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Top 50 Publishing Angel Investors in Europe (July 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, Italy, Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Publishing, Events, Digital Media $250k–$3M
Ali Omar
Angel
5 Finland, United States, Estonia Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence $53k–$2.1M
Paul Forster
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Germany, United States Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, FinTech, Financial Services $1.1M–$18M
Alexander Chesterman
Angel
3 United Kingdom, France Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services $470k–$23M
Lorenz Bogaert
Angel
3 Belgium, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $120k–$5.7M
Toon Coppens
Angel
3 Belgium, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel SaaS, Software, Sales Automation $384k–$2.2M
Simon Franks
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Australia, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A FinTech, Health Care, Payments $318k–$23M
Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier
Angel
2 France, United States, Belgium Seed, Angel Financial Services, FinTech, Software $1.2M–$6.6M
Willem Delbare
Angel
2 Belgium, United States Seed, Pre-Seed Artificial Intelligence, Software, CRM $384k–$6M
Stefan Rosenlund
Angel
2 Denmark Pre-Seed, Seed Software, SaaS, B2B $807k–$841k
Mikkel Salling
Angel
2 Denmark Seed, Pre-Seed Content, Software, Publishing
Anders Thorhauge Sandholm
Angel
2 Denmark Pre-Seed, Seed Content, Security, Software $807k–$1.6M
Jesper hvejsel
Angel
2 Denmark Pre-Seed, Seed Software, B2B, SaaS $807k–$841k
Oscar Pierre
Angel
2 Spain, United Kingdom, Germany 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–$4M
Didac Lee
Angel
2 Spain, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, Apps, Mobile $318k–$10M
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
Tom Kennedy
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Pre-Seed Travel, Software, Video $1.4M–$3.4M
Peter Hinssen
Angel
2 United States, United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Apps, SaaS, EBooks $524k–$4.8M
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, FinTech $221k–$66M
Damien Guermonprez
Angel
2 France, India, Cameroon Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Financial Services, Internet, FinTech $122k–$2.4M
Pieter Casneuf
Angel
2 Belgium Seed, Angel Software, SEO, SaaS $878k–$1.1M
Kresten Krab Thorup
Angel
2 Denmark Seed, Pre-Seed Content, Software, Publishing
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
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
Ian Hogarth
Angel
1 United Kingdom, United States, Germany Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Patrice Deckert
Angel
1 Germany Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Content
Angel Faus
Angel
1 Spain News, Legal, Content
jonathan wright
Angel
1 United Kingdom Printing, Publishing, Packaging Services
Barry Pitcher
Angel
1 Ireland Seed Video, Publishing, Social Media
Georg Kofler
Angel
1 Germany, Austria Angel, Seed Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet
Nicklas Storåkers
Angel
1 Sweden Seed Information Technology, Insurance, FinTech
Mark Thompson
Angel
1 United States, United Kingdom Seed News, Software, Publishing
Alexandre Berriche
Angel
1 France, Germany, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Karen Hanton
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed Events, E-Commerce, Music
Michael Kamleitner
Angel
1 Austria Seed Software, SaaS, Video
Will Neale
Angel
1 United Kingdom, Italy, Japan Seed, Pre-Seed FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Harald Nieder
Angel
1 Germany, Spain, Switzerland Seed, Series A FinTech, Analytics, Apps
Bill Holroyd
Angel
1 United Kingdom Seed, Angel Rental, Retail, Fashion
Benjamin Yoskovitz
Angel
1 Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
George Strompolos
Angel
1 United States Seed, Series A Software, FinTech, Finance
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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, Events, Digital Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Italy, Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • UNFIA — The marketplace of craft wine
  • 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.
  • 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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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: 80
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $1.1M–$3.5M; Series A $3.9M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 1% lead, 99% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oraion — Your single source of truth for enterprise data
  • Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
  • 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.
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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: 42
  • Round size: Seed $524k–$4.8M; Pre-Seed $470k–$3M; Series A $2.3M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Atheni AI — Atheni focused on embedding AI guidance directly into day-to-day workflows rather than relying on standalone training sessions or workshops.
  • 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
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Lorenz Bogaert
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 3 investments in Europe Publishing startups, 9 in the past 12 months

