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Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Germany in May 2025

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Artificial intelligence startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Artificial intelligence companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Germany in May 2025

Investor Artificial intelligence Germany investments
Christian Dahlen 7
Nicolas Peters 5
Michael Brehm 5
Charlie Songhurst 5
Clemens Kaiser 4
Lothar Stein 4
Tobias Tschoetsch 4
Jeremy Yap 4
Mario Götze 4
Kai Hansen 4
Matthias Hilpert 4
Michael Wax 4
Jens Schumann 3
Jens Schumann 3
Julius Göllner 3
Benjamin Schroeter 3
Stefan C. Schicker 3
Ingo Baumann 3
Hanno Renner 3
Ralf Reichert 3
Ralf Reichert 3
Carsten Maschmeyer 3
Chris Schagen 3
Felix Haas 3
Michael Baum 3
Felix Jahn 3
Felix Plog 3
Philipp Hammerich 3
Erik Muttersbach 3
Kim Nis Neuhauss 3
Julius Heinz 2
Patric Fassbender 2
Koenraad Crooijmans 2
Jens Hilgers 2
Andre Schwammlein 2
Alex Zhigarev 2
Daniel Krauss 2
Richard Schwenke 2
Oliver Buecken 2
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen 2
Walter Kortschak 2
Patrick Pichette 2
Gerrit Veer 2
Roman Kirsch 2
Michael J. Jäger 2
Ragnar Kruse 2
Peter Bonfield 2
Heiko Hubertz 2
Johannes Schaback 2
Jason Goldberg 2
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Christian Dahlen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
  • Rencore — Simplify Microsoft 365 governance for Teams, SharePoint, Azure, Power Platform and much more. Try the award-winning software from Rencore today.
  • comstruct — comstruct is working on a platform that will allow construction companies to digitize and automate material purchasing. All delivery bills, invoices, and purchase orders, as well as processes such as invoice verification, can be exchanged digitally with suppliers. All data pertaining to the purchasing process is made available for documentation,evaluation, and process optimization.
Nicolas Peters Angel
Nicolas is co-CTO and brings several years of industrial experience in software engineering to the company. Before joining Signavio he worked for SAP India and Sensomi. Nicolas holds an MSc in IT Systems Engineering.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
  • Parloa — Amplify your customer service experience with a team of personal AI agents. Leverage the full power of generative AI for contact center automation.
  • Kern AI — Kern AI offers services in the field of natural language processing that enable a range of interaction modes between humans and machines. They manage natural language products, ETL pipelines, and workflows. The company's contact modes are mail and physical address.
Michael Brehm Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, Education
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany, Italy, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Cobrainer — Now is the time to create remarkable careers. The AI-powered skill platform for driving internal mobility and employees' life long development. Revolutionize work and collaboration with expertise intelligence.
  • charly — Wir sind charlyGestartet sind wir 2016 unter dem Namen PrintPeter: Durch Unternehmenssponsoring in den Vorlesungsskripten konnten Studierende diese gratis drucken. Seitdem wächst charly stetig um neue Produkte und Tools, denn wir verfolgen laufend unsere Vision: Lernen so einfach und erfolgreich wie möglich zu gestalten, damit alle Studierendenihre Ziele souverän erreichen.Im Jahr 2019 haben wir unser Produktangebot mit digitalen Lerntools erweitert und im Jahr 2021 eine neue Phase in unserem Unternehmen begonnen: ein Community-getriebenes Lern-Ökosystem. Unsere Lösung umfasst nun eine von Studierenden gemeinschaftlich betriebene Datenbank für klausurrelevante Fragen und Antworten und ein zusätzlicher Tutoren-Sofortantwort-Service. Dank unserer Nähe zum Studi-Alltag und unseres Verständnisses für die Bedürfnisse und Verhaltensweisen, können wir - über charly media - Unternehmen crossmedial mit mehr als 2,5 Millionen High Potentials in der DACH-Region in Verbindung bringen, indem wir eine Hypersegmentierung über unsere eigenen Kanäle und unseren Partnern anbieten.
