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Top 50 Beauty Angel Investors in Europe in January 2025

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

Top 50 Beauty Angel Investors in Europe in January 2025

Investor	Beauty Europe investments
Christophe Maire	3
Sebastian Picardo	2
Mandeep Singh	2
Pär Svärdson	2
Martin Lorentzon	2
Fredrik Mansson	2
Oliver Pabst	2
Sebastian Pollok	2
Shane Neman	2
Thomas Ryge Mikkelsen	2
Natalia Vodianova	1
Steffen Zoller	1
Rafael Tamames	1
Michael Moritz	1
Dominik Richter	1
Denis Fayolle	1
Edwin Okyere	1
Ian Hogarth	1
Sharmadean Reid	1
Ferran Ferrer Perea	1
Rob Small	1
Nicole Crentsil	1
Pankaj Chaddah	1
Cornelia Hoppe	1
Andrew Grahame	1
Albert Armengol	1
Andrew Webster	1
David Pritchard	1
Matteo de Brabant	1
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	1
Angelo Moratti	1
Javier Rubio	1
Nikolay Piskunov	1
Brent Hoberman	1
Laura Connell	1
Claire Cherry	1
Thibaud Elziere	1
David Szekely	1
George Graham	1
Tom Adeyoola	1
Harry Blain	1
Jeff Kwarteng Jacobsen	1
Ingo Weber	1
Morten Strunge	1
Pierre Antoine Dusoulier	1
Matt Robinson	1
Dora Osinde	1
Nils Glagau	1
Christopher North	1
Irène Kilubi	1

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Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, Poland, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
Artusiast — Jay Art GmbH is an online platform that sells art.
RetentionGrid — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.

Sebastian Picardo is an active investor and advisor in the global luxury goods sector.As an investor, he has been very active in the fashion, technology and media sectors for over 9 years, investing in companies like Net a porter, Lyst, Farfetch, Business of Fashion and Highsnobiety. He has also been a venture advisor to London-based FelixCapital, a leading Venture Capital firm investing in digital lifestyle start-ups, since 2014.As an advisor, he has helped brands and retailers in areas such as digital marketing, customer experience, omni-channel retailing and innovation, In addition, he has advised companies wanting to enter and market their brands in China mainland.Sebastian was formerly Deputy President of Asia’s iconic luxury department store Lane Crawford. Sebastian joined Lane Crawford in 2012. As a member of the senior management team, he crafted and drove Lane Crawford’s “connected commerce” strategy, underlying the company's focus on omni-channel retail development to deliver a seamless customer experience.Previous to Lane Crawford, Sebastian was with Burberry where he served as Managing Director - Digital Commerce, based in the London headquarters. Prior to this role, he had helped transform and integrate the brand's Spanish operations into the global business as Managing Director - Operations at Burberry Spain. Before joining Burberry, Sebastian had held various senior finance roles at Net-A-Porter, Alexander McQueen and Deloitte.Originally from Argentina, he is a Chartered Accountant, holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management and a Master’s degree in International Finance. Most recently he attended Harvard Business School, where he successfully completed the Advanced Management Program.Sebastian lived in Buenos Aires, London, Barcelona and Hong Kong. He is fluent in Spanish, English, Italian and has an elementary command of Mandarin.

Investment focus

Fashion, Content, Lifestyle
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Italy, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Mos — Meet Mos: the way smart students get money for college
UNMADE — Unmade helps fashion and sportswear brands connect demand directly to production - so they become more adaptive, responsive, efficient and responsible.
Freeda Media — The voice of the new generations

Mandeep Singh currently works as an Angel Investor and Advisor for Multiple Startups. He previously worked at Accel as a Starter and Scout. Mandeep Singh attended the University of Cambridge.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
Galileo AI — Galileo AI creates delightful, editable UI designs from a simple text description. It empowers you to design faster than ever.
Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.

Par Svardson is the current CEO of Apotea AB.

Investment focus

Beauty, Fashion, Computer
Angel, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Sniph — Sniph is a smart subscription service for perfume, which makes it easy to discover new scents.The company lives according to the philosophy that smells make more difference than they can understand and that they affect us more than the group think. Dofter develops memories and feelings. Some smell can lift people when they need it - or take themfar away when they least anticipate it.
ALEQUI — Discover ALEQUI's range of riding apparel featuring sleek Scandinavian design built to last. Shop now for premium quality and style.
GoFrendly — Find new friends with gofrendly in your local area. gofrendly makes it simple for women to expand their social circle and connect with like-minded individuals.

