Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Europe in May 2025
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Community startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Community companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Community Angel Investors in Europe in May 2025
Investor | Community Europe investments |
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Thibaud Elziere | 7 |
Sophia Bendz | 6 |
Julien Codorniou | 6 |
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann | 6 |
Thierry Petit | 5 |
Taavet Hinrikus | 5 |
Sune Alstrup | 5 |
Tom Blomfield | 5 |
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal | 5 |
Andrew Weisz | 5 |
Ian Hogarth | 5 |
Martin Sinner | 4 |
Jens Begemann | 4 |
Josefin Landgård | 4 |
Rouven Dresselhaus | 4 |
Sarah Drinkwater | 4 |
Serge Chiaramonte | 4 |
Andy Phillipps | 4 |
Eduardo Ronzano | 4 |
Matt Robinson | 4 |
Michael Benabou | 4 |
Klaus Nyengaard | 4 |
Andreas Ehn | 4 |
Chris Adelsbach | 4 |
Errol Damelin | 4 |
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet | 4 |
Ahmed Mhiri | 4 |
Michelle Kennedy | 4 |
Ralf Dummel | 4 |
Laurent Laffy | 4 |
Felix Haas | 4 |
Marco Valta | 3 |
Christophe Maire | 3 |
Desigan Chinniah | 3 |
Lukasz Gadowski | 3 |
David Helgason | 3 |
Nils Glagau | 3 |
Mandeep Singh | 3 |
Sebastian Picardo | 3 |
Hampus Jakobsson | 3 |
Tom Hulme | 3 |
Michael Birch | 3 |
Felix Jahn | 3 |
Jacques-Antoine Granjon | 3 |
Tim Schumacher | 3 |
Mikal Hallstrup | 3 |
Anders Böös | 3 |
Miguel Santo Amaro | 3 |
Mattias Miksche | 3 |
Robin Klein | 3 |
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
- Candix — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
- Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
- Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Anybuddy — Anybuddy is a sport booking marketplace, leader in racket sport in France
- Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
- Jolly — Jolly is a rewards platform for the workplace that incentivizes employee performance. It implements performance-based incentives to increase employees utilization, compliance, referrals, and loyalty.
Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Austria, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
- 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.
Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to:
• Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic).
Today Showroomprive.com is:
• A team of 500 employees
• A community of 20 million members in Europe
• A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development:
Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi
Health : Feeli, Lifen, May,
Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent
Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted
Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot,
Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor,
FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October
RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot
Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners
Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital
VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, Côte d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
- Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
- La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
- mobee travel — Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment duringtheir trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
- Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
- Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
Tech Investor and Entrepreneur, former Founder & CEO at The Eye Tribe
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Denmark, Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
- Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.
- Hybird Energy — Discover how Hybird's intelligent electrical panels can save up to 30% in energy consumption. With source-level transparency and enhanced control, manage your electricity usage efficiently. Invest in Hybird for sustainable energy management.
- Doublepoint — Doublepoint provides smartwatches, wristbands, and other wearables with gesture recognition technology. This provides future computing platforms more comfortable, robust and intuitive interactions.
Tom Blomfield is based out of San Francisco, California and is currently works as a Group Partner for Y Combinator. Tom previously worked at Monzo Bank as a President. Tom Blomfield attended the University of Oxford.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Happl — Happl provides benefits that enable employees to choose what's right for them and tools for managers to support their teams, whilst taking care of the admin.
- Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
- Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex financial queries end-to-end, guaranteeing quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and activist behind companies like Mondo, 23, Podio and the reboot festival.
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Investment focus
- Computer, Collaboration, Software
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
- Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
- Somewhere — Somewhere, formerly Support Shepherd. We find you amazing employees who cost 80% less than US equivalents, backed by our 6-month Perfect Hire Guarantee.
Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Sidequest — Sidequest is a community driven app store for virtual reality.
- Track Titan — Titan Academy revolutionises how gamers improve through fully automated coaching.
- Guardian Angel — Death is tough enough. We're here to make it that little bit easier. By making planning for and through death simpler. So you can focus on what really matters.
Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
- Fabric — One home for your digital world. Your second brain. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files in one calm, minimal app. No organizing required. Never forget anything again.
