# Top 50 Automotive Angel Investors in Germany in June 2026

## Peter Mertens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Kefar Sava, HaMerkaz, Israel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Automotive, CleanTech

Peter Mertens

## Oskar Hartmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive

Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP.  He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Fabian von Kuenheim
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Automotive, Developer Tools, Data Integration

Fabian von Kuenheim - Managing Director & CEO @ Nubisio

## Penny Schiffer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical, Health Care, Finance

Penny Schiffer - CEO & Co-founder @ Raized.ai

## Dr. Cornelius Boersch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

## ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Battery

ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz

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

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Christoph Lange
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Fashion, Fitness

Christoph Lange is the Co-Founder at Orkney & SNL (real estate), ex-Zalando (CPO). He attended Berlin School of Economics.

## Alexander Eitner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Electronics

Alexander Eitner - COO & Founder @ MILES

## Michael Cassau
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Hardware, Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering

Michael Cassau founded his company Grover with a simple goal in mind: give people more freedom and help them derive more value by offering a flexible and affordable way of accessing technology. Built on a circular economy business model, Grover makes the most out of the lifecycle of tech products, reduces waste, and brings the philosophy of accessover ownership to the huge consumer electronics market. Michael has a background as an Investment Professional at Goldman Sachs and is fascinated by the intersection of retail and finance. He is motivated by a personal conviction that there must be a flexible and efficient way to access consumer goods.

## Jackson Bond
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Automotive

Jackson Bond is a Co-Founder of iThings4U GmbH and serves as its CPO. Jackson Bond is a Co-Founder of MONOQI and 8hertz (sold to VoxGen). He designed and marketed consumer and developer facing internet platform products for MONOQI, XING Mobile, XING API, Holtzbrinck. VoxGen/8hertz since 1998.

## Rupert Stadler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Ingolstadt, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Hardware, CleanTech, GreenTech

Rupert Stadler

## Nikolai Schröder
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Hardware, CleanTech, GreenTech

Nikolai Schröder

## Michael G. Köhler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Klagenfurt, Karnten, Austria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Hardware, CleanTech, GreenTech

Michael G. Köhler

## Sophia Flörsch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Hardware, CleanTech, GreenTech

Most-influential Female Racing Driver.
FIA Formula 3 Rider.
Alpine Academy.

## Bram Schot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Machine Learning

Bram Schot is a Non Executive Board Member at Shell.He has been a member of the Management of Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles for the area of Marketing and Sales since 2012. In 2011, he moved from his position as President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz Italia to the Volkswagen Group, where he was in charge of strategic projects in the area of GroupSales.

## Daniel Wild
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Travel, Automotive, Car Sharing

Daniel Wild is a serial entrepreneur and active business angel. Within the last 15 years he invested in over 100 startups through Tiburon Unternehmensaufbau GmbH founded in 2001. Amongst his most successful seed and early stage investments are XING (openBC), Posterjack, Trivago, Shirtinator, Invoco, MovingImage24 and many more.In 1999 hefounded the getmobile AG together with Tim Schwenke, which he led as CEO and grew to over 100mn € in revenue p.a. until 2007. In 2005 the company went public as getmobile Europe plc through a reverse IPO at the AIM segment of the London stock exchange.End of 2009 he returned as CEO to getmobile Europe plc, which was renamed into Ecommerce Alliance. Ecommerce Alliance AG is listed in the Entry Standard segment of the Frankfurt stock exchange since 2010. With this company setup Daniel is able to combine his roles as entrepreneur, founder and investor to develop a fast growing and integrated group of ecommerce companies.

## Florian Haus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Electronics

Florian Haus - Co-Founder @ MILES

## Michael Wax
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Peter Carlsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Food and Beverage, AgTech

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

## Georg Hofer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Automotive

Georg Hofer

## Fabrizio Ugo Scelsi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Hardware, CleanTech, GreenTech

Fabrizio Ugo Scelsi is the Co-Founder of Vay.

## Felix Jahn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Stefan Jeschonnek
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Information Technology

Before Zeitgold, Stefan was a co-founder of the FinTech company SumUp and its chief product officer. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA from the University of St. Gallen.

## Teodoro D'Ambrosio
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Automotive, Travel

Teodoro D'Ambrosio is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Biocentis. He previously worked at Hotelscan as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Teodoro D'Ambrosio attended the University of Trieste.

## Dennis Weidner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: News, FinTech, Finance

Blockchain, Kryptowährungen, Entrepreneur, Mobilität, E-Commerce, Online-Marketing

## Aksel Lund Svindal
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile

Aksel Lund Svindal

## Chris Hitchen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.

## Damian Doberstein
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Dental, Internet, Wellness

Damian Doberstein is the current Co-Founder of Tierarzt Plus Partner. He previously worked at e.ventures as a Partner. Damian Doberstein attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Jonas Rieke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Health Care, Pet, Apps

Jonas Rieke - Chief Operations Officer @ Personio

## Andreas Mihalovits
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Tim Schumacher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS

Tim Schumacher is a Managing General Partner at World Fund. Tim previously worked at Sedo.com as a Member Board Of Directors. He attended University of Cologne and Stockholm School of Economics.Tim Schumacher Co-Founded and was the longtime CEO of the publicly traded company Sedo AG, which currently has revenues of 130m euros per year andmaintains approximately 350 employees. Since 2012 he has dedicated his professional career to the German startup scene, acting both as a business angel and mentor for young companies with economic potential. His current startups, among many others, are Eyeo/Adblock Plus, Aklamio, Hitfox and Ecosia.

