# Top 50 Music Angel Investors in Europe in June 2026 ## Andrew Gault - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Augmented Reality Andrew Gault is tech startup founder with 20 years in technology; investor since 2012Ex-CTO with 14 patents issued & 28 filed. Started life at the European Space Agency, then co-founded GAIKAI in 2008 raising $45m from Benchmark, NEA and Intel; exiting to Sony for $380m. A Scotsman living on the West Coast since 2008, Andrew has an extensiveSilicon Valley network.Specialisms include: AR/VR, robotics, video tech/computer imaging and gaming. ## Ludvig Linge - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Apps, Mobile Apps 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. ## Peter Gabriel - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Music, TV, Video Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team. ## Andrew Scott - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology Andrew J Scott, Founding Partner – based in London & San Francisco. 20 years in technology, founder of 6 startups; investor since 2014.As founder launched the world’s first location based social network (Playtxt 2001; patented), online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com, 2002), trust graph/recommendation engine using machine learning(Rummble, 2007; patented). In-between did strategy consulting for VCs and Corporates including Astra Zeneca, AT&T and Alcatel Lucent.Andrew is also co-founder of ICE, a non-profit global network of tech founders and investors, established in 2009.Specialisms include: D2C, social & market networks, B2B SaaS and quantum computing. ## Per Brilioth - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series B, Seed - Focus: Apps, Software, Transportation Per Brilioth - CEO @ VNV Global ## Paolo Barberis - Type: Angel - Location: Firenze, Toscana, Italy - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Machine Learning, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence Paolo Barberis is the Founder at Nana Bianca. ## Colin McInnes - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Audio, Music, Digital Media Colin McInnes ## Marcelo A. Benitez Albo - Type: Angel - Location: Nuevo León, Coahuila de Zaragoza, Mexico - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, Musical Instruments, Media and Entertainment Marcelo Benitez is a Partner Director at Stella Maris Partners. ## Holger Hübner - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Audio Holger Hübner ## Matt Jellicoe - Type: Angel - Location: Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Audio, Music, InsurTech Matt Jellicoe ## Jacob Key - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Insurance 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. ## Louis Pfitzner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: B2B, Software, Marketplace Co-CEO at CleanHub, Entrepreneur (Salonmeister, Treatwell, CAYA, Lieferheld/Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about building companies (marketplaces & SaaS), especially in the SMB space. ## Stefan Glänzer - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years. ## Shiv Prakash - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Music Shiv Prakash is a former VP of Investment at Hipgnosis Song Fund. ## Danny Saucedo - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Music, Sales, Sports Danny Saucedo ## Yasin Sebastian Qureshi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Audio, Music, Software 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. ## Xavier Niel - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Xavier Niel is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. Xavier previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school. ## Peter Bartlett - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Audio, Music, Digital Media Peter Bartlett ## Sebastien Borget - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency Sebastien Borget is based out of Paris, Île-de-France and serves as the Global Ambassador of The Sandbox. Sebastien attended The Chinese University of Hong Kong. ## Sophia Bendz - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures ## John Michaelis - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Audio, Music, Digital Media John Michaelis ## Den Dmytrenko - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, CRM, Apps 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. ## John Taysom - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile 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. ## Yat Siu - Type: Angel - Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software Yat Siu is the Strategic Direction of Daydaycook. and also Strategic Advisor of DigitalX. 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 Operationsfor Lexicor, established Hong Kong Cybercity (the first free web page and e-mail provider in 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. ## Agnetha Faltskog - Type: Angel - Location: Jönköping, Jonkopings Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music Agnetha Faltskog is a Swedish singer, songwriter, musician, and actress. She is a member of the pop group ABBA. ## Martijn Tjho - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, Education, Machine Learning Martijn Tjho is teh Co-Founder and CEO at BIYU. ## Gustav Nordlindh - Type: Angel - Location: Uppsala, Uppsala Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Music Gustav Nordlindh is a CEO at Royal Streaming. ## Kristina Tunkrans - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Music