Martin Sinner is the COO at 360dialog.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Spain, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Tyles — Build up more knowledge faster
- Hero Software — Hero Software offers cloud software solutions.
- persomatch GmbH — persomatch offers the first B2B AdTech SaaS solution for job advertising at the largest job marketplace Google via Google Ads, Google for Jobs and Google SEO
Jens Begemann
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Investment focus
- B2C, EdTech, Children
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Germany
Josefin Landgård is the Founder and CEO of Mantle. Previously she served as the Co-Founder and COO at KRY back in March 2014 to September 2018.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Women's
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden, France
Portfolio highlights
- Estmn — Estrid is an online portal that offers women's personal care products.
- Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
- Elsa — Elsa is a platform for patient driven research for better drugs, health and prevention. Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. To support them from a scientific perspective, Elsa gives themaccess to data on their specific disease (initially we work with rheumatoid arthritis) through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet.
Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
- Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!
The Tech and Society Solutions Lab draws on Omidyar Network’s long-standing belief in the promise of technology to create opportunity and social good, and works to invest and co-create in tech, programs and initiatives that helps the industry maximize its positive impact. Previously, Sarah headed up Campus London, Google's space forr startups, established and led a global community team for Google Maps, consulted for startups and big brands on community, content and social, and was a journalist.
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Investment focus
- Software, Communities, Fashion
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, France, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Mailchain — A secure, open source communications protocol, enabling users to send & receive messages between public addresses
- Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
- Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.
Serge Chiaramonte
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Tranched — Introducing real-time on-chain securitisation. Fintech Lenders and Professional Investors can now launch an institutional-grade transaction up to 90% faster than before.
Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Travel, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Finland, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Layla AI — Layla operates as a travel discovery platform.
- Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
- Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
- Poolside — The best code you never wrote.
Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
- Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
- Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
President at Financiere Saint James.
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Real Estate, Banking
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Evy — Evy Merchants provides product protection services.
- ExtraStudent — ExtraStudent is a free mutual help network for all students to openly share their knowledge and support one another.
- Revoltrain — Revoltrain creates online schools with masters of tomorrow’s topics
Klaus Nyengaard is the co-founder and Chairman of GenieBelt, a SaaS-based platform that develops project management software. He is also co-founder of the investment club, Nordic Makers. He serves as the co-chairman of Treatwell, a beauty and wellness community marketplace.
Nyengaard has previously been CEO & Chairman of Just-Eat pre-IPO, andbuild a number of tech companies.
In 1994, Klaus Nyengaard graduated from Aarhus University with a specialized degree in economics and management.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Denmark, United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Famly — Easy-to-use software for childcare providers. Our nursery management software makes administration, planning, and learning journals easy. Try it for free.
- Panion — Panion is a community-building tool that helps companies, schools, and organizations facilitate more social interactions amongst its members. The platform is entirely keyword searchable and filterable so members are able to search for each other based on common interests, values, goals or experiences and even narrow their searches by location,gender, age, language and much more. Members and admins can propose spontaneous events within the network and form social groups around an interest. Community admins are given a dashboard of analytics to track trends in their community and send segmented messages based on interest and location.
- Spotahome — Spotahome is a mid- to long-term residential rentals platform that is reinventing the property market. It offers the most complete property and room listings for stays above 30 days, bookable exclusively through online viewings which saves tenants and property owners time and money. The company creates the listing at no cost to the landlord - aprofessional photographer ("Homechecker") visits the property and creates the audio-visual materials including high quality photos, HD video tours, detailed floor plans and honest property and neighbourhood descriptions. By offering the most complete property listings, it allows tenants to book their property from anywhere in the world without the need for in-person viewings. It also offers guarantees against default payments and damages. Spotahome is growing rapidly, fueled by a $40M Series B funding round led by Kleiner Perkins, the first leading Silicon Valley VC in a Spanish company. It is present in 11 cities across 8 countries in Europe.Spotahome was launched by Alejandro Artacho, Bryan McEire, Hugo Monteiro and Bruno Bianchi in March 2014 and has offices in both Madrid, Spain and London, UK.
