# Top 50 Enterprise Angel Investors in Germany in June 2026 ## Carsten Maschmeyer - Type: Angel - Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany - Relevant deals: 16 - 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. ## Felix Jahn - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 15 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others. ## Christian Vollmann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de. ## Mario Götze - Type: Angel - Location: German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Mario Götze is a professional footballer. ## Jochen Engert - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Rental, Travel Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus ## Robin Haak - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series C - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Robin E. Haak is a German political scientist, tech entrepreneur, operator, and investor with a track record of founding, scaling, and exiting companies—as well as building and managing high-impact funds.He co-founded the AI/ML job matching platform Jobspotting, which later merged with SmartRecruiters. Through the merger, Haak became ashareholder, as well as Global COO and Managing Director of SmartRecruiters, where he built international go-to-market and fundraising operations. Under his leadership the company scaled strongly, surpassing $100M ARR, achieving unicorn status, and was acquired by SAP; SmartRecruiters is now fully integrated into SAP.Beyond that exit, Haak has invested in nearly 100 companies globally, spanning early-stage angel through growth equity. Notable investments include N26 (as the first check investor), Algolia, Aircall, Frontify, Coralogix, Epsor, Planity, Platform.sh, Wo\men Inc., Arx Robotics, and many others.He co-founded Wo\men Inc., a platform advocating for gender equality and diversity in technology, where he contributed as Founder and Chief Marketing Officer.Haak also co-created Revaia, a Paris–Berlin growth equity fund with an ESG and crossover strategy. He was central to raising its first €250 million fund, which has since grown to approximately €600 million assets under management.Today, Haak leads Robin Capital, a Solo GP venture capital firm that has now entered its second fund generation. Starting with €15 million in committed capital in Fund I, Robin Capital has expanded its focus beyond enterprise and B2B SaaS into deeptech, robotics, AI, and highly defensible products. The firm continues to back exceptional founders across Europe, with particular strength in the DACH region.In addition to founding and investing, Haak serves on several boards and advisory roles — including as Advisory Board Member of Slush and Stepstone — leveraging his experience to support founders, guide strategy, and scale businesses.Haak studied Political Science (with emphasis on History, Law, and Theology) at the University of Salzburg, and holds an MBA in Media Management from the Hamburg Media School / University of Hamburg.Outside his professional work, he has a deep interest in viticulture and spends part of each year harvesting grapes at Domaine de la Romanée-Conti in Burgundy, which he sees as a grounding counterpoint to the fast pace of venture capital. He also used to fight Muay Thai in Thailand, still trains regularly, and enjoys traveling, cooking, and reading. ## Hanno Renner - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Hanno Renner is based out of Munich, Bayern and is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Personio Foundation. Hanno previously worked at Quarterdeck Life Ltd as a Skipper of Sailing Yachts. Hanno Renner attended Columbia University. ## Michael Wax - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto. ## Tim Schumacher - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Internet Tim Schumacher is a Managing General Partner at World Fund. Tim previously worked at Sedo.com as a Member Board Of Directors. He attended University of Cologne and Stockholm School of Economics.Tim Schumacher Co-Founded and was the longtime CEO of the publicly traded company Sedo AG, which currently has revenues of 130m euros per year andmaintains approximately 350 employees. Since 2012 he has dedicated his professional career to the German startup scene, acting both as a business angel and mentor for young companies with economic potential. His current startups, among many others, are Eyeo/Adblock Plus, Aklamio, Hitfox and Ecosia. ## Christian Dahlen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Analytics, Information Technology Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co. ## Michael Brehm - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 10 - 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. ## Martin Sinner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Martin Sinner is the COO at 360dialog. ## Chris Schagen - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS I help developer tech entrepreneurs beginning from crazy idea, through MVP stage, product market fit, go-to-market fit, up to go-to-market scaling. Also I help you get your first 1000 leads. Before, I was the CMO at Contentful and helped it grow from $0m to $50m in ARR, and before that founded 3 companies, including Wooga (exit to Playtika),Linklift, and Mundwerk.I obsess about being customer-centric and customer-driven in building your organization. And I am the curmodgeon who tells you things you need to (but probably don't want to) hear. ## Kai Hansen - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com ## Christophe Maire - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 9 - 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. ## Dr. Cornelius Boersch - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, FinTech Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen. ## Charlie Songhurst - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics. ## Daniel Krauss - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 8 - 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. ## Rolf Schromgens - Type: Angel - Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts ## Julius Göllner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Julius Göllner - Co-Founder @ ARRtist Summit ## Ingo Drexler - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## Christian Edler - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 7 - 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. ## Frank Freund - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Frank Freund is CFO & founder at SavingGlobal. ## Maximilian Viessmann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Battery Max Viessmann is Co-CEO and Member of the Board of the ‘Viessmann Group’ as well as CEO of VC/O.As the Co-CEO he continues to drive the Group’s digital evolution.Through VC/O the Group is making people’s life easier particularly in private and commercial housing aka the prop tech space. Through the Munich-based venture capital fund‘Vito Ventures’ and Berlin-based company builder ‘WATTx’ the team is providing a node for highly passionate entrepreneurs in the deep tech space.Prior to joining the family business, Max has been an early-stage investor and a management consultant with The Boston Consulting Group in the Munich and Shanghai offices.He has spent a lot of time living abroad particularly in the US, China and Japan. ## Matthias Hilpert - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital ## Carsten Thoma - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Carsten co-founded hybris in 1997. He is responsible for global operations, marketing and corporate planning of the company. After successfully driving the hybris North America market entry Carsten led the team that