Top 50 Medical Angel Investors in Europe in January 2026

Investor	Medical Europe investments
Jonathan Milner	12
Maximilian Tayenthal	4
Bernard Majoie	3
Sophia Bendz	3
Annie Vereecken	3
Diana zur Löwen	3
Ian Hogarth	3
Gloria Baeuerlein	3
Hampus Jakobsson	3
Verena Pausder	3
Feliks Eyser	3
André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé	2
Anders Nyrén	2
Will Brooks	2
Ariel Poler	2
Dagmar Wöhrl	2
Carsten Maschmeyer	2
Mark Bamforth	2
Bertrand Jelensperger	2
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	2
Mario Götze	2
Anssi Vanjoki	2
Jochen Engert	2
Nicolas Dessaigne	2
Martin Blüggel	2
Prof. Dr. med. Christian Wallwiener	2
Will Martin	2
Daniel Caille	2
Matt Robinson	2
Jyri Engestrom	2
Lina Behrens	2
Guillaume Richard	2
Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet	2
Daniel Krauss	2
Flavien Kulawik	2
Rene Schneider	2
Matt Clifford	2
Nicholas Edwards	2
Michael Pennington	2
Josefin Landgård	2
Alexander Chesterman	2
Matthias Hilpert	2
Jan Hruska	2
Luca Trevisan	2
Andrea Kranzer	2
Tim Jackson	2
Taavet Hinrikus	2
Michael Hock	2
Cornelia Hoppe	2
André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé	2

Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Quibim — Leading radiomics company pioneering quantitative imaging biomarkers and medical applications in precision medicine.
52 North Health — At 52 North we are developing fully-integrated clinical, AI and medical-device based systems.
Exciting Instruments — We're on a mission to simplify single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy and make it accessible to all. Find out more about our company, our products and what makes us different.

Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Vitt — Simple sharp startup setup
Terra One — Terra One engages in the development and operation of large-scale battery storage systems.
Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.

Bernard Majoie - President @ Fournier-Majoie

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Belgium

Portfolio highlights

reMYND — Driving the development of disease-modifying treatments
AgenT — AgenT develops the first blood diagnosis to detect Alzheimer's years before the onset of the irreversible symptoms.
PEP-Therapy — PEP-Therapy is a French biotechnology company developing first-in-class peptides as targeted therapies in oncology

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

mayk — Mayk sounds. Mayk music. Mayk noise. Mayk it... In an app.
Medoma — Medoma is a Swedish virtual ward company that offer patients acute hospital care in their home instead of in the hospital.
Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.

Annie Vereecken

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Medical, Hospital
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Ziphius — Ziphius Vaccines is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to developing next-generation vaccines for the prevention of infectious diseases.
Sensolus — Sensolus provides care-free tracking of your valuable non-powered assets directly from the cloud.Sensolus offers turnkey solutions for wireless, low-power context-aware sensing. Sensolus developed a personal product line of low-power tracker systems called STICKNTRACK.Sensolus is built upon many years of expertise in low-power networks,wireless sensor design, cloud-based sensor management, analytics, and applications.
Allegro Biotech — Allegro has developed the world’s-first custom-tailored, durable, biocompatible, anisotropic, regenerative meniscus cartilage, providing immediate support while also leverage the body’s own healing potential to regenerate human cartilage (proliferation and differentiation of fibrochondrocyte cells).

Diana zur Löwen

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, EdTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Debt Financing
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Junto — Elevate your business performance with impactful leadership training. Junto's leadership development programs equip your people with the skills and behaviours to thrive.
LAP Coffee — LAP Coffee is a community-driven specialty coffee brand.
Calvin Risk — We help companies manage the risks of their AI algorithms!

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
Fabric — One home for your digital world. Your second brain. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files in one calm, minimal app. No organizing required. Never forget anything again.

