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Top 50 Payments Angel Investors in Europe in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 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 January 2025

Investor	Payments Europe investments
Chris Adelsbach	13
Taavet Hinrikus	10
Charles Delingpole	9
Alexander Edward Chesterman	8
Thibaud Elziere	8
Paul Forster	8
Errol Damelin	7
Mark Ransford	7
Damien Guermonprez	7
Will Neale	7
Sam Enrico Williams	6
Simon Franks	6
Jonathan Weiner	6
Didier Valet	6
Perry Blacher	6
Svetozar Georgiev	5
Luca Ascani	5
Vassil Terziev	5
Matt Robinson	5
Frederic Montagnon	5
Sebastien Borget	5
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	5
Eduardo Ronzano	4
Julien Bouteloup	4
Andreas Mihalovits	4
Thomas France	4
Eric Larchevêque	4
David Rutter	4
Guillaume Lestrade	4
Verena Pausder	4
Nadav Ben-Chanoch	4
Edward Lando	4
Xavier Niel	4
Paul Townsend	3
Eamon Jubbawy	3
Raffael Johnen	3
Edward Gazelle	3
Andrew Mullinger	3
Michael Hock	3
Quentin Nickmans	3
Tom Vorisek	3
Alan Howard	3
Pierre Antoine Dusoulier	3
Daniel Pilotti	3
Maximilian Tayenthal	3
François Derbaix	3
Yoyo Chang	3
Declan Kelly	3
Nicolas Bacca	3
Nicolas Steegmann	3

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Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

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.

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 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.

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.

Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.

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.

Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.

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 — Get set up in 3 minutes. It's free and confidential.
Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.

Paul Forster

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

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.

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

Angel Investor

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 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.

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.

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NFT Metadata Editor — Be the first to claim for whitelist instant access to exclusive airdrop and giveaway drops.
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Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)

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 is the Founder of HumanX. He previously worked at FastPay as a Board Member. Jonathan Weiner attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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

Didier Valet

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.

Perry Blacher is a Partner at Augmentum Fintech.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Bulgaria, United States

Portfolio highlights

Payhawk — Get 100% real-time visibility & control on operational spend and cut manual work by 50% with a spend management platform designed with financial teams in mind.
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

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Payhawk — Get 100% real-time visibility & control on operational spend and cut manual work by 50% with a spend management platform designed with financial teams in mind.
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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

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

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

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 — Keyring equips financial service providers with permissioning tools for compliant transactions on-chain, powered by zero-knowledge privacy. The company operates at the intersection of traditional and blockchain-based finance, serving as an institutional-grade gateway to channel assets, capital, and users on-chain.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
France, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Giza — Streamline blockchain complexity through autonomous agents.
Swaap — We we build & operate onchain trading systems.
Waltio — Waltio is a French cryptocurrency tax assistant. We are on a mission to drive crypto adoption through an easy to use.With automated synchronization to exchanges and wallets, our tax bot computes net asset value / Gain and loss, provide advanced analytics dashboards, tax reporting. Waltio tracks trading and Defi products and variouscrypto-incomes.

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.

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.

Entrepreneur, Investor

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States

Portfolio highlights

Klark — Klark develops AI-based customer service platforms that streamline operations, automate tasks, and provide personalized experiences, enhancing customer satisfaction, driving growth, and staying competitive in the markets.
Crestal — Crestal offers a decentralized platform that meets the objectives of Web3 applications through modular service architecture. The Crestal blockchain monitors and scores services using a Proof of Performance (PoP) consensus process.
Prodia — Easy-to-use Stable Diffusion API for AI-powered image generation at 90% lower cost than AWS. Effortless scale with no infrastructure worries.

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.

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!

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.

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

VALK — Deciphers and streamlines blockchain transactions & DeFi activities, through comprehensive data, actionable insights and easy reporting
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.

Guillaume Lestrade is the co-founder of Meero and Leeto.

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.

Verena Pausder

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.

