Top 5 eSports Angel Investors in Germany (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Dan Gilbert
Angel
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1 | United States, Israel, Germany | Series A, Series B, Seed | Video, Sports, Content | $1.6M–$90M |
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YuChiang Cheng
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany | Seed, Series A | eSports, Video Games, Gaming | $3.5M–$17M |
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Christian Edler
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $497k–$555M |
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Myke Naef
Angel
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1 | Switzerland, Germany, United States | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | FinTech, SaaS, Sports | $10M–$20M |
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Sumit Gupta
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, Argentina | Seed, Post-IPO Equity | SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Gaming | $2M–$2M |
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Dan Gilbert is the Founder and Chairman of Quicken Loans. He previously worked at StockX as an Investor. Dan Gilbert attended Wayne State University.
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- Industry: Video, Sports, Content
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Series A $1.6M–$90M; Series B $10M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- dub — The first Copy-Trading platform for stocks. Copy anyone's investments. For free. Regulated Broker-Dealer member FINRA and SIPC & FDIC insured.
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
- Rocket Fiber — Dedicated fiber internet, managed network services, voice, and cloud for small and enterprise business. Gigabit speed home internet. Amazing 24x7 support.
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.
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- Industry: eSports, Video Games, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $3.5M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Boom.tv — Your all in one hub for playing games, watching esports, and growing your fans!
- VENN — VENN is a new 24/7 post-cable network aimed at gaming, esports and entertainment audiences. Launching in 2020 and broadcasting live from studios in New York and Los Angeles, VENN will be distributed across a broad range of media platforms and offer original programming produced in-house and in partnership with some of the biggest names andcreators across industries.
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $700k–$8.7M; Pre-Seed $497k–$11M; Series A $10M–$555M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Visual Layer — Visual Layer is a Tel Aviv based startup providing visual data management platform that scales to billion images and videos.
Myke Naef
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- Industry: FinTech, SaaS, Sports
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Switzerland, Germany, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Series A $10M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ledgy — Digitize your cap table, automate equity plans and simplify compliance. Find out how leading companies use Ledgy to empower their employees and engage investors.
- Birdsy — Birdsy is the first AI based video platform for birdwatchers and wildlife enthusiasts. Connecting the mainstream with birds & wildlife.
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
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
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- Industry: SaaS, Digital Entertainment, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: United States, Germany, Argentina
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $2M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ShareRoot — Creating value for businesses through social media and digital tools and optimising real-world evidence to advance technologies for life.
- G2 Esports — Welcome to G2 Esports, one of the leading global esports and entertainment brands. Home to legendary players, creators, and entertainers.
- Experimental — Experimental is a game development studio producing blockchain-based games that are not only incredibly fun to play but also allow users to monetize their gaming experiences. The studio developed CryptoWars (https://cryptowars.jp), the first fully decentralized strategy game played by thousands of users around the globe.
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