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Top 50 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in Europe

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Crowdfunding startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Crowdfunding companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in Europe

Investor	Crowdfunding Europe investments
Ed Wray	3
Jaan Tallinn	3
David Braben	2
Nicolas Douay	2
Stanley Fink	2
Matteo Gamba	1
Marcos Alves Cardoso	1
Marcus Mosen	1
Jaewoong Lee	1
Jon Oringer	1
Manny Fernandez	1
Kaidi Ruusalepp	1
Maxime Hurtebize	1
Will Neale	1
Dario Franchitti	1
Rouven Dresselhaus	1
David Gammon	1
Doug Monro	1
Tim Draper	1
Christian Faes	1
Cristiano Esclapon	1
Reece Chowdhry	1
Jon Oringer	1
Soo Hoon Hauw	1
Dominik Briggs	1
Paolo Barberis	1
Annika Small	1
Ruben Ferreiro	1
Björn von Siemens	1
Amadeo Brenninkmeijer	1
Jon Moulton	1
Amit Sharma	1
Jannis Choulidis	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Paul Willmott	1
Fabio Cannavale	1
William Tunstall-Pedoe	1
Vishal Amin	1
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	1
Nicolas Berggruen	1
Matt Wilkins	1
Steve Thomson	1
Thomas Quandt	1
Harold Mechelynck	1
Christian Edler	1
Jeffrey Thomas	1
Edward Lando	1
Lars Thunell	1
Gabriel Jarrosson	1
Giulio Valiante	1

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Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Hole19 — Download Hole19's free Golf App with GPS, Scorecard and Rangefinder for iOS and Android. Plus connect with your golf buddies. Now ready for watch
Netwealth — Netwealth uses cutting-edge technology and an expert team to provide a cost-effective wealth management service. See how we can help manage your investments.
SmartUp.io — SmartUp is the ultimate platform for peer-to-peer knowledge creation, sharing and exchange.Conceived and developed by a seasoned team of founders and investors behind Founders Forum, Spotify, Siri, lastminute.com and others, SmartUp now hosts more than 150,000 members and is used around the world by startup founders, companies, innovators,business schools and curious entrepreneurs.SmartUp’s intuitive learning system provides communities engaging and fun ways to contribute and consume bite-sized pieces of knowledge and insight. Its powerful platform unlocks your community’s real knowledge to help every member unleash their potential.

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
TENYX — Tenyx is developing the next generation of voice-based intelligent systems based on proprietary neuroscience-inspired AI technology

David Braben Chairman at Frontier Developments.

Investment focus

Big Data, Crowdfunding, Trading Platform
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor & VP @ Entrepreneur First Paris

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United Kingdom, Mauritius

Portfolio highlights

Bealy health — Bealy is a prevention and health solution dedicated to employees to improve their daily health and well-being.
Djamo — Djamo is a Provider of financial applications to allow customers to use their cards with zero fees in a wide range of services.
underdog — underdog is a simplified & refurbished household appliances.

Lord Stanley Fink is a non-executive director and investor in British Pearl. He is a senior, well-known and accomplished financial services professional, with a long and diverse track record in, among others, the managed futures, brokerage and hedge fund industries.He was born in 1957 and educated at Manchester Grammar School and Trinity Hall,Cambridge graduating with a degree in Law. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1982 and worked at Mars and Citibank NA before joining Man Group plc in 1987, stepping down as Deputy Chairman of the Group in July 2008 after an illustrious career spanning 21 years including a successful period as Group CEO.Currently he is Chairman of ISAM Europe LLP, a hedge fund with offices in London, Florida and Cayman. He also is a non-executive director of Marex Spectron and Chairman of Zenith Hygiene Group plc.Lord Fink is a committed philanthropist whose focus is health, education and the environment. His roles include being a Trustee of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), a Trustee of the Mayor’s Fund for London and Co-Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies. He was Chairman of the highly successful campaign by the Evelina London Hospital's Appeal to raise £10 million to assist in equipping the new hospital in 2005. He is also Chair Emeritus of the Board of Governors of Burlington Danes Academy which he sponsored through ARK. He was raised to the Peerage in 2011.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, B2B
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bud — Bud uses Open Banking to help financial companies to access and make sense of messy financial data.
mmi Analytics — Make better-informed brand communications decisions on a local, global and campaign level. Talk to us about how you can increase your beauty brand sales.
Blackbullion — Learning platform for students who want to get in control of their money

