Top 50 Music Angel Investors in Europe in November 2024

Investor	Music Europe investments
Andrew Scott	3
Andrew Gault	3
Per Brilioth	3
Ludvig Linge	3
Paolo Barberis	3
Peter Gabriel	3
John Michaelis	2
Jorg Mohaupt	2
Den Dmytrenko	2
Danny Saucedo	2
David Cummings	2
Shiv Prakash	2
Matt Jellicoe	2
Kristina Tunkrans	2
Agnetha Faltskog	2
Yat Siu	2
Sebastien Borget	2
Marcelo A. Benitez Albo	2
Colin McInnes	2
Peter Bartlett	2
John Taysom	2
Jacob Key	2
Xavier Niel	2
Lorenz Bogaert	2
Martijn Tjho	2
Den Dmytrenko	2
Holger Hübner	2
Yasin Sebastian Qureshi	2
Gustav Nordlindh	2
Oliver Tilloy	1
Mustafa Suleyman	1
Niko Alm	1
Oli Farago	1
Sophia Bendz	1
Harry Briggs	1
Sebastian Knutsson	1
Neel Sachdev	1
Christian Drougge	1
Andreas Spechtler	1
Duncan Jennings	1
Andrea T. Orlando	1
Ronny Shibley	1
Mathias Ackermand	1
Markus Ament	1
Klaus Hofbauer	1
Petter Nylander	1
Paolo Basilico	1
Mattias Danielsson	1
Tim Langley	1
Lars Ettrup	1

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Vaire — Vaire is a new kind of near-zero energy computing company.
Juggle Jobs — We help professionals work flexibly
Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Augmented Reality
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Juggle Jobs — We help professionals work flexibly
Banked — A Banking Platform for Young People that engenders healthy financial habits and rewards healthy activity.All built around a contactless payment and activity tracking smartwatch.Financial Institutions coupled with Wearable Devices “should” own the Internet of Things, .yet they are too large, unwieldy and slow moving to capitalise on thisadvantage. Banked will be the key indexer of the user in a network of connected things.
Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.

Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Transportation
Funding Round, Series B, Seed
Sweden, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

memmo.me — memmo.me provides a webpage for offering and distributing personalized video messages from actors, athletes, musicians, and other talent.
Arro — Discover the shared daily operating system that helps you get more from life and work. Get to Day Zero together.
Surfboard — Surfboard WFM features integrated forecasting, capacity planning, automated scheduling and performance analytics for modern support teams.

Ludvig has a background as a co-founder of the company The Astonishing Tribe, TAT, and is an active angel investor. He is passionate about helping strong teams that want to combine design and technology to create innovative companies that really make a difference.TAT became during the beginning of the 2000s, the world leader in user interfacesfor mobile phones and delivered design and software for brands like Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Google. In late 2010, TAT was sold to Canadian Research in Motion, RIM, which makes BlackBerry handsets.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile Apps
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Apprl — Performance-based influencer marketing, made for e-commerce brands, and an invitation-only service for digital content creators.
Welcome App — Welcome App is a mobile app that connects refugees and locals.
MIND Music Labs — When it comes to musical instruments, “Smart” experiences are today still very limited. Musicians need truly wireless, portable, upgradable and cloud-based solutions. 250M users (pro and amateurs musicians) spending about $17B a year and their audience are waiting for a revolution. We develop ELK MusicOS (the “Android” of musical instruments)enabling musical instruments vendors to make a new generation of “Smart Instruments” and we build around it an ecosystem of cloud services.

Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca.

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
Musixmatch — Musixmatch is the leading Music Data company aggregating rights for the world's largest catalog of lyrics. The company uses the power of lyrics to build unique dataset and machine learning algorithms based on NLP to empower music reccomandations, search, discovery . On top of this Musixmatch administrates more than 10,000 Music publishers andover 150 mln $ copyrights . Musixmatch has ensured worldwide agreement with top Music Publishers as Universal Publishing, Emi Publishing, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappel, Kobalt Publishing, and +4000 trough Harry Fox Agency. Current clients list includes Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Amazon Music, Spotify, Facebook, VEVO, Saavn, MTV, etc
EPICODE — Epicode School is a online coding startup that offers professional training and coaching services.

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.

