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Top 50 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Europe in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Manufacturing startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Europe in November 2024

Investor	Manufacturing Europe investments
Ralf Dummel	5
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	5
Ali Omar	5
Charlie Songhurst	4
Uldis Sipols	4
Thibaud Elziere	4
Christian Dahlen	4
Frank Thelen	3
Saeid Esmaeilzadeh	3
Alberto Giusti	3
Christoph Behn	3
Judith Williams	3
Leena Niemistö	3
Torsten Reil	3
Matt Clifford	3
Nicholas Francis	3
Carsten Maschmeyer	3
Gustaf Hagman	3
Chris Adelsbach	3
Nadav Rosenberg	3
Sverre Bisgaard	3
James Nuzzo	3
Sten Tamkivi	3
Hermann Hauser	3
Thibault Chassagne	2
Francesco Starace	2
Thomas Visti	2
Robert Maier	2
Bertrand Jelensperger	2
Michael Wax	2
Roxanne Varza	2
Per Falholt	2
Johannes Reck	2
Tobias Fezer	2
Lasse Kieffer	2
Beate Rosenthal	2
Leo Giertz	2
Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara	2
Stefan Lemcke	2
Francis Nappez	2
Henrik Norlander	2
Johannes von Borries	2
Nikolaus D. Bayer	2
Fred Potter	2
Mario Götze	2
Eric Carreel	2
Hannu Turunen	2
Johannes Schaback	2
Nico Rosberg	2
Francesco Perticarari	2

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Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.

Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Finland, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
StackOne — Accelerate your SaaS growth with our unified API solution for HRIS, ATS, and CRM. Say "yes" to customers, build advanced integrations quickly, and experienced the best data privacy controls in the market.
Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.

Uldis Sipols

Investment focus

CAD, Software, Simulation
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Latvia

Portfolio highlights

CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
Candix — Get set up in 3 minutes. It's free and confidential.
Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.

Christian Dahlen is a business angel. He provides expert capital and venture advice to B2B SW startups in Silicon Valley and in Germany. He is a member of the Band of Angels, Silicon Valley's oldest seed funding organization. Christian was a VP at SAP and held various roles in business strategy and operations. Prior to SAP, he was theGeneral Manager for the Internet and phone business of Kabel Deutschland (KDG), Germany's largest cable operator. He joined KDG from Excite@Home, and before that was with McKinsey & Co.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Germany, France

Portfolio highlights

clous — Hybrid automated mechanical engineering
Alphadoc — Interactive documentation that converts. Explain APIs and SDKs in a single environment. Keep your docs in sync, reuse content, powerful AI, and more
comstruct — comstruct is working on a platform that will allow construction companies to digitize and automate material purchasing. All delivery bills, invoices, and purchase orders, as well as processes such as invoice verification, can be exchanged digitally with suppliers. All data pertaining to the purchasing process is made available for documentation,evaluation, and process optimization.

Frank Thelen is the Founder & CEO of 10xDNA Capital Partners. He previously worked at mytaxi - The Taxi App as an Investor. Frank Thelen attended Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.

Investment focus

Software, Transportation, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
Build.One — Build.One is an end-to-end application development platform that allows to build mission-critical and legacy-free business applications without any limits, using a combination of No-Code, Low-Code and Pro-Code.
Lilium — Lilium is developing sustainable, high-speed air mobility through its electric vertical take-off and landing aircraft, vertiports and digital service.

Saeid Esmaeilzadeh

Investment focus

Legal, Advice, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Ageras — Ageras redefines administration for small businesses by integrating banking, accounting, and tax filing in a single platform.
STILRIDE — The future of electric mobility
Denjo Dogs — Denjo Dogs offer a selected assortment of designer dog products for modern, conscious homes. Stylish dog collars, luxury dog leads and more.

Alberto Giusti - Partner @ Guanxi

Investment focus

Energy Efficiency, Internet of Things, Industrial Automation
Seed, Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Alleantia — Alleantia, through converged industrial edge, transforms the way companies harness the power of data to improve industrial operations.

Christoph Behn is the Chairman & Founder of better ventures. He previously worked at Die Kartenmacherei as an Advisory Board & Founder. Christoph Behn attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Advanced Materials, Manufacturing
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

42 Watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
Halitus — Laser Technology x Gas Dynamics Analysis x Machine Learning.
Strollme — Strollme believes in idea of using resources wisely, they started with stroller which can be reused for next time.