Matteo leads the product teams taking care of Payments & Fraud at Wayfair, one of the top e-commerce retailers selling furniture and home goods in North America and Europe. Before Wayfair, he led the product function for the growth teams at (Transfer)Wise.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Series A
United Kingdom, Italy, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Kroo — B-Social is a financial technology company that develops innovative services for a new generation of customers.It aims to make personal and social finances move at the speed of life. The fintech company builds an app that intuitively connects personal finances with their customers' social world, making it easy for them and their friends tobuy, track, and shares the experiences that bring them closer.Nazim Valimahomed and Tim Brown formed the company in 2016 in London, England.
GuestReady — Premium Airbnb Management Service for your vacation rental. Maximise your revenues and become a Superhost with GuestReady's 5* property management service.
Chip — Get the best savings rates brought to you and smash your savings goals automatically with Chip. Join over 400,000 savers today. We're building the best savings accounts in the world for you, with you.

Marcos Alves Cardoso Partner & Chief Growth Officer LUDA Partners. He attended IE (Instituto de Empresa) 2012-2012.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Katoo — Katoo is the marketplace for restaurants to discover best offers from top suppliers in their city. Browse suppliers. Check offers. Order in one click.
Regalamos — A través de nuestra web gestionamos regalos en grupo. Ya sea para un cumpleaños, una boda, una despedida, benéfico… cualquier tipo de bote. También ayudamos al usuario a elegir el regalo, recaudamos el dinero de las personas que participan en él, y mandamos la sorpresa donde él quiera junto a las dedicatorias de cada uno de los participantes.¡Todo a través de un click!
Premiumguest — All-in-one SaaS to manage and promote events.

Marcus Mosen

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Turkey, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Yolda — Logistic operations still largely run on paper. It is almost impossible to track the vast majority of loads, receive delivery documents or measure how successful the operation is. Yolda.com is changing this with a strategic operating model that combines advanced tech and data analytics, logistics infrastructure, and hands-on supply chain expertise.Yolda.com combines the quality of cargo transportation with the diversity of haulier and the integrated service model of 3PL companies and offers a high-quality logistics experience by focusing on its customers. Yolda.com’s marketplace solution encompasses many local forwarders and logistics companies, enabling SMEs and corporate enterprises to receive an instant quote for multiple shipment requests on a single platform. Companies can also track their shipments via Yolda.com's intelligent control panel and measure their logistics operations performance with detailed reporting services.
Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.

Jaewoong Lee is the founder of Daum Communications Corp. which is one of the leading Internet portal service companies in Asia. He also served as CEO of Lycos Inc., which was acquired by Daum in 2004 and also served as CEO of Daum for 12 years since he founded the company in 1995. He is currently a partner at "sopoong" which is asocial venture incubating company focusing on social ventures. Jaewoong also founded and served as CEO of Daum Foundation which is a non-profit focusing on solving media divide problems. He is an entrepreneur interested in social ventures and internet/media industry and he has served as board member of various internet/media companies and non-profits. Jaewoong holds B.S. and M.S. degree in Computer Science from Yonsei University. He is also one of Young Global Leader from World Economic Forum.

Investment focus

News, SaaS, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Vietnam, South Korea, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Byline — BYLINE is a London-based crowdfunding journalism startup that enables journalists and bloggers to directly reach their readers. Writers can contribute regularly to a particular topic and stand the chance of getting paid per article or per month while interacting with their readers through Supporter’s Café and offer them special rewards to encouragepayment. Byline was founded by Seung Yoon Lee and Daniel Tudor in January 2007 and is based in London, England.
Primer — Primer (프라이머) is a startup accelerator that the partners are all entrepreneurs based in Korea. The company started Jan 2010.The company forms groups called “PrimerClub Members” by selecting potential entrepreneurs, invest seed fund and provides them with mentoring and other support services to help ensure successful outcomes in their newventures.
Cohost AI — Cohost Club is a community of professional co-hosts and busy hosts. Thousands of co-hosts around the world can help manage your properties and short term rental business. Download our app and start renting today

