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Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Germany in July 2025

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

Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Germany in July 2025

Investor	Blockchain Germany investments
Andrew Keys	3
Ravindra Kumar	2
Vel Kanniappan	2
Tom O'Keefe	1
Tim Draper	1
Dennis Weidner	1
Ingo Hillen	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Jason Choi	1
Florian von Bodman	1
Jag Singh	1
Ryan Sean Adams	1
Janis Zech	1
Christian Vollmann	1
Michael Bernhoerster	1
Jaesung Park	1
Pranay Mohan	1
Robert Maier	1
Rahul Sethuram	1
Alex MacCaw	1
Eric Ebert	1
Jason Choi	1
Jens Hewald	1
Philipp Treuner	1
Sebastian Schmidt	1
Luis Cuende	1
Andreas Weinberger	1
Mo Dong	1
Jutta Steiner	1
Trent McConaghy	1
Thomas Witt	1
Sebastian Herzog	1
Jakob Schreyer	1
Sekip Can Gokalp	1
Malte Pollmann	1
Charlie Songhurst	1
Ash Egan	1
Andreas Bodczek	1
Jeremy Yap	1
Marcus Erken	1
Johannes Schaback	1
Nelson Holzner	1
Markus Ament	1
Werner Geissler	1
Paul Forster	1
Florian Reike	1
Nitin Sharma	1
Anthony Sassano	1
Michael Pennington	1
Ahmed Al-Balaghi	1

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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.

Investment focus

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.

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.

Investment focus

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.

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.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Payments
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.

Tom O'Keefe

Investment focus

FinTech, GreenTech, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

GreenTrade — GreenTrade is a marketplace for nature-based carbon credits and impact claims. The company accelerates the funding of new carbon projects by turning long-term purchase agreements into digital tradable assets and making them available for corporate buyers today. We're a team of experienced entrepreneurs, transforming the Voluntary Carbon Market($200B by 2050) by introducing the concept of Future Credits. Through long-term offtake agreements (ERPAs) with project developers, we’re securing future supply rights and turning them into digital assets (NFTs). Buyers are mitigating future price and access risk, while developers are able to secure funding for additional projects. Our mission is to mitigate climate change through realizing 1B TONNES OF CARBON CREDITS BY 2030. Short Video about us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQehoqCv1Y

Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

QurieGen — QurieGen is a biotechnology company that accelerates drug discovery and development.
Eywa — Founded in 2021, EYWA helps Web3 projects scale up by enabling them to operate, get listed, and traded on all connected blockchain networks with a single liquidity pool. Additionally, EYWA provides a truly decentralized data protocol for secure messaging.In partnership with Curve Finance, one of the largest decentralized exchanges, EYWA isintroducing a new paradigm of non-algorithmic cross-chain assets aimed at solving the problem of liquidity fragmentation. Their cross-chain protocol stands out as the most decentralized solution in the market.- Received 6 grants from biggest L1/L2 blockchain networks including NEAR Foundation, Aurora, Harmony One, Algorand, Boba Network, and others - Winning hackathons: Ethglobal Marketmake, Polygon’s BUIDL IT hackathon, Metis hackathon
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.

