Top 10 Film Angel Investors in Europe in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Film startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Film companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Film Angel Investors in Europe in January 2026

Investor	Film Europe investments
Jonathan Beddoes	1
Lorenz Bogaert	1
Lars Dittrich	1
Pere Mayol	1
Ian Noel	1
Chris Mairs	1
Tao Tao	1
Pavel Cherkashin	1
Rouven Dresselhaus	1
Andrew Weisz	1

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Jonathan began his entrepreneurial career at school aged 17 when he founded a web-hosting company which sold within its first year of trading. After developing an early taste of business success, whilst at university Jonathan co-developed a popular music software application that was downloaded by over 30,000,000 people. For his post-graduatestudies, Jonathan was the youngest person ever to complete a Masterclass in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Following academia, Jonathan joined Zugo in 2008 (a leading search solutions platform and aggregator) that became a cornerstone of distribution for major search engines (most notably Microsoft Bing). In late 2012, Jonathan exited from Zugo and subsequently co-founded Techtopia, a technology incubator located in the heart of 'silicon village' in North West London. Today, Jonathan remains a director of Techtopia, a product visionary, angel investor and an ambassador for the Internet industry.

Investment focus

Photography, Film, Video
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Twine — Build a more diverse team of freelancers to beat your competition. Hire vetted freelancers from Twine's global network to help you scale your business.
Lifecake — Canon Europe, leading provider of digital cameras, digital SLR cameras, inkjet printers & professional printers for business and home users.
Socialite —

Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Belgium, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.

Lars Dittrich is responsible for the "Investments & Investments Management" unit and head of the Berlin office.He has extensive business experience as a founder and investor of successful start-up businesses.In 1997 Lars Dittrich founded dug telecom AG (today part of freenet AG) and served as its Chairman & CEO. In 2007the company was sold to Permira, which merged it with debitel AG. Lars Dittrich was chairman of the Sales division of debitel AG until 2010.In 2008 Lars Dittrich became Chairman and Business Angel of tape.tv, besides pursuing other investments in various industries.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

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FOUNDD — FOUNDD is an app to find movies and shows with friends.
Tapstack — Connect smarter and close faster with Tapni - your all-in-one digital business card and lead capture tool. Instantly share contact info, sync to CRM, and follow up like a pro. Perfect for sales teams, realtors, and networkers. No more lost leads.

Pere Mayol - co-Founder - co-CEO & COO @ Avatar Cognition

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, Communities
Seed, Angel, Series A
Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Roomonitor — Detectamos y solucionamos problemas en tus propiedades, especialmente en horario nocturno. Monitorizamos, respondemos y actuamos por ti.
VacationsPal — VacationsPal is a Barcelona-based company that develops vacation booking software. The company serves property owners, holiday rentals, and holiday makers.
Quality Clouds — Real-time governance for code, flows, and AI logic, embedded in your SaaS and dev tools. Built for Salesforce, ServiceNow, Dynamics, Magento, and modern Vibe Coding platforms

Ian Noel - Angel & Growth Investor @ Lingokids

Investment focus

Pet, Education, Video Streaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oja.la — Oja.la is an online learning platform for computer skills in Latin America. Oja.la has developed 1,500 classes.- 70 tech programs, released 16 new programs last month and are planning to double the new release of new courses monthly.
Holidog — Holidog specializes in the fields of pet sitting, pet boarding, pet walking, giftbox, pet media, and startups. It features a software platform that allows pet owners to interact and find the perfect pet sitters, dog walkers, nannies, or trainers at their convenience and close to their home.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in New York,United States.
Lingokids — Voted #1 Kids Learning App, Lingokids is the best app for kids 2-8 years old! Because when learning is fun, kids love to learn! Check it out!

Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneurs First

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

nMachine — A Low-Code solution for creating extraordinary Day 2 Operations platforms - called nMachines - for your existing Kubernetes-based applications, that can be shared inside and outside your organization.
Incard — Welcome to the world's first payment solution designed exclusively for e-commerce, entrepreneurs, dropshippers and influencers. Join our waitlist now.
Tuza — Find the right card machine for your business, with good rates and the best features. Search the top providers in minutes, including Worldpay, Barclaycard, Tyl and Teya.

Tao Tao is Co-Founder & COO at GetYourGuide.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Hospitality, Apps
Pre-Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Germany, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

anna — anna makes restaurant hiring a little easier. We're replacing e-mail as the standard hiring interface for the restaurant industry.
GetYourGuide — Find, compare, and book sightseeing tours, attractions, excursions, things to do and fun activities from around the world. Save money and book directly from local suppliers.
Passionfroot — A workspace where you can manage your creator business and organise your finances so that you can optimise your creator-work-life balance.

Pavel Cherkashin is the Managing Partner at Mindrock Capital.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, iOS
Seed
United States, Russian Federation, Cyprus

Portfolio highlights

AdWired — AdWired is a mobile ads media network that works on every mobile platform.AdWired mobile media networks lets you find and engage the most receptive audience: smartphone and tablet users. Unique targeting features together with interactive banners lets you to reach highest ROI.Let your apps earn money for you right now! Join AdWired networkand show rich media banners to your customers. Leave sales to us or sale ads to your own advertisers.It takes only one hour to integrate AdWired to your app. SDK is available for all mobile platforms: iOS, Android, Windows Phone 7, Bada, Symbian, Blackberry. Full HTML5 support allows you to create fully interactive banners with audio and video clips.Using AdWired SDK you can not only deliver ads but also collect detailed app usage stats. You can setup any targeting you want based on that data.
GdeSlon — GdeSlon.ru is a Russia-based affiliate marketing network. On the advertisers' side we've got companies from Russia, USA and Europe. We are focusing on e-commerce but also accepting lead-based offers (such as registrations, surveys, etc). Our affiliates are primarily driving Russian and Ukrainian traffic.
GBooking — Easy-to-use and efficient online scheduling system in the cloud. Booking Widget for your site. Automated reminders for your clients.

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.