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Top 50 Photography Angel Investors in Europe in November 2024

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

Top 50 Photography Angel Investors in Europe in November 2024

Investor Photography Europe investments
Jeremy Yap 3
Joachim Bernecker 3
Friedrich Georg Hoepfner 3
Thibaud Elziere 2
Florian Heinemann 2
Max Jennings 2
Chris Bouwer 2
Christian Vollmann 2
Jonathan Beddoes 2
Alexander Ljung 1
Jeroen Seghers 1
Jeff Zucker 1
Sercan Alici 1
Louis Pfitzner 1
Jørgen Bardenfleth 1
Markus Kern 1
Anthony Eskinazi 1
Sabba Keynejad 1
Carl Silbersky 1
Emilia Poret 1
Magnus Kjoller 1
Eduardo Ronzano 1
David Soskin 1
Pascal Cagni 1
Andreas Burike 1
Des Traynor 1
Duncan Jennings 1
Tom Hulme 1
Andy McLoughlin 1
Richard Fearn 1
Christophe Maire 1
Oskar Hartmann 1
Chris Mairs 1
Jeff Bezos 1
Jiong Ma 1
Dr. Cornelius Boersch 1
Cédric Delorme 1
Lorenz Bogaert 1
Xavier Court 1
Niklas Ostberg 1
Jordan Rednor 1
Gerard Pique 1
Vincent Rosso 1
Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss 1
David Heinemeier Hansson 1
Robin Knox 1
Gary Vaynerchuk 1
Kirill Makharinsky 1
Klaas Kersting 1
Chris Burke 1
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Jeremy Yap Angel · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Paebbl — Captured carbon re-stored into raw materials. We put CO2 to good, permanent use in carbon-negative minerals through the process of CO2 mineralisation.
  • Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
  • Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future
Joachim Bernecker Angel
Joachim Bernecker
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Reposito — Reposito is develops smart phone applications for digitization, storage, and on-line management of receipts.
  • MoBerries — MoBerries is a network that connects companies and professionals. MoBerries mission is to revolutionize the old fashioned recruitment processes, offering networking software with a unique real-time matching algorithm, tailored to both professionals as well as partners.The system enables employers to expand their reach when sourcing high-qualitycandidate leads for their job openings without wasting precious time and resources. The added value for professionals is that MoBerries provides them qualified leads for potentially matching positions.
  • GotPhoto / fotograf.de — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.
Friedrich Georg Hoepfner Angel · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Friedrich Georg Hoepfner - Managing Director @ Hoepfner Brau
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Video
  • Seed
  • Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
  • Kamedi — Kamedi is going to provide users a device for the hyperthermic treatment of irritated skin after insect bites, the heat_it.
  • GotPhoto / fotograf.de — fotograf.de/GotPhoto provides photographers a SaaS system for selling photos online.
  • HQS Quantum Simulations — HQS Quantum Simulations is developing quantum algorithms to predict molecular properties for performance materials, specialty chemicals and pharmaceutical companies.The development of specialty chemicals, performance materials, agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals is an iterative, time-consuming and often very expensive process: Designing productsbased on functional molecules, formulations or solid-state compounds requires many – often hundreds – subsequent synthesis, formulation and testing steps to yield the desired specifications. Simulations are a powerful tool to decrease the time-to-market and decrease cost for R&D and product development cycles, but can’t be used in an efficient way in many cases or is simply not advanced enough to tackle certain problems. Shifting from conventional to quantum computers promises to overcome these hurdles, but is not yet available for the chemical and pharmaceutical industry.
Thibaud Elziere Angel · Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium · 14 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 — 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.
Florian Heinemann Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation).
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Germany, Brazil, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
  • itravel — itravel allows leisure travelers to configure and book experiences, hotels, and transportation on tablets, the web, and in social media. itravel offers the client tools to select and “build” custom trips based on desired experiences (such as kitesurfing, elephant rides, special spa treatments), specific room configurations, and personalpreferences. itravel’s app interfaces allow these selections to happen effortlessly and with appealing content.
  • Unicorn Workspaces — Unicorn offers work solutions for teams of all sizes with flexible terms and independent of high market rental prices. It is a fast-growing shared office provider, with 21 workspaces in Berlin, Potsdam, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, and LisbonTheir vision of “Workspace as a Service” is reflected in their all-inclusive offer, and support fromcommunity baristas. They combine their coffee expertise and community manager knowledge to provide seamless work experience. With their friendly attitude and eagerness to help, members and visitors will receive good advice and assistance.Each of their workspaces is equipped with a modern café, where they offer organic direct trade coffee and hot beverages for all of their members and guests. They also offer a small selection of cold drinks, salads, and desserts. The café functions as a central meeting point for their community.
  • CODE University of Applied Sciences — CODE is private state-recognized university of applied sciences located in Berlin. Our mission is to empower, educate, and unite innovative the next generations of technology leaders and entrepreneurs.