Judith Williams

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Wellness, Sales
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

PÁPYDO — PÁPYDO produces sustainable and primarily wood-free products.
Womatics — Womatics produces pregnancy and breastfeeding easing products.
Chiengora — Chiengora produces clothing made from dog wool.

Leena Niemistö

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Finland, United States

Portfolio highlights

#Rens — RENS Original is the World's First Sneaker made from recycled coffee and plastic. We know you've been drinking it, now it is time to wear it.
Vapaus — A circular economy startup Vapaus provides sustainable mobility solutions – Employee benefit bicycles and shared electric vehicles as a ready-to-use serviceWith its services, Vapaus supports customers’ to create and strengthen a better experience of the work community, to save on the costs of commuting and business travels, and to move towardssmarter and more environmentally friendly modes of transport, both at work and in employees’ leisure time.Every kilometer traveled by the Vapaus mobility solution removes carbon dioxide from the air, helping not only the environment but also customers on their way to carbon neutrality. The mission of Vapaus is to be a global leader when it comes to sustainable Corporate Mobility.
Finnadvance — Finnadvance is an Organ-On-Chip company developing high throughput biological barriers on chips to mimic human biology such as vascular, lung and the Blood-Brain-Barriers for small molecule, micro-nano-formulation permeability and toxicity testing with in-vivo like dynamic cell cultures.

Torsten Reil is Co Founder and CEO at Helsing. He holds a BA in Biology from Oxford University and an MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems from Sussex University. Prior to founding NaturalMotion, Torsten was researching for a PhD in Complex Systems at Oxford University’s Zoology department, from which he spun off NaturalMotion.Torsten hasbeen named amongst MIT’s TR100 global top innovators, Next-Gen’s 25 People in the Games Industry, and Develop magazine’s 25 Game Changers.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Computer
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
Tacto — Tacto develops an intuitive, data-driven, and automated solution for procurement in medium-sized industrial enterprises. The AI-based software gives customers a transparent overview of their procurement activities, algorithmically highlights risk & savings potential, and automates all transactional workflows in sourcing and supplier managementto focus on what matters. With Tacto customers can focus on strategic work, leverage savings potential, and reduce complexity - without the need for costly IT resources.

Matt co-founded EF after being a consultant at McKinsey & Co. Prior to EF Matt spent his time studying at MIT fuelled by an obsession with R, Python and unusual datasets. EF is the best place for Europe’s top technical individuals to meet and build world-changing startups in London.They select purely on the basis of technical talent, so youcan apply before you have a team or an idea. The intensive 6-month programme is designed to give you the best possible support in the first 200 days of your startup’s life.They have created over 40 startups now worth over $300 million. The startups are funded by some prestigious investors including Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Octopus Investments and Y Combinator.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Koos — KOOS is a simple legal and technological solution for motivating and rewarding your community. Boost your growth by sharing success.
Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative

Nicholas Francis is Co-founder at framebunker

Investment focus

SaaS, Robotics, Software
Seed, Series A
Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

Waterplan — Waterplan is a SaaS platform for companies to manage water availability in their facilities.
Reshape Biotech — Fully digital microbiology developed by Reshape Biotech

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.

Gustaf Hagman CEO and Co-founder - LeoVegas Group

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Marketing
Pre-Seed, Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

STILRIDE — The future of electric mobility
Fieldstream — SaaS Marketing Analytics

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

Nadav leads Taboola’s expansion and operations in Europe and Australia.Prior to joining Taboola, Nadav was a member of the founding team of Groupon UK & IR, taking part in building and managing Groupon’s business in the UK.Before joining Groupon, Nadav worked as a strategy consultant with McKinsey & Company in London.Nadav isbased in London and holds an MBA from INSEAD, France.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Pharmaceutical
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Israel, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

thymia — Making mental health as objectively measurable as physical health.
Exogene — Exogene is a biotechnology company accelerating the discovery of T-cell-receptor(TCR)-based cancer immunotherapies for solid tumours by combining deep learning and high-throughput TCR-antigen screening. Exogene is building a computational platform to quickly and inexpensively identify new tumour targets shared across cancer patients, as well assafe and effective TCRs against these tumour targets for therapeutic application. Their mission is to develop better TCR-based immunotherapies, faster and at a fraction of the cost.
Loops — With Loops causal insights you can identify your biggest opportunities to maximize your KPIs... try the Loops way

