# Top 50 Media (entertainment) Angel Investors in United Kingdom in June 2026 ## Richard Fearn - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Advertising, Internet Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award. ## Jorg Mohaupt - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Music, Mobile Apps, Art Jörg was appointed to the Board when Access Industries acquired the Company in 2007. Jörg is responsible for the media/online and telecom businesses at Access Industries, which he joined in May 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Jörg has been active in the media and communications space since 1992. Hehas, as an investor, been involved with several businesses dealing with sports rights (RGE Group, Digiturk), internet services (Bibit NV, Adyen, Speedera Networks) and content delivery (Casema NV, Comhem AB). Jörg’s current board positions include Tory Burch LLC, Rebate Networks GmbH, AINMT Holdings AB, RGE Group Limited, Icon UK Distribution Holdings Limited and Mendeley Research Networks. Prior board positions include Digiturk, Casema NV, Comhem AB, Bibit BV, VersaTel Telecom NV and Speedera Networks Inc. ## Melih Odemis - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region. Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey. Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally. ## Charlie Songhurst - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Simon Murdoch - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Finance Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits. ## Chris Adelsbach - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures ## Taavet Hinrikus - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: FinTech, Software, Financial Services Taavet Hinrikus is based out of London, England and is the Partner of Plural Platform and Board Member of CoMind. Taavet previously worked at Wise as a Chairman and Co-founder. Taavet Hinrikus attended INSEAD. ## Oliver Slipper - Type: Angel - Location: Cobham, Surrey, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Art, B2B, B2C Building Sports & Tech Companies ## Stefan Glänzer - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years. ## Rupert Loman - Type: Angel - Location: Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Digital Entertainment, Video Games, Media and Entertainment Rupert Loman ## Serge Chiaramonte - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology Serge Chiaramonte ## Erdem Yurdanur - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Mobile, iOS, Advertising Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost ## Alexander Chesterman - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London. ## Michael Birch - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Apps, Internet, Social Media Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo. He previously worked at Blab as a Co-Founder. Michael Birch attended Imperial College London. ## Lorenz Bogaert - Type: Angel - Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo). ## Tom Hulme - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University. ## Paul Walton - Type: Angel - Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Digital Media Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary. ## Theo Osborne - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, E-Commerce Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital. ## Robin Knox - Type: Angel - Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Social Network Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary. ## Andy Phillipps - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Travel, E-Commerce Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital. ## Alexander Edward Chesterman - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company. Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016. ## Andrew Weisz - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Education, Apps Andrew Weisz - Partner @ Weisz Investments ## Ross Mason - Type: Angel - Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Ross Mason is based out of Geneva, Geneve and is the Founding Partner of DIG Ventures . Ross previously worked at MuleSoft as a Founder. Ross Mason attended the University of the West of England. Ross Mason has been awarded as a Top 25 CTO. ## Marco Valta - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 15 years experience in the tech/web industry. As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso. ## Richard Flint - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Events, Mobile, Ticketing Richard Flint ## Will Brooks - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures ## Sam Enrico Williams - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Web Apps, Sports Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr. Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels. ## Paul Forster - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA. ## Derek Taylor - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Audio, Podcast, Advertising Senior Tech executive now @ Bloomberg and formerly @ Oracle. ## Sherry Coutu - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Mobile Sherry Coutu currently works as an Independent Non Executive Director for Pearson. She previously worked at superpower as a Director. Sherry Coutu attended Harvard Business School. ## Richard Brennan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Angel, Series A, Series B - Focus: Mobile, Software, Social Media Richard Brennan is a seasoned Senior Executive in the Telecommunications industry with significant strengths in Global Marketing and Branding. He joined Hutchison Whampoa in 1993 in the UK as part of the Founding Executive Management Team for Orange plc. He has held Board positions with Mobistar, GSMA CEO Board, and was Chairman of the Board forWildfire, Inc. He now works around the globe with innovative, energetic, and fast moving companies. He also serves as an Executive