# Top 50 EdTech Angel Investors in Germany in June 2026 ## Verena Pausder - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, EdTech Verena Pausder ## Sven Gabor Janszky - Type: Angel - Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Consulting, Biotechnology, AgTech Scientist, Chairman, Speaker, Investor, Author, Future Coach. I’m Founder and Chairman of the Germany based “2b AHEAD Group”, which is Europe's leading strategic foresight institute. Using scientific methods we analyze and predict the future of industries, technologies and business models. Backed by our future studies we consult corporates andmedium size companies for future strategies. Within my twenty years’ experience I wrote eight books about trends and strategy, became a well-known interview expert and a popular keynote speaker on conferences and business events. In my RULEBREAKER Society, an executive network of disruptive innovators, we are regularly visiting the innovation hotspots in Israel, Silicon Valley and Shanghai/Shenzhen and meeting the people who are actually working on shaping our future.I build startups in our own 2b AHEAD Ventures company builder and invest in international deep tech startups through my family office. Beside that I manage 3 investment funds in my 2b AHEAD Group which currently consists of 33 early and later stage deep tech companies in Australia, US, UK, Israel and Europe. Before entering my innovation carrier, I worked for more than ten years as editor and prime time anchor at German public radio. I am playing chess, running marathons and I climbed the Kilimanjaro several times. ## Mario Götze - Type: Angel - Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Mario Götze is a professional footballer. ## Stefan Peukert - Type: Angel - Location: Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Education, E-Commerce, E-Learning Founder of Masterplan.com Founder of Employour Group (Ausbildung.de, meinpraktikum.de, trainee.de) - sold to Bertelsmann 2015 ## Jens Begemann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: B2C, EdTech, Children Jens Begemann ## Udo Schloemer - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Education, Apps Udo Schloemer is the Managing Director at Viva Forever. Udo Schloemer founded his first company in 1992 and realized € 500 million project volume as a real-estate entrepreneur ever since. After angel investing in 50+ Berlin-based startups - including local heroes, such as 6wunderkinder, EyeEm, Monoqi and more - he founded Factory, Germany’s largeststartup campus in 2011. At Factory, Udo combines his one of a kind real estate expertise with his passion for startups. His long-term vision is to create a European Silicon Valley by bringing together best in class technology businesses and connecting old & new economy. ## Dirk Freise - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Software, TV Dirk Freise - Managing Director @ non olet ## Thomas Bachem - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Education Thomas Bachem “Tom” is a passionate entrepreneur, investor and founder of several startups and initiatives, including sevenload, Lebenslauf.com and the German Startups Association. Being an avid coder and designer since his early youth, he is currently building his dream university CODE and serves as Germany’s youngest university chancellor. ## Christophe Maire - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services 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. ## David Nothacker - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS David Nothacker is the Co-Founder & CEO at Sennder. ## Nicolaus Schefenacker - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS Nicolaus Schefenacker is the Co-founder and managing director at Sennder. ## Lea-Sophie Cramer - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, FinTech, Food Delivery Lea-Sophie Cramer (born April 16, 1987 in Berlin , Germany ) is a German entrepreneur . She founded in 2013 together with Sebastian Pollok, the online retailer and manufacturer of Sextoys, Amorelie, whose CEO she has been since. The business magazine Forbes named her in 2016 as one of the "30 under 30 Europe", the leading youngentrepreneurs in Europe. [1] ## Michael Brehm - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Finance, Education Michael Brehm is one of the biggest names in the German startup scene. Having sold companies to Google and eBay, taken one company public, and started an investment company (Redstone), Brehm has had the right instinct for future trends and has built multiple businesses to disrupt the status quo.During the early 2000s, he was Executive Directorand Investor at the social network startup VZ-Netzwerke, as well as co-founder of Rebate Networks, which became one of the two largest global e-commerce platforms, positioning Brehm as an expert at not only seeing but also driving a business, during significant global market transitions.One of his more recent ventures is i2x. Since 2017, Brehm has been the Founder and Managing Director of i2x, an artificial intelligence startup based in Berlin. Together with his team, Brehm is working on solving a problem that he repeatedly faced in his career: ensuring quality and delivering unprecedented customer satisfaction during every sales and service call. i2x helps companies deliver actionable insights from every customer phone call in real-time using its custom-developed voice recognition technology and AI algorithms. i2x automatically generates personalized coaching for the user that is tailored to both their speaking style and their business priorities to drive immediate results in sales and service conversations.After spending two years in stealth mode, i2x secured a €5 million seed round of financing