Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Germany in May 2026
Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Germany in May 2026
| Investor | Blockchain Germany investments |
|---|---|
| Andrew Keys | 3 |
| Vel Kanniappan | 2 |
| Ravindra Kumar | 2 |
| Ryan Sean Adams | 1 |
| Janis Zech | 1 |
| Pranay Mohan | 1 |
| Rahul Sethuram | 1 |
| Eric Ebert | 1 |
| Sebastian Herzog | 1 |
| Florian Reike | 1 |
| Tim Draper | 1 |
| Florian von Bodman | 1 |
| Robert Maier | 1 |
| Jag Singh | 1 |
| Alex MacCaw | 1 |
| Jakob Schreyer | 1 |
| Charlie Songhurst | 1 |
| Ash Egan | 1 |
| Markus Ament | 1 |
| Jesse Clayburgh | 1 |
| George Burke | 1 |
| Hesham Zreik | 1 |
| Declan Kelly | 1 |
| Luis Cuende | 1 |
| Werner Geissler | 1 |
| Michael Pennington | 1 |
| Peter van Hardenberg | 1 |
| André Zimmermann | 1 |
| Valeria Kholostenko | 1 |
| Jaesung Park | 1 |
| Thomas Witt | 1 |
| Philipp Treuner | 1 |
| Sebastian Schmidt | 1 |
| Karan Ahuja | 1 |
| Roneil Rumburg | 1 |
| Vijay Michalik | 1 |
| Jason Choi | 1 |
| Jens Hewald | 1 |
| Mo Dong | 1 |
| Jutta Steiner | 1 |
| Trent McConaghy | 1 |
| Malte Pollmann | 1 |
| Andreas Bodczek | 1 |
| Marcus Erken | 1 |
| Nelson Holzner | 1 |
| Paul Forster | 1 |
| Anthony Sassano | 1 |
| Ahmed Al-Balaghi | 1 |
| Philippe Teixeira da Mota | 1 |
| Gregor Stuhler | 1 |
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Find investors — It's Free!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.
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- Software, Finance, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
- Zivoe Finance — Join Zivoe in disrupting predatory high-interest lending.
- Ithaca Finance — Ithaca Finance a cross-chain derivatives trading and settlements protocol, is composed of an on-chain settlement layer with an innovative off-chain matching engine.
Vel Kanniappan is the Senior Vice President – Finance, responsible for all global finance functions at NIUM.Vel Kanniappan is with UiPath as Vice President – Global Business & Finance Operations, responsible for the Commercial finance organization for the Asia Pacific, and is also a vital member of the global finance organization.Vel joinedTekion in 2017 at a very early stage when the organization had 20 employees. Being the only qualified finance professional in the organization, he was responsible for managing the global finance and operations (Global Facilities, Procurement, IT Infrastructure, SOC Certifications, Payroll, Compliances, etc.) in addition to product design and management. He was responsible for conceptualizing and building the finance modules for Tekion’s product offering, including designing wireframes and UX. He was involved in three rounds of funding and actively interacted with the investors during the funding and periodical reporting, which included Index Ventures, Storm Ventures, Airbus Ventures, General Motors, BMW i Ventures, Alliance Ventures, and few car dealerships in the Bay Area. Vel joined EMC Corporation in 2002. In a career spanning 15 years with EMC and its group companies, which included 9 years at VMware, Vel managed the Controllership for the Asia Pacific and also managed the global finance organization, which included an end to end ownership for Procure to Pay, T&E, General Ledger Accounting, Global Payroll (Except US), Accounts Receivable (Collections targets of close to $ 3 B per quarter). Vel was also the first employee of EMC and VMware in India and was responsible for growing their operations to 10,000+ employees in India. Vel managed a global team, including a shared services team of 250+ professionals.By qualification, Vel is a Certified Public Accountant from Arizona State-USA, Certified Management Accountant-USA, Certified Internal Auditor-USA, Project Management Professional-USA,He is also a Chartered Accountant-India, Cost & Management Accountant-India, Company Secretary-India, Bachelor of Law-India, Bachelor of Commerce-India.
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- Manufacturing, Payments, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- India, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Revoh — Electric vehicle powertrain manufacturing company primarily focused on 2 wheeler and 3 wheeler segment.