Martin first struck up his partnership with Daniel Ek when Tradedoubler, Europe’s largest affiliate sales network (founded by Martin), acquired Daniel’s company Advertigo in 2006. As chairman, Martin has been on the company’s board of directors since July 2006. His responsibilities include creating and implementing strategy, budgets and goals.Previously, Martin held senior roles at Telia, Altavista, Cell Ventures and NetStrategy. He is currently on the TeliaSonera board. Martin was educated at Gothenburg’s Chalmers University of Technology and Handels University. In his spare time Martin enjoys all kind of sports and cultural pursuits. With such a hectic schedule, it’s fortunate that he’s energetic by nature, involving himself in numerous work and leisure activities to try and find the right balance between his career and his personal life.

Investment focus

Beauty, Coffee, Fashion
Funding Round, Seed
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sniph — Sniph is a smart subscription service for perfume, which makes it easy to discover new scents.The company lives according to the philosophy that smells make more difference than they can understand and that they affect us more than the group think. Dofter develops memories and feelings. Some smell can lift people when they need it - or take themfar away when they least anticipate it.
Coffydoor — Coffydoor, a Stockholm, Sweden-based startup building an on-demand coffee delivery service. Coffydoor was founded in 2020 by Houman Ashrafzadeh and Jonathan Johansson.
Sand Clinic — Sand Clinic is a healthcare startup. Sand Clinic provides a wide range of services to its members, including primary care, vascular ultrasonography, and red light therapy.

Fredrik Mansson - Investor @ Propel Capital

Investment focus

Beauty, Fashion, Lifestyle
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Sniph — Sniph is a smart subscription service for perfume, which makes it easy to discover new scents.The company lives according to the philosophy that smells make more difference than they can understand and that they affect us more than the group think. Dofter develops memories and feelings. Some smell can lift people when they need it - or take themfar away when they least anticipate it.
Match2One — Self service programmatic advertising platform, easy to use and no minimum spend. Launch intelligent programmatic display campaigns and drive online sales.

Oliver Pabst

Investment focus

Health Care, SaaS, Beauty
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Nanoleq — Nanoleq provides full solutions to precisely monitor vital signs and health in clothes. Join the future of health monitoring textiles.
Recare — Recare developed a software platform for discharge management and supply control in hospitals and other medical facilities. With its B2B marketplace, Recare is trying to end the paperwork in the German healthcare system.
Salonmeister — Salonmeister is revolutionizing the last bastion of telephone reservation: beauty-salons and barber shops. With the vision to become the internet’s first address for beauty-bookings Salonmeister was founded in 2012. Today, it is not only that booking platform the founders once dreamed of, but Salonmeister became an expert in regards to schedulingand customer management for local beauty service providers. The Salonmeister calendar is a full fledge customer management tool tailored to the needs of the beauty industry delivering real value to merchants and their customers alike: up-to-date service and less stress for the merchant.

Sebastian Pollok is Founding Partner of Visionaries Club, an early stage VC fund backed by leading European digital founders and family business entrepreneurs. Prior, Sebastian co-founded and ran AMORELIE, which he successfully grew to > USD 60m revenue, >20% EBITDA and a team of 100 employees. AMORELIE was sold to ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in2018 at a valuation > USD 100m. Prior to AMORELIE, Sebastian worked as a VC for e.ventures in San Francisco and studied at WHU, St. Gallen, HKUST and Kellogg School of Management. Sebastian is a business angel in startups such as Ree Technology, Choco, Sunshine Smile and Lillydoo and a limited partner in funds such as Cherry Ventures, Project A and La Famiglia. He also sits on the board of Cherry Ventures and Founders Pledge.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Medwing — MEDWING serves as the most trusted and convenient platform for finding opportunities and working in healthcare. From temporary to permanent staffing, we simplify hiring, allowing healthcare professionals to do what they do best -- care. MEDWING Berlin-based company wants to empower healthcare candidates to work in a way that suits their individuallifestyles and to support hospitals and care facilities in recruiting and human resource management.
Aeditive — Construction, Concrete 3D Printing, Automation, Robotics, Digital Concrete
Founders Pledge — Home | Founders Pledge

Founder of EZ Texting and JoonBug. Serial entrepreneur and investor in Tech, Real Estate & Hospitality.cA forward-thinking problem solver, consummate optimist and serial entrepreneur, Shane Neman is the prototypical businessman of our modern era. His experience and expertise in business span numerous industries, from technology andtelecommunications to real estate and hospitality. After leaving NYU Medical School early, he started three industry-shifting tech startups (two of them – EZ Texting and JoonBug – acquired) with hundreds of employees and tens of thousands of customers. As an insightful startup backer, Shane’s portfolio includes companies such as Convoy, Prose, Impossible Foods, Universal Standard, Apostrophe, MeetMindful, MapAnything, VinePair and Smylen. Shane is also a prolific real estate developer and investor. From commercial shopping and industrial centers to residential buildings, he owns more than two dozen large-scale properties across the U.S. He holds a degree in Computer Science from New York University, where he received the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater scholarship and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Wellness
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Kenya, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Figure — Figure is the first-of-its-kind AI robotics company bringing a general purpose humanoid to life.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Taxa Technologies — Designer probiotics for personal care