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: 63
  • Round size: Seed $445k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$1.7M; Series A $3.8M–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Feedelity — Feedelity is a software that centralizes customer feedback from various sources (complaint mail, social media inboxes, Google reviews, restaurant delivery platforms etc.), automates customer interaction and makes valuable insights and trends visible using artificial intelligence. The result is an increased customer satisfaction, e-reputation andteam efficiency.
  • Maurice & Nora
  • Aikido Security — Easily discover and track all your security issues in one place with Aikido's all-in-one AppSec product.
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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

  • Qollabi — Make partner and account plans work with Qollabi BRM (Business Relationship Management) for professionals managing indirect sales channels like agents, branches, distributors, dealers, brokers, resellers etc.
  • 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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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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Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier is based out of London, England, and is the CEO of iBanFirst. Pierre-Antoine previously worked at Saxo Bank as a Head of Western Europe. Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier attended the University of Westminster. Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier has been certified as a CF21 Investment Advisor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 32
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$6.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • spyne — Spyne is the first business operation platform enabling marketing and growth teams to grow their business. One place for: data, insights and collaboration
  • Beyond Aero — Beyond Aero is a Toulouse-based aerospace company founded in 2020
  • REFLECT — the analytics tool for HR
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Willem Delbare
Angel · Gent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Willem Delbare is the Co-founder at Officient. He attended Ghent University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, CRM
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Belgium, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $384k–$6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • journy.io — Turn customer behaviour on SaaS platform and website into playbooks that drive product-led customer acquisition, expansion and retention, at scale.
  • Salesflare — Salesflare is the #1 user-rated CRM, designed for ease of use. Streamline your sales, generate more leads, and grow your business. Start your 30-day free trial today.
  • StoryChief — StoryChief.io is an Editorial Software for Startups, SEO Marketers and Editorial teams who want to publish their stories multi-channel in seconds. This tool lets you create and push your articles to different publishing channels like Wordpress, Self hosted SC blog, API, Accelerated Mobile Pages (Apple News, Facebook Instant Articles, Google AMP,...), Medium.com, Newsletters, Ambassadors, Press contacts/Influencers, etc. It has a universal editor that lets you create beautiful stories with ease, making them look as they should on these channels and measure your impact and ROI in one place. It also provides SEO suggestions for your content.
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Stefan Rosenlund
Angel · Skanderborg, Midtjylland, Denmark · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Stefan is one of the Zitcom’s original three founders and has been on the whole journey from the start of Wannafind.dk in 2000 to the integration of DanDomain in 2017.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, B2B
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $807k–$841k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cernel — Reduce manual work by 90%, launch 10x faster. Automate product data enrichment, media content, and feed optimization for ecommerce at scale.
  • Relewise — Unlock the Power of Personalization with Relewise: Elevate Your User Experiences in the Personalization Economy. Personalize, Connect, Relewise.
  • Quickorder — From the back to the front of the house, we make it easier to operate and grow your restaurant from booking to payment and every other touchpoint. With us, one restaurant system is all you need.
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Mikkel Salling
Angel · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Mikkel Salling is a e-commerce entrepreneur.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cernel — Reduce manual work by 90%, launch 10x faster. Automate product data enrichment, media content, and feed optimization for ecommerce at scale.
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Anders Thorhauge Sandholm
Angel · Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Anders Thorhauge Sandholm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Content, Security, Software
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $807k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coana (acquired by Socket) — Coana's SCA identifies vulnerabilities in open source packages that are genuinely reachable, allowing you to confidently disregard up to 95% false positives.
  • Cernel — Reduce manual work by 90%, launch 10x faster. Automate product data enrichment, media content, and feed optimization for ecommerce at scale.
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Jesper hvejsel
Angel · Aarhus, Midtjylland, Denmark · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Jesper Hvejsel is the Chief Digital Officer at Firtal Group. Jesper attended Aarhus University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, B2B, SaaS
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $807k–$841k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cernel — Reduce manual work by 90%, launch 10x faster. Automate product data enrichment, media content, and feed optimization for ecommerce at scale.
  • Relewise — Unlock the Power of Personalization with Relewise: Elevate Your User Experiences in the Personalization Economy. Personalize, Connect, Relewise.
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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, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$3.5M; Angel $406k–$1.1M; Pre-Seed $987k–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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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–$4M
  • 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: 22
  • Round size: Seed $318k–$10M; Pre-Seed $849k–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cafler — Your car's personal assistant. Ask for a Cafler now, we move your car for you!
  • 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.
  • FINDS — FINDS is a unique, video marketplace app for fashion. We are a female-led team that believes that an online fashion marketplace should be just as dynamic and inspiring as a thrift market IRL. We are on a mission to create a fashion resale community that offers a fun, interactive place for people who love to buy, sell & express their uniqueitems and style - together.It's simple to start selling. List your products in your shop, set a fixed price and choose to add them to a live stream to show your items from every angle. It's easy to buy, explore and discover items, styles, people and personalities you'll love.
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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

  • Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
  • Barespace — Barespace provides end-to-end solutions that manage, market, and grow your beauty business.
  • MARC
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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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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

  • 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
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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, FinTech
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Germany, United States, Mexico

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 38
  • Round size: Seed $221k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $17M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% 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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Pieter Casneuf
Angel · Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium · 2 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Pieter Casneuf

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SEO, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $878k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Revend — Thanks for visiting Revend's Crunchbase page. Revend is the e-commerce tool that monitors, detects, and pinpoints revenue-impacting issues in minutes for D2C and omni-channel companies. Put differently, Revend is a watchdog for e-commerce KPIs. Revenue, add to carts, checkouts, we keep a close eye on them in near real-time. It is supereasy to install, and easily integrates with your preferred communication channels. We've also been called 'a smoke detector for online shops'.We are working together with a select number of large e-commerce companies that currently trail our solution prior to our launch in early 2023.Today, you can put yourself on the waitlist to ensure early access on Revend's website upon launch. For any questions or requests, please feel welcome to reach out via info@revend.ai.
  • Bizzy — Bizzy is the B2B intelligence platform helping you discover, qualify and engage with companies, smarter than ever.
  • Crodeon Technologies — Crodeon is a leading manufacturer of plug & play end-to-end monitoring systems. We build the Crodeon Reporter, Europe's favourite sensor device.
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Kresten Krab Thorup
Angel · Århus, Midtjylland, Denmark · 2 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, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Cernel — Reduce manual work by 90%, launch 10x faster. Automate product data enrichment, media content, and feed optimization for ecommerce at scale.
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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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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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Ian Hogarth
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Ian got a master's in machine learning at Cambridge and loves dystopian robot takeover narratives. Seven years ago, Ian realized being a choirboy came with no street cred, so he started DJing hip-hop, funk, drum & bass, and grime. Ian quit his job at Bain & Company, Singapore to start Songkick.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
  • Unitary — We detect harmful content with context-aware AI to keep brands and platforms safe online.
  • Fabric — One home for your digital world. Your second brain. A file explorer and workspace for the internet age. All your drives, clouds, notes, screenshots, links, and files in one calm, minimal app. No organizing required. Never forget anything again.
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Patrice Deckert
Angel · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Patrice Deckert - Venture Partner @ Heilemann Ventures

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Content
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Germany

Investor stats

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

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.
  • heyData — heyData is a legal tech company. HeyData offers a digitized data protection officer for companies.
  • Tidy — Turn your browser into a second brain. Be 20x faster at finding the docs and people that make your work better
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Angel Faus
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Angel Faus is Co-founder & CTO at vLex.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, Legal, Content
  • Geography: Spain