- Frigate — Frigate offers turnkey heavy steel structure fabrication and erection services in India, delivering durable and cost-effective solutions for B2B manufacturers. Reliable, efficient, and built to last.
- bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.
Ravindra Kumar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Frontier Wallet. He was formerly the CTO of InstaDApp and Woodstock, is a smart contract developer, an Android developer, and computing polyglot.
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- Blockchain, Ethereum, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round
- India, Germany, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- VELAR — VELAR is a Multi-Feature DeFi App with Bitcoin Finality.
- bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.
- Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.
Ryan Sean Adams
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
- Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
- Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.
Janis Zech is the Founder and CEO at Weflow.
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- B2B, Banking, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
- JOBOX.ai — JOBOX.ai is a B2B stealth mode AI startup disrupting the on-demand economy.
- Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.
Pranay Mohan is the Co-founder of Nomad.
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- FinTech, Finance, UX Design
- Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
Rahul Sethuram - Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners
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- FinTech, Finance, Ethereum
- Funding Round, Seed
- Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
- WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
- LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
Eric Ebert - Marketing and Communications Manager @ Zenkit
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- Internet, Software, Service Industry
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
- Wundertax — Wundertax provides online tax returns filing and related services.
- Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
Sebastian initiated and built the Lufthansa Innovation Hub GmbH in Berlin, where he pursues intensive collaboration with startups, develops creative and innovative travel-products and gets things done. The former positions held at Lufthansa include those of the Executive Assistant to the CEO of the Lufthansa Group and the Manager for Market &Fleet Development. Sebastian has spearheaded numerous internal innovation initiatives. He is increasingly looking at airlines as an open platform – both in terms of infrastructure and data – and is persistently rethinking the entire travel chain to make collaboration with startups more attractive and effective. Having founded his own company, Sebastian constantly moves between the corporate culture and the startup spirit. Additionally, he is a startup mentor; a speaker and a panellist at various events about future travel and innovation.
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- Web3, Security, Software
- Seed
- Germany
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- AuditOne — Looking for a smart contract audit? Look no further. AuditOne gathers qualified auditors providing quality and affordable smart contract audits.
Florian Reike is the Co-Founder at Advanced Blockchain AG.
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- FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Abel — Abel is a technology platform that helps you lend to your business customers, capable of full automation and underpinned by the latest in risk intelligence. Our digital service automates origination, credit decisioning, loan servicing and ongoing risk monitoring front-to-back.
- Forest Park — Your modern operating system for institutional lending, in T+1.
- Unblock — Unblock is building a free, white-labelled, instant and local on and off-ramp to stable cryptocurrencies.
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- BacAlt — Sustainable Bacterial Alernatives
- PickMyWork — Have a product for Indian Users or merchants? - Leave the headache of scaling up your product to PickMyWork.
- SignalRank — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.
Florian von Bodman is the CEO of Blue Lake Ventures.
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- Web3, Security, Software
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- AuditOne — Looking for a smart contract audit? Look no further. AuditOne gathers qualified auditors providing quality and affordable smart contract audits.
Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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- Internet, Software, Education
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
- Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
- Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
Jag is one of Europe's most active angel investors, and is a Managing Partner at Angel Invest Ventures in Berlin. He's founded several companies (including two exits and a spectacular failure), and invested in over 100 startups over the last six years, including Spire (SPAC), Nutmeg (exit to JPM), Disperse, Eversend, Restack, and Anytype.He’s an ad-man at heart, and spent over a decade as a political strategist advising high-profile politicians, campaigns and corporations across the US and Europe. Jag is fluent in six languages, and can be found on Twitter via @JagSingh
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- Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Germany, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
- Machinery Partner — Machinery Partner is a marketplace buying heavy machinery and equipment directly from manufacturers. Browse our range of construction and mining equipment.
- Lightning Reach — Lightning Reach is a financial support portal that makes it easy for people to find and apply for a wide range of personalised support in one place. This support can range from; charitable grants, local council schemes, help with bills and the cost of living crisis and benefits.
Mr. Alex MacCaw Co-Founded and served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Clearbit. He is also the Founder of Sourcing.io. He also serves as Advisor at Evergrow. He also serves as an executive at Earl Grey Capital.
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- Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
- Canvas — Canvas is a collaborative data exploration tool that helps modern business teams make decisions without SQL.
