Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in Europe in May 2026
Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in Europe in May 2026
| Investor | Publishing Europe investments |
|---|---|
| Sven Fund | 5 |
| Ali Omar | 5 |
| Lorenz Bogaert | 3 |
| Paul Forster | 3 |
| Alexander Chesterman | 3 |
| Toon Coppens | 3 |
| Simon Franks | 3 |
| Tony Smurfit | 2 |
| Didac Lee | 2 |
| Raghav Gupta | 2 |
| Ines Ures | 2 |
| Damien Guermonprez | 2 |
| Peter Hinssen | 2 |
| Rouven Dresselhaus | 2 |
| Oscar Pierre | 2 |
| Tom Kennedy | 2 |
| Nicolas Julia | 2 |
| Massimiliano Magrini | 2 |
| Peter O'Grady Walshe | 2 |
| Federico Pirzio-Biroli | 1 |
| Gianni Papa | 1 |
| Federico Ghizzoni | 1 |
| Cenk Serdar | 1 |
| David Langer | 1 |
| Andreas Mihalovits | 1 |
| Miguel Arias | 1 |
| Volker Hirsch | 1 |
| Will Brooks | 1 |
| Will Martin | 1 |
| Simon Murdoch | 1 |
| Tom Hulme | 1 |
| Marc McCabe | 1 |
| Lluis Faus | 1 |
| Paddy Bolger | 1 |
| Megan Kaspar | 1 |
| Michael Grabner | 1 |
| Dan’l Hewitt | 1 |
| Paul Field | 1 |
| Erik Huberman | 1 |
| Philipp Kinsky | 1 |
| Diane Coyle | 1 |
| John Corcoran | 1 |
| Jean-Marie Messier | 1 |
| Michele Connolly | 1 |
| Rustan Panday | 1 |
| Andrew Grahame | 1 |
| Ditlev Bredahl | 1 |
| Matteo de Brabant | 1 |
| Andrea Dusi | 1 |
| Luc De Vos | 1 |
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- Publishing, Digital Media, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Ex Ordo — Ex Ordo is a Galway-based software company whose web applications enable research conference organisers to manage successful and career-enhancing events at which researchers can publish papers and collaborate together. Their web applications automate the mundane, time-consuming tasks, saving organisers an average of 15 days, €5 to €15k, overthe life of a conference.
- Zapnito — Zapnito is an online community platform that helps organizations connect with their communities. Harness your expertise with our community management software.
- SciFlow — SciFlow is a comprehensive publishing platform that allows researchers to focus on what is important – their research. We offer an intuitive text editor that helps to focus on writing – not formatting – the document. All co-authors can write, comment and review the same version of the article. With our premium services, we allow researchers tocheck for plagiarism and spelling errors and to translate their text. With one click, the article is exported to a publisher compliant format. Unlike existing text editors, researchers can perform all tasks related to publishing scientific texts with SciFlow on a single platform. Thus, SciFlow saves time and gives the confidence to submit an article to a publisher.
Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.
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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Finland, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- MÖ Foods — MÖ Kaurajogu is domestic, completely herbal and above all delicious. All our products are manufactured in Central Ostrobothnia, Lohtaja.
- React & Share — High volume, high quality feedback directly from your customers. React & Share helps digital comms teams improve their websites and satisfy their customers.
- Plain Complex — VUOROX IS AN AI-POWERED ROSTER SCHEDULING APP FOR HEALTHCARE
Lorenz is co-founder and CEO Ghent-based start-up studio StarApps. He also co-founded early stage investment fund Pitchdrive. He previously created Netlog, Twoo (exit to Tinder), Realo (exit to Axel Springer), Delta (exit to eToro) and Rydoo (exit to Sodexo).
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Belgium, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Axe — AI phone agents that handle millions of calls. Build and manage voice, email, and chat agents.
- Otamiser — Otamiser Booster® is an automated solution that helps hoteliers and revenue managers secure bookings by improving a property's online presence on major OTAs such as Booking.com, Expedia, Trips.com, Kayak, Airbnb, and VRBO. It maximizes occupancy rates and revenue through optimizing 951 essential parameters, ensuring continuous optimization,full automation, seamless integration with CMS, PMS, and RMS systems, dedicated customer support, integrations with Cubilis and Hostaway, and a customized API for Revenue Management software.
- Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
Paul Forster
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- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Habito — We're the Treating Customers Fairly Champion of 2023 as voted for in the British Bank Awards. We're here to make mortgages easier - no paperwork, no stress and no fees.
- Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
- Bounti — Bounti helps organizations steer, enable, and scale their frontline employees, combining training, quality control, communication, and operations execution into one intuitive app. With Bounti, companies can maintain consistent quality and operations, streamline training and reach their entire workforce in more than 100 languages.
Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.
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- FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
- Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
Toon Coppens (Belgium, 1981), graduated as a Master of Science in Informatics at the University of Ghent.In june 2000, during his first year at university, he successfully launched the first Belgian social networking site, which later became Redbox.be.He is the co-founder of Massive Media, the social media company behind the successfuldigital brands Netlog.com and Twoo.com. Massive Media enables members to meet nearby people instantly. Today, Over 80 million people have joined our sites on web and mobile.Toon lives in Ghent (Belgium) and London (UK), loves snowboarding and used to deejay and play volleyball a lot.>> Toon's personal Netlog (dutch)>> Twoo.com (dutch)
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- SaaS, Software, Sales Automation
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Belgium, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
- Accurat — Accurat provides real-word shopper insights to support retail decision making with unprecedented accuracy. Our proprietary technology, platform and algorithms understand behaviour in high detail.
- StarApps — StarApps is a boutique venture builder, turning game-changing ideas into breakthrough companies, managed by rockstar entrepreneurs.
Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)
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- FinTech, Payments, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
- Oto Health — Take back control of your tinnitus with Oto, the app built by doctors that teaches you how to stop noticing the ringing using clinically proven techniques. Includes CBT, targeted mindfulness, and relaxation. 86% users experience benefits after just 1 month.
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.
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- Publishing, Video, Privacy
- Seed, Series A
- Ireland, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ufurnish.com — ufurnish.com is the home for furniture discovery. Search, discover, compare and shop furniture online across the entire retail market on one website.
- Dataships — Dataships uses top level data privacy software to help your brand, no matter your location.
- VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
Prior to founding Galdana Ventures, Didac has been an entrepreneur for more than 20 years, funding more than 15 tech companies (among others: Inspirit, TradeInn, Fhios, Peninsula, Threepoints - Planeta, Safe365) which today account for more than 800 employees and €300 million turnover.Dídac is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Galdana Ventures.With 1B USD fund invested in Silicon Valley (50%), China (30%) and Europe (20%), Galdana Ventures is considered one of the best performing Venture Capital Fund of Funds globally.Dídac is a former Board Member of FC Barcelona, he served on the Board for 10 years from 2010 to 2020. Since 2018, he was Head of Digital, an internationally recognized reference in its field, with 370M followers in social media and more than 100M Euros in turnover. Among Lee´s achievements at FCB, one of the biggest is the leading of the digitalization of the Club; his legacy is applauded by many. During his career, Dídac has received several awards, including the following: Doctor Honoris Causa (Universidad del Siglo 21), Entrepreneur of the Year (Pimec, 2019), Business Angel of the Year (AEBAN, 2019), Best European Startup Mentor Award (The Founder Institute, 2013), he has been listed by IESE as one of 20 most influential entrepreneurs under 40, and selected by WIRED magazine as one of the Top 100 European Digital Influencers (number 2 in Spain).Didac was born in Figueres (close to Barcelona), his parents are from China and he is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.Galdana Ventures (Co-Founder - 2015/Current)Galdana is a Venture Capital fund of funds founded and invested by successful tech entrepreneurs that invests in some of the top tier firms in the United States, Asia, Israel and EuropeGaldana’s management team counts on more than 80 years of accumulated experience as successful entrepreneurs and investors. It has taken part in the creation of 17 companies with an aggregate value of $1.5 billion and managed investments for approximately $240 million in 30 companies with an aggregate final value of $1 billion.Our investor base includes entrepreneurs who have founded companies worth more than $4 billion in aggregated value, and we work to further increase this base with successful entrepreneurs from all the regions where we invest.In addition to this, Galdana has partnered with Altamar Capital Partners, a fund of funds management company specialized in private equity, real estate and infrastructure with approximately $3.4 billion in historically committed capital.
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- E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Spain, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GrabrFi — GrabrFi provides access to US banking and all of its resources and possibilities and finances, life to the next level.
- RepScan — RepScan is an eliminate the negative that the Internet says about you. Rapid negative reputation detection and removal technology.
- Buo — Buo is a social commerce app.
