# Top 50 Finance Angel Investors in United Kingdom in June 2026

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Errol Damelin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. 
Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

## Will Brooks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- 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.

## Will Martin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Ed Wray
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Mr. Edward Wray, Ed is a Co-Founder of Betfair Australia Pty Ltd. Mr. Wray co-founded The Sporting Exchange Limited (Alternate Name: Betfair Limited) in May 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Betfair, he spent eight years at J.P. Morgan & Co. as a Vice President in the debt capital markets and derivatives area. He servesas the Chairman at Betfair. He has been Non-executive Chairman of The Sporting Exchange Limited since 2006. He served as the Chairman of Betfair Limited since 2006. He served as Non-Executive Chairman of Betfair Group PLC from March 17, 2008 to March 6, 2012. He has been a Director at Sporting Exchange since August 1998. Mr. Wray has been a Director of Betfair Group PLC since August 20, 1999. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Funding Circle Ltd. He served as a Director at Betfair since 1999.

## Anita Bachuil
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oban, Argyll and Bute, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Financial Services

Anita Bachuil

## Christian Faes
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK.

Now building Faes & Co.

## Giuliano Stiglitz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Key Biscayne, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Organic, Messaging

Giuliano Stiglitz is CEO, founder and Co-owner of Latam Digital Ventures, a holding company that he created together with the Himedia Group, focused on acquiring and creating high growth and profitable digital media and ad tech businesses in the US Hispanic and LATAM Markets.Prior to that, he was CEO of Orange Advertising Americas, one of thelargest companies at US Hispanic and LATAM, focused on ad networks which he successfully transformed into Primia.Digital.Giuliano Stiglitz is also an angel investor, having invested in several tech and digital media start-ups. He is also a speaker at some of the most important events, such as Adtech, IAB, DMEXCO.

## Ian Hogarth
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Ian Hogarth is based out of London, England, and is the Chairman of Phasecraft. Ian previously worked at Songkick as a Chairman. Ian Hogarth attended the University of Cambridge.

## Tinie Tempah
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Art, Apps

Tinie shot to prominence with his chart-topping album 'Disc-Overy' which featured the #1s 'Pass Out' & 'Written In the Stars'. 2 x BRITs, a MOBO and an Ivor Novello followed. His 2nd album 'Demonstration' featured collaborators such as Dizzee Rascal, Emeli Sandé & Laura Mvula. In 2015, Tinie returnedwith 'Not Letting Go' and a feature on KDA's 'Turn The Music Louder'. Both topped the charts to give him 7 UK #1s - the most by any artist this decade.

## Theo Osborne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, E-Commerce

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

## Will Neale
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

## Matt Robinson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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.

## Niklas Zennström
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Internet, Apps, FinTech

Niklas Zennström is CEO and Founding Partner at Atomico. He works daily with founders and sits on the boards of Farmdrop, Lilium, Pipedrive, Oden Technologies and Varjo.  Niklas is an experienced technology investor and entrepreneur, having previously co-founded and managed globally successful technology companies including Skype, Kazaa andJoltid. Niklas founded Atomico in 2006. He is passionate about partnering about founders solving big challenges facing their planet with digital technology.In 2007, he co-founded Zennström Philanthropies with his wife, Catherine. They focus their efforts in two areas: human rights and the environment. Niklas also founded the Race for the Baltic, a foundation for a well-managed and sustainable Baltic Sea, one of the most threatened major bodies of water in the world.Niklas is a keen yachtsman and has won four World Championships with his yacht racing team, Rán.Niklas holds dual degrees in Business and MSc Engineering Physics/Computer Science from Uppsala University in Sweden, and he spent his final year at the University of Michigan.

## Stanley Fink
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Stanley Fink is based out of London, England and is the Chairman of the Board of Astrea London. Stanley previously worked at British Pearl as a Chairman of Board. Stanley Fink attended Trinity Hall. Stanley Fink has been certified as a ICAEW Ethics CPD Course Module 1.

