Top 50 Mobile Apps Angel Investors in 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.

Ulf Stahrenberg is a product director at Oply GmbH. Prior to this, Ulf served as chief product officer at MONOQI. He held positions at Zalando, txtr, and Strategies4Change.

Elio Leoni Sceti is the Co-founder & Chief Crafter of The Craftory. He previously worked at Beamly as a Chairman & Seed Capital. Elio Leoni Sceti attended LUISS Guido Carli University.

Dirk Freise - Managing Director @ non olet

Philipp Herkelmann is Partner at Entrepreneur First. Previous at X-The Moonshot factory in Palo Alto (US) , Google in Berlin (DE) & Dublin (IR) founder at GiftMe Ltd. and Product Manager at an Ecommerce Venture (DE). He attended Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen and has a major in Public Management & Governance.

Udo Schloemer founded his first company in 1992 and realized € 500 million project volume as a real-estate entrepreneur ever since. After angel investing in 50+ Berlin-based startups - including local heroes, such as 6wunderkinder, EyeEm, Monoqi and more - he founded Factory, Germany’s largest startup campus in 2011. At Factory, Udo combines hisone of a kind real estate expertise with his passion for startups. His long-term vision is to create a European Silicon Valley by bringing together best in class technology businesses and connecting old & new economy.

Yat Siu is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Outblaze a messaging communications company that services over 40 million users today based out of Hong Kong.Yat has previously worked for Atari Germany, served as Director and Head of East Coast Operations for Lexicor, established Hong Kong Cybercity (the first free web page and e-mail providerin Asia, later renamed Freenation), as well as AT&T Solutions System Integration practice.He has been named a Global Leader of Tomorrow and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.It has been reported that Yat Siu sold Outblaze messaging to IBM to become Lotus iNotes.Yat is also responsible FON's operations in China.

Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts

CEO of Shortcut Ventures GmbH in Hamburg, Germany.Martin Ostermayer is one of the CEOs of the venture capital firm, Shortcut Ventures, located in Hamburg, Germany. After graduating in Business Administration from the University of Hamburg, Ostermayer received his MBA from the University of San Francisco in 1998, majoring in telecommunicationsand business strategy.In 1999, he set up handy.de, which became Europe’s largest provider of mobile entertainment services with business partners Thorsten Rehling and Dirk Freise. They also created blau.de, the first independent wireless service discounter in Germany, in 2005. They led the company until 2011.

Klaas Kersting is a serial entrepreneur (Gameforge / flaregames / Phoenix Games) and Seed-/Early-stage investor in startups in games and e-commerce. He served and serves as board member and advisor to several of his investments.Most recently, in 2019, Klaas founded Phoenix Games, a company aiming to help game founders to achievemore - both financially as well as commercially. In 2008 Klaas Kersting was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. Gameforge was awarded 'Red Herring 100 Europe', and 'Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars'. Furthermore, he was selected 'Technology Pioneer 2009' by the World Economic Forum.

Lawrence Leuschner is the CEO & Co-Founder at TIER Mobility.

ISB Investitions- und Strukturbank Rheinland-Pfalz

Julius Göllner is the Co-Founder of ARRtist, SinnRec, GSL - Global Sales Leaders, F&P Stock Solution GmbH, MOODJA, and SIP Distribution. He is also the Founder and Managing Director of eNugget Ventures and the Advisor and Investor for different companies.Julius attended Technische Universität Chemnitz, Yale School of Management, and TampereUniversity.

Nils Wilde

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Mark is currently a Founding Partner and LP and Investment Committee member at Kindred Capital, a European Seed-Stage Venture fund, based in London. He was a General Partner at Balderton Capital/ Benchmark Europe from 2002 through 2015, and an EIR at Benchmark Capital in 1999/2000.He spent the prior 15 years @ Goldman Sachs, where hewas a General Partner and Management Committee member. He studied Economics at both University of Oxford and Queen's University in Canada.

Blockchain, Kryptowährungen, Entrepreneur, Mobilität, E-Commerce, Online-Marketing

Feliks Eyser is the founding partner of JETPACK.

Friedrich A. Neuman studied Business & Economics in St. Gallen, Switzerland. After his studies he moved to Berlin to start his first company. Later he led business development at Glispa. In 2012, Friedrich joined Rocket Internet and co-founded Dropgifts, a social gifting platform active in 25 countries with 120 people. Together with MariusSchulze, Friedrich is the founder and CEO of Run a Shop and founding partner of MAKERS. At MAKERS, Friedrich is responsible for Finance and Operations.