Gloria primarily focuses on growth stage investments across all sectors in Europe and Australia. Prior to Index, Gloria worked at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based growth equity fund, evaluating investment opportunities in the DACH region and in software and fintech companies across Europe. Gloria started her career at MorganStanley where she advised technology and telco clients across Europe and the U.S. on financing rounds, IPOs and M&A transactions. Gloria graduated with a master’s degree in management from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Investment focus

Information Technology, FinTech, B2B
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

GsmBD.co — Rise helps you and your team stay organized and on track, with all your work in one place.
Fullview — Fullview let's you instantly monitor, control and analyze user sessions for faster real time customer support. No downloads. Easy to integrate.
Gradient Labs — Our AI agent resolves complex customer service queries end-to-end. Delivering quality, efficiency and compliance at every step.

Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Mobile
Seed, Angel, Series A
Sweden, Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Mojo — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows

Verena Pausder

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, E-Learning, Food Delivery
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

KARRI — KARRI is a data and GPS enabled, screen-free device for easy communication between you and your kids. A KARRI for your child and a smartphone app for you - it's as simple as that.
Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
Huzzle — Stop chasing jobs. Huzzle collects the best opportunities from student societies and companies and only shows you the relevant ones. Download Huzzle today!

Feliks Eyser is the founding partner of JETPACK.

Investment focus

Software, E-Learning, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Truckoo — Sell to a global audience, receive bindings bids. Buyers can be assured that all vehicles were inspected by us. We organize papers and transport.
Wisefood — Wisefood develops new patented recipes and also manufacturing methods to replace disposable plastic tableware with edible variants
Wunderflats — Find furnished apartments for temporary or longer stays with 1 click on Wunderflats. Verified and complete online booking for relocation, business, or students.

Dr. AndrÃ©-Jacques Auberton-HervÃ© co-founded Soitec with Jean-Michel Lamure in 1992. As President, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Auberton-HervÃ© is responsible for overseeing the strategic, operational and financial activities of the company.Prior to founding Soitec, Auberton-HervÃ© managed several joint development programs between Leti andThomson-CSF, which focused on the technological transfer from R&D to production applications. These programs included the transfer of 1.2 Âµm and 0.8 Âµm SOI CMOS for space applications. He was also in charge of several projects, which applied SOI to 3D integration, VLSI and ULSI.In July of 2005, Auberton-HervÃ© was elected to serve as the European representative to SEMIâ€™s International Board of Directors. His demonstrated vision, experience and leadership capabilities within the industry contributed to his appointment to the board. Auberton-HervÃ© is also the recipient of the 1999 European SEMI Award in recognition of his work on Smart Cutâ„¢ technology and his overall contributions to the semiconductor industry as a whole. Auberton-HervÃ© is a member of the Electrochemical Society and the IEEE.

Investment focus

Medical, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

LinKinVax — As part of our strategic evolution, EnnoDC has become the new trading name of LinKinVax. We're expanding our dendritic cell targeting technology and

Born 1954. Degree from the Stockholm School of Economics and Master of Business Administration from Anderson School of Management, UCLA, USA.Board Member: AB Volvo, Stockholm School of Economics, and Handelshögskoleföreningen at Stockholm School of Economics.Principal work experience and other information: Vice President of the Royal SwedishAcademy of Engineering Sciences since 2014. President and CEO of AB Industrivärden 2001-2015. CFO and Executive Vice President of Skanska AB 1997–2001. Director Capital Markets Nordbanken 1996–1997. CFO and Executive Vice President of Securum AB 1992–1996. President of OM International AB 1987–1992. Previous positions within STC Scandinavian Trading Co AB and AB Wilhelm Becker. Board member in Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson 2006-2013. Honorary Doctorate of Economics at Stockholm School of Economics.

Investment focus

Medical, mHealth, Wireless
Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Coala Life — Coala Life is a Swedish medical technology and life science company that focuses on heart diagnostics and digital health. The company has developed a portfolio of solutions based on the Coala, a patented and commercial service for remote monitoring and self-screening of heart sounds and ECG. The Coala is available direct to consumers and theCoala Pro is offered to healthcare professionals to enable smart, digital cardiac assessments.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.

