Top 10 Celebrity Startup Investors in Europe

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors and VC 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

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

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Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors, with more than €1bn AUM, 40 investors, and offices in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Your success is our priority, so we don’t just send some money and "check in" at board meetings. Our mission is to empower you with game-changing support throughevery stage of your journey. Our focused investment teams know your industry inside and out. Their Deep Tech, Fintech, Industrial Tech, Network Effects, Digital Health and Subscriptions experience, know-how and deep networks are yours from day one. You also have full access to our in-house Platform+ team of operational experts who can provide tailored growth marketing, people (HR), US business development, and networking support throughout every stage of your journey.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
Necture — Ubiq enables mobility sharing operators to become profitable. Through demand prediction, demand fullfillment, predictive charging, dynamic pricing and policy compliance we provide tools for operational excellence.

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

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
Austria, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Venuzle — Venuzle offers a marketplace for sportsmen and sports providers at the same time. Sportsmen are able to search, compare, and book those offers like sports facilities, courses, and trainers on our sports portal. They can also find new teammates and join or manage their teams.With the help of different sports providers, they have developed aninnovative management solution for municipalities, local councils, clubs, schools, and every kind of sports providers. Already successfully in use in Graz since 2014, more than 20 institutions work with our system, managing more than 300 sports venues.The Venzle Sports Manager was submitted to the IMPULS - Municipal Innovation Award 2015 and achieved first place in the category "Best Administration Innovation".
Mangomint — Mangomint is the highest rated scheduling software for hair salons, spas, nail salons, barbershops, tanning salons, massage studios, tattoo shops and more.
CheckYeti.com — CheckYeti is the largest online platform to book activities in 1000+ mountain and beach destinations across Europe - including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. With 12 000+ offers in 16 countries, CheckYeti enablesholidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts to experience summer and winter activities with their ideal guide.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Captur — Captur helps companies make smarter decisions, at the speed of capturing a photo. We use expert triaging and visual AI to identify and action tasks instantly for companies managing in-field operations.
Censys — Exposure Management, External Attack Surface Management, and Threat Hunting solutions powered by the most comprehensive dataset of internet intelligence.
Fifth Dimension AI — Boost your productivity with our AI Assistant for property professionals. Supercharge your real estate teams across investment, asset management, research, and marketing.

Online investing opportunities in the best new startup businesses, and raise seed and angel investment, with top European equity crowdfunding site Seedrs.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
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.
Signature Brew — Signature Brew is a music bar and brewery that aims to bring people together. They provide beer, booze, and live music for their patrons, which enables them to bring the community together through the power of good beer, music, and memories.
SRSLY Low Carb — Award Winning. Consumer brand of choice. Real food that's Keto and Low Carb friendly. The home of the Seriously Low Carb Loaf, the Seriously Low Carb Pizza and now lots of other products too.

We're a fast-growing and award-winning angel network. We invest in female founders and introduce more women to angel investing.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ScaleXP — Smart Finance Automation - Unlock insights, streamline KPIs, track SaaS metrics, automate deferred revenue recognition, and save time.
Deployed — Scope of Work (SoW) and Statement of Work (SoW) authoring and automation for the #futureofwork
Cytochroma — Cytochroma manufacture genetically diverse stem cell-derived models to predict the safety and effect of drugs in a global population. Cytochroma’s automated cell manufacture, physiologically relevant models and rapid screening platform makes preclinical testing faster, safer and smarter.

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Indeez — Inclusive and sustainable insurance benefits
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.

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, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
Remuner — Remuner's variable pay software automates sales commission systems, integrating company and employee objectives and incentives. Its commission management platform leverages AI and analytics to improve performance.
Depasify — The all in one platform for dealing with digital assets. Reduce costs and time to market in a secure way.

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