Investment focus

Music, TV, Supply Chain Management
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Belgium, United States

Portfolio highlights

Tumelo — Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm. Our mission is to enable retail investors and pension members to create and benefit from a more sustainable investment system. We do this by partnering with investment and pension providers, enabling them to provide their customers with transparency over the companies they own and ashareholder voice on issues they care about, such as gender equality or climate change. Our solution is white-label software delivered via APIs and/or a user dashboard. Our software integrates with existing investment platforms improving customer engagement, acquisition and retention for providers.
Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.

John Michaelis

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.

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.

Investment focus

Music, Mobile Apps, Art
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Penfold — Our flexible, simple and powerful pension is designed to get you to your saving goals and stay with you for life, whichever direction it takes you.
Tracklib — Tracklib is the only service where anyone can legally clear samples from real music. From Isaac Hayes to Mozart, we got it.
Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.

Co-founder and General Partner at Roosh and co-founder of Reface, ZibraAI, and Ukrainian AI/ML community AI HOUSE, which are part of the overarching Roosh ecosystem, along with venture firm Roosh Ventures, upskilling project Gathers, AI R&D company Neurons Lab, venture studio Pawa. Forbes 30 under 30 Europe.In 2018, Den Dmytrenkoco-founded Reface, the company behind the viral face-swap video app. Shortly after, he co-founded ZibraAI, a deep-tech company that creates AI-generated assets for any virtual world or experience. Den wanted to continue building breakthrough companies based on ML and working with the best founders to introduce more companies and tech into the world, so he launched Roosh. What Den and his team do at Roosh is help pioneering entrepreneurs and disruptive technologies scale globally by building, developing, and investing in them. Part of the Roosh ecosystem, is Roosh Ventures, an early-stage, generalist venture firm that invests in Pre-seed to Series A stages in the EU and US markets. The firm supports its portfolio companies through added values derived from their expertise in AI and ML.In addition, there is AI HOUSE, a Ukrainian AI community that brings together talents, experts, and investors to provide educational resources and opportunities for industry talents. Complementing this, there is Gathers, an upskilling project focused on solving the growing skill gap within the AI/ML industry. Moreover, the robust ecosystem encompasses Neurons Lab, an innovative AI R&D company, and Pawa, an ML-based venture studio.Den also take the role of angel investor and seek out additional exciting opportunities beyond Roosh.

Investment focus

Software, CRM, Wearables
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

folk — Powerful as a CRM, simple as a spreadsheet. folk is a collaborative tool to centralize, organize and activate contacts.
Bnext — Bnext is a fintech platform headquartered in Madrid, Spain.Bnext is the first supermarket for financial products, it reflects a new way of banking that challenges traditional banking from its foundations. With Bnext users can do almost everything they do with a bank, without having to use a bank. It allows them to create their own currentaccount in a matter of minutes, with nearly all the functionalities of an account in a traditional entity. Additionally, users can include their external accounts and hence have all their financial information on a single platform, regardless of the provider. However, the real innovation in Bnext lies on its Marketplace. Here, users have access to a wide range of financial products from fintechs and banks. The offering suplliers are meticulously selected in order to best fit the client's needs. On the platform, the user can scan through all different products, purchase them and control his acquisitions, all without ever leaving the app. Instead of charging the customer endless commissions and trying to sell as many products as possible, Bnext has developed a model that allows to really collaborate with the fintechs and get the best available offers on the market. The fintech portfolio to date includes real estate investment firms, mutual fund investment, loans and crowdlending, microloans or crowdfunding. Bnext is progressively integrating the most leading products in the market to expand the offer and thus become the first bank without balance.
Regression Games — Regression Games is pushing the limits of gaming. Visit our site for updates, and sign up for news as it comes out!

Danny Saucedo

Investment focus

Music, Sales, Sports
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Corite — Here's where artists and fans join forces. Invest in music you love and get paid when it's streamed on Spotify and Apple Music.
Hooked Foods — Hooked is a start-up that creates healthy & tasty plant-based proteins that can used in a wide variety of dishes. High in protein & fibre, rich in vitamins and minerals like iron, vitamin b12, vitamin D, selenium and iodine.
Active Brands Group — ABG is a House of Brands focusing on bringing innovative products related to sports and health to a global market. We want to grow with our existing brands as well as through acquisitions and partnerships. We inspire, empower & elevate the way people move through sourcing, brand development and distribution.

