# Top 50 ESports Angel Investors in Europe in June 2026 ## Sam Enrico Williams - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Web Apps, Sports Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr. Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels. ## Daniel Tomov - Type: Angel - Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Small and Medium Businesses Daniel is founding partner at Eleven Accelerator Venture Fund and investing in some of the most promising and exciting tech startups in CEE. Daniel has been involved in startups since 2000 as early stage investor and funded (in some cases bootstrapping) entrepreneur in diverse domains ranging from software to mobile to consumer goods torenewable energy. He has been lucky to meet and befriend with some of the greatest tech entrepreneurs in our region. ## Jonas Nordlander - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, Fashion Jonas Nordlander is a Co-Founder & CEO at Avito.ru. ## Ben Holmes - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Gaming, Software, Internet Ben is a Partner at Index Ventures, having joined the London office in 2002. Ben focuses on the software and internet sectors and has been actively involved with many of the firm's consumer and media investments. He currently sits on the boards of Astley Clarke, Grey Area Labs, iZettle, Just-Eat, King.com, Mind Candy, Notonthehighstreet,Rebtel, Secret Escapes, Shapeways, Stardoll and Twoo. He was previously a Director of Panther Express and Playfish (Electronic Arts).Prior to joining Index Ventures, he worked at the NewMedia Spark investment fund, before becoming Vice President at EO plc, a Spark portfolio company in the consumer financial services sector. Previously he spent four years at OC&C Strategy Consultants, advising firms in the retail and IT sectors.He has a Masters degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University. ## Zlatan Ibrahimovic - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games Zlatan Ibrahimovic ## Per Brilioth - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Seed - Focus: Apps, Software, Transportation Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global ## Donato Gonzalez - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Gaming, Mobile, eSports Donato Gonzalez is the president at Société Générale Group. ## Jaynti Kanani - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet Jaynti Kanani - Co-Founder @ Polygon ## Christian Edler - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## Jacob Key - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Insurance Jacob Key is co-founder and general partner of Luminar Ventures. Jacob has made close to 20 early stage investments in companies such as Challengermode, Gavagai, Unacast and Pacemaker - and made 3 successful exits to date in Sportamore, Vera&John and Vetzoo. ## John Maloney - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Education, Apps, Video Managing Partner @TerrapinBale, Former President @Tumblr, @Circa, Co-founder UrbanBaby, angel investor ## Karl Magnus Troedsson - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Software, SaaS Karl Magnus Troedsson - Founder @ Behold Ventures ## Ivaylo Simov - Type: Angel - Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Coffee, Big Data, Agriculture Ivaylo Simov devised eleven’s strategy. His notorious shyness can be overcome only with ample amounts of beer, preferably while skiing. He was previously a director in a private equity fund, but now wants to change the VC industry from the bottom up. ## Julien Lemoine - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Cloud Management, SaaS Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder of Algolia, Inc. and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine is a Co-Founder at Algolia SAS and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Julien Lemoine defined the technology strategy of MASA Group (an international software editor of simulation software) and led the development of strategic R&Dproducts in indexing and natural languages processing at Exalead (Dassault Systèmes subsidiary) and Thales Group. He has extensive experience in architecture design and implementation from his leading work in Exalead and Thales. ## Valeri Petrov - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Health Care Valeri is primarily in charge with investment opportunities in Bulgaria and the Western Balkans. Prior to that, he was Partner at Bancroft Private and, before joining Bancroft, he was Investment Director with Global Finance, running the company’s activities in Bulgaria. Valeri led and co-led many transactions in various countries acrossSouth-Eastern Europe (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia and Turkey among others). Prior to moving to the Private Equity industry, Valeri ran Orgachim, the largest paints & coating company in Bulgaria (backed by private equity funds, including RAEF) as CEO, where he completed a successful turnaround. Valeri also worked for the Royal Dutch/Shell, and held various positions within the organization. Valeri holds an MSc in Engineering