# Helena Riese Harstad

> Helena Riese Harstad is a pre-seed investor at Green Angel Ventures backing Travel and Tourism. See 1 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Green Angel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/green-angel-syndicate)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Oct 2022
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helena-riese-harstad-262a30a
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/helena.riese.1

Helena Riese Harstad is a pre-seed investor at Green Angel Ventures in London focused on Travel and Tourism. Helena Riese Harstad is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Optimizer Foundation. She previously worked at SBAB Bank as a Project Specialist. Helena Riese attended Stockholm University.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 1 | 100% |
| Tourism | 1 | 100% |
| Venture Capital | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Purple Elephant Ventures | Purple Elephant Ventures is a venture studio that aims to launch three or four start-ups per year focused on enhancing travel and tourism. Purple Elephant Ventures was founded in 2020 by Ben Peterson, Jan van De Willebois & Mikul Shah. | $1M | Pre-Seed | Oct 07, 2022 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Klister Credit](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/klister-credit) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Untours Foundation](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/untours-foundation) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Green Angel Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Green Angel Syndicate is a provider of investors and projects internationally. The company specializes in this novel strategy for combating climate change. They look for, evaluate, and pick the inventions that will have an impact, and then they invest in them to help them grow.

5 contacts available at Green Angel Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Nick Lyth | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nick-lyth |
| Simon Acland | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-acland |
| Andrew Poon | Associate | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-poon-ff12 |
| Christine Chisholm | CFO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christine-chisholm-e07c |
| Helena Riese Harstad | Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helena-riese-harstad |

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## FAQ

### What does Helena Riese Harstad invest in?

Helena Riese Harstad invests primarily in Travel, Tourism and Venture Capital startups, most often at Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Kenya. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Helena Riese Harstad last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Helena Riese Harstad closed in Oct 2022. Shizune tracks 1 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?

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