Andreas is working on a service that will connect people, time and places on the web. He also works as an independent consultant helping other startups with product strategy, technical infrastructure, scalability and recruiting as well as financial companies (venture capital and private equity) with technical due diligence and in other advisorroles.He was CTO at Spotify from the launch of the company in August 2006 until November 2009. Before that he worked at Stardoll as an engineer and project manager.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Prog.AI — Prog.AI helps to find developers based on their technical proficiency, libraries they have used, or even just the contributions they have made to GitHub projects.
- Red Flag — Red Flag develops an automated accounting, expenses, and invoicing platform for SMEs.
- Single Technologies — Founded in Stockholm, Sweden, with its long tradition in fiber optics, ultra-sensitive fluorescence spectroscopy and DNA sequencing, SINGLE’s ambition is to become the instigator of 3-D Sequencing.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
- WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
- Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal.
Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- Ritual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
- PowerZ — Tailored for kids ages 6 and up - learn Math, English, Geography, History, and Music in a universe that adapts to your level!
- Tracktor — Tracktor is an platform that enables construction companies to rent and purchase construction equipment efficiently.
A visionary in mobility and a scale-up builder, Ahmed Mhiri combines deep tech expertise with bold entrepreneurial spirit.
An engineer specialized in computer science and cybersecurity, he began his career leading major digital transformation and security projects across France and abroad.
In 2012, he founded TravelCar, a pioneering car-sharingplatform for travelers. In just a few years, the company raised $25M, expanded to over 60 countries, and caught the attention of Stellantis, which acquired it in 2019 to build the foundation of Free2move.
As CEO of Free2move, Ahmed has transformed the company into a global leader in flexible mobility, serving both individuals and businesses.
Today, he is redefining the future of mobility: more autonomous, more sustainable, and more seamless — to meet the challenges of a world in motion.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, Tunisia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jaylo — Jaylo.ai transforms your email experience by using AI. Automatically organize and prioritize your inbox, ensuring nothing important gets lost. Generate context-aware replies that perfectly match your tone and intent. Save you time and effort, allowing you to communicate efficiently and professionally. Free up your day for what really matters"high-impact, meaningful work."
- Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
- Kare Partners — Kare Partners, LLC provides therapeutic rehabilitation and other ancillary services in the healthcare sector. The company offers physical, occupational, and speech rehabilitation services through a network of outpatient therapy clinics in North Carolina and Arkansas. It also assists home health agencies by providing fully-trained therapy-teams tocomplement their in-house talent or add a new dimension to their service delivery. In addition, it provides a direct educational and credentialing path for therapy clinicians in India to gain employment in the United States healthcare system. Kare Partners, LLC was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Michelle joined Badoo originally as lead counsel over 4 years ago. Prior to joining Badoo she was a successful corporate lawyer at leading international law firm, Mishcon de Reya, before being poached by the firm's successful biotech client, Quotient Bioscience to head up their legal team. During her time at Badoo, she built the legal,compliance, HR and talent teams before moving into a more operationally focused role, including a position on the board. Today, Michelle is responsible for most key areas of the business, and works closely with founder and CEO Andrey Andreev, on the existing product, and exciting 'special projects' coming soon....
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- Women's, Health Care, Fashion
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Ruuby — Ruuby is the UK's leading on-demand beauty services marketplace, and since inception Ruuby therapists have delivered over 400,000 treatments through the platform. With a network of over 2,500 expert, vetted beauty and wellness professionals, Ruuby is committed to delivering exceptional services in the comfort of the home, office and hotel.
- Luna Daily — Microbiome balancing body care for all skin, even your most intimate. Head, vulva, knees and toes. Vegan, dermatologist-approved, and eco-friendly skincare for all skin types. On a mission to connect women of all ages and stages to each other and their entire bodies.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.
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- Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Germany, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
- Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
- TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.
Laurent Laffy - Founder and Executive Chairman @ SeedLegals
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- Family, Logistics, Location Based Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- BelleVie — BelleVie's vision is a world where those who receive and provide support are valued and thrive. BelleVie's radically different operating model of self-managing teams was inspired by the successful Buurtzorg model of nursing in the Netherlands. Unlike other care providers who are digitising a broken operating model, BelleVie addresses theroot cause, fixing the operating model and then digitising that.
- Beyond — Write your will online, apply for probate or arrange a meaningful funeral.