Entrepreneur, operator, investor and author of the bestselling One to Ten. Currently, Rags is President of Butlr.io and venture partner at Hyperplane. Prior to Butlr, Rags was COO at Humatics, GM EMEA at Ooyala, CCO at Videoplaza (sold to Telstra/Ooyala) and part of the founding management team at Brightcove (IPO).
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- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Squark — Predict who to focus on, what to do next, and what it will do to revenue with fundraising AI that works across your CRM, campaigns, and donor lifecycle.
- Powerspike — Powerspike is a new type of advertising network based on content creators - where any marketer can make their brand famous in a few clicks. Our Endorsement Serving technology automatically buys, executes, and optimizes content creator endorsements - replacing the traditionally lengthy process of RFP’s, human negotiations, and insertion orders.
- Fluent Forever — Discover the revolutionary app to learn any language fast and retain it forever. Ditch translation for effective tools like spaced repetition, mnemonics and interactive flashcards.
Ines Ures is a Partner at IRIS Ventures.
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- E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
- Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Buo — Buo is a social commerce app.
- Holaglow — Holaglow is an aesthetic medicine and cosmetic dermatology provider of personalized services.
- Spathios — Book the best spaces in your city by the hour, in 3 clicks.
Damien Guermonprez is the Executive Chairman of Lemonway and an equity investor in Financial Services and FinTech, sectors in which he has spent the major part of his career. As a passionate about innovation in financial services, he is co-leading the pan European payment institution Lemonway. In 2014, he sold to a hedge fund the former Belgiansubsidiary of BNP Paribas Personal Finance he had bought 4 years before with Apax Partners. Previously, he founded and led 14 credit institutions, leasing and insurance companies, during the last 20 years. He was CEO at Oney Bank, the Auchan banking division. Prior to Oney Bank, he was the CEO and founder of Case Credit Europe. Earlier in his career he was a Finance Manager at RCI Banque, the bank of Renault. Former board member of BUT and Iéseg Management School. Damien received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his Ms in Finance from Essec.
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- Internet, FinTech, Payments
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, India, Cameroon
Portfolio highlights
- Muzzo — Muzzo is an AI-powered recruitment marketplace.
- Bitstack — Bitstack is a simple and automated bitcoin savings solution. Round up your purchases and save the spare change in bitcoin or schedule recurring purchases to save regularly.
- CINETPAY — CinetPay is a mobile money payment hub that federates mobile money payment methods in Africa.
Peter Hinssen is the Co-Founder and Partner at Nexxworks.
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- Apps, SaaS, EBooks
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Perlego — Perlego is an online library subscription service for textbooks and non-fiction titles. Having partnered with over 3,000 of the world's best publishers, it gives its users unlimited access to over 650,000 eBooks and publications via an affordable monthly subscription. It aims to make learning accessible to all. It was founded in 2016 and isheadquartered in London, England.
- Sparkcentral — Consumers today engage with brands and companies on social channels by sending tweets and messages stating their customer service needs openly and publicly. Many companies choose to respond to these consumers via the same channels in order to address their concerns. The Sparkcentral Platform helps customer support teams manage large volumes ofsocial inquiries in a streamlined and efficient manner. The platform pulls in the messages from these social channels and presents them to customer care teams via a secure agent console that automatically assigns the messages to the first available agent. Sparkcentral’s client roster includes Delta Air Lines, Emirates, Netflix, Nordstrom, Dropbox, Uber, and T-Mobile.The company’s client portfolio includes Formerly known as TwitSpark, Sparkcentral was incorporated in 2012 and is based in San Francisco, California.
- Rita Data — Rita is a zero-party data platform that connects consumers and brands to enable trusted and engaging data transactions. The mobile app allows users to view, control, and share their data for rewards.
Rouven Dresselhaus is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Cavalry Ventures. His most notable investments at Cavalry include McMakler, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also serves on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía.Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of theadvisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement.Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- Inkitt — Publish stories online, join our author subscription program, and read books online for free. Join the Inkitt community for writers and readers today.
- Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
- Meine Spielzeugkiste — Spielzeug mieten bei Meine Spielzeugkiste. Jetzt Mitglied werden!
Aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, Oscar Pierre, is CEO and co-founder of Glovo. He began his studies at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. After two years, he moved to Georgia Tech, in United States, to explore better opportunities.After graduating, he began his professional career as aerodynamics engineer at Airbus, at his base inToulouse. After 6 months he decided to look for new challenges and dedicate to creating a new business. Glovo began in early 2015. Previously, while studying,Pierre had already founded Zikkomo.com, a solidarity platform with 30 children sponsored in Malawi, and LoveItLocal.es in 2014, a market destined to boost local craft businesses. In January 2017 he was on Forbes magazine's 30under30 annual list of most influential young people.
