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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Europe in April 2025

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Payments startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Payments companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Europe in April 2025

Investor Payments Europe investments
Chris Adelsbach 13
Taavet Hinrikus 10
Charles Delingpole 9
Paul Forster 8
Thibaud Elziere 8
Mark Ransford 7
Damien Guermonprez 7
Errol Damelin 7
Will Neale 7
Alexander Edward Chesterman 7
Sam Enrico Williams 6
Perry Blacher 6
Didier Valet 6
Simon Franks 6
Jonathan Weiner 6
Matt Robinson 5
Svetozar Georgiev 5
Sebastien Borget 5
Vassil Terziev 5
Frederic Montagnon 5
Luca Ascani 5
Philippe Teixeira da Mota 5
Thomas France 4
Eduardo Ronzano 4
Nicolas Bacca 4
Verena Pausder 4
Xavier Niel 4
Julien Bouteloup 4
Andreas Mihalovits 4
Guillaume Lestrade 4
Nadav Ben-Chanoch 4
Eric Larchevêque 4
Edward Lando 4
Nicolas Louvet 3
Ali Omar 3
Tom Vorisek 3
Nicolas Steegmann 3
Eamon Jubbawy 3
Pierre Antoine Dusoulier 3
Jean-Daniel Guyot 3
Ralf Reichert 3
Pascal Gauthier 3
Alan Morgan 3
Diana zur Löwen 3
Michael Bristow 3
Chris Mairs 3
Mandeep Singh 3
Balaji Srinivasan 3
Paul Townsend 3
David Rutter 3
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Chris Adelsbach Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
  • WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
  • Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Taavet Hinrikus Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
  • Open Cosmos — Open Cosmos design, build and operate space missions, providing straightforward access to high quality satellite data and insights on a global scale.
  • Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.
Charles Delingpole Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processesaround money laundering are. Charles previously worked at The Student Room as a Founder and CEO. He attended the University of Cambridge and The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Juniper — Juniper is a reproductive healthcare insurance provider.
Paul Forster Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Paul Forster
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
  • Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier
Thibaud Elziere Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
  • Candix — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
  • Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
Mark Ransford Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Angel Investor
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Payments
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
  • Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice
  • Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.
Damien Guermonprez Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Payments, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, India, Cameroon
Portfolio highlights
  • Muzzo — Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace.
  • Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
  • CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
Errol Damelin Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
  • 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.
  • OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Will Neale Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Italy, Japan
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.
Alexander Edward Chesterman Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
  • Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
Sam Enrico Williams Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr. Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
  • Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
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Perry Blacher Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, France, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
  • Hero — Hero is a B2B payments and financing platform, offer direct online payment experience and receive your money immediately.
  • Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
Didier Valet Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Didier Valet
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, Luxembourg, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
  • OMAJ — Second-hand fashion platform for sellers and buyers
  • Little John — Little John creates a platform using generative AI to empower insurance brokers.
Simon Franks Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Payments, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
  • Oto Health — Take back control of your tinnitus with Oto, the app built by doctors that teaches you how to stop noticing the ringing using clinically proven techniques. Includes CBT, targeted mindfulness, and relaxation. 86% users experience benefits after just 1 month.
  • Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
Jonathan Weiner Angel · New York, New York, United States
Jonathan Weiner is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Payments
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Vendelux — AI-Powered Event Intelligence Platform with speaker, sponsor and attendee data covering over 200,000 trade shows and conferences
  • Ledge — Automate your finance operations with Ledge and gain full payments visibility, automated reconciliation, and a single source of payments truth. Say goodbye to manual work and financial data chaos. Get started in minutes, integrate with your existing payments stack, and focus on strategic tasks with confidence.
  • OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Matt Robinson Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Malga — Malga is an online payment platform that offers fraud protection and payment split services.
  • Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
  • Feather — Feather gives you insurance advice for expats in Germany. Our digital insurance agent will help you get the right insurance policies for your need.
Svetozar Georgiev Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
Svetozar Georgiev is the Chairman of the Board at BESCO. He attended American University in Bulgaria, Truman State University, and Technology School Electronic Systems (TUES), both associated with Technical University-Sofia.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, Bulgaria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Payhawk — Payhawk is a spending software that simplifies expenses, payments, and card spending for growing businesses. The company's platform enables financial officers and business owners to manage the entire spending lifecycle end-to-end. It collects and analyzes receipts, invoices, and card transactions to help stay in control of the budget with nopaperwork for the employees. With its paperless corporate card linked to an automated expense management, Payhawk provides a product on top of existing banks.Payhawk was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.
