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Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in Europe (June 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Europe Publishing startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Europe Publishing startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Sven Fund
Angel
5 Germany, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Publishing, Digital Media, Information Technology $250k–$1.1M
Ali Omar
Angel
5 Finland, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $53k–$2.1M
Toon Coppens
Angel
3 Belgium, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, Sales Automation $384k–$2.2M
Alexander Chesterman
Angel
3 United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $524k–$23M
Lorenz Bogaert
Angel
3 Belgium, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $120k–$5.7M
Paul Forster
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$15M
Simon Franks
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Health Care, Payments $318k–$23M
Oscar Pierre
Angel
2 Spain, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, SaaS $406k–$3.5M
Massimiliano Magrini
Angel
2 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $274k–$16M
Tony Smurfit
Angel
2 Ireland, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Publishing, Video, Privacy $2.9M–$4.5M
Didac Lee
Angel
2 Spain, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile $318k–$8.8M
Raghav Gupta
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Internet $354k–$5M
Ines Ures
Angel
2 Spain, United Kingdom Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps $406k–$2.2M
Peter Hinssen
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, SaaS, EBooks $524k–$4.8M
Tom Kennedy
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Travel, Software, Video $1.4M–$3.4M
Nicolas Julia
Angel
2 France, Israel, Sweden Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $400k–$15M
Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel
2 Ireland Seed Video, Publishing, Social Media $1M–$1.4M
Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel
2 Germany, United States, Mexico Series A, Seed, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Internet $221k–$66M
Damien Guermonprez
Angel
2 France, India, Cameroon Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Internet, FinTech $122k–$2.4M
Mehrdad Piroozram
Angel
1 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Insurance, Apps, Software $106k–$2.3M
Carlos Espinal
Angel
1 United Kingdom, France, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Wellness $159k–$17M
Charlie Songhurst
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $510k–$8M
Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Non Profit, Venture Capital $200k–$4.5M
Cenk Serdar
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed SaaS, Audio, Mobile $600k–$2.4M
Andreas Mihalovits
Angel
1 Spain, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, SaaS $411k–$7M
Will Brooks
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $524k–$30M
Gianni Papa
Angel
1 Italy Series A Publishing
David Langer
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, FinTech, Wellness $25k–$27M
Andrin Bachmann
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Germany, France Seed, Series B, Series C E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace $637k–$70M
Federico Ghizzoni
Angel
1 Italy, San Marino Series A, Series B Banking, FinTech, Blockchain
Doug Scott
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Advertising, B2B, B2C $159k–$3.6M
Erik Huberman
Angel
1 United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed News, SaaS, Travel
Philipp Kinsky
Angel
1 Austria Pre-Seed SaaS, Audio, Sales
Diane Coyle
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed News, Publishing
John Corcoran
Angel
1 Ireland Series A Video, Publishing, Social Media
Jean-Marie Messier
Angel
1 France, United States Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
Michele Connolly
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
Rustan Panday
Angel
1 Sweden Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed EBooks, Retail, Computer
Andrew Grahame
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed, Angel E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty
Ditlev Bredahl
Angel
1 Denmark Publishing
Matteo de Brabant
Angel
1 Italy, France Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
Andrea Dusi
Angel
1 Italy, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
Luc De Vos
Angel
1 Belgium, Finland, United States Seed, Series A, Private Equity Analytics, Consulting, B2B
Dave McClure
Angel
1 United States, Canada, Japan Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Kevin Gould
Angel
1 Germany Seed News, Travel, Publishing
Jonas Deprez
Angel
1 Belgium Seed
Kresten Krab Thorup
Angel
1 Denmark Seed Content, Software, Publishing
Gabriel Grabner
Angel
1 Austria Angel Internet, Software, Marketing
Luca Ascani
Angel
1 France, Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Pierre Antoine Dusoulier
Angel
1 France, United States, Belgium Seed, Angel Financial Services, Software, FinTech
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Sven Fund
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 5 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Sven Fund - Managing Director @ Fullstopp