## Paul Schwarzenholz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, E-Commerce

Paul Schwarzenholz - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ zenloop

## David Schneider
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Software, E-Commerce

David Schneider is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Zalando SE. He previously worked at Gondrand International AG as a Key-Account-Manager. David Schneider attended 
WHU – Otto-Beisheim School of Management.

## Lukasz Gadowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software

Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

## Robert Gentz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Robert Gentz is the Co-CEO & Co-Founder of Zalando SE. He previously worked at Unibicate as a CEO. Robert Gentz attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

## Hampus Jakobsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Alexander Artope
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Sales, Leasing, Automotive

Alexander Artopé is Co-Founder and CEO of smava, Germany’s leading loan portal. Alexander has more than 18 years of entrepreneurial and Internet experience. Before he founded smava in 2006, Alexander co-founded the enterprise software company datango and served as CEO. The company was sold to SAP. Previously, Alexander was co-author and managingeditor for the book “The internet economy” with the European Communication Council. Alexander studied business administration and communication science at LMU Munich and FU Berlin.

## Martin Enderle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series B
- Focus: Big Data, Internet, Payments

Martin Enderle is a Co-founder & Board member at allmyhomes. Martin previously worked at CEWE Stiftung and Co. KGaA as a Member of the Board of Trustees. He attended Leibniz Universität Hannover and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

## Matthias Hilpert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

## Andre Alpar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Weste, Niedersachsen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Automotive

Andre Alpar is entrepreneurially for over 15 years in the field of online marketing. Since 2008, he was a strategic online marketing advisory service leaders at Rocket Internet (eDarling, Zalando, Groupon, etc.). Parallel to his professional career he has been involved as a business angel in Internet start-ups. In total, he has 30 investments inits portfolio. As an organizer he called 2010 Online Marketing Conference OMCap into life.

## Patrick Pichette
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Rubin Ritter
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Rubin is Co-CEO of Zalando and has been a Member of the Management Board at Zalando SE since he joined the company in 2010. He is responsible for strategy and communications.
From 2007 to 2009, Rubin worked at McKinsey & Company. He graduated from the WHU – Otto-Beisheim Graduate School of Management in 2007 with a degree in BusinessAdministration. In 2006, he was awarded an MBA from the University of Texas (USA).

## Tim Marbach
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Real Estate, Rental Property

Tim is a global entrepreneur and venture investor. He started his first company bonial.com in 2008 and sold it to German media conglomerate Axel Springer SE in 2011. In 2013, Tim relocated to South East Asia and has since co-founded and invested in many successful consumer internet companies through his private internet holding company Asia VentureGroup. Those companies have successfully raised several hundred million USD in follow-on venture capital and employ several thousand employees across the global. Those companies include HappyFresh, iPrice Group, iMoney (sold to iSelect), FlowerChimp, audibene (sold to Sivantos/EQT), Scalable Capital (sold to BlackRock), Jewelcandle (sold to Equistone), Vicampo (sold to Burda), CARS24, Movinga, Homebell, Fave, Stoyo and many more.

## Fabrice Grinda
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Internet

Fabrice Grinda is among the world’s leading Internet entrepreneurs and investors.He has over $300 million in exits and 150 angel investments. Fabrice has served as CEO for three multinational companies and has an impressive track record as an early investor in Alibaba, Lending Club, Delivery Hero and Brightroll.Fabrice is currentlyinvesting in startups and building companies through FJ Labs, which he cofounded with business partner Jose Marin. Fabrice is also co-founder and executive chairman of Beepi, a next generation used car marketplace. Beepi recently raised $60 million in series B funding.Prior to FJ Labs and Beepi, Fabrice was co-founder and co-CEO of OLX, one of the largest websites in the world with over 200 million unique visitors per month. The company operates in 40 countries and has over 1,200 employees. OLX is the largest classifieds site in India, Brazil, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Portugal and many other emerging markets.Before OLX, Fabrice was co-founder and CEO of Zingy, one of the largest wireless media companies in the Americas. Fabrice successfully grew the business to $200 million in sales in four years.Fabrice started his entrepreneurial journey in 1998, at 23, when he co-founded and was CEO of Aucland. Soon after, Aucland grew into one of the largest auction sites in Europe. Before his entrepreneurial endeavors, Fabrice worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company.Fabrice holds a BA in Economics from Princeton University. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in 1996, and was awarded the Halbert White prize, given to the most distinguished economics student, as well as The Wolfe Balleisen memorial prize, awarded for best thesis.In his free time, Fabrice likes to travel the world, kitesurf, play tennis, and blog about his personal and professional life at www.fabricegrinda.com.

## Heiko Hubertz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Machine Learning

Heiko Hubertz - Founder & CEO @ Oxolo

## Johannis Hatt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Gaming

Johannis Hatt is one of the founders of Productsup.

## Kersten Jodexnis
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Apps, Web Apps, Automotive

Kersten Jodexnis

## Tobias Wittich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, B2B, Retail

Founded The Place Berlin, great ecosystem and hottest co-working space for startups in Berlin. Before worked at PWC in Zurich. Leverages experience and powerful community network.

## Kenan Tur
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Automotive, Electronics

Kenan Tur

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