  • Reloyalty — We turn every bank card in Europe into a loyalty card. Reloyalty is a fully automated and personalised loyalty platform on top of card payments leveraging Open Banking / PSD2. We enable users to connect existing bank cards to Reloyalty and unlock 10-50% in reward value from their every day shopping. Participating retailers and banks can getaccess to data about their most valuable customers based on purchasing patterns and launch loyalty campaigns with measurable ROI.Reloyalty was founded with the goal of helping businesses identify their most passionate customers and helping those people get treated as such. They believe that the their relationship with the places where they shop, eat and meet with people are more than transactional.
  • Icanpreneur — The first Accelerator-as-a-Software that guides tech entrepreneurs from idea to product/market fit without relying on luck
Sebastien Borget Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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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.
  • Pacific Meta — Pacific Meta is a tech startup that creates a web3 platform with the goal of offering guidance to businesses using blockchain technology. The firm platform aids in the product's localization for the Japanese market and offers community management services, enabling businesses to promote themselves on social media platforms and work withinfluencers in the cryptocurrency space.
  • Alliance Games — Decentralized gaming platform blending AI creation, multiplayer tech, and worker nodes.
Vassil Terziev Angel · Sofia, Grad Sofiya, Bulgaria
Vassil is responsible for overseeing Telerik’s strategic direction and enabling its rapid growth as a global provider of enterprise-class software and services. As a co-founder of Telerik, Vassil was instrumental in growing the sales, support and business development units of the company and establishing the fanatical dedication to customerservice. Vassil’s vision and dedication has helped Telerik keep its slogan to “Deliver more than expected” and enjoy a solid track record of growing revenues and profitability in the ever changing developer tools marketplace.Vassil earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration at the American University in Bulgaria and has served in various roles in companies from real estate, investment and high-tech industries.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Payhawk — Payhawk is a spending software that simplifies expenses, payments, and card spending for growing businesses. The company's platform enables financial officers and business owners to manage the entire spending lifecycle end-to-end. It collects and analyzes receipts, invoices, and card transactions to help stay in control of the budget with nopaperwork for the employees. With its paperless corporate card linked to an automated expense management, Payhawk provides a product on top of existing banks.Payhawk was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.
  • Reloyalty — We turn every bank card in Europe into a loyalty card. Reloyalty is a fully automated and personalised loyalty platform on top of card payments leveraging Open Banking / PSD2. We enable users to connect existing bank cards to Reloyalty and unlock 10-50% in reward value from their every day shopping. Participating retailers and banks can getaccess to data about their most valuable customers based on purchasing patterns and launch loyalty campaigns with measurable ROI.Reloyalty was founded with the goal of helping businesses identify their most passionate customers and helping those people get treated as such. They believe that the their relationship with the places where they shop, eat and meet with people are more than transactional.
  • UPPER — Upper enables start-ups, businesses, and organizations to find and hire quality tech talent to work full-time, part-time, or hourly
Frederic Montagnon Angel · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Entrepreneur and investor with 20 years experience, Frédéric has founded, ran and exited 4 companies for a total value of more than USD 400 million. He has been involved in the field of cryptocurrency as an investor since 2013.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Blockchain, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Dfns — Supercharge your platform with keyless custody as a service. One API to generate secure wallets, manage your crypto, sign transactions, set up business rules, monitor security, and more.
  • Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
  • Bolero — Access high-value music assets, and earn recurring yield. Simple, fast, the all-in-one platform.
Luca Ascani Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy
Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
  • Jet HR — Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc).
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
Philippe Teixeira da Mota Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
  • Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
  • Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.
Thomas France Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Entrepreneur, Investor
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
  • Reppo Labs — Blockchain Network that connect Data Owners with AI Developers and AI agents through Programmable IP Co-ownership
  • Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.
Eduardo Ronzano Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
  • Frak Labs — Manage your unified web identity, earn rewards, and interact seamlessly with partner websites using our passkey-first blockchain smart wallet.
  • Poolside — The best code you never wrote.