- Fathom — An audiovisual recording service that integrates with both Zoom and Google Calendar.
Jakob is CEO of orderbird, a berlin based start-up. Before co-founding orderbird AG, Jakob worked as a marketing and strategy consultant for Red Bull‘s lead agency Kastner&Partners in NYC and a german based start up in San Francisco, planing the US market entry.
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- EdTech, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- NAO — NAO curates innovative and hard-to-find investments and creates unprecedented access to sustainable, long-term wealth creation through crowdinvesting.
- Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
- Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
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- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Nexcade — Bringing intelligent automation to Freight Forwarding. Nexcade builds agents that meet forwarders where they work today- cutting through noise, accelerating descisions, and helping teams win more business.
- Forgent AI — Forgent uses AI agents to draft tender proposals, find opportunities and coordinate teams.
- Interface — Interface is an AI-native Document Management System for High Hazard Industries.
Ash Egan is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder of Archetype. Ash previously worked at Accomplice as a Partner. Ash Egan attended the Princeton University.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
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- Myco — Myco lets people build digital communities which are co-owned by their members. We make it easy to manage an all-in-one community space for any niche or project, by merging fun social experiences with powerful business tools that can help large groups of people coordinate together online.
- Saddle Finance — Saddle Finance is an automated market maker (AMM) optimized for pegged value crypto assets.
- Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.
Serial FinTech entrepreneur, Markus Ament, or Maex as he is known, has led many companies from early-stage startups to global leaders, loved by thousands worldwide. He is currently CEO and co-founder at Centrifuge with the mission to create an operating system for global commerce, in order to fundamentally change how businesses transact andcollaborate. Maex is co-founder and member of the board of Taulia and has transformed the company from an idea in 2009 to the market leading Financial Supply Chain company, connecting businesses to create a more efficient and profitable supply chain. With an enviable list of the of Fortune 500 clients and over 300 employees, Taulia has quickly become the recognized leader in the financial supply chain.
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- Software, FinTech, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United Kingdom, India
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- Aletiq — Aletiq is an online PLM software that offers technical data management solutions for industrial companies.
- Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
- Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
Jesse Clayburgh
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- Software, iOS, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
- Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
- Superdao — Tools to start, manage, and grow a decentralized autonomous organization
Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet
- Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- OASIS — All you do is talk. AI does the rest.
- Field Complete — Free software for any field service company looking to improve operations and become more profitable! Get access to free home services management software.
- Movement Labs — Movement Labs is on a mission to create a global community of Move Builders, working together to improve decentralized network user experience.
Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.
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- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, India, Nigeria
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- Credit Cooperatif Africain — Crédit Coopératif Africain is a Rwandan microfinance institution established as a private limited company and subsidiary of SCIAC Ltd.
- Primelocation care givers foundation — Primelocation care givers foundation is the promoter and sponsor of an 80-bed secondary..
- Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity — Mwatuheka Orphanage and Vulnerable Support Charity is a faith-based non-governmental organization (NGO) dedicated.
Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp. Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.
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- Software, Information Technology, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, France
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- Loctax — Ask any tax question based on your company's data and IBFD's authoritative tax content. Then act on it with compliance and risk management tools.
- Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
- Overwatch Research — Generate accurate in vivo study data as a part of your efficient, connected R&D.
Luis Cuende is the Co-founder and President of CitizenX. He previously worked at Aragon One as a CEO.
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- Software, Computer, Ethereum
- Seed, Series A
- Norway, Germany
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- Outdid — Verify identities with no storage, processing, or access of private personal information
- Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
- Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.
