# Helmut Schuster

> Helmut Schuster is a pre-seed investor at Ivoclar Vivadent (London) backing Wellness and B2B. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Ivoclar Vivadent](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ivoclar-vivadent)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Jun 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/helmut-schuster/0/13b/278

Helmut Schuster is a pre-seed investor at Ivoclar Vivadent in London focused on Wellness and B2B. Helmut Schuster is the Chairman at Ivoclar Vivadent. He attended University of Vienna.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | $870k–$872k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wellness | 2 | 67% |
| B2B | 1 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Internet | 1 | 33% |
| Software | 1 | 33% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Seed | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Voda | Voda is the LGBTQIA+ mental wellbeing app developed with leading LGBTQIA+ psychotherapists. We're on a mission to help members of the LGBTQIA+ community lead more fulfilled and thriving lives through affordable, accessible and intersectional digital therapy.Voda's self-guided therapy programs are up to 24x more affordable than privatetherapy. | $871.9K | Pre-Seed | Jun 18, 2025 |  |
| Happl | Our goal is to make Happl the leading People Experience platform for businesses across the globe. We want every manager to feel empowered to engage and support their teams, to make sure employees feel like they belong. | $3M | Seed | Apr 08, 2024 |  |
| ExpectAI | Expect to Decarbonise, profitably.Mission: Expect exists to collectively reduce CO2e emissions by 500 megatonnes this decade.Platform: Expect’s AI-powered SaaS platform UNA enables large enterprise organisations and their partners to reduce carbon emissions, profitably.Platform Overview: Understand carbon emissions by automating andreporting bottom-up product-level, asset-level, and supplier-level carbon visibility, projections, and risk assessments. Navigate decarbonisation pathways by designing and simulating carbon reduction plans, while Expect’s AI continuously learns about your business and generates relevant carbon reduction insetting opportunities, with a focus on ROI.Accelerate profitable decarbonisation by selecting insetting opportunities highlighted by Expect’s AI, including vendors offering cost-effective solutions, and by establishing joint carbon visibility and roadmaps with suppliers, customers, and investment portfolio companies.An end-to-end solution to manage your decarbonisation strategy/programme and progress across your business.UNA continuously analyses data across your business to calculate GHG emissions and identify risks & opportunities and empowers your team members to take carbon reduction insetting actions. | $869.8K | Pre-Seed | Aug 31, 2022 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [6 Degrees Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/6-degrees-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ascension](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ascension-ventures-limited) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [BackFuture](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/backfuture) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Daring Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daring-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Gaingels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/gaing) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Haatch](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/haatch) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Ivoclar Vivadent

VC Fund · Amherst, United States

Ivoclar Vivadent advances the practice of dentistry for both dentists and technicians. Their full-fledged products are the result of their concentrated research and collaboration with universities and users. They develop and produce materials and equipment that satisfy their customers because of their functionality and esthetics. It provides dentalprofessional products such as prevention care, impression materials, adhesives, luting materials, and endodontics and laboratory professional products such as alloys, metal-ceramics, removable denture prosthetics, and resin-based veneering.Ivoclar Vivadent is a U.S.-based company that was founded in 1923.

4 contacts available at Ivoclar Vivadent.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Helmut Schuster | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/helmut-schuster |
| Christoph Zeller | Founder & Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christoph-zeller-ea3d |
| Diego Gabathuler | CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/diego-gabathuler-9e63 |
| Tyler Goering | Global Digital Marketing Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tyler-inkfarm |

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## FAQ

### What does Helmut Schuster invest in?

Helmut Schuster invests primarily in Wellness, B2B and SaaS startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Helmut Schuster's check size?

Helmut Schuster typically joins rounds of $870k–$872k 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 Helmut Schuster participates in.

### When did Helmut Schuster last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Helmut Schuster closed in Jun 2025. Shizune tracks 3 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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