Ariel Poler is the Co-Founder of Reveri Health. Ariel is an Internet entrepreneur, mentor, and investor. He was the founder of IPRO, the first web analytics company, and of Topica, one of the first email communities. Ariel was a board member of Kana Software, LinkExchange, Odeo, LOLapps, and StumbleUpon. He currently serves on the boards of FreedomFinancial Network, MixTent, Strava, and Scan Inc. Ariel’s angel investments include AdMob, Flixster, Slideshare, Xobni, RockYou, and Outright, BrightRoll, Instructables, Causes, Kongregate and NexTag. Ariel holds a B.S. in Mathematics with Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University. He is originally from Venezuela and lives in San Francisco with his wife and three children.

Investment focus

Software, Social Media, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Spain, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Goin — Goin is a mobile application to save money easily and take advantage of it without knowing how to invest, through Machine Learning algorithms that allow you to accumulate the user's money through small daily gestures. he three Spanish founders, David, Carlos and Gabriel, were looking for a way to optimize their own money, and decided toconduct an experiment by exchanging their debit cards and thus saving 62% during those two months of rehearsal. This is how Goin emerged, which aims to meet the needs of 100% of Millennials, of which 83% confess that they do not know how to save, making available an easy-to-use tool that enhances their finances and lifestyle. On the one hand, the Barcelona startup allows the user to add money automatically and multiply it without having previous knowledge of investment. Goin uses a simple system that first asks to know the user through questions about their habits and, in this way, they are offered automatic systems and methods of saving. Once the user adds money to the app, they can transfer part or all of it to investment, or to their bank account. Its Smart Saving technology manages to accumulate money with small, everyday gestures, such as rounding a payment.
Kiwibot — Delivery robots to optimize your business and deliver safely and timely to your customers.
Grin Scooters — Grin Scooters is a software company that operates network of operational shared electric scooters. Currently, Grin only operates in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey, Sao Paulo and Bogota but it has plans to expand to other cities throughout Latin America.

Dagmar Wöhrl

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Snack Food
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States

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.
Vegablum KG — Vegablum KG's goal with our vegan products is to make the world a little bit better and, above all, delicious. It cares about the environment and all living things. As a result, all of our goods adhere to the highest organic standards and are completely vegan and ecological.
Taste Religion — Taste Religion offers plant-based products that are devoid of toxic ingredients and allow to quickly create restaurant-quality cuisine.

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, Health Care
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.
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.
Bildungs urlauber — The goal of Bildungsurlauber.de is to make complicated topics simple. First and foremost, we assist you in locating the appropriate seminar for you by using simple filter options - regardless of whatever federal state you work in.

Mark Bamforth is the Operating Partner at Ampersand Capital Partners.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Dxcover — Dxcover are a world leader in liquid biopsy and artificial intelligence for early detection of cancers and other diseases to improve survival and quality of life.
PneumoWave — PneumoWave is developing real-time monitoring solutions to allow patients with respiratory conditions and their doctors to track their respiratory rates and performance out of hospital, at home and at work. Combining proprietary sensor technology and an innovative AI driven digital therapeutic software platform, PneumoWave's technologyenables doctors to rationalise medication use, identify early signs of deterioration, reduce or shorten hospital admissions and reduce face to face appointments.
Thymmune Therapeutics — Thymmune Therapeutics is developing a machine learning-driven thymic cell engineering platform to restore normal immune function in aging and disease.

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.

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.
Newsrooms.ai — Newsrooms.ai is an AI-powered content production and management platform that enables businesses and news organizations to automate their whole content pipeline—from research and content generation to publishing across many digital channels.

