# Michael Stephan

> Michael Stephan is a seed investor at Raisin (Berlin) backing FinTech and Financial Services. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Raisin](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raisin-weltsparen)
- Location: Berlin, Germany
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Jan 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaeltobiasstephan/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/michaeltstephan
- Website: https://x.com/michaeltstephan

Michael Stephan is a seed investor at Raisin in Berlin focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Michael Stephan is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Raisin DS.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 2 | 33% |
| Financial Services | 2 | 33% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 33% |
| PaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Finance | 1 | 17% |

13 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 33% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 17% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 17% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Germany | 3 | 50% |
| The Netherlands | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sinpex | Sinpex is a software company that offers an AI-driven platform for automating compliance processes related to Know Your Customer (KYC) and Know Your Business (KYB) checks. Its solution extracts and verifies regulatory data from primary sources such as corporate registries and shareholder lists, streamlining customer onboarding and due diligenceworkflows for financial institutions and related enterprises. The platform integrates document processing, risk assessments, screening against sanctions and PEP lists, and audit-ready reporting to support ongoing anti-money-laundering (AML) compliance. Sinpex also supports configurable workflows and continuous monitoring to keep compliance processes aligned with evolving legal requirements. | $5.5M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jan 11, 2024 |  |
| Empion | We Transform Mass Recruiting Through Individuality - Using Artificial Intelligence.Empion automates headhunting by matching values, skills, and personality. Our data-driven Robo Advisor quantifies relevant parameters to match talents with suitable companies.Our innovative recruiting solution got Empion funding, winning over $ 9 million fromCavalry Ventures, Redstone VC, Basinghall Partners and renowned angels from the HR tech industry.Acknowledged by TechCrunch Disrupt StartupBattlefield, Forbes 30 under 30 Europe Technology and several Awards (e.g. Personalmagazin).For further information please visit www.empion.io. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Jun 30, 2022 |  |
| troy | troy is a FinTech that offers Friendly Debt Collection as a Service, with "friendliness" being a synonym for data-driven, omnichannel, real-time customer experience (CX). CX in debt collection matters, because according to international surveys >50% of customers just forgot to pay, or have a short-term bottleneck. From thecreditor's point of view, these customer relationships are worth preserving, especially if Customer Acquisition Costs and Customer Lifetime Value are taken into account (it is 400% more expensive to win new customers than to preserve existing ones). According to our market feedback, troy has evolved to being Europe's CX-leader in debt collection by combining cutting-edge technology with decades of debt collection experience and best practices of marketing & CRM. The unique "troy experience" makes customers pay more and faster compared to other debt collection agencies, proven in every benchmark even against Europe's incumbents since troy's launch (+25% to +80% debt recovery). And the customers even pay happily, as proven by troy's comprehensive customer survey (rating 4,1 of 5). troy focusses on debt collection services for corporate clients, but companies can also utilize the troy platform to improve digitization and customer experience in internal, upstream processes like commercial during. |  | Series A | Oct 21, 2020 |  |
| Finom | Finom combines digital business account benefits with multiple services to provide financial solutions for entrepreneurs, self-employed, and freelancers. It pulls together accounting, financial management, and banking functions for early-stage businesses and SMEs into one mobile-first product.Founded in 2019, Finom is headquartered in Amsterdam,The Netherlands. | $7.1M | Seed | Apr 30, 2020 |  |
| troy | troy is a FinTech that offers Friendly Debt Collection as a Service, with "friendliness" being a synonym for data-driven, omnichannel, real-time customer experience (CX). CX in debt collection matters, because according to international surveys >50% of customers just forgot to pay, or have a short-term bottleneck. From thecreditor's point of view, these customer relationships are worth preserving, especially if Customer Acquisition Costs and Customer Lifetime Value are taken into account (it is 400% more expensive to win new customers than to preserve existing ones). According to our market feedback, troy has evolved to being Europe's CX-leader in debt collection by combining cutting-edge technology with decades of debt collection experience and best practices of marketing & CRM. The unique "troy experience" makes customers pay more and faster compared to other debt collection agencies, proven in every benchmark even against Europe's incumbents since troy's launch (+25% to +80% debt recovery). And the customers even pay happily, as proven by troy's comprehensive customer survey (rating 4,1 of 5). troy focusses on debt collection services for corporate clients, but companies can also utilize the troy platform to improve digitization and customer experience in internal, upstream processes like commercial during. |  | Series A | Nov 15, 2019 |  |
| troy | troy is a FinTech that offers Friendly Debt Collection as a Service, with "friendliness" being a synonym for data-driven, omnichannel, real-time customer experience (CX). CX in debt collection matters, because according to international surveys >50% of customers just forgot to pay, or have a short-term bottleneck. From thecreditor's point of view, these customer relationships are worth preserving, especially if Customer Acquisition Costs and Customer Lifetime Value are taken into account (it is 400% more expensive to win new customers than to preserve existing ones). According to our market feedback, troy has evolved to being Europe's CX-leader in debt collection by combining cutting-edge technology with decades of debt collection experience and best practices of marketing & CRM. The unique "troy experience" makes customers pay more and faster compared to other debt collection agencies, proven in every benchmark even against Europe's incumbents since troy's launch (+25% to +80% debt recovery). And the customers even pay happily, as proven by troy's comprehensive customer survey (rating 4,1 of 5). troy focusses on debt collection services for corporate clients, but companies can also utilize the troy platform to improve digitization and customer experience in internal, upstream processes like commercial during. |  | Seed | Sep 04, 2018 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [ACE Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aceleratech) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Avala Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avala-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [eCAPITAL ENTREPRENEURIAL PARTNERS](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ecapital-entrepreneurial-partners-ag) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [3e Capital Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/3e-capital-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AdFirst.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ad-ru) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AI.FUND](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ai-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Raisin

VC Fund · Berlin, Germany

Raisin is a savings and investment marketplace that connects retail customers with banks looking to expand deposit reach. The company's goal is to provide savers the best interest rates. The company gives access to exclusive savings products from all over Europe. Raisin assures a smooth investment process and the simple management ofinvestments with all of the partner banks via one single platform.Raisin was founded on 2012 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. Raisin DS was formed by a merger of the FinTech companies Deposit Solutions and Raisin in June 2021.

5 contacts available at Raisin.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Frank Freund | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frank-freund |
| Michael Stephan | Co-Founder/COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-stephan |
| Tamaz Georgadze | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tamaz-georgadze |
| Bilal Djelassi | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bilal-djelassi |
| Boyan Byanov | Regional Director CEE | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/boyan-byanov |

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## FAQ

### What does Michael Stephan invest in?

Michael Stephan invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Michael Stephan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Michael Stephan closed in Jan 2024. Shizune tracks 6 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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