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- Software, Apps, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Buo — Buo is a social commerce app.
- Papaya — Papaya offers platform to source, run and manage your electric vehicles.
- Premiumguest — All-in-one SaaS to manage and promote events.
Tom has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and in building a global e-commerce business from Dublin as a co-founder of www.hostelworld.com (Web Reservations International). Tom achieved a successful exit from Hostelworld.com in 1999, generating $500m in shareholder value. He previously owned Avalon House hostel in Dublin. When he’s notworking, Tom enjoys the gastronomic delights of life and the views of the Wicklow mountains from the saddle of his bicycle.
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- Travel, Video, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
- Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
- VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.
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- FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Israel, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
- Altertable — We're building an AI-driven, proactive, unified platform that redefines how modern companies leverage their data.
- Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
Massimiliano is co-founder and Managing Partner United Ventures . Previously at Altavista and founding Country manager of Google Italy. Founder of Annapurna Ventures, a new generation Technology Angel Fund. and As Consultant appointed by the Ministry of Economic Development, He has actively contributed to the drawing up of the report onventure capitalism in Italy, which then led to the DL Growth .He is currently Vice President of the Touring Club Italiano, Board Member of the American Chamber of Commerce and sits on the board of directors of AppsBuilder, Paperlit, 20 Lines and Cloud4WI.
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- Software, Apps, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- 20lines — 20lines is a website and a mobile app where users write, read and share short stories.Their goal is to connect writers and readers around the concept of free short stories. They aim at becoming the “Instagram” for short stories. On 20lines everyone can easily share their stories, from the teenagers writing their daily journal for theirfriends to the important authors who want to share the preview of their next book with their audience.
- AppsBuilder — App Maker by Appy Pie : Start your Free Trial Now. No code App Builder that lets you build native apps in minutes without writing a single line of code.
- Cyberwave — Transform your industry with AI-defined robotics. Frictionless automation that makes advanced robotics accessible to manufacturers of all sizes.
Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant
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- Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
Fede started out as an angel investor in 2010. His portfolio quickly grew, so he built a team around him and thus Playfair Capital was born. We have since gone on to become one of Europe’s most active and well-known early-stage VC funds. Before becoming a technology investor Fede worked for several NGOs in Africa, with a particular focus on aidtransparency. He recently renewed his focus on Africa by relocating to Kenya and becoming an angel investor in East Africa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem. He maintains an active role at Playfair and continues to lead our investment team.
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- Software, Non Profit, Venture Capital
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Bibblio — Conversion optimization, powered by AI. Increase user engagement, grow revenues and drive new audiences, for stronger site metrics and ROI.
- Brewbot — Brewbot is a multidisciplinary team of designers and developers based in Belfast, N. Ireland. They come from different backgrounds and experiences — music, design, code, and fine art — but they all share a common passion for brewing.
- CRE Venture Capital — Founded in 2015, CRE Venture Capital invests in early stage tech companies that are levered to Africa. CRE is headquartered in the New York metro area, with a regional office in Lagos, Nigeria.
Gianni Franco Papa
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- Publishing
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- We Wealth — We Wealth ha l'obiettivo di supportare la trasformazione digitale del mondo del Wealth Management e di porsi aggregatore di domanda ed offerta.
Founder & CEO at UniCredit
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- Banking, FinTech, Blockchain
- Series A
- Italy, San Marino
Portfolio highlights
- BKN301 — Scopri tutti i servizi dedicati a privati, aziende ed esercenti. Accedi all'area riservata.
- We Wealth — We Wealth ha l'obiettivo di supportare la trasformazione digitale del mondo del Wealth Management e di porsi aggregatore di domanda ed offerta.
Cenk Serdar
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- SaaS, Audio, Mobile
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Deep Zen — Site will be available soon. Thank you for your patience!
- FineDine — Finedine is a growing tech company that provides data-driven digital menus for a smarter and more profitable dining experience. Finedine Menu app tracks customer behavior and collects insights on what to keep and what to improve. The order management feature helps streamline the ordering process and improve table turnover. Restauranteurs can alsocollect instant feedback and contact information from guests to take action towards enhancing the dining experience. Finedine is used in 45 countries.