## Jonathan Weiner
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

## Michael Bristow
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Real Estate, SaaS, Software

Experienced business leader with a proven track record as CEO of CrowdProperty, where I delivered >20x revenue growth, 7-figure profitability whilst scaling up, and a leading market position. With 18 years strategy consulting experience, I specialise in defining clear and differentiated strategies, driving transformation and creating value incomplex environments for mid-cap to large-scale corporates and private equity owned businesses with experienced operator, investor, advisor and Board perspectives. Venture capital investor and advisor to HM Government on tackling constraints to SME business growth (99.9% of businesses in the UK supporting 27m jobs with £4.5tn of annual turnover).Key skills:
• Leadership • Strategy • Growth • Transformation • Value-creation • Consulting • Private Equity / Venture Capital • Capital Raising • Commercial Due Diligence • Board-Level Governance • Stakeholder ManagementToolkit:
• 18 years strategy/transformation/private equity consulting • 7 years transformational growth CEO • 6 years venture capital investment committee • Multiple Board positions (Executive & Non-Executive) • Broad sector experience to leverage • International perspective working in 18 countries and on many more • Multi-asset class investor • London Business School MBA • FT Non-Executive Director Diploma • Chartered Management Accountant • 1st Class Masters in Mechanical EngineeringAwards & Recognition:
• CrowdProperty has been widely recognised including in the ‘Sunday Times Hundred’ (Britain's fastest growing profitable businesses), Deloitte Fast 50 / Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (UK’s/EMEA’s fastest growing technology businesses), and the Financial Times FT1000 (fastest growing businesses in Europe) for 4 consecutive years; Selected for high-profile scaleup programmes including ‘TechNation Fintech 5.0’, ‘Silicon Valley comes to the UK Scaleup Club’ and a ‘WIRED Trailblazer’
• Personally recognised as a finalist in 'Tech Entrepreneur of the Year' in the Go:Tech Awards, finalist in ‘Inspirational Leader of the Year’ at the UK PropTech Awards, awarded 'Entrepreneur of the Year' and 'Business Person of the Year' by the Midlands Business Awards and featured in the Alternative Credit Investor Power 50 list 5 years in a row (top 10 in 2022)Other:
• Angel investing: London Business School E100 member; UKBAA member; 12+ years angel investing; 35+ investments
• Real estate investing: 20+ years building an extensive residential property portfolio across tenant segments
• Sport: ECB Cricket Foundation Coach, MCC Member; Active player

## Dan Cobley
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Dan Cobley is the Managing Partner of Blenheim Chalcot. He previously worked at Santander UK as a Strategic Advisor to the Board. Dan Cobley attended the University of Cambridge.

## Laurent Le Moal
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Founding Partner of ViewPoint ventures.WE ARE FOUNDERS TOOViewPoint Ventures is a first time fund founded by two partners who have 40 years of Fintech experience between them. As founders, we understand the pressures on you as a founder. And our interests are fully aligned.WE INVEST BASED ON VIEWPOINTSSuccessful Fintech start-ups willcapture opportunities created by fundamental shifts in the industry. We love exchanging points of view with founders - but also with executives of incumbents - to arrive at distinctive perspectives on the exact opportunities and the best way to capture these.WE LOVE DISRUPTION ROOTED IN TECHNOLOGYWe like to see true technology-led innovation and disruption. Too many fintech start-ups are 'simply' re-skinning or re-packaging the same underlying business or product. This is great V1.0 disruption . Yet, we are more interested in V2.0 and look forward to exploring ideas and concepts with you.WE BRIDGE THE WORLD OF ATTACKERS AND INCUMBENTSWe have extensive experience with attackers as well as incumbents. This gives us a unique appreciation for what exactly new companies are disruption inside the financial services establishment. Many fintech companies will end up being acquired by incumbents, so our understanding of where new disruptive companies might 'fit' in these incumbents will be invaluable, if only to create option value.

## Ben Holmes
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Keith Grose
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Keith Grose is currently non-executive director for Zero Hash and an active angel/advisor for early stage startups. He previously led Europe and international expansion for Plaid, and served as COO at SequenceHQ (backed by a16z). He is currently based in London and spent a decade in the SF Bay Area at Google and Bain. Keith Grose attended theUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

## Jari Ovaskainen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tampere, Western Finland, Finland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Mobile, Gaming, PC Games

Jari Ovaskainen - Business Development Director @ Modulight

## Henry Ritchotte
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Mr. Henry Ritchotte has been a Member of Management Board at Deutsche Bank AG since June 1, 2012 and serves as its the Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Ritchotte serves as the Chief Operating Officer of Global Markets Division Worldwide at Deutsche Securities Inc. He served as Head of Global Markets of Deutsche Securities Inc. Mr. Ritchotte joinedDeutsche Bank in 1995 in hedge fund coverage and has played an important role in the development of Deutsche Bank's global markets business. Mr. Ritchotte has held a variety of senior management positions including global head of hedge fund sales and head of sales for Asia. He served as Joint Chief Operating Officer of Global Markets Division at Deutsche Bank AG since 2008.