Has built up and been the leader of Kongsberg Norspace in Horten, Norway and its predecessors over a period of more than 30 years, starting with AME space division in 1984. AME Space AS, a separate company created in 1986, became Alcatel Space Norway (ASN) in 1989 after an MBO in 1988. As MD lead ASN to an international leading position, developingand manufacturing satellite electronic products for satellite manufacturers world-wide, growing the company from 15 to 130 employees and sales exceeding 20 million Euros. Started Norspace, who took over the business of ASN when Alcatel closed ASN in 2003 following the satellite industry downturn in 2001-2002. After another successful build-up of Norspace over eight straight profitable years sold the company to Kongsberg in 2011. Retired from the position of CEO of Kongsberg Norspace end of March 2015.Kongsberg Norspace products are now (2015) found in over 200 satellites, mostly used for telecommunications.Presently engaged as board chairman, board member and investor in various companies.

Investment focus

CAD, Software, Simulation
Pre-Seed
Latvia

Portfolio highlights

CENOS — CENOS redefines engineering simulation software category for mass adoption: FROM enterprise niche and multi-purpose software for 100K simulation experts TO mass adoption of intuitive vertical-focused simulation apps by 10M+ practical engineers in production

James Nuzzo

Investment focus

Security, Software, Manufacturing
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

ExactTrak — ExactTrak Embedded command and control of mobile devices, even when they are turned off.

Sten Tamkivi is the Chief Product Officer at Topia (formerly MOVE Guides). He was previously co-founder and CEO of Teleport (acquired by Topia), the place to scout for startup people. He co-founded the company as an EIR at Andreessen Horowitz.Sten has been a tech entrepreneur since 1996. After founding a few companies in Estonia, he joined Skypeas an early executive, ran the original R&D office, and held several global product leadership roles for 8+ years.He has an MS in Management from Stanford GSB.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Estonia, United States, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Salv — Smart AML solutions. Detect and mitigate money laundering risks through advanced transaction monitoring, sanction screening, and KYC risk scoring.
Katana — Katana gives thousands of manufacturers a live look at their business with visual, intuitive, and easy-to-use ERP software.
Entrepreneur First — We are the best place for the world's most ambitious talent to come together and build game-changing technology startups from scratch.

Hermann Hauser is the Co-founder, Director, and Venture Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners. He previously worked at IXI as a Founder. Hermann Hauser attended the University of Vienna.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Machine Learning
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, Austria, Italy

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
NXRT — Driving simulations for sales and training
Fractile — Fractile is building chips to run large language models two orders of magnitude faster. Existing hardware is good for training LLMs, but very poorly suited to subsequent inference of the trained model, which is increasingly the dominant workload. A network’s weights need to be moved onto a chip once per word generated, and this movement takes a fewhundred times longer than the subsequent computations themselves. Fractile’s revolutionary approach to fusing computation with memory eliminates this bottleneck, and can scale to allow running the world’s largest models at a global scale.

Thibault Chassagne - Co-Founder @ Virtuo

Investment focus

Retail, Security, Software
Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Carsell — Carsell is an automotive company that offers turnkey service solutions for their car. The company supports the entire process of selling used vehicles between individuals and frees them from all the constraints and sources of stress associated with it Carsell was founded by Morgan Petitjean in 2021.
Electra — Electra is a platform that provides Charging stations Ultrafast for electric vehicles.
Sharelock — Sharelock is the first shared locks network in the world. They develop, deploy and operate an innovative secured shared lock infrastructure in partnership with city authorities and mobility operators to massively enable active mobility. Based on mobility expertise and proprietary data, they also develop disruptive insurance products.

