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

## Lorenz Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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).

## Michael Bristow
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- 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

## Lord Rumi Verjee
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Hospitality, Restaurants

Lord Rumi Verjee is the Founder of Domino’s UK & The Rumi Foundation.

## Jeremy Yap
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across North America and Europe.

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Tony Jamous
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Andrew Weisz
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Education, Apps

Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments

## Brad Bao
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Brad Bao is a Co-Founder and Chairman at Lime (formerly LimeBike), the global leader in micromobility. 
Prior to Lime, he cofounded Kinzon Capital, a cross-border fund that investing in early-stage technology companies in both US and China, focusing on mobile and internet-related investments. 
Prior to that, Brad established Tencent'sinternational footprint, led its internationalization over the course of 8 years, served as GM for Tencent America, and VP-BD for Tencent Games. Brad holds MBA degree from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley.

## Lorenzo Franzi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, B2C

Lorenzo is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ZipJet. ZipJet is an urban pick-up & delivery service for laundry & dry cleaning in London and Berlin. Previously, Lorenzo worked with McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Prior to McKinsey, he worked with Voice.ee a micro polling start up. Lorenzo started-off his professional career at JPMorgan in London. Lorenzo holds an MBA from INSEAD and Msc in Finance from the University of Maastricht.

## Chris Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment

Chris Lee is an investor at Facemoji. The Attended University of Nottingham.

## Gareth Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Information Technology

Gareth Williams co-founded Skyscanner Limited in 2001 and has been its CEO through to 2018.  Chairman to Jan 2020. We spent $6m of primary capital raised through to $1.8bn sale to Trip.com.  Now ‘funemployed’ and learning.

## Matthias Hilpert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

## Rupert Loman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Digital Entertainment, Video Games, Media and Entertainment

Rupert Loman

## Andy Leaver
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Human Resources, Enterprise Software, Software

Andy Leaver is based out of London and is the CEO of Arqit. Andy previously worked at Board Member as a Panaseer. Andy Leaver attended the 
University of Manchester.

## Ricardo Schaefer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Real Estate

Ricardo Schaefer - Partner @ Target Global

## Li Fan
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

Li Fan is the Chief Technology Officer at Circle. She attended University of Wisconsin-Madison.

## Nadav Ben-Chanoch
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

## Philip Green
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Internet, Information Technology, Software

Phil studied finance and accounting at Salford University and went on to qualify as a management accountant shortly after.  He has worked for various retail, FMCG and tech companies over the last 20 years, with 8 years spent working for Amazon, where he held various finance roles and learned about scaling a business. His most recent role wasleading finance for Amazon’s European Operations, before joining Deliveroo in 2016 as CFO, helping scale the organization rapidly.  Although his favorite job ever was investing in bars in Germany and Austria.  Outside work Phil has 4 children, is engaged with a number of European based Start-ups and small enterprises covering various industries such as VR/AR, Media, Security, Software, and e-commerce.

## Eddie Jordan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: iOS, Apps, SaaS

Eddie Jordan is OBE, former Formula 1 team boss, and entrepreneur.

## Mark McDermott
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Hospitality, Mobile Apps

CEO at ScreenCloud.
Co-Founder of Digital Product Studio Codegent. Out of Codegent we Co-Founded startups Tepilo and ScreenCloud. We also own Digital Agency Thin Martian.

## Jon Spiteri
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Hospitality

Jon Spiteri

## Mark Gordon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Charleston, South Carolina, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Software, Hospitality

Mark Gordon

## Richard Ng
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Recruiting, Hospitality, Staffing Agency

Richard Ng is a co-founder and CTO of Greenworkx.

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

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.

## Will Brooks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

## Vishal Amin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Health Care

Vishal Amin

## Anna Lagerqvist Christopherson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Apps, Hospitality

Anna Lagerqvist Christopherson

## Graham Paterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Logistics, Elder Care

VP Product at Trint.

## Jon Oringer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Miami, Florida, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce

Jon Oringer is the founder and chairman of Shutterstock.

## Conrad Whelan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Marketplace, Internet, Information Services

Conrad Whelan

## Frederic Halley
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Retail

Frederic is an investor focusing on early-stage technology companies in Europe. Some of his area of interests include Retailtech, Saas, AI and traveltech. He has a long experience working with technology companies as an operator, an advisor or a Non-Executive Director (NED) / Board Member.