Investor stats

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

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.
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jonathan wright
Angel · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

jonathan wright

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Printing, Publishing, Packaging Services
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Reel Label Solutions — Reel Label Solutions is the at the forefront of the packaging printing industry, offering high quality, bespoke print solutions for your packaging.
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Barry Pitcher
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Barry Pitcher

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Video, Publishing, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • 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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Georg Kofler
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Georg Kofler is an angel investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Germany, Austria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Layzee — Layzee produces products related to outdoor living and camping.
  • KONKRUA — KONKRUA is a super delicious, gluten-free, healthy and easy original ingredients from Thailand.
  • Keego — Keego engages in the manufacture and supply of sports bottles.
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Nicklas Storåkers
Angel · Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Nicklas Storåkers

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Insurance, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Sweden

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Lysa — Lysa is a digital portfolio management service that allows you to invest as a Nobel Prize winner.
  • KIT — KIT helps companies to improve relationships with their target groups, in order to increase awareness, loyalty and conversions at a time when social media is our most important marketing channel. KIT was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. KIT is part of People People People, an agency group that consists of Spoon, Oh My,Trickle, TDWT, Gabardin, KIT, Sigmar, Spoon Inhouse & Fuze PR
  • Nordtech Group — Nordtech Group is a technology group consisting of software companies with industry-specific products. Common to its companies is that they deliver high customer values ​​within their respective segments.
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Mark Thompson
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Mark Thompson became President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Times Company on November 12, 2012. He is responsible for leading the company’s strategy, operations and business units.Thompson has been instrumental in accelerating the pace of The Times’s digital transformation. Under his leadership, The Times became the first newsorganization in the world to pass the one million digital-only subscription mark. The company has also introduced a new era of international growth, launched an industry-leading branded content studio and invested in virtual reality, producing some of the most celebrated work in this emerging medium.Before joining the Times Company, Thompson served as Director-General of the BBC from 2004, where he reshaped the organization to meet the challenge of the digital age, ensuring that it remained a leading innovator with the launch of services such as the BBC iPlayer. He also oversaw a transformation of the BBC itself, driving productivity and efficiency through the introduction of new technologies and bold organizational redesign.Thompson joined the BBC in 1979 as a production trainee. He helped launch “Watchdog” and “Breakfast Time,” was an Output Editor on “Newsnight,” and was appointed Editor of the “Nine O’Clock News” in 1988 and of “Panorama” in 1990. He became Controller (programming and scheduling chief) for the TV network BBC2 and Director of Television for the BBC before leaving the BBC in 2002 to become C.E.O. of Channel 4 Television Corporation in the United Kingdom.In the autumn of 2012, he was a visiting professor of rhetoric and the art of public persuasion at the University of Oxford. His book “Enough Said: What’s Gone Wrong with the Language of Politics?,” which is based on the lectures he gave at Oxford, was published in the U.K. and U.S. in September 2016. Thompson was educated at Stonyhurst College and Merton College, Oxford.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • GPTZero — Covered by >100 media outlets, GPTZero is the most advanced AI detector for ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bard. Check up to 50000 characters for AI plagiarism in seconds.
  • 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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Alexandre Berriche
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Alexandre Berriche is currently the CEO of Fleet, a startup which simplifies the access, management and a sustainable renewal of computers for start ups, scale ups and SMB, helping you focus on your growth.He is also an angel investor (companies include Kocomo, Claap, Finary, Convelio and more) and scout for Sequoia Capital.Before launchingFleet he was VP of Operations and Expansion at Ironhack and Managing Director of Jumia Tunisia, a Rocket Internet’s company.Alexandre is trilingual and holds degrees from IESEG, le Wagon and Victoria University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: France, Germany, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Enzai — Enzai's AI governance platform allows you to build and deploy AI with confidence. Measure your progress in AI responsibility, and get actionable steps with our 3-minute maturity assessment.
  • Clarifeye — Clarifeye is a software development company that offers an augmented reality-based surgical navigation tool.
  • Hyperline — Enjoy the most flexible billing platform for B2B SaaS businesses. Start today without a single line of code.
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Karen Hanton
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Karen Hanton MBE, was the founder and Chairman of Toptable, a restaurant booking company. In 2010, Toptable was sold to OpenTable for $55m.Karen has also founded the IT staffing firm Mortimer Spinks. After selling Mortimer Spinks, she bought and staffed a restaurant business in Fulham, which in 1998 inspired her to found Toptable. Karen wasappointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Events, E-Commerce, Music
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • DICE — DICE was founded in London in 2014, DICE helps fans discover and buy tickets to live shows and streams all over the world. Available in the UK, US, France, Italy, Spain, India and Australia, and accessible to fans globally through its live stream offering, DICE is on a mission to get people out more.
  • Hussle — Gym membership with total flexibility. Gym passes to no contract gym memberships that you can use in thousands of gyms across the UK. Gym and swim wherever you want to. Stop and start whenever you like.
  • Hire Space — The best venues for hire in the UK and beyond. Find undiscovered venues and book online at the UK's leading venue finder. Premium Hire Space 360 solution available for corporate bookers.
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Michael Kamleitner
Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Michael Kamleitner is the Founder of Swat.io. He attended WU Vienna.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Video
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Austria

