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Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in Europe

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Recruiting startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Recruiting Angel Investors in Europe

Investor	Recruiting Europe investments
Paul Forster	5
Jens Schumann	3
Will Martin	3
Will Brooks	3
Xavier Niel	3
Alex Macdonald	3
Volker Rofalski	3
Stefan Ciecierski	3
Indrek Prants	2
Thomas Bachem	2
Jimmy Braimah	2
Massimo Pagnetti	2
Gianpaolo Naef	2
Massimo Cioffi	2
Emiliano Maria Cappuccitti	2
Carlos Blanco	2
Chris Bruce	2
Jean-Baptiste Rudelle	2
Joakim Karske	2
Carsten Erdt	2
Andres Kull	2
Christopher Sier	2
Timo Rein	2
Steve Perry	2
Michael Whitfield	2
Loic Le Meur	2
Keith MacDonald	2
Harry Serra	2
Stuart Marks	2
Sir Terry Leahy	2
Thierry Petit	2
Udo Schloemer	2
Rajan Navani	2
Frank Freund	2
Marius Ghenea	2
Alain Thibaut	2
Gonzalo Manrique	2
Peter Preston	2
Jaan Tallinn	2
Oliver Hehl	2
Denis Fayolle	2
Simon Murphy	2
Ignacio Lucea	2
Mehmet Yilmaz	1
Christian Reber	1
Graham Clempson	1
Urmas Purde	1
Christopher Huesmann	1
Joshua Cornelius	1
Stephen Warrington	1

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Paul Forster

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

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.
Verisian — Verisian accelerates drug time to market with the industry's first platform offering real study traceability (CDISC, SDTM, ADaM, TFLs)
Triple — The best payment data enrichment solution. Our API includes fraud detection, transaction enrichment, categorization, subscriptions, and carbon footprint.

Jens Schumann, born on 6 June 1973, was appointed Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LOTTO24 AG on 19 June 2020. Before that, since 2 May 2012, he was already Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board. He is one of the two founders of today's ZEAL Network SE (former Tipp24 SE) and was Managing Director and a Management Board member of Tipp24SE from 1999 to 2009. Jens Schumann has been a member of the Supervisory Board of ZEAL Network SE since July 2011. From 1998 to the formation of Tipp24 SE, he worked as a business consultant at Icon Medialab AG. Schumann studied law at the University of Münster from 1993 to 1998 and finished his studies with the first State Exam.

Investment focus

Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Adtriba — Data-driven marketing analytics, unbiased, cross-channel and easy to use multi-touch attribution, unified marketing measurement and marketing mix modelling
aiconix GmbH — AI technology and solutions for analysis and processing of audio-visual content.
Revo Foods — Revo Foods produces seafood products made of plants that is better for your health AND the environment.

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
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 AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bequest — We're building a better way to protect you and your family, starting with personalised pay-as-you-go life insurance. Backed by Aviva.
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 AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.

Xavier Niel is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. He previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cure51 — Cure51 mission is to create a database of cancer survivors to leverage their exceptional biological features and find new drugs to cure Cancer.
VizBlock — Blockchain Analytics made simple
The Mobile-First Company — Early Stage Startup that is Simplifying Business, One App at a Time. Forget about those overcomplicated, pricey software giants. We're building easy, mobile-first tools that actually make sense.

Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO of sequel - an investment platform on a mission to help athletes build a legacy for their families and the world. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black, raised more than $40m in funding, and which was successfully exited to US Bank Capital One in 2023. He is a serial angel investor having invested in 50early stage startups and funds.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Harriet — Efficient, cost effective AI for HR that improves the employee experience. Get time back to focus on what counts and let Harriet do the rest | Harriet
Fundably — Fundably - Get The Right UK Business Loan | Access £1k-£2m
Atman Labs — Hi, welcome to Atman Labs. We're an applied AI R&D and product company in London building software to emulate human expertise across multiple commercial domains.

Volker Rofalski is the founder of WebStock AG, which he sold to BAADER Bank in 1999 and TradeCross AG, which he sold to VEM Aktienbank in 2005. Since then, Volker was director of Equity Capital Markets and authorized officer of the VEM Aktienbank. Prior to this, he held several managing positions in diverse industries e.g. CFO at ELA Medical &Porges and Internet2000 AG. He studied business economics at the University of Augsburg. Volker is a member of the supervisory board of several listed and non-listed companies.