Max Jennings Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Max Jennings is the Co-Founder at Console.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Marketplace, Photography
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Picfair — A new standard for online images. Upload your pics, name your price - an open-to-all image licensing marketplace. Picfair has thousands of images uploaded by photographers in 44 countries around the world, all available to license within a few clicks.
  • Console — A free weekly email digest of the best tools for developers.
Chris Bouwer Angel
Chris Bouwer
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Apps, Photography
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Spain, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • BIYU — BIYU offers rental equipment services for gardening, party, cleaning, and the kitchen.
  • Agora Awards — AGORA images is the market of images without intermediaries where you can make money with your photos.
  • Modelmanagement.com — Model Management connects new faces and models with scouts, international modeling agencies and model photographers.
Christian Vollmann Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Germany, Ireland, Indonesia
Portfolio highlights
  • autarc — We supercharge installers with our OS to become heat pump champions
  • NeoCarbon — NeoCarbon reverses climate change by dramatically cutting costs of Direct Air Capture leveraging cooling towers around Europe. By retrofitting existing infrastructure without impacting their original function, the time and cost needed to set up a carbon capturing system is improved by up to 10x.
  • Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
Jonathan Beddoes Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Jonathan began his entrepreneurial career at school aged 17 when he founded a web-hosting company which sold within its first year of trading. After developing an early taste of business success, whilst at university Jonathan co-developed a popular music software application that was downloaded by over 30,000,000 people. For his post-graduatestudies, Jonathan was the youngest person ever to complete a Masterclass in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Following academia, Jonathan joined Zugo in 2008 (a leading search solutions platform and aggregator) that became a cornerstone of distribution for major search engines (most notably Microsoft Bing). In late 2012, Jonathan exited from Zugo and subsequently co-founded Techtopia, a technology incubator located in the heart of 'silicon village' in North West London. Today, Jonathan remains a director of Techtopia, a product visionary, angel investor and an ambassador for the Internet industry.
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Investment focus
  • Photography, Film, Video
  • Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Twine — Build a more diverse team of freelancers to beat your competition. Hire vetted freelancers from Twine's global network to help you scale your business.
  • Lifecake — Canon Europe, leading provider of digital cameras, digital SLR cameras, inkjet printers & professional printers for business and home users.
  • Socialite
Alexander Ljung Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Alexander Ljung is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Dance. He co-founded SoundCloud Limited in 2007 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director. Alexander Ljung serves at interactive installations. He has a background as a post-production sound designer and motion film music producer. He holds an M.Sc. degree within MediaTechnology from The Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and also studied Marketing & Business Development at the Stockholm School of Economics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Sweden, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Lottie — Lottie's mission is to change the way young kids experience technology and to bring peace of mind to parents, by building a magical experience that the whole family can love.
  • Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.
  • Stockeld Dreamery — We set off with a first vision: to create a cheese that is superior in taste and nutrition, constantly striving to use our planet’s resources wisely, accessible to all yet one of the top preferred cheeses by chefs and restaurants. Simply put, the world’s most ambitious cheese.
Jeroen Seghers Angel · New York, New York, United States
From the age of 15, Jeroen has co-founded over a dozen companies which released various products reaching over 100 million users around the globe. He was heavily involved with the product development and marketing of Zugo, Wyzo and a leading file-sharing client.Jeroen obtained his BCS from Hogeschool Gent, specializing in software engineering,followed by a Master Class in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School.When not flying from one continent to the next, he can be found in London where he serves as a director of TechTopia Ltd and chairman of FACEIT Ltd.Jeroen is also an active investor and sits on the board of various startups around the globe.Constantly on the look-out for new projects and building innovative marketing strategies.
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Investment focus
  • Video, Gaming, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
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  • Upcomer — Upcomer is your one-stop location for esports and gaming news, features, guides, opinions, and walkthroughs.
Jeff Zucker Angel · Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Zucker is the former president and CEO of NBC Universal. He spent more than two decades at NBC, assuming the top position in February 2007. He headed up the $16 billion global media and entertainment content company, which includes the NBC broadcast network, its news division and all of its cable entities, including MSNBC, CNBC, USA, Bravo, Oxygenand Syfy.Earlier, he had been president of the NBC Universal Television Group from May 2004, rising to chief executive officer of the NBC Universal Television Group in December 2005. Prior to that, he was president of the Entertainment, News & Cable Group since December 2003, and president of NBC Entertainment since December 2000.Zucker’s meteoric ascent at NBC began during his nearly eight-year tenure as the executive producer of NBC News’ Today. Under his leadership, the morning show propelled to the No. 1 position, which it consistently held throughout his term.Zucker was named executive producer of Today in January 1992 at age 26, which made him the youngest executive producer in the program’s history. Concurrent with his role at Today, he served as executive producer of NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokaw in February and March 1993.Zucker joined NBC in 1986 as a researcher for NBC Sports’ coverage of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea. From 1986 to 1988, he traveled the world, compiling and writing background information for NBC Sports commentators and producers. In January 1989, he joined NBC News as a field producer for Today.Prior to joining CNN, Zucker co-created and executive produced "Katie," the syndicated daytime show starring Katie Couric.A five-time Emmy Award winner, Zucker graduated from Harvard College in 1986 with a bachelor's degree in American history. He served as president of The Harvard Crimson from 1985 to 1986.Born and raised in Miami, Zucker and his wife have four children and reside in New York.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Software, Messaging
  • Seed
  • Poland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Minbox — All of Minbox is real-time, including comments. Engage others in conversation on a file or in a project. Or click on an image to leave an annotation. Simply type the @ symbol and a menu will appear to mention any of your team members. Draw their attention to something specific anywhere in the app.