A native of Germany, Werner spent 2 years with the German Air Force before graduating with an MBA from the University of Cologne.He has held positions of increasing responsibility in Brand and General Management and worked in several of our categories including Household Care, Cosmetics and Fragrances, Baby Care, Tissue Towels, and Hair Care.He has led operations in Germany; Turkey/Caucasian and Central Asian Republics; Northeast Asia/Japan; and Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has helped integrate several acquired businesses during his career.He regularly engages in the communities in which he has lived and holds an honorary doctorate from the International University in Geneva, as well as an honorary ambassadorship from Hyogo Prefecture and Kobe City, Japan for which he developed a marketing strategy to attract more foreign direct investments. Werner Geissler has served as Vice Chairman of Global Operations at Procter & Gamble since July 2007.After earning an MBA at the University of Cologne (Germany), Mr Geissler joined Procter & Gamble Germany in 1979 as Assistant Brand Manager. He progressed to Brand Manager of Meister Proper (1982) and Pampers (1983), became Marketing Manager of Procter & Gamble Germany (1985-1988) and then Marketing Director of Procter & Gamble Netherlands (1988-1989). Moving back to Germany, he became Category Manager, Detergents (1989-1991) and then General Manager, Cosmetics and Fragrances (1991-1994). This was followed by a series of more senior management postions: Vice President and General Manager, Fine Fragrances-Western Hemisphere, Procter & Gamble Europe (1994-1996), Vice President and General Manager, Tissue/Towel and Cotton Products-Germany, Procter & Gamble Europe, Middle East and Africa (1996-1997), Vice President and General Manager, Laundry, Cleaning and Paper Products-Germany, Procter & Gamble Europe, Middle East and Africa (1997-1998), Vice President and General Manager, Turkey/Caucasia/Central Asia (1998-2001), President, Northeast Asia (2001-2004), and, prior to his current position, Group President, Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (2004-2007).Mr Geissler is also advisor to the Governor of Hyogo Prefecture (Japan) and a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.He serves on the Executive Board of Lausanne-based IMD, the leading global institution for senior management education.
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- Internet, Software, Blockchain
- Seed
- Germany
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- peaq — Build decentralized applications for vehicles, machines and devices on the peaq network.
One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B. Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.
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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Spain
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- Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
- FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
- Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor
Peter van Hardenberg is the Lab Director / CEO at Ink & Switch. He previously worked at Auth0 as a Board Member. Peter Van Hardenberg attended the University of Victoria.
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- Software, Blockchain, Operating Systems
- Series A
- Germany
André holds a degree in Business Administration of the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo (Brazil) and a GMP at CEDEP/INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France). He has more than 22 years experience within the communication industry, having worked for advertising and media agencies in Brazil and in Spain. After having worked at Havas for 12years, where at the end he accumulated the roles of MD at Havas Digital Brazil and MD at Z+, he became an entrepreneur in 2013 and has since then helped building NetCos (influencer marketing), Adglow (social media advertising), Smartclip Brazil, (video distribution platform), Blasting News Brazil (social journalism), Kiddo (customer experience), Oliver Latam (in house agencies), Audioria (podcast production and distribution) and Corebiz Spain (omnichannel agency). Since 2014 also acting as an angel investor at seed and early stage ventures for companies such as iSPORTiSTiCS (artificial intelligence for sports), Sherwa (gaming network), Donamaid (cleaning services marketplace), Mimo (live commerce), Chilligum Creatives (dynamic creatives), Super Troupers (influencer powered commerce solution) and also through Wow Accelerator. André was also a professor for two years at the Master in Digital Marketing of the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid (Spain) and a VP and board member at the Interactive Advertising Bureau Brazil. In 2014 André was ranked second in the Top 50 Innovators of Marketing and Communication in Brazil list, published by Proxxima (Meio&Mensagem Group).
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- Software, Video, Sports
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Brazil, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- DISS-CO — Discover how to implement the best GRC Software for your company today. Ready in 7 minutes. Easy to use with automated workflows
- Super Troupers — Traditional influencers platforms give them a fish for each campaign; we give them a fishing rod.
- Sherwa Online Services — JalaLive sajikan kumpulan fakta unik dan menarik seputar penyelenggaraan edisi pertama format 32 tim ini.
Valeria Kholostenko has almost 20 years of experience helping accelerate innovation and growth. From 2017-2018, Valeria oversaw international collaborations between organizations exploring Ethereum enabled technologies as the Head of Development and Global Community at ConsenSys New York. Valeria's passion for driving global expansion tookher to advise LUKSO Blockchain, founded by the creator of the ERC20 standard for Ethereum, with positioning, and eventually as CMO in Berlin. At Parity Technologies, Valeria focused on collaborations with Polkadot investor network, education about Polkadot, startup incubation, and corporate engagement to drive the adoption of the network. After heading up Partnerships at Reef Finance, Valeria took over the role of CMO and continued to build out the Reef ecosystem, hiring all the marketing team leads, optimizing investor realtions, and negotiations with all agency partners. Venture building has always been one of Valeria’s passions, particularly the opportunity to connect venture to promising startups. In 2020, through her expansive global venture network, Valeria raised capital for more than 15 blockchain companies built primarily on Polkadot and Polygon. Most recently Valeria lead the marketing team for one of the leading Parachains in Polkadot as CMO. Currently looking at projects with the right synergies for early 2023. If you are interested in working together, please say hello!