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Manny Fernandez is an angel investor, serial entrepreneur, and bestselling author featured on CNBC's Make Me A Millionaire Inventor's premiere episode on Thursday, Oct 6th. He has been successful investing in his own ideas as well as taking companies from startup to exit. Fernandez was named by Inc. Magazine as one of 33 entrepreneursto watch in 2016. —In 2013, Fernandez founded SF Angels Group and has been an angel investor with TiE Angels since 2012. In 2014, he was named SF Angel Investor of the Year and received the Equity Crowdfunding Leadership Award. In 2016, Menlo College Named Fernandez Silicon Valley Equity CrowdFunding Pioneer. Fernandez recently became a #1 bestselling author with his new book, How to Make Money Investing in Pre-IPO Stocks, which is available on Amazon. He is also the #14 Angel Investor to Follow on Twitter and has the #1 most viewed equity crowdfunding video on YouTube. He has been featured on mainstream media including CNBC Squawk Box, NBC, CNN Latino, Forbes, Inc. Magazine, Fox News and more. Fernandez’s energetic and inspiring presence has lead to him being a frequent judge, speaker, and panelist for Silicon Valley corporations, startup demo days and universities. He has been a featured guest speaker for events at Stanford University, UC Berkeley, Harvard University, Angel Capital Association Summit (ACA), University of San Francisco (USF), Pepperdine University, Draper University, Plug and Play, Yahoo!, USAWeek in Europe, Qianhai Equity Exchange in China, Intel, California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce’s (CHCC), SharkTank, Startup Grind, AngelHack Global Demo, Shanghai Slush, Finland Slush, Startup Weekend, SXSW and many more. All of Fernandez’s experience in the investment landscape has culminated, under his leadership with the launch of RealtyReturns.com

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Internet
Angel, Funding Round
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

Invesdor — We are Europe's crowdinvesting platform: Invest directly and become part of corporate success stories. Get to know us today
Revel Systems — A cloud-based POS system can drastically reshape your enterprise business management. Demo our cloud POS system today!

Founder and CEO of Funderbeam, the global funding and trading platform of private companies built on blockchain. Funderbeam combines three stages of investor journey into one: startup analytics, investing, and trading on the secondary market. Powered by blockchain technology, the marketplace delivers capital to growth companies and on-demandliquidity to investors worldwide. Member of Startup Europe Advisory Board at European Commission. Kaidi is a former CEO of Nasdaq Tallinn Stock Exchange and of the Central Securities Depository. Co-Founder of Estonian Service Industry Association. The first IT lawyer in Estonia, she co-author of the Estonian Digital Signatures Act of 2000 -- landmark legislation that enables secure digital identities and, in turn, the country’s booming electronic economy. Kaidi was named as an Entrepreneur of a Year in 2018 by the Playmakers Technology Award and as a Person of a Year in 2016 by the Estonian IT and Telecommunication Association. Co-author of #Foundership Playbook and mentor of various girls and women in tech initiatives.

Investment focus

Big Data, Crowdfunding, Trading Platform
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.

Maxime Hurtebize is an Investment Officer - Financial Institutions at PROPARCO. He attended emlyon business school.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Electronics, Health Care
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Glowee — Glowee is engaged in the development of biological light systems using the natural properties bioluminescent marine organisms. Requiring neither electricity nor installation infrastructure, these systems are built by encoding particular genes in symbiotic bacteria.
WiSEED — Wiseed is a crowdfunding platform that enables its users to invest in SMEs and enterprises. The platform offers investments for startups, real-estate firms, social innovation and renewable energy projects, and agriculture firms. It was founded in 2008 by Nicolas Seres and Thomas Merquiol and is based in Toulouse.
YMoney — YMoney helps African diaspora in taking care of their families living in Africa

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Italy, Japan

Portfolio highlights

qomodo — Qomodo is an "all-in-one" payment methods aggregator, allowing physical commercial operators to safeguard and expand their cash flow and offer Buy Now Pay Later payments to customers, in addition to one-time payments. Qomodo focuses on merchants providing services for essential yet often unforeseen expenses, which typically involve ahigher transaction value.
Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
SAPI — SAPI enables platform companies to offer business loans to their merchants, earning a revenue share while growing their ecosystem.