David has worked for IMI Plc, Lazard and KPMG.His early career at IMI Titanium was as a research and development metallurgist developing superconductors and titanium alloys. From 1986-2002, David worked at Lazard, where he became a Partner and the Managing Director running the TMT group in London. While there he gained a wide variety ofexperience in Corporate Finance, M&A, debt restructuring and equity capital markets based on over a decade of transactions in the TMT sectors. From 2004-2011, David was a Senior Director of KPMG Corporate Finance focusing on Business development and relationship building with medium to large corporations in the Telecom and Technology sectors.David is an active investor in early stage private technology companies and is a member of Cambridge Angels. His current portfolio consisting of 14 companies includes: Truphone , We7 , Grapeshot, Trigger (WebMynd), Ionscope, Centrix and Arachnys.

Investment focus

Music, Internet, Software
Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hadean — Our spatial computing and AI-powered technology empowers leaders to simulate the unthinkable, grasp the competitive edge, and create without limits.
Encore Musicians — Hire a band, musicians, singers and DJs for weddings, functions, corporate events and private events. Book live music for your event with Fast Quotes, Secure Payment, No Hidden Fees and Expert Support.
Focal Point Positioning — Next-gen positioning software for automotive, wearables and smartphones. Enhanced accuracy, integrity and sensitivity for GNSS receivers.

Shiv Prakash is a former VP of Investment at Hipgnosis Song Fund.

Investment focus

Music
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Freshsound — Instantly license music from commercially released artists and songwriters for film, series, advertising, social content and gaming.

Matt Jellicoe

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.

Kristina Tunkrans is a former Partner at Cederquist, CEO of PRMD publishing/AtNight and Chief of Music, Epidemic Sound.

Investment focus

Music
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Freshsound — Instantly license music from commercially released artists and songwriters for film, series, advertising, social content and gaming.

Agnetha Faltskog is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. She is a member of the pop group ABBA.

Investment focus

Music
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

SNAFU Records — SNAFU Records creates algorithms that scan through data from major music platforms like Spotify and Youtube to find artists and songs that stand out.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Hong Kong, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Unite — We started Unite because we saw a problem.Two problems, in fact. A problem faced by marketplace sellers like you, who see high- quality traffic on your pages but have no way of retargeting shoppers who don’t end up purchasing, leaving potential sales on the table. And a problem faced by the marketplaces where you sell, which win by helping youdrive sales but aren’t equipped to offer you the sorts of online advertising tools like retargeting pixels, audience creation, and campaign management platforms that big brands have been using for years.That’s where we come in. Understanding these constraints and sharing the frustration faced by both sellers and marketplaces over lost revenue and lost customers, we created the perfect platform to put the industry’s most powerful advertising technology capabilities in the hands of people like you, building them into the marketplaces where you already sell. The result? Higher traffic and higher conversion rates. In other words, higher sales.Today, thousands of sellers across the Internet are using Unite to advertise like a big brand and drive sales. It’s time to join them.
Humanity Protocol — Humanity Protocol developing Proof of Humanity as a novel feature of Humanity Protocol to provide developers with unique-human authentication mechanisms, and users complete ownership over data and identity.
Darewise Entertainment — Play, connect, and create in our persistent online worlds.

Sebastien Borget is the Co-founder and COO of Pixowl. Passionate for blockchain technology, gaming and education, he is a very active speaker and evangelist who spent the past 8 years focused exclusively on mobile gaming, creating successful games that were downloaded millions of times.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Party Icons — Party Icons is a web3 mobile gaming platform. Its mission is to blend the social glue of party games with the intensity of extraction shooters.
Alliance Games — Next level Web3 Gaming Infrastructure, Now Fully Decentralized
OpenLedger — OpenLedger is the sovereign data blockchain for AI.

Marcelo Benitez is a Partner Director at Stella Maris Partners.