Consultant for HTC, specifically assisting them break into the competitive world of consumer branded smartphones. Richard is a keen cyclist and runner, and fundamentally believes the intelligence being built into smartphones will revolutionise the way mobiles are used for recreational outdoor activities. ## Andy McLoughlin - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence Andy McLoughlin OBE is a Managing Partner at Uncork Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. ## Andrew Gault - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Augmented Reality Andrew Gault is tech startup founder with 20 years in technology; investor since 2012Ex-CTO with 14 patents issued & 28 filed. Started life at the European Space Agency, then co-founded GAIKAI in 2008 raising $45m from Benchmark, NEA and Intel; exiting to Sony for $380m. A Scotsman living on the West Coast since 2008, Andrew has an extensiveSilicon Valley network.Specialisms include: AR/VR, robotics, video tech/computer imaging and gaming. ## Andrew Scott - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Andrew J Scott, Founding Partner – based in London & San Francisco. 20 years in technology, founder of 6 startups; investor since 2014.As founder launched the world’s first location based social network (Playtxt 2001; patented), online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com, 2002), trust graph/recommendation engine using machine learning(Rummble, 2007; patented). In-between did strategy consulting for VCs and Corporates including Astra Zeneca, AT&T and Alcatel Lucent.Andrew is also co-founder of ICE, a non-profit global network of tech founders and investors, established in 2009.Specialisms include: D2C, social & market networks, B2B SaaS and quantum computing. ## Duncan Jennings - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Marketplace, Internet Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway. ## Mark Cuban - Type: Angel - Location: Dallas, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington. ## Simon Murphy - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Consumer Goods, Events Simon Murphy Entrepreneur & Investor ## Will Martin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, Software, FinTech Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures ## Brent Hoberman - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Brent Hoberman is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Founders Forum. He previously worked at Royal Academy of Arts as a Corporate Advisory Board. Brent Hoberman attended the University of Oxford. ## Peter Gabriel - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Music, TV, Video Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team. ## Stefan Ciecierski - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Video, Software Stefan Ciecierski ## Claire Valoti - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, Apps, Events Claire Valoti is General Manager UK Sales of Snapchat, Inc. and chair of Mobile Marketing Association. Claire became Head of Agency Relations at Facebook and Media Director at Weve. She also joined O2 Media Telefónica UK as Managing Director and MindShare as Head of Digital Display & Mobile and Business Director.Claire studied BA Hons,Politics at University of Nottingham. ## Simon Franks - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Payments, Health Care Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org) ## Karen Hanton - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Events, E-Commerce, Music Karen Hanton MBE, was the founder and Chairman of Toptable, a restaurant booking company. In 2010, Toptable was sold to OpenTable for $55m.Karen has also founded the IT staffing firm Mortimer Spinks. After selling Mortimer Spinks, she bought and staffed a restaurant business in Fulham, which in 1998 inspired her to found Toptable. Karen wasappointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours. ## Peter Read - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series E, Angel - Focus: Software, Apps, Mobile Peter is a partner at Vitruvian; a venture partner at BlueYard and LocalGlobe; an advisor to Entrepreneur First, Future Positive Capital, and StrongMinds; and a Trustee of Frazzled Cafe, Doteveryone, and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. He is an angel investor/advisor in over 100 tech startups ## Reece Chowdhry - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Software, Financial, Commerce/Shopping Founder & CEO @ RLC Ventures ## Pascal Cagni - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Hardware, Consumer Electronics, Internet Pascal Cagni was born on October 28, 1961 and is a specialist in the European digital economy. He advises and invests in startups and contributes to their international development and expansion.Recruited by Steve Jobs in the early 2000s as General Manager and Vice President of Apple Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), he led a regionof 130 countries for 12 years in which revenues grew from $1.2 billion to over $37 billion. After starting his career as a consultant at Booz & Co, he joined Compaq Computers, established Software Publishing France (SPC), and then led Packard Bell NEC as the number one home PC manufacturer in Europe.Pascal Cagni holds a Master’s Degree in Business Law and is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris. He also holds an MBA from the HEC Group and is a graduate of the Executive Program of Stanford University (EPGC). ## Vittorio Terzi - Type: Angel - Location: Milan, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Advice, FinTech, Wealth Management Vittorio Terzi is the Founder and Managing Partner of Terzi and Partners. ## Shan Drummond - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Social, Analytics Shan Drummond is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK. ## Mandeep Singh - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.