## David Clarke
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

David Clarke is the Board member of Payslip.
David Clarke is the Venture Partner at Frontline Ventures. He attended Trinity College Dublin during 1989-1993.

## Richard Flint
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Events, Mobile, Ticketing

Richard Flint

## Tim Parsons
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Recruiting, Hospitality, Staffing Agency

Tim Parsons is the CFO at Wagestream.

## Nick Telson-Sillett
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Education

Exited Founder of DesignMyNight (Acquired 2019), Co-Founder trumpet, Founder of Venture Arm Horseplay Ventures, Angel Investor in 55+ Startups and Podcaster - Pitch Deck

## Karen Hanton
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Events, E-Commerce, Music

Karen Hanton MBE, was the founder and Chairman of Toptable, a restaurant booking company. In 2010, Toptable was sold to OpenTable for $55m.Karen has also founded the IT staffing firm Mortimer Spinks. After selling Mortimer Spinks, she bought and staffed a restaurant business in Fulham, which in 1998 inspired her to found Toptable. Karen wasappointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.

## Demetrios Zoppos
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Internet, Internet of Things, SEM

Demetrios is an entrepreneur and investor. He’s a founding Partner of VC firm 33East. Demetrios has co-founded several startups, including GF-X, onefinestay, and Klevio. He is an angel investor and a limited partner in several venture funds. He holds an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School and an MA in Economics from Cambridge.

## Jerry Murdock
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Mobile

Jerry Murdock co-founded Insight Venture Partners in 1995, and today serves as a special adviser to the firm. He has spent his career investing in, and building, technology companies that change and positively impact businesses and social practices. Jerry had a defining role in Insight's investment strategy and success, and was primarilyresponsible for the development of many of the Firm's portfolio investments.Since 1999, eight of Jerry's investments have achieved successful IPOs on NASDAQ, several with market capitalizations in excess of a billion dollars. These include: Twitter (TWTR) Callwave (CALL,  now Fuzebox), Click Commerce (CKCM ); Convergent Group (CVGP acquired by Schlumberger Ltd); DivX Inc (DVIX was subsequently acquired by Sonic Solutions (SNIC)); Illuminet (ILUM, acquired by VeriSign, Inc. (VRSN)); Quest Software (QSFT) and SeeBeyond Technology Corporation (SBYN).In January 2013 Jerry invested in Nest series C. He also invested in Snapchat in December 2013 series C, Serverless, Inc series B in July 2016, Influxdata series B August 2016.Jerry is passionate about public service, using his network and capabilities to impact causes he believes in. In particular, Jerry plays a leading role as a member of the Board of Trustees at:The Aspen Institute whose mission is to foster values-based leadership, encouraging individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues.  The Santa Fe Institute which is a multi-disciplinary research and education center focused on understanding complex adaptive systems as a critical component in addressing key environmental, technological, biological, economic, and political challenges.Jerry is a co-founder, along with John Doerr, of For the Forest, a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote the health of forests, with particular emphasis on promoting the long-term sustainability of Western forests by providing research, management, expertise and related resources.Jerry Murdock graduated with a degree in Political Science from San Diego State University and subsequently worked at the Georgetown Center for Strategic & International Studies (now known as CSIS).

## Peter Attia
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Sales

Peter Attia

## Brent Hoberman
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Brent Hoberman is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Founders Forum. He previously worked at Royal Academy of Arts as a Corporate Advisory Board. Brent Hoberman attended the University of Oxford.

## Jonathan Eilian
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Travel, E-Commerce, Hospitality

Jonathan Eilian is a founding investor in Starwood Hotels.

## Wim Derkinderen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

Wim Derkinderen is the Founder, Director, and Board member of FixForm.

## Boris Bogaert
- Type: Angel
- Location: Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Focus: Software, SaaS, FinTech

Startup Enabler & Angel Investor. In 2011 I co-founded Cardwise that later became Xpenditure NV an innovative product for managing expenses. Which was acquired by Sodexo Group (EURONEXT:SDXOF) in March 2017 after a very succesfull growth phase with more then 6000 customers globally (eg. Deloitte, Henkel, PWC,....) Reinvested partly in the newventure with Sodexo & iAlbatros. We launched this new corp-up venture in June 2018 under the name of RYDOO and I'm acting COO and board member.. Next to that I'm also investing in promising early stage startups with Tumbzup bvba.In the early 90ies I've been involved in commercialisation of the first Internet solutions. My passion has always been making new innovative products marketable towards B2B markets. I've pioneered in the internet sector and have been involved in the launch of Europe's first Internet service providers PING (Eunet) and Yucom (JV BT & ING), now both part of Belgacom (BELG:BB).Later, I became Chief Commercial Officer at SpaceChecker and after the acquisition by Punch Telematix, I became Country Manager. Punch Telematix is now owned by Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB). In 2007, I joined Massive Media (publishers of Netlog & TWOO), a leading European on-line community that has recently been acquired by IACI (NASDAQ:IACI). As Director of Business Development, I successfully set-up the complete business development strategy and team from scratch.