Investment focus

Music, Musical Instruments, Media and Entertainment
Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

MIND Music Labs — When it comes to musical instruments, “Smart” experiences are today still very limited. Musicians need truly wireless, portable, upgradable and cloud-based solutions. 250M users (pro and amateurs musicians) spending about $17B a year and their audience are waiting for a revolution. We develop ELK MusicOS (the “Android” of musical instruments)enabling musical instruments vendors to make a new generation of “Smart Instruments” and we build around it an ecosystem of cloud services.

Colin McInnes

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.

Peter Bartlett

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Digital Media
Seed, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.

John Taysom started the Reuters Venture Capital Fund in Palo Alto in 1995 making 82 investments in internet and web infrastructure and services including Verisign, UltraDNS, Digimarc, ZeroKnowledge and Intertrust. He was a member of the Board of Digimarc pre and post its Nasdaq IPO, a Board member at Intertrust and a Board member at TIBCO throughits Nasdaq IPO. To date, seventeen of his investments have achieved an IPO.John acquired the Fund in an MBO in 2002. Now London-based with a seed portfolio of thirty US and UK start-ups; one has achieved an IPO and several have been acquired by Experian, Linkedin, Tesco, BMC and others.In 2011 and 2012 John took a Fellowship at Harvard to work on privacy issues and holds EU and US patents on a method of improving privacy online. For 2015 John is a Policy Fellow at the University of Cambridge Centre for Science and Policy and a Visiting Professor, Department of Computer Science, at UCL. He is a member of the Board of the Web Science Trust; chairs Performance Horizon, a fast growing UK startup; is a Governor at Hurstpierpoint College; and runs a small farm in Devon.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

LGN — LGN's edge AI management software puts you in complete technical and financial control of your edge AI systems.
Tenyks — Tenyks gives Computer Vision Engineers the insights to build more reliable models faster! Collaborate to identify and fix dataset issues. Improve data quality. Boost model performance. No more wondering in the dark.
Worldr — Valarian | Innovating for the new era of digital sovereignty

Jacob Key is co-founder and general partner of Luminar Ventures. Jacob has made close to 20 early stage investments in companies such as Challengermode, Gavagai, Unacast and Pacemaker - and made 3 successful exits to date in Sportamore, Vera&John and Vetzoo.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Insurance
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Muninn — AI-powered cyber security - defending your entire network
Challengermode — Leading platform for esports competitions. Compete in high quality tournaments from the best organizers or create your own Space & monetize your community.
MIND Music Labs — When it comes to musical instruments, “Smart” experiences are today still very limited. Musicians need truly wireless, portable, upgradable and cloud-based solutions. 250M users (pro and amateurs musicians) spending about $17B a year and their audience are waiting for a revolution. We develop ELK MusicOS (the “Android” of musical instruments)enabling musical instruments vendors to make a new generation of “Smart Instruments” and we build around it an ecosystem of cloud services.

Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CUBE AI — Cube AI boosts back-office logistics efficiency, allowing teams to handle more loads and focus on human relationships.
Pixmania — Pixmania is an e-commerce website that provides buying and selling of speakers, cameras, headphones, and mobile devices.
The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.

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).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Belgium, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.

Martijn Tjho is teh Co-Founder and CEO at BIYU.

Investment focus

Music, Education, Machine Learning
Seed
France

Portfolio highlights

Jellynote — Jellynote is the go-to-destination for over 1 million aspiring musicians; a loyal community who enjoy sheets, tabs and chords, original video content and the opportunity to connect with one-another in the Jellynote universe.Jellynote has developed all of its proprietary technology in-house, delivering an intuitive AI-powered edtech platform toits fans. Jellynote sells premium subscriptions and generates revenue from ads.Jellynote offers over 400,000 songs that you can be played to learn through original artist video master classes, video tutorials, sheets, tabs, chords and instrument view for a wide range of instruments. The game mode provides instant feedback and social mode connects musicians share their tastes in music. The Jellynote universe demonstrates how music can connect people in a world that is getting more and more divided. Available on Smartphone and desktop.