- Countingup — Automate your accounting with the all-in-one financial tool for small business owners. Run your business more easily with Trustpilot's most highly rated current account.
Felix Haas is the Executive Chairman and Founder of IDnow. He previously worked at amiando GmbH as a CEO and Co-Founder. Felix Haas attended Stanford University.
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- Leisure, Internet, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, France, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
- Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
- Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.
Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 12 years experience in the tech/web industry.
As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso, Relativity, Monthly.
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- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MIRA BEAUTY™ — KASIRJUDI Situs Togel Online Pasaran Hk,Sgp,Cambodia Dan Toto Macau Lengkap dengan Prediksi Togel Online Hari ini
- SmartPrice — SmartPrice specialize in the sale and certification of electronics, which was once used. They are a team of entrepreneurs who build business on the culture of ReCommerce. This culture suggests that in the world there are so many things that can be reused without losing quality.
- Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Poland, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
- Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
- RetentionGrid — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.
Tech Advisor | Startup Mentor | Angel Investor | Board MemberDesigan Chinniah, aka Dees, provides seasoned startup, dot-com hardened, functional, strategic, creative and zero-bullshit executive advice. Dees possesses a unique set of Swiss-Army-Knife like talents and experiences - at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Business Development,Marketing, Fundraising and Developer Relations.A self-confessed geek — this sneakerhead lives in London with his wife, Sanne and their two kids, Summer Skye & Kiran Quinn.You’ve come this far… Why not say hello?
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- Software, Communities, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, Nigeria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
- Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
- TigerBeetle — TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance.
Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- Germany, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
- TAU Systems — TAU Systems provides medical imaging technology.
- MILES — MILES is an independent carsharing and modern mobility. They believe in the energy and the pulse of cities and how they inspire them. MILES is your wingman on your trip through urbanity, guiding you to its hidden treasures and cool spots, which make your city so worth living. Their passion for the new and unexplored drives them in their vision tomake urban life better. Driving with no time pressure, no limits and no specific car brand.
David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.
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- Software, Gaming, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- United States, Denmark, Finland
Portfolio highlights
- Isometric — Isometric is a carbon removal standard and registry.
- Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
- Rocky Road — At Rocky Road, we are redefining social gaming with our social gaming network. We are hiring!
Nils Glagau
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Personal Health
- Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
- BIOTherma-Pad — BIOTherma-Pad is a completely biological cooling pad made of seaweed rather than the typical chemicals; it may cool little children's injuries or offer warmth if needed.
- Taste Religion — Taste Religion offers plant-based products that are devoid of toxic ingredients and allow to quickly create restaurant-quality cuisine.
Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
- Prior Labs — Prior Labs is developing innovative foundation models that understand spreadsheets and databases.
- Bluebook — self-driving accounting
Sebastian Picardo is an active investor and advisor in the global luxury goods sector.As an investor, he has been very active in the fashion, technology and media sectors for
over 9 years, investing in companies like Net a porter, Lyst, Farfetch, Business of Fashion and
Highsnobiety. He has also been a venture advisor to London-based FelixCapital, a
leading Venture Capital firm investing in digital lifestyle start-ups, since 2014.As an advisor, he has helped brands and retailers in areas such as digital marketing,
customer experience, omni-channel retailing and innovation, In addition, he has advised
companies wanting to enter and market their brands in China mainland.Sebastian was formerly Deputy President of Asia’s iconic luxury department store
Lane Crawford. Sebastian joined Lane Crawford in 2012. As a member of the senior
management team, he crafted and drove Lane Crawford’s “connected commerce” strategy,
underlying the company's focus on omni-channel retail development to deliver a seamless
customer experience.Previous to Lane Crawford, Sebastian was with Burberry where he served as Managing
Director - Digital Commerce, based in the London headquarters. Prior to this role, he had
helped transform and integrate the brand's Spanish operations into the global business as
Managing Director - Operations at Burberry Spain. Before joining Burberry, Sebastian had
held various senior finance roles at Net-A-Porter, Alexander McQueen and Deloitte.Originally from Argentina, he is a Chartered Accountant, holds a bachelor’s degree in
Business Management and a Master’s degree in International Finance. Most recently he
attended Harvard Business School, where he successfully completed the Advanced
Management Program.Sebastian lived in Buenos Aires, London, Barcelona and Hong Kong. He is fluent in Spanish,
English, Italian and has an elementary command of Mandarin.