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Digital Media, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Ali Omar
Angel · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 5 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Ali Omar is a Member of the Finnish Business Angels Network. He attended Aalto University and the University of Oulu.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Finland, United States, Estonia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $263k–$2.1M; Angel $53k–$1.6M; Pre-Seed $163k–$724k
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

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
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Toon Coppens
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 3 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Sales Automation
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Belgium, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
  • Cardify — Cardify redefines the way the fastest growing companies enable their sales team to deliver a more effective and personalized buyer/seller experience. The company was founded in 2019 and headquartered in Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium.
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Alexander Chesterman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $655k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

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.
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Lorenz Bogaert
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 3 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Belgium, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 62
  • Round size: Seed $445k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.7M; Series A $4.1M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Driven — Driven is the easiest platform to design smart incentives, align targets, and boost overall sales performance.
  • 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.
  • Maison Sport — Book ski lessons online with highly qualified ski instructors. Ski & snowboard lessons & ski school in Morzine, Meribel, Val Thorens, Courchevel, Avoriaz, Tignes, Val d'Isere, Zermatt, Verbier & more
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Paul Forster
Angel · Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States · 3 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Paul Forster is an early-stage investor in the tech sector. He previously worked at Indeed as a Senior Advisor. Paul attended INSEAD, where he earned an MBA.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 78
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$4.2M; Series A $3.9M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
  • Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
  • Kombo — One unified API for HRIS, Payroll & ATS
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Simon Franks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Health Care, Payments
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Australia, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 54
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $318k–$1.6M; Series A $5.4M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Lapse — The new social camera for friends, not followers
  • Thriva — At-home blood testing and science-backed next steps to feel great, maximise your performance, and extend your healthspan.
  • Trilo — Welcome to the simplest way to pay. Whether your strolling on the high street, or scrolling on your phone, you'll get a Boost whenever you shop with Trilo.
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Oscar Pierre
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Aerospace engineer and entrepreneur, ​O​scar ​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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$3.5M; Angel $406k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $987k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Massimiliano Magrini
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $274k–$10M; Series A $4M–$15M; Series B $12M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow

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.
  • Wallife — Wallife is an InsurTech company that helps in eliminating improper use of biometric data. The company protects against new risks originating from technological and scientific progress in the areas of genetics, biometrics, and biohacking. Wallife was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Roma, Lazio, Italy.
  • 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.
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Tony Smurfit
Angel · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Tony Smurfit is the Founder & CEO of Smurfit Kappa.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing, Video, Privacy
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Ireland, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $2.9M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Didac Lee
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 20
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$8.8M; Pre-Seed $849k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

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.
  • Gretel.co — Gretel is a B2B SaaS connecting people with all the in-company information they need to do their jobs through their favourite applications, which can be found in the Gretel Store.
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Raghav Gupta
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $354k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Ines Ures
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Ines Ures is a Partner at IRIS Ventures.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Apps
  • Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Angel $406k–$786k; Pre-Seed $764k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Peter Hinssen
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Peter Hinssen is the Co-Founder and Partner at Nexxworks.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, SaaS, EBooks
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Tom Kennedy
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Tom Kennedy is the Founder of Hostelworld. Tom Kennedy attended Technological University Dublin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Software, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$3.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Barespace — Barespace provides end-to-end solutions that manage, market, and grow your beauty business.
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  • 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.
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Nicolas Julia
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Nicolas Julia is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France, and is the CEO and Co-founder of Sorare. Nicolas previously worked at Stratumn as a VP of Operations. Nicolas Julia attended the EM Lyon Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Israel, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 13
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$15M; Pre-Seed $400k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Flowdesk — The new standard for market-making and crypto-financial technology. Market-making as a Service, brokerage, custody of cryptocurrencies.
  • LaCollection — LaCollection is creating a new way of owning digital versions of a physical artwork by working with cultural institutions. Like a limited edition “digital lithography”, collectors are now able to own certified digital twins of masterpieces from the world’s greatest museums, galleries, and artists.
  • Sekai Studio — Creating mind blowing official entertainment anime fans have been dreaming about
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Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Peter O'Grady Walshe - Chairman @ VideoElephant