Co-founder and General Partner at Roosh and co-founder of Reface, ZibraAI, and Ukrainian AI/ML community AI HOUSE, which are part of the overarching Roosh ecosystem, along with venture firm Roosh Ventures, upskilling project Gathers, AI R&D company Neurons Lab, venture studio Pawa. Forbes 30 under 30 Europe.In 2018, Den Dmytrenkoco-founded Reface, the company behind the viral face-swap video app. Shortly after, he co-founded ZibraAI, a deep-tech company that creates AI-generated assets for any virtual world or experience. Den wanted to continue building breakthrough companies based on ML and working with the best founders to introduce more companies and tech into the world, so he launched Roosh. What Den and his team do at Roosh is help pioneering entrepreneurs and disruptive technologies scale globally by building, developing, and investing in them. Part of the Roosh ecosystem, is Roosh Ventures, an early-stage, generalist venture firm that invests in Pre-seed to Series A stages in the EU and US markets. The firm supports its portfolio companies through added values derived from their expertise in AI and ML.In addition, there is AI HOUSE, a Ukrainian AI community that brings together talents, experts, and investors to provide educational resources and opportunities for industry talents. Complementing this, there is Gathers, an upskilling project focused on solving the growing skill gap within the AI/ML industry. Moreover, the robust ecosystem encompasses Neurons Lab, an innovative AI R&D company, and Pawa, an ML-based venture studio.Den also take the role of angel investor and seek out additional exciting opportunities beyond Roosh.

Investment focus

Software, CRM, Wearables
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, France

Portfolio highlights

folk — Powerful as a CRM, simple as a spreadsheet. folk is a collaborative tool to centralize, organize and activate contacts.
Bnext — Bnext is a fintech platform headquartered in Madrid, Spain.Bnext is the first supermarket for financial products, it reflects a new way of banking that challenges traditional banking from its foundations. With Bnext users can do almost everything they do with a bank, without having to use a bank. It allows them to create their own currentaccount in a matter of minutes, with nearly all the functionalities of an account in a traditional entity. Additionally, users can include their external accounts and hence have all their financial information on a single platform, regardless of the provider. However, the real innovation in Bnext lies on its Marketplace. Here, users have access to a wide range of financial products from fintechs and banks. The offering suplliers are meticulously selected in order to best fit the client's needs. On the platform, the user can scan through all different products, purchase them and control his acquisitions, all without ever leaving the app. Instead of charging the customer endless commissions and trying to sell as many products as possible, Bnext has developed a model that allows to really collaborate with the fintechs and get the best available offers on the market. The fintech portfolio to date includes real estate investment firms, mutual fund investment, loans and crowdlending, microloans or crowdfunding. Bnext is progressively integrating the most leading products in the market to expand the offer and thus become the first bank without balance.
Regression Games — Regression Games is pushing the limits of gaming. Visit our site for updates, and sign up for news as it comes out!

Holger Hübner

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Audio
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

musicube — Good music deserves to be found. That is why musicube develops revolutionary music search technology. Music streaming services and other companies can forward any user request to musicube and get back high quality data in real time (e.g. to return playlists etc.).
RetroBrain R&D GmbH — Memore gamifies proven dementia therapies into a gesture controlled medical video game. It incorporates and gamifies proven therapies, delaying the effects of dementia and mild cognitive impairment, enabling elderly people without prior gaming experience to utilize the gaming suite easily.Memore works both therapeutically and preventatively withnursing rehabilitation. It was founded in 2014 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
HorseAnalytics — HorseAnalytics empowers horse enthusiasts to monitor and improve health and training of horses by applying reliable technologies from health and sports supervision and combining constant and real-time scientific analytics.

Yasin Sebastian Qureshi is the Co-Founder of KlickOwn and the Founder and former CEO of Varengold Bank. At the age of 29 he was the youngest person ever in Germany to obtain a license to run an investment bank. He is also the founder and former CEO of The NAGA Group AG www.naga.com as well as the founder of AQUA Digital Rising www.aquarising.com.He is an entrepreneur, investor and film producer born in Germany and based in London. His investments range from finance, to Internet and media.

Investment focus

Audio, Music, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Haglit — The first artificial intelligence-powered sales assistant for Ecommerce
Saarey — Saarey is a music streaming platform that provides easy access to South Asian classical music, heritage, and culture.

Gustav Nordlindh is a CEO at Royal Streaming.

Investment focus

Music
Seed, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Freshsound — Instantly license music from commercially released artists and songwriters for film, series, advertising, social content and gaming.

Oliver Tilloy, Founder of Techmind.

