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Top 50 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Europe in July 2025

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 July 2025

Investor Manufacturing Europe investments
Ralf Dummel 5
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann 5
Ali Omar 4
Thibaud Elziere 4
Christian Dahlen 4
Charlie Songhurst 4
Uldis Sipols 4
Hermann Hauser 3
Robert Maier 3
Sten Tamkivi 3
Oliver Roskopf 3
Chris Adelsbach 3
Frank Thelen 3
Just Beyer 3
Judith Williams 3
Nicholas Francis 3
Nadav Rosenberg 3
Sverre Bisgaard 3
Leena Niemistö 3
Mehdi Ghissassi 3
Johannes Schaback 3
Alberto Giusti 3
Gustaf Hagman 3
Saeid Esmaeilzadeh 3
James Nuzzo 3
Torsten Reil 3
Christoph Behn 3
Michael Wax 3
Christian Gaiser 3
Carsten Maschmeyer 3
Matt Clifford 3
Leo Giertz 2
Eric Carreel 2
Nico Rosberg 2
Johannes von Borries 2
Florent Couty 2
Bertrand Jelensperger 2
Lasse Kieffer 2
Mario Götze 2
Stephen Weich 2
Hannu Turunen 2
Francesco Perticarari 2
Harold Mechelynck 2
Sake Bosch 2
Hanno Renner 2
William Tunstall-Pedoe 2
Tobias Emanuelsson 2
Fulvio Basili 2
Matteo Fago 2
Giovanni Onesti 2
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Ralf Dummel Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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.
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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.
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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 Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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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.
Thibaud Elziere Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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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 — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
  • Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
Christian Dahlen Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, Germany, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Deltia — We use computer vision and AI analytics to provide insights into manual assembly processes - our platform supports process engineers in driving productivity and quality of assembly processes
  • Rencore — Simplify Microsoft 365 governance for Teams, SharePoint, Azure, Power Platform and much more. Try the award-winning software from Rencore today.
  • 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.
Charlie Songhurst Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Granola — Granola takes your raw meeting notes and makes them awesome. No awkward meeting bots - just beautiful notes for you and your team, every single time.
  • Dex — Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity.
  • YieldClub — YieldClub is a mobile app that helps you grow your savings with higher returns than a traditional bank.
Uldis Sipols Angel
Uldis Sipols
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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
Hermann Hauser Angel · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
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.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • 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 designing AI compute systems that will enable the next generation of AI scaling: frontier model inference, 25x faster, at 1/10th the cost.
Robert Maier Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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.
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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 — AI-Driven Business Excellence
Sten Tamkivi Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
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.
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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.
  • Entrepreneurs First — We are the best place for the world's most ambitious talent to come together and build game-changing technology startups from scratch.
Oliver Roskopf Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Oliver Roskopf began his digital career at Rocket Internet in 2008. Following this, he became one of the founding team members who created online matchmaking site, eDarling, where he worked until 2010. In 2010 he took up a position as Managing Director of Citydeal, who were later acquired by Groupon. During his time with Groupon Germany herelocated to Sao Paulo in Brazil, returning to Berlin in 2011 to head up marketing for online retail giant, Zalando. He is currently working on a new venture.
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Investment focus
  • Banking, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
  • ChefCoco — Chef Coco offers personalized meals delivered daily based on your health and taste preferences.
  • Rausgegangen — Rausgegangen is a privately held company that is generating the tips to go out in Cologne, every day.
Chris Adelsbach Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
  • Capsa AI — Capsa AI helps private equity firms to take data-driven investment decisions using AI to transform due diligence process.
  • Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Frank Thelen Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Transportation, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Germany, The Netherlands
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.
Just Beyer Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Just Beyer
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Investment focus
  • Funerals, Printing, Software
  • Seed, Angel
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • academa — Academa primarily offers digital education in administration.
  • Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
  • Meine Erde — Meine Erde is a provider of ecological burial option in Europe.
Judith Williams Angel
Judith Williams
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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.
Nicholas Francis Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Nicholas Francis is Co-founder at framebunker
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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
Nadav Rosenberg Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Artificial Intelligence, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • thymia — Making mental health as objectively measurable as physical health.