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 37
  • Round size: Seed $221k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $17M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

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!
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Damien Guermonprez
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Internet, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, India, Cameroon

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $219k–$2.4M; Pre-Seed $122k–$1.1M; Series A $849k–$1.5M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MerciYanis — Yanis is a Toulouse start-up that uses the Internet of Things (IoT) to connect buildings and help work environment departments
  • Julaya — Julaya is a fintech providing African businesses with a digital account to make payments : disbursing mobile money transactions to their employees, suppliers, and owning their own virtual and physical prepaid cards.
  • Primaa — Primaa develops AI-based software for automated and accurate histological diagnoses, improving a vital step in the detections of cancer and other pathologies.
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Mehrdad Piroozram
Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Mehrdad Piroozram - Founder and General Partner @ InsurTech.vc

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Insurance, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $425k–$2.3M; Angel $106k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cola — Best IPL betting apps for Indian players. Real money cricket betting, secure payments, live streaming.
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  • Golf Post AG
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Carlos Espinal
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Carlos is Managing Partner at Seedcamp, Europe's seed fund, investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. Carlos hails originally from Latin America and joined Seedcamp in '09 following stints as an Associate at Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures and as an engineer forthe Advanced Communications Technologies group of The New York Stock Exchange (SIAC). Carlos runs Seedcamp alongside Reshma Sohoni and is passionate about working closely with founders from their earliest stage, supporting them across everything from finding product-market-fit to setting fundraising milestones - he wrote a successful book on that very topic, The Fundraising Fieldguide. Carlos is frequently listed as one of the most influential voices in tech and VC. You can find Carlos podcasting at 'This Much I Know' where he interviews leading tech voices, innovators, entrepreneurs, investors and operators as they share their stories with Seedcamp's global audience.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $393k–$7.3M; Series A $8.5M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Refute — Refute identifies and addresses misinformation on behalf of there businesses.
  • Tech.eu — The premier source of European technology news, data, research, analysis and in-depth market intelligence.
  • Telleroo — Better bulk payments. Cut out payment errors. Work more securely. Get payment, accounting systems & finance teams working better together. Save time and hassle.
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Charlie Songhurst
Angel · Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Charles Songhurst is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 180
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $510k–$5.1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Skrap — Skrap is an on-demand mobile marketplace for skip hire and other waste collection services.
  • BirdyChat — BirdyChat is a Developer of a work chat application intended for work professionals.
  • Hyphen SCS — Find and rent verified warehouses across 992+ cities in India. Compare 65,000+ listings on Hyphen SCS.
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Federico Pirzio-Biroli
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Non Profit, Venture Capital
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Kenya, Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $200k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Cenk Serdar
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Cenk Serdar

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Audio, Mobile
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$2.4M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Andreas Mihalovits
Angel · Marbella, Andalucia, Spain · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 65
  • Round size: Seed $411k–$2.1M; Series A $1.5M–$7M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Colibid — Jagoledak Layanan Terbaik Master Vixenskitchen Rasakan Citra Rasa Dunia Penuh HIburan Penghasil Uang Dalam Genggaman Tangan
  • 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.
  • CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
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Will Brooks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$3.1M; Series A $2.2M–$30M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Gianni Papa
Angel · Milano, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Gianni Franco Papa

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Italy

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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David Langer
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, FinTech, Wellness
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$9M; Series A $25k–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

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.
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Andrin Bachmann
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Andrin brings his entrepreneurial spirit and investment experience to Piton. He was a co-founder of Glocalnet, which became Sweden's 3rd largest consumer telecom service provider and was listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange before being acquired by Telenor. Following this, he was a partner at M/C Venture Partners - one of the leadingprivate equity investors in the US telecom services space. He was also one of two principals establishing an investment company that became QXL Ricardo PLC's largest shareholder in 2005, and was instrumental in the transformation of QXL leading to its sale to Naspers for around $1.9 billion.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $637k–$5.3M; Series B $4M–$30M; Series C $5.7M–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Dala — Your workplace has the answer. Just ask Dala for it.
  • Koru Kids — Koru Kids was made for busy modern families. Search vetted nannies for just the days and times you need.
  • Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
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Federico Ghizzoni
Angel · Italy, Texas, United States · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Founder & CEO at UniCredit