Investment focus

Music, Banking, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
France, Senegal, Cameroon

Portfolio highlights

PaySika — PaySika is a financial technology startup developing mobile and web-based banking solutions for French-speaking African countries.
Pixacare — B2B Saas for monitoring cutaneous diseases
Zicplace — Zicplace is a B2C and B2B online Music eCommerce Marketplace to buy and sell new and used instruments.

Mustafa Suleyman is a Co-founder and CEO at Inflection AI and a Venture Partner at Greylock. He was a Co-founder and Partner at Reos Partners.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software
Seed, Series A, Series C
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Co:Helm — Co:Helm builds AI assistants that utilizes ChatGPT built with healthcare operations as the core focus. Co:Helm's interopability engine allows users to seamlessly integrate with any EHR or EMR system in less than a day. Co:Helm automates Prior Authorization for Utilization Management teams using AI resulting in a massive 90% time saving.
Seek AI — Seek AI is an AI tool that provides information technology and services. Seek AI specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence, business intelligence, and machine learning. It was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in New York, United States.
ElevenLabs — Research Lab. Exploring new frontiers of voice generation. We are researching and deploying novel methods in voice AI to make content enjoyable in any language and voice to benefit new audiences and viewers. Our mission is to make content universally accessible in any language & voice.

Niko Alm

Investment focus

Music, Digital Media, Music Streaming
Seed
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Record Bird — Record Bird offers an application that enables its users to find news and information about new releases of music. It enables its users to follow artists and obtain news and information about them. Record Bird was founded by Arnold Graf, Christoph Kregl, Alexander Baumann, Thomas Patterer, and Andreas Mahringer.

Oli Farago Founder & CEO at Coyote Software. He attended Culford School during 1996-2002.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Maroo — The smartest way to pay for your wedding
HyperionDev — Accelerate your career with a online coding bootcamp. Learn to code in just 3 - 6 months.
The Smart Container Company — The Smart Container Company is the team behind KegTracker and BeverEDGE, a first-to-market IoT device and platform that instantly turns kegs into SMART containers. Our technology tracks real-time location, volume, temperature, and motion for each keg and delivers actionable insights that enable transparency and zero.

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.

Harry is a partner at OMERS Ventures, previously at Balderton Capital & BGF Ventures- and the youngest investor in the inaugural Forbes "Midas List Europe", thanks to investments such as The Hut Group, GoCardless, Touch Surgery and Revolut. Prior to Balderton, Harry co-founded Firefly Tonics, a healthy energy drink brand that sells inover 30 countries, sold to Private Equity in 2012. Harry started his career at McKinsey & Co., the strategy consultancy, in London and New York.

Investment focus

Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
United Kingdom, 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.
SeedLegals — Grow faster with SeedLegals. Unlimited expert support included. Trusted by 50,000+ startups and investors.
LVNDR Health — Get ready for sexual healthcare with you at the centre

Sebastian Knutsson is one of our founders and has served on our Board of Directors since October 2003, as our chief creative officer since June 2004 and as our executive product developer from February 2003 to June 2004. Sebastian has more than 18 years of experience in the Internet industry. As chief creative officer, he leads the productstrategy, games development and service offerings for King. Sebastian has designed more than 100 games for King.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Sweden, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Zaver — Zaver develops innovative payment solutions to accelerate the revolution in mobile payments. All for companies and individuals to be able to shop in a more accessible and smarter way - offline and online.
Revyze — Revyze is a community-powered app with a sharp focus on high school education.
Reforged Labs — Make every creative a hero creative.

Neel Sachdev is a partner in the London office of Kirkland & Ellis International LLP. Neel represents financial sponsors and their affiliates on the financing of multi-jurisdictional leveraged buyouts and other complex financing transactions in Asia, Europe and the U.S. Neel advises on a wide range of complex financing transactions includingsponsor led leveraged financings, asset backed lending and securitisations, commercial paper and capital markets deals and derivatives.

