Top 10 Celebrity Startup Investors in Europe in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Celebrity startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Celebrity companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Celebrity Startup Investors in Europe in January 2026

Investor	Celebrity Europe investments
startup300	2
Speedinvest	2
Bynd Venture Capital	1
Ascension Ventures	1
Wayra	1
Angel Academe	1
Seedrs	1
Schöne Töchter GmbH	1
Oleg Tscheltzoff	1
Portugal Ventures	1

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startup300 operates as an angel investor network and business accelerator offering services to Austrian startups.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Fretello — Made by guitarists, for guitarists, Fretello started as a simple app that our CEO, Florian, created as a companion to help him improve his skills. Seven years and many iterations later, we’re now the app of choice for guitar players of all levels who have a genuine thirst to improve.Driven by a belief that anyone can learn guitar, but noteveryone is taught well, we cut through the noise to give guitarists a comprehensive education that actually sticks. We know that proper learning takes time. We’re not here to simply teach you a few riffs and the odd song. We’re here to teach you how to really play your instrument. For us, the goal is mastery but with continual improvement. So, we’ve combined the insights of educational experts and professional musicians with advanced AI technology to create a truly innovative learning tool. That’s why we offer a structured Learn Path alongside tailored practice plans, daily guitar workouts, a large song library, and interactive jam sessions. We tackle playing guitar from every angle because that’s how confident, versatile guitarists are made. As passionate musicians, we count being able to express ourselves through music as one of life’s greatest joys. Whether with or without us, we hope you find a way to experience some of that too.
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.
Mangomint — Mangomint is the highest rated scheduling software for hair salons, spas, nail salons, barbershops, tanning salons, massage studios, tattoo shops and more.

Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage venture capital funds, with more than €1.2bn in AuM and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, and Vienna. Our dedicated sector-focused teams (Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech, Health & Bio, Marketplaces & Consumer Tech, SaaS & Infra) are the first to fundEMEA's most innovative pre-Seed and Seed tech startups. Our in-house operational experts and global network of industry leaders support our portfolio companies with growth, people (HR), market expansion, and more throughout every stage of their journeys. Bitpanda, GoStudent, Wayflyer, Open, CoachHub, Schüttflix, TourRadar, Adverity, and TWAICE are among our portfolio of 400+ companies.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vocca — Vocca manages your patient calls, bookings, and reminders 24/7 so your team spends less time on admin and more time on care. Tailored to all specialties. Trusted by thousands.
Finary — Finary is a platform that allows everybody to better track and manage their wealth.
Runware — Runware provides lightning-fast text-to-image and image-to-image generation speeds—0.3 seconds for SD 1.5 and 0.9 seconds for SDXL, all through one powerful API.

Bynd is a leading Iberian Venture Capital firm

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Portugal, Spain, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dealcar — DEALCAR is a company that digitalizes the used car market through a SaaS platform, enabling fully digital transactions. This platform creates a network effect benefiting dealers, partners, and customers. • Dealers: Increase revenue by selling extra products and boost sales by reducing turnover time. • Partners: Distribute products at the pointof sale without marketing expenses, lowering operational costs. • Consumers: Purchase a used car easily in just three steps, enjoying a smooth, trusted process similar to renting but with the benefits of owning a car.
nuuEnergy — nuuEnergy is a tech-enabled solution aiming to revolutionize the heat pump installation industry. By leveraging technology and industry expertise, we streamline the purchasing and installation process. Our unique approach, refinanced through innovative strategies, promotes a self-reliant and carbon-neutral lifestyle for all our customers.
Relive — Relive is empowering the next generation of real estate entrepreneurs, with a mobile app that allows them to work for themselves, from anywhere, while saving time and earning commissions faster.

Strategically investing in smarter technologies, bigger data, better alternatives, and healthier futures.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Medical Device
Series B, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AristaMD — AristaMD empowers primary care providers with excellent specialty care - improving patient outcomes with timely, cost-effective access.
Cala Health — Cala Health is a bioelectronic medicine company transforming the standard of care for chronic disease. The company's wearable neuromodulation therapies merge innovations in neuroscience and technology to deliver individualized peripheral nerve stimulation. The first indication for Cala Health's wearable therapy is an essential tremor, adisease experienced by more than seven million people and characterized by severe hand tremors. New therapies are under development in neurology, cardiology, and psychiatry. The company is headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area and backed by leading investors in both healthcare and technology.
RefleXion Medical — RefleXion is developing the first biology-guided radiotherapy system, a significant change in strategy from single tumor therapy to the ability to one day treat multiple tumors in the same treatment session in cancers that have metastasized. Currently, the RefleXion X1 machine is cleared for the delivery of stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT),stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS) and intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT). The company is also developing BgRT, which incorporates positron-emission tomography (PET) imaging data to enable tumors to continuously signal their location. The BgRT technology will synchronize these data with the linear accelerator to direct radiotherapy to tumors with subsecond latency.