Thomas Ryge Mikkelsen is an Investor and Chairman at Nøie.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Beauty, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Denmark

Portfolio highlights

NØIE — Noie is a consumer goods company that offers cosmetics and skincare products. The company offers customized a customized skincare platform that combines deep dermatological knowledge with feedback from the community and the users' individual needs to eliminate guesswork and coincidence in the search for skincare that actually works.
SON OF A TAILOR — SON OF A TAILOR is a Denmark-based company that provides its clients with customized T-shirt tailoring services. The company is based in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden.

Natalia Mikhailovna Vodianova, nicknamed Supernova, is a Russian model, philanthropist and occasional film actress. She is well known for her rags to riches life story and for her eight-season, seven-figure contract with Calvin Klein.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Wellness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

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SOULA — Account-based Marketing
DECREE Skincare — DECREE Skincare is a dermatologist skin care brand.

Steffen Zoller - Founder & CEO @ Care With Care

Investment focus

Health Care, E-Commerce, Beauty
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Grovy — Grovy is a q-commerce & grocery delivery provider. Customer order via App or Web and get the order delivered within 10 minutes. The company was founded in Dec 2020 and headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany.
marta — German Version below:marta offers a market place for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. We believe that, on the one hand everyone has the right to receive appropriate care and to age with dignity and on the other hand caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.We are working on software solutions toconnect caregivers with families across Europe and we support both parties during the entire process. In our own families we have seen that the current market is characterized by non-transparent services and does not deliver adequate quality. It is out mission to change that.That is why we at marta pursue the goal of making things better by applying our software solutions to fundamentally rebuilding the "24-hour" care market.Deutsche Version:marta bietet einen Marketplatz für Familien, pflegebedürftige Menschen und europäische Pflegekräfte. Aus unserer Sicht, hat zum einen jede/r das Recht darauf, angemessene Pflege zu erhalten und in Würde zu altern und zum anderen sollten Pflegekräfte unter fairen Bedingungen ihre Arbeit machen können.Wir arbeiten an dem Bau von Softwarelösungen, um Pflegekräfte mit Familien in ganz Europa zu verbinden und während der Betreuung zu begleiten. In unseren eigenen Familien haben wir gesehen, dass der derzeitige Markt von intransparenten Dienstleistungen geprägt ist und keine angemessene Qualität liefert.Deswegen verfolgen wir bei marta das Ziel, es durch unsere Softwarelösungen besser zu machen und den Markt der "24-Stunden" Pflege grundlegend neu aufzubauen.
Media4Care — Media4Care developed special media services for the care of seniors with cognitive impairments. In 2013, the first multimedia activation program Media dementia was developed in collaboration with doctors, professors and therapists. Using Media dementia care staff should be supported in the activation and employment of people with dementia. Themedia offer consists of illness for just movies, songs and games that can be used via an interactive online library.

Founder and Partner of Findasense, expert in digital transformation, marketing and entrepreneurship. Findasense, a global Customer Experience company with three business areas: innovation consultancy, experience factory and technology integrator with more than 300 employees and presence in 12 countries. Consultant in digital transformation ofmultinational companies with more than 15 years of experience in Digitalization of sectors, omnichannel consumer experiences, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and digital marketing. It has a deep and multidimensional knowledge of the consumer in more than 10 industries, obtained by working as a partner of companies such as: L'Oreal, The Coca-Cola Company, Kimberly Clark, FOX, Huawei, Warner, Lenovo, Banco Santander, Electronic Arts , IE Business School, Orange, Bayer, Bimbo, among others. He is the author of What robot has my cheese taken? in which he explains that new technologies do not have to be the enemy, and where it is discovered that the alliance betw

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

HolaPepa — Reserva tratamientos de belleza a domicilio y disfruta la nueva forma de cuidarte en casa. Pide tu cita en casa con HolaPepa.

studied Economics and Law at Albrecht-Ludwigs University in Freiburg and at Cologne University.At the Treuhandanstalt in Berlin he worked on the restructuring and privatisation of medium-sized stakeholdings. At Doertenbach & Co. GmbH, Frankfurt, he was employed as Corporate Finance Consultant and assisted mid-sized businesses and theirowners, in particular, in their strategic acquisitions and divestments. All in all, he participated in more than 150 successful transactions. Michael Moritz is a consultant to the Mittelstandsbeirat of KfW Group and is a member of the Federal Association of Owner Managed and Family Enterprises (ASU).