  • Loops — With Loops causal insights you can identify your biggest opportunities to maximize your KPIs... try the Loops way
  • Lindus Health — Lindus Health. From recruitment to delivery, we accelerate clinical trials. Our mission is to make health research accessible for everyone, everywhere.
Sverre Bisgaard Angel · Oslo, Oslo, Norway
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.
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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
Leena Niemistö Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Leena Niemistö
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
  • Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Rens Original — 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.
  • Maire — Maire - AI co-pilot for industry leading B2C E-commerce brands. From Industry Trends to Market Research and Search Intent Analysis
  • 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.
Mehdi Ghissassi Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 11 investments in the past 12 months
Mehdi Ghissassi serves as the Head of Product Management at DeepMind.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • MarvelX — Transform Your Operations With Trusted AI Agents. MarvelX AI Agents take care of repetitive, high-stakes workflows so your team can focus on the exceptions, not the routine. Built for insurance and beyond.
  • Qevlar AI — SOARs are limited and complex to manage. Level-up your SOC with 100% autonomous alert investigation. No playbook required.
  • ai|coustics — ai|coustics is pioneering innovative audio algorithms based on AI and Deep Learning models and fundamentally improving the capabilities of Speech Audio Enhancement in digital communication and media content.
Johannes Schaback Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Funerals
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • 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 — AI-Driven Business Excellence
Alberto Giusti Angel
Alberto Giusti - Partner @ Guanxi
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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.
Gustaf Hagman Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Gustaf Hagman CEO and Co-founder - LeoVegas Group
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Investment focus
  • Robotics, Software, Marketing
  • Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Sweden
Portfolio highlights
Saeid Esmaeilzadeh Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Saeid Esmaeilzadeh
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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 is a company managing an e-commerce for pets operation.
James Nuzzo Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
James Nuzzo
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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.
Torsten Reil Angel · Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
  • Sereact — Discover the world's easiest pick and place automation solution. Significant cost savings, productive 24/7, deployment in one day and no training required.
  • 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.
Christoph Behn Angel · Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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.
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Investment focus
  • Advanced Materials, Software, Manufacturing
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • 42watt — 42 Watt is an energy conservation consultancy which strives to reduce costs, save energy and protect the climate.
  • Strollme — Strollme believes in idea of using resources wisely, they started with stroller which can be reused for next time.
  • CGC Genomics — Simplified Interpretation of Genomic Profiles Smarter, Faster, Automated Turns complex tertiary NGS reports into concise summaries, reduces manual interpretation time and helps labs scale effortlessly. -85% Reduction in interpretation time 7x Cases per FTE 3x Test orders Request a Demo Apply for Beta Our Partners Challenges Navigating the complexities of Genomic Data Interpretation Genomic sequencing...
Michael Wax Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • Xaver — Xaver enables Financial Institutions to close Europe’s pension gap. By offering an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for life insurance and private pension sales, Xaver enhances the operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65% and introduces a new era of white-labeled private pension products.With a leadership teamof experienced industry veterans - Max Bachem, Ole Breulmann, and Dr. Björn Holste - and backing from leading VC funds and a prominent group of former financial institution executives, fintech pioneers, and unicorn founders, Xaver is dedicated to improving the pension situation of Europeans through their B2B offering.
  • avoltra — Avoltra aims to position itself as an "intelligent energy purchasing solution" by leveraging advanced technology and data-driven insights to optimize energy procurement.
  • Plato — Plato operates as a sales intelligence platform for wholesale.
