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Top 20 Franchise Angel Investors in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Franchise startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Franchise companies. This investor list updates every month.

Top 20 Franchise Angel Investors in January 2026

Investor	Franchise investments
Cecily Drucker	2
Pekka Koskinen	2
Dirk Schneider	2
Andreas Mihalovits	2
Nick Bilogorskiy	1
Marton Szoke	1
Hans Limmer	1
Alex Jankelevich	1
Paul Melin	1
Daren Cotter	1
Sebastien Breteau	1
Sean Fannan	1
Daniel Rutberg	1
Sampo Parkkinen	1
Aviram Jenik	1
Joey Katzen	1
Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen	1
Murat Abdrakhmanov	1
Horacio Broggi	1
Matthias Willenbacher	1

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Ms. Drucker, one of Peter and Doris Drucker’s four children, is the founder and CEO of Start-Up Strategies, a San Francisco consultancy. Ms. Drucker is also an attorney who has focused her practice in the areas of real-estate tax planning and financing, as well as other business and commercial transactions. She has specialized, in particular, onstructuring and implementing complex 1031 tax-deferred exchanges. She is the co-author of Real Property Exchanges, published by the California Continuing Education of the Bar.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one AI-powered platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.

Founder at Leadfeeder

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Angel, Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one AI-powered platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.
Cuutio Software —

Dirk Schneider is Co-Founder at BackWerk.

Investment focus

Franchise, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Motoreto — Motoreto is a used car and accessories marketplace. They explain the information and details of the used car and provide offers from dealers and payment options. Motoreto University is a Motoreto program designed to train specialized sales profiles in the international automotive industry.
CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
Drimer Creators — Drimer gives creators the opportunity to build and grow their revenues. Creators can take advantage of a set of tools created to increase revenues and create a brand.

Nick Bilogorskiy is based out of San Francisco Bay Area and is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Dnipro VC. Nick previously worked at Google as a Director of Security. Nick Bilogorskiy attended Simon Fraser University.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Cyber Security
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AiSDR — Launch AI-powered outreach in 3 clicks. From finding prospects ready to buy to value-driven omnichannel conversations with multimedia. Get your demo
12New.AI — AI-Agents for Negotiations & Procurement
Ability.ai — Automate your marketing, sales, and operations with Ability AI's intelligent agents and workflows. Save time, reduce costs, and scale your business.

An entrepreneur and investor with a business background and solid technical experience. Founded several startups, the latest being Indextools, a software company specializing in enterprise on-demand web analytics software. In April 2008 Indextools got acquired by Yahoo! Inc. At the time of the acquisition, Indextools was recognized as one of thetop five web analytics vendors world-wide by Forrester / Jupiter Research. Mr. Szőke served at Yahoo for three years to lead integration efforts and to realign Indextools’ business model.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, EdTech
Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
Hungary, Switzerland, Czech Republic

Portfolio highlights

Ydistri — Digital tool for slow moving inventory problem
Logiscool — International franchise network teaching kids programming
Nesnězeno — Nesnezeno is a platform that helps restaurants, shops, and hotels eliminate the waste of quality food. Through their mobile platform, they sell day-of treats that are nearing their expiration date.

Hans Limmer

Investment focus

Franchise, Food Delivery, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.

Alex Jankelevich is the Co-Founder & Ceo of Hunger Brands. He attended IESE Business School.

Investment focus

Franchise, E-Commerce, Restaurants
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hunger Brands — Snack better with Crave Me Cookies. Mini chocolate chip cookies that are gluten-free, dairy-free, and made without seed oils. Clean ingredients, bold crunch, and big flavor in every bite. One bag is never enough.

Paul Melin is the Chairman Of The Board at Silcube Software.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Seed
Estonia, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Warren.io — Warren is a complete self-service cloud platform for regional infrastructure service providers. Functionally rich, technologically modern and architecturally reliable turnkey commercialisation solution packaged as a service and driven by your success to compete in the global landscape.
PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one AI-powered platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.

Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Delfina — Intelligent pregnancy care for healthier moms and babies.
Coldcart — Coldcart is a technology platform which orchestrates, optimizes and scales frozen and refrigerated parcel logistics for leading D2C and B2B companies - unlocking unprecedented new efficiencies in perishable parcel logistics.
Evecxia Therapeutics — Evecxia Therapeutics is dedicated to realizing the therapeutic potential of 5-hydroxytryptophan (5-HTP) for the treatment of mental illness.

Sebastien Breteau is an entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He is the founder and CEO of QIMA, a global supply chain compliance solutions provider headquartered in Hong Kong.Founded in 2005, QIMA partners with brands, retailers and manufacturers in consumer goods and food to secure and improve the quality of their global supply network.QIMA combines on-the-ground experts in 85 countries for quality inspections, supplier audits, certification and lab testing, with a digital platform that brings accuracy, visibility and intelligence for quality and compliance data.In 2013, Sebastien created the Breteau Foundation, a non-profit organisation which aims to promote digital education for children in developing countries. 18,000 children are now enrolled in its program.Sebastien Breteau is also an active private investor in Europe, China & the US and has invested in over 30 start-ups globally.

Investment focus

Apps, Biotechnology, EdTech
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Asana — Work anytime, anywhere with Asana. Keep remote and distributed teams, and your entire organization, focused on their goals, projects, and tasks with Asana.
Marqeta — Transform your business with Marqeta's modern card issuing platform. Our open API platform allows businesses to instantly issue cards and process payments.
klassroom — Klassroom provides a platform for remote learning, video-conferencing, and homework management in an intuitive format for parents and educators. Klassroom caters specifically to educator needs while offering the level of engagement and ease-of-use found in the most widely used online social platforms. When a teacher starts to use the app in oneclassroom, other teachers in the school join in very quickly and easily. Teachers can create a new class in just minutes, and they invite parents to access posts in the class feed including announcements, homework, videos, pictures of activities, polls, events, documents, and more.Klassroom’s level of parent engagement is outstanding: more than 90% are monthly active users. Parents can react to posts, contact the teacher for appointments, or initiate private conversations using tools that are designed to strengthen parent-teacher relationships while protecting the teacher’s time. Klassroom can translate all posts and private messages between parent and teacher into 100 different languages, and Klassroom can also accommodate the visually impaired. Every parent or guardian can be involved — even across multiple households.Klassroom co-founders Frank-David Cohen and Damien Rottemberg have been friends since childhood and planned that one day they would build something together to make a positive difference in the world. That opportunity came in 2016 when both were divorced dads who found themselves distanced from the education of their children and wanting to be better connected.In Paris and New York respectively, Frank-David and Damien provided the first Klassroom app prototype to the teachers of their young children. The result was the same on both sides of the Atlantic: enthusiastic adoption by the teacher and a 95% parent view rate of all classroom communication.By listening closely to teachers’ needs, Klassroom has maintained a nearly perfect satisfaction rating. The Klassroom app is now used in thousands of English, French and Spanish-speaking classrooms across 30 countries.

Sean Fannan is co-founder and CTO of Chartboost, a technology platform for mobile developers to find new users and monetize their games. Chartboost works with over 32,000 games, serves over 12 billion game sessions per month and has raised $21M from Sequoia Capital and other investors. Prior to Chartboost, Fannan was one of the early employeesat Tapulous, that was acquired by Walt Disney in 2010 to become Disney Mobile.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Franchise
Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.
Classify — Contextual Intelligence for the agentic web

Daniel Rutberg is a CoFounder & COO at MuteSix.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Franchise
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Skio — We help Shopify merchants sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out.
FranShares — Diversify your portfolio and potentially earn passive income through franchise investing.

Co-founder @Revieve. General Partner @LandInChicago. Co-founder & COO @ RapidBlue Solutions (acquired in 2013). Member of Board @PromoRepublic. Mentor, advisor and early stage angel investor in startups.

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Content
Pre-Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

PromoRepublic — Unify social, listings, reviews, and analytics in one AI-powered platform built for multi-location and franchise brands. Improve visibility, protect your brand, and lift same-store sales.

