Top 10 Oil and Gas Angel Investors in Europe (September 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Marcel van Poecke
Angel
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1 | India, Spain, France | Private Equity, Series A, Series B | Energy, Oil and Gas, Information Technology | |
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James Antony Stenhouse
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Angel | Energy, Consulting, Oil and Gas | |
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Ragnar Kruse
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $668k–$4M |
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Carlo Bardoli
Angel
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1 | Italy | Series A | Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance | |
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Simon Crowther
Angel
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1 | Italy | Seed, Series A | Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance | |
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Bernhard Mohr
Angel
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1 | Germany | Seed | Energy, Software, Oil and Gas | |
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John Browne
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, France | Series A | Energy, Artificial Intelligence, GPS | $10M–$100M |
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Will Neale
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Spain, Italy | Pre-Seed, Seed | Financial Services, FinTech, Software | $121k–$6.3M |
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Jonathan Oppenheimer
Angel
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1 | Finland | Seed | Energy, Oil and Gas | |
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Sanne Manders
Angel
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1 | The Netherlands, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series C | Grocery, Big Data, Hardware | $1.6M–$10M |
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Having more than 25 years of experience in the Energy sector, Marcel van Poecke is primarily an Entrepreneur, Investor and Executive Manager. He is the Chairman of AtlasInvest, a private holding company he founded in 2007. AtlasInvest is engaged in investments across the broad energy spectrum.Marcel van Poecke is a Managing Director for CarlyleInternational Energy Partners (CIEP) and is the Head of the Carlyle International Energy Partnership. CIEP focuses on the energy sector outside North America with a particular focus on oil and gas: upstream, midstream, downstream and oil field services.Mr. van Poecke is also the Chairman of Oranje-Nassau Energie (ONE), an AtlasInvest portfolio company with oil and gas assets in the North Sea and West Africa, with a long track-record of running a diversified upstream portfolio; Vice Chairman of the Energy Intelligence Board; and a non-executive Director on the Boards of Argos-North Sea Group, Hestya, VARO and Discover Exploration.Prior to forming AtlasInvest, he founded Petroplus from a management buyout in 1993 and successfully led its growth into the largest independent oil refiner in Europe through several major acquisitions and divestments. Petroplus was taken private in 2005 in a transaction led by Carlyle/Riverstone and management. In 2006, Marcel exited Petroplus following the company’s successful IPO on the Zurich stock exchange. The transaction was the highest multiple return investment for the Carlyle/Riverstone Energy Fund.Mr. van Poecke has a degree in Agricultural Business Administration from the University of Wageningen and a Masters in Business Administration from the William E. Simon School of Management of the University of Rochester.Born 1960, Mr. van Poecke is married and has six children.
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- Industry: Energy, Oil and Gas, Information Technology
- Stage:Private Equity, Series A, Series B
- Geography: India, Spain, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cepsa — Texto a compartir cepsa en el mundo
- Kayrros — Kayrros is the leading advanced data analytics company that helps traders, investors, operators and governments make better decisions.
- Spotzer — Grow your agency with Spotzer's white-label digital marketing services. Our scalable digital business solutions are tailored to your clients' success.
Director @ H2Oil
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- Industry: Energy, Consulting, Oil and Gas
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- H2Oil — H2Oil Group of Companies: H2Oil Ltd (UK) H2Oil Well Services SRL (RO) H2Oil LLC (UA)
- Corpus Resources — Corpus Resources is an upstream energy company engaged in oil and gas exploration and resource asset management.
Ragnar Kruse is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Smaato Inc. As a serial entrepreneur with 30+ years experience in IT, Ragnar Kruse understands the unique challenges in bringing new technologies to market. Ragnar has built up several companies from inception to market launch in both the US and Europe. At Intershop Communications, aleader in E-Commerce software solutions, Ragnar was Vice President of Sales and Marketing in San Francisco. During his tenure, Ragnar was instrumental in the company’s growth and ushering it through a successful IPO on NASDAQ and the “Neuer Markt” in 1998. More recently, Ragnar held key management positions at high-tech companies in the U.S. and Europe including eCharge and Xtramind. Through his many years in IT, Ragnar maintains strong relationships with companies in the telecommunications and mobile sectors, including Deutsche Telekom, Telekom New Zealand, Telstra, Telia, Cable & Wireless, Siemens, T-Online, T-Mobile, France Telecom, HP and SUN. Ragnar started his career as an entrepreneur. In 1980, Ragnar founded IPT GmbH, a computer retail business that imported products into Germany from the USA and Taiwan. In 1987 he expanded his business by starting DTP Partner GmbH, a distribution company in Hamburg. DTP Partner was the exclusive distributor of several desktop publishing solutions such as Corel and was instrumental in establishing international distribution agreements with American and Taiwanese companies. Ragnar studied law at the universities of Hamburg and Munich, Germany.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $668k–$4M; Pre-Seed $822k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
- Frontnow — Frontnow is redefining e-commerce with AI, providing businesses with powerful pre-sales tools to maximize core KPIs and provide an in-store-like shopping experience. Our vision is to transform online shopping into a dynamic, hyper-personalized, and inspirational experience through an adaptive interface. By revolutionizing the ecosystem, theyempower businesses to thrive in the digital age and significantly impact the way customers shop online, leading to a more profitable and customer-centric retail world.