  • Atheneum — Empowering through expertise. Atheneum is a leading global insights platform and expert network, servicing clients across strategy consulting, the financial services, corporate firms and the life sciences.
Charlie Songhurst Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
  • Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
  • Grouphug — Generates memes from the archive of group WhatsApp chats
Clemens Kaiser Angel · München, Bayern, Germany
Clemens Kaiser is the Managing Director & CTO at KLEO Connect. Clemens Kaiser attended Technical University of Munich.
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Investment focus
  • Forestry, Software, Image Recognition
  • Seed, Series A
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • OroraTech — From safeguarding forests and ecosystems to protecting communities and critical assets, OroraTech's advanced technology and reliable insights address challenges, mitigate risks, and drive meaningful impact.
Lothar Stein Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Lothar Stein - Mentor @ SINN Power
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Energy, Railroad
  • Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • KONUX — KONUX combines Machine Learning algorithms and IoT to deliver software-as-a-service solutions for operation, monitoring, and maintenance process automation
  • SINN Power — SINN Power develops innovative wave energy technology to supply people worldwide with clean and reliable energy from ocean waves.
Tobias Tschoetsch Angel
Tobias Tschoetsch is the founder and managing director of Tschoetsch holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and master’s degree in management from Berlin, Germany.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Mobile, Soccer
  • Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Prematch — Prematch leverages AI/NLP technology to automate content aggregation and curation for all non-professional football players in Germany. As a second step, Prematch uses its holistic data silo to create pro-level interaction and gamification experiences for the non-pro ecosystem.
  • Productsup — Productsup is the leading product-to-consumer (P2C) platform enabling manufacturers, brands, service providers, and marketplaces to turn commerce anarchy into commercial success. The Productsup P2C platform offers a range of solutions like feed management, marketplace experience and social commerce, product content syndication, and seller andvendor onboarding. It processes over two trillion products a month for over 900 brands, including IKEA, Sephora, Beiersdorf, Redbubble, and ALDI, handling more monthly data requests than Google’s consumer search service.
Jeremy Yap Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
  • Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
  • Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future
Mario Götze Angel · German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Mario Götze is a professional footballer.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fyxer — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
  • Lemni — Set up custom Ai agents in minutes
  • welevel — Building games with attitude
Kai Hansen Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United Kingdom, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
  • Cylib — The cylib process transfers waste from end of life batteries or production scrap into marketable products. Cylib covers all steps from the discharging of batteries up to hydrometallurgical extraction. Since the whole process is in one hand, also the processing of production scraps as well as black mass is possible.
  • Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.
Matthias Hilpert Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
  • Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
  • Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data
Michael Wax Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
  • NOVUS GmbH — NOVUS revolutionises the world of motorbikes and creates the first urban premium electric motorbike.The automotive industry is since 2018 in the process of an unstoppable transformation towards electric vehicles. The motorbike industry, on the other hand, is now at the tipping point of this transformation. Urban premium mobility must ensuresustainability and satisfy the need for individualisation. With NOVUS, we are driving the necessary change in the motorbike industry and urban mobility.We use our high-tech and design expertise to develop a unique concept that combines the advantages of bicycles and motorbikes. We unite the lightness and agility of an eBike with the performance and sovereignty of a motorbike. Based on an electric engine and futuristic design, we create the architecture of tomorrow's two-wheeler.NOVUS will be the new premium supplier for urban electric mobility. We focus on direct distribution and subscription models, completing our D2C portfolio with vehicle individualisation and customer-oriented after-sales service. Our central intelligence – the NOVUS-OMNI system and the My NOVUS app – integrates seamlessly into the digital lives of our customers. We thus create the foundation for digital business models and enable sharing & fleet solutions for B2B customers as well.NOVUS is the promise of driving the future today.BE AHEAD
  • Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
Jens Schumann Angel
Jens Schumann, born on 6 June 1973, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LOTTO24 AG on 19 June 2020. Before that, since 2 May 2012, he was already Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is one of the two founders of today's ZEAL Network SE (former Tipp24 SE) and was Managing Director and a Management Board member of Tipp24SE from 1999 to 2009. Jens Schumann has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL Network SE since July 2011. From 1998 to the formation of Tipp24 SE, he worked as a business consultant at Icon Medialab AG. Schumann studied law at the University of Münster from 1993 to 1998 and finished his studies with the first State Exam.