  • Foap AB — We help brands scale their visual content efforts with a diverse community of 3 million photographers & videographers from all over the world to increase the RO
Sercan Alici Angel
Sercan Alici
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Investment focus
  • Pet, Hospitality, Photography
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Turkey, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • DogGO — DogGO is a pet service app that uses a mobile application to offer safe and professional dog walking and grooming services to dog owners. It also offers its users a detailed profile of their pets, as well as an easy service request and tracking feature, smart and suitable matching, and 24/7 customer service to support all of their pet'sneeds. Their application has over 150,000 users and tens of thousands of pet profiles. Furthermore, by entering into agreements with corporate companies for their employees or users, they ensure that all pet families have access to DogGO when they need it.
  • Albumera — Stunning, convenient 30 minute photo shoots by talented local pros. Your session is complimentary - you only pay for the photos you love!
  • Missafir — Missafir is a PropTech start-up in Istanbul. We are the first short/mid term home rental management company in Turkey!We deliver for our customers through a combination of thoughtful interior design and attentive hotel-style services that deliver superior earnings from short/mid term rental management through our strength in data-drivendynamic pricing solutions.
Louis Pfitzner Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Co-CEO at CleanHub, entrepreneur (Salonmeister / Treatwell, CAYA, Delivery Hero) and Angel Investor. Passionate about company building (marketplace and SaaS), especially when it's in the SMB space.
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Investment focus
  • Marketplace, Photography, E-Commerce Platforms
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Greece, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Enter — baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structuresto streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.baupal was established in December, 2020 in Berlin, Germany.
  • METYCLE — The B2B marketplace for global scrap metal trading. We give the world access to scrap metal.
  • Wikifarmer — A free online knowledge library where professional or amateur farmers can find best practices on growing their fields more effectively and an online marketplace where farmers can sell their products to buyers directly. Our vision is to create a fair, transparent and profitable environment for all the farming world. Farmers are dedicating theirlives in cultivating their fields, but get the lowest value of all the sales cycle, so we believe they need to receive a more fair share. Buyers have the right to have more options and buy at better prices, so we want to be the ones to solve this inequality in both sides.
Jørgen Bardenfleth Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
Jørgen Bardenfleth is Board Member at Nordic Power Convertors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Photography, Photo Editing
  • Seed
  • Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • JumpStory — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.
Markus Kern Angel
Markus Kern
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Investment focus
  • Video, Mobile, Photography
  • Seed, Angel
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Lifecake — Canon Europe, leading provider of digital cameras, digital SLR cameras, inkjet printers & professional printers for business and home users.
  • Socialite
Anthony Eskinazi Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Anthony Eskinazi - Founder & CEO @ JustPark
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Investment focus
  • Video, Marketplace, Photography
  • Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Picfair — A new standard for online images. Upload your pics, name your price - an open-to-all image licensing marketplace. Picfair has thousands of images uploaded by photographers in 44 countries around the world, all available to license within a few clicks.
  • NextUp — Stream incredible stand-up comedy. Watch over 80 exclusive shows (and counting) from great names you'll know with loads for you to discover. All with a 30 day free trial and no contract. 'The Netflix of UK Stand-Up' - Engadget.
Sabba Keynejad Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Sabba Keynejad is the Co-founder at VEED.IO. He attended University of the Arts London.
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Investment focus
  • Internet, Software, Photography
  • Seed
  • Sweden, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
  • Kive — Superpower your team's visual collections in the blink of an AI.
  • Curvo — Curvo is the easiest way for young Belgians to passively invest through index funds.
Carl Silbersky Angel · Malmö, Skane Lan, Sweden
Carl Silbersky - Chief Executive Officer @ BIMobject
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Geospatial, Photography
  • Seed
  • Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Mapillary — Street-level imagery, powered by collaboration and computer vision.
Emilia Poret Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
Emilia de Poret is a Swedish singer.
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, Photography, Staffing Agency
  • Seed, Angel
  • Sweden, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • KSTING — A digital booking platform for fashion professionals
  • Mantle — Welcome to MANTLE - Scandinavian professional skincare elevated by cannabis.
Magnus Kjoller Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Magnus Kjoller
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Fitness, Genetics
  • Seed, Angel, Funding Round
  • Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • GroupCam — GroupCam is the first of its kind camera sharing app. We share cameras to avoid the sharing hassle.
  • Billy App
  • Betterbooqr
Eduardo Ronzano Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.
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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!
  • Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
  • Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility
David Soskin Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
David Soskin is on the boards of mySupermarket.com and Cortexica Vision Systems where he is Chairman. He was a non-executive director of the Momondo Group (formerly Cheapflights) until October 2014 when Great Hill Partners acquired a majority stake in the business. Priceline Inc acquired Momondo in 2017 for $550 million.​He served as ChiefExecutive Officer of Cheapflights - which he joined in March 2000 upon the management buy-in - until April 2008. Under his leadership, Cheapflights grew from an attic-based operation into an international leader in online travel search reaching 8.4 million users in January 2008. During this period, Cheapflights won many industry awards and was included in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track of the UK's 100 fastest growing privately-owned technology companies for five years in a row. David was a Finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2006.
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Investment focus
  • Travel, E-Commerce, Reputation
  • Seed, Series A
  • Israel, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • WAYN — Providing inspiration on where to travel next
  • Silverback.ai — eRated (http://erated.co) creates a single identity for e-commerce sites, allowing online buyers and sellers to utilize their already existing reputation everywhere they go. By using a universal identity, sellers are able to operate in more marketplaces, reach more customers and increase their conversion rates and sales as they nolonger need to re-build their reputation (ratings, reviews and comments) in each site. eRated uses a widget displayed in partner sites that aggregates and summarizes the sellers ratings and feedback earned across various marketplace, increasing user trust.The founders are all veterans of elite Israeli army tech units and alumni of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program (Israel's most prominent student accelerator program).
Pascal Cagni Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Pascal Cagni was born on October 28, 1961 and is a specialist in the European digital economy. He advises and invests in startups and contributes to their international development and expansion.Recruited by Steve Jobs in the early 2000s as General Manager and Vice President of Apple Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA), he led a regionof 130 countries for 12 years in which revenues grew from $1.2 billion to over $37 billion. After starting his career as a consultant at Booz & Co, he joined Compaq Computers, established Software Publishing France (SPC), and then led Packard Bell NEC as the number one home PC manufacturer in Europe.Pascal Cagni holds a Master’s Degree in Business Law and is a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques (IEP) in Paris. He also holds an MBA from the HEC Group and is a graduate of the Executive Program of Stanford University (EPGC).
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Investment focus
  • Hardware, Internet, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • France, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Formlabs — Formlabs is the largest supplier of professional stereolithography (SLA) and selective laser sintering (SLS) 3D printers in the world.
  • GIROPTIC — OpenFrame empowers real estate agents to easily create beautiful video tours in minutes using an elegant app and a unique 360 camera.
  • HCVC — HCVC is an early-stage Venture Capital firm backing hardtech companies worldwide. Beyond its fund, HCVC supports hardtech founders through Hardware Club, a selective global community of 500+ startups with dedicated resources, partnerships and events.
Andreas Burike Angel · Ulm, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Andreas Burike is the Founder and CFO of AnyDesk.
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Investment focus
  • Information Technology, Software, Human Resources
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
  • l1r1 — Developing heylara.de the first Conversation Business Automation (CBA) solution
  • GRENION Group — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.
Des Traynor Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Des is the Co-Founder of Intercom, the platform for all customer interaction needs from marketing to support to product development. Previously he worked as User Experience Lead at web app development agency Contrast, and he was a Co-Founder of popular social networking search engine Bigulo.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
  • Siro — Siro is a sales coaching platform that specializes in sales managers. Siro assists sales managers in providing precise feedback to field sales staff on live client conversations while also saving time in reporting.
  • SimpleStudy — SimpleStudy is an exam prep platform for Junior Cycle & Leaving Cert students. With exam papers, revision notes, quizzes, questions by topic and essays, SimpleStudy is the study platform for Students in Ireland.
Duncan Jennings Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway.
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Investment focus
  • Marketplace, Software, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Motorway — With so many ways to sell your car, it can be overwhelming. At Motorway, we’re focused on building the best way. Our vision is to build a better car market for everyone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart technology matches our customers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers.This enables those dealers tobuy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.In our first 4 years, we've helped over 2.5 million car owners value and sell their car. We've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun.
  • Otta — Only matches tailored to your preferences. Only the most exciting, innovative and fast-moving companies.
  • Console — A free weekly email digest of the best tools for developers.
Tom Hulme Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University.
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Investment focus
  • Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series C
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Smol — A smol revolution in home cleaning. Great for you & the planet. Laundry capsules, sprays, dishwash tabs & more. Trial for FREE today!
  • Kinnu — Kinnu is a learning engine that allows to explore new concepts and master any field of study. Kinnu allows to choose from an ever-expanding list of themes such as artificial intelligence, modern art, intermittent fasting, psychology, philosophy, history, and scientific breakthroughs.
  • Immersive Gamebox — Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team Adventures in the world's smartest room. Our GameBox Adventure pods combine projection mapping, touch screen, motion tracking and surround sound technologies to create an entirely new form of digital group entertainment.
Andy McLoughlin Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Andy McLoughlin OBE is a Managing Partner at Uncork Capital, a seed-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • TipTop — Get paid today for your stuff. Sell over 50,000 items instantly for cash or credit.