Nicolas Bacca Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Nicolas Bacca is a Computer Science Engineer specialized in smartcard technologies, fascinated about efficient coding. After 5 years at Oberthur Technologies developping mobile solutions and as head of the “Cards & solutions Innovation” team, he founded Simulity of which he was CTO and lead architect, and then Ubinity of which he is CEO. He hasbeen developing there many projects and solutions, including OS for smartcards, and software & hardware “Secure Element” solutions. Then he has created BTChip, first smartcard based security solution dedicated to Bitcoin, and has co-founded the Ledger startup, initiating the World most secure Bitcoin hardware wallet.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.
  • Keplr — Introducing the first, and leading, IBC-enabled wallet for Cosmos and beyond
  • Byzantine Finance — Stake assets, secure other services, and earn more. Restake now with Byzantine Finance to become part of DeFi's next generation. Building the most secure and profitable future for staking.
Verena Pausder Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Verena Pausder
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, E-Learning, Education
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • KARRI — KARRI is a data and GPS enabled, screen-free device for easy communication between you and your kids. A KARRI for your child and a smartphone app for you - it's as simple as that.
  • cleverly.de — cleverly.de is an onlineplatform which provides online coaching and tutorial classes.
  • Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
Xavier Niel Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cube — 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.
Julien Bouteloup Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Julien Bouteloup is a Founder and CEO at Stake Capital Group. Julien previously worked at The British Blockchain Association as a Information Technology Advisor.Julien Bouteloup is a serial entrepreneur and inventor addicted to crazy innovative ideas. He has started his entrepreneurial career building websites and selling hardware technologies atage 14. He holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from Union Graduate College (USA) and a Master's degree in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from GEM (France), specializing in Artificial Intelligence.He started working in the research sector in USA and then went back to Europe where he started freelancing full-time and consulting in the IT sector for Security & Defence. After 2 years, he quit his freelance position to become a full-time entrepreneur and left to Asia. He has helped and started multiple tech startups in different locations: NYC, Paris, London, Hong-Kong, Brussels and Singapore.In 2017, he founded the Flyingcarpet Network.
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Investment focus
  • Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • France, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Giza — Streamline blockchain complexity through autonomous agents.
  • Waltio — Your Crypto Tax Return.In one Click.Centralize all your cryptocurrency transactions. Declare and reduce your crypto tax amount.
  • Usual — Usual Labs operates as a decentralized finance(DeFi) protocol.
Andreas Mihalovits Angel · Marbella, Andalucia, Spain · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Dost — Dost automates the process of incoming supplier invoices to help CFOs and Finance Managers of mid-size and large companies with a high volume of invoices to improve efficiency, accuracy in data entry and reduce time when processing incoming invoices by leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and intelligent process automation (IPA).
  • CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
  • GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.
Guillaume Lestrade Angel
Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France, United States, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Cryptr — DEFAULT : Get features like SSO to convert more B2B customers, regardless of their auth provider. Just a few lines of code to start working with enterprise clients.
  • Abyssale — Abyssale is a banner creation platform enabling you to generate stunning social media & online advertising for your brand.
  • Klub — Klub operates as a private wealth and private services platform.
Nadav Ben-Chanoch Angel · Miami, Florida, United States
Nadav Ben-Chanoch
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
  • micro1 — We help companies hire and manage the best software engineers easily.
  • TRIVER — Triver develops online and digital tools to assist and support various financial services. It is based in London, England.
  • Skedway — The optimization hub for the Modern Enterprise - Visualize, integrate and manage every shared company asset in one place.
Eric Larchevêque Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Serial experienced entrepreneur, Eric Larchevêque developped several French and European projects, including the Montorgueil Group, sold to Rentabiliweb in 2007, and Prixing, a mobile price comparator bought by HighCo in 2013. Passionate about Bitcoin and the high potential of distributed consensus technologies, he founds la Maison du Bitcoin, aParisian place for for startups working on implementation of Bitcoin technology, and first physical purchase counter of bitcoins in Europe. He’s currently CEO of Ledger, a startup addressing end user security on distributed consensus technologies such as Bitcoin.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Bitcoin, Blockchain
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Closd — CLOSD is a legal transaction management platform created by former business lawyers. It brings together lawyers and parties in a safe space, facilitates and ensures document exchange, simplifies project organization and management with interactive check lists, automates signings and closures with electronic signatures in a secure interface toauthenticate the signatures, and creates archives on transactions once they are closed.
  • Coinhouse — Buy Bitcoin, Ethereum and Litecoin on Coinhouse, consult our educational content or visit our physical space, Coinhouse Store. Invest in the future, today.
  • Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
Edward Lando Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 16 investments in the past 12 months
Edward Lando is the founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a co-founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, France, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Volta — Our mission is to empower brands, wholesalers, and distributors with the tools and support to thrive in today's digital economy.
  • Swish Robotics — Embodied Intelligence for the Home
  • Workflow — A minimalist collaboration platform for creative teams. Manage tasks, get AI reviews, and share work, all in one place.
Nicolas Louvet Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
CEO of Coinhouse, a Paris-based Blockchain startup and a seasoned Venture Capital investor (Sofinnova, Serena Capital, Société Générale Private Equity and Ecomobilité Venture). Founder of Keya Capital, a consulting company which advises large Corporate in their CVC and Corporate Innovation activities.As a Partner in VC fund, he invested in -Dataiku (colead, Series A) - FinalCad (lead, Series A) - Lengow (lead, Series B) - Ouicar (sold to SNCF) (lead, Seed and Series A), - Solutions30 (IPO), (lead, Series B) - TR Com (sold to Bull) (colead, Seed) - Sensitive Objects (sold to Tyco Electronics) (lead, Seed and Series A, B) - and 15+ other companies... He has also personally invested in several companies : Ledger (seed, Series), Assoconnect (Seed), Zeenea (Seed), Atria Gestion (seed) Skills: - Entrepreneurship, company management, business development - Venture Capital investment (seed to growth capital) in Tech sectors (software, AI, tech, smart cities, telecom, retail) in Europe - Fund management and creation - Corporate Finance (fund raising, build up, merger, acquisition) - Corporate Strategy (business model, growth strategic plan, competitive positioning)
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Analytics
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • France, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Zeenea — Zeenea is a cloud-native SaaS solution that democratizes data access and accelerates all your data-driven business initiatives.
  • Ledger — Secure your crypto assets such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP, Monero, and more. Give yourself peace of mind by knowing that your cryptocurrencies are safe
  • AssoConnect — AssoConnect is an online tools platform that meets all the needs of volunteers and community leaders. The complete management of an association is time consuming and tedious. Some tasks - accounting, membership management, payment tracking, grant applications - require hundreds of hours of work per year. Less time for associative projects.itrepresents the digital revolution applied to the voluntary sector. Through this platform, associations have more time to devote to projects and have a complete, simple and intuitive tool to carry out all their associative activities over the long term.
Ali Omar Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Finland, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
  • Themo — Themo's innovation is an algorithm that optimizes the price of exchange electricity and the consumption of electricity. Themo offers an easy and environmentally friendly way to save on electricity consumed by heating.
  • GoalProfit — GoalProfit is the world’s first low code retail optimization platform empowering retailers to build customized intelligence applications. It was founded by former IBM executives, Maxim Morozov and Oleg Sidorkin. GoalProfit is on a mission to make big data solutions available for all retailers and help them to survive in a new post-covid reality.
  • Builderhead — Builderhead is an easy-to-use construction management software that helps owners, developers and general contractors complete construction projects on time and within budget.
Tom Vorisek Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Founder Esalen Ventures, LLC which has made more than 75 private/angel investments from pre-seed to mezzanine stages and is an LP in 8 PE Funds. Tom is also an International Fine Art Dealer with a focus on paintings of 20th century American, European and Asian artists.Prior to his current roles, Tom was an experienced executive with over 20years in cross-disciplined leadership roles in Advertising-General, Digital and Mobile, Ad Tech, Emerging Media, Technology and Early Stage Venture. Co-Founder FCB Sports Marketing, FCB/SF, IDG, Flycast (IPO), McGrath Rentcorp (IPO) and Ad Infuse (acq by Velti).
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, FinTech, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series B, Series A
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Wave Sports + Entertainment — Wave Sports + Entertainment is a media company building brands, original content, talent, and products for the next generation of digital super fans.
  • Quiver — Quiver is a retail tech company that delivers e-commerce orders. Quiver was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in London.
  • Hammock — Hammock is the first landlord software recognised by HMRC for Making tax Digital. We provide real-time monitoring of rental income and expenses, bookkeeping and property tax statements, compatible with MTD for IT, all in one place.
Nicolas Steegmann Angel · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • AniML — Generate outstanding 3D product videos with speed and ease.