Dario Franchitti

Investment focus

Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online

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.

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!

David Gammon 17 years investment banking experience. He founded Rockspring in 2002 and is a Cambridge Angel.

Investment focus

Big Data, SaaS, Legal
Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Pekama — Pekama helps companies leverage big data to manage their intellectual property. Within 30 seconds, companies can access their existing IP and build their own IP dashboard. This allows them to make data-driven, informed, decision and build a sensible strategy.
Privitar — Informatica is an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader that brings data to life by empowering businesses to realize the transformative power of their most critical assets.
Funderbeam — Funderbeam is a funding and trading platform that connects companies and investors to buy and sell equity stakes. The platform allows the founders to gain exposure, legal support, a funding manager, or an investor network. It also allows the investors to take control of their investments and trade anytime they want.The company was founded in 2013as a global data platform for startup companies.

Doug was most recently COO of property portal Zoopla. From 2008 he led the growth of the team from 5 to 75 people and the site to number 2 in UK property with 5M visitors a month, organically and through acquisitions. Previously he was MD of Gumtree.com, the UK's largest classified ads site, where he built the team and business through a fungrowth ramp after acquisition by eBay in 2005.Prior to Gumtree, Doug worked for eBay UK, Bain & Company, Unilever and also as an entrepreneur. Doug has a BA in English from Cambridge, an MBA from Kellogg, and hates to admit he is a qualified accountant.

Investment focus

FinTech, Legal, Clean Energy
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

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.
Screenloop — Screenloop is the hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyse interviews, and automate the reference process.
Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.
Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.

Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK. Now building Faes & Co.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

Cristiano Esclapon - Founding Team @ Siamosoci

Investment focus

Finance, Automotive, Smart Home
Angel, Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma
Siamosoci — Siamosoci is the directory for italian start ups. Siamosoci srl Italy provides transparency to the market of italian start ups. the new companies can list in the directory including videos and multimedia support. they can include capital request for their own financing needs.Siamosoci srl Italy facilitate the matching between local investors andthe start ups.

Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures - an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote andpanel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY.Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures' investments.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines
Crowd Data Systems — Crowd Data Systems (CDS) offers a new approach to treasury management. CDS has developed an ‘app by app’ Treasury Management System which is built upon cloud infrastructure, offering everything from cash to exposure management in modular parts.

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
Zamp — We give you freedom from sales tax! Eliminate the need to learn, manage or touch any part of the sales tax compliance process.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Soo Hoon has close to 30 years of corporate and regulatory experience in the local and international insurance industry. She specializes in strategic, operational and change management issues, with a special interest in talent development and capacity building.Prior to joining iGlobe in 2008, she was Senior Managing Director at Great EasternLife Assurance, responsible for business strategies of the established markets of Singapore and Malaysia. From 2000-2005, Soo Hoon was Executive Director of the Insurance Supervision Department at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), responsible for overseeing the liberalization of the insurance industry. She was also active as a former member of the Executive Committee of the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS).

Investment focus

Insurance, Crowdfunding, Personal Finance
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Inzura — Inzura provides Digital Insurance products and services to the Insurance industry enabling Insurance Companies and Brokers to offer innovative digital insurance products to their policyholders and prospects.Inzura's customer engagement Apps and cloud-based services cover the major personal insurance lines. They provide state of the artDriver Profiling Telematics, Connected Home solutions and Fitness & Well-Being human telematics.Working with Inzura, their customers gain speed to market enabled by their white label Smartphone Apps that engage users with easy to use products and services. They help Insurers improve customer service, which drives higher customer retention, they also help them to reduce fraud and reduce costs in the claims process.Their product portfolio includes; insurance policy administration mobile apps, insurance telematics (UBI / PAYG) / PHYG / MAYD), user-friendly Smartphone camera photograph analysis, data analytics and back-end server infrastructure. End users benefit from time saving and safety features built into the apps, as well as delivering new services utilising insurance telematics and driving linked rewards.