managed the acquisition of iCongo in August 2011. His relentless pursuit for talent has resulted in a highly motivated and passionateworkforce and unique corporate culture as that is at the center of the company’s success. He began his career at Hewlett Packard, where his ideas for a standardized and flexible e-commerce software were the starting point for what would become hybris. Carsten studied law and also holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration ## Mirko Novakovic - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, CMS CEO at Dash0 Angel Investor at New Forge ## Thomas Bachem - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 6 - 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. ## Chris Hitchen - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 6 - 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. ## Benedikt Franke - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Benedikt Franke is the co-founder of Helpling. ## Oskar Hartmann - Type: Angel - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. ## Rouven Dresselhaus - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 6 - 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. ## Louis Pfitzner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, Software, Marketplace Co-CEO at CleanHub, Entrepreneur (Salonmeister, Treatwell, CAYA, Lieferheld/Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about building companies (marketplaces & SaaS), especially in the SMB space. ## Heiko Hubertz - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Machine Learning Heiko Hubertz - Founder & CEO @ Oxolo ## Tim Marbach - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Marketplace, Real Estate, Rental Property Tim is a global entrepreneur and venture investor. He started his first company bonial.com in 2008 and sold it to German media conglomerate Axel Springer SE in 2011. In 2013, Tim relocated to South East Asia and has since co-founded and invested in many successful consumer internet companies through his private internet holding company Asia VentureGroup. Those companies have successfully raised several hundred million USD in follow-on venture capital and employ several thousand employees across the global. Those companies include HappyFresh, iPrice Group, iMoney (sold to iSelect), FlowerChimp, audibene (sold to Sivantos/EQT), Scalable Capital (sold to BlackRock), Jewelcandle (sold to Equistone), Vicampo (sold to Burda), CARS24, Movinga, Homebell, Fave, Stoyo and many more. ## Philipp Kreibohm - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Legal Philipp Kreibohm - born in 1976. After completion of his law studies and PhD at FU Berlin he co-founded Mundwerk AG in Berlin in 2001, which was sold to Excelsis Business Technology AG in 2004. From 2006-2007 Philipp was a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and in 2007 a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. In 2007 he became foundingManaging Director of Rocket Internet, before he founded FP Commerce in 2009. Later on, this company was renamed to Home24 AG, where he is still the Co-CEO. ## Heinz Raufer - Type: Angel - Location: Nürnberg, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, B2B Heinz Raufer ## Frank Thelen - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing Frank Thelen is the Founder & CEO of 10xDNA Capital Partners. He previously worked at mytaxi - The Taxi App as an Investor. Frank Thelen attended Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences. ## Martina Pfeifer - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing Martina Pfeifer joined Advent International GmbH in 2009 and acts as an advisor in the German-speaking region. Previously she worked for Goldman Sachs in Frankfurt, where she spent two years as an analyst in the investment banking division. As a member of the Financial Institutions Group at Goldman Sachs she was involved in M&A, financingtransactions and marketing for German and international clients. ## Ralf Dummel - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas. ## Andreas Burike - Type: Angel - Location: Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Human Resources Andreas Burike is the Founder and CFO of AnyDesk. ## Johannes Reck - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Transportation Johannes Reck is the Chief Executive Officer at GetYourGuide. He leads the company’s long-term vision and strategy.Johannes co-founded GetYourGuide in 2009 while attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and has grown the company into the leading booking platform for incredible travel experiences. Under Johannes’ leadership, over 30million tickets have been booked to date via the GetYourGuide website, mobile app, and partnership network. GetYourGuide has raised over $650M from investors such as the SoftBank Vision Fund, Battery Ventures and KKR. Johannes leads GetYourGuide’s 550-person global team from its headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Johannes originally hails from Cologne, Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. ## Florian Heinemann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation). ## Tamaz Georgadze - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software Tamaz Georgadze As CEO he leads Raisin and takes in particular care of partner bank acquisition, business development, legal and regional expansion efforts. Prior to building and scaling Raisin, Tamaz has spent 10 years with McKinsey & Company, the last 3 years as Principal leading also McKinsey Savings and Investment products Service Line forEMEA countries. He served some of the very largest retail, universal and wholesale banks throughout Europe and in Asia. Tamaz holds a PhD in agricultural economics, graduated with honors in law (both from University of Giessen) and international economics (from Tbilisi State University). ## Finn Age Haensel - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: SaaS, FinTech, Grocery Finn Age Hänsel, 36, studied Business Administration in Germany, Hungary and New Zealand. Following a 4-year engagement at BCG, he joined Rocket Internet in Australia from 2011 to 2013, as a Managing Director. After founding the largest australian online fashion retailer, THE ICONIC, he went on to become the Managing Director of theProSiebenSat1-Incubator, EPIC Companies. In 2015 he founded the Berliner Berg brewery and became a Business Angel for multiple Berlin start-ups including CrossEngage, SMACC and Einhorn. In November 2015, he joined Movinga as CEO. Finn is also board member in the German Start-up Association. Just recently, he founded the Sanity Group, a European Cannabis company, together with Fabian Friede. ## Lothar Stein - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity - Focus: Information Technology, Energy, Railroad Lothar Stein - Mentor @ SINN Power ## Andre Schwammlein - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Rental, Solar Andre Schwammlein is the CEO of FlixBus DACH. Andre Schwammlein attended FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg. ## Lukasz Gadowski - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Software Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management. ## ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Battery ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz ## Philipp Herkelmann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Philipp Herkelmann is Partner at Entrepreneur First. Previous at X-The Moonshot factory in Palo Alto (US) , Google in Berlin (DE) & Dublin (IR) founder at GiftMe Ltd. and Product Manager at an Ecommerce Venture (DE). He attended Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen and has a major in Public Management & Governance.