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- Financial Services, Information Technology, Gaming
- Seed
- United States, Germany, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Lukso — LUKSO is the foundation to unify your digital life through standardised smart profiles and an open decentralized L1 EVM Blockchain.
- Tidal Finance — Tidal Finance is the first flexible DeFi insurance platform and marketplace, offering the highest APYs in the industry.
- Cross The Ages — Cross The Ages is a universe in which fantasy and science fiction come together. The two worlds share the single continent of Artellium. To the west lies Arkhante, masters of magic and summoning. To the east, the city-continent Mantris is home to ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life.The young Malkha,surrounded by her seven Primus, reigns from the capital, Babylonia. To the west, the city-continent Mantris is home to Neurotechs, an ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life. The Amortals, humans who have transferred their minds to super-AIs, run the corporations for which the citizen-shareholders of Mantris work.
Angel Investor
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- Information Technology, Apps, Gaming
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.
- Bunch — Bunch is the first app that allows its users to play their favorite games with friends over video chat. Its platform is the easiest way for players to discover, play, and share live mobile games with their friends. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York City, New York.
- EthStorage — EthStorage is a crypto startup and It is a storage rollup built on top of ethereum.
Thomas Witt
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- CMS, SaaS, Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Germany
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- w3.fund — A vibrant Web3 fund, involved in all things around web3 investments in ventures and digital assets, web3 media and bringing together likeminded people.
- JustRelate — JustRelate helps medium-sized as well as large companies and public institutions building Digital Experience Platforms (DXP).
- Scrivito — Scrivito is a decoupled/headless enterprise web CMS designed to be the flexible basis for all your websites and apps. It delivers content to all kinds of channels and devices.
Philipp Treuner
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- B2B, SaaS, Blockchain
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Tangany — Tangany is a German provider of a regulated digital asset custody solution.
Sebastian Schmidt
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- Software, Analytics, Blockchain
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Karan Ahuja
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- Travel, Transportation, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed
- India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Zypp Electric — Zypp Electric is an EV delivery app that operates in the last-mile space. Zypp is working to convert all deliveries for e-commerce, grocery, medicine, and food verticals to go electric with an e-scooter sharing app. Making last-mile delivery more affordable, time-saving, and with zero emission. Zypp, through its continuous efforts to invest andstrategize toward the mission of zero-emission, has become the first EV logistics player to turn into an EBITDA-positive business.
- RED.Health — Stanplus Provides 24/7 emergency and medical transportation support.Their fleet 180+ Ambulances can support patients in 15 minutes across Hydrabad, eqquiped with ALS, BLS, Cardiac and Paitent transport Ambulance.
- bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.
Roneil is the Co-Founder and CEO of Audius. Before joining Edge, Roneil co-founded Backslash, a cryptocurrency payment company, where he focused on security and backend software engineering. He's also spent time at Sparks Mobile, Nebula (as a 2013 KPCB Fellow), and AeroFS in software engineering roles. He graduated from Stanford in 2014 with aB.S. in Computer Science focused on systems. In his spare time, Roneil enjoys hiking, sailing, reading, and finding good wine and whisk(e)y.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Music
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Butler — Streamline your workflow with agentic automations, contextual chat, lightning-fast search and a native meeting bot, all in one place.
- Audioshake — AudioShake makes audio interactive, customizable, and accessible by using AI to separate sound recordings into their component parts and stems.
- Coop Records — Coop Records Music
Vijay is a Product Manager & operator building in DeFi and crypto. Most recently he ran Superfluid Labs, a product studio building apps on Superfluid's money streaming protocol.He started off his startup joining ConsenSys in 2017 to start a London office, later moving to NY to work as a PM on L1 and early L2 Ethereum R&D. I'vealso worked as a Board Member, Advisor and Product Consultant.
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- Ethereum, Blockchain
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- GasHawk — GasHawk is a blockchain company that prevents failed and stuck transactions via our intelligent queue manager.
Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital.