Christian Gaiser Angel
Christian Gaiser is CEO of Bonial International Group, the global leading network of location-based shopping apps and technology, operating in 11 countries across 4 continents.Having spent time in Silicon Valley in 2008, Christian developed the concept for Bonial due to the entrepreneurial environment he was living in and the amount of flyersand mailers he was accumulating. He thought at that time that there must be a new and different way to reach the consumer that takes the time-honored circular into consideration. The concept was born. In 2008, Christian Gaiser and his team founded kaufDA in Germany, which was quickly honored in 2010 as “the star among location-based services in Germany” by W&V, Germany’s main magazine for communication and promotion. kaufDA has become Germany’s leading network for local retail promotions, initially financed by the venture capital divisions of Deutsche Telekom AG and OTTO Group. In early 2011, kaufDA was acquired by Axel Springer SE, one of Europe’s largest media companies. In just four years, German consumers have used kaufDA to actively open more than 5 billion digital circulars, with kaufDA continuously providing the latest information on more than 247,000 retail outlets in Germany.From Germany, Christian went on to launch the kaufDA concept as Ofertia in Spain, Bonial in France, Lokata in Russia, Guiato in Brazil and Retale in the United States. In 2012, the company was branded as Bonial International Group globally. Since the birth of kaufDA in 2008, Christian and his team have successfully serviced 600 retailers and 12 million consumers. Prior to Bonial, Christian worked in various positions at Goldman Sachs Private Equity in London, at McKinsey & Company in Vienna and Zurich, at the Monitor Group/Ermgassen & Co in London and at SAP Investor Relations in Walldorf. Christian is a graduate of the WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar and HEC, Montréal.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Mobile, Real Estate
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • SPARETECH — SPARETECH builds the leading availability platform for industrial spare parts
  • MYNE Homes — MYNE Homes is a digital co-ownership platform for vacation properties. MYNE Homes was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in Berlin, Germany.
  • Milano Vice — Milano Vice is building a new virtual food brand by working with professional kitchens to prepare and deliver delicious pizzas to home.
Carsten Maschmeyer Angel · Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany
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.
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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.
Matt Clifford Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
  • Flow Engineering — Requirements management, made collaborative
Leo Giertz Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Leo Giertz
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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
Eric Carreel Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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.
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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
Nico Rosberg Angel · Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Nico Rosberg is a sustainability entrepreneur, investor and 2016 Formula One World Champion.
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Investment focus
  • Logistics, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fyxer — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
  • 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.
  • 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.
Johannes von Borries Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany
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.
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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.
Florent Couty Angel
Florent Couty is the former Chief Innovation of IAD.
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Investment focus
  • Retail, Automotive, E-Commerce
  • 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.
Bertrand Jelensperger Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Bertrand Jelensperger is the Co-Founder and Advisory Board at TheFork.
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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.
Lasse Kieffer Angel
Lasse Kieffer is an Entrepreneur and investor.
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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.
Mario Götze Angel · German, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Mario Götze is a professional footballer.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fyxer — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
  • Lemni — Set up custom Ai agents in minutes
  • welevel — Building games with attitude
Stephen Weich Angel
Stephen Weich
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, Food Processing
  • Seed
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
  • Kynda — Kynda produces vegan foods and mycelium using accessible biotechnology for meat alternatives. They provide services for agri food companies, consumer packaged goods manufacturers, and biotech companies.
Hannu Turunen Angel
Hannu Turunen is the Member of the Board of Exalocus. He was a Board Member at Men&Mice.
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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.
Francesco Perticarari Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
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.
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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.
Harold Mechelynck Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium
Harold Mechelynck is Founder at Ogone.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Finance, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • France, Belgium, United States
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.
  • Pockit — Open a prepaid account in 3 minutes online or in-app, get your contactless prepaid card in 2 working days with no credit check.
  • Spreedly — Spreedly's Payments Orchestration Platform lets you connect to payment gateways in over 100 countries with a single API connection.
Sake Bosch Angel · Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Sake Bosch is a Founder and Managing Partner of Prime Ventures since 1999. Sake brings over 25 years of experience in marketing and sales and venture capital to Prime. Prior to founding Prime in 1999, Sake was a Senior Principal at Holland Venture and was responsible for managing investments in technology companies. Sake was involved in many ofthe Holland Venture technology investments including Applicare Medical Imaging (acquired by GE Medical Systems), BWise (acquired by Nasdaq), SQL Systems (acquired by Datastream) and Freecom (acquired by Mitsubishi Kagaku Media). Before joining Holland Venture in 1994, Sake worked as an Independent Corporate Finance Consultant focusing primarily on early stage companies. Prior to this position Sake was a Sales Executive at Securitas Group. Sake started his career in 1989 as a Strategic Market Analyst at VNU. Sake serves on the board of directors of Civolution, 4C, Dealerdirect, Digital Origin, Greetz, Forcare, SaaSPlaza, SlimPay and Takeaway.com. Previous investments include: 3mensio Medical Imaging (acquired by Esaoto), eBuddy (acquired by Booking.com), Global Collect (acquired by General Atlantic), MarketXS (acquired by Markit), Nedstat (acquired by comScore Inc.), Tridion (acquired by SDL) and Watermark (acquired by Qurius). Sake holds an M.Sc. degree in Business Administration as well as a B.A. degree in Management Science and Industrial Engineering.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • The Netherlands, France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Faircraft — A sustainable, lab-grown alternative to animal leather.