- Plentific — Plentific empowers landlords and property managers to deliver more efficient repairs and maintenance services.Plentific is a purpose-driven technology business. Since 2013, the company works with trade professionals and their property partners to transform their processes and the communities they serve. The company's platform and themarketplace is currently in use by landlords and property managers across residential, commercial and social applications throughout the United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Plentific was founded by Emre Kazan and Cem Savas to make it easy to find reliable trade services and manage property repairs and maintenance. The pair believed property management could and should be better - for local trades specialists, property managers and tenants.
David Langer is the Founding Partner at Lionheart Ventures, a global, seed-stage venture capital firm investing in companies that make humanity more resilient. Our focus areas are climate protection, mental health and financial inclusion.Previously, David was an angel investor in 20+ companies and founder & CEO of Zesty, a healthy corporatecatering company whose mission is to improve the health of humanity. Zesty served 7+ million meals and raised $20MM+ from investors including Index Ventures, Founders Fund and Y Combinator before being acquired by Square in 2018.David’s entrepreneurial career began in 2005 as co-founder & CEO of GroupSpaces, a London-based SaaS company targeting membership groups backed by investors including Index Ventures, Lowercase Capital and Avonmore Developments. In 2010, David was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts for Services to Entrepreneurship.Personally, David is passionate about developing a strong mind and body. He is a certified hatha and yin yoga teacher, experienced meditator and regular attendee of Burning Man, and other transformational events. He is also a hobbyist powerlifter, and previously competed at CrossFit, triathlon and was a national table tennis champion as a child. He has appeared on TV game shows in England including ITV's The Krypton Factor, Channel 4's Countdown and Channel 5's Brainteaser.David studied Mathematics at St Anne's College, Oxford where he was awarded 2nd place in the UK Graduate of the Year competition by Real World Magazine.
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- Health Care, FinTech, Wellness
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Groww — Start Online Investing in Stocks & Direct Mutual Funds with India's No. 1 Stock Broker - Groww. Equity Trading, F&O, Direct Mutual Funds with Zero-commission & 24x7 support.
- Calm — Relax with Calm, a simple mindfulness meditation app that brings clarity and peace of mind into your life
- BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.
Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.
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- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Motoreto — Motoreto is a used car and accessories marketplace. They explain the information and details of the used car and provide offers from dealers and payment options. Motoreto University is a Motoreto program designed to train specialized sales profiles in the international automotive industry.
- STAMP — STAMP redefines Tax-Free in Europe. Instant VAT exemption for travelers. More sales, transparency, and control for merchants.
- Drimer Creators — Drimer gives creators the opportunity to build and grow their revenues. Creators can take advantage of a set of tools created to increase revenues and create a brand.
Miguel Arias, proud dad, entrepreneur, and angel investor, has over 15 years of experience in building technology-based startups with a global reach.Miguel has founded startups before, and helped others grow in a variety of roles. He is a skilled generalist that understands technology as well as people-matters. His expertise encompasses tasks andchallenges, from the vision and strategy definition to product management, with special dedication to startup funding and investor relations.As Global Entrepreneurship Director at Telefónica, he is responsible for leading the new stage in Telefónica's open innovation strategy; this is committed to seeking out and developing technological solutions to complement internal R&D while creating an improved connection with international entrepreneurship ecosystems.Previously as COO at CARTO, he led the sales, financial, and operational efforts from its Madrid, NY, DC, London and Tartu offices, directing the company's growth and scaling-up.He loves to teach and share experiences as entrepreneurship professor at the IE Business School and MIB.Trying to enhance the Spanish entrepreneurial ecosystem, he co-founded and presides over Chamberi Valley, the main Madrid-based networking initiative for startups with over 1 million € revenue or 1 million € in investment.He writes his thoughts about entrepreneurship at http://emprenderagolpes.com.
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- Software, Data Visualization, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Spain, United States, Mexico
Portfolio highlights
- CARTO — Cloud-native location intelligence & GIS software for analysts, data scientists & developers solving geospatial problems with modern analytics stacks.
- Graphext — Graphext is a no-code platform for business intelligence helping you to build powerful data science projects.
- ReallyLateBooking — ReallyLateBooking is a European mobile application for booking hotels on the same day with big discounts. The app show hotels from three different categories, luxury, elegance, and comfort. In Nov 2011 ReallyLateBooking won the SeedRocket entrepreneurs camp in Madrid. In Dec 2011 ReallyLateBooking won the AppCircus Competition in Santiago deCompostela and is nominee for the Mobile Premium Awards 2011. ReallyLateBooking was founded by entrepreneurs Roberto Gil, Pablo Pazos, and Javier Pazos in Madrid, it has had a big success in Spain. Now it offer hotels in 17 cities included Madrid, Barcelona, London, Berlin, and Paris.
