## Mario Götze
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

## Jaan Tallinn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

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

## Simon Murdoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Finance

Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla!  and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.

## Mark Ransford
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

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## Patrick Pichette
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software

Patrick Pichette is based out of London, England, and is the Partner of Inovia Capital and also Board Member of Cohere. Patrick Pichette previously worked at Twitter as a
Board of Directors. Patrick Pichette attended the University of Oxford.

## David Rowan
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- 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.

## Juanjo Mostazo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Málaga, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, B2B

Juanjo Mostazo

## Charles Gorintin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Charles Gorintin the Co-Founder and CTO of alan. He previously worked at Twitter as a Data Scientist. Charles Gorintin attended the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business.

## Julien Chaumond
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Julien Chaumond is the Co-founder at Hugging Face.

## Renaud Visage
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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)

## Hermann Hauser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

Hermann Hauser is the Co-founder, Director, and Venture Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners. He previously worked at IXI as a Founder. Hermann Hauser attended the University of Vienna.

## Didier Valet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Didier Valet

## Felix Jahn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others.

## Felipe Navio
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Cofounder and Co-CEO of jobandtalent.

## Nicolas Dessaigne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and am focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplish their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.At Algolia they believe every website and app deserves greatsearch! they offer a hosted Search API that helps developers deliver an instant and relevant search experience. We’ve seen that search is a great touch point to optimize – they regularly see double digit increases in engagement on sites when they improve their search UX.When they founded Algolia in 2012 it was originally going to be a local SDK for mobile app search. They changed direction and realized that they needed to offer search as a hosted SaaS service, but it was those early mobile optimizations that gave us their unique advantage. They are one of the few search solutions that has been developed from scratch, and they never would have gone that direction if they hadn’t originally been focused on mobile search.His focus has been first and foremost on making Algolia a great place to work. They have a unique culture here that values ownership as its pillar. They want to create a company where every team member takes initiative, gets out of their comfort zone, is empowered to make decisions; in short: be free to be their best.He is recently spoken at SaaStock on the challenges of running a company based in both Paris and San Francisco. His priority lately has been on scaling their growth and ramping up their team size.

## Alan Morgan
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Alan co-founded MMC Ventures in 2000. As an active business angel investor he saw the opportunity for a more structured strategic and due diligence approach to venture investing.

Alan is a member of the Investment Committee and leads MMC's financial services focus. He has lead responsibility for Small World.

## Theo Osborne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, E-Commerce

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

## Serge Chiaramonte
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology

Serge Chiaramonte

## Ragnar Sass
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, SaaS

Ragnar Sass is the Co-Founder of Darkstar Camp. He previously worked at LIFT99 as a Founder and CEO. Ragnar Sass attended Estonian Business School.

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

## Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Internet, E-Commerce

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan.  After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.

## Michael Wax
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.

## Michael Brehm
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Education

Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. 
i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe.

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