# Gerald Heydenreich

> Gerald Heydenreich is a seed investor at EtherMail (Barcelona) backing Retail and Content. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [EtherMail](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ethermail)
- Location: Barcelona, Spain
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jul 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerald-heydenreich-a79125/
- Website: http://www.omnismundi.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/geraldheydenreich

Gerald Heydenreich is a seed investor at EtherMail 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $537k–$768k |
| Pre-Seed | $97k–$186k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Retail | 1 | 20% |
| Content | 1 | 20% |
| Women's | 1 | 20% |
| Internet | 1 | 20% |
| Software | 1 | 20% |

20 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 60% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 40% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Spain | 3 | 60% |
| Germany | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| hello.app | Decentralized storage | $537.4K | Seed | Jul 02, 2024 |  |
| hello.app | Decentralized storage | $186.3K | Pre-Seed | Jun 27, 2023 |  |
| Dana, by a thousand colibris SL | 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 | 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. | $768K | Seed | Jun 30, 2019 |  |
| Purmeo | Purmeo is retails customized vitamin packages online. |  | Seed | Nov 21, 2012 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Bcombinator Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bcombinator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [CASTIVENTURES, S.L.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/castiventures-s-l) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Conny & Co](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/conny-co) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Creathor Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/creathor-venture-management) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Family's Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/familys-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Point Nine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/point-nine-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About EtherMail

VC Fund

EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.

1 contacts available at EtherMail.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Gerald Heydenreich | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gerald-heydenreich |

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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 is Gerald Heydenreich's check size?

Gerald Heydenreich typically joins rounds of $537k–$768k at Seed and $97k–$186k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Gerald Heydenreich participates in.

### 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.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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