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Investment focus
  • Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Adtriba — Adtriba allows businesses to track, control and optimize their customer’s journeys, offsite and onsite, through AI and user journey analysis. Adtriba integrates user journey data across all channels - including TV ads and offline marketing campaigns - and applies machine learning to all user journey events. The results are optimizationsuggestions and actionable insights, allowing for cross-channel optimization of marketing ROI.
  • aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
  • Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.
Jens Schumann Angel
Jens Schumann, born on 6 June 1973, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LOTTO24 AG on 19 June 2020. Before that, since 2 May 2012, he was already Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is one of the two founders of today's ZEAL Network SE (former Tipp24 SE) and was Managing Director and a Management Board member of Tipp24SE from 1999 to 2009. Jens Schumann has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL Network SE since July 2011. From 1998 to the formation of Tipp24 SE, he worked as a business consultant at Icon Medialab AG. Schumann studied law at the University of Münster from 1993 to 1998 and finished his studies with the first State Exam.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Analytics
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Germany, Austria, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
  • Tryp.com — Find the best travel deals with artificial intelligence. Our algorithm connects flights, trains, and buses for perfect trips with matching hotels.
  • aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
Julius Göllner Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Julius Göllner - Co-Founder @ ARRtist Summit
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Kurabu — KURABU verbindet nahtlos eine umfangreiche Verwaltungssoftware mit einer modernen Vereinsapp. Starte jetzt kostenlos & unverbindlich!
  • VoiceLine — VoiceLine is AI-powered field sales revenue intelligence. Document any customer interactions in seconds, get actionable insights and boost sales performance. Start today!
  • Cello — Turn users into your most valuable growth channel. Cello is the easiest way to add a P2P referral program to any SaaS product in hours.
Benjamin Schroeter Angel
Benjamin Schroeter is co-founder and Managing Director of FACELIFT, mainly responsible for all business development. Previously, Benjamin Schroeter worked for more than five years for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a Strategy Consultant with a focus on supporting companies in the media and technology sector and their development of newbusiness models. He studied Architecture and Business Administration, spent several years living and working in the United States and China, and is a former fellow of the Heinz Nixdorf Foundation.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Database, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • CrossEngage — CrossEngage is a Customer Data & Engagement Platform that combines a customer data platform with cross-channel campaign management capabilities. It easily integrates with all data sources and marketing channels so that customers can keep their existing marketing infrastructure. By enabling a more personalized communication, CrossEngages helpsits clients sustainably increase customer engagement and loyalty.Too many marketing channels - too little orchestration. Many companies and consumers suffer from uncoordinated marketing activities. CrossEngage helps you to deliver a better customer experience through a relevant, consistent cross-channel communication per user. They provide a cross-channel marketing cloud solution that empowers marketing managers to orchestrate their campaigns across all relevant channels (e.g. E-Mail, RTA, Onsite, Push Notifications).According to the Digital Marketers Census 2015, Cross-Channel Marketing is with 58% the highest of all priorities for Digital Marketers in Germany. They help you to solve the challenges in this field and profit from the benefits of an orchestrated cross-channel strategy.
  • Dealcode GmbH — Make your sales team data-driven and leverage the value of AI guided selling to increase win-rates and revenue.