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- Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Singapore, United States, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
- Hashflow — Tight spreads. Zero slippage. MEV-resistant.
- LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
Jens Hewald is the Co-Founder of Soonami.io and UFOstart. He previously worked at Agrilution as an investor. Jens Hewald attended HTW Berlin.
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- Internet, Finance, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Germany, United States
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- Itembase — Leading Companies use Itembase to onboard merchants across Commerce Systems with enterprise-grade integration and scalability features.
- SPRK.global — AI-driven technology platform approach to eliminate food waste in the supply chain, while driving down climate damage. Become a partner and scale the impact.
- UFOstart — We are an international community of independent marketers, developers, and product managers with a common passion for digital marketing, blockchain, and web3 technologies. We combine our decades-long digital marketing experience with over 6 years of blockchain experience to enable decentralized projects to perform successful marketing.
Mo Dong is a Co-Founder of Celer Network. Mo received his Ph.D. from UIUC. He was founding engineer and product manager at Veriflow, working on network formal verification. He is an expert in applying algorithmic game theory to protocol design and teaches full-stack smart contract courses with hundreds of students graduated.
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- FinTech, Finance, UX Design
- Funding Round
- Germany
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- LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
Jutta Steiner is the co-founder and CEO of Parity Technologies.Parity Technologies has developed the most advanced Ethereum client and has recently started a new blockchain network protocol called Polkadot—a pioneering work to address governance, interoperability, and scalability of blockchain technology and a fundamental building block of thefuture decentral Web 3. She previously served as Chief of Security for the Ethereum Foundation, overseeing security audit and integration prior to the launch of the public blockchain in 2015.
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Estonia
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- Chipp — Turn prompts into products. Build, share and sell your AI tools. Simply copy and paste to embed them into your existing products and services.
- Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
- Freatic — Building the monetization layer for your alpha
Trent McConaghy is the founder of Ocean Protocol, which is unbounding AI via blockchain technology. Past: - co-founded Analog Design Automation in 1999. AI for generative analog circuit design. It was acquired by Synopsys in 2004. - co-founded Solido Design Automation in 2004. AI for custom circuit verification. It was acquired by Siemens in2017. - co-founded ascribe GmbH in 2014. NFTs. It pivoted to BigchainDB in 2016. Decentralized database. - from BigchainDB, co-founded Ocean Protocol in 2017. Its token $OCEAN went public in 2018.
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- Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom
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- Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
- Makina — Makina is a finance firm that provides a non-custodial option for users to gain exposure to advanced on-chain strategies.
- Yiedl — Rocket is a Financial Institution regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The vision is to create the world's first decentralized and distributed hedge fund (RocketDAO) driven by a Collective Artificial Intelligence generated through a Blockchain-based (on Polygon) machine learning competition to solve the financial market.
Malte Pollmann has been a member of the Utimaco Management Board since 2008 and CEO since 2011. Previously, he was Product Director and Business Unit Leader at Lycos Europe NV (a Bertelsmann company). With a master’s degree in Physics from the Universities of Paderborn and Kaiserslautern in Germany, Malte also received a general managementeducation at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. In parallel to his work at Utimaco, he also serves on the Supervisory Board of the International School of IT Security – isits AG in Bochum.
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- Hardware, Software, Wireless
- Seed, Series A
- Germany, France, United States
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- CyGO Entrepreneurs — CyGO Entrepreneurs empowers European founders to create and scale world-class cybersecurity ventures globally.
- Quantum Optics Jena — BEYOND CLASSICAL SOLUTIONS We are a team of passionate engineers, physicists, computer scientists and business developers and we believe that quantum technology allows us to achieve more: More confidence in data security via quantum communication More insights into matter and
- Certif-ID International GmbH — Creating Trust in International Technical Recruitment. Our technology and service portfolio digitizes credentials, builds verifiable talent pipelines, automates skill recognition and minimizes cross border recruitment effort.
Andreas Bodczek is passionate tech entrepreneur, seasoned board room executive, global mindset. Backing fellow entrepreneurs as active early-stage tech investor, and Point Nine Capital board partner. Co-founded, scaled and sold Fyber. Former CEO of Telefónica Deutschland, MD of Telefónica UK, member of Bertelsmann’s junior managementprogram.Excited about bold ideas in mobility, digital health, blockchain beyond crypto currencies.Interested in private equity operating partner assignments, management buy-in/buy-out scenarios, buy-and-build strategies, tech distress/transformation opportunities.