Venture Capitalist, investor and former Enterpreneur. Founder x5, profitable bootstraps, 3 exits; investor x30+ in Israel, Silicon Valley and Korea; passion for: cyber security, building scalable B2B companies

Investment focus

Software, Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, South Korea, Israel

Portfolio highlights

FROGED — Discover afforable Customer Experience tools to scale your business. Reduce churn, improve onboarding & offer amazing customer support - all in one platform.
SplxAI — SplxAI provides the most comprehensive platform for AI Security Testing and Red Teaming, ensuring your AI Assistants and Agents are secure and reliable from build to runtime.
Adversa AI — Adversa AI is on a mission to increase trust in AI systems by protecting them from cyber threats, privacy issues, and safety incidents.

Joey Katzen is an entrepreneur and attorney whose expertise has been instrumental in the founding, growth, and exit of multiple Inc-500 companies.He is a volunteer Lead Mentor at Hawaii-based Blue Startups and a Selection Committee member of Honolulu-based Hawaii Angels.A storyteller by trade, he now spends much of his time helpingentrepreneurs distill new or difficult concepts into readily accessible verbal and visual stories that others can’t say no to.Whether for a fundraising deck, a sales pitch, or product and onboarding conceptualization, Joey's process is aided by his varied background in angel investing, law, marketing, product development, engineering, and visual design.While earning his law degree at the University of Virginia, Joey was a member of the founding team of Atlanta-based Vendormate, a healthcare compliance platform later acquired by Cleveland-based Primus Capital and then Louisville-based GHX, Inc. He went on to serve as interim CEO of DC-based Roomtag, a commercial leasing and space-optimization tech suite later acquired by Austin-based Asure Software. Later, he cofounded Atlanta-based KidsLink, a child-management app for parents.His first claims to fame came while attending Georgia Tech in the 2000s when he founded--and promoted with early gonzo marketing--the university-oriented web portal Walksideways.com, visited weekly by a third of the Georgia Tech student body, and developed the Retail Alphabet Game, an early Internet branding puzzle which appeared in the New York Times, National Post, Detroit Free Press, and Christian Science Monitor.Let's build some FOMO.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Outsourcing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series C
United States, Puerto Rico

Portfolio highlights

Quibble — Price Optimization and Revenue Management Software and Consulting For Vacation Rentals & Alternative Accommodations - We created Quibble to address the gap in the market between the simple rules-based software applications currently available and a truly science-based optimization. Quibble bundles our software with a full service offering togive our clients complete Pricing Ease of Mind. With many years of revenue management experience in the travel and hospitality industries, we know the pains and uncertainty revenue management brings. At Quibble, we aim to increase your revenue performance by engineering and implementing your custom pricing strategy while developing long-lasting partnerships.
ClassCalc — Students can use their smartphones instead of using or buying a TI calculator, and teachers can ensure they only use the ClassCalc calculator app in class. We believe students and teachers should have a choice other than the same expensive, difficult to learn and use dedicated-purpose TI calculator they have been forced to use for decades.ClassCalc provides a multi-subject math calculator with scientific, graphing, and matrix functionality in an easy-to-use smartphone app. Teachers are able to lock down the student’s phone to only the ClassCalc app for class time, quizzes, tests… no cheating or outside distractions (social media, texting etc).
Turno, formerly TurnoverBnB — Find now a local Airbnb cleaning service; automatically schedule your existing cleaners. Integrated with all reservations platforms and channel managers.