Investment focus

Music, Internet, Social Media
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Tunepics — Tunepics lets you share your favourite pictures with any song and capture the emotion behind each moment.• Be a part of connecting the world through music and emotion • Share music that you love with every picture that you post• Tunepics on Apple Watch makes sure you never miss a moment• Add your emotion and see how you make other peoplefeel whether they are dancing, happy or heartbroken • Discover new music through your friends and their moments

Christian Drougge

Investment focus

Music, Marketplace, Customer Service
Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Gigital — Gigital helps event organizers and artists find each other, and of course all around, to make live music bookings as enjoyable as the actual experience. Whether it's an intimate corporate party, a crazy kick-off, or if the audience requests something different, booking fraud is not something that stands in the way of a successful event. AtGigital, they have collected about 100 of the top acts for all kinds of events. All our artists have gone through a tough review process and are used to charm even the most discerning audience.

Andreas Spechtler

Investment focus

B2B, Music, Artificial Intelligence
Funding Round
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Musimap — Musimap helps you to play the right music / promote the right artist or album / insert the right advertisement / promote the right product or brand to the right audience!

Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Software, Internet
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Motorway — With so many ways to sell your car, it can be overwhelming. At Motorway, we’re focused on building the best way. Our vision is to build a better car market for everyone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart technology matches our customers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers.This enables those dealers tobuy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.In our first 4 years, we've helped over 2.5 million car owners value and sell their car. We've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun.
Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
Console — A free weekly email digest of the best tools for developers.

Andrea T. Orlando is the Managing Partner in Italy at Startup Wise Guys.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Marketplace, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed
Turkey, Poland, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

TrustLynx — TrustLynx is a software solution that provides convenient and accessible tools to integrate electronic signing in daily operations of any organisation.
Soundtracktor — Soundtracktor is a music licensing ecosystem. Artists - build a custom webstore to sell your tracks. Brands - find high-quality music to tell your story.
Agrovisio — Agrovisio Official provides accurate, up-to-date and customized data and accurate forecasts to the agricultural sector's stakeholders.

Ronny Shibley - Co-Founder & CTO @ Gorillas

Investment focus

Software, Music, Privacy
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kertos — Kertos is a software company that develops and provides a holistic privacy platform in Europe, implementing automation and execution in a highly regulated environment focusing on the operational needs for all stakeholders involved. With their focus on product, integration, and automation they enable businesses to scale, to adopt and to maneuver inmodern tech environments with only a fraction of the current workload. They drive consumer engagement and help companies to interact with their customers in sensitive matters.
Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen offers the best locations, satellite kitchens, and digital tools for restaurants that want to scale their delivery network.

Mathias Ackermand is a Private Investor at Privat. Attended Kiel University.

Investment focus

Apps, Audio, Music
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Sweden, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

46elks — Integrate SMS, MMS and Phone calls into your applications with just a few lines of code. Transparent pricing, no startup fees, no minimum monthly costs.
Kitab Sawti — Kitab Sawti is an Arabic audio entertainment service offering audiobooks and podcasts through mobile apps.
AnotherblockAnotherblock AB — Anotherblock is Transforming Music into an Investable Asset Class. We Specialize in Music Investments, Music Rights, Catalog Valuations, and Royalty Management.

Serial FinTech entrepreneur, Markus Ament, or Maex as he is known, has led many companies from early-stage startups to global leaders, loved by thousands worldwide. He is currently CEO and co-founder at Centrifuge with the mission to create an operating system for global commerce, in order to fundamentally change how businesses transact andcollaborate. Maex is co-founder and member of the board of Taulia and has transformed the company from an idea in 2009 to the market leading Financial Supply Chain company, connecting businesses to create a more efficient and profitable supply chain. With an enviable list of the of Fortune 500 clients and over 300 employees, Taulia has quickly become the recognized leader in the financial supply chain.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
Anything World — Anything World is a platform that allows you to play with any object you can imagine using the power of your voice.

Klaus Hofbauer - Owner @ karriere.at

Investment focus

Marketplace, Apps, Music
Seed, Series A
Austria

Portfolio highlights

markta — Digital farmers market
Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
CheckYeti.com — CheckYeti is the largest online platform to book activities in 1000+ mountain and beach destinations across Europe - including skiing & snowboarding, rafting & canyoning, mountain biking, paragliding & ballooning, diving & surfing, jet skiing, boat trips and many more. With 12 000+ offers in 16 countries, CheckYeti enablesholidaymakers and outdoor enthusiasts to experience summer and winter activities with their ideal guide.