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Fyxer AI — Save 1 hour every day with an AI assistant. Fyxer AI organizes your inbox, drafts extraordinary emails and writes better-than-human meeting notes.
revel8 — revel8 turns your team into a Human Firewall - with deepfake voice calls, multichannel phishing simulations, and personalized cyber awareness training.
welevel — Building games with attitude

As Executive Vice President and General Manager of Multimedia, Nokia, Anssi Vanjoki heads a business group that is responsible for developing Nokia Nseries multimedia computers and associated experiences and services. This fast growing segment of consumer electronics will shape our lives in a fundamental way. A highly respected brand authoritywith over 25 years of marketing experience, Anssi has been a driving force in Nokia's efforts to address the mobile markets. His work has focused on developing Nokia's brand durability, loyalty and continuity, while, at the same time, advancing Nokia's vision of a mobile world. Anssi joined Nokia in 1991 and was named Vice President, Sales, Nokia Mobile Phones, before his promotion in 1994 to Senior Vice President, Nokia Mobile Phones Europe and Africa. In 1998 he was made Executive Vice President, Nokia Mobile Phones Europe and Africa and became a member of the Group Executive Board of Nokia. In addition, in 1999, Anssi took responsibility for Nokia's Digital Convergence Unit and, in 2002, also headed up the Business Unit Management. He was appointed to his present position on January 1st 2004. Prior to joining Nokia, Anssi held a variety of management positions at 3M Corporation. Anssi is the Chairman of the Board of Amer Group, and was a member of the Governing Committee of the European Foundation for Quality Management 2001 - 2003. He is a Knight, 1st Class, of the Order of the White Rose of Finland. Anssi holds a master's degree in economics from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration.

Investment focus

Medical, Hardware, Health Care
Angel, Series A
Finland

Portfolio highlights

HumanCharger — Humancharger Bright Light Headset

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Travel
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
YGO.AI — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.

Nicolas is a firm believer of “culture-first” companies and am focused on building just that at Algolia where team empowerment is how they accomplish their goals. Prior to co-founding Algolia with Julien, he spent over 12 years working on information retrieval at Exalead and Thales.At Algolia they believe every website and app deserves greatsearch! they offer a hosted Search API that helps developers deliver an instant and relevant search experience. We’ve seen that search is a great touch point to optimize – they regularly see double digit increases in engagement on sites when they improve their search UX.When they founded Algolia in 2012 it was originally going to be a local SDK for mobile app search. They changed direction and realized that they needed to offer search as a hosted SaaS service, but it was those early mobile optimizations that gave us their unique advantage. They are one of the few search solutions that has been developed from scratch, and they never would have gone that direction if they hadn’t originally been focused on mobile search.His focus has been first and foremost on making Algolia a great place to work. They have a unique culture here that values ownership as its pillar. They want to create a company where every team member takes initiative, gets out of their comfort zone, is empowered to make decisions; in short: be free to be their best.He is recently spoken at SaaStock on the challenges of running a company based in both Paris and San Francisco. His priority lately has been on scaling their growth and ramping up their team size.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, France, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Kestra Technologies — Use declarative language to build simpler, faster, scalable and flexible workflows
Rerun — Multimodal log handling and visualization for spatial and embodied AI. Managed infrastructure to ingest, store, analyze, and stream data at scale with built-in visual debugging. Fast, flexible, and easy to use.
Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API

Martin Blüggel is the CEO and Founder at ProtaGene. Martin Blüggel attended University of Konstanz.

Investment focus

Medical, Robotics, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

mo:re GmbH — We offer standardized tissue cultures and protocols to better predict drug responses and investigate disease models.
Caire — The Future of health measurements is contactless

Christian Wallwiener is a Managing Director, WMC Healthcare.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Software
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Doctorflix — Doctorflix is a medical education platform that allows doctors around the globe to learn about methods of treatment while accelerating their system-required professional development. We are on a mission to build an engine that simplifies and democratizes the consumption and exchange of medical knowledge by interlinking doctors, hospitals, andpharmaceutical companies.
Climedo — Climedo’s mission is to bring the best treatment to every patient by empowering healthcare professionals with intelligent software solutions. Our cloud-based platform enables cutting-edge clinical validation and product surveillance of medical devices and pharmaceutical products. By connecting all stakeholders (medical device manufacturers, pharmacompanies, CROs, hospitals), we allow for increased performance, better cost-efficiencies - and ultimately - accelerated medical innovation.