Stefan C. Schicker Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Stefan C. Schicker
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Legal Tech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Jupus — As the first legal AI secretary in Europe, JUPUS automates the entire process from initial client contact to the complete file. Lawyers are supported by an AI chatbot, an online appointment booking tool, and an AI platform that automatically collects and processes inquiries, information, and documents, facilitating automated communication withclients.
Ingo Baumann Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Dr. Ingo Baumann is a founding partner of BHO Legal. He specializes in national and European high technology and research projects. His clients are mainly leading institutions and companies in the space industry. Dr. Baumann studied law in Münster and Cologne. He received his doctorate from the Cologne Institute for Aerospace Law under Prof. Dr.Hobe on the international law of satellite communications.
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Investment focus
  • Forestry, Software, Image Recognition
  • Seed, Series A
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • OroraTech — From safeguarding forests and ecosystems to protecting communities and critical assets, OroraTech's advanced technology and reliable insights address challenges, mitigate risks, and drive meaningful impact.
Hanno Renner Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
After working as skipper of sailing yachts for many years next to his studies, Hanno decided to become the captain of a startup. He co-founded Personio in 2015 with three study colleagues with the goal of digitizing HR management and Recruiting processes for small and mid-sized enterprises. Having build and led several teams while the company grew,he now in the CEO role is responsible for aligning all functions of the business around the shares vision of building the category leading HR Operating System for SMEs in and providing all resources necessary to reach this goal. Hanno holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Technology Management from TU Munich and CDTM, studying abroad at Columbia University in New York.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
  • zerolabs — zerolabs is an e-commerce platform that provides refreshing alcohol-free drinks and beverages.
  • Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
Ralf Reichert Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
  • welevel — Building games with attitude
  • Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
Ralf Reichert Angel · Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
  • Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
  • Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
Carsten Maschmeyer Angel · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
  • theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
  • JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.
Chris Schagen Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • DGG — RapidCompact by DGG is the leading solution to make 3D content fit all target platforms, freeing up each creative team's' time by automating the creation of high-quality, optimized 3D assets for Web, mobile, AR and XR use. Customers include retailers, public institutions, tech companies, XR studios, and more.
  • PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
  • Growblocks — Driving revenue growth is complicated. Teams need to collaborate, work with data and keep everyone on track in order to succeed.Growblocks strives to apply our winning formula to the B2B Scale-Up community helping our customers reach their revenue growth dreams - faster.We believe that when enough brains are applied, every problem is solvableand our team of brains is world class.Founded by a team of business leaders who have helped start, scale and exit some of the most successful SaaS companies in Europe. Funded by leading European VCs and Angel Investors.
Felix Haas Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Felix Haas is the Executive Chairman and Founder of IDnow. He previously worked at amiando GmbH as a CEO and Co-Founder. Felix Haas attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Leisure, Internet, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, France, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
  • Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
  • Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Michael Baum Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Michael Baum is a successful Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur who has built billion dollar companies. Michael is the founder and CEO of FOUNDER.org, an early investor in young innovators solving world problems. FOUNDER.org provides audacious innovators an unrivaled experience through it’s company building science, deep mentoring and earlyfunding. Having created over 3,500 jobs, 150 millionaires and more than $6B in shareholder value, Michael is driving the next generation of inspired game-changers.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Grant
  • United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Unu motors — unu wants to create the mobility solution that fully connects people to the city. They believe in cities in which all people are enabled to embrace the full potential of urban life. Their first product, electric scooter unu, was launched in summer 2014. unu is stylish, emission-free, quiet and super-easy to charge thanks to portable batteries.
  • KONUX — KONUX combines Machine Learning algorithms and IoT to deliver software-as-a-service solutions for operation, monitoring, and maintenance process automation
  • PlushCare — PlushCare provides online doctor care for primary, urgent care, mental health and therapy. Affordable, convenient teleheath visits and same day online doctor appointments available now.
Felix Jahn Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Admi — Admi is a government technology company that helps towns and municipalities develop and operate photovoltaic systems on public lands.
  • YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
  • Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.
Felix Plog Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Felix Plog is the SVP Global Operation at Delivery Hero AG. Before, he was COO/Co-Founder of the foodpanda group, the largest food ordering marketplace in the emerging markets which was acquired by Delivery Hero AG in 2016. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer at wallstreet:online AG, a listed company that develops and operateswebsites for financial information. Prior to that, he was the MD at Axel Springer Financial Media, the financial branch of one of Germany's largest media groups and Project Manager at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants. Felix holds a degree in Industrial Engineering from the Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Information Technology, B2B
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
  • Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
  • Jupus — As the first legal AI secretary in Europe, JUPUS automates the entire process from initial client contact to the complete file. Lawyers are supported by an AI chatbot, an online appointment booking tool, and an AI platform that automatically collects and processes inquiries, information, and documents, facilitating automated communication withclients.
Philipp Hammerich Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Philipp Hammerich
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Legal Tech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Jupus — As the first legal AI secretary in Europe, JUPUS automates the entire process from initial client contact to the complete file. Lawyers are supported by an AI chatbot, an online appointment booking tool, and an AI platform that automatically collects and processes inquiries, information, and documents, facilitating automated communication withclients.
Erik Muttersbach Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Erik Muttersbach is the Co-Founder, CTO, and Managing Director of Forto.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
  • Infisical — Infisical is an open-source, end-to-end encrypted tool that supports developers in managing their teams, devices, and infrastructure's secrets and environment variables. Using an end-to-end encrypted method, it avoids the leakage of confidential information to version control and over insecure channels like email.
  • Orbem — Orbem is shedding light on the world's toughest challenges by unleashing AI-powered imaging for everything and everyone. This means developing fast, accurate, and accessible imaging solutions that provide access to otherwise unattainable sources of knowledge.Orbem is developing deep tech solutions to sustainably feed the world, improve humanhealth, and maximize human potential.Based on years of scientific research at the interface of AI and imaging technology, Orbem was founded in 2019 as a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich.
Kim Nis Neuhauss Angel
Kim Nis Neuhauss is a CEO and Founder at alfatier. Kim previously worked at Bright Skies - a Rackspace Technology Company as a General Manager and Founder.
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Investment focus
  • Video, Finance, Shipping
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
  • sq[u]arely UG — Management Consulting
  • Neuhauss Capital UG — Neuhauss Capital primarily acts as a venture capitalist / investor in the early stages of a startup. Neuhauss Capital is involved with technical skills, particularly in the development of SaaS, software, and IT service companies.
Julius Heinz Angel · Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Kern AI — Kern AI offers services in the field of natural language processing that enable a range of interaction modes between humans and machines. They manage natural language products, ETL pipelines, and workflows. The company's contact modes are mail and physical address.
Patric Fassbender Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Patric Fassbender is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Boxine.
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Investment focus
  • Education, EdTech, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
  • Lilio — Lilio aids parents in caring for the well-being of their children and provides input on the baby's well-being at any time of day or night.
  • Manti Manti — Manti Manti goal is to turn children's glasses from a dusty medical device into a cool, stylish, sustainable, and functional lifestyle item. That youngsters enjoy. Parents, too.
Koenraad Crooijmans Angel
Koenraad Crooijmans is a former Investment Banker at Morgan Stanley.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • CELUS — Transform the world with smart electronics engineering. CELUS is the leading provider for AI-supported automation software for electronics engineering.
Jens Hilgers Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Jens Hilgers a serial entrepreneur with His primary interest in esports, videogames and online technologies. Having build his first videogame online tournaments, lan-events and gameserver farms as early as 1997 he had consider myself a veteran in the eSports industry. Building companies and making ideas become reality is what he really loves.Outstanding user experience, agility, transparency and sustainability are the core principles of his daily work. He is a creative thinker, problem solver and quick learner. He has team up with ambitious and smart people of upright character.For 22 years now he has been building and managing international games&tech companies in Central and Eastern Europe aswell as in Asia. Since 2012 he is also actively investing in and supporting selected startups.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Germany, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Dorian — Turn your story into a game and earn money with no coding!
