# Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in Germany in June 2026 ## Kilian Thalhammer - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance Kilian Thalhammer - Managing Partner @ Pearlscout ## 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. ## Tamaz Georgadze - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - 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). ## Maximilian Tayenthal - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland. ## Guillaume "G" Cabane - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Analytics, SaaS Guillaume Cabane is CEO of Growth Ex Machina where he advises growth stage startups. Formerly, Guillaume held VP of Growth roles at Drift, Segment, and other successful startups where he helped these teams grow from ~50 to 300. Prior to these roles, Guillaume spent six years at Apple. Outside of work, Guillaume is husband of one, father of two,cheese-eater of many, and Pastafarian. ## Karl-Heinz Flother - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, CRM, SaaS Karl-Heinz Flother - Member of the Advisory Board @ Favendo ## Bruce Wallace - Type: Angel - Location: Benicia, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance Bruce Wallace is the Strategic Advisor at Brex. ## Raffael Johnen - Type: Angel - Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Payments, Software Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung". ## Marcus Borner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Finance Marcus Borner is a university drop-out and founded his first company reBuy.com when he was 17 years old. Rebuy became Germany's re-commerce leader, raised ~40M€ in venture capital, now employing over 500 employees and with annual revenues of over 70M€. Besides rebuy Marcus has been shareholder in over a dozen companies from many industriessuch as insurance, food delivery, saas and adtech. He is currently founder and CEO of OptioPay.com a Berlin based fintech-company creating the first payment solution software for marketing payouts. OptioPay offer diverse payout options to increase flexibility and value for payment recipients. Backed by international venture capital investors and banks as shareholders, OptioPay is run by a diverse team of over 30 experts from 12 nations, who love to work hard and have exceptional passion for changing how people receive money. ## Cristóbal Conde - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Cristobal is an active investor in early-stage companies, and a senior member of the Partnership for NYC’s FinTech incubator for software companies. His current investments include True Office, where he serves as executive chairman, Calastone, where he serves as chairman, Centripetal Networks, where he is a board member, and Digital Reasoning,where he is a board member. ## Luca Ascani - Type: Angel - Location: Rome, Lazio, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017. ## Stefan Glänzer - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, 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. ## André M. Bajorat - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial Services, Banking, FinTech Andre Bajorat is the Head of Strategy Corporate Bank at Deutsche Bank. He attended the University of Cologne from 1994 to 1997. ## Kai Hansen - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com ## Taavet Hinrikus - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD. ## 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. ## Carlo Kölzer - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Banking, FinTech, Financial Services Carlo Koelzer is a founding partner and member of 360T’s Group Executive Board and Deutsche Börse Group Management Committee member. Furthermore he is Global Head of FX of Deutsche Börse Group. Carlo started his investment banking career as a financial analyst for Hess & Co., New York, in the field of mergers & acquisitions and blocktrading. Later, he worked for Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in Frankfurt and New York. Carlo has extensive in-depth process knowledge of Capital Markets notably Global Markets, Global Equities, Trading, Sales, Risk Control and Financial Accounting. Prior to founding 360T, Carlo headed a task force within the Internal Audit Group of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson. ## Marc McCabe - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Big Data Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google. ## Kim Nis Neuhauss - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Private Equity - Focus: Video, Finance, Shipping Kim Nis Neuhauss is a CEO and Founder at alfatier. Kim previously worked at Bright Skies - a Rackspace Technology Company as a General Manager and Founder. ## Tony Jamous - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile Tony Jamous is the CEO and Co-Founder of Oyster. He previously worked at Nexmo as a President.Tony Jamous attended IMD. ## Han Lee - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance Han Lee ## Gino Cordt - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Finance, InsurTech, Insurance Gino joined N26 in June 2015 after working on pricing for online and offline retailers, where he discovered his interest in data. Before that he gathered experience in the areas of private equity and capital markets and realized that strategy consulting was not for him. Having always had a passion for anything technical, Gino now works on enablingeveryone at N26 to make decisions based on data and adding as much (not so secret) data sauce to our products as possible. He holds a degree in Accounting & Finance (M.A. HSG) from the University of St. Gallen. ## Axel Wieandt - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking Axel Wieandt is the senior advisor at Jefferies. ## Rubin Ritter - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Rubin is Co-CEO of Zalando and has been a Member of the Management Board at Zalando SE since he joined the company in 2010. He is responsible for strategy and communications. From 2007 to 2009, Rubin worked at McKinsey & Company. He graduated from the WHU – Otto-Beisheim Graduate School of Management in 2007 with a degree in BusinessAdministration. In 2006, he was awarded an MBA from the