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, Japan, United States

Portfolio highlights

Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
Loadsure — Loadsure is a spot freight cargo insurance company.
Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.

Daniel Caille

Investment focus

Elderly, Medical, Software
Series A, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

HYPNO VR — HypnoVR is a virtual reality software for anesthesia, treatment of pain, and anxiety. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Strasbourg, France.
Medylink —
CetteFamille — CetteFamille is an economical alternative to retirement homes in France. It is a French network of professional and accredited families to welcome the elderly.CetteFamille is a warm, economical and tailor-made alternative to the retirement home. CetteFamille is a site of connection and a company of services to the person allowing seniors to finda trained and selected family close to home. CetteFamille offers seniors and their families an offer of contact and a follow-up service to carry out all the administrative procedures.On www.cettefamille.com, caregivers of seniors can register to meet a family available nearby. The teams at CetteFamille are responsible for contacting them to study the request and ensure a meeting with the family most appropriate to meet his needs.

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
Malga — Instant access to multiple payment providers with a single integration

Jyri Engeström is an Investor and Partner of Yes VC. He attended Lancaster University

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Finland, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Jow — Jow is a grocery shopping app that simplifies shopping and gives advice of what to eat. This app offers free and simple recipes that adapt to the customer's taste. It automatically creates a customized menu with delicious recipes and fills the cart with all the ingredients necessary for cooking.Jow was founded in 2017 and is headquartered inParis, France.
Spell — Operationalizing AI for NLP, Computer Vision, and Speech Recognition has never been easier
Orchid Labs — Orchid Labs is an open-source project committed to ending surveillance and censorship on the internet. Orchid uses an overlay network built upon the existing internet, which is driven by a peer-to-peer tokenized bandwidth exchange, creating a more inclusive, liberated internet. Orchid Labs was founded in 2017 by Dr. Steven Waterhouse, Jay Freeman,Brian J. Fox, Gustav Simonsson, and Stephen Bell.

Lina Behrens serves as the Managing Director at Flying Health.

Investment focus

Apps, Sports, Medical
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.

Guillaume Richard is the Founder, Chairman & CEO at Oui Care.He attended EDHEC Business School.

Investment focus

Medical, Software, Health Care
Pre-Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

HYPNO VR — HypnoVR is a virtual reality software for anesthesia, treatment of pain, and anxiety. It was founded in 2016 and is based in Strasbourg, France.

Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is an Internet entrepreneur, founder and former CEO of French e-commerce pioneer PriceMinister. After he sold Priceminister to Japanese internet giant Rakuten in 2010 for $350m, he became Rakuten Europe COO. He left Rakuten in 2014 so as to concentrate on his investments and new project.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is agraduate of the famous HEC Paris business school, where he studied entrepreneurship. He launched his first company, Visualis SA (a consultancy for the distribution sector), while still studying at HEC, with a €10,000 student loan. After graduating from HEC, Kosciusko-Morizet moved to the United States and became a manager in the marketing department of Finance Capital One, an internet-based credit card company. There he managed a team of 60 analysts, and specialised in the online credit and banking market.It was there that Kosciusko-Morizet saw a gap in the market. While websites existed in the United States linking buyers and sellers online, there was no equivalent site in France. He resigned from Finance Capital One and returned to France two weeks later to work on what would become PriceMinister with Pierre Krings, Olivier Mathiot, Nathalie Maurin and Justin Ziegler. In 2001 Priceminister launched and has grown into one of the largest and most successful e-commerce companies in France, currently employing around 200 passionate and dedicated staff.Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet is a former President of the ACSEL (Association of the Digital Economy) and of the ASIC (Association of Internet Community Services), and Chairman and main investor of the Strategic Committee of ISAI, the “French internet entrepreneurs fund”, that raised over $100m. In 2010 Kosciusko-Morizet published an autobiographical book which details the story of PriceMinister.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