- BLOCKCHANCE — BLOCKCHANCE is Germany’s leading blockchain congress and trade fair and connects thought leaders and innovators who are creating inspiring concepts and solutions within blockchain technology space. It introduces Artificial Intelligence as a main topic in the upcoming event.
Senior Consultant responsible for leading and directing an array of global consultancy projects for a multinational client base within the Industrial, Chemical and Energy (ICE) sector. Experienced in leading the full project lifecycle from proposal creation to project delivery. Experienced in growth strategy, technology innovation, processtransformation, business model transformation, value proposition innovation, revenue modelling, technology road mapping, technical and market due diligence.
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- Industry: Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GBA Flare Systems — GBA Flare Systems provides flare tips, structures, starburst, ancillaries, and site services. They designed and built conceivable types of flare structures and are renowned for their innovation in optimizing structure weights and install-ability. In response to the industry’s preference for less work at height, they have developed schemes thatallow even very high flare structures to be installed in a single lift, meaning no intermediate joints at height. The starburst is a pyrotechnic-based ignition system designed to provide a rapid source of ignition for a cold flare system or to replace the manual shotgun and flare pistol approach to flare ignition.
Simon Crowther is the current Flood Risk Consultant & Director of FPS Environmental. He previously worked at UK Flood Partnership as an Executive Director. Simon Crowther attended the University of Nottingham. He is a leading entrepreneur, and winner of multiple awards, including featured featured on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
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- Industry: Oil and Gas, Manufacturing, Quality Assurance
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- FPS Environmental —
- GBA Flare Systems — GBA Flare Systems provides flare tips, structures, starburst, ancillaries, and site services. They designed and built conceivable types of flare structures and are renowned for their innovation in optimizing structure weights and install-ability. In response to the industry’s preference for less work at height, they have developed schemes thatallow even very high flare structures to be installed in a single lift, meaning no intermediate joints at height. The starburst is a pyrotechnic-based ignition system designed to provide a rapid source of ignition for a cold flare system or to replace the manual shotgun and flare pistol approach to flare ignition.
Bernhard Mohr is a former VP gas detection at Dräger.
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- Industry: Energy, Software, Oil and Gas
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- atmio — atmio helps natural gas operations to find, fix and report methane emissions easily.
John Browne serves as part of the advisory board at Giant Ventures.
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- Industry: Energy, Artificial Intelligence, GPS
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Series A $10M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CuspAI — CuspAI is a revolutionary AI startup that is developing a platform for next-generation materials to address global sustainability and renewable energy concerns. CuspAI uses cutting-edge generative AI, deep learning, and molecular simulation to accelerate the material design process. Their platform works similarly to a search engine for materials,allowing users to request certain properties for new materials on demand.
- Kayrros — Kayrros is the leading advanced data analytics company that helps traders, investors, operators and governments make better decisions.
- Venterra — We engineer, build and support the operation of multiple offshore wind farms through our portfolio of specialist operators providing reliable, high-quality services to the offshore wind industry.
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Spain, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 57
- Round size: Seed $121k–$6.3M; Pre-Seed $650k–$3.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
- SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
Jonathan Oppenheimer
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- Industry: Energy, Oil and Gas
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Finland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Polar Night Energy — Polar Night Energy - Seasonal heat storage in district heating and industrial applications. The energy revolution is here.
Sanne Manders is the President at Flexport .
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- Industry: Grocery, Big Data, Hardware
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: The Netherlands, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Packfleet — We serve millions of Londoners, combining a top-notch delivery service with advanced technology to offer a carbon-neutral delivery experience like no other.
- Spinergie — Unlock Sustainable Energy with Spinergie: Transform operational and maritime data into actionable insights to reduce your carbon footprint and increase efficiency. Start your maritime green journey today!
- Crisp — Crisp is app-only supermarket for ultra-fresh food. The marketplace stocks >2000 products from more than 650 farmers, growers and makers and runs on proprietary software enabling zero-inventory and negative working capital. Order today, is delivered next day in a 1-hour timeslot. Launched in April 2018 in the Netherlands, backed by the largestseed funding in the Benelux in the last 3 years. In 2019 and 2020 Crisp raised follow-on rounds.Crisp is founded by Tom Peeters, Michiel Roodenburg and Eric Klaassen with the mission to make better quality food available to more people.
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