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

Investment focus

News, FinTech, Finance
Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

savedroid — savedroid is the first AI saving & spending algorithm in Europe conveniently optimizing users’ lifestyle. Their free mobile app enables users to save up for their wishes without even thinking about saving. They create significant economic value for mass market users through automated savings AND situational relevant spend optimization. Theirself-learning AI algorithm analyzes users’ checking accounts, identifies saving potential and automatically transfers these savings to their users’ savings account managed by their partner bank Wirecard. Moreover, their self-learning AI algorithm automatically identifies saving potential for services such as utilities, cell, banking, insurances etc. and offers convenient and fast in-app contract switching via their B2B partnerships with Check24, Drillisch, Freenet, 1822direkt etc.savedroid earns recurring high margin affiliate revenues from B2B partners trough AI based lead generation in the categories of contract optimization, affiliate shopping, and consumer lending. Their AI analyzes a significant depth of financial and behavioral data enabling savedroid to anticipate users’ purchase decisions and proactively recommending situational relevant saving opportunities which help their users to reach their wishes even faster. Their data intelligence makes them the perfect match maker for an amplitude of situational relevant and recurring high margin B2B affiliate sales opportunities.
CryptoTicker — Cryptoticker.io is a crypto-, news- and community-portal about blockchain, crypto currency, ICOs & insights from the scene.
ePilot Mobility — ePilot Mobility bringt die erste Blockchain basierte E-Carsharing Flotte auf Deutschlands Straßen.Die Blockchain ermöglicht eine Teilhabe der Kunden an den Elektrofahrzeugen. Das Einsetzen dieser Technologie bedeutet, dass Nutzer:innen die E-Autoflotte gemeinsam dezentral besitzen können.Die MissionUm die Klimaziele zu erreichen, müssenanhand neuer Mobilitätskonzepte die CO2-Emissionen pro Person reduziert werden. E-Carsharing für Privatleute, Firmen, Städte und Kommunen durch ePilot Mobility ist ein Teil der Gesamtlösung.

Ingo Hillen is the Chief Executive Officer of Sino AG.Ingo Hillen completed his training as a banker at Deutsche Bank, where he also met sino's founding partner Matthias Hocke. From 1998 onwards they start building up the sino Wertpapierhandelsgesellschaft together, which starts its business in October 1998. Trade and finance have been partof Hillen's portfolio from the start.In 2000 the company, which had been profitable since 1999, was converted into an AG. On September 11, 2001, the sino board members Ingo Hillen and Matthias Hocke are nominated to take part in the “Entrepreneur of the Year” competition. However, the event is canceled on the afternoon of the same day - due to the tragic events in New York City.A year later, Matthias Hocke and Oliver Wagner started the software company tick-TS together with Ingo Hillen. To this day, sino AG holds more than 25% of the company.As founder and board member, Ingo Hillen and Matthias Hocke finally successfully listed sino AG on the stock exchange in September 2004 - in the regulated market of the Düsseldorf stock exchange, followed by a switch to the primary market in 2013.Since it was founded, sino AG | High-end brokerage repeatedly awarded top marks in industry tests, for example in the annual reader survey by Börse-Online or in Euro am Sonntag.As deputy chairman of the supervisory board of tick-TS AG, Hillen successfully promoted the IPO of the software company tick-TS AG, which he co-founded in 2002 and has since become very successful.But business is only half the life, and that's why he treats himself to a short vacation every now and then, for example on Sylt with sun, beach, great Rieslings and great food ... To compensate, he jogs regularly.Today he is also responsible for the development of a promising FinTech company and who knows, maybe this will be 'his' third IPO.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Wealth Management
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

getquin — Track your assets, dividends, performance and more in real-time. Discuss trades and stocks with the community.
arttrade — Democratizing the Art Market through Blockchain
Sub Capitals — Sub Capitals believe it is time to democratize artificial intelligence (AI) for private investors on the financial market.

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. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. 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 an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Encode Club — Learn crypto with our web3 education community. Get learning. Get building. Get hired. Get funding.
Hashflow — Tight spreads. Zero slippage. MEV-resistant.
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

Florian von Bodman is the CEO of Blue Lake Ventures.

Investment focus

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.

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

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Konfetti — konfetti is building the leading platform for local workshops and events by empowering workshop providers with customized SaaS solutions
Strange Loop Labs — Guru automates tax, insurance, and audit processes with generative AI
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.

Ryan Sean Adams

Investment focus

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.

Investment focus

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.

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, Ireland, Indonesia

Portfolio highlights

avoltra — Avoltra aims to position itself as an "intelligent energy purchasing solution" by leveraging advanced technology and data-driven insights to optimize energy procurement.
Rulemapping Group — Rulemapping Group is a rule-based AI platform that enables a level of end-to-end automation for rule-based processes. Automated decision-making solutions for digital legislation, administrative operations, legal procedures, and regulatory compliance.
Atmen — Atmen, formerly known as Point Twelve, automates hydrogen and e-fuels certification, saving you up to 90% time in the process.

Michael Bernhoerster

Investment focus

Education, Blockchain, Human Resources
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

Angel Investor

Investment focus

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.