from the Technical University of Sofia. He also attended Management Academy in London and ETP on Business Management in Delaware University, Sofia branch. ## Morten E. Wulff - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Content, SaaS Founder & Chairperson at GameAnalytics - changing game development. ALso, Advisor & miniature-investor in 10+ companies; mostly in the Nordic start-up community with connections to several major VC companies as well a track record of working with top business angels such as Morten Lund, Tommy Ahlers, Thomas Mygdal, Klaus Lovgreen, JimmyMaymann, Michael Arrington.As entrepreneur Morten has been involved with more than 10 start-ups including TraceWorks, Wulffmorgenthaler, Get In, Wordy (Winner Seedcamp 2010), Lovemade™, and Hello Fitness. ## Ashley Heppenstall - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games Born in England in 1962, Ashley Heppenstall is a graduate of Durham University where he obtained a degree in Mathematics.From 1984 until 1990, he worked in the banking sector where he was involved in project financing of oil and mining businesses. In 1990, Mr. Heppenstall was a founding director and shareholder of Sceptre Management Limited.Mr.Heppenstall has worked with public companies associated with the Lundin family since 1993. In 1998 he was appointed Finance Director of Lundin Oil AB. Following the acquisition of Lundin Oil by Talisman Energy in 2001, Lundin Petroleum was formed and he was appointed President & Chief Executive Officer in 2002 until he stood down in 2015.Ashley Heppenstall holds 1,542,618 shares in Lundin Petroleum through investment company Rojafi.Ashley Heppenstall is in the Nomination Committee’s and the Company’s opinion, as the Company’s previous President and CEO until 30 September 2015, not independent of the Company and Group management and further not independent of the Company’s major shareholders as he is a director of companies in which entities associated with the Lundin family hold ten percent or more of the share capital and voting rights. ## Dan Gilbert - Type: Angel - Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series B, Series A - Focus: Video, Sports, Content Dan Gilbert is the Founder and Chairman of Quicken Loans. He previously worked at StockX as an Investor. Dan Gilbert attended Wayne State University. ## Myke Naef - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Sports Myke Naef ## Clark Landry - Type: Angel - Location: Nashville, Tennessee, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Clark Landry is the Managing Partner of Clover Leaf Ventures.Most recently, Clark was co-founder and COO at CESPPA, a cybersecurity company. Formerly, Clark was co-founder and COO at Maple Media (raised $30 million from private equity investors), co-founder and executive chairman at SHIFT (acquired by Brand Networks), co-founder and CEO at TopLevel Domain Holdings (now Minds + Machines - publicly-traded on the London Stock Exchange's AIM), co-founder and CMO at TagWorld (acquired by Viacom). Clark was a founding investor of Gradient X, a mobile DSP (acquired by SingTel), Traffic Marketplace, an advertising network (acquired by Vivendi), Adconion Media Group, a provider of digital media advertising solutions (acquired by Amobee), Conversion Logic, an advertising attribution company, and CREXi, a commercial real estate marketplace.Clark holds a bachelor of arts degree in economics from Yale University. ## Andreas Granqvist - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: eSports, PC Games, Mobile Apps Andreas Granqvist ## Hugo Borges de Sousa - Type: Angel - Location: Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: eSports Hugo Borges de Sousa ## Julien Lopizzo - Type: Angel - Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Legal Tech, Advertising, Digital Media Julien Lopizzo is the PDG at Major Corp. He attended emlyon business school. ## Joi Ito - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018. ## Christian Legene - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Content, eSports Christian Legene is Partner & Global CEO @ Autobutler. ## 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 ## Mats Carlsson - Type: Angel - Location: Danderyd, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games Mats Carlsson is the Chief Executive Officer of Pareto Securities. ## Jeff Sagansky - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Big Data, Gambling Jeff Sagansky - Chief Executive Officer and President @ Double Eagle Acquisition ## Andreas Mihalovits - Type: Angel - Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference. ## Sumit Gupta - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Post-IPO Equity - Focus: SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Gaming Sumit Gupta is an Advisor at Boom Fantasy and Founder & CEO at Boom.tv. He is a 3x Entrepreneur (multiple exits), Angel Investor and Mentor. Founded 3 companies. Invested in 50+ startups including Discord, G2 eSports, BlockChain Capital, Blockstream, Blockcypher, Filecoin, Wag, Classpass, OpenDoor, HoneyBook, Managed-by-Q, Dishcraft Robotics.Mr. Gupta