# Top 50 Biotechnology Angel Investors in Germany in June 2026

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services

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

## Andrew Keys
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Finance, Blockchain

Andrew Keys is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Andrew Keys. He previously worked for ConsenSys as a Head of Global Business Development. Andrew Keys attended Loyola University Maryland.

## Rolf Schromgens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology

Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts

## Thor Bjorgolfsson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Big Data, TV, B2B

Thor Bjorgolfsson - Entrepreneur, Businessman and Adventure Capitalist Thor Bjorgolfsson, Iceland’s first and only current billionaire, is an investor and business innovator who is not afraid of risk. He has been an entrepreneur since childhood, making his first deal at the age of 10, when he purchased a stack of vintage Marvel comics withborrowed money.In 2004, he founded Novator Partners, an alternative investment firm. He has strategically developed the company to allow it to maintain maximum flexibility as well as to facilitate investments in both strategic (buy and hold) and financial (buy and exit) opportunities.With Novator, Thor leverages private equity as well as macro investments and manages assets across a variety of sectors and geographic locations. He is an active investor in emerging economies including Central and Eastern Europe as well as Latin America.Novator Partners has been a major player in telecom businesses. Thor is a stakeholder in a Polish telecom company called Play, which went public in 2017. In addition, he holds shares in WOM, a Chilean telecommunications firm.Bjorgolfsson’s first fortune was made in post-soviet Russia. At a time when others perceived Russia to be tumultuous, he saw an underserved market that presented an exciting opportunity to invest in great ideas and businesses. He co-founded and developed Bravo Brewery, which produced beer and alcopops. Bravo became one of Russia’s premier brewing companies, particularly through its popular Botchkarov beer brand. Thor sold the business in 2002 to Heineken for $100 million.With the sale of Bravo, he was able to diversify his holdings by reinvesting in new ventures, focusing on telecommunications, pharmaceuticals, and banks. In a few years, he was able to turn that $100 million into a net worth of over $2.1 billion.A year after being featured on the 2007 cover of Forbes Magazine, Iceland went nearly bankrupt overnight and Thor found himself at the epicenter of the financial crisis. As a major shareholder in Landsbanki with personal guarantees of 350m euro, he refused to declare bankruptcy and eventually succeeded in paying off all of it. He then went on to invest in new businesses, re-establishing himself and being featured on the Forbes list of billionaires once again.During this time of rejuvenation, he wrote Billions to Bust and Back: How I Made, Lost and Rebuilt a Fortune, And What I Learned on the Way (2014). In the book, he shares his perspective of what it was like to be at the center of the storm and how he made it back to financial success. He proposes that the greatest strength an entrepreneur can possess is a positive attitude.The 52-year-old Thor was educated in the United States where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree from New York University. In 2005, he was honored as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. In spite of his intense schedule, Thor enjoys sharing his experience and business insight, making him a sought-after speaker. A multilingual Icelandic citizen, Thor spends most of his time in London, living with his wife and three children. Thor's personal passion is his collection of six motorcycles, which he rides whenever time permits.

## Sten Tamkivi
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Manufacturing

Sten Tamkivi is the Chief Product Officer at Topia (formerly MOVE Guides). He was previously co-founder and CEO of Teleport (acquired by Topia), the place to scout for startup people. He co-founded the company as an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz.Sten has been a tech entrepreneur since 1996. After founding a few companies in Estonia, he joined Skypeas an early executive, ran the original R&D office, and held several global product leadership roles for 8+ years.He has an MS in Management from Stanford GSB.

## Albert Wenger
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Internet

Albert Wenger is a managing partner at Union Square Ventures. Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company. Albert graduatedfrom Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT.

## Nico Wittenborn
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Apps, Wellness

Nico Wittenborn is an Investor at Adjacent.

## Detlev Riesner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Pharmaceutical, Health Care

Prof. Riesner has held the Chair of Biophysics at the Heinrich-Heine-University in Düsseldorf, Germany since 1980 and is Director of Technology at the University of Düsseldorf. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Braunschweig, Germany. Prof. Riesner is also a member of the Supervisory Board and a Director of Qiagen N.V., Netherlands.

## Michael Novogratz
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

Michael E. Novogratz is based out of New York, New York, and is the Founder and CEO of Galaxy Digital. Michael previously served at Partner and President of Fortress Investment Group. Michael E. Novogratz attended Princeton University.