  • Revel — Revel is a community where women build meaningful connections, accelerate personal growth, and have candid conversations with the support of like-minded women.
  • Wander — Book luxury vacation home rentals with inspiring views, hotel-grade amenities, modern workstations, top-tier cleaning and 24/7 concierge service.
Richard Fearn Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Advertising, Advertising Platforms
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
  • Roleshare — Roleshare matches freelancers, part-time and fractional workers to job share; helping companies retain and attract coveted skills and talent. Join us!
  • Unlock — Unlock is a video-based platform packed with unique experiences your team will love.
Christophe Maire Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Christophe F. Maire is the Founding Partner and CEO of Atlantic Labs, a Berlin-based seed investor dedicated to identifying and investing in innovative digital startup companies. In the last 20+ years, Christophe has built an international track record both as a founder; including gate5 (sold first to Nokia and later developed into HERE and sold tothe German automotive industry) and Plazes.com (also sold to Nokia); and as a farsighted investor named best “European Seed Investor” by Techcrunch two years running. Exited investments include Brands4Friends (eBay), Readmill (Dropbox); StudiVZ, Fyber and Plista. Recent investments led by Atlantic Labs include Medigo, Clue, Jodel, and Campanda, amongst others. Christophe remains actively involved in all his investments, including as a board member of Soundcloud, EyeEm, and Monoqi, and an active promoter of the Berlin startup ecosystem.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Poland, Austria
Portfolio highlights
  • Helu.io — Helu.io is a startup company that provides easy access to their financial data.
  • Artusiast — Jay Art GmbH is an online platform that sells art.
  • RetentionGrid — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.
Oskar Hartmann Angel · Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Germany, Russian Federation, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Tiggy — 15 minute grocery delivery on a mission to forever change the way we buy everyday essentials. Now live in Vancouver
  • Lumaly — Lumaly is a browser extension that automatically tries out and uses all available voucher codes in the cart when shopping online.
  • June Homes — June Homes is a network of fully furnished bedrooms in prime spots available on flexible month-to-month terms in major American cities.
Chris Mairs Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Chris Mairs - Venture Partner @ Entrepreneur First
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • 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.
  • Quantly — LLM-enabled financial research at the speed of thought.
  • 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.
Jeff Bezos Angel · Seattle, Washington, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Jeffrey Preston Bezos is the Founder of Blue Origin. He previously worked at Cashican People LLC as an Investor. Jeff Bezos attended Princeton University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Non Profit, Communities
  • Grant, Series B, Seed
  • United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
  • g100 — Swiss owned tech investment company
  • Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
  • Physical Intelligence — Physical Intelligence is bringing general-purpose AI into the physical world.
Jiong Ma Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Jiong is a partner at Braemar Energy Ventures. She has worked in various high-technology industries since 1995, holding positions in research, operations and finance including senior technology and business positions with Lucent Technologies and Bell Labs.She also was a member of the venture capital group at 3i, where her responsibilities includedinvestments in information technology and cleantech.Currently, she serves on the board of directors for several companies.Jiong is a Kauffman Fellow with a B.S. in physics from Lanzhou University in China, a M.S. in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado at Bolder.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Hardware, Lighting
  • Series B, Seed, Series A
  • United States, France
Portfolio highlights
  • Enlaps — Discover Enlaps' 6K timelapse cameras with 4G/WiFi connectivity and solar power. Perfect for construction, events, and research. Enhance project monitoring and marketing. Made in France.
  • Nature Coatings — Nature Coatings is a biochemicals company harnessing waste materials to create bio-based, safe, and renewable products.
  • Carbice Corporation — Carbice is the first no-compromise thermal interface material. It achieves all the advantages of both solid and liquid thermal interface materials without any of the pitfalls.
Dr. Cornelius Boersch Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Cornelius (“Conny”) Boersch is an entrepreneur, business angel and founder of numerous technology companies. Conny is considered one of the bestconnected networkers in the tech and start-up scene. He is the founder of the global company builder Mountain Partners as well as the global co-investment company Conny & Co. Conny initiated theEntrepreneurs Day at the Tegernsee, one of the most exclusive conferences in Europe and regularly holds speeches at universities or tech events all over the world. As a business angel, he has invested in more than 300 companies since 1995 and was voted “European Business Angel of the Year” in 2009. He is a European Investment Fund (EIF) - certified super angel, which means that, subject to certain restrictions, the EIF matches all of his startup investments 1 to 1.As an entrepreneur, Conny previously founded the stock-listed RFID-based companies ACG, Smartrac and Identiv as well as the cashless payment systems provider Sandpiper. For his activities he was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” in 2000. Politically, Conny acted as advisor to Dr. Guido Westerwelle, former president of the German Liberal Party, FDP, Vice-Chancellor and Foreign Minister of Germany from 2009 to 2012.He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Essen with a thesis on venture capital and investing. He later also acted as honorary professor and held lectures at the University of Essen.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Software, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Germany, Switzerland, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
  • Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
  • Lingoda — Learn a new language effectively with our online language courses! English, German, French and Spanish online, in live video group & private classes.