Graduated in Nuclear Engineering at Politecnico di Milano University in 1980, he hold several managerial positions during the Eighties: he was Safety Analyst at the nuclear power plants of NIRA Ansaldo (1981-1982), he worked as a manager at SAE SADELMI (company belonging to the General Electric network), in Italy and in foreign countries such asUS, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (1982-1987). In 1987 he moved to ABB and in 1993 he was Operations Manager at SOIMI. He later was appointed CEO at ABB Combustion Engineering Italy in 1997, while between 1998 and 2000 he worked as senior vice president of global sales and turnkey plants in the gas turbine division.In 2000 Francesco Starace joined Enel, appointed Energy Management of Enel Produzione, becoming Head of Business Power Division for the three-year period between 2002 and 2005. In that same year, he became Enel Italian Market Division Director.He later was in charge of the Renewable Energy Division of Enel and CEO of Enel Green Power (2008-2014).In 2014, Francesco Starace was appointed General Manger as well as CEO of Enel and the year after became part of the United Nations Global Compact.Honoured with several prizes, he received in 2010 Agici and Accenture’s the "Manager Utilities Prize 2010", in 2011 the "Chess and business strategies" prize, in 2013 Fondazione Energia’s "Sustainable Energy Prize 2013" and finally in 2016 he received Staffetta Quotidiana’s “Man of The Year” award.

Investment focus

Automotive, Smart Home, Cloud Computing
Seed, Angel
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Atooma — Resonance AI is a key enabler to new generations of smart devices designed to:Listen to people's behavior across apps and devicesAct accordingly with the desired action in the right moment for a magic experienceAnalyze the patterns and get the most out of themIt provides a framework for cross-device interactions to brands and devicemanufacturers that needs their products to make the best of the Internet of Things layer potential. Most of the existing solutions for the Internet of Things provide strictly verticalized use cases, building ecosystems basically blind to any horizontal cross-device interaction. On the other hand, Atooma team is developing different SDKs for each of the main fragmented sectors of the IoT market, such as: automotive, home automation, wearables, and mobile devices. Also, as last step of integration within the platform, Atooma has developed a “suggestion engine” that makes use of the big data coming from user’s behavior monitoring, pro-actively suggesting them coherent and contextual use cases fitting their lifestyle, based on how they used the context-aware device.“Context awareness is not just a buzz word, we are building the fast track for the full participation in the contextual era for the internet of things players.” - Fabrizio Cialdea, CEO of Atooma

Thomas Visti - CEO @ Mobile Industrial Robots

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Manufacturing
Angel, Grant, Funding Round
Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Rokoko — Rokoko | Affordable high-end motion capture and animation tools for body, hand, and face capture + software with native integrations for all major animation software and game engines
Unicontrol — Unicontrol is a developer of a 3D machine control system for all types of excavators. Unicontrol is a manufacturer of a simple 3D-GPS machine control system for all types of excavators. We are here to prove that machine control can be made simple.
BlueKey — BlueKey is a software developer of a solution that aims to deliver, structure, and automate the world's shipping data, reliably and easily. The platform gathers valuable data in one place so that shipping companies and charterers in the dry cargo industry can hit the competitive price, quality, and speed of deliveries.

Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
Blockbrain — Blockbrain analyzes millions of transactions on the blockchain to proactively detect threats and opportunities for digital assets you store in crypto wallets and exchanges.The company manages all types of wallets in one secure technology. Track KPIs, be aware of threats, and manage your assets.Blockbrain was established on May 6, 2022 byJohannes Strachwitz in Hamburg, Germany.

Bertrand Jelensperger is the Co-Founder and Advisory Board at TheFork.

Investment focus

Apps, Organic Food, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Spain, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Malou — Malou offers food marketing and digital marketing solutions for restaurants. The company also offers content management, restaurant marketing, reputation management, presence management, and SEO solutions.
Kiliba — 100% automated emailing platform: design of html templates in your colours, sending of personalised emails, marketing automation workflows, enriched CRM
Neptune Elements — Neptune Elements offerFrench seaweed of controlled origin, with exceptional taste and culture.

Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Increase your sales efficiency by 65% with Xaver. Enhance productivity and unlock more time for customers using our specialised AI-driven sales solutions tailored for the financial sector, ensuring every agent becomes a high-achieving expert.
Orbem — We combine accelerated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with AI technology to scan, classify, and sort eggs, nuts, seeds, plants, and more.
Responsibly — Responsibly is a supplier data platform for responsible procurement. We provide a one-stop-shop for responsible supplier data across a wide variety of data providers, to make it easier for you to source responsibly.