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- FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States
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- Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
- Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
- Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
Happy and curious.Marcus is a founding partner of Sunfish Partners, an early stage VC that invests in deep tech startups from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).In addition, he has made angel investments throughout the world and co-lectures an annual university course in which students start their own companies.Previously, Marcus had theprivilege of working with more than 120 student startups at WHU’s university incubator, which he co-built.Marcus holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Business & Management from WHU Vallendar, a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University.
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- Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Poland, Germany, Singapore
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- liftOS — liftOS allows you to find, access and work with your SaaS tools without friction. Organise your data & apps and spend less time switching tabs.
- AIRMO — Airmo is a space tech company that offers an independent data source that locates, quantifies, and tracks carbon dioxide and methane emissions through a small satellite constellation.
- Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
Nelson Holzner is CEO and Co-Founder of MODIFI, a Fintech company solving global Trade Finance for small and medium-sized businesses. Prior to founding MODIFI, Nelson was CEO of AEVI, a German-based Fintech company providing an open B2B marketplace for business apps, SmartPOS devices and payment solutions to banks and acquires around the globe.Prior to joining AEVI, Nelson was founder and CEO of BillPay, a leading provider of payment by invoice or installments for e-commerce which was acquired by Klarna in 2017. He was Vice President at Cerberus Capital Management, an international investment firm. Nelson started his career as a lawyer at an international law firm. He is an active business angel in FinTech.
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- FinTech, Banking, Big Data
- Seed
- India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of bonds and other assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization. In 2019 Bitbond received regulatory approval by BaFin to run Europe's first Security Token Offering (STO). The company makes its tokenization expertise and software and credit solutions available tobanks and other intermediaries.
- ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!
Paul Forster
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
- Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
- Bounti — Bounti helps organizations steer, enable, and scale their frontline employees, combining training, quality control, communication, and operations execution into one intuitive app. With Bounti, companies can maintain consistent quality and operations, streamline training and reach their entire workforce in more than 100 languages.
Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.
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- Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, United Kingdom
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- Valantis Labs — Valantis is a platform comprising decentralized exchanges (DEXes) and on-chain tools that empower developers to design and implement custom liquidity infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. Using modular components, Valantis streamlines the process, making it faster, cost-effective, and user-friendly.
- Zaros Finance — Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives.
- Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.
Ahmed Al-Balaghi is the Co-founder of Biconomy and Founder of the Encrypted podcast which is MENA's largest podcast dedicated to blockchain and crypto-assets. Having spent over 3 years within the blockchain industry in China, the U.K., and the UAE, he has developed deep industry expertise and regularly delivers talks and workshops. Hisresearch and investments span across blockchain infrastructure and protocol layers, security tokens, digital identity, cryptoeconomics, and exchanges.
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- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Germany, United States, Singapore
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- EthSign — EthSign is an e-signing platform that utilizes blockchain technology to offer a decentralized, customizable and transparent version of traditional signature service. EthSign aims to tackle data security issues caused by an over-reliance on centralized providers and build back trust in electronic signature services. With its Web3 technology(decentralized Identity, smart contract platforms and decentralized storage networks), the platform enables users to comment on, edit and access each version of an electronic agreement seamlessly and securely.
- Haiku — Haiku is a DeFi platform that lets users execute complex multi-chain trades and strategies in simple, optimized transactions.
- LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.
Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
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- BoomFi — All-in-one solution to send, accept and convert crypto payments. Fast multi-chain crypto and fiat settlement. Get started today.
- Flatpay — Flatpay's fair, flat-rate pricing simplifies payments & cuts costs. Benefit from our comprehensive solution & superior customer service. Join us now!
- Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
Gregor Stuhler is the CEO and Co-Founder of Scoutbee. He is experienced in operations leadership roles within heavy manufacturing brands like Wittenstein in Germany, Gregor leads scoutbee’s technical vision and product innovation.
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- Internet, Software, Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
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- Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
- GlassDollar — GlassDollar is the go-to enabler of innovation partnering for large- and medium-sized corporations. Our marketplace of startup solutions and our Innovation Project management software help innovation teams to source, manage, and successfully scale impactful startup collaborations within their organizations.
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