## Samir Desai
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, iOS, Apps

Samir is responsible for driving the company strategy, overseeing the company’s finances and managing the day to day operations at Funding Circle, the leading marketplace for business loans.  Samir  has worked extensively in the financial services sector. Before founding Funding Circle he was an executive at Olivant and  a management consultant atBCG, advising a number of major UK and global banks and insurers on strategy, new product initiatives and operational efficiency.Investors at Funding Circle have now lent over $800 million to 8,000 small businesses in the UK and US. In the UK, investors include 37,000 individuals, the British Business Bank, local councils, universities and financial institutions.

## Juan Lobato
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services, SaaS

Juan Lobato is a tech entrepreneur based in London. He is the co-founder and co-CEO of Ebury, one of European fastest growing fintechs. Furthermore, he is an investor in over a dozen tech companies across the UK, Europe, and the US

## Mark Newton-Jones
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Mark Newton-Jones is the CEO and Director at Mothercare.

## Sir Alex Ferguson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Born in Govan, Glasgow in 1941, Sir Alex Ferguson retired as manager of Manchester United in May 2013 following a period of over 26 years at the helm. Over the course of a management career that lasted 39 years, he won 49 major trophies, making him the most successful manager in the history of British football.He made his name with Aberdeen,who became the first club to consistently break the Old Firm dominance of the Scottish game, winning 9 domestic trophies over a 6 year period. But it was victory over Real Madrid in the European Cup-Winners Cup Final in 1983 that brought him to national attention.Following his move to Manchester United in 1986, he set about restructuring the club and his first trophy in 1990 opened the floodgates. In 2001 he became the first manager to win three championships in a row since the league began in 1888, a feat he repeated in 2009.Admired for placing his emphasis on attacking football, with homegrown talent at the heart of his teams, he bowed out as league champion following his 1,500th game in charge of Manchester United. In 2012, Harvard Business School wrote the case study “Sir Alex Ferguson: Managing Manchester United” before appointing him as a Fellow to the Executive Education Programme.Following his retirement in 2013 he took up the positions of both Director and Global Ambassador with Manchester United and was also appointed Coaching Ambassador by UEFA. In the same year he released "My Autobiography"​ which became the UK's quickest selling non-fiction book since records began. This work was a follow-up to his first best-selling memoir, "Managing My Life", which appeared in 1999.His new book ‘Leading’, written with Sir Michael Moritz, details the key skills and philosophies he used to deliver success both on and off the field and will be released in September 2015.

## Baris Aksoy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Baris Aksoy is based out of San Francisco, California. Baris previously worked at AV8 Ventures as a General Partner. Baris Aksoy attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

## Matteo Gamba
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Convertible Note, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking

Matteo leads the product teams taking care of Payments & Fraud at Wayfair, one of the top e-commerce retailers selling furniture and home goods in North America and Europe. Before Wayfair, he led the product function for the growth teams at (Transfer)Wise.

## Babs Ogundeyi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Cofounder and CEO of Kuda

## Marek Kiisa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Transportation

Marek Kiisa is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at NordicNinja VC.

## Max Levchin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Mobile

Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

## Jon Moulton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking

Jon Moulton is a British venture capitalist. He is the founder and managing partner of the private equity firm Better Capital, and is the former managing partner of the private equity firm Alchemy Partners.

## Ricky Knox
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance

Ricky is a serial investor and entrepreuner. He has built five technology disruptors in fintech and telecoms, each of which also does a bit of good for the world.Before Tandem he founded Azimo and Small World, two remittance businesses, and is managing partner of Hexagon Partners, a private equity firm. He built Tandem to be a digital bank thathelps improve customers' lives with money.  Ricky has a first class degree from Bristol University and an MBA from INSEAD.

## Alan Howard
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.

## Andreas Mihalovits
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Danny Jatania
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Danny Jatania

## Rick Haythornthwaite
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Social Network

Rick has a wealth of knowledge in the energy industry. Rick has significant board experience, both as an executive and non-executive. He led the rescue of Invensys from 2001 to 2005 and the defence, turnaround and subsequent sale of Blue Circle Industries from 1997 to 2001. He spent his early career in various corporate, upstream and leadershippositions in BP from 1978 to 1995, including exploration and production roles in the North Sea, Alaska, France and Venezuela before moving to Premier Oil as commercial director from 1995 to 1997. He has served on the boards of Network Rail as chairman and Cookson, Lafarge, ICI and Land Securities as non-executive director

## Jason Njoku
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lagos, Lagos, Nigeria
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking

Jason Njoku is Founder and CEO of Iroko, the home of Nollywood content. He has pioneered the African digital content market by bringing Nollywood (Nigerian cinema) to a global audience, and in the process has raised over $40m in investment from international VCs, including Tiger Global, Kinnevik, RISE Capital and Canal+.Launched in 2010, IROKOhas aggregated the world's largest online Nollywood content catalogue and is one of Africa’s largest internet TV providers, with a dedicated mobile app, IROKOtv, as well as ROK TV channels on Sky in the UK and DStv across Africa.In 2013, Njoku was crowned as the CNBC Africa West Africa Young Business Leader and in 2014, he was recognized as one of Fast Company's Top 1000 most Creative People in Business.