Roxanne Varza is currently Director of STATION F, the biggest startup campus in the world with more than 1,000 startups, located in Paris. She is also an angel investor (companies include Claap, Folk, Resilience.care, Moka.care, Colette and more) and scout for Sequoia Capital (and was previously a scout at Atomico).Before joining STATION F, sheled Microsoft Ventures Paris and was Editor of TechCrunch France. She also worked for several London-based startups and cofounded StarHer (now part of SISTA), Tech.eu and Failcon France. She has also been a member of the French Government's Conseil National du Numérique (CNNum) and the European Commission's European Innovation Council (EIC).Roxanne is trilingual and holds degrees from UCLA, Sciences Po Paris and the London School of Economics.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Cognyx — Cognyx is a platform that enables manufacturers to design complex hardware at software speed using AI and graph databases. It creates a "collaborative super-BOM" that connects legacy systems, allowing designers, manufacturers, and buyers to collaborate on a single BOM. Cognyx reduces time-to-market, improves design reliability, and buildsstructured data for AI.
Augment — Augment is a non-traditional MBA program taught by the creators of Wikipedia, YouTube, Shazam, Waze, and many other companies.
Spore Biotechnologies — Lighting up microbiology

A passion and vision for chemistry and biotechnology led Per (born 1958) to Novo A/S, where he started his career as a research chemist. He subsequently held several managerial positions developing products for the detergent industry and rose to Director for Application Technology in the company’s new enzyme development division in 1995.Hemoved to Raleigh, N.C., to head the company’s U.S. application technology unit in 1997, returning to Denmark three years later as Corporate Vice President of the Enzyme Development and Application division. In April 2000, Per merged the Research and Development division into the newly formed Enzyme Business R&D.Per assumed his current position following Novozymes’ demerger from Novo Nordisk in 2000. As chief science officer, he has helped Novozymes develop a unique industrial biotechnology platform which delivers solutions to meet customer needs and support growth.Per holds a M.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from Technical University of Denmark (DTU). Committed to promoting education and research within the sciences, he was appointed Honorary Professor at DTU’s Institute for Systems Biology in 2010 and became Chairman of the Board in 2013. He is also Chairman of the Young Scientists association in Denmark.Per’s current external positions also include Chairman, DTU, board member of DHI Group, board member of ARTs Biologics A/S, and member of the Danish Council for Research Policy.

Investment focus

Robotics, Biotechnology, Industrial Automation
Seed, Series A
Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Reshape Biotech — Fully digital microbiology developed by Reshape Biotech

Johannes Reck is the Chief Executive Officer at GetYourGuide. He leads the company’s long-term vision and strategy.Johannes co-founded GetYourGuide in 2009 while attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and has grown the company into the leading booking platform for incredible travel experiences. Under Johannes’ leadership, over 30million tickets have been booked to date via the GetYourGuide website, mobile app, and partnership network. GetYourGuide has raised over $650M from investors such as the SoftBank Vision Fund, Battery Ventures and KKR. Johannes leads GetYourGuide’s 550-person global team from its headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Johannes originally hails from Cologne, Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Transportation
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

RYDES — One app for your workforce to access all modes of urban transport
Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
NAVIT — One app for your workforce to access all modes of urban transport

Tobias Fezer

Investment focus

Organic Food, Manufacturing, Food Processing
Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

eatPlants — eatPlants manufactures products that help everyone cook easily plant-based food.

Lasse Kieffer is an Entrepreneur and investor.

Investment focus

Robotics, Navigation, Construction
Angel
Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Unicontrol — Unicontrol is a developer of a 3D machine control system for all types of excavators. Unicontrol is a manufacturer of a simple 3D-GPS machine control system for all types of excavators. We are here to prove that machine control can be made simple.

Beate Rosenthal

Investment focus

Recycling, Manufacturing, Sustainability
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.

Leo Giertz - General Partner @ Icebreaker.vc

Investment focus

Software, Customer Service, Technical Support
Seed, Series A, Series B
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Mavenoid — Mavenoid is the only product support automation platform built for complex products and devices. Using our unique AI, we solve problems too complex for chatbots

Veli-Pekka Saarnivaara

Investment focus

Gaming, Software, 3D Printing
Seed
Finland

Portfolio highlights

3DBear — 3DBear combines immersive technologies and education for the best learning results Augmented reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), 360-photos & 3D printing.

Stefan Lemcke

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Bakery, Cosmetics
Angel
Austria, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Holy Pit — Holy Pit is a manufacturer of natural cosmetic deodorant and other health and beauty products.
Veggie Crumbz — Veggie Crumbz is a manufacturer of vegan, gluten free, vegetables based bread, snacks and other food products.