youzd — youzd is an e-commerce platform for second-hand furniture, electronics, and decoration products.
PowerZ — Tailored for kids ages 6 and up - learn Math, English, Geography, History, and Music in a universe that adapts to your level!
Tracktor — Tracktor is an platform that enables construction companies to rent and purchase construction equipment efficiently.

Daniel Krauss was born in 1983 in Neheim-Hüsten.He studied Economic Sciences at the FernUniversität Hagen. Daniel has generally worked in the IT area for Marquardt GmbH, IFS AB and Siemens AG. Before co-founding Flixbus in 2011, he was a Technical Account Manager at Microsoft for three years. Now Daniel is CIO of Flixbus, which was able toestablish Europe’s largest intercity bus network.

Investment focus

Software, Rental, Payments
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Israel, United States

Portfolio highlights

Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
YGO.AI — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.

Flavien Kulawik

Investment focus

Health Care, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Adionics — Adionics provides advances ionic solutions such as lithium and iodide extraction, and salts separation.
Biomemory — Biomemory creates DNA Drives for large corporates and administrations.
Scienta Lab — Redefining precision immunology

Rene Schneider

Investment focus

Medical, Analytics, Health Diagnostics
Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Medicus AI — Medicus AI is an innovative technology company that supports you by offering an AI-powered experience that takes your business to the next level and provides your patients with personalized access to better understand and manage their health

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

Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Bondaval — Bondaval secures receivables for the world's best credit teams, so they can extend more credit, win more business and get better financing terms.
Koos — KOOS is a simple legal and technological solution for motivating and rewarding your community. Boost your growth by sharing success.

Nick serves as the Chairman of Prescient’s Board of Directors. He holds a degree in physiological sciences from The Queen’s College, University of Oxford, and completed his training in clinical medicine (BM, BCh) at Green College (now Green Templeton College), University of Oxford. Nick practiced in the areas of cardiology and general surgerybefore joining Andersen Consulting (now known as Accenture), eventually becoming the global leader of Accenture’s pharmaceutical R&D business during his 18-year tenure. In 2005, he founded Kinapse to provide consulting and outsourcing services to the pharmaceutical industry. Nick served as Kinapse’s Chairman until the company was sold to HgCapital in early 2016.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Life Science
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oxford Medical Products — Oxford Medical Products is a UK-based biotechnology start-up revolutionising the weight-loss treatment space with its hydrogel-based technology.

One of the UK's leading tech angel investors. Active seed and pre-seed stage angel investor in UK based disruptive tech. Prefers businesses venturing into pastures new and keen investing at the pre product stage whether BtoC or B2B. Twice exited UK based tech entrepreneur with experience operating tech businesses in 20 countries in multiplelanguages. Co-founded Gumtree with Simon Crookall which was acquired by Ebay and Slando acquired by Naspers.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Hubflo — Hubflo is building an all-in-one work OS to help small businesses manage their business. Instead of having 10 complicated and expensive pieces of software, Hubflo offers SMB everything they need to run their business (CRM, projects, invoicing, expenses...) in a single comprehensive, simple and affordable platform.
FUEL — Where everlasting fanbases are built
Sidekick — Expertly-managed portfolios for the modern investor

Josefin Landgård is the Founder and CEO of Mantle. Previously she served as the Co-Founder and COO at KRY back in March 2014 to September 2018.