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Banking, FinTech, Blockchain
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Italy, San Marino

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.
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Doug Scott
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Doug Scott is Founder at Potential.co

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Advertising, B2B, B2C
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $159k–$3.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
  • Ricochet.ai — Deep learning tools for sales development teams
  • Citruslabs — Citruslabs provides a simple and affordable way to prove your products actually work. We offer clinical trials for dietary supplements, skincare & cosmetic products, health foods, medical devices, pet products, CBD products, and biotech companies. It has never been easier to create research-backed product claims.
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Erik Huberman
Angel · Santa Monica, California, United States · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Erik Huberman - Founder and CEO @ Hawke Media

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Travel
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Philipp Kinsky
Angel · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Philipp Kinsky

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Audio, Sales
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Diane Coyle
Angel · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Diane Coyle is the Bennett Professor of Public Policy at the University of Cambridge.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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John Corcoran
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Series A
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Jean-Marie Messier
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Michele Connolly
Angel · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Michele Connolly is an EMA Head of Infrastructure, KPMG.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, E-Commerce, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Rustan Panday
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Rustan Panday

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Investment focus

  • Industry: EBooks, Retail, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Andrew Grahame
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Andrew Grahame is a Founder at The Cook & The Thief.He attended St Austell College.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, Beauty
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Ditlev Bredahl
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Publishing
  • Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Matteo de Brabant
Angel · Milan, Lombardia, Italy · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Italy, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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
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Andrea Dusi
Angel · Verona, Veneto, Italy · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Italy, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
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Luc De Vos
Angel · Leuven, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Luc De Vos is the non-executive director at Hybrid Software Group PLC. Luc De Vos attended KU Leuven.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Analytics, Consulting, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Private Equity
  • Geography: Belgium, Finland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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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Dave McClure
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 91
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
  • Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
  • Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
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Kevin Gould
Angel · Miami Beach, Florida, United States · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Kevin Gould is the Co-founder of Insert Name Here, GLAMNETIC, and Kombo Ventures. Kevin was a Member at William Morris Endeavor. He attended the University of North Carolina Wilmington.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Travel, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Jonas Deprez
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Jonas Deprez - Founder and CEO @ Daltix

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Investment focus

  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Kresten Krab Thorup
Angel · Denmark, Western Australia, Australia · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Kresten provides technical leadership and vision at Humio.In his previous role as CTO of Trifork, Kresten was responsible for technical strategy and has provided consulting advice to teams on a variety of technologies to include distributed systems and databases, erlang, Java, and mobile application development. Kresten has been a contributor toseveral open source projects, including GCC, GNU Objective-C, GNU Compiled Java, Emacs, and Apache Geronimo/Yoko. Prior to Trifork, Kresten worked at NeXT Software (now acquired by Apple), where he was responsible for the development of the Objective-C tool chain, the debugger, and the runtime system. Kresten has a Ph.D. in computer science from University of Aarhus.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Software, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Cernel — Webshop content that writes itself (perfectly).
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Gabriel Grabner
Angel · Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Gabriel Grabner - Venture Partner @ DvH Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Internet, Software, Marketing
  • Stage:Angel
  • Geography: Austria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1
  • Lead/follow: no public data

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.
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Luca Ascani
Angel · Rome, Lazio, Italy · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
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Pierre Antoine Dusoulier
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier is the CEO of iBanFirst. He previously worked at Saxo Bank as a Head of Western Europe. Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, Software, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Bastion — Bastion is a cloud-based cyber security platform that is built to scale with security, compliance, insurance, and risk management needs.
  • Roundtable — The community-led platform for private market investments. Create or join a community to co-invest in premium start-ups and funds, seamlessly.
  • FREELAND FOR CORPORATES — Corporate Online Schoo
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