Volker Hirsch is the Co-Founder and Director of Blue Beck Limited. He previously worked at Bibblio as a Chairman & Investor. Volker Hirsch attended the University of Hamburg.
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- Software, Apps, EdTech
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Wonde — School data, simplified. Wonde helps 30k+ UK schools securely manage MIS data and integrate with 600+ apps.
- Pi-Top — pi-top is a fast-growing ed-tech company with a unique vision to increase access to coding, robotics and AI through project-based learning.pi-top’s mission is to inspire a generation of makers by giving young people STEAM-related hard skills (e.g. coding and circuitry) and in-demand soft skills (e.g. communication, critical thinking andproblem-solving) that they will need in a rapidly changing world.pi-top’s award-winning hardware and software ecosystem is used around the world thousands of homes, maker spaces and schools, blending physical computing and project-based learning with Computer Science and STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and maths) education. With its latest product ecosystem educators and students get to design, code and make anything they can imagine.
- The Link App — Curve is the home of diverse, exciting and inspiring theatre in Leicester. Find out more and book tickets here.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
- Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Loadsure — Loadsure is a spot freight cargo insurance company.
- Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.
Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.
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- E-Commerce, Software, Finance
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Narchie — Create a home that's uniquely yours with Narchie. Shop sustainably, minimize waste, and find one-of-a-kind homeware items.
- MoveWise — Best casino sites UK ranked by reliability, game variety, bonus terms, and payout performance to help players choose with confidence.
- Area4 Labs — Hearby is your gateway to local live events.
Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University.
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- Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Smol — A smol revolution in laundry and cleaning; heavy on dirt, lighter on the planet. Laundry capsules, sprays, dishwash tabs & more. Trial for FREE today!
- Kinnu — Download Kinnu Law - The smartest SQE1 revision app with the highest quality practice questions and AI-powered learning assistant
- Immersive Gamebox — Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team Adventures in the world's smartest room. Our GameBox Adventure pods combine projection mapping, touch screen, motion tracking and surround sound technologies to create an entirely new form of digital group entertainment.
Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.
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- Software, Big Data, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Noloco — Noloco is a no-code platform for teams to instantly create apps powered by their business data. Easily turn Airtable bases and spreadsheets into customer portals or internal tools without code.
- Outverse — A community platform that's easier to use, better organised and designed for real interaction.
- Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
Lluis Faus is is the Co-Founder and Member of the Board at Lexdir. He attended Pompeu Fabra University.
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- News, Legal, Content
- Funding Round
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Lexdir — Lexdir is a spinout of vLex Group, the pan-hispanic site of legal answers for consumers and businesses. Lexdir provides ready-to-use legal information hot topics legal guides, a public legal Q&A answered by the directory's professionals, and is also a strong digital marketing tool for professionals, giving the chance to interact withconsumers before the need to hire a professional, and so developing strong and lasting relations. The company also runs Diariojuridico.com, the Spanish company in legal news for lawyers and professionals, providing news about firms and law market, top lawyers interviews and rankings, as well as a comprehensive selection of opinion articles from the most prestigious professionals. Lexdir develops its Latin American expansion. It has currently local site and operations in Colombia, Mexico and Chile, and will launch 5 more local sites and operations in the region until the end of 2014.
Paddy Bolger - Chief Financial Officer @ CWSI
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- Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
Megan Kaspar is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Magnetic. She previously worked at MKE as a Managing Partner. Megan Kaspar attended the University of California, Los Angeles.
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- Publishing, Marketplace, Digital Media
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Croatia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- CYBR Magazine — Buy issues of CYBR Magazine the futurist magazine curating futurism, technology and techwear.
- Tribute Brand — 51K Followers, 2 Following, 227 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from TRIBUTE BRAND (@tribute_brand)
- Trustless Media — A new kind of production hub where ideas people care about actually come to life.
Michael Grabner - Partner & Managing Director @ Michael Grabner Media GmbH
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- Internet, Software, Marketing
- Angel
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- pagestrip — pagestrip is a digital publishing software used by agencies and corporate for online magazines, annual reports, microsites or presentations.The company offers pagestrip, a platform that allows artistic and creative professionals to publish stories; publishers to organize content in a desired context; and readers to view stories and storycollections in Web browsers on desktop and laptop computers, tablets, and smartphones.