## Holger Hübner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Audio

Holger Hübner

## Oliver Jung
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet

Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight.

## Andrea Dusi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Verona, Veneto, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, CleanTech

Entrepreneur and investor.
After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.

## Simon Josefsson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Sports, Consumer Goods

Simon Josefsson

## Ugur Samut
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Fashion, Fitness

Ugur Samut - Co-Founder & Board Member @ Gorillas

## Stefan Lemcke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Eyewear, Fashion

Stefan Lemcke is the Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Ankerkraut.

## 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.

## Stephen Weich
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Food Processing

Stephen Weich

## Manuel Grossmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Biotechnology

Manuel Grossmann Founding Partner at Amino Collective VC. He attended Columbia Business School.

## Nikolaus Sturm
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Life Science, Biotechnology

Nikolaus Sturm

## Michael Diehl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Big Data, Internet

Michael Diehl is a Partner at Activa Capital. Michael Diehl co-founded the firm and is also responsible for the investor relations and co-investments. Prior to founding the firm, he was a Director of French equities at UBS Warburg and worked as a French Equity Specialist at Bankers Trust Paris. Michael Diehl founded and was also a Director ofFrench Equity Sales and Analysis at Nomura Bourse. Formerly, he was a French Equity Analyst at Kleinwort Benson and established the Paris-based Equity Research Department. Michael Diehl has over 20 years of private equity and capital markets experience. He has particular expertise in the corporate and financial services sectors. Michael Diehl holds an M.B.A. from the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris (ESCP) and is a graduate (Sciences Commerciales et Industrielles) of the University of Geneva.

## Nitin Sharma
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, Information Technology

For the last 10+ years, I've had the rare fortune of working with world-class entrepreneurs - as a venture or angel investor, startup team member or growth advisor - in the US and in India. Experience:
US VC - Investor @ NEA
India VC - Principal & Founding Member @ Lightbox (ex. Kleiner Perkins India and Sherpalo) 
Startup ops in the US- VP, Bus Dev and early employee @ EverFi (one of the largest edtech networks globally)
Startup ops in India - Key leadership responsibilities related to 4 Lightbox companiesCurrently, I am especially spending a large portion of my time on blockchain startups and cryptocurrencies. INVESTING: Lots of learnings from working on early to growth stage investments.
US: Millennial Media (IPO, acq. by AOL), OPOWER (IPO, acq. by Oracle), Gilt Groupe (acq. by Saks / Hudson Bay), ChannelAdvisor (IPO), AddThis (acq. by Oracle), EverFi, Suniva, Videology, Credibase, new crypto and blockchain projects
India: Droom, Melorra, Paymate, Zoomin, Stalkbuylove, Fynd, The Better India, Mech MochaSTARTUP OPERATIONS: Hands-on experience in both hyper-growth and turnaround situations. 
Wore a few hats as an early employee and head of BD at EverFi (one of the largest edtech networks globally having served 16MM students and raised $250MM), led strategic finance projects for NEA companies Suniva and AddThis, and interned at InMobi. Owned or helped solve problems across strategy, M&A, senior hiring, int'l expansion and fundraising while working closely with management at Droom, Melorra, Paymate and Zoomin

## Tom Stafford
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Tom is a Co-Founder at DST Global, an internet-focused investment firm with a global focus.

## Sven Fund
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Publishing, Digital Media, Information Technology

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

## Christopher Isak
- Type: Angel
- Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Local, Computer

Christopher Isak - Founder @ TechAcute

## Fiona Pathiraja
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Wellness

Fiona is Managing Partner at Crista Galli Ventures, an early stage healthtech VC fund based in London and Copenhagen.

## Barbara Korte-Sturm
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Life Science, Biotechnology

Barbara Korte-Sturm

## 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.

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Wido Fath
- Type: Angel
- Location: Spalt, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Chemical, Biotechnology, Manufacturing

Wido Fath

## Balaji Srinivasan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC.

## Jochen Berger
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Banking, FinTech

Jochen Berger

## Jürgen Schumacher
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Pharmaceutical

Jürgen Schumacher is a renowned entrepreneur. Jürgen co-founded QIAGEN in 1984 and served as member of Quiagen´s management board until 1993. Later he co-founded Evotec, Vivoscience, Algiax Pharmaceuticals as well as other biotech and life science companies. Jürgen has more than 35 years experience in the industry and is a member of numerousbiotech associations and is a consultant for the biotechnology activities of North Rhine Westphalia.

