# Top 50 Crowdfunding Angel Investors in Europe in June 2026

## Jaan Tallinn
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet

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

## Ed Wray
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

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.

## Nicolas Douay
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor @ Better Angle

## David Braben
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Crowdfunding, Trading Platform

David Braben Chairman at Frontier Developments.

## Stanley Fink
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Stanley Fink is based out of London, England and is the Chairman of the Board of Astrea London. Stanley previously worked at British Pearl as a Chairman of Board. Stanley Fink attended Trinity Hall. Stanley Fink has been certified as a ICAEW Ethics CPD Course Module 1.

## Harold Mechelynck
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, SaaS

Harold Mechelynck is Founder at Ogone.

## Jaewoong Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, South Korea
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: News, SaaS, Beauty

Jaewoong Lee is based out of Busan, Pusan-jikhalsi, and is the Founder of Socar. Jaewoong previously worked at Daum Communications as a Founder.

## Vishal Amin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Health Care

Vishal Amin

## Erik Nygard
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding

Erik is the Founder and CEO at Kofa.

## Denis Lafont-Trévisan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toulouse, Midi-Pyrenees, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Real Estate

Denis Lafont-Trevisan is an entrepreneur and angel investor in Software and Spacetech related companies. 
2 IPOs, 1 chapter 11, 4 exits. 
Outsourcing and technology Markets specialist.

## Paolo Barberis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.

## Marcus Mosen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Big Data, Consumer

Marcus Mosen

## Lars Thunell
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Solar, FinTech, Robotics

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.

## Cristiano Esclapon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Automotive, Smart Home

Cristiano Esclapon - Founding Team @ Siamosoci

## Paul Willmott
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding

Paul Willmott

## Rouven Dresselhaus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

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.

## Matt Wilkins
- Type: Angel
- Location: Saint Albans, Hertford, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding

Matt Wilkins is the Advisor at Clim8 Invest.

## Amadeo Brenninkmeijer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet

Amadeo Brenninkmeijer - Senior Partner @ inPositiv

## Edward Lando
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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.

## Björn von Siemens
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software

Björn von Siemens is the Co-Founder and CFO of Caresyntax. He previously worked at Boston Consulting Group (BCG) as a Healthcare Consumer. Björn von Siemens attended Harvard University.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Reece Chowdhry
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

Reece Lal Chowdhry is based out of London, England and is the Founding Partner of Concept Ventures. Reece previously worked at Ernst & Young as a Management Consultant and Technology Advisory. Reece Lal Chowdhry attended the Durham University. Reece Lal Chowdhry has been awarded as the Seed VC of the Year and Asian Tech Pioneer in their career.

## Gabriel Jarrosson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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.

## Nicolas Berggruen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

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

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

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

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

## Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / 
-Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger)
- Equity Markets
- Real Estate
- FX
- Commodity
- Bonds
- Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT
- Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories:
- Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint
- Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi
- D2C / B2C
- Food & Beverages
- Pharma
- Media & Entertainment

## Matteo Gamba
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking

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.

## Saulius Rudokas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music, Video, Sports

Saulius Rudokas

## Ruben Ferreiro
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, FinTech

Ruben Ferreiro is the Founder and CEO of VIKO GROUP. He previously worked at ELOGIA as a CEO. Ruben Ferreiro attended M4c Academy.

## Will Neale
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

## Christian Edler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

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.

## Kaidi Ruusalepp
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Big Data, Crowdfunding, Trading Platform

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.

## Annika Small
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media

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

## Michael van Swaaij
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Travel, FinTech

Michael van Swaaij is an Advisor, and ex-Chairman Skype and attributed with the launch of eBay & AOL in Europe

## Erikas Virsilas
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music, Video, Sports

Erikas Virsilas

## Giulio Valiante
- Type: Angel
- Location: Napoli, Campania, Italy
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Video, Software, Recruiting

Giulio Valiante - Partner @ Vertis

## Jon Moulton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking

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.

## Steve Thomson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding

Steve Thomson

## Dominik Briggs
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Crowdfunding

Dominik Briggs

## Jeffrey Thomas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Corsham, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media

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

## Nidas Kiuberis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palanga, Klaipedos Apskritis, Lithuania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music, Video, Sports

Nidas Kiuberis

## Dario Franchitti
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Charity, Crowdfunding, Social Media

Dario Franchitti

## Monica Kalia
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding

Monica Kalia - Trustee @ StepChange Debt Charity

## Tomas Skaisgirys
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music, Video, Sports

Tomas Skaisgirys

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

Marcus is Vice President Marketing at Student.com. The focus of his role is to build traffic, enquiry and booking volume opportunities across channels and markets by leading a team of marketing professionals to build the the most trusted brand in the market.Marcus has been in marketing for 22 years with a focus on digital marketing for the last18 years. He founded and grew his own digital ad agency, Blue Barracuda, until its sale to DraftFCB in 2011, where he continued as Digital Director for 3 years. He is an adviser to and investor in various start-ups, as well as an active supporter of causes Projects for All and The Rainmaker Foundation.

## Doug Scott
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding

Doug Scott

## Andrew Cocker
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Clean Energy, Crowdfunding

Andrew Cocker

## Boel Rydenå-Swartling
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Music

Boel Rydenå-Swartling

## Cédric Delorme
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, CRM

Business angel investing with impact in Foodtech, Winetech, Insuretech and Fintech