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • tubics — We help brands grow on YouTube with the #1 Software for video ideation, video briefings and video optimization.
  • Happy Plates — Tolle Rezepte finden, Zutaten bestellen, loskochen: Happy Plates liefert Kochinspiration und Online-Einkauf aus einer Hand.
  • Kickscale — The AI-powered conversation intelligence platform records, transcribes, and analyzes meetings to provide tailored training recommendations to every sales rep
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Will Neale
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 52
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
  • Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
  • SAPI — SAPI builds credit products for payment companies to facilitate payment flows, engage and retain merchants, and generate new revenue.
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Harald Nieder
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Harald Nieder is the General Partner at Redalpine. Attended University of Oxford.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Analytics, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Germany, Spain, Switzerland

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • 011h — 011h Sustainable Construction SL. Building a green future.
  • Relai — Relai is a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
  • Inkitt — Read upcoming novels and many more from talented authors before they go mainstream!
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Bill Holroyd
Angel · Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Charles William Holroyd CBE DL is a British investor and philanthropist.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Rental, Retail, Fashion
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • By Rotation — Rent over 25000+ designer fashion items online from our free app. Discover luxury designer dresses, clothing, bags and accessories from your trending favorite brands.
  • By Gamers For Gamers — Made up entirely of gamers, we are a team that is dedicated to bringing you the best PC gaming and tech content possible.
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Benjamin Yoskovitz
Angel · Toronto, Ontario, Canada · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

Founding Partner at Highline BETA, a startup co-creation and venture development company. Ben is an entrepreneur, product lead, angel investor. He co-authored Lean Analytics.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Reedsy — Reedsy allows authors to find and work with the best publishing professionals: from developmental editors to book cover designers, publicists and translators.
  • Breather — Breather is an app and a provider of space-as-a-service, with a growing network of private workspaces built for productivity. It enables businesses to access flexible workspace by the hour, day, or month. Every space is designed to be comfortable, private, and productive, with plug-and-play technology that ensures that can get to work as soon asthe arrival.Founded by CEO Julien Smith in 2012, the company has grown to include hundreds of locations in 10 major across the globe including New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and London.
  • CareGuide — We believe good people deserve the best care. Connect with housekeepers, nannies, pet sitters, and elder \ care providers with ease. Trusted and secure.
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George Strompolos
Angel · Culver City, California, United States · 1 investments in Europe Publishing startups

George Strompolos - CEO, Founder @ Fullscreen

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, FinTech, Finance
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • 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.
  • Mora Financial — Invest in Pre-IPO deals
  • Plotdrive — Choose your Path. Brave the Scar. Seek your Fortune.
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