  • Entroview — Entroview delivers innovative solutions for gigafactories, automotive, and recycling, using entropy-based diagnostics to optimize battery performance.
  • Pimento — Pimento is the web app where creative teams collaborate with AI to get their best ideas. Craft your custom AI models and securely generate unique images and text, using your own references.
Eamon Jubbawy Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Eamon Jubbawy is the co-founder of Onfido. In 2016, Eamon was named as one of Forbes' ‘30 Under 30’, and as the Digital Entrepreneur Awards' 'Young Digital Entrepreneur of the Year'. Eamon is Deputy Chair of Tech Nation's Fintech Delivery Panel.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Software, Apps
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Hungary
Portfolio highlights
  • Neverless — Securely buy Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and other cryptocurrencies with zero fees. Earn high yield on USDT, USDC and USDP.
  • Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
  • Volter — Volter software offers a comprehensive solution for commercial and industrial property owners to deploy, manage, and improve solar assets.
Pierre Antoine Dusoulier Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier is the CEO of iBanFirst. He previously worked at Saxo Bank as a Head of Western Europe. Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier attended the University of Westminster.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Bastion — Bastion is a cloud-based cyber security platform that is built to scale with security, compliance, insurance, and risk management needs.
  • Roundtable — The community-led platform for private market investments. Create or join a community to co-invest in premium start-ups and funds, seamlessly.
  • FREELAND FOR CORPORATES — Corporate Online Schoo
Jean-Daniel Guyot Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Jean-Daniel Guyot is the CEO and Co-founder of Memo Bank.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Agricool — Agricool has been created in 2015 by Guillaume Fourdinier and Gonzague Gru with the purpose of making local, tasty and pesticide-free fruits and vegetables available to all. To do so, Agricool is recycling shipping containers into urban farms, transforming into a small paradise for fruits and vegetables (lighting, air quality, irrigation, etc.).The technology developed enables the farms to be 120 times more productive than in conventional farming, to save more than 90% of water and to be run entirely on renewable energies. Today, the company grows strawberries in Paris and Dubai, but tomorrow, the ambition is to help feed the world with all types of fruits and vegetables and be part of the urban farming movement.
  • Hexa — eFounders partners with talented co-founders to build the future of product-led SaaS.
  • Spot — Spot makes crypto easy & safe. A wallet for NFTs, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana & Tezos. Connect to OpenSea, Uniswap & all of DeFi with WalletConnect. Earn interests on Tezos and Solana. Begin or enhance your cryptocurrency experience with a forward-thinking wallet, a beautiful user interface and innovative features. Powerful, yet easy to use!
Ralf Reichert Angel · Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.
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Investment focus
  • Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, United States, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
  • Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
  • Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
Pascal Gauthier Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Pascal Gauthier is a Chairman and CEO at Ledger.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
  • Runes DEX — Runes DEX is the automated market maker for runes on the Bitcoin blockchain. Its platform allows users to create and trade meme-based tokens while also providing novel liquidity solutions and farming rewards.
  • Original — Original is the #1 Digital Collectibles Platform empowering game studios and developers create entertaining experiences by integrating collectibles for games easily.
Alan Morgan Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Alan co-founded MMC Ventures in 2000. As an active business angel investor he saw the opportunity for a more structured strategic and due diligence approach to venture investing. Alan is a member of the Investment Committee and leads MMC's financial services focus. He has lead responsibility for Small World.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • United Kingdom, Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 9fin — 9fin is a leading provider of debt market intelligence and offers everything you need to analyse a credit, or win a mandate in one AI-powered platform
  • Connectd — Online platform underpinned by smart matching technology directly connecting the UK’s leading Founders, Investors & NAMs.
  • Froots — Froots.io is an online wealth manager that helps people to afford things that are considered for the lucky few. Whether one aspires an early retirement or a top education for their children, froots helps them to achieve their long-term financial objectives by tailoring a goal based .
Diana zur Löwen Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Diana zur Löwen
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, EdTech
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Debt Financing
  • Germany, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Nelly — Nelly provides tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments.
  • Junto — Elevate your business performance with impactful leadership training. Junto's leadership development programs equip your people with the skills and behaviours to thrive.
  • Calvin Risk — We help companies manage the risks of their AI algorithms!
Michael Bristow Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Michael Bristow is the CEO & Co-Founder of CP Capital. He previously worked at Peer-to-Peer Finance Association as a Board Member. Michael Bristow attended London Business School.