Investment focus

Beauty
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

OYESS Beauty — OYESS Beauty provides sustainable, natural lip care and beauty products with selected organic ingredients.

Dominik Richter is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at HelloFresh. In 2011, Richter, alongside co-founders Thomas Griesel and Jessica Nilsson, moved to Berlin to start a company together. After looking at different business models and industries, Richter said they quickly set their eyes on the grocery space. Dominik has passion forEntreprenuership, building great companies and the Internet.Sports guy (Soccer mostly)Great interest in trading, nutrition, fitness, health, politics and economics.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Cloud Data Services, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
Honeycomb — Honeycomb is a software debugging tool that can help you solve problems faster within your distributed services. Try Honeycomb for free today!
Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.

Denis Fayolle is the Co-founder & Board Member at Seed & Seeds.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Angel, Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Singulart — At Singulart, They are convinced that the digital space is an invaluable tool for bringing transparency and equity to the art market.They provide artists with the tools that enable them to independently manage the sale of their works. Their team is working around the clock, committing their energy to promoting Singulart artists to a globalaudience.In showcasing artists around the world, they also hope to allow art lovers and collectors alike to explore new artistic horizons, to embrace new cultures and to be inspired by the works of talented artists that they never would have come across if it wasn't for Singulart.
Next Station — Next Station is a smart recruiting platform.
Adrenaline Hunter — Adrenaline Hunter offers an online marketplace that makes it super simple for users to search, compare and book adrenaline sports and unique adventure travel experiences around the world.

Edwin Okyere is a team member at @RE SKIN COSMETICS.

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Styleindi — Styleindi, the scalp-first expert, is your ultimate destination for hair care. We understand that without a healthy scalp, all other hair care efforts are ineffective. That's why our simple and effective system focuses on prioritizing scalp health that works for all hair textures and types.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
Fabric — A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. Your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links and files automatically gathered into one intelligent home. The world's first AI-native universal storage.

Sharmadean Reid - Chief Executive Officer @ The Stack World

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Debt Financing
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ruka — We celebrate Black women and create hair products designed with real textures in mind.
Yonder — A modern lifestyle credit card packed with rewards, no foreign exchange fees, and loads more. Apply without needing a UK credit score.

Ferran Ferrer Perea is the CEO at Emagister. Ferran attended ESIC Business & Marketing School.

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

HolaPepa — Reserva tratamientos de belleza a domicilio y disfruta la nueva forma de cuidarte en casa. Pide tu cita en casa con HolaPepa.

Rob Small - Founder @ Miniclip

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Beauty
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Basket — Basket lets you keep track of things you want to buy, automatically finding the best prices, saving you time and money. Say hello to your new shopping companion.
JENA — JENA is building the "Shopify for service professionals", starting with personal care. The company is on a mission to empower Solopreneurs to thrive on their own terms with radically simple business tools. JENA provides Solopreneurs with an Operating System (OS) providing them a full tech-stack: website, AI-powered booking system,payments, CRM, marketing, and e-commerce in one app.
MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.

Nicole Crentsil is the CEO at Black Girl Fest.

Investment focus

Personal Health, Beauty, Retail
Pre-Seed, Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Yuty — The inclusive, conscious beauty destination powered by AI. YUTY helps you find the right beauty products, that will work for you, without the guesswork!
Ruka — We celebrate Black women and create hair products designed with real textures in mind.
Afrocenchix — Award-winning Afro Hair Care with natural, ethical ingredients. Shop safe, effective, natural products. Get sustainably produced shampoo, conditioner, moisturisers & oils.

Pankaj Chaddah is the Co-Founder of Shyft. Pankaj graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering from IIT Delhi in 2007.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fitness, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, France, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

sheerME — SheerME is Revolutionising the way people find, book, and pay for their Wellness and Beauty services powered by a benefit-based walletOur approach is based on Discovery, Transaction & Reward to create more online visibility, reach, conversion into new business, loyalty, and frequency through our wallet and cashback ecosystem, to all ourpartners in the beauty and wellness sectors.This made us a fresh and different option in this sector where there are mainly SaaS players, and we bring marketplace with no monthly fee, only a commission for business sent through our owned and partner channels.
Yoho — Yoho manufactures orthopaedic lightweight footwear.
Clean Electric — Clean Electric builds Lithium-Ion Batteries with Liquid Immersion Cooling. Fast Charge. Long Life. Unparalleled Safety.