Nicolaus Schefenacker is the Co-founder and managing director at Sennder.

Kilian Thalhammer - Managing Partner @ Pearlscout

Nicolas Gabrysch - Partner / Rechtsanwalt @ Osborne Clarke

Roland Berger is a Founder of Roland Berger, Munich and has been the Roland Berger GmbH's Honorary Chairman since 2010. Today, Roland Berger has grown to become one of the world's top five strategy consulting firms with 50 offices in 36 countries. The company has a workforce of 2,400 and advises leading international industrial andservice enterprises, as well as public institutions. From the company's foundation in 1967 until 2003, Roland was Chief Executive Officer of the firm, and until 2010 Chairman of the Supervisory Board. Prior to founding his strategy consultancy, Roland was employed as a consultant and ultimately partner at a leading American consulting firm based in Milan and Boston. Roland has been appointed to various expert commissions by several German state governments and the federal government. From 2007 to its dissolution in 2014, Roland was a Member of the High Level Group on Administrative Burdens under the leadership of former Bavarian State Premier Dr. Edmund Stoiber, appointed by the European Commission. Roland is a member of several supervisory boards and advisory councils of national and international companies, foundations and organizations, including Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA (Chairman of the Audit Committee), Bad Homburg; Prime Office REIT-AG, Munich (Chairman of the Supervisory Board); RCS Mediagroup S.p.A.(Vice-President), Milan, Italy. Roland also serves on several international advisory boards, including those of Deutsche Bank AG in Frankfurt, MillerBuckfire in New York and The Blackstone Group in New York. Since 1996 Roland has been a Lecturer and Visiting Professor and since 2000 Honorary Professor for Business Administration and Management Consulting at the Brandenburg Technical University in Cottbus. Furthermore, Roland was appointed a member of the Oxford Martin Commission for Future Generations in 2012. Since 2002, Roland has been on the Business Advisory Council of the State Premier of Saxony-Anhalt and was appointed to the Globalization Council Portugal by the Portuguese President Aníbal Cavaco Silva. Previously, German President Roman Herzog had appointed Roland to the President's Advisory Council for Innovation. Roland has also actively participated in over 20 federal government commissions under Helmut Kohl and Gerhard Schröder. Roland is a member of several supervisory boards and advisory councils of national and international companies, foundations and organizations and invests in many private and listed companies as well as startups. Roland was Honorary Consul General of the Republic of Finland in Bavaria and Thuringia from 1996 to 2015. Roland is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Roland Berger Foundation, which he set up personally with an endowment of EUR 50 million. The Roland Berger Foundation is dedicated to the global protection of human dignity and human rights. Each year it confers the Roland Berger Award for Human Dignity. The Foundation also helps gifted children and young people from underprivileged families across Germany and Italy to gain access to the best possible primary and secondary education. Outside work, Roland pursues his interest in modern art and owns a large collection of artworks, mainly by contemporary artists from Europe, the US, South America and China. Roland also loves classical music and supports the Mahler Chamber Orchestra and Bavarian State Opera, among others. Roland loves hiking and cross-country skiing, especially in the Swiss region of Engadin. Roland studied business administration in Munich and Hamburg. (MBA from the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich).

Matthias Müller is a partner at Global Founders Capital (GFC).Before joining GFC, Matthias was Rocket Internet's Head of Special Projects. Previously, he worked for Holtzbrinck Digital and Holtzbrinck Ventures as an investment professional. Matthias holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from ESB Reutlingen and aBachelor's Degree in Media Management from Hannover University of Music, Drama & Media.

Jan Beckers is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer at BIT Capital. He studied at Münster University of Münster

Florian Huber is a Founder and long-term CEO at united-domains AG, a Founder at chainEurope, a Venture Partner at Signature Ventures, and a Founder and Chairman of the Board at neubau kompass. He was a Seed Investor at foodora. Florian attended the University of Bayreuth.

Co-Founder and Co-CEO Responsible for EMEA & APAC, global operations, finance, HR and the overall direction for Celonis.

Elmar Broscheit is a Managing Director at Macquarie Capital, based in Berlin

Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.

Julius Koehler is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sennder. He was the Head of Sales at Styla and Senior Director of Business Development at WATCHMASTER.COM.