Investment focus

Information Technology, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

eco.mio — eco.mio enables companies to reach their climate targets while realizing significant savings: Incentivize employees to travel consciously with eco mio's end-to-end integrated software solution.
Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.

Stefan Ciecierski

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.

Indrek Prants - Co-Founder @ Elasteq do Brasil

Investment focus

Education, Recruiting, Professional Services
Seed, Series A
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Jobbatical — Jobbatical takes care of the entire relocation process for you. Just sit back and relax.

Thomas Bachem “Tom” is a passionate entrepreneur, investor and founder of several startups and initiatives, including sevenload, Lebenslauf.com and the German Startups Association. Being an avid coder and designer since his early youth, he is currently building his dream university CODE and serves as Germany’s youngest university chancellor.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Internet, Education
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Doctorflix — Doctorflix is a medical education platform that allows doctors around the globe to learn about methods of treatment while accelerating their system-required professional development. We are on a mission to build an engine that simplifies and democratizes the consumption and exchange of medical knowledge by interlinking doctors, hospitals, andpharmaceutical companies.
Masterplan.com — Masterplan's mission is to turn continuous transformation in companies into an exciting and positive experience. That's why the platform aims to offer the most intuitive and engaging user interface across the industry. For example, companies can combine their content with Masterplan lectures and customized quizzes in just a few minutes -and just as easily assign those learning paths to the right employees. Serial entrepreneurs Stefan Peukert and Dr. Daniel Schütt founded the B2B edutech platform in 2017 and have since raised over €13 million in venture capital for it. Investors include Tengelmann Ventures, ex-Bertelsmann CEO Gunter Thielen, CODE University Chancellor Thomas Bachem, as well as the RAG Foundation, DvH Ventures, and NRW.BANK. In addition to its headquarters in Bochum, Masterplan.com has further locations in Berlin and Vienna and currently employs around 70 people.
WeAreDevelopers — Create a free profile and get access to 5.000+ pre-vetted developer jobs in Europe and countless hours of developer talks & coding sessions.

Jimmy Braimah

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Goodtalent — Goodtalent.io is a cloud-based social talent marketplace for companies to crowdsource, screen, hire and pay software engineering talents globally, for full-time, remote, and contract roles.

Massimo Pagnetti is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Online Portals, Human Resources
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.

Gianpaolo Naef is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Online Portals, Human Resources
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.

Massimo Cioffi is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Online Portals, Human Resources
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.

Emiliano Maria Cappuccitti is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Online Portals, Human Resources
Seed
Italy

Portfolio highlights

Stepsconnect — Trova candidati delle Nuove Generazioni. Offriamo tools di AI per trovare rapidamente i migliori candidati sui Social Network e nei nuovi canali.

Carlos Blanco is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Profe.com, Chairman and Co-Founder of PropTEX, and Co-founder of Casum. He is a former Co-founder at Verone. He attendedCarlos Blanco is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in multimedia, telecommunications, and project management. He has founded a number of companies which includeServiFutbol.com, New- Info, Diser 2000, OACE Servicios InformÃ¡ticos, Insap Consulting, Grupo ITnet, First Tuesday, Akamon Entertainment, Conector Startup Accelerator, and more. Blanco also works as a mentor, speaker, lecturer, and moderator at various institutions and events.Blanco holds master’s degrees from the University of Navarra, the University of Pompeu Fabra, and the University of Autònoma de Barcelona.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Spain, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Finteca — Finteca can save you more than € 8,000 * compared to traditional advisors. Without commissions, without risk, our professional team improves conditions of interest and other parameters.
BRICKBRO — Currently, Brickbro is one of the leading real estate transactional platforms in the spanish market.
Viterbit — Viterbit is a technology start-up that offers a Recruitment and Selection Software (ATS). Just what your company needs to go one step further with the talent it hires. The greatest strength organizations have are the people who work in them, so our team is committed to helping you attract the talent you need.

Chris was a benefit consultant when he co-founded Thomsons. His role spans every aspect of the business, from engaging with clients to the development of DarwinTM software. This means he is in close contact with HR and benefit specialists globally, understanding the changing benefit landscape.

Investment focus

Recruiting, Internet, Human Resources
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
HowNow — HowNow is a learning experience platform that helps companies onboard, upskill and support employees faster, everywhere they work.
HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.