Cornelia Hoppe

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Beauty
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

eaze — At eaze, we are on the mission to democratise good sleep! With 1/3 of people suffering from sleep problems and prescription sleep medication as the current go-to solution, we set out to change this by offering the first digital sleep training. Based on cognitive behavioural therapy, your personal sleep psychologist guides you through anindividualised sleep training that helps you to sleep better for good.
Kalia Lab — Kalia Lab offers cosmetic and skin care services.
Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.

Andrew Grahame is a Founder at The Cook & The Thief.He attended St Austell College.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Jellyfish — We are the industry leaders in the creation of high-performance, multi-language ecommerce content. Learn more about our expertise in Ecommerce Content.
Shopological — Shopological is a website and mobile app focusing on men’s and women’s fashion, beauty, and lifestyle as well as providing access to sales and promotional updates aggregated from more than 1,400 fashion and beauty retailers.Registered members receive personalized email reminders whenever their favorite shops or brands have a sale or promotion,allowing them priority access to sell products.Shopological has received The IBM People's Choice Award 2014 and The RBS EnterprisingU Award 2012. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Albert Armengol took up his MBA at Esade.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Apps, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Moonoa — Moonoa is a developer of an online platform to help people sleep better.
WOODEA — Constructora industrializada de edificios en madera. Reducimos incertidumbre y plazos de manera sostenible y digital.
Banktrack — Banktrack provides All the bank movements by Email, WhatsApp, or your favorite channel.

Andrew Webster

Investment focus

Beauty, Credit, FinTech
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Slick — Stress-free salon software built by professionals like you to save you time and grow your business
Subsy — Supply teaching jobs in primary schools near you. Get paid more and work to your own schedule. Airsupply make it easy to find a teaching job
Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.

David Pritchard serves as an advisor of Hassle.com. David was Founder and Managing Director of OpenTable Europe. David has enjoyed a 30 year transatlantic career as a senior operating executive in primarily US based software before becoming an angel investor.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Feedr — Probieren Sie Deutschlands Top Catering Service | EatFirst
Allegrow — Allegrow is the #1 inbox placement platform, we're helping more of your emails land in the primary inbox, not spam or unfocused folders.
JENA — JENA is building the "Shopify for service professionals", starting with personal care. The company is on a mission to empower Solopreneurs to thrive on their own terms with radically simple business tools. JENA provides Solopreneurs with an Operating System (OS) providing them a full tech-stack: website, AI-powered booking system,payments, CRM, marketing, and e-commerce in one app.

Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.

Investment focus

News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Italy, France

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

reebuild — Mit reebuild verwandeln Sie chaotische Papierberge in strategische Informationen.
Storebox — Storebox is the first fully digitized self-storage solution in Europe, with more than 140 locations in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and Luxembourg. We offer storage spaces for private and business purposes, which are automatically accessible at any time. With our successful and recently awarded franchise system, we manage to grow and will continueto expand within Europe.Storebox is more than just a self-storage system. FULL-SERVICE CLICK & COLLECT Click & Collect directly in your neighbourhood? Storebox allows you to quickly and easily expand the Click & Collect offer for your customers to new districts, cities and countries. We coordinate the transport and customer communication for you.MICRO-HUBS FOR THE LAST MILE Use central warehouse locations in urban areas as a starting point for the last mile. Storebox as a micro-depot offers you the fastest way to your customers, allowing you to save time, money and emissions. Customer proximity and responsiveness through local storage: Benefit from our strategically positioned storage units and serve the needs of your customers as quickly as possible. At the same time, you can reduce unnecessarily driven kilometres by your employees in the field and thus save time and money.SPARE PARTS WAREHOUSE FOR SERVICE TECHNICIANS With Storebox you can store spare parts and goods directly where they will be used. In this way, you are in close proximity to the customer and save yourself long travel times for collecting the materials from a central warehouse. Create more efficiency by receiving deliveries of goods 24/7 directly to the Storebox and returning them if necessary.
Ada Growth — Deine Mentorin in der Tasche. Gewinne, binde und entfalte die Potenziale der weiblichen Talente in deinem Unternehmen.

Angelo Moratti studied at Columbia University in New York City. He is currently Vice-Chairman of Saras SpA, the largest refinery company in the Mediterranean. He is Vice-Chairman and member of the Executive Committee of Special Olympics International. Founder and former Chairman of Sarlux - a company that built and managed an electrical powerstation with capacity of 550 MW (1996/2002). He was member of the Board of Inter Milan Football Club from 1995 to 2013 and Board Member of Olimpia Milano basketball club sponsored by Armani Jeans (2003/2008). He was Chairman of Associazione Dino Ferrari, which focuses on research for neurological diseases (2000/2005). He has been involved in Venture Capital investing since 1996, when he founded telecom company ePlanet which went public in 2000.