Francis leads the technical and product evolution of BlaBlaCar and has been instrumental in building the platform since 2006, allowing it to grow from hosting a few thousand members to millions today. He knows how to turn ambitious ideas into reality, and believes in building robust solutions which can adapt to fast growth and stay relevant for thelong-term. Francis cares about building agile cross-functional teams across locations to deliver efficiently on ambitious objectives. Pragmatic and result-oriented, he is driven by the opportunity to create disruptive solutions which better the user experience. Before joining BlaBlaCar, Francis led major technical developments for big names in European consumer internet which drove impactful disruptions in their respective sectors, including Free and Meetic. Francis holds a degree in Technology and Communications Research from the Joseph Fourier University. Find him @fnapz.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
France, United States, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Inarix — Inarix utilizes the latest technologies in artificial intelligence and image analysis to develop its technology. Your pocket laboratory on your smartphone. You can get reliable results from your samples in seconds by snapping a picture. The monitoring platform for your flows is global and instantaneous. Management tools tailored to your needs.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
Imagination Machine — Imagination Machine Imagination Machine is a startup studio.

Henrik Norlander is a professional golfer and plays on the PGA Tour.

Investment focus

Shoes, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Goatlane — Your Everyday Golf Sneaker

Johannes loves to see new technologies and products entering the market. One of his most memorable moments was the day when he received the first order for an inspection system his former company, Nanda Technologies, had developed. Now, as an investor, he enjoys supporting teams to achieve this same moment and to grow their company beyond it. Withmany years’ experience in the VC industry and being a successful founder himself, he is well-acquainted with the ups and downs of a startup.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Industrial Manufacturing
Series A, Seed, Angel
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

BigRep — Industrial 3D Printers Designed for Professionals. Large Scale High-Performance 3D Printing for Commercial Prototyping and Production.
Pagido — Pagido provides bill generation, financial administration, and factoring services for freelancers in Germany.
Micropsi Industries — Micropsi Industries is a robotics software company. Our AIs allow robots to learn from humans and act in dynamic environments.

Nikolaus invests in early stage ventures focusing on software, artificial intelligence, digitalisation and process optimisation, not only but mostly in Germany. Before converting himself into an angel investor, he co-founded and headed risk management solution provider IRIS Analytics, which was eventually acquired by IBM in 2015. Nikolaus holds adiploma in computer science from RWTH Aachen university, and fluently speaks German, English and Spanish.

Investment focus

Education, SaaS, EdTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

limbiq.com — limbiq is a centralized software platform designed to help businesses achieve end-to-end supply chain visibility and real-time updates, even on the SKU level, across all modes of transport. Our customers enjoy productivity gains of 60% or more, and cost savings of 40-60% due to lower safety stock levels and reduced process-related costs. With limbiq, you can collaborate seamlessly with all your partners along the supply chain and be automatically alerted when schedules change. Schedule a free personalized demo to see how limbiq can work for you and your team.
Boomerang — Boomerang offers reusable packing materials with a deposit system.
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.

Engineer from Telecom ParisTech and holder of a PHD in Microelectronics, Fred is a passionate entrepreneur who has been reinventing objects we use in our everyday lives for over 20 years. In 1999, he started CIRPACK, a telecommunications supplier, later bought by TECHNICOLOR; and WITHINGS, sold to NOKIA, before creating NETATMO in 2011. His vision:a company where every employee knows how the business and projects grow and where daily life is driven by a strong sense of innovation, empowerment, hard work and sharing.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Cowboy — Meet Cowboy, the connected electric bike for urban riders. With an intuitive motor to sense your pedaling force and a companion app in the cockpit to guide your ride, tune into a newfound freedom in the city.
Gleamer — Gleamer develops an AI-powered software to enhance radiologists’ productivity.
Renovation Man — Renovation Man is a provider of services intended to revolutionize the world of renovation work.

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Xaver offers an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for investment and life insurance sales, boosting operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65%, while introducing a new era of white-labeled private pension products.
ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
encentive — encentive provides modular building to grid and consumer VPP solutions as a service for existing systems and infrastructure. We are the expert for cost efficient, scalable and fully automated micro-flexibility services!

