# Top 50 Blockchain Angel Investors in Germany in June 2026

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

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

## Ravindra Kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Ethereum, Internet

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.

## Vel Kanniappan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bangalore, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Manufacturing, Payments, Software

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.

## Florian von Bodman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Web3, Security, Software

Florian von Bodman is the CEO of Blue Lake Ventures.

## Robert Maier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Software, Education

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.

## Jag Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Jakob Schreyer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: EdTech, FinTech, Software

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.

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

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.

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

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.

## Jesse Clayburgh
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, iOS, Blockchain

Jesse Clayburgh

## George Burke
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet

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.

## Werner Geissler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Blockchain

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.

## André Zimmermann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Valencia, Comunidad Valenciana, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Video, Sports

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).

## Jaesung Park
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Apps, Gaming

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## Jutta Steiner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

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.

## Trent McConaghy
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

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.

## Marcus Erken
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning

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.

## Nelson Holzner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Banking, Big Data

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.

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

## Ahmed Al-Balaghi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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.

## Philippe Teixeira da Mota
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce

Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University.

## David Osojnik
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Content Creators, Information Technology

David Osojnik

## Christian Vollmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

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

## Sekip Can Gokalp
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Banking

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.

## Jeremy Yap
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe.

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

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

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

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

## Jörg Will
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bergtheim, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Education, Blockchain, Human Resources

Jörg Will

## Ingo Hillen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Wealth Management

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.

## Ryan Sean Adams
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance

Ryan Sean Adams

## Janis Zech
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Banking, FinTech

Janis Zech is the Founder and CEO at Weflow.

## Pranay Mohan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, UX Design

Pranay Mohan is the Co-founder of Nomad.

## Rahul Sethuram
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Ethereum

Rahul Sethuram - Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners

## Florian Reike
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services

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

## Tim Draper
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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

## Alex MacCaw
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics

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.

## Markus Ament
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Blockchain

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.

## Hesham Zreik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

## Declan Kelly
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

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.

## Luis Cuende
- Type: Angel
- Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Computer, Ethereum

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

## Michael Pennington
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

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.

## Peter van Hardenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Operating Systems

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.

## Valeria Kholostenko
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, Gaming

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!

## Thomas Witt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: CMS, SaaS, Software

Thomas Witt

## Philipp Treuner
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Blockchain

Philipp Treuner

## Sebastian Schmidt
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Analytics, Blockchain

Sebastian Schmidt

## Karan Ahuja
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gurgaon, Haryana, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Travel, Transportation, Information Technology

Karan Ahuja

## Roneil Rumburg
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Music

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.

## Vijay Michalik
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lisbon, Lisboa, Portugal
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Ethereum, Blockchain

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.