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- Fashion, Content, Lifestyle
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Italy, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Mos — Meet Mos: the way smart students get money for college
- UNMADE — Unmade helps fashion and sportswear brands connect demand directly to production - so they become more adaptive, responsive, efficient and responsible.
- Freeda Media — The voice of the new generations
Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.
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- Health Care, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, Denmark, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
- Mojo — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
- Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows
Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University.
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- Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Smol — A smol revolution in laundry and cleaning; heavy on dirt, lighter on the planet. Laundry capsules, sprays, dishwash tabs & more. Trial for FREE today!
- Kinnu — Kinnu is a learning engine that allows to explore new concepts and master any field of study. Kinnu allows to choose from an ever-expanding list of themes such as artificial intelligence, modern art, intermittent fasting, psychology, philosophy, history, and scientific breakthroughs.
- Immersive Gamebox — Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team Adventures in the world's smartest room. Our GameBox Adventure pods combine projection mapping, touch screen, motion tracking and surround sound technologies to create an entirely new form of digital group entertainment.
Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo and Birthday Alarm. Birch was raised in North London, England, went to Imperial College, London in Central London (where he met Xochi, his wife), then worked in West London. After finally deciding that he had done London, Michael moved to San Francisco in 2002.Michael and Xochi Birch sold Bebo to AOL inMarch 2008 for USD 850 million. Their combined 70% stake yielded a profit of $595 million from the deal. In June 2008, Michael invested in, and joined the board of MyStore.com along with Julian Lennon and Gordon Crawford. He is also an investor in Goodreads, a book oriented social network.Having worked in a number of not-so-exciting computer related jobs, he relished the chance to set up an Internet based family business with his wife, Xochi and brother, Paul. Remembering birthdays was never his strong point, much to his embarrassment, so what could be better than something he could use himself. Michael was responsible for developing the original Birthday Alarm website back in 2001, but is no longer involved in its development.
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- Apps, Social Media, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Keyo — Keyo is an end-to-end solution that offers apartment rentals. Now, Keyo has blossomed into a full-scale software-as-a-service for landlords, targeting small-to-medium-sized renters with 20 to 5,000 units. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
- HolidayFox — Camping & Glamping Holidays throughout the UK
- Whatifi — Whatifi turns passive viewers into active players who control what happens next.
Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others.
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- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Admi — Admi is a government technology company that helps towns and municipalities develop and operate photovoltaic systems on public lands.
- YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
- Getpaid — Payments infrastructure for B2B marketplaces, wholesalers and SaaS platforms. B2B checkout to process all B2B transactions online & offline | payout instantly | automate complex money flows, end-to-end reconciliation.
Jacques-Antoine Granjon was born in Marseille on 9th August 1962 and studied at the prestigious European Business School (EBS). A born entrepreneur, he founded overstock distributer Cofotex S.A. with EBS friend Julien Sorbac in 1985. In 1996, Jacques-Antoine bought and renovated the former print works of national French newspaper Le Monde in LaPlaine Saint-Denis (93), just outside of Paris, setting up Oredis group HQ.In 2000, he and his business partners realised that the Internet was “an opportunity to welcome the world in a virtual store with digital catalogues”. This realization led to the creation of a revolutionary concept: an online platform entirely dedicated to flash sales for brands.In January 2001, Jacques-Antoine and his seven business partners launched vente-privee.com in France, before e-commerce had barely started in Europe. He then applied his extensive experience to the Internet, selling excess stock for important fashion and home brands, relying on two main strategies: events and exclusivity, all the while focusing on customer satisfaction. In 2012, he went on to win the “Customer Service Award” for the fourth year in a row, presented to him by the Institute BVA-Viséo Conseil, France’s fourth market research company.It was not until 2004 that the website’s success became apparent. In 2005, its turnover grew a staggering 500% from the previous year. The website is now available in 8 European countries (France, Germany, Spain, Italy, UK, Belgium and Austria, and the Netherlands) and the United States, in partnership with American Express. In 12 years, vente-privee.com has become an event-creating media, bringing together over 18 million members and 2.5 million unique users per day. This solid foundation allows the site to offer its 2,000 partner brands an innovative distribution channel.Jacques-Antoine Granjon’s professional success has been recognized with many awards. He was named ‘2011 Communication Personality of the Year’ by the Grand Prix des Agences de l’Année, ‘Personality of the Year’ by the Trophées LSA de l’Innovation 2011, ‘Innovator of the Year’ at the 2011 Technologies Numériques awards, ‘2011 Man of the Year’ by the Enseignes d’Or panel and ‘2010 Businessman of the Year’ by French GQ readers. Jacques-Antoine was also crowned ‘E-commerce Man of the Year’ by a panel of internet users at the E-commerce Magazine awards in 2007 then ‘Businessman of the Year’ at the BFM Awards in 2008. He also then went on to collect the European prize for ‘Chief Marketing Office of the year’, sponsored by Booz & Company, in 2009.