Investment focus

iOS, Beauty, Mobile
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Applix — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Skinlabo — Our mission is to make high-quality skincare accessible to everyone. We are disrupting the beauty industry with our unique value proposition (High-Quality Cosmetics for Everyone = High Quality Products, 100% made in Italy for less than 15 euro + High-Quality Service, with beauty consultants available 24/7) as well as a fully digital businessmodel (leveraging customer acquisition and retention rates well above the market benchmark).

Javier was co-founder and Executive Chairman of Cluster Consulting, until its sale to Diamond Technology Partners in 2000 to create DiamondCluster, where he was the Chairman for Europe and Latin America up until 2003.He was also a co-founder, substantial investor and the Executive Chairman of Nauta Capital, a venture capital fund based inBarcelona with offices in Boston and London and investments in both Europe and the United States. For instance, he led the investment in Social Point, where he is also the Chairman.Javier holds a degree in Telecommunications from the University of Barcelona and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Restaurants, Enterprise Applications
Series A, Seed, Series C
Spain

Portfolio highlights

VICIO — VICIO is a cloud kitchen operator who sells burgers through their online store. The company's platform provides quality burgers cooked to particular requests, french fries, and various beverages, allowing burger fans to order and enjoy their favorite burgers.
Jeff — Jeff is a company created in 2015 by Eloi Gómez, Adrián Lorenzo and Rubén Muñoz, three Spanish entrepreneurs. It started as a home laundry and dry-cleaning app, but is currently in an expansion process in which, in addition to laundry service, different day-to-day services are added such as hairdressing and beauty, fitness and massages, becomingthe first international omnichannel ecosystem of day-to-day services. It is available to anyone who wants to invest or undertake the necessary solutions to launch their own business under the business lines of the Jeff brand.
Pangea — Pangea is a travel store with an innovative and disruptive concept in the tourism sector that brings together countries in one place. Pangea is an omnichannel travel agency that was born with the aim of revolutionizing a sector that until now had not evolved much. Pangea has a reference store in Madrid of more than 1,500 m2 that includes acafeteria, specialized bookshop and thematic selling areas with expert advisors in each destination. This specialized advisory service offered by Pangea, together with its differential product range, has allowed it to exceed the figure of 9 million euros of sales in its first year of life. Pangea has incorporated new investors to replicate the success of its business model with the opening of new stores in different cities and strengthen its online business strategy.Pangea was founded on 2014 and is headquartered in Madrid, Spain.

Nikolay Piskunov is an investor.

Investment focus

SaaS, Beauty, Wellness
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Glambook — Open the variety of beauty and wellness services. Find any desired specialist easy and convenient.

Brent Hoberman is chairman and co-founder of Founders Factory, an ambitious corporate backed incubator/accelerator based in London, and also of Founders Forum, a series of intimate annual global events for the leading entrepreneurs of today and the rising stars of tomorrow. Brent is a co-founder and was founding chairman of Smartup, Grip &made.com, a leading European direct-from-factory consumer homewares retailer. Most recently, Brent co-founded Firstminute Capital, a London-based pan-European seed fund, backed by some of the world's top entrepreneurs. Brent co-founded lastminute.comin April 1998, was CEO from its inception and sold it in 2005 to Sabre for $1.1bn. Technology businesses he has co-founded have raised over $500m. Brent sits on the Advisory board for LetterOne Technology (a $16bn investment fund), the Oxford Foundry and the UK Government Digital Advisory Board. He is a board member of The Economist, a YGL and one of the Prime Minister's Business Trade Ambassadors. Brent was awarded a CBE for services to entrepreneurship in the 2015 New Year's Honour's List.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

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.
Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
Framework — Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school, radically reimagined for them. Born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, we’ve worked with over 100+ operators—across product, growth, ops, people, data, engineering & design, from some of the world's most innovative companiesincluding Monzo, Babylon, Bulb & Depop—to pioneer a new model of lifelong learning.

Laura joined Balderton's investment team in 2018. She spent the previous three years advising technology startups across industries to develop and implement their fundraising and launch strategies as well as their financial and operational structure, in sectors ranging from online retail to healthcare and fintech.Laura was at Goldman Sachsfor five years, first in the Investment Management Division and subsequently the Financial Institutions Group in M&A.Laura undertook neuroscience research in the Brain Sciences Department of Imperial College's Faculty of Medicine. She was a Fulbright Scholar and gained her MBA from Harvard, and she studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford.Laura speaks fluent English and French and her primary focus is later stage investing with the Liquidity I fund.