Pranay Mohan is the Co-founder of Nomad.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, UX Design
Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
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

Rahul Sethuram - Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners

Investment focus

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
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.

Eric Ebert - Marketing and Communications Manager @ Zenkit

Investment focus

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

Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital.

Investment focus

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Finance, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

Philipp Treuner

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Blockchain
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Tangany — Tangany is a German provider of a regulated digital asset custody solution.

Sebastian Schmidt

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence

Luis Cuende is the Co-founder and President of CitizenX. He previously worked at Aragon One as a CEO.

Investment focus

Software, Computer, Ethereum
Seed, Series A
Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Outdid — Verify identities with no storage, processing, or access of private personal information
Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.

Andreas Weinberger

Investment focus

Education, Blockchain, Human Resources
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, UX Design
Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A
Germany, Estonia, Liechtenstein

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Freatic — Building the monetization layer for your alpha
Celestia — Celestia is the modular blockchain powering unstoppable applications with full-stack customizability.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
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.

Thomas Witt

Investment focus

CMS, SaaS, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

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.

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.

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

Şekip Can Gökalp is the founding partner of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network. Gokalp's previous experience includes his time as a regional business development manager of Netlog and a part-time interactive marketing lecturer. He also contributes regularly to publications related to his field.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Banking
Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aiden.ai — Aiden provides an AI analytics platform intended to assist marketers how to spend their budget efficiently. Its platform uses machine learning reading to analyze large sets of paid advertising data, enabling clients to proactively make changes to improve ROI of their manage multichannel paid acquisition campaigns easily.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Hardware, Software, Wireless
Seed, Series A
Germany, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
YieldClub — YieldClub is a mobile app that helps you grow your savings with higher returns than a traditional bank.

Ash Egan is founder and general partner at Archetype focused on early stage blockchain and crypto investments. Before Archetype at Accomplice, Ash has led investments in Bison Trails, Coda, Near, amongst other crypto-networks and crypto-enabled companies. Previously, he was a founding Principal on the venture team at ConsenSys, the largestblockchain company in the world, where he co-led early stage investments. Ash began his career in venture capital at Converge VC, where he focused primarily on blockchain/crypto and machine learning applications, and led the firm's investments in Chainalysis. Ash received his AB in American Politics from Princeton University where he captained the Men's Varsity Squash team and played on the National Champion Team in 2012. He is a World Economic Forum Global Shaper and serves as an advisor at ConsenSys' Tachyon Accelerator, and mentors university students at Harvard Ventures. Ash received Forbes 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital in 2020 and has been published in Techcrunch, Coindesk, VentureBeat, and the Boston Globe.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Zerion — Zerion is an investing app that enables anyone, anywhere in the world, to access a suite of new financial products and services built on the backbone of decentralized finance (DeFi). Simple, user-centered design is combined with a powerful tech stack that aggregates across every major decentralized exchange, offering users a single point of entryfor managing their digital assets with ease. Zerion is non-custodial, which means users never delegate their funds to the platform. This agile approach mitigates centralization risk and has allowed Zerion to operate globally since inception.
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.
Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable digital future

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.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Poland, Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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

Johannes Schaback is the CTO of SumUp and was a Co-founder and CTO at Visual Meta. He attended Technische Universität Berlin and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Funerals
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
Blockbrain — 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.

Investment focus

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!

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.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Aletiq — Aletiq is an online PLM software that offers technical data management solutions for industrial companies.
Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.

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.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Blockchain
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

peaq — Build decentralized applications for vehicles, machines and devices on the peaq network.

Paul Forster

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier

Florian Reike is the Co-Founder at Advanced Blockchain AG.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
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.

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

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed
India, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
StayQrious — StayQrious is an ed-tech startup that focuses on skilling students in computer applications such as coding through online group classes. The company also focuses on collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity through these virtual classrooms.
Molecule — Molecule is a collaborative platform, where stakeholders in drug development work together to accelerate the process of bringing novel therapeutics to patients. We connect leading researchers to investment opportunities by turning intellectual property and its development into a liquid and easily investable asset.

Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Germany, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

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.
Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

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