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- E-Commerce, Advertising, Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Side — Side's mission is simple but ambitious: create the smoothest work experience, matching company's temporary needs with qualified profiles within seconds. Each month, thousands of Siders and companies - e.g. HelloFresh, Deliveroo, Urban Massage, Soundcloud, Uber, Stripe - are using Side on a regular basis, from missions of a few hours toseveral months.Since the launch in 2015, Side has been growing fast and is now managing thousands of tasks every month in France and in the UK. Side is based in Paris and London and plan to expand into new cities, industries and job categories. After a new funding round that brings to a total of $7.2M in funding, Side is supported by Xavier Niel, Jacques-Antoine Granjon, Bernard Arnault (Aglaé Ventures), Connect Ventures (Citymapper, Typeform investor), Fly Ventures, Kima Ventures, The Family and many A-level Business Angels.
- Agricool — Agricool has been created in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru with the purpose of making local, tasty and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables available to all. To do so, Agricool is recycling shipping containers into urban farms, transforming into a small paradise for fruits and vegetables (lighting, air quality, irrigation, etc.).The technology developed enables the farms to be 120 times more productive than in conventional farming, to save more than 90% of water and to be run entirely on renewable energies. Today, the company grows strawberries in Paris and Dubai, but tomorrow, the ambition is to help feed the world with all types of fruits and vegetables and be part of the urban farming movement.
- Memo Bank — Memo Bank is a new bank for small & medium-sized businesses.
Tim Schumacher is a Managing General Partner at World Fund. Tim previously worked at Sedo.com as a Member Board Of Directors. He attended University of Cologne and Stockholm School of Economics.Tim Schumacher Co-Founded and was the longtime CEO of the publicly traded company Sedo AG, which currently has revenues of 130m euros per year andmaintains approximately 350 employees. Since 2012 he has dedicated his professional career to the German startup scene, acting both as a business angel and mentor for young companies with economic potential. His current startups, among many others, are Eyeo/Adblock Plus, Aklamio, Hitfox and Ecosia.
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- Apps, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
- JUMiNGO — Jumingo is an international digital shipping and carrier service provider. It is an innovative startup that has made the logistics industry clear and transparent for customers through a digital shipping platform. They facilitate both business and private customers to compare prices, packaging, and booking services from numerous shipping serviceproviders such as UPS, DHL Express, TNT, FedEx, GLS, and DPD with up to 80% discounted rates. Jumingo saves time and money with benefit from the dynamics and flexibility of their comprehensive range of services without any contractual obligations.
- CareerOS — Gain a competitive edge with our innovative tools, virtual career collaboration, real-time data, and AI enhancements. Guide students each step of the way!
- Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
Mikal H. is the Co-founder at Offset Motorcycles. He attneded Arkitektskolen Aarhus.
