# Top 20 Hospitality Angel Investors in Germany in June 2026

## Philipp Freise
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Hospitality, Artificial Intelligence

Philipp Freise is based out of London, England and is the Co-Head of European Private Equity of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Philipp previously worked at Venturepark AG as a Co-Founder. Philipp Freise attended the WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. Philipp Freise is received Young Global Leader and in 2014.

## Justin Reizes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Belin, Brandenburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Credit, Rental, FinTech

Justin Reizes

## Nikolaus Hahne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Pet, Internet, Software

Nikolaus Hahne

## Carlo Kölzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Kees Koolen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Travel, Software, E-Commerce

Kees Koolen is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Koolen Industries. Previously Kees was COO, CEO and Chairman of booking.com. Kees was advisor to Uber from 2012-2017 concerning international rollout.

## Gleb Tritus
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series D, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Software, Travel

Gleb is a tech entrepreneur, investor and innovator with passion for E-Commerce, Travel & Mobility Tech and Logistics. He founded and served as Managing Director of multifarious digital ventures, among others the live entertainment ticketing platform Todaytickets.Gleb led new digital business and strategic startup investments at theworld's largest aviation corporation Lufthansa Group and continues to support German multinationals in this regard as Senior Advisor.

## Chris Young
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Content, Analytics

Chris Young is a Co-Founder and Partner at Revel Partners and was a CEO at Digital Broadcasting Group. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Skidmore College.

## Christian Saller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, E-Commerce

Christian Saller joined the team in 2013 and is managing the fund’s investments into Dreamlines, Easytaxi, Ozon and Onlinetours among others.Before coming to Holtzbrinck Ventures, Christian was CEO of flight search engine swoodoo where he was responsible for company development, from market entry to market leadership in Germany and the sale ofthe company to KAYAK. Then, in his role as Managing Director for Europe, Christian managed the European organization at KAYAK. As a member of the KAYAK management team he was also involved in the successful IPO on the NASDAQ and the subsequent sale of the company to Priceline.Before he worked at swoodoo, Christian first worked as an Investment Manager at a venture capital company and then held management positions in two start-up companies in the media sector. Christian began his career in 1998 at an international strategy consultancy company.Christian holds a doctorate „summa cum laude“ in mathematics and also received an MBA with distinction from the London Business School.

## Fritz Demopoulos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Hospitality

Fritz Demopoulos has been an entrepreneur and investor within the media and internet industries for over 10 years. He co-founded Qunar.com, China's largest travel internet company; and Shawei.com, China's largest sports internet company. Fritz also had senior positions at Netease and The News Corporation.

## Florian Heinemann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet

Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation).

## Christian Vollmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.

## John Vincent
- Type: Angel
- Location: Santa Barbara, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Marketing, Hospitality, Developer APIs

John Vincent is a Managing Partner and Co-founder at Revel Partners and was a Co-founder at EyeWonder. John attended Vanderbilt University.

## Kim Perell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Advertising, Software, Analytics

Kim Perell is a leading tech CEO and prominent angel investor. Kim is the current CEO and Founder of 100.co. She was previously CEO at Amobee, a global marketing technology company, acquired by Singtel, one of the most prestigious telecommunication companies in the world.  Kim attended Pepperdine University and Universidad de Belgrano.

## Nils Regge
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Drones, Travel, Software

Nils is a serial entrepreneur and company builder with a long-standing passion for health and biomedicine. At Apollo, Nils brings deal making skills, his impeccable business sense, and his expertise in growing early stage startups.Nils Regge founded company builder and investor TruVenturo in 2010, and he has taken part in over 30 financing roundsas an investor or co-founder among the companies he has cofounded. Of these, three have attained valuations over $100M, having attracted capital from top venture capital companies such as Insight Venture Partners, Highland Capital, and Harbourvest. Nils sits on the boards of multiple companies in his portfolio, helping to push them rapidly towards inflection points by focusing his teams towards only those activities that generate shareholder value. Nils has studied business in Hamburg and at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) in California. He also completed the EO Entrepreneurial Master's Program at MIT.

## Joe Apprendi
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Advertising, Video, Analytics

Joe Apprendi is the Founder and General Partner of Revel Partners and was a CEO of America at Falk eSolutions. He attended Oberlin College.

## Thomas Falk
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Advertising, Software, Credit

Thomas Falk is a General Partner and Co-founder at Revel Partners and was a Partner at Digital Capital Advisors.

## Mike Mahlkow
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, Rental

Mike Mahlkow is the Co-founder and CEO of Blair.

## Mato Perić
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, E-Commerce

Mato invests in technology companies globally. His portfolio companies have raised over US$ 5 billion in capital, employ >15,000 people and have operations in 35 countries across six continents.

## Wolfgang Heigl
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Travel, Tourism, Leisure

Wolfgang founded NFQ back in 2002 – originally purely as a technology company to support his various ventures.He has found success as both as an entrepreneur and investor. His successes include investing in OXID in 2003, which today is the leading German Enterprise Open Source E-commerce solutions provider. He is also known as the founder ofswoodoo.de, which became the biggest flight search engine in the German speaking region and was sold in 2010 to Kayak.com. His recent investments include GetYourGuide, Kiveda and Dreamlines.

## Diana zur Löwen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Debt Financing
- Focus: Financial Services, Software, EdTech

Diana zur Löwen