  • Flash Coffee — Flash Coffee is a tech-enabled coffee chain that customers use their app to order and pay online, choosing to pick up orders from one of the Flash Coffee’s storefronts or order for delivery through major platforms in each market. Flash Coffee was founded in 2019 and is headquartered in Singapore.
Cédric Delorme Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Business angel investing with impact in Foodtech, Winetech, Insuretech and Fintech
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, CRM
  • Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Bet4Fun — Bet4Fun is the new Competitive Mobile Gaming App allowing players to challenge each other and earn rewards by instantly playing against other players or their friends around the world, in 1v1 or in Tournaments, for Free or in Real Money, on a variety of partner games, in intense matches !
  • Courtigo — Courtigo is a CRM and comparator software for insurance brokers (SaaS)
  • uvoji by T.zic — uvoji designs, develops, manufactures and markets all-in-one solutions for the treatment and disinfection of water at points of use and of surfaces by UV LEDs.To meet the major challenges of access to drinking water and provide technological solutions to the urgent needs of point-of-use water treatment, we launched the Oji Safe, Oji Pure and OjiReuse products. Our solutions are used notably by the French Red Cross for its operations.In response to the Covid pandemic, we developed the Uvo Care. Uvo Care is the disinfection box, Made in France, for all types of masks and everyday objects. The essential ally for resuming your professional activities in complete safety. It has been tested and approved by independent laboratories and kills over 99.999% of viruses and bacteria in just seconds (including SARS-COV2 virus).
Lorenz Bogaert Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • FixForm — At FixForm, we aim to keep spaces and buildings in good, safe and clean condition. Our platform allows everybody to report problems with just the snap of a picture. Simplify your maintenance today and become part of the FixForm community.
  • Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
  • Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
Xavier Court Angel
Xavier Court is a co-founding partner at Veepee.
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Investment focus
  • Fashion, Photography
  • Pre-Seed
  • France
Portfolio highlights
  • Veeton — Veeton is the creator of an artificial intelligence-powered platform for automated fashion imaging. The company's platform provides fashion firms with an alternative to photo sessions by generating a limitless range of high-quality on-model images using only packshot photos, instantaneously and at a fraction of the cost, allowing clients tocreate e-commerce shoots in a few clicks.
Niklas Ostberg Angel
Swedish entrepreneur Niklas Östberg is the Co-Founder and CEO of Delivery Hero. He holds a Master of Industrial Engineering & Management from Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm & ETH Zurich.Following five years as a management consultant at Oliver Wyman, Niklas co-founded Pizza.nu (later OnlinePizza.se) where he served as afull-time chairman. After winning the Swedish market he was responsible for building up market leading companies in online food ordering in Poland, Finland and Austria. In late 2010, Niklas convinced Team Europe to develop the concept to the German market under the name of Lieferheld (Lieferheld.de) and got the license to use the technology and know-how from the original Swedish company.After a successful market entry into the competitive German market, Niklas Östberg and his team decided to launch the business model internationally under the name of Delivery Hero in May 2011. The company has since then expanded the concept organically and through acquisitions into 34 international markets, and is today the largest global platform for online food ordering with 200,000+ local restaurants in its network, processing more than 10m orders monthly.What initially was a small vision narrowed to the Swedish market has today expanded into a global vision to provide a platform of choice, convenience, reliability and quality. Or, in essence, an entire food court in your pocket.Niklas’ vision is to transform the industry. Therefore services of Delivery Hero will reflect changing eating habits just as new opportunities in technology and logistics.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, E-Commerce, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Germany, United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • Boxhub — Buy new & used shipping containers with Boxhub. We make buying a shipping & storage containers easy - get it delivered right to your door. Shop today!
  • WorkMotion — WorkMotion offers Global HR Solutions to help companies navigate the New Ways of Working. Solutions fully compliant.
  • Confetti — Discover and book from hundreds of exclusive team building, DE&I, and professional development experiences. For virtual, hybrid, and in-person teams!
Jordan Rednor Angel · New York, New York, United States
Jordan Rednor is the COO & Director of Decoded Advertising.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Mobile
  • Seed
  • Poland, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Videoo — Videoo is a smart video player and plug-n-play enterprise platform (SaaS) built for publishers to better engage audiences through interactive storytelling that results in higher monetization.
  • Foap AB — We help brands scale their visual content efforts with a diverse community of 3 million photographers & videographers from all over the world to increase the RO
Gerard Pique Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Gerard Piqué Bernabéu is the President & Founder of Kosmos.He Previously worked at eFootball.Pro as the President & Co-Founder.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Apps, Video
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
  • Spain, France, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • GOALS — GOALS is our attempt to give football the game it deserves. Gameplay-first, free to play, cross-play, multiplayer-focused, and esports ready.
  • Sorare — Global Fantasy Football. Collect limited edition digital collectibles, Manage your team and earn prizes!