Wayra is a globally connected and technological open innovation hub in the world. We currently operate in 10 countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Spain, the United Kingdom, and Venezuela.Through Telefónica our global presence allows us to be at the helm of innovation, shoulder to shoulder with drivenentrepreneurs and in a position to engage the right partners and leaders of industries for business. Our mission is clear, to connect innovators with Telefónica and generate joint business opportunities. We are the interface between Telefónica and entrepreneurial ecosystems across the globe because innovation makes good business sense.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glim — At Glim believe that crypto will revolutionize the financial service industry and that Latin America is a perfect place for that disruption to start. Glim has created a platform that, through a B2B2C model, will allow employers to offer very valuable financial benefits such as multi-currency salary collection, yield generation, a debit card withautomatic exchange and settlement in fiat and crypto currency, financial education and others, all available in Glim’s mobile app.
Omnix Corp — Omnix connects to all customer systems, managing their information and triggering actions when there are operational failures. Currently our clients are large companies in the Retail and Telco sector, where our solution allows complete visibility and traceability of inventory.
YBVR — YBVR provides high-quality video VR streaming experiences: Immersive, interactive, and enriched, Live, and VoD.

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Investment focus

SaaS, Health Care, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Movetru — Movetru a wearable device that aims to reduce injury and enhance rehabilitation.
PreActiv — PreActiv provides personalized programs to improve treatment outcomes. The company offers prehabilitation programs that start before a surgery or cancer treatment and prepare the person andtheir body so they get the best possible results. The company was founded in 2020 and is based in London, England.
Inicio AI — A specialist Income & Expenditure trained virtual agent delivering improved CX and robust results

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Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Food and Beverage
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Laka — Laka is collective bicycle insurance especially for cyclists. We flipped insurance. By making it pay to pay out, we are the collective that backs each other. Protect your bikes and gear against theft & damage with Laka 5-star rated cycle insurance.
Fantacycling — The first fantasy cycling app that allows fans to challenge each other during all the races of the year. Create your league and challenge your friends by creating the best team. Will you be the best?
The Cookaway — The Cookaway offers an exciting range of world cuisine menus put together by our expert chefs and available to buy as a recipe box.

Holding

Investment focus

Gift, Video, Celebrity
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

wewave — wewave.com is an online platform where fans and businesses can book personalized video shoutouts from celebrities. Every participating celebrity donates up to 100% of his earnings to a charity organisation of his/her choice! A perfect solution for celebrities to deal with video inquiries from fans, great opportunity for fans to getpersonalized video shoutouts as a gift for friends & families, cheap possibility for businesses to book celebrities for their advertising campaigns and charities profit financially from every video sold.

Oleg Tscheltzoff is Co-Founder & CEO at Fotolia. Oleg Tscheltzoff is the Investor of LOTS18. Oleg Tscheltzoff is one of the top serial internet entrepreneurs but also a successful angel investor with over 30 investments, board member, serious innovator, provocateur, disruptor, and connector. As an entrepreneur, Oleg has leveraged a globalvision and knowledge of international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images. As president, he led the company to the world’s largest microstock photography site. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg co-founded Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE).

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Indeez — Indeez is an European insurtech focused on everyday needs of independent workers, by providing them with better income protection.
LiveFlow — The easiest way to bring financial data into your spreadsheet. Automate your finances, consolidate your accounts and collaborate in real-time. Try LiveFlow for free today!
Aria — Aria is a fintech startup that allows companies to pay their freelancers. The company provides a response that is both innovative and concrete to a strong economic challenge that weakens talent and affects the competitiveness of companies. Aria was founded in 2019 and is based in Paris, France.

Verticals:Enterprise, SaaS, Security, Networks, AI, VR/AR, Marketplace, Blockchain, Internet of Things, New materials, Electronics, Robotics, Cleantech, Agrotech, Seatech, Therapeutics, Digital Health, Diagnostics, Innovative Accommodation, Tourist Entertainment Companies, Tour Operators, Wine, Nautical and Equestrian Tourism, Theme ParksMobile, Robotics Founded in 2012, Portugal Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Porto, Portugal. The firm is a part of the Banco Português de Fomento group. The firm seeks to invest in pre-seed, seed and series A stages