Dominik Briggs

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Crowdfunding, Social Media
Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Spherity — Streamline your business processes with our automated solution solution. Meet regulatory and other business requirements in a secure way using SSI technology.
friendfund — friendfund is a socially integrated group payment method. Using the social network infrastructure of Facebook and Twitter, friendfund connects you to the people you already know to enable dynamic social commerce.A friendfund enables friends to collect money for something that they do together. You can friendfund a group gift, purchase equipmentfor your local club, organise a group holiday or anything you like. friendfund supports any kind of group payment. Your imagination is the only limit!

Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
Musixmatch — Musixmatch is the leading Music Data company aggregating rights for the world's largest catalog of lyrics. The company uses the power of lyrics to build unique dataset and machine learning algorithms based on NLP to empower music reccomandations, search, discovery . On top of this Musixmatch administrates more than 10,000 Music publishers andover 150 mln $ copyrights . Musixmatch has ensured worldwide agreement with top Music Publishers as Universal Publishing, Emi Publishing, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappel, Kobalt Publishing, and +4000 trough Harry Fox Agency. Current clients list includes Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Amazon Music, Spotify, Facebook, VEVO, Saavn, MTV, etc
EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!

Annika Small is the Co-founder and Associate of CAST.

Investment focus

Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online

Ruben Ferreiro - President & CEO @ VIKO GROUP

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Splitfy — Splitfy is the perfect app to collect money from your plans Group.
Solfy — Solfy is a Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy.
Housfy — Housfy develops a digital platform designed to sell flats and houses between private individuals. The company's digital platform eliminates intermediation in the sale of houses, offering all the necessary tools for sellers and buyers to connect directly online, enabling home buyers and sellers to avoid traditional agencies and save brokeragefees.

Bjorn von Siemens possesses a native drive and understanding for applying technologies to solve challenges in healthcare. Bjorn earned his M.Sc. in Accounting and Finance from the London School of Economics and B.Sc. from European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel, where he graduated in the top 3% and 10% of his class respectively. He conductedseveral years of postgraduate research at the University of St. Gallen as well as at Harvard University and Harvard Business School. Prior to founding caresyntax®, Bjoern was active as an investor and advisor for technology ventures. He is a recognized thought-leader in the areas of applied IoT and AI technologies in healthcare.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Software
Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Caresyntax — Caresyntax is the only enterprise-scale surgical data solution you need to make surgery smarter, safer, and more profitable.
friendfund — friendfund is a socially integrated group payment method. Using the social network infrastructure of Facebook and Twitter, friendfund connects you to the people you already know to enable dynamic social commerce.A friendfund enables friends to collect money for something that they do together. You can friendfund a group gift, purchase equipmentfor your local club, organise a group holiday or anything you like. friendfund supports any kind of group payment. Your imagination is the only limit!
Lillian Care — Lillian is building a nationwide network of health facilities in Germany.

Amadeo Brenninkmeijer - Senior Partner @ inPositiv

Investment focus

Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Germany

Portfolio highlights

ProcessOut — Route transactions, analyze and report on your entire payment ecosystem and switch on providers in one click. Trusted by leading brands.
SkyWatch — SkyWatch makes it easy, fast, and affordable to buy commercial satellite imagery for your geospatial needs.
Little Black Door — Little Black Door, LBD - The Social Wardrobe A free wardrobe sharing application that enables its users to upload their wardrobe, interact with their fashion items & share them on social networks We’re out to disrupt the way in which we engage with our fashion assets.

Jon Moulton is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
Funding Round, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Cyprus, Luxembourg

Portfolio highlights

Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
Hometree — Keep yourself warm with Hometree, and try our no price hike promise. Compare our different boiler & home cover plans to see how you can save.
Hellas Direct — Hellas Direct is a digital-first, full-stack insurance company, empowered by cutting-edge technology and artificial intelligence. The Cyprus-based company is backed by a roster of leading investors, including Portag3, IFC (a member of the World Bank), Endeavor Catalyst, former Goldman Sachs economist Lord O’Neill and private equity veteran JonMoulton. Modelling itself on Amazon, Hellas Direct aims to disrupt the insurance value chain by adopting an extreme focus on operational excellence.