Lars Fjeldsoe-Nielsen grew up across Africa, from Angola and Guinea-Bissau to Tanzania and Libya, after his family fled the Angolan Civil War as refugees. Those early experiences instilled in him a belief that education, technology, and social innovation can transform lives and continue to anchor his career and philanthropic activities to this day.Today, Lars is a General Partner at Owl Ventures ($2.2 billion AUM), the world’s leading venture capital firm focused exclusively on education technology. He leads Owl’s expansion across Europe, Africa, and global markets, backing founders who harness AI and breakthrough technologies to make learning more accessible and impactful.Before joining Owl, Lars co-founded 2xN, an early-stage fund at the frontier of deeptech and quantum innovation, with standout investments including Quantinuum (valued above $10 billion), Oxford Ionics (acquired by IonQ in a $1 billion deal), QSimulate, and Sparrow Quantum. Prior to that, he was a General Partner at Balderton Capital in London during which time the firm led the Seed and Series A rounds in Revolut. His investments also span education (Labster, uLesson, StudySmarter, Kukua), mobility (Yassir, Voi, Monta, NoTraffic), and mobile and frontier tech (Hiya, Monarch Money, Rahko, Pocket, Colossal, Celus, Octant Bio, Vivino, OpenSea, Blue Bottle Coffee).Lars previously spent a decade in Silicon Valley, shaping some of tech’s most iconic growth stories. At Uber, he joined when it operated in fewer than 20 cities and, as Vice President, forged global alliances with Verizon and América Móvil that fueled its international expansion. Before Uber, as Head of Mobile at Dropbox, he was among the first 25 employees and helped the company reach its first 100 million users through partnerships with Samsung and other OEMs.Despite his career in technology and venture capital, Africa has never left Lars’s journey. After his father’s passing, he returned to Angola to trace his family’s history, discovering that his sister had died of malaria as a child. That revelation transformed a personal loss into a mission. A technologist turned humanitarian innovator, Lars filed a patent for genetically modified mosquitoes that light up when carrying malaria and began funding malaria-research projects in Angola through partnerships with global nonprofits. In 2024, he climbed Mount Kilimanjaro to raise funds for malaria research, following earlier campaigns such as climbing the Matterhorn and crossing the Sahara by motorbike.A Danish-Portuguese national who served with the Royal Danish Guards, Lars holds an MBA from London Business School, where he was a member of the Board of Governors and Chairman of the Endowment Fund, an MSc from Oxford University (Keble College), and a BSc from King’s College London. Across every chapter, from refugee to technologist to investor, his purpose endures: advancing education, health, and innovation as catalysts for social change.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Denmark, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tajir — Tajir offers full transparency on the prices of various products, addressing a challenge that store owners confront offline each day, and sells and delivers inventories to the stores, said the Khan brothers, whose father ran an FMCG retail distribution business for three decades.
StudySmarter — StudySmarter is an EdTech company that develops an intelligent and content-agnostic platform for lifelong learning. It was first published in 2018 and is used by millions of learners worldwide. StudySmarter has been voted the best EdTech start-up in Germany and Europe by university representatives and education experts.
Empirical — Culinary & scientific innovations applied in flavor to spirits and cans. From premium spirits to ready to drink cans, Empirical has an exciting selection. Order today!

Murat Abdrakhmanov is a co-investor at 2C2P. Attended Fuqua Executive school of bussines.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, Kazakhstan, Ukraine

Portfolio highlights

Beksar — Beksar offers A flexible reporting system for business of the company from its initial days.
GoDays — AI-driven Continuous passive and active analytical tool, preventing burnout of employees. Continuous well-being based on passive collaboration data, sentiment analytics.
PLATMA — PLATMA is a workspace for developing low/no-code solutions with ready-made constructors that reduce the need for large resources and decrease time to market

Horacio Broggi

Investment focus

Franchise, E-Commerce, Restaurants
Pre-Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hunger Brands — Snack better with Crave Me Cookies. Mini chocolate chip cookies that are gluten-free, dairy-free, and made without seed oils. Clean ingredients, bold crunch, and big flavor in every bite. One bag is never enough.

Matthias Willenbacher is an entrepreneur, investor and visionary in the field of renewable energies and sustainability.

Investment focus

Energy, Battery, Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
Germany

Portfolio highlights

E-mobilio — E-mobilio is a consulting and mediation platform for electromobility.
Pottsalat — Pottsalat provider of delivery service intended to deliver freshly prepared salads & Bowls.
VoltStorage — VoltStorage develops and produces solar energy storage systems based on the eco-friendly Redox Flow technology to store surplus solar energy by day and use it during periods of low sunshine. With its sustainable energy storage solutions, VoltStorage follows the vision of making 100 percent renewable energy available around the clock – and thusmaking the world cleaner and fairer for future generations.

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