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- Software, Lifestyle, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Denmark, Germany
Anders Böös - Non-Executive Director @ Securitas
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Investment focus
- Pet, Messaging, Marketplace
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Sweden, United Kingdom
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Miguel is a tech entrepreneur (Coverflex, StudentFinance, and Uniplaces) and an early-stage tech investor via Shilling (new early-stage €30M Shilling Founders Fund).Miguel is the co-founder & CEO of Coverflex.com. The way we work is changing, but compensation — salary, bonus, equity, and benefits — has not evolved for decades. The currentrigid, one-size-fits-all approach is outdated and fails to satisfy the needs of the modern workforce. Coverflex is changing that. This all-in-one tech-enabled platform enables all companies — regardless of their size — to design, consolidate and personalise their compensation offers beyond salary. Companies can supercharge their employee benefits while saving both time and money. Coverflex calls this “Compensation as a Service”. Miguel is also the founder of Studentfinance.com (edtech startup promoting Income-Share -Agreements (“ISA”) to help increase educational opportunity and empower people to access high-impact careers) & Uniplaces.com (consumer marketplace to mid-to-long term rentals).Miguel is also a Partner, since 2017, in the most active pre-seed and seed VC in Portugal - Shilling.vc - as well as a lead mentor role in Techstars. Since then, Miguel led angel investments in more than 30 early-stage companies in Europe.Miguel is passionate about startups and entrepreneurship and serves as an advisor to a number of early-stage companies around Europe. Since 2017 he is an EO Portugal Founding Member, a peer-to-peer organisation that supports high-impact entrepreneurs across the world. He is married to Flávia and together they have baby Camila.
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- Communities, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Spain, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- EatTasty — Fresh food delivery service in Lisbon. Easy to choose and order. Free delivery. Discover our delicious lunches and dinners!
- Luca — Luca's learning platform provides learning programs for primary and secondary school students. The learning platform offers pre-recorded K12 videos, gamified content and AI powered personalized study paths, covering the entire official academic curriculum and national exams prep. Luca is a VC backed startup with HQ in Madrid & MexicoCity
Mattias Miksche - Angel Investor & Chairman @ Hem
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- Software, Big Data, Financial Services
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Vetnio — Vetnio is an AI scribe that records conversations between veterinary professionals and pet owners, automatically generating clinical notes for the meetings. It saves veterinary professionals time, allowing them to focus more on their patients.
- Normain — Normain is the AI platform for deep knowledge work. Automate your complex analyses and reports directly on Sharepoint or Google Drive. Access your own data and public sources in one single platform.
- Lovable — Build software products, using only a chat interface
Robin Klein is the Non - Executive Chairman of MOO Print Ltd. He is also a Venture Partner at Index Ventures. Robin joined the London office of Index Ventures in April 2010 as a Venture Partner.He is a founding partner of The Accelerator Group, a seed investment company specialising in e-commerce, digital media and Internet services. He iscurrently Chairman of Quickbridge (Wonga), Moo Print Ltd, MyBuilder. He sits on the Boards of EDITD, Farfetch, FreeAgent, OneFineStay, Skimlinks, Zoopla. Robin is a governor of Rhyl primary school. He is also a past Chairman of Great Ormond Street hospital's funding company.Robin has 25 years of operating experience, 20 years of which as entrepreneur and 14 years of investing experience and he has been on the boards of three publicly quoted companies. In his last operating role as Chairman and CEO of Innovations, he conducted the very first UK ecommerce transaction in May 1995.Since starting his investment career in earnest in 1998 by co-founding The Accelerator Group (TAG) with his son, Saul, they have made over sixty investments. Robin is passionate about helping to build the European technology start-up ecosystem and actively supports Saul in the promotion of Seedcamp and OpenCoffee. He has a Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering. An MSc in Industrial Engineering.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Cera — In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
- BelleVie — BelleVie's vision is a world where those who receive and provide support are valued and thrive. BelleVie's radically different operating model of self-managing teams was inspired by the successful Buurtzorg model of nursing in the Netherlands. Unlike other care providers who are digitising a broken operating model, BelleVie addresses theroot cause, fixing the operating model and then digitising that.
- Trouva — Trouva, launched in September 2015, is the marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops, selling unique homeware and lifestyle products from hundreds of shops and boutiques. Trouva bridges online and offline in retail to offer click and collect, 1-hour delivery, and worldwide shipping in a single seamless platform.Trouva is one of the mostexciting e-commerce start-ups in Europe, backed by amazing VC and Angel Investors whose successes include Secret Escapes, Net-A-Porter, and Farfetch (BGF Ventures, Octopus Investments, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures & LocalGlobe).
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