Amit Sharma is the Founder and General Partner of Black Jays Investments. He attended London Business School.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Retail
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

OffLimits — Offensively delicious cereal. Nothing Artificial.
Package Free — At Package Free Shop we sell sustainable, green, eco friendly, plastic free products to help you live a zero waste, minimalist, and low impact lifestyle.
Penelope — Penelope | The retirement platform for small business

Jannis Choulidis

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Crowdfunding, Social Media
Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

friendfund — friendfund is a socially integrated group payment method. Using the social network infrastructure of Facebook and Twitter, friendfund connects you to the people you already know to enable dynamic social commerce.A friendfund enables friends to collect money for something that they do together. You can friendfund a group gift, purchase equipmentfor your local club, organise a group holiday or anything you like. friendfund supports any kind of group payment. Your imagination is the only limit!

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.

Paul Willmott

Investment focus

FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.

Fabio Cannavale - Founder @ Siamosoci

Investment focus

SaaS, Information Technology, Software
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Italy, United States, Hong Kong

Portfolio highlights

Properly — Short-term rental management software at low costs. Get the app to manage home maintenance for easy, remote hosting without hiring a property manager.
Contents.com — Contents.com : Revolutionizing AI content generation for enterprises, providing personalized, scalable solutions for e-commerce, publishers, and agencies, with seamless IT integration and brand consistency.
EPICODE — At EPICODE people learn to code and change their future forever. Study online and get hired by the most influential companies in the world!

William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ai Build — Additive Manufacturing Software
Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence

Vishal Amin

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Health Care
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Feedr — Probieren Sie Deutschlands Top Catering Service | EatFirst
Propio — Get quality language services solutions with Propio Language Services. Expert translation, interpretation, and localization services.
Abacus Insights — Abacus insights builds best-in-class healthcare platforms for our customers. Similarly we are committed to building our company upon a strong foundation of values, which guides our every day choices, actions, and interactions. Apply to join our product, engineering, security and architecture teams.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Swaap — We build the market-neutral AMM protocol.
micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.

Nicolas Berggruen is the Founder and Chairman of the Berggruen Institute. He attended New York University.

Investment focus

Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Helm.ai — Helm.ai is a scalable artificial intelligence for autonomous vehicle.
Story Protocol — Story Protocol is building open IP infrastructure to grow the creativity of the internet era.
iLoF — iLoF is a digital health company pioneering a breakthrough AI-platform to accelerate the future of personalized drug discovery and development

Matt Wilkins is the Advisor at Clim8 Invest.

Investment focus

FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.

Steve Thomson

Investment focus

FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Clim8 Invest — Clim8 Invest develops an app for sustainable investing so people can make an impact on climate change with their savings. Clim8 is a simple way to invest in a sustainable portfolio of carefully selected companies already making a positive impact on climate change.Clim8's mission is to move billions of pounds of investments into clean energyand truly green, sustainable companies.

Thomas Quandt

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Crowdfunding, Social Media
Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

friendfund — friendfund is a socially integrated group payment method. Using the social network infrastructure of Facebook and Twitter, friendfund connects you to the people you already know to enable dynamic social commerce.A friendfund enables friends to collect money for something that they do together. You can friendfund a group gift, purchase equipmentfor your local club, organise a group holiday or anything you like. friendfund supports any kind of group payment. Your imagination is the only limit!

Harold Mechelynck is Founder at Ogone.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
France, Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cowboy — Meet Cowboy, the connected electric bike for urban riders. With an intuitive motor to sense your pedaling force and a companion app in the cockpit to guide your ride, tune into a newfound freedom in the city.
Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
Spreedly — Spreedly's Payments Orchestration Platform lets you connect to payment gateways in over 100 countries with a single API connection.

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale. If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cloover — Cloover provides a flexible financing solution that allows you to rent renewable technologies and make savings from day 1, completely risk and worry free!
Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
Visual Layer — Visual Layer is a Tel Aviv based startup providing visual data management platform that scales to billion images and videos.

Jeffrey Thomas is a Co-Founder of Digital Reef. He attended University of East London.

Investment focus

Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lightful — Lightful helps nonprofits and charities develop the skills, tools and confidence to build trust and gain support online

Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
Skedway — Every work experience should be great! Skedway is the complete platform to optimize the hybrid work experience.
NewHomesMate — Find, compare and buy a new construction home - all in one place.