Christian Reber​ is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.

Swen Nicolaus is the Chief Capital Officer at MOLO TECH LTD. Swen Nicolaus attended the EBS University of Economics and Law.

Fritz Österle is an angel investor.

Falk F. Strascheg is a Member of Advisory Board of eCAPITAL entrepreneurial Partners AG. He is Founding Partner Extorel GmbH in 1997 and also is its Managing General Partner. In May 2002, Mr. Strascheg established Munich University of Applied Sciences' Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship.

David Nothacker is the Co-Founder & CEO at Sennder.

Björn Kolbmüller is co-founder and managing director of zenloop, a SaaS platform for feedback mgmt. using the Net Promoter System (NPS) method. After studying business administration at HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management, Björn Kolbmüller began his professional career at Mister Spex. In 2008 he joined Procter & Gamble's brandmanagement team. Afterwards he co-founded the online perfumery Flaconi together with Paul Schwarzenholz, where he was responsible for marketing, product and tech until the sale to Pro7Sat1. In addition to zenloop, Björn Kolbmüller is an active business angel and passes on his experience to young start-ups.

Alexander Luik

Yves Latour is the Co-Founder of 3wVentures. Yves Latour attended the University of St.Gallen.

Arthur Kosten is a Co Founder @ Booking.com.

Verena Pausder

Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus

Matthias Wilrich is the VP Vehicles and Supply Chain at TIER Mobility.

Guido Peters - International Business Development Manager @ Continental

Dagmar Wöhrl

Alfred Schorno

Sina is a Serial Entrepreneur. His latest endeavor is Tiko which he founded and serves as CEO. Before that he was the Founder of Markafoni, the first Online Fashion site of Turkey. Markafoni became also the first Turkish internet company expanding beyond the borders of Turkey: Markafoni launched sites in Australia, Ukraine, Greece and Polandbetween 2009 and 2011. Sina served until 2014 as Chairman and CEO. The Naspers Group acquired in July 2011 a majority stake at Markafoni and signed for one of the biggest deals in the Turkish internet. Sina is also an active Business Angel and invests in early stage start-ups. He is the President of the Entrepreneur Foundation and Endeavor Turkey Board (2013-2017).Sina has been elected as the “Internet Entrepreneur of the Year” and “Business Angel of the Year” in Turkey. Markafoni won several awards: “Best Web Start-up 2011” and “Best Online Fashion Site in 2011, 2012 and 2013”. The Wired UK magazin elected in 2012 and 2013 Markafoni to the hottest 100 companies in Europe. Sina was also selected (2014 & 2015) to the Top 100 most influential tech people Europe. In 2016 he was selected as one of Top 100 most influential tech people in the World (Wired Magazine). Forbes Magazin elected him to the "Brightest Minds" alive in Turkey (2019).Prior to Markafoni, Sina spent more than 5 years with eBay and 12 years with KPMG. Sina received a "Diplom Kaufmann" from Münster University and joined later Harvard Business School. He speaks five languages. His passion goes with his family and esports where he is the President of "1907 Fenerbahçe esports” team - a professional esports team in the TCL. He shares his thoughts on eCommerce in his personal blog www.sinaafra.com and on twitter (sinaafra).

Philipp Westermeyer is the founder of the Online Marketing Rockstars. Prior to that, Philipp founded Metrigo GmbH and adyard GmbH. He also served as an investment manager at Gruner + Jahr. Philipp attained a master's degree in media science and management from the University of Hamburg.

Fabian Deventer is the CMO, Co-Founder, and Managing Director at Kapten & Son Group of Kapten & Son. Fabian Deventer attended University of Munster.

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.

Tim is a global entrepreneur and venture investor. He started his first company bonial.com in 2008 and sold it to German media conglomerate Axel Springer SE in 2011. In 2013, Tim relocated to South East Asia and has since co-founded and invested in many successful consumer internet companies through his private internet holding company Asia VentureGroup. Those companies have successfully raised several hundred million USD in follow-on venture capital and employ several thousand employees across the global. Those companies include HappyFresh, iPrice Group, iMoney (sold to iSelect), FlowerChimp, audibene (sold to Sivantos/EQT), Scalable Capital (sold to BlackRock), Jewelcandle (sold to Equistone), Vicampo (sold to Burda), CARS24, Movinga, Homebell, Fave, Stoyo and many more.