Eric started his career in institutional research as a researcher in the field of radio.He then co-founded Inventel and remained its President from 2002 to 2005, being recognised as one of the major architects of Triple Play in Europe. After Thomson bought Inventel, Eric became technical director of Thomson's domestic products divisionwhile creating and managing the Advanced Product Development group.Eric is an Engineer from the Industrial Physics & Chemistry Grande Ecole in Paris (ESPCI) and has a PhD in engineering from the University of Paris VI. He is the author of over fifty patents and directs the vision and innovation at Withings.

Investment focus

Ride Sharing, Biotechnology, Manufacturing
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Biomemory — Biomemory creates DNA Drives for large corporates and administrations.
Smoove Fifteen — Smoove designs, installs and manufactures self-service bike solutions and mobility services, integrated in a multimodal and digital offer for cities and companies. Smoove is the only company to offer ultra-innovative bikes, with on-board technology and a patented security system that makes their bikes highly secured.
Spore Biotechnologies — Lighting up microbiology

Hannu Turunen is the Member of the Board of Exalocus. He was a Board Member at Men&Mice.

Investment focus

SaaS, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
Finland, Sweden, United States

Portfolio highlights

Naava — Naava helps you to make safer and healthier indoor spaces - experience Naava green wall, a striking combination of nature and high-end technology.
Cargofy — Cargofy it's a mobile assistant, kind of a "Siri" but for truck drivers. We help truckers access to high paying loads through our app, and receive discounts on fuel, maintenance, and truck parts.
Picosun — Picosun is the leading manufacturer of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) reactors for micro- and nanotechnology applications. Picosun provides the customers with versatile, reliable, and user-friendly ALD process tools, which offer world leading process quality and unique scalability from basic research to fully automated high throughput industrialproduction. Picosun is based in Espoo, Finland, its production facilities are located in Masala (Kirkkonummi), Finland, its US headquarters in Detroit, Michigan, and its Asian headquarters in Singapore. PICOSUN™ ALD process tools have been installed in various prominent industries and high-level reasearch organizations across Europe, USA, Asia and Australia. Picosun has world-wide sales and support network with distributors and representatives in over 30 countries.

Johannes Schaback is the CTO of SumUp and was a Co-founder and CTO at Visual Meta. He attended Technische Universität Berlin and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Funerals
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
Blockbrain — Blockbrain analyzes millions of transactions on the blockchain to proactively detect threats and opportunities for digital assets you store in crypto wallets and exchanges.The company manages all types of wallets in one secure technology. Track KPIs, be aware of threats, and manage your assets.Blockbrain was established on May 6, 2022 byJohannes Strachwitz in Hamburg, Germany.

Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Logistics, Manufacturing
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Germany, France, Italy

Portfolio highlights

ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
Guided Energy — Guided Energy is the smart energy platform to power the next generation of renewable, electric fleets. Our platform makes it easier and cheaper to charge, operate and manage electric vehicles.
Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.

Francesco is a computer sicentist and tech startup investor, who built Silicon Roundabout into the largest Tech meetup community in Europe, with the mission of developing tech entrepreneurship and innovation through business connections, specialist recruitment, and venture capital support. Former roles include Software Engineer, Tech Lead and CTO.Currently Founder & Managing Partner @ Silicon Roundabout Ventures (Next-Generation Technology Pre-Seed/Seed UK VC)Prior to Silicon Roundabout, Francesco worked as a C++ software engineer, web developer, and founded the boutique property investment company AGAPE Properties: 1st UK property manager to accept crypto as a payment. He held guest lectures, panels and keynotes at London Fintech Week, London Tech Week, The London Institute of Banking & Finance, ASP (Politecnico di Milano), Birmingham Tech Week and the European GNSS Agency amongst others.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Aegiq — Scalable networking with quantum security and data links. Fibre QKD with optimised deployment costs and satellite QKD for maximum uptime | high-performance quantum photonics and single-photon sources - Aegiq
Valkyrie Industries — Real-time muscle stimulator designed for VR workouts. The wearable contracts your arm muscles through patented electrical muscle stimulation (EMS) technology as you move in the virtual world.
CoGrammar — CoGrammar is an edtech startup that is dedicated to closing the global tech skills gap. We achieve this by integrating human mentorship and code review into the world's leading tech education brands. CoGrammar has also built and scaled its own coding education product - HyperionDev - which supports learners from over 40 countries in changinginto fulfilling tech careers. HyperionDev rebranded to CoGrammar in 2018. We’re growing fast and always on the lookout for talent - visit www.cogrammar.com and apply to make real impact in your career and to #closethegap.

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