## Christoph Behn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Advanced Materials

Christoph Behn is the Chairman & Founder of better ventures. He previously worked at Die Kartenmacherei as an Advisory Board & Founder. Christoph Behn attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

## Ina Schlie
- Type: Angel
- Location: Walldorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Learning, SaaS, Chemical

Ina Schlie serves as co-chair of the female investor network encourage ventures.

## Andreas Kupke
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Drones, EdTech, GovTech

Andreas Kupke is the COO at Finanzcheck.de.

## Moritz Heininger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Fashion, Blockchain

Advising and investing in (pre)seed startups around the world – focusing on go-to-market, B2B sales, internationalization, and company culture.Investments include Keen4Greens (keen4greens.com), HEAT (heat.io), Biovox (biovox.systems), Clearpool (clearpool.finance)I am currently building DiscoEat/ DIDIT.
With DIDIT, we are digitizing theway guests pay at restaurants. Within 15 seconds, guests can split and pay their bill, tip, leave a Google review and their email address. DIDIT is 100% customizable to the brand of the restaurant.Career Path:
- Consultant - Bain & Company.
- Managing Director DACH - Tink Labs/ handy/ hi.com (B2B hospitality tech).
- COO - Anchanto.com - Asia's leading eCommerce selling & logistics tech platform.
- ManagingDirector - foodpanda (Delivery Hero, formerly Rocket Internet) in Hong Kong and JakartaPersonal:
- Fun things I love: Traveling, Reading, Podcasts, Crossfit, Wake Surfing, Dogs
- Businesses I love: Food Tech, Restaurant Tech, web3, platform companies
- Tasks I love: Company building, Culture building, Organizational development, B2B Sales

## Kağan Sümer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Fashion

Kağan Sümer is the CEO and co-founder of Gorillas.

## Mario Götze
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

## Moritz Kloss
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Food Processing

Moritz Kloss

## Michel Lurquin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: News, Life Science, Social Media

Michel Lurquin

## Aaron Kimball
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Data Integration, Software Engineering

Aaron Kimball is the Head of Engineering, Applications, at Benchling.

## Toni Kroos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Rental, Fitness

Toni Kroos is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid.

## Ali Ciger
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Machine Learning

Ali is the Head of Vaccines for Pfizer Germany. He was previously part of the global rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. 
He is investing at early stage Digital Health startups, being part of Sprinboard Health Angels (www.springboardangels.com).
He is also a Newton Fellow, the joint program of London Business School and Local Globe.

## Will·I. Am
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Medical, Cannabis

Will·I·Am is an artists and individual investor.

## Dennis Aogo
- Type: Angel
- Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Cannabis, Software

Dennis Aogo is a German former professional footballer.

## Klaas Heufer-Umlauf
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: B2C, Medical, Cannabis

Klaas Heufer-Umlauf is a TV moderator.

## Steffen Behn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Food Processing

Steffen Behn

## Ludwig Cramer-Klett
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food Processing, Biotechnology, Food and Beverage

Ludwig Cramer-Klett is an Entrepreneur and Investor.

## Alyssa Milano
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Retail, Sports, Fashion

Alyssa Milano is an American actress, producer, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. She is best known for portraying Samantha Micelli on the ABC sitcom series Who's the Boss? (1984–1992), Jennifer Mancini on the Fox soap opera Melrose Place (1997–98), and Phoebe Halliwell on The WB television series Charmed. Milano is currently working withUNICEF to educate American youth to the issues crucial to that country's evolution. She launched UNICEF's pivotal "Trick or Treat" campaign last fall as an official spokesperson, and has plans to work with UNICEF on numerous projects in the future, with any and all proceeds returning to the organization.Milano also has her own clothing and jewelry line, TOUCH by Alyssa Milano. Recently she has joined forces with the NFL, NBA and NHL to make TOUCH available to fans of football, basketball and hockey as well.

## Ralf Meister
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Therapeutics, Biotechnology

Ralf Meister