Nadav Ben-Chanoch

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

SiPay — Sipay is a next-generation financial technology company offering a comprehensive all-in-one financial services platform. It enables B2B, B2C, and Sipay as a Service (Embedded Finance) customers to address all their banking and financial needs without requiring any other partners.
Syntetica — Syntetica is a nylon recycling startup that addresses pollution in the fashion industry by transforming discarded nylon products into high-quality, reusable materials. Their innovative processes help reduce waste, conserve resources, and promote sustainability within the fashion sector.
Unicorn Auctions — Unicorn Auctions offers rare spirits auctions to buyers, sellers, and collectors. They provide ios and android apps in addition to their web bidding platform for digital auctions. To ensure examination of every asset listed, they must take physical possession of their items.

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

Investment focus

Software, 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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Payments, Software, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Hungary

Portfolio highlights

Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
Screenloop — Screenloop is the hiring intelligence platform that allows you to source candidates, analyse interviews, and automate the reference process.
SEON — SEON Fraud Prevention tools help organisations reduce the costs and resources lost to fraud. Spot fake accounts, slash manual reviews and cut chargebacks now.

Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".

Investment focus

FinTech, Payments, Software
Series A, Pre-Seed, Seed
Nigeria, Germany, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
Edukoya — Edukoya builds online education content and offers online tutoring for students and their parents.

Edward Gazelle is the co-founder of Propoly.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, B2C
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Propoly — Choose Propoly for an effortless property transaction. Tenancy progression software that keeps letting agents compliant & reduces admin.
YourWelcome — Use YourWelcome tablets to transact and interact with your guests during their stay. Improve their guest experience and increase your revenue at once.
Fleksy — The Fleksy Software Keyboard Development Kit (SDK) enables companies to overcome the challenge of building a top-notch typing experience on both iOS and Android. Your company can then focus on its area of expertise & value-add for a simple monthly licensing fee.

Andrew is currently focused on a number of projects helping Funding Circle scale globally.As a founder, Andrew has grown Funding Circle from an idea into the largest and fastest growing small business loan marketplace in the world. Andrew helped build out and lead the company’s operations before focusing on risk management. He was responsiblefor ensuring the performance of the first $1.5bn of loans originated globally has great risk adjusted returns for investors before handing over the reins to Jerome, our Global CRO.Since Funding Circle entered the US in 2012, he has split his time between Funding Circle’s San Francisco and London offices.Before founding Funding Circle, Andrew worked at Nomura and Citigroup specializing in regulatory and risk management. He also spent time at Ernst & Young as a consultant where he advised financial institutions, government and regulators on risk management and regulation, including a major UK bank on its SME credit models. Andrew holds a degree in Mathematics from Manchester University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Thirdfort — Automated identity verification and AML compliance for lawyers and property professionals.
tripAbrood — Your Family Adventure Awaits!
Toothfairy — Winner of app of the year, for emergencies, teeth straightening, teeth whitening & prescriptions. Teledentistry and dentist available 24/7. Founded by dentists.

Michael Hock is Partner and Head of Portfolio Management at Motive Ventures, based out of the Berlin office. Michael’s responsibility includes new venture investments, tracking of performance across portfolio companies, as well as value creation and exit strategies for the active portfolio.Prior to joining Motive, Michael co-foundedembedded/capital, a Berlin based early-stage financial technology investment firm, which was acquired by Motive Partners in February 2023, to form the early-stage arm of the Motive Partners platform.Since 2017, Michael was Managing Director at finleap and incharge of steering portfolio growth and professionalizing group operations. Michael led the exits of finleap portfolio companies including the majority acquisition of PAIR Finance by PollenStreet Capital and the sale of Penta to the European market leader Qonto.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Payments, Energy
Seed, Series B, Series A
Germany, South Korea, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Nelly — Nelly provides tool for medical practices that simplifies patient onboarding and payments.
bezahl.de — Bezahl provides digital and automated payment management and solutions.
NX Technologies — NX Technologies develops technologies for the energy sector.

