Gerald Heydenreich
Angel Investor
Barcelona, Spain
Gerald Heydenreich is a seed investor in Barcelona focused on Retail and Content. Gerald has been an entrepreneur since 1999. At the age of 25 he founded PORTUM AG, the first European provider of b2b reverse online auctions and sourcing events with a trading volume of more than €10 billion which was sold to IBX / Cap Gemini in 2006. He then co-founded BuyVIP, an eCommerce shopping community and sold it to Amazon in 2010with more than 8 million members, 320 employees and a turnover of more than 140 million USD. In 2012, he founded Pippa&Jean, a social selling community that has helped more than 5,000 women to become self-employed and paid more than €10 million in commissions before being sold in 2018. In 2019, he founded youtiful, the world's first climate-neutral beauty involvement brand and cang.eco a subscription service for healthy and sustainable FMCG products which eventually had to shut down. Since then he has been focusing on Blockchain & Web 3.0 Investments and created with Shant Kevonian the Barcelona Blockchain Network, a tech incubator, venture studio and seed investor focused on web 3.0 from which they jointly founded EtherMail, the first web 3.0 email provider allowing wallet-to-wallet communication. Since 2006, Gerald has also been an active investor in start-up companies through Omnis Mundi and Firestartr, a network of entrepreneurs that he founded together with Alain Falys. He is a member of the Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) and strongly believes in entrepreneurship as a way of life and, above all, as a means to make the world a better place.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Gerald Heydenreich invests in
Stages Gerald Heydenreich invests in
Countries Gerald Heydenreich invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $537k–$795k
- Pre-Seed
- $97k–$186k
Investment Focus
Industry
- Retail 1 (20%)
- Content 1 (20%)
- Women's 1 (20%)
- Internet 1 (20%)
- Software 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (60%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (40%)
Country
- Spain 3 (60%)
- Germany 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Decentralized storage | $537.4K / Seed / Jul 02, 2024 | ||
| Decentralized storage | $186.3K / Pre-Seed / Jun 27, 2023 | ||
| Dana is a digital therapeutics solution to improve the mental health and well-being of women transitioning through motherhood addressing the existing infra-diagnostic and lack of treatment. Dana is using audio-based psycho-educational content, mental and emotional self-assessment tools, combined with tele-consultation services and a mother’scommunity. Dana is a data-centrist AI solution based on behavioral sciences that offers advanced capabilities in prediction, detection and monitoring of patients suffering perinatal mental health disorders, while being able to measure the impact of the Dana intervention on patient improvement. Dana will complete the model with a mental health collaborative platform joining practitioners and data scientists to design custom and evolutive therapies. | $97.2K / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2021 | ||
| ModelManagement.com is the leading platform for models, influencers, photographers, casting directors, agencies, production companies and brands with more than one million models and the biggest variety of profiles from around the world. With ModelManagement.com, models and new faces can easily access the industry, apply to castings from whereverand whenever they want through our website or app, and get to work as a model. | $795.2K / Seed / Jun 30, 2019 | ||
| Purmeo is retails customized vitamin packages online. | Seed / Nov 21, 2012 |
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FAQ
What does Gerald Heydenreich invest in?
Gerald Heydenreich invests primarily in Retail, Content and Women's startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Spain. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Gerald Heydenreich invest in?
Gerald Heydenreich typically joins rounds of $537k–$795k at Seed and $97k–$186k at Pre-Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Gerald Heydenreich's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Gerald Heydenreich took part in.
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When did Gerald Heydenreich last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Gerald Heydenreich closed in Jul 2024. Shizune tracks 5 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Nov 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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