  • Kamleon — The first intelligent urine analysis platform seamlessly integrated into daily life. Immerse yourself in an unparalleled user experience while we lead the digital transformation in the bathroom industry.
Vincent Rosso Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Vincent Rosso is founder of BlabBlaCar Spain, SeedPop Capital and Consentio. As a business angel, he opts for marketplace-type digital startups with a scalable model and a powerful team with two minimum co-founders. His investments include BlaBlaCar, TheBrubaker, Monkimum, LetsGoi, SocialCar, PeopleITrust, MicoCar, LeasePilo and Startupxplore. Youhave made two partial exits in BlaBlaCar and OnTruck.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Spain
Portfolio highlights
  • DRAAGU — Draagu create value with images untapped in smartphone. Doing so we simplify the traditional image stock selling process and solve one of the A.I industry bottleneck ; creating image data set.Our Free mobile App onboard A.I running on device. The App analyse image content and quality and notify users when it detect one of their image can sell(for communication or A.I training purposes) because it matches a client need. - No prior image selection, and upload needed : everything is automatic. - Privacy is guaranteed by design : the whole process is done on-device and image become visible only when the user decide to sell.Companies have access to fresh, unpublished images. They can create image libraries on-demand, even from their own employees or clients in a closed community.Draagu is unique because: 1/ effortless process : sign-in, and you are done! No image edition, upload or tagging needed > our App notify when you can sell. That allow us to - serve cheaper images (0,5-1€) as user do not have to "work" to sell - retrieve 600 images by users against 20-30 on average by our competitors (faster growth) 2/ privacy guaranteed by design : the whole A.I image analysis is done on device only. Image become visible and leave the phone only when user decide to sell 3/ our images are available on-demand from our users smartphones : we store 1% only of the image we can sell : low cost structure 4/ Clients can buy images an Engage with image makers (that can be their employees and clients) as they are directly in touch, contrary to other platforms 5/ fake free : clients are guaranteed the image they received match their criteria (content, location, time, author) as the App allow only to submit such images 6/ we serve exclusive, unpublished images.
  • Peoople — Peoople is the app to discover the best and latest recommendations on restaurants, movies, series and much more thanks to your friends and favorite influencers
  • Alma Mobility — Alma is here to reshape urban mobility. The world is undergoing a huge shift in how people and goods move. We believe in a world where urban transport is sustainable and shared. ​ Alma has launched an electric car-sharing service that combines traditional free-float with car-pooling commuting services, but with a car fleet. Our offering maximizescar usage and gives access to low-income employees in their commuting to work. ​ We believe in model innovation and the intense use of data and technology to better serve our cites. Sharing vehicles that will change our lives, our cities and the Earth we live in.
Eric Quidenus-Wahlforss Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Eric Wahlforss is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dance. He co-Founded SoundCloud Limited in 2007 and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Eric Wahlforss has been working with the web since 1995 and served as the Interaction Designer for Gate5 (acquired by Nokia in 2007). Under the artist name Forss, he has released electronic music on Berlin basedlabel Sonar Kollektiv and toured across the world. He holds an M.Sc. degree in Industrial Economics from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has studied three years at the Stockholm School of Economics.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Germany, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Lovely Day Foods — We harness the power of plants and cutting-edge technology to crack the egg.
  • Buddywise — Gain control of your safety risks and empower your EHS teams to be truly data-driven. Use existing cameras to gather data, eliminate risks and react in real-time.
  • Nomos — Nomos operates as an energy tech company.
David Heinemeier Hansson Angel
David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails, cofounder of Basecamp & HEY, best-selling author, Le Mans class-winning racing driver, antitrust advocate, frequent podcast guest, and family man.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Photography, Photo Editing
  • Seed
  • Denmark
Portfolio highlights
  • JumpStory — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.
Robin Knox Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Social Network
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
  • United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
  • Handl — We deliver car care services to you. Order from professional valets, oil, adblue, washer and care services and subscribe to monthly services to save money.
  • My Probate Partner — The better way to navigate probate in Scotland. Avoid large probate solicitor bills by completing your application with our 5-star fixed-price support service. Designed to make sure you get Scottish probate 100% right.
Gary Vaynerchuk Angel · New York, New York, United States · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Gary Vaynerchuk is the Chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company’s 4 locations. In the late 90s, after identifying “the internet” as a land-grab opportunity, Gary transitioned his father’s localliquor store into one of the first wine e-commerce platforms resulting in growing the family business from $3-60MM in sales during a 5-year period.During his time in the family business, Vaynerchuk also started one of the first long-form episodic video shows on YouTube in 2006 called WineLibraryTV, filming 1,000 episodes over a 5-year window. Gary’s wine knowledge, charisma, and uncanny ability to engage with his community landed him appearances on national television with Ellen Degeneres and Conan O’Brien, as well as establishing him as one of the most followed people on social media during its nascent years.Not only did Gary leverage content creation and the rise of social media for his personal brand, but it was the seed which would become the pillar to his now 9-year old advertising agency VaynerMedia, servicing brands with an ever-expanding variety of offerings.Outside of being the Chairman and CEO of his own companies, Gary is a highly sought after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook,Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber.Gary is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it’s like to be a CEO and public figure in today’s digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 50 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook.Gary also appeared as judge in Apple’s first original series “Planet of the Apps” alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba and Will.i.am onIn addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also houses The Gallery, a new publishing company started after acquiring leading women’s lifestyle property PureWow in January 2017. In addition to running VaynerMedia, Gary also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports and restaurant reservations app Resy.Gary is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise, and is a longtime Well Member of Charity:Water.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • SlamBall — SlamBall is a global sports league association. It was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California.