Quentin is a Co-founder of eFounders. He spent his first years working as a strategy Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group and acts on the board of several SaaS ventures

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, United States, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
RockFi — RockFi is a private management company offering wealth management services.
Twin — We are building the AI productivity platform for SMB teams to automate complex and repetitive tasks across, as seamlessly as delegating them to smart interns.

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).

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 gives landlords full control over their property finances. We provide real-time monitoring of all payments, made and received, bookkeeping and property tax statements, all in one place.

Alan Howard is a British billionaire hedge fund manager and co-founder of Brevan Howard Asset Management.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

NVG8 — Navigate is a data ecosystem where people around the world contribute data that is used to build new applications like Navigate Maps.
Atmos Labs — When is a game more than a game? Welcome to Planet Atmos: a universe of next-generation gaming experiences blending action, customization, storytelling, community, and digital ownership.
ScienceMagic.Studios — A digital assets venture studio

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.

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

Daniel Pilotti is the Founder of Your Special Delivery Service and Ryska Posten.

Investment focus

Apps, Retail, Payments
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Sweden, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
Mantle — Welcome to MANTLE - Scandinavian professional skincare elevated by cannabis.
Lace Laboratory — Empowering panties. For women by women.

Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Vitt — Vitt is building a platform that simplifies both fundraising for SaaS founders and creates a new asset class for investors to invest in. A SaaS company that has contracted revenue can apply for financing it upfront — rather than waiting for cash to come in monthly, through Vitt's web application they get the cash upfront.Vitt analyses theirfinancial data and gives them a financing decision in a matter of minutes — not months. No more searching for intros to venture capitalists in your network. It shouldn't be about who you know but what you've built.
Terra One — Terra One engages in the development and operation of large-scale battery storage systems.
Exakt Health — Exakt Health is the physio app for sports injuries. The Exakt Health app guides users through self-diagnosis for frequent sports injuries and then creates an individualized rehabilitation plan.

Francois Derbaix is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Indexa Capital. He previously worked at Toprural as a Founder and CEO. Francois Derbaix attended the Catholic University of Louvain.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Balio — Personal Finance Manager and Investing
Rauda AI — Rauda is an artificial intelligence platform specialized in automating customer service with the best customer experience. Take a quantum leap in productivity, reduce costs and improve customer satisfaction with the power of generative artificial intelligence.
Solfy — Solfy is a Marketplace for self-consumption of solar energy.

Yoyo is a Taiwanese born British entrepreneur who is a co-founder and the current CEO of KodyPay. Yoyo co-founded KodyPay in the final year of High School and successfully raised US$6 million over 2020/21. Hoping to build a career in investment banking, Yoyo had started to invest in the stock market at the age of 13. With returns of over 80%in Q4 2016, he led his school team to first place in a national investment competition. During Yoyo's first year at the University of York, Yoyo self-invested £120,000 of trading profits to build a pilot product for KodyPay.Yoyo has studied at King’s College, University of Cambridge and Langwith College, University of York.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce, Point of Sale
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kody — Businesses of all shapes and sizes can create their own digital experiences using KodyPay.

Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp. Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.
Gradient Labs — Gradient Labs is an AI firm developing an operating system for AI agents to automate manual, repetitive tasks.

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.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France

Portfolio highlights

Zyfi — Zyfi is building the best on-chain user experience by leveraging paymasters and intents, powered by ZKsync
Hylé — Hylé is the modular ZK stack's core layer, providing a secure, decentralized, and censorship-resistant settlement layer for all ZK proofs.
Spiko — Spiko is a tokenization platform that offers to be the supplier of tokenized Money Market Funds.

Co-founder of Replay, by Stupeflix.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

AniML — Doly: Generate outstanding 3D product videos with speed and ease.
Entroview — Entroview is a deep-tech startup specializing in battery software diagnostics.
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.

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