## Freddy Kelly
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Financial Services, FinTech

Freddy Kelly is the CEO and co-founder of Credit Kudos, the consumer-first, transparent consumer credit bureau. Credit Kudos uses Open Banking to allow lenders to accurately measure consumer risk, increasing acceptances whilst reducing default rate. Freddy has a background in Computer Science and Machine Learning. Prior to founding the company,Freddy was first engineer at cloud-computing startup, Bitnami (YC W13) and A16z-backed transaction analytics platform, TXN.

## Charles Delingpole
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.

## Christopher North
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, B2B

Chris is a Managing Partner at L Catterton, the world's leading consumer growth investor with US$20B assets under management, where he co-leads the Growth Fund. He focuses on growth-stage consumer technology businesses in the US, Europe, and the UK. The L Catterton team previously scaled today's consumer tech leaders (Amazon, Shopify,Lazada, Shutterfly, Peloton, Vroom, Better Mortgage, ClassPass, and more) and brings their experience to support entrepreneurs building tomorrow's leading companies. He is also an active angel investor and serves on the boards of several non-profits in arts and education. Previously, Chris led Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ: SFLY) as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors from May 2016 through the sale to Apollo Global Management in 2019. Under his leadership, over the three years from 2015 to 2018, Shutterfly doubled revenues to $2 billion, doubled free cash flow, and increased operating income ten-fold.Prior to joining Shutterfly, Chris served as Managing Director of Amazon UK and co-led Amazon across Europe for six years, after leading Amazon’s UK Media businesses for four years. Amazon UK grew to almost $10 billion in GAAP revenue over this 10-year period, a 14-fold increase. Before joining Amazon, he worked in publishing as Global Managing Director of Phaidon Press, as Chief Operating Officer of HarperCollins Canada, and as Vice President & General Manager of Electronic Publishing for HarperCollins Publishers. He began his career as a management consultant with the media & entertainment practice of Booz Allen & Hamilton.In addition to his operating roles, Chris serves in leadership roles in several not-for-profit organizations. He is a director of Character Lab, a non-profit dedicated to advancing the science and practice of character development in order to help children thrive; a member of the Board of Visitors of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum; a member of the Collections Committee and Director's Circle of the Harvard University Art Museums; and President of the American Friends of the Royal Collection. He and his wife also actively support the Domaine de Chantilly, the Wallace Collection, and the Attingham Trust. Chris is an active angel investor, having made more than 40 investments in early-stage companies. He enjoys mentoring, working with a number of technology entrepreneurs and serving as a Strategic Advisor to Forto.Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard College and a master’s degree in Philosophy from New York University. Chris and his wife have three young children and divide their time between London and France. Born and raised in New York, Chris is a dual US/British national.

## Adam French
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Partner at Houghton Street Ventures | Co-founder at Scalable Capital | Investing in and supporting early-stage businesses founded by LSE student and alumni entrepreneurs globally.

## Christopher Bissonnette
- Type: Angel
- Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Enterprise Software, Video, Mobile

Christopher Bissonnette is the President at Pallasite Ventures. Whether it’s as a neuroscientist researching Alzheimer disease therapies, or as an executive in control of investment portfolios and commercial real estate, Christopher has taken an analytical approach throughout his career. This varied experience has given him valuable insightinto Chicago’s most desirable locations for advertisers and a deep understanding of the complex leasing and permitting restrictions involved. As co-founder and CFO of GreenSigns Chicago, Christopher helps ensure that our advertisers and landlords receive the best possible value. As an avid biker and hiker, he helps ensure a high-energy level throughout the GreenSigns’ office.

## Oli Farago
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- Focus: Real Estate, Software, Financial Services

Oli Farago Founder & CEO at Coyote Software. He attended Culford School during 1996-2002.

## Kaysan Nikkah
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Lending, Financial Services

Kaysan Nikkah is an Individual Investor.

## Ed Hallen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Boulder, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Software, B2B

Ed Hallen - Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer, Board Member @ Klaviyo

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