in 2018. In 2019, i2x received €10 million as fresh capital in a Series A funding. The Berlin-based start-up is now entering additional markets and further innovating their speech analysis solution to optimize human communication and transform every customer-company relationship.Currently, Michael Brehm is back in his role as Founding Partner at Redstone, one of the most active early-stage investors in Europe. ## Stefan Glänzer - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years. ## Feliks Eyser - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Learning, Medical Feliks Eyser is the founding partner of JETPACK. ## Martin Ostermayer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Apps, Software CEO of Shortcut Ventures GmbH in Hamburg, Germany.Martin Ostermayer is one of the CEOs of the venture capital firm, Shortcut Ventures, located in Hamburg, Germany. After graduating in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg, Ostermayer received his MBA from the University of San Francisco in 1998, majoring in telecommunicationsand business strategy.In 1999, he set up handy.de, which became Europe’s largest provider of mobile entertainment services with business partners Thorsten Rehling and Dirk Freise. They also created blau.de, the first independent wireless service discounter in Germany, in 2005. They led the company until 2011. ## Daniel Schütt - Type: Angel - Location: Bochum, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Education, E-Learning, SaaS Founder of Masterplan.com, a corporate education company. Prior to Masterplan.com Daniel founded Employour what was sold in 2015 to European Media Company BERTELSMANN. ## Ulf Stahrenberg - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Education, Mobile Apps, Reading Apps Ulf Stahrenberg is a product director at Oply GmbH. Prior to this, Ulf served as chief product officer at MONOQI. He held positions at Zalando, txtr, and Strategies4Change. ## Clément Delangue - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology Clément Delangue - CEO & Co-Founder @ Hugging Face ## Peter Schuepbach - Type: Angel - Location: Langenthal, Bern, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Series A - Focus: Mobile, Education, iOS Peter Schüpbach , 53, investor and founder of SwissCommerce a platform and incubator for niche market ecommerce.He founded in 2008 Fashion Friends Ltd - the first online shopping club for designer clothes and accessories in Switzerland. Before starting his career, he worked for various Internet start-ups as a business angel (Xing, StudiVZ,plazes, NetMoms etc.) operate. In addition, he was until mid 2008 Chairman and principal shareholder of Geneva Logic, a leading software provider in the education market, which was acquired by Netop A / S.He is also a partner in the NewBorn Ventures, which invests in various Internet and software projects or is engaged. Peter Schüpbach he was named "Swiss Business Angel of the Year 2005".He was co-founder in 1986 of the software vendor Miracle Software AG and was more than 10 years as its CEO. He led the company with over 350 employees and offices in several countries in 2000 to the stock market. Had but a year later the operation close. Peter Schüpbach is married and has three children. ## Julius Koehler - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Web Apps Julius Koehler is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sennder. He was the Head of Sales at Styla and Senior Director of Business Development at WATCHMASTER.COM. ## Patric Fassbender - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Education, EdTech, Mobile Patric Fassbender is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Boxine. ## Chris Hitchen - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT. ## Daniel Krauss - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Rental, Information Technology Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network. ## Ina Schlie - Type: Angel - Location: Walldorf, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Learning, SaaS, Chemical Ina Schlie serves as co-chair of the female investor network encourage ventures. ## Felix Haas - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Local, Mobile, Sports 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. ## Robert Maier - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Education Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. ## Nikolaus D. Bayer - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Education, SaaS, EdTech Nikolaus invests in early stage ventures focusing on software, artificial intelligence, digitalisation and process optimisation, not only but mostly in Germany. Before converting himself into an angel investor, he co-founded and headed risk management solution provider IRIS Analytics, which was eventually acquired by IBM in 2015. Nikolaus holds adiploma in computer science from RWTH Aachen university, and fluently speaks German, English and Spanish. ## André Schürrle - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Sports, Software, Fantasy Sports André Schürrle ## Thomas Baum - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: EdTech, Education, Marketing Thomas Baum is Partner at Redstone, a Berlin-based Venture Capital firm that manages multiple corporate and institutional venture funds. Thomas is also Managing Director and CFO of Rebate Networks, a company builder and investment firm focused on E-Commerce ventures.He started his Internet career in 2000 as CFO and Co-Founder of yousmile.de AGand Mentasys GmbH (bought by Lycos). In 2008 he then joined VZ Netzwerke, Germany’s largest Social Network as CFO.He studied International Business and Management in Germany and France and now lives in Berlin, Germany. ## Christian