Investment focus

Beauty, Medical, mHealth
Pre-Seed, Series B, Series C
Denmark, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
Sourcerie — Make bolder & faster decisions with an always-on connection to your customers
Pelago — Quit Genius is the world’s first digital clinic for treating nicotine, alcohol and opioid addictions. Built on the evidence-based approach of Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT), Quit Genius combines virtual cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) with approved medication and connected devices to help employers and health plans tackle the high cost ofaddiction, while improving the lives of their employees and members.

Claire Cherry is the Investment Partner at Ataraxia & Joyance.

Investment focus

Beauty, Fashion, Women's
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

BEDFOLK — Luxury bedding made ethically in the world's best mills and sold at a fraction of the traditional retail price.
Sourcerie — Make bolder & faster decisions with an always-on connection to your customers
Luna Daily — Microbiome balancing body care for all skin, even your most intimate. Head, vulva, knees and toes. Vegan, dermatologist-approved, and eco-friendly skincare for all skin types. On a mission to connect women of all ages and stages to each other and their entire bodies.

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
Candix — Get set up in 3 minutes. It's free and confidential.
Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.

Lawyer-turned-Entrepreneur-turned-Investor/Advisor

Investment focus

Beauty, FinTech, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

JENA — JENA is building the "Shopify for service professionals", starting with personal care. The company is on a mission to empower Solopreneurs to thrive on their own terms with radically simple business tools. JENA provides Solopreneurs with an Operating System (OS) providing them a full tech-stack: website, AI-powered booking system,payments, CRM, marketing, and e-commerce in one app.
Helio — Boost e-commerce and NFT sales with Helio's instant and low-fee crypto payments available on any website or app and easy integrations on Shopify and WooCommerce.
Collectiv Food — Collectiv Food is a next generation food supplier, helping professional kitchens through increased reliability, cost savings, and greater sustainability.

CEO & Co-Founder of Wolf & Badger.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Beauty
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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Ometria — Create unforgettable customer experiences on every channel, powered by AI. Meet Ometria: the CDXP tailor-made for retail brands.
JENA — JENA is building the "Shopify for service professionals", starting with personal care. The company is on a mission to empower Solopreneurs to thrive on their own terms with radically simple business tools. JENA provides Solopreneurs with an Operating System (OS) providing them a full tech-stack: website, AI-powered booking system,payments, CRM, marketing, and e-commerce in one app.

Tom Adeyoola is Founder of Metail Limited until Chief Executive Officer.Tom Adeyoola spent more than ten years in various senior strategy and product development roles helping start-ups to devise and implement new business models and products. His career has spanned new media from Sportal to 3 and most recently Inspired Gaming Group where he servedas Head of Gaming. Tom Adeyoola is an Economics graduate from Cambridge.

Investment focus

Beauty, Retail, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Ruka — We celebrate Black women and create hair products designed with real textures in mind.
SPOKE — Music and lyricism-led mindfulness, aimed at helping the world's most creative minds feel at ease.

Harry Blain

Investment focus

Beauty
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DECREE Skincare — DECREE Skincare is a dermatologist skin care brand.

Jeff Kwarteng Jacobsen is an african german young leader in business.

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Styleindi — Styleindi, the scalp-first expert, is your ultimate destination for hair care. We understand that without a healthy scalp, all other hair care efforts are ineffective. That's why our simple and effective system focuses on prioritizing scalp health that works for all hair textures and types.

Ingo Weber - Founder and CEO @ Carcharodon Capital

Investment focus

Beauty, Fitness, InsurTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

emplu — 360° benefit and compensation platform
YAS.life — YAS.life develops digital health services for health insurance companies, insurance companies and corporate health management companies.Our Mission: Change Habits! We support users and employees in permanently integrating health-conscious behaviour into their everyday lives. We have already successfully positioned ourselves in our target marketwith our motivation app YAS.
GRENION Group — Grenion is a focus on startups and pre-seed investments in the beauty & health sector.

Morten Strunge is the current Co-Founder of Nexta.io. He previously worked at Storytel AB as a Board Member.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Beauty
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

UXCam — UXCam is an experience analytics solution for mobile apps. Session Replay, Heatmaps, Funnel Analytics and Quantitative Analytics make UXCam a complete enterprise analytics solution for deeply understanding user behavior.
Goodiebox — Goodiebox is an online cosmetic company that provides cosmetics and beauty products. It has developed a subscription business selling cosmetics and beauty products to women in the 15-35 years old range. They give both large international brands and smaller niche brands the opportunity to market their products directly to a specific target groupthat is interested in their products.The company mission is to create relationships between the beauty and cosmetics brands and consumers. It also distributes a box of cosmetics including products of various brands to women.Goodiebox was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Copenhagen S, Capital Region, Denmark.
SON OF A TAILOR — SON OF A TAILOR is a Denmark-based company that provides its clients with customized T-shirt tailoring services. The company is based in Copenhagen, Hovedstaden.

Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier is the CEO of iBanFirst. He previously worked at Saxo Bank as a Head of Western Europe. Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier attended the University of Westminster.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Bastion — Bastion is a cloud-based cyber security platform that is built to scale with security, compliance, insurance, and risk management needs.
Roundtable — The community-led platform for private market investments. Create or join a community to co-invest in premium start-ups and funds, seamlessly.
FREELAND FOR CORPORATES — Corporate Online Schoo

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.

Dora Osinde

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Styleindi — Styleindi, the scalp-first expert, is your ultimate destination for hair care. We understand that without a healthy scalp, all other hair care efforts are ineffective. That's why our simple and effective system focuses on prioritizing scalp health that works for all hair textures and types.

Nils Glagau

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Personal Health
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Austria, United States

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.
BIOTherma-Pad — BIOTherma-Pad is a completely biological cooling pad made of seaweed rather than the typical chemicals; it may cool little children's injuries or offer warmth if needed.
Taste Religion — Taste Religion offers plant-based products that are devoid of toxic ingredients and allow to quickly create restaurant-quality cuisine.

Chris is a Managing Partner at L Catterton, the world's leading consumer growth investor with US$20B assets under management, where he co-leads the Growth Fund. He focuses on growth-stage consumer technology businesses in the US, Europe, and the UK. The L Catterton team previously scaled today's consumer tech leaders (Amazon, Shopify,Lazada, Shutterfly, Peloton, Vroom, Better Mortgage, ClassPass, and more) and brings their experience to support entrepreneurs building tomorrow's leading companies. He is also an active angel investor and serves on the boards of several non-profits in arts and education. Previously, Chris led Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY) as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors from May 2016 through the sale to Apollo Global Management in 2019. Under his leadership, over the three years from 2015 to 2018, Shutterfly doubled revenues to $2 billion, doubled free cash flow, and increased operating income ten-fold.Prior to joining Shutterfly, Chris served as Managing Director of Amazon UK and co-led Amazon across Europe for six years, after leading Amazon’s UK Media businesses for four years. Amazon UK grew to almost $10 billion in GAAP revenue over this 10-year period, a 14-fold increase. Before joining Amazon, he worked in publishing as Global Managing Director of Phaidon Press, as Chief Operating Officer of HarperCollins Canada, and as Vice President & General Manager of Electronic Publishing for HarperCollins Publishers. He began his career as a management consultant with the media & entertainment practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton.In addition to his operating roles, Chris serves in leadership roles in several not-for-profit organizations. He is a director of Character Lab, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the science and practice of character development in order to help children thrive; a member of the Board of Visitors of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; a member of the Collections Committee and Director's Circle of the Harvard University Art Museums; and President of the American Friends of the Royal Collection. He and his wife also actively support the Domaine de Chantilly, the Wallace Collection, and the Attingham Trust. Chris is an active angel investor, having made more than 40 investments in early-stage companies. He enjoys mentoring, working with a number of technology entrepreneurs and serving as a Strategic Advisor to Forto.Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard College and a master’s degree in Philosophy from New York University. Chris and his wife have three young children and divide their time between London and France. Born and raised in New York, Chris is a dual US/British national.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, B2B
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Graswald — Graswald engages in the creation of natural and digital 3D worlds for the entertainment industry.
Fabrikatör - Virtual Head of Operations — Forecast, plan and execute your inventory operations with Fabrikator. Free up capital, buy less, sell more and grow faster. Start your 14 days free trial now!
Floodlight — Track finances, make smarter decisions, and increase revenue. Think business accounts, cards, payments and cashback, all-in-one.

Irène Kilubi is a visionary at heart and an entrepreneur in spirit. She is a strategy expert for digital personal branding, start-up consultant and innovation scout all in one. A power woman with vision - creative approaches and the necessary motivation boost at the right time ensure her amazing success rate. She spent several years in companiessuch as BMW, Siemens and Deloitte. For four years now she has been anchored in the startup and online scene, tracking down trends, implementing strategies, target group-specific go-to-market, and branding strategies. She is also an Expert Advisor at the European Innovation Council of the European Commission. She believes in the unique and unmistakable diversity that lies within all of us.

Investment focus

Beauty, Wellness, Cosmetics
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Styleindi — Styleindi, the scalp-first expert, is your ultimate destination for hair care. We understand that without a healthy scalp, all other hair care efforts are ineffective. That's why our simple and effective system focuses on prioritizing scalp health that works for all hair textures and types.

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