Lars H. Thunell, a Swedish national, is Executive Vice President and CEO of IFC (International Finance Corporation), a member of the World Bank Group.Lars Thunell is leading IFC in its mission to promote sustainable private sector development. Since joining the Corporation in January 2006, Lars Thunell has advanced growth of IFC's businessand its mission to create opportunities in emerging markets and improve people's lives. He has visited 60 developing countries to see firsthand how IFC can best help its clients with financing and advisory services, and endorsed further decentralization of IFC.Lars Thunell joined IFC after a successful career in the financial services industry. Most recently, he was the Chief Executive Officer of SEB, a North European commercial and investment bank. In the 1990s, Lars Thunell served as the Chief Executive Officer of Trygg-Hansa, a Swedish insurance company, and as Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Nordbanken.As President and Chief Executive Officer of Securum, an asset management company established by the Swedish government, he played a key role in the government's strategy for resolving the country's banking crisis of the 1990s. Under Lars Thunell's leadership, Securum was able to restructure and sell off distressed assets held by the government more quickly than originally expected, recovering value for the Swedish taxpayer.Previously, he worked at ABB Zurich and at American Express in New York. He has also held numerous board positions with international companies and nongovernmental organizations.Lars Thunell graduated with a doctorate from the University of Stockholm and was a research fellow at the Harvard University Center for International Affairs.

Investment focus

Solar, FinTech, Robotics
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

TRINE — TRINE uses crowdinvesting to enable people to support solar energy projects, while also delivering a return to the investors. We provide the expertise, organization and the platform for enabling secure investments in carefully selected projects and bring finance to local solar entrepreneurs in emerging nations to electrify the world. Ourcrowdinvestors will fund the initial cost for installing the solar system, over time this loan is paid back with interest by the value of electricity produced from the solar system. With our solution we will connect money sitting in banks, with solar entrepreneurs like yourself in need of financing. By doing so, we will not only enable people to earn a return on an impact investment and democratize those investment options, but also help you to elevate poor communities out of their energy poverty and improve their living standard.
Spowdi — Spowdi uses solar-powered drip irrigation to enable farmers to save water, be more independent and secure more profitable food production.
ManoMotion — ManoMotion is a deep tech AI company developing software for real time 3D gesture analysis that allows the user to interact with technology through finger and hand gestures in 3D. This is particularly important to create effective interaction without the need for additional hardware in Augmented and Virtual Reality, and with the small screens, orno screens, typical in wearable computing and smart devices.

Gabriel Jarrosson created his first website at 13, then sold his first startup at 25. Serial entrepreneur and investor in more than 100 startups with 15 exits, he has since founded Leonis Investissement, a private club that offers its members the opportunity to invest in fast-growing startups in Silicon Valley that they would not have access toalone. He has invested more than $30M through this club. He is the creator of the YouTube channel "Leonis Investissement", the most followed in France on this theme. Since 2023, he has also manages Lobster Capital, a $10M investment fund that invests in Silicon Valley startups.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, India

Portfolio highlights

54gene — 54gene is a healthcare startup unlocking the African genome to fuel genetic research and development that may lead to new discoveries and benefit all populations.54gene was founded in 2019 by Dr. Abasi Ene-Obong to address the significant gap in the global genomics market: Nearly 90% of genetic material used in pharmaceutical research iscaucasian. Only 2% is African, despite the fact that Africans and people of African ancestry are more genetically diverse than all other world populations combined. As a result, pharmaceutical research and development is lacking the diverse data that may hold the key to medical discoveries and new healthcare solutions.
Apprente — Learn New Stuff Every Day
Jeeves — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.

Giulio Valiante - Partner @ Vertis SGR S.p.A.

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Social Media, Crowdsourcing
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

DeRev — DeRev is the principal Italian crowdfunding platform to fund creative and innovative projects. DeRev built a large network of relationships at national and international level and we work with institutions, brands, political parties, associations, cultural stakeholders, universities and startup incubators to help spreading the culture and practiceof sharing economy, social innovation and participative democracy. Today DeRev is the leading startup in Italy about crowdfunding and social media, with a focus on arts and culture, politics, activism and civic projects.

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