Dereser - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Education, SaaS, EdTech Christian Dereser ## Carsten Maschmeyer - Type: Angel - Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success. ## Christian Reber - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Christian Reber​ is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016. ## Ingo Drexler - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, E-Commerce Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil. ## Bjorn Jopen - Type: Angel - Location: Gräfelfing, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Education, E-Learning In 2000, Björn started FairControl GmbH, a consulting company in the field of trade fair and event success control, and sold FairControl in 2012 to the MCI Group from Switzerland. In the years that followed, he built FaceAdNet into the largest German social online publisher. The company was acquired by Ströer AG in 2015. Björn was then managingdirector of Ströer Social Publishing for three years. He has been involved in various start-ups since 2012, brings his experience and knowledge to the table and helps the founders operationally. Björn is also active in restructuring. Together with partners, he takes over the majority of digital companies and puts these companies back on the road to success. In addition to his passion as an entrepreneur, Björn finds balance in sporting activities such as tennis, surfing, fitness and skiing. ## Matti Niebelschuetz - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: EdTech Matti Niebelschuetz is the Founder, MD Delivery, and Future of Work Enthusiast at CoachHub. Attended Humboldt University of Berlin. ## Gunter Thielen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Internet, Education Former CEO of Bertelsmann ## Marcus Stahl - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Education, EdTech, Mobile Marcus Stahl is the Co-Founder & Managing Director at Boxine. ## Ben Drury - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, EdTech, Children Ben began his career in 1996 as a founder of dotmusic.com, an internal venture at United News and Media which attracted over 1.8m unique users per month (in 1999). In 2000 Ben was recruited by BT Group to head up the broadband music efforts at their ISP BT Openworld where he successfully launched a major music channel. Following the partnershipbetween BT and Yahoo! to form BT Yahoo! in 2003, Ben engineered the sale of dotmusic to Yahoo! for approx. £3.3m. Ben then founded 7digital with James Kane in 2004 with the vision of creating a digital media marketplace. 7digital operates services that bring together suppliers and consumers of digital media. In September 2008 7digital.com was the first company in Europe to launch DRM-free MP3 downloads with all four major record labels. In September 2009 HMV Group acquired a 50% equity stake in 7digital with an investment of £7.7m. Ben was named by Growing Business magazine as a Young Gun 2006 – the award for leading entrepreneurs under 35. In 2007, 7digital was awarded the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award as one of the most promising technology companies in Europe. ## ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Battery ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz ## Christian Hülsewig - Type: Angel - Location: Gütersloh, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Construction, EdTech, Robotics Christian Hülsewig is a Founder and CEO at Schüttflix. He attended Bentley University 2004 - 2008. ## Rolf Schromgens - Type: Angel - Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts ## Richard Lane - Type: Angel - Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Education, E-Learning, Higher Education Before becoming a recognised keynote speaker, sales trainer and sales improvement thought leader, Richard spent his career in sales management and leadership positions for learning and software technology companies. Throughout his career he has led both UK and global sales organisations to consistently out-perform expectations by selling, andhelping others to sell, complex solutions.As the creator of the methodology “Selling at a Higher Level”, Richard has built up an enviable reputation by helping the likes of Sage, Xero, HP, British Gas, Aviva, NatWest (and durhamlane) become more profitable and transition towards developing performance cultures. ## Mike O'Brien - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Education, E-Learning, Higher Education Mike O'Brien is a founder and Managing Director of Opencast software ## Raman Sehgal - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Education, E-Learning, Higher Education Raman Sehgal is a Founder of Remarketing. ## Lin Gong Deutschmann - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Education, GreenTech Lin-Gong Deutschmann is an angel investor. ## Michael Lavery - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Education, E-Learning, Higher Education Michael Lavery is a Chief Executive Officer of Brand & Reputation. ## Paul Dyson - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Education, E-Learning, Higher Education Paul Dyson is the CTO and co-founder of Singletrack. He attended the University of Essex. ## Olav Sehlbach - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Nursing and Residential Care, E-Learning, Elder Care BA4V Partner. With over 25 years experience in the health care sector, Mr. Sehlbach has extensive knowledge of demographic change. As an active veteran business angel, he brings extensive expertise with regards to social entrepreneurship to the table. ## Alexander Tschirnhaus - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical, Internet, Education Alexander Tschirnhaus