also runs Piazza eSports Ventures with pa articular focus on investments and incubating startups Infusing tech into eSports and Game Streaming. Investments include Discord, Vulcun/StreamLabs, BitKraft, G2 Esports. Startup Portfolio includes DrDisRespect stream team, Boom.tv, Rolocule Games, Boom FantasyPreviously, He served as a Founder & CEO of Bash Gaming, took the mobile gaming company to annual revenue of $75M, profitable and sold it to GSN for $170M. Previously as founder CEO of BitRhymes Apps, top 10 app developers in social space. Before that, I was part of founding team at Business Signatures that was sold to Entrust for $55M ## Karl Sandstedt - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games Karl Sandstedt is the Head of Devices and Services at Google. ## Joseph Tsai - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Sports, Fashion, E-Commerce Joseph Tsai is the current Executive Vice Chairman of Alibaba Group. He previously worked at Investor AB as a Vice President and Senior Investment Manager. Joseph Tsai attended Yale Law School. ## Jonas Siljemark - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games Jonas Siljemark is the CEO of Warner Music Scandinavia. ## Andrey Belozerov - Type: Angel - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, EdTech, FinTech Andrey Belozerov is an entrepreneur and investor. Expert in the field of digital technologies and digital transformation, co-founder Digital Disrupt investment club, United Nations Development Program expert. ## Joaquín Cuenca Abela - Type: Angel - Location: Málaga, Andalucia, Spain - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports Joaquin Cuenca Abela is Chief Executive Officer at Freepik Company. he attended Paris-Sud University (Paris XI) from 1998 to 2001. ## Johan Skarborg - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: eSports, Internet, PC Games Johan Skarborg is the Founder and CEO of Academic Work. ## Sérgio Oliveira - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: PaaS, Soccer, Sports Sérgio Oliveira ## Bogomil Balkansky - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Artificial Intelligence Bogomil Balkansky is a Partner at Sequoia Capital. He started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Bogomil holds a bachelor of arts in Mathematics from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. ## Vassil Terziev - Type: Angel - Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech Vassil is responsible for overseeing Telerik’s strategic direction and enabling its rapid growth as a global provider of enterprise-class software and services. As a co-founder of Telerik, Vassil was instrumental in growing the sales, support and business development units of the company and establishing the fanatical dedication to customerservice. Vassil’s vision and dedication has helped Telerik keep its slogan to “Deliver more than expected” and enjoy a solid track record of growing revenues and profitability in the ever changing developer tools marketplace.Vassil earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria and has served in various roles in companies from real estate, investment and high-tech industries. ## Martin Dahlin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: eSports, PC Games, Psychology Martin Dahlin ## Robin Knox - Type: Angel - Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Digital Media Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary. ## 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 ## Paul Walton - Type: Angel - Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Digital Media Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary. ## Filip Engelbert - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, E-Commerce, Fashion Filip Engelbert is a Co-Founder at Avito.ru. ## Rafael Avilés Uruñuela - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, eSports, Internet Rafael Avilés Uruñuela ## Jesper Drescher - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Gaming, Content Jesper Drescher ## Robin Söderling - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: eSports, PC Games, Mobile Apps Robin Söderling ## YuChiang Cheng - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: eSports, Video Games, Gaming YuChiang Cheng is the Chief Product Officer of Zwift. YuChiang graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colorado College. He lives in Silicon Valley and, when not playing golf, you’ll find him restoring classic cars, playing hockey and wrestling his dogs. ## Svetozar Georgiev - Type: Angel - Location: Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech Svetozar Georgiev is the Chairman of the Board at BESCO. He attended American University in Bulgaria, Truman State University, and Technology School Electronic Systems (TUES), both associated with Technical University-Sofia. ## Paul Bragiel - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Gaming Paul Bragiel is the Managing Partner of Bragiel Brothers. He previously worked at the United Republic of Tanzania as an Advisor. Paul Bragiel attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.