University of Texas (USA). ## Alfred Schorno - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Mobile Apps Alfred Schorno ## Chad Fowler - Type: Angel - Location: Little Rock, Arkansas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: DevOps, Finance, Database Chad Fowler is an internationally known software developer, trainer, manager, speaker, and musician. Over the past decade he has worked with some of the world's largest companies and most admired software developers. He loves to program computers and, as part of his role as CTO of InfoEther, Inc., spends much of his time solving hard problemsfor customers in the Ruby language.He is co-organizer of RubyConf and RailsConf and author or co-author of a number of popular software books, including "The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development" and the upcoming "Rails 3 Recipes". ## Thijn Lamers - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments Thijn Lamers is the former EVP Global Sales at Adyen Global Payment Services. ## Ehssan Dariani - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Shopping, E-Commerce Ehssan Dariani is a German internet entrepreneur who became popular through his role as the founder and CEO of StudiVZ. After selling StudiVZ to Holzbrinck Ventures Ehssan runs his own investment firm Gruschel Ventures. ## Peter Gutman - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Finance Peter Gutman is based out of London, England and is the Co-Chair of Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago & Chairman of the Investment Committee for Africa focused climate tech fund of Equator. Peter previously worked at Gore Street Capital as a Managing Director. Peter Gutman attended the University of Chicago Booth School ofBusiness. ## Peter Mertens - Type: Angel - Location: Kefar Sava, HaMerkaz, Israel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Automotive, CleanTech Peter Mertens ## Thomas Noth - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Banking, Finance Thomas Noth ## Peter Rading - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Mobile Payments Peter is a Senior Adviser at Voltaire Capital. He brings more than 25 years of experience in the banking industry where he successfully managed global and complex businesses across the financial spectrum. Peter spent most of his career at RBS where he recently served as Global Co-Head of Trading. Prior to that, he held various key roles at the bankincluding Global Head of FX and Emerging Markets, Global Head of Structured Products and Global Co-Head of FICC trading. Peter started his career in FX options trading at SEBanken in NY before moving to Natwest which later merged with RBS.Peter holds a Bachelor’s degree from the Georgetown University DC. ## Sebastian Diemer - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Banking, FinTech Sebastian Diemer is the CEO at Wallfair. ## Matt Robinson - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company. ## Dennis Weidner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: News, FinTech, Finance Blockchain, Kryptowährungen, Entrepreneur, Mobilität, E-Commerce, Online-Marketing ## Mo Dong - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: FinTech, Finance, UX Design Mo Dong is a Co-Founder of Celer Network. Mo received his Ph.D. from UIUC. He was founding engineer and product manager at Veriflow, working on network formal verification. He is an expert in applying algorithmic game theory to protocol design and teaches full-stack smart contract courses with hundreds of students graduated. ## Ryan Sean Adams - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance Ryan Sean Adams ## Florian Reike - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Financial Services Florian Reike is the Co-Founder at Advanced Blockchain AG. ## Tim Schwenke - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Finance, Financial Services Tim and Daniel founded the Tiburon Unternehmensaufbau GmbH in 2001. They developed the getmobile AG to over 100mn € in revenue. As a business angel he has invested in over 30 internet companies in the seed and early stage and is still supporting the Tiburon team as an experienced ecommerce entrepreneur. ## Tom Blomfield - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech Tom Blomfield is based out of San Francisco, California and is currently works as a Group Partner for Y Combinator. Tom previously worked at Monzo Bank as a President. Tom Blomfield attended the University of Oxford. ## Steffen Wicker - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Finance, Real Estate, Financial Services Steffen Wicker - Co-Founder & CEO @ Homeday ## Serge Marquie - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Finance, Cloud Storage, Document Management Serge Marquie is a CFO and Co-Founder at SumUp Analytics. ## Mehrdad Piroozram - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Insurance, Apps, Software Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc ## Oliver Jung - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet Oliver is a global investor and entrepreneur based in Tel Aviv. Oliver is investing in US and China based companies and helps them to go international. Previous projects include airbnb, houzz and hoteltonight. ## Dennis Bemmann - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Payments, Education, Finance Dennis Bemmann - Founder & CEO @ Bitclick GmbH ## Heiko Hubertz - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Machine Learning Heiko Hubertz - Founder & CEO @ Oxolo ## Michael Föcking - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Finance, Insurance, Financial Services Michael Föcking - Partner @ EQT Ventures ## Lukasz Gadowski - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - 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. ## Michael Stephan - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, PaaS Michael Stephan is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Raisin DS. ## Jens Hewald - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Finance, Cryptocurrency Jens Hewald is the Co-Founder of Soonami.io and UFOstart. He previously worked at Agrilution as an investor. Jens Hewald attended HTW Berlin. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co