  • femtasy — At femtasy, you'll find the largest selection of sensual audio stories. Make your self-love even more exciting!
  • Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.
Andre Schwammlein Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Andre Schwammlein is the CEO of FlixBus DACH. Andre Schwammlein attended FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Rental, Payments
  • Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
  • YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
  • feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.
Alex Zhigarev Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria
With over 15 years of experience in strategy, operations and entrepreneurship, Alex knows сhallenges faced by technological startups and how to deal with them.Having completed a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics from Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, he started his career as a software developer and project/program manager in largeIT companies (Luxoft, Dell, Ericsson). He developed an avionics software, managed process improvement initiatives, was responsible for due diligence cases and M&A in engineering and TMT industries and even evangelized agile methodologies before Agile became a mainstream practice.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • sensmore — Equip your machinery with autonomy built for the harshest conditions. Enhance safety, reduce costs, and increase efficiency with our advanced radar technology.
Daniel Krauss Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Rental, Payments
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Israel, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
  • YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
  • feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.
Richard Schwenke Angel
Richard Schwenke
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Marketing
  • Funding Round, Private Equity
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Productsup — Productsup is the leading product-to-consumer (P2C) platform enabling manufacturers, brands, service providers, and marketplaces to turn commerce anarchy into commercial success. The Productsup P2C platform offers a range of solutions like feed management, marketplace experience and social commerce, product content syndication, and seller andvendor onboarding. It processes over two trillion products a month for over 900 brands, including IKEA, Sephora, Beiersdorf, Redbubble, and ALDI, handling more monthly data requests than Google’s consumer search service.
Oliver Buecken Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
Oliver Buecken
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Investment focus
  • Railroad, Software, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • KONUX — KONUX combines Machine Learning algorithms and IoT to deliver software-as-a-service solutions for operation, monitoring, and maintenance process automation
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen is a Co-Founder & serves as a Partner at 2xN. Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen was General Partner at Balderton Capital in London from 2015-2021 through four funds. He joined after spending a decade in Silicon Valley where he was with Uber and Dropbox.Since 2012 his venture track record includes two IPOs (Uber, Dropbox) and 11acquisitions.Lars joined Balderton from Uber which he joined when the company was operating in less than 20 cities. His role as Vice-President resulted in strategic alliances. Lars joined Uber from Dropbox as one of the company’s first 25 employees. As Head of Mobile, his growth deals with Samsung and other mobile OEMs helped Dropbox reach its first 100 million users. Prior to that Lars held positions at Voicesignal (acq. Nuance), Skyhook Wireless (acq. TruePosition), Ness Technologies (acq. Opentable), 3Jam (acq. Skype) and T9 Tegic (acq. AOL). More than a billion people have used the software and services distributed as a result of mobile growth partnerships led by Lars.His venture investments include Voi (Raine), Labster (A16Z), Hiya (Ericsson), Cambridge Quantum Computing (HON), Hopin (A16Z), Opensea (A16Z), Yassir (YC), Beacon (Eric Schmidt), The org (Sequoia), Octant (A16Z), Zycada (Khosla), Monarch Money (Accel) and Kukua (Tencent), Dubsmash (acq. Reddit), Tempow (acq. Google), Rahko (acq. Odyssey Therapeutics), Pocket (acq. Mozilla), Blue Bottle (acq. Nestle), Marble (acq. Caterpillar).Lars, who is Danish-Portuguese, grew up across Africa and served with the Royal Danish Guards. He holds a MBA from London Business School, where he also serves on the Board of Trustees, an MSc from Oxford University Keble College and a BSc from King’s College, London. He lives in London with his wife and three children.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Denmark, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • HUBUC — A single API-platform that allows any business to embed financial services capabilities into their products. 
e.g Uber can issue branded credit cards for all Uber drivers and Walmart provides customers a simple way to better manage and control their everyday finances, with no regulatory burden or compliance requirements in a few weeks.
  • LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
  • Quantrol Ox — QuantrolOx is building automated machine learning-based control software for quantum technologies to tune, stabilize, and optimize qubits.
Walter Kortschak Angel · Aspen, Colorado, United States · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Walter Kortschak is the Managing Partner at Firestreak Ventures. He attended Caltech, Oregon State University, and the University of California, Los Angeles.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Germany, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
  • Langbase — Langbase helps developers ship composable AI agents with hyper-personalized memory (RAG).Langbase is the composable AI infrastructure and developer experience to build, collaborate, and deploy any AI agents (AI features). Our mission is to make AI accessible to everyone, any developer not just AI/ML experts. We are the only composable AIinfrastructure. That's all we do.
  • Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Patrick Pichette Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Patrick Pichette currently Board Member at LightSpeed and Twitter. He is a former Google's chief financial officer, where he started in June of 2008. He has nearly 20 years of experience in financial operations and management in the telecommunications sector, including seven years at Bell Canada, which he joined in 2001 as executive vicepresident of planning and performance management.During his time at Bell Canada, he held various executive positions, including CFO from 2002 until the end of 2003, and was instrumental in the management of the most extensive communications network in Canada and its ongoing migration to a new national IP-based infrastructure.Prior to joining Bell Canada, Patrick was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a lead member of McKinsey's North American Telecom Practice. He also served as vice president and chief financial officer of Call-Net Enterprises, a Canadian telecommunications company.Patrick earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from UniversitA© du Quebec A  MontrA©al. He holds a master's degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves on the board of Engineers Without Borders (Canada).
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
  • Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence
  • Vay — Vay is a leading teledriving company that aims to launch a unique, affordable, and sustainable door-to-door mobility service.
Gerrit Veer Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Gerrit Veer is VP Sales Europe @ Signavio.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Kern AI — Kern AI offers services in the field of natural language processing that enable a range of interaction modes between humans and machines. They manage natural language products, ETL pipelines, and workflows. The company's contact modes are mail and physical address.
Roman Kirsch Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, Italy, Malaysia
Portfolio highlights
  • Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
  • Bending Spoons — We create cutting-edge technologies and products, 500 million app downloads, 100 million monthly active users.
  • Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.
Michael J. Jäger Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Michael J. Jaeger is the Founder & Managing Director at Beautiful Drinks GmbH. He attended IU International University of Applied Sciences.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Data Mining, Search Engine
  • Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
  • GlassDollar — GlassDollar is the go-to enabler of innovation partnering for large- and medium-sized corporations. Our marketplace of startup solutions and our Innovation Project management software help innovation teams to source, manage, and successfully scale impactful startup collaborations within their organizations.
Ragnar Kruse Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Ragnar Kruse is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Smaato Inc. As a serial entrepreneur with 30+ years experience in IT, Ragnar Kruse understands the unique challenges in bringing new technologies to market. Ragnar has built up several companies from inception to market launch in both the US and Europe. At Intershop Communications, aleader in E-Commerce software solutions, Ragnar was Vice President of Sales and Marketing in San Francisco. During his tenure, Ragnar was instrumental in the company’s growth and ushering it through a successful IPO on NASDAQ and the “Neuer Markt” in 1998. More recently, Ragnar held key management positions at high-tech companies in the U.S. and Europe including eCharge and Xtramind. Through his many years in IT, Ragnar maintains strong relationships with companies in the telecommunications and mobile sectors, including Deutsche Telekom, Telekom New Zealand, Telstra, Telia, Cable & Wireless, Siemens, T-Online, T-Mobile, France Telecom, HP and SUN. Ragnar started his career as an entrepreneur. In 1980, Ragnar founded IPT GmbH, a computer retail business that imported products into Germany from the USA and Taiwan. In 1987 he expanded his business by starting DTP Partner GmbH, a distribution company in Hamburg. DTP Partner was the exclusive distributor of several desktop publishing solutions such as Corel and was instrumental in establishing international distribution agreements with American and Taiwanese companies. Ragnar studied law at the universities of Hamburg and Munich, Germany.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, B2B, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
  • Frontnow — Frontnow is redefining e-commerce with AI, providing businesses with powerful pre-sales tools to maximize core KPIs and provide an in-store-like shopping experience. Our vision is to transform online shopping into a dynamic, hyper-personalized, and inspirational experience through an adaptive interface. By revolutionizing the ecosystem, theyempower businesses to thrive in the digital age and significantly impact the way customers shop online, leading to a more profitable and customer-centric retail world.
  • aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
Peter Bonfield Angel
Peter Bonfield has been a self-employed international business advisor since 2002 and has been Chairman of NXP Semiconductor N.V. (a semiconductor company) since 2006. He served as Chairman of the Executive Committee and Chief Executive Officer of British Telecommunications PLC (a provider of telecom services) from 1996 to 2002 and before thatserved as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ICL plc (a UK-based information technology company).Peter is a director of Sony Corporation (a worldwide provider of electronics, games, music, movies and financial services), Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Ltd. (a manufacturer of semiconductors), and Telefonak-tiebolaget LM Ericsson (a telecommunications equipment manufacturer).He is Chair of Council and Senior Pro-Chancellor for Loughborough University in the United Kingdom and is a Board Director for the East West Institute and Global Logic located in the United States.He is a senior advisor to N.M. Rothschild London and a member of the advisory boards of the Longreach Group and New Venture Partners. He also serves as a board mentor to CMi.He previously served as a director of AstraZeneca PLC (a pharmaceuticals company) from 1995 to 2007. He has received numerous honors for his contributions to business, including a knighthood, and is a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • CELUS — Transform the world with smart electronics engineering. CELUS is the leading provider for AI-supported automation software for electronics engineering.
Heiko Hubertz Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Heiko Hubertz - Founder & CEO @ Oxolo
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Machine Learning, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Bulgaria, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • Kini — Learn about Kini's mission to improve recruitment efficiency through data. Discover our team and the solutions we provide to the recruitment industry.
  • VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.
  • welevel — Building games with attitude
Johannes Schaback Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Johannes Schaback is the CTO of SumUp and was a Co-founder and CTO at Visual Meta. He attended Technische Universität Berlin and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Funerals
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
  • Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
  • Blockbrain — Blockbrain analyzes millions of transactions on the blockchain to proactively detect threats and opportunities for digital assets you store in crypto wallets and exchanges.The company manages all types of wallets in one secure technology. Track KPIs, be aware of threats, and manage your assets.Blockbrain was established on May 6, 2022 byJohannes Strachwitz in Hamburg, Germany.
Jason Goldberg Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Jason Goldberg - Founder and CEO @ Pepo
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Pepo — Buy the domain name Pepo.com and launch your business with a premium domain and a high quality logo.
  • Moxie — Train live from anywhere with inspiring coaches for every body, style, and fitness goal.
  • OST — Ost powers the Ethereum Application Layer.Ost technology features the industry’s first seamlessly embeddable Ethereum smart contract wallet — developers don’t need to learn blockchain, users don’t even need to know it’s crypto. -Turn any user action into a token transfer — e.g. any upvote, like, comment, review, message, consumption, engagement,wager -Micro-transactions made possible — process tx at fraction of a cent vs. $0.30 + 2.8% Stripe fees -Enabling the future promises of Libra, already today — simple, easy, peer-to-peer payments, way out ahead of the market -Regulatory compliant, FinCEN compliant, Apple app-store compliant -Pepo by Ost is the first crypto-powered app approved by Apple, with in-app purchase and cash-out options -Numerous 3rd party use cases
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