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Investment focus
  • Real Estate, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, Belgium, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • RENTUU — Rentuu has been featured for the last 3 years in a row in the UK's Top 100 UK Start-Ups List, and operates a global, fast-growing, cloud-based technology platform and franchise network for the multi-billion pound sterling equipment hire industry. We’re a venture capital backed technology start-up backed by Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou (founder ofeasyJet) and other institutional investors with the exclusive rights to the easyHire brand in a number of countries, including the UK, EU, Switzerland, South Africa, and Dubai to facilitate equipment rental for construction and party equipment.
  • Howsy — Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants. Howsy. A new concept designed to shake up the way of renting works for good. Its on a mission to create a simple, intuitive and fairly priced experience that’s powered by new ideas and brilliant technology.
  • CrowdProperty — CrowdProperty is a specialist property project lending platform used to facilitate short-term loans. It is a profitable fintech lending innovator that matches demand that property professionals undertaking property projects and supply that is retail investors of capital for value-creating property projects that enable clients to get a better dealfor the borrowers, lenders, the under-supplied housing environment, and increased spend in the economy.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Edgbaston, Birmingham.
Chris Mairs Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneur First
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • VitVio — VitVio is a platform built around AI and computer vision with the goal of improving efficiency and quality of care in operating rooms.
  • Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice
  • Borderless — Borderless is a workforce migration platform.It offers automation solutions that focuses on all aspects of hiring and onboarding of foreign workers, including recruitment, immigration, relocation, and compliance.
Mandeep Singh Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Prior Labs — Prior Labs is developing innovative foundation models that understand spreadsheets and databases.
  • Bluebook — self-driving accounting
Balaji Srinivasan Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 31 investments in the past 12 months
Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
  • The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
  • OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.
Paul Townsend Angel · Bromley, Bromley, United Kingdom
Co-founder of Envoy (sold to WorldPay).Paul has over 20 years’ experience in mainstream banking with Warburgs and Bank of New York, plus 15 years in electronic payments with Earthport plc, Neteller, Envoy and Worldpay. Before co-founding Vitesse, Paul was Founder and COO of Envoy Services Ltd. He is also an angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • Payments, Financial Services, Banking
  • Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Curve — Curve is a banking platform that consolidates cards and accounts into one smart card and app.It allows customers to supercharge their legacy banks to the 21st century without leaving their bank or topping-up. Curve offers a host of benefits to its customers; it makes cards fee-free when spending abroad, get instant notifications andcategorization of spend, earn an instant 1% cashback at the likes of Amazon, Uber, Netflix and Sainsbury’s and Time Travel enables customers to swap spend to a different card in the app for up to two weeks after the purchase was made. Curve also offers Curve Customer Protection, a policy that covers all credit and debit card payments made via the Curve card up to £100,000, giving cardholders an extra layer of protection for disputes with merchants and any unauthorised use of their Curve card. IDC Ventures backs Curve with Fuel Venture Capital, Vulcan Capital, OneMain Financial, and Novum Capital backs Curve.Shachar Bialick, Anna Mostyn Williams, and Tom Foster-Carter established the company in London, England in 2015.
  • Griffin — Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England.
  • Veridu — Veridu provides Identity solutions for a global internet economy.Veridu brings trust to online business with services to quickly, reliably and efficiently verify the identity of users globally in order to eliminate fraud and unwanted behavior. Online business wants to be global. Any transaction hinges on identity and current identitysolutions are standing in the way. Veridu is changing that with comprehensive global ID solutions.
David Rutter Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
David founded R3 in 2015 and in his role of Chief Executive Officer is responsible for the strategic direction of R3.With over 30 years of experience leading some of Wall Street’s top institutions, David is a longtime creative thought leader in financial markets and innovation, and has played a significant role in the adoption of electronictrading in the global OTC derivatives industry.David served for ten years as the CEO of Electronic Broking at ICAP Plc, the world’s largest interdealer broker, where he led the BrokerTec fixed income and EBS foreign exchange platforms. Prior to ICAP, David was co-owner and CEO (Americas) of Prebon Yamane.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Blockchain, Information Technology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • VALK — Omni-chain data & Analytics layer
  • Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
  • Aerotrax — The Next Generation of Aircraft Maintenance Software. Aerotrax is an enterprise software company focused on digitally tracking the lifecycle of every aircraft, part, and component.
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