Dan'l Hewitt is the Moonbug at Moonbug Entertainment.
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- Content, E-Commerce, Publishing
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Jellyfish — Pelajari cara memilih slot gacor dengan RTP tinggi, volatilitas tepat, dan fitur bonus untuk meraih kemenangan besar di Indonesia. Temukan tips dan strategi untuk memilih mesin slot terbaik.
CEO EMEA, TouchCast. Partner, bMuse. Director, Higgaboom. Advisor, Dugout. Advisor to Amaliah and Lead Investor. Board Member and Investor, Inn Style Ltd. Investor, The Memo. Ignite Accelerator Investor and Mentor. Free Word Board Member. Consultant. Ex Daily Mail executive
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- Art, Women's, Internet
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- AMALIAH — Amaliah is dedicated to amplifying the voices of Muslim women. Led by a passion to empower individuals through their identity, our work seeks to surface the many different voices and experiences within our community. We create content for Muslim women that aims to shape thought and act as a tool for cultural change.
- The Memo — The feel good baby edit to make big decisions, easy. Shop best selling, trusted and adored baby and maternity essentials. Free delivery over $99!
Erik Huberman - Founder and CEO @ Hawke Media
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- News, SaaS, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- LOST iN — LOST iN travel guides. Experience a new city from within. Curated travel guides - dive into what makes each city its own. In print and on mobile.
- HeatMap, Inc — Discover heatmap, the only on-site analytics platform that ties revenue to every pixel on your website. Optimize for buyer behavior and increase your ecommerce sales with revenue-backed, AI-powered heatmaps, scrollmaps, screen recordings, and more.
- Superfiliate — Word of mouth, meet 2023
Philipp Kinsky
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- SaaS, Audio, Sales
- Pre-Seed
- Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Audvice — audvice unlocks the power of voice messages for companies to share information more effectively across their teams, partners and customers.
- Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.
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- News, Publishing
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- The Mill — Award-winning local journalism from Greater Manchester's new quality newspaper - join our free mailing list or support us as a paying member. Click to read The Mill, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.
Dublin-based John Corcoran (89) co-founded the hugely successful Paddy Power chain of bookmakers in 1988 along with David Power and Stewart Kenny. At a time when big brands were taking over the market, the three men joined their three independent chains to become a force to be reckoned with. Corcoran remains a shareholder in Paddy Power Betfair,although he has sold off tranches for 'estate planning' purposes in recent years. John died in June 2019.
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- Video, Publishing, Social Media
- Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
Jean-Marie Messier serves Co-Founder at OneRagtime Platform Limited. Jean-Marie Messier as an Executive of IAC/InterActiveCorp., and Dish Network Corp. Jean-Marie Messier is the Founder of Messier Partners, LLC. He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Vivendi Société Anonyme and served as its Managing Director. He serves asthe Chairman of Ahead LLC USA and Vizzavi Europe Ltd. He served as Chairman of Vivendi and the Vivendi Universal Corporate Foundation. He served as a Trustee of Whitney Museum Of American Art LLC. He was the Chairman of Vizzavi Europe Ltd. He has been an Independent Non-Executive Director of Dalenys(also known as Rentabiliweb Group SA). He serves as Director at OneRagtime Platform Limited. Jean-Marie Messier serves as a Director of: Echostar USA, Fomento de Construcciones y Contratas SA, Spain and Whitney Museum USA. He served as a Director of BNP Paribas SA since May 4, 1999. He served as a Director of LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, Vivendi and as Non-executive Director of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert SA, Prior to merger with Electrafina S.A. He served as a Director of Alcatel-Lucent, S.A., until March 2003; Compagnie de Saint-Gobain from January 1, 2002 to June 7, 2002 and 3S Photonics SAS (known as Alcatel Optronics France) since 1999. He served as a Member of the Supervisory Board at Veolia Environnement S.A. from April 2000 to April 30, 2003. Jean-Marie Messier studied bachelor's degree in Science Finance from the Ecole Polytechnique from 1976 to 1979 and the Ecole Nationaled' Administration (the ENA).
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
- Seed, Series A
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zoī — Making preventive health a concrete reality. First location opening end of 2022.
- ZAR — Get relevant tips from high elo players in each game, through an overlay. Plus many in-game tools such as which item to buy next, ward locations and jungle timers on the minimap, based on game context, etc.
- Homa Games — Leave your mark in the gaming industry. We are building a team of extraordinary individuals working together to build apps that entertain the world. We are experts in every step of the publishing process.