Investment focus

Health Care, Medical, Women's
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, France

Portfolio highlights

Estmn — Estrid is an online portal that offers women's personal care products.
Lassie — Lassie is the first proactive and preventive pet insurance company that wants to help pet owners take better care of their pets
Elsa — Elsa is a platform for patient driven research for better drugs, health and prevention. Elsa lets patients become their own personal researchers by providing them with a better understanding around how lifestyle factors may affect their disease activity measurements for chronic disease. To support them from a scientific perspective, Elsa gives themaccess to data on their specific disease (initially we work with rheumatoid arthritis) through the Riskminder foundation and scientific studies at Karolinska Institutet.

Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Workbounce — Workbounce is the co-pilot for customer-facing team connecting tools like Google Drive, Notion, Slack with intelligent search and analytics.
Flinn — We are driven to impact the health of millions of people around the globe by enabling medical companies to launch and operate products more efficiently. To make this vision come true, we established a customer-centric, experimentation-driven product development approach.
Atlas Metrics — The single source of truth for your ESG data

Jan Hruska

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Life Science
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Oxford Medical Products — Oxford Medical Products is a UK-based biotechnology start-up revolutionising the weight-loss treatment space with its hydrogel-based technology.

Luca Trevisan Sales Manager and Business Coordinator.

Investment focus

Medical, Health Care, Medical Device
Series A
Italy

Portfolio highlights

I-VASC — I-VASC has developed the VELEX device using new technology to treat CVI and varicose veins.

Andrea Kranzer is an angel investor based in Mannheim, Germany. She invests in IT and healthcare Startups mainly in the seed and early-stage phase. Her special areas of expertise are strategy development, business modelling and marketing. She is a respected speaker and mentor in the German Startup Scene. Besides that, she is founder and CEO of„balloonas“, an internet plattform for kids-birthday-parties, which provides cool ideas and planning tools for parents who are organizing a kids birthday party. She holds a PhD degree in healthcare economics and worked for Roche Diagnostics and Bertelsmann.

Investment focus

Software, B2B, Music
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

aiomics — Aiomics | Back to your calling.Across Europe, healthcare providers lose hours every day to fragmented documentation—handwritten notes, scanned PDFs, dictations, disconnected IT systems. The result: burnout, missed revenue, and patients feeling like they’re asked the same question three times.Aiomics changes this. Our AI-driven co-pilot capturesevery clinical detail—speech, handwriting, digital notes—and validates it in real time with a human-in-the-loop process. Interactive checklists surface missing information before the patient leaves, and audit-ready records flow straight back into existing systems. Built for GDPR, MDR, and the EU AI Act from day one, Aiomics makes documentation complete, compliant, and instantly usable.We don’t replace EHRs—we make them better. From admission and discharge reports to insurer forms, from therapist briefings to patient-friendly letters, Aiomics turns paperwork from a burden into an asset. For providers, that means fewer errors, faster reimbursements, and—most importantly—more time at the bedside.Our mission: to empower healthcare professionals by removing administrative burdens and elevating their decision-making with trusted AI guidance—so they can reconnect with why they chose this vocation in the first place.Who we are: Aiomics is co-founded by Dr. Sven Jungmann, a physician with frontline experience of administrative overload; Dr. Nikita Tarasov, a physicist and data scientist; and a lawyer who scaled one of Europe’s largest digital service companies. Together, we unite empathy, technical mastery, and regulatory expertise to build the trusted co-pilot for Europe’s healthcare providers.
Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation through tagging and search.