## Andrej Henkler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Logistics

Entrepreneurial investments High-Tech, Internet and Media companies in US and Europe.Portfolio companies include among others Palantir Technologies, Taulia, Socotra, Context Logic (Wish), Evernote, CapLinked, Spectrum Investments, Open Door, Zipline, Properly, Simscale, Osaro, Polyspectra, Aether Bio, Ashby, Asyncy, Eligible, WayUp, Xage,Lampenwelt, Robin Hood, Klara, Qualia Labs, Aizon, Luna, Shogun (Hearth), Mosaic Finance, Cantourage, Seed Legals, Sava, Gordian, Form Logic, Vector, Bryte, Gartenhaus, Free Form, Fero Labs, Airly, Octane.ai, SmithRX, Contract Book, Quantum Systems, Energy Robotics, Airly, Memberstack, Orchest.ai, Inflammatix, Finway, Roadsurfer, Hive Logistics, AnyMove, Lucid Chart, Fursure, Arrows.to, Halo Industries, Almanac, Velocity Labs, Lumeo, Carbon Health, Almanac, Passion.io, US Bitcoin Corp, OQmented, Maev, LegalOS, Block Green, trypenny, remberg, Kaladin, Marvel Fusion, Arda Therapeutics, The Every Company, CryptoCities, Lenco, SaveIN, GetSona, Noibu, how.fm, Adyton, Hydra Host, Anchor Zero, Gen1e Lifesciences, Pasteur Labs, Windmill.dev, ISEE, ThreeDOT, Workpatterns, Pylon, Cylib,...

## Mark Hyman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness

Mark Hyman

## Anthony Danon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Apps

Anthony Danon is based out of London, England, and is the Founder of Rerail. Anthony previously worked at Hedosophia as a Venture Partner. Anthony Danon attended the University of Cambridge.

## Nelson Peltz
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Post-IPO Equity
- Focus: Food Processing, Food and Beverage, TV

Nelson Peltz is the Chief Executive Officer & Founding Partner at Trian Partners.

## Eric Nadalin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Financial Services

Eric Nadalin has entrepreneurship experiences in both the payments and telecoms spaces for over 20+ years. He cofounded Nexmo and worked as a CTO managing product and engineering teams. The company was acquired by Vonage in May 2016. During the dotcom era, he was based in San Francisco and cofounded iPIN, which was later on acquired by Valista andwas integrated with major mobile operators around the globe. Eric holds several patents in telecommunication, a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.

## Paul Birch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Marketplace, SaaS

Paul Birch resides in central London, England. He graduated from University (Imperial College) many years ago - but now believes the University of Life has much more to offer than traditional education.Paul's background is systems analysis. He has loved the Internet since the first day he went online back in 1996. He's been surfingthe Internet ever since and has applied many surfing discoveries to BirthdayAlarm. He also enjoy's travelling and helps run Adventura Singles Holidays.Paul has fun everyday, by helping bring a little extra joy to people's lives through the Birthday Alarm service. Formerly himself a 'bad boy' at remembering birthdays - he is of course now excellent!

## Maximilian Bittner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Logistics

Max is part of the executive team of Lazada.com, a leading regional online department store founded by Rocket Internet in Southeast Asia. As CEO, Max is responsible for the performance of all 5 operating countries as well as overseeing regional buying.Max started his career at Morgan Stanley’s Investment Banking division in London. Followinghis MBA, he joined McKinsey & Company in Germany. Over these 4 years at the firm, Max worked largely with Media and Retail clients as a consultant. During his time at McKinsey, he also joined the private equity firm 3i plc for 6 months on a secondment.Max initially joined Rocket Internet in Germany as a regional partner before taking on the role of CEO at Lazada.Max holds a bachelor degree of economics and history from University College London and a MBA degree from Kellogg School of Management in Chicago

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