Mr. Petter Nylander serves as Chief Executive Officer of Universum Communications AB. He has been Advisor of Unibet Group plc since July 2010. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Unibet Group PLC from August 1, 2005 to July 2010 and joined it in 2005. He served as Chief Executive Officer and was Managing Partner of OMD Sweden AB, which is partof the international Omnicom Group. He previously held various senior positions in international sales and marketing over the last 10 years. This included MTG as Chief Executive Officer for TV3 Sweden and Chief Executive Officer for Viasat Broadcasting, running 17 TV stations in 9 countries. He serves as Director of Cint AB. He served as Director of Bingo.com Ltd. since June 2010 until June 2011. He holds a BSc (Econ) from Stockholm University, Sweden.

Investment focus

Music, Marketplace, Customer Service
Angel
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Gigital — Gigital helps event organizers and artists find each other, and of course all around, to make live music bookings as enjoyable as the actual experience. Whether it's an intimate corporate party, a crazy kick-off, or if the audience requests something different, booking fraud is not something that stands in the way of a successful event. AtGigital, they have collected about 100 of the top acts for all kinds of events. All our artists have gone through a tough review process and are used to charm even the most discerning audience.

Upon graduating from Bocconi University in Milan in 1984, Paolo Basilico began his career at Banca Manusardi (now Banca Fideuram) and subsequently worked at Mediobanca.In 1991, he joined Giubergia Warburg, where he served as CEO from 1992 to 1998 and was also a member of Warburg London’s European Equity Management Committee. In 1999, he foundedKairos Group, of which he is Chairman and CEO, with the aim of offering an alternative course in the vast asset management industry.From 2009 to early 2013, he served on the Executive Committee of Assogestioni. Through Kairos Group, in 2005, Basilico established the Fondazione Oliver Twist ONLUS, a charitable foundation to help disadvantaged children in Italy, of which he is President. In addition, he is a patron of ARK, an international charitable organization concerned with improving the lives of children around the world.

Investment focus

Apps, Music, Music Streaming
Funding Round
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Musixmatch — Musixmatch is the leading Music Data company aggregating rights for the world's largest catalog of lyrics. The company uses the power of lyrics to build unique dataset and machine learning algorithms based on NLP to empower music reccomandations, search, discovery . On top of this Musixmatch administrates more than 10,000 Music publishers andover 150 mln $ copyrights . Musixmatch has ensured worldwide agreement with top Music Publishers as Universal Publishing, Emi Publishing, Sony ATV, BMG, Warner Chappel, Kobalt Publishing, and +4000 trough Harry Fox Agency. Current clients list includes Apple Music, Google, Shazam, Amazon Music, Spotify, Facebook, VEVO, Saavn, MTV, etc

Mattias Danielsson is the CEO at Yubico.

Investment focus

Music, Marketing, Mobile Apps
Seed, Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Amuse — amuse is an independent record label and music distributor. We've launched the careers of some of the world's top independent artists and you could be next!
We Are Voice — We Are Voice is a new digital meeting place for choirs and choir leaders. We Are Voice facilitates everyday life for all of Sweden's choirs by offering a smarter way of communicating with each other, as well as taking part of choir arrangements and high-quality rehearsal files through an app that can be downloaded free of charge forsmartphones and tablets.

Tim Langley is a Co-Founder & CEO at CANDDi.

Investment focus

Music, Mobile, Video Streaming
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Rormix — Rormix - Music Worth WatchingRormix is a centralised platform for users to discover curated music videos from independent and emerging artists.With Rormix, you can watch music videos, search for music based on your unique taste, and discover new emerging artists for free. Access a vast catalogue of new undiscovered artists from around theworld.What separates Rormix from other apps is an exclusive focus on unsigned bands and artists, providing a platform for those that don’t have any other legitimate visual space besides VEVO, YouTube and Myspace. Instead of passing through the videos blindly, users can enter an artist that they already love and Rormix will suggest those that bring a similar sound or style.Featured in Mashable, Forbes, Wired, BBC, TNW, The Sunday Times and more...

Lars Ettrup - Co-Founder, CEO @ Linkfire

Investment focus

B2B, Music, Big Data
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cyanite — AI solutions for the people who pioneer how we search and discover music. Cyanite offers AI music recommendation, tagging and music search.