Tim Jackson is the Founder, CEO, General Partner & Partner of Walking Ventures & he attended University of Oxford in in 1983.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Cera — In five years, Cera has expanded to 10,000+ staff across the UK and Germany, delivering 40,000+ healthcare visits a day, and has grown from zero to nearly $300M revenues. Every day, Cera delivers healthcare services equivalent to several dozen hospitals or 1,000 care homes, and has grown 100-fold over the past two years making it one of the fastestgrowing businesses in Europe.Cera currently holds more than 300+ partnerships with the NHS and local authorities, and the company’s technology is used by 2,000+ businesses nationwide. It’s technology predicts health deteriorations in patients 30-fold faster than traditional care companies, with its Professional Carers and Nurses responding to over 5,000 ‘high risk’ alerts each day.Since the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, Cera has delivered 10 million healthcare visits in people’s homes, created 10,000 jobs, and licensed it’s recruitment technology to the UK Government Department of Health to recruit 50,000+ people into healthcare careers. Cera was co-founded by entrepreneur, physician and policy expert Dr Ben Maruthappu, and its advisory board is chaired by Sir David Behan, the former CEO of the Care Quality Commission. Cera’s technology and care network have been recognised by over 30 industry awards including Deloitte Fast 50 (#8 in 2021, down from #26 in 2020), Sunday Times Fast Track and Most Outstanding Home Care Provider.
CloudNC — CloudNC CAM Assist your CAM programming co-pilot. Automate your CAM programming. From setup to CAM program in seconds for 3-axis prismatic parts.
Credit Kudos — Credit Kudos builds products using Open Banking so credit providers can approve more people and lower risk. Explore now!

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Juro — Juro is an all-in-one contract automation platform that helps legal and business users to agree & manage contracts in one unified workspace.
Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Skeleton Technologies — Skeleton Technologies is the global leader in ultracapacitor & supercapacitor energy storage and helps companies in automotive, transportation, grid, and industry to save energy.

Michael Hock is Partner and Head of Portfolio Management at Motive Ventures, based out of the Berlin office. Michael’s responsibility includes new venture investments, tracking of performance across portfolio companies, as well as value creation and exit strategies for the active portfolio.Prior to joining Motive, Michael co-foundedembedded/capital, a Berlin based early-stage financial technology investment firm, which was acquired by Motive Partners in February 2023, to form the early-stage arm of the Motive Partners platform.Since 2017, Michael was Managing Director at finleap and incharge of steering portfolio growth and professionalizing group operations. Michael led the exits of finleap portfolio companies including the majority acquisition of PAIR Finance by PollenStreet Capital and the sale of Penta to the European market leader Qonto.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Payments
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, Belgium, South Korea

Portfolio highlights

Nelly — Nelly provides tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments.
bezahl.de — Bezahl provides digital and automated payment management and solutions.
Warren — Enabling wealth, Boosting welfare

Cornelia Hoppe

Investment focus

Health Care, Apps, Beauty
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

eaze — At eaze, we are on the mission to democratise good sleep! With 1/3 of people suffering from sleep problems and prescription sleep medication as the current go-to solution, we set out to change this by offering the first digital sleep training. Based on cognitive behavioural therapy, your personal sleep psychologist guides you through anindividualised sleep training that helps you to sleep better for good.
Kalia Lab — Kalia Lab offers cosmetic and skin care services.
Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.

Dr. AndrÃ©-Jacques Auberton-HervÃ© co-founded Soitec with Jean-Michel Lamure in 1992. As President, CEO and Chairman of the Board, Auberton-HervÃ© is responsible for overseeing the strategic, operational and financial activities of the company.Prior to founding Soitec, Auberton-HervÃ© managed several joint development programs between Leti andThomson-CSF, which focused on the technological transfer from R&D to production applications. These programs included the transfer of 1.2 Âµm and 0.8 Âµm SOI CMOS for space applications. He was also in charge of several projects, which applied SOI to 3D integration, VLSI and ULSI.In July of 2005, Auberton-HervÃ© was elected to serve as the European representative to SEMIâ€™s International Board of Directors. His demonstrated vision, experience and leadership capabilities within the industry contributed to his appointment to the board. Auberton-HervÃ© is also the recipient of the 1999 European SEMI Award in recognition of his work on Smart Cutâ„¢ technology and his overall contributions to the semiconductor industry as a whole. Auberton-HervÃ© is a member of the Electrochemical Society and the IEEE.

Investment focus

Medical, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

LinKinVax — As part of our strategic evolution, EnnoDC has become the new trading name of LinKinVax. We're expanding our dendritic cell targeting technology and