  • FononTech — FononTech specializes in impulse printing.It is used to print small electronic circuits for electronic devices.
  • Mermade Seafoods — Mermade is a pioneering cellular aquaculture company, bringing a novel approach and mindset for the production of cell based seafood.
Hanno Renner Angel · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
After working as skipper of sailing yachts for many years next to his studies, Hanno decided to become the captain of a startup. He co-founded Personio in 2015 with three study colleagues with the goal of digitizing HR management and Recruiting processes for small and mid-sized enterprises. Having build and led several teams while the company grew,he now in the CEO role is responsible for aligning all functions of the business around the shares vision of building the category leading HR Operating System for SMEs in and providing all resources necessary to reach this goal. Hanno holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Technology Management from TU Munich and CDTM, studying abroad at Columbia University in New York.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • Orbem — We combine accelerated MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging) with AI technology to scan, classify, and sort eggs, nuts, seeds, plants, and more.
  • Pivot — Pivot operates as a fintech company.
William Tunstall-Pedoe Angel · Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom
William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Ai Build — Additive Manufacturing Software
  • Checkstep — AI Content Moderation Services: learn how AI can help you scale your content moderation and keep your users and moderators safe.
  • Unlikely AI — We are pioneering safe, trustworthy and powerful artificial intelligence
Tobias Emanuelsson Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Tobias Emanuelsson is a Founder and CEO at Polar Structure AB. He previously worked as the Founding Partner and Head of Transactions at Scandinavian Property Group.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • STILRIDE — The future of electric mobility
  • Taggr AB — Realize latent value in your equipment portfolio using light-touch, low-cost IoT technologies, delivered as-a-Service.
  • ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
Fulvio Basili Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Fulvio Basili is a Private Investor at WallFarm and also the CEO and Founder of Ecosafey.
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Investment focus
  • Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
Matteo Fago Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Matteo Fago
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Investment focus
  • Travel, Farming, Big Data
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
  • Hotbox Food — Founded in 2016 in Maranello, Italy, a team of part time pizzaiolos and engineers were fed up with delivering cold and soggy pizza to their clients. Desperately failing to find a solution they decided to take matters in their own hands. As so many great innovations the idea was sparked by an accident when Claudio burned himself on the exhaust pipeof the scooter while delivering pizza. Aerospace engineers, cousin Anthony, long time friend Marco and Industrial Automation technician Domenico applied advanced physical principles and ingenious mechanical innovation to make Hotbox – keeping the food hot (85°C) and crunchy (steam-free) for up to 40 min of transport, recycling the excess heat from the scooter engine. Since then the team is growing and continue to innovate and work hard to make Hotbox available for restaurants and delivery teams across the globe, with the mission to elevate the quality of the food delivery industry – hot & crunchy food at the doorstep!
  • IdentifAI — IdentifAI pioneers discerning human-AI creations, bolstering authenticity with advanced models. Determine if an image come from AI or from human!
Giovanni Onesti Angel
Giovanni Onesti
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Investment focus
  • Farming, Agriculture, Manufacturing
  • Seed
  • Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Wallfarm — WallFarm manufactures LIA, a control unit that enables plants to grow by themselves.LIA is not a custom made solution and neither an expensive robot for industrial automation: it's a small automation box that needs no complicated installation and no specifications, just take 2 minutes to plug some cables, push play and all the plantsinvolved in the system grow by themselves from seeding to gathering whether they are 10, 100 or 10.000.LIA collects data over air temperature, humidity, pressure and altitude and over water temperature, PH and Ec as well as lighting hours, irrigation and water oxygenation.
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