  • OpenFortune — www.openfortunemedia.com
  • Metalink — Metalink is a private chat app that provides NFT collection. They also offer the punk owners to find and chat with other verified holders by simply connecting their wallet.
Kirill Makharinsky Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Kirill is the CEO and Founder of Enki, a tech-enabled skills training company.Previously, Kirill cofounded Emerging Travel, a leading online travel agency; and Quid, an intelligence tool for strategy teams. Both companies have over $40M annual net revenue each.Kirill is an Oxford University alum where he graduated with a double first inMathematics and as the #1 UK Graduate of the Year.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Apps, Mobile
  • Seed, Angel
  • United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Calm — Relax with Calm, a simple mindfulness meditation app that brings clarity and peace of mind into your life
  • Togethera — We're bringing the world’s families closer together by providing a private, simple place to share, that’s easily accessible by grandparents and children, on phones, tablets and computers.
  • Share Practice — Share Practice helps doctors identify and understand the most effective clinical treatments based on the success of other doctors.
Klaas Kersting Angel · Karlsruhe, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Klaas Kersting is a serial entrepreneur (Gameforge / flaregames / Phoenix Games) and Seed-/Early-stage investor in startups in games and e-commerce. He served and serves as board member and advisor to several of his investments.Most recently, in 2019, Klaas founded Phoenix Games, a company aiming to help game founders to achievemore - both financially as well as commercially. In 2008 Klaas Kersting was named 'Entrepreneur of the Year'. Gameforge was awarded 'Red Herring 100 Europe', and 'Technology Fast 50 Rising Stars'. Furthermore, he was selected 'Technology Pioneer 2009' by the World Economic Forum.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Mobile, E-Commerce
  • Seed, Funding Round, Angel
  • Germany, United States, Finland
Portfolio highlights
  • Fein — Fein is a female-led studio developing casual games for women.
  • Kasaz — Buying and selling properties in Spain is a daunting task. Low-quality listings, inaccurate location and painful visits-scheduling combined with dated portals makes for a bad user experience.Kasaz' one-stop real-estate portal reduces time to purchase by connecting buyers and sellers in a platform where the quality of the experience is key.The company was founded by Sebastien Marion, a serial entrepreneur who sold his previous startup Comufy to king.com.
  • Aggero — With our video listening tool we convert video content into actionable insights, boosting your marketing strategies & ROI. Discover audience preferences, analyse competitor tactics, and more.
Chris Burke Angel · Reading, Reading, United Kingdom
EBlink board member Chris Burke’s career in telecommunications, IT and technology spans more than 30 years in both Europe and North America. He has held technical and management responsibilities at a telecom equipment supplier (Nortel), a fixed-line carrier (Energis), a wireless service provider (Vodafone), and a consumer device manufacturer(Research In Motion – RIM). His most recent public-company position, which he left in 2009, was RIM’s managing director for Europe, Middle East and Africa. From 2001 to 2004, Chris was chief technology officer (CTO) at Vodafone UK. From 1997 to 2000, he was CTO and chief information officer at U.K.-based Energis, where he helped take the company public and onto the FTSE 40. Previously, he spent 15 years with Bell Northern Research and its parent company Northern Telecom in a variety of roles, including software development, operations and ultimately sales.Chris, who has extensive experience in helping guide companies through stock offerings and acquisitions, has served on several boards of directors. He was chairman of Ubiquity Software during that company’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2005 and its 2007 sale to Avaya. He was lead independent director of March Networks during its 2005 IPO, director at Oz Communications when it sold to Nokia in 2008, and a director and investor in Dialog Semiconductor when it completed a successful secondary offering in 2009. He currently serves on the boards of Dialog Semiconductor and Kontron (both listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange), as well as several venture and private equity-backed companies. Chris divides his time between board positions, numerous advisory roles and his investment and advisory business, Buster Burke Ltd. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from Acadia University in Nova Scotia, Can.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Mobile, Software
  • Seed
  • United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • iovox — Tracking and analytics for phone calls and voice. Generate more leads and optimize your marketing ROI by designing the right solution for your business.
  • Navmii — Easily add maps, search and navigation to your mobile and web applications using our developer-friendly navigation and mapping SDKs & APIs
  • Togethera — We're bringing the world’s families closer together by providing a private, simple place to share, that’s easily accessible by grandparents and children, on phones, tablets and computers.
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