Kristina Tunkrans is a former Partner at Cederquist, CEO of PRMD publishing/AtNight and Chief of Music, Epidemic Sound. ## David Cummings - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Music, Internet, Software 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. ## Lorenz Bogaert - Type: Angel - Location: Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo). ## Jorg Mohaupt - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Music, Mobile Apps, Art Jörg was appointed to the Board when Access Industries acquired the Company in 2007. Jörg is responsible for the media/online and telecom businesses at Access Industries, which he joined in May 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Jörg has been active in the media and communications space since 1992. Hehas, as an investor, been involved with several businesses dealing with sports rights (RGE Group, Digiturk), internet services (Bibit NV, Adyen, Speedera Networks) and content delivery (Casema NV, Comhem AB). Jörg’s current board positions include Tory Burch LLC, Rebate Networks GmbH, AINMT Holdings AB, RGE Group Limited, Icon UK Distribution Holdings Limited and Mendeley Research Networks. Prior board positions include Digiturk, Casema NV, Comhem AB, Bibit BV, VersaTel Telecom NV and Speedera Networks Inc. ## Andreas Spechtler - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: B2B, Music, Artificial Intelligence Andreas Spechtler ## Ronny Shibley - Type: Angel - Location: Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Music, Privacy Ronny Shibley - Co-Founder & CTO @ Gorillas ## Henrik Borelius - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Music, Marketplace, Customer Service Henrik Borelius ## Gavin Wood - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Blockchain, Internet Gavin Wood was the Chief Technology Officer and co-­founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation. Gavin Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, anddesigned and implemented the Whisper protocol. He has pushed “state-of­-the-art” in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co­-founded several technology start­ups.Gavin Wood has presented to numerous audiences around the world, from keynotes at regional technology conferences, to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York. His new initiative is the Polkadot protocol, which will connect public and private blockchains so that they can inter-operate. This ambitious project could make it frictionless for corporations that wish to work in private blockchains to connect with public blockchains.Gavin is founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has pushed the state­-of­-the-­art in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-­founded several technology start­ups, including Grid Singularity and Ethereum. He is the co-­designer of the Ethereum Protocol and author of its formal specification, he created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation, designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol. ## Tim Langley - Type: Angel - Location: Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, Mobile, Video Streaming Tim Langley is a Co-Founder & CEO at CANDDi. ## Henning Thies - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: B2B, Music, Big Data Henning Thies ## Charles Goldstuck - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, iOS, Concerts Charles Goldstuck is the Founder and Co-Chairman of Hitco Entertainment. He previously worked at Bertelsman Music Group as a President and COO. Charles Goldstuck attended the University of the Witwatersrand. ## Neel Sachdev - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Music, Internet, Social Media 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. ## Anton Solomko - Type: Angel - Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Music, Events, Music Streaming CFO at SHOW4ME. ## Oleg Malskyy - Type: Angel - Location: Kiev, Kyyivs'ka Oblast', Ukraine - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Music, Events, Music Streaming Oleg Malskyy ## Christophe Maire - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem. ## Adam Clayton - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: TV, DRM, Apps Adam Clayton is an Irish musician who is the bass guitarist of the rock band U2. ## Alexander Armstrong - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: TV, DRM, Apps Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong is a comedian actor. ## Paul . McGuinness - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: TV, DRM, Apps Paul McGuinness is the founder of Principle Management Limited. ## Mattias Danielsson - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, Marketing, Mobile Apps Mattias Danielsson is the CEO at Yubico. ## Guido Peters - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: CRM, Music, Mobile Guido Peters - International Business Development Manager @ Continental ## Max Martin - Type: Angel - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Music, Collaboration, Independent Music Max Martin is the founder and owner of XLN Audio AB. ## Oli Farago - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Series A - Focus: Real Estate, Software, Financial Services Oli Farago Founder & CEO at Coyote Software. He attended Culford School during 1996-2002. ## Yves Latour - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Search Engine, Internet Yves Latour is the Co-Founder of 3wVentures. Yves Latour attended the University of St.Gallen. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co