Michele Connolly is an EMA Head of Infrastructure, KPMG.
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- Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
- Seed
- United Kingdom
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- ufurnish.com — ufurnish.com is the home for furniture discovery. Search, discover, compare and shop furniture online across the entire retail market on one website.
Rustan Panday
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- EBooks, Retail, Computer
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- blipp.se — blipp.se is a digital marketplace for selling and buying cars.
- Storytel — Storytel is a provider of audiobook and e-book streaming services. The company offers unlimited streaming to consumers in 20+ markets. With Storytel, users can discover award-winning detective stories, dizzying novels, or powerful biographies, and easily sort books in Swedish, English, Arabic, Danish or Finnish.Storytel was founded in 2005 andhas since been a leader in subscription services for audiobooks and e-books. The company is established in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Holland, and Poland. Since 2015 Storytel has also been the publisher of the physical books for the acquisition of publishing houses Massolit and B. Wahlstrom.
- Light Flex Technology — Active Printed Light - Powering The World's Smartest Garments
Andrew Grahame is a Founder at The Cook & The Thief.He attended St Austell College.
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- E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty
- Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Jellyfish — Pelajari cara memilih slot gacor dengan RTP tinggi, volatilitas tepat, dan fitur bonus untuk meraih kemenangan besar di Indonesia. Temukan tips dan strategi untuk memilih mesin slot terbaik.
- Shopological — Shopological is a website and mobile app focusing on men’s and women’s fashion, beauty, and lifestyle as well as providing access to sales and promotional updates aggregated from more than 1,400 fashion and beauty retailers.Registered members receive personalized email reminders whenever their favorite shops or brands have a sale or promotion,allowing them priority access to sell products.Shopological has received The IBM People's Choice Award 2014 and The RBS EnterprisingU Award 2012. It was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Ditlev has over a decade’s experience in the web hosting industry and has led the development of many acclaimed web hosting brands. As CEO of OnApp, Ditlev's commercial and technical leadership saw the company expand from its July 2010 launch to 500+ clients and 80+ people in just 12 months.Ditlev moved into the rapidly-growing Internetsector in the mid-1990s, after a number of roles working for the European Parliament. He quickly developed a reputation as an entrepreneur and a specialist in start-up and turnaround scenarios. He has led UK2Group’s hosting companies as MD and CEO since February 2006, and played a key role in the group’s transformation. Ditlev is a Danish national and an incurable technophile. He lives in the UK but travels frequently to see clients and speak at events across the globe.
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- Publishing
- Funding Round
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Zetland — Zetland is a digital newspaper that provides its users with daily news. Zetland was founded in 2012 by Hakon Mosbech, Jakob Moll, and Silke Bock and is based in Copenhagen.
Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.
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- News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
- Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
- We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
Entrepreneur and investor. After working in management consulting, in 2006 he created Wish Days, known above all for the Emozione3 gift boxes. In April 2016, he sold the company to the Smartbox group with a millionaire exit. In 2017, together with Cristina Pozzi, already a partner in Wish Days he founded Impactscool.He is advisor of dozens oftechnological initiatives and business angels in 150+ startups focusing on clean tech.He is the author of the book “Come far fallire una startup ed essere fellici” – How to make a startup fail and be happy, published by Bompiani, Bestseller in 2018.
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- Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Italy, United States, United Kingdom
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- Talyn Air — Inspired by two-stage rockets, our innovative eVTOL uses two flight vehicles to transform flight. Fixed-wing performance with VTOL capabilities.
- BillionToOne — We are a team at the forefront of disease detection focused on moving Prenatal Screening and Liquid Biopsy forward.
- CaSRevolution — A novel disease-modifying approach against neurodegeneration
Luc De Vos is the non-executive director at Hybrid Software Group PLC. Luc De Vos attended KU Leuven.
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- Analytics, Consulting, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Belgium, Finland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Finactum — Finactum delivers company data for Belgium in a freemium business model. The offering is to provide 'rich' factual data and as such be a tool for company competitive intelligence, m&a market research or lead generation. The company aims to be(come) a data Intelligence Service Provider (web 3.0).
- Husky Marketing Planner — Marketing planning & marketing calendar tool for marketing teams. Makes the complete marketing planning clear on one central digital platform.
- DataStories International — DataStories a Partners in Performance Company, is an end-to-end prescriptive analytics provider for your operations. Real-time optimisation for better quality, yield and energy efficiency.
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