Top 5 Oil and Gas Angel Investors in Europe in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Oil and gas startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Oil and gas companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 Oil and Gas Angel Investors in Europe in February 2025

Investor	Oil and Gas Europe investments
Sanne Manders	1
John Browne	1
Barry Downes	1
Will Neale	1
Alexander Edward Chesterman	1

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Sanne Manders is the President at Flexport .

Investment focus

Grocery, Big Data, Hardware
Seed, Series A, Series C
The Netherlands, France, United Kingdom

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.
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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.

John Browne serves as part of the advisory board at Giant Ventures.

Investment focus

GPS, Energy, Big Data
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Kayrros — Kayrros is the leading advanced data analytics company that helps traders, investors, operators and governments make better decisions.

Barry Downes is an experienced technology investor, entrepreneur and technologist with extensive domain experience in Artificial Intelligence, Security Technologies and Immersive Technologies. Barry is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Sure Valley Ventures, which he founded in 2017. He is a software founder turned investor, having founded severaltechnology businesses throughout his career, including FeedHenry, a leader in mobile cloud technologies, which was sold to Red Hat/ IBM in 2014. Previously, Barry was CEO of the leading academic software research and futurist institute, the Walton Institute, which worked with many of the top Silicon Valley and European global software companies on advanced technology research and futurist projects. He is also an advisor to the European Commission’s European Innovation Council, which is focused on developing Europe’s next unicorns with an allocated budget of over €1 billion.Barry holds a BSc in Applied Computing from Waterford Institute of Technology, an MBA from Smurfit Business School, University College Dublin and executive qualifications from Henley Business School in the UK, Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkley, in Venture Capital. He is also a Certified Investment Fund Director (CIFD), awarded by the Institute of Banking (IOB) and is registered with the FCA.