Jean-Baptiste Rudelle is the President at The Galion Project.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Cloud Data Services
Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

YZR — YZR is a saas platform designed to enable business people to prepare their own data. 3 features : - Standardisation : rewrite textual data, the standard way - Labeling : applies featured labels based on a active learning process - Fuzzy matching : matches groups of words (for ex: product descriptions)YZR makes data standard, labeled and matchedeven without top down data governance.YZR performs automatic data preparation through an API, designed to be integrated in any data infrastructure.
Skello — Skello makes schedule in a few clicks, communicate with teams and automatically process payroll. Skello calculates in real time the management indicators you need: Payroll, productivity, staff ratio.
Riminder — HrFlow.ai is an API-first company and the leading AI-powered HR data automation platform. The company helps +1000 customers (HR software vendors, staffing agencies, large employers, and headhunting firms) to thrive in a high-volume and high-frequency labor market.

Joakim Karske

Investment focus

Education, Recruiting, Professional Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Jobbatical — Jobbatical takes care of the entire relocation process for you. Just sit back and relax.

Carsten Erdt - Founder and Managing Director @ Erdt Group

Investment focus

Information Technology, Software, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Instaffo — Instaffo is a Heidelberg based HR technology company that has developed a reverse recruiting platform for a fulfilling employer-employee relationship to help people.Based on big data and artificial intelligence, Instaffo automatically connects workers and employers who are ideally matched. For this, not only the skills, but also the professionalgoals and wishes of candidates are considered. As a result, the proposed companies and jobs are the perfect match for the candidates and the candidates for the companies. In direct chat, both can quickly and directly clarify open questions and arrange interviews.
Tracktics —
Quantumrock — Quantumrock focuses purely on investment performance. Our proprietary ML & AI technologies create better risk-adjusted returns. AI technology asset management.

Andres Kull

Investment focus

AgTech, Farming, Software
Seed, Series A
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Jobbatical — Jobbatical takes care of the entire relocation process for you. Just sit back and relax.
VitalFields — VitalFields is a digital agriculture company that offers an easy-to-use farm management system for farmers to plan, manage and analyze their field activities, including simplified tracking and reporting of all crop inputs to help ensure compliance with European Union environmental standards. Founded in 2011 and based in Tallinn, Estonia,VitalFields is available in several European countries.

Christopher Sier - Executive Chairman @ ClearGlass

Investment focus

Education, Recruiting, Professional Services
Seed, Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Jobbatical — Jobbatical takes care of the entire relocation process for you. Just sit back and relax.

Timo Rein - Co-Founder @ Pipedrive

Investment focus

Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
Estonia, Finland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Antegenes — What is your cancer risk? Let Antegenes have a look at your genetics. Use existing DNA data or have Antegens take a new sample.
Bidrento — With Bidrento you can easily manage PRS, Built-to-rent, Student Housing, Co-Living, Mini-Storages, Commercial real estate in one single software. Save your time and grow your business with Bidrento. Try it already today!
Teamscope — Understand what drives your team's performance, make exceptional hiring decisions, and unlock the full potential of your team.

Steve is an Economist by training with a Ph.D. in econometrics. After 3 years at the TSB Bank, ultimately as Group Economist, Steve joined Visa Europe where he held several Executive positions: Head of Strategy, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Digital Officer and finally, Founder & CEO Visa Europe Collab (Visa’sInnovation Centre). Steve is an experienced Executive and Non-Executive Director & Chairman, particularly in fintech and Data Analytics.

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, Software
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.

Michael Whitfield - Chairman @ hundo.careers

Investment focus

Recruiting, Enterprise Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Unmind — Unmind is a workplace mental health platform. We empower employees to measure, understand, and improve their mental wellbeing.
Involve.ai — involve.ai helps you prevent churn, grow revenue, and deliver amazing customer outcomes.
HR DataHub — HR DataHub operates as an HR data benchmarking platform for organizations to tackle issues that are right at the top of the boardroom agenda.

Loic Le Meur - Founder & CEO @ Leade.rs

Investment focus

Internet, Mobile, Mobile Apps
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Koji — Koji is the world’s most powerful Link in Bio platform. With hundreds of free apps created by Koji and its community of independent developers, the Koji Link in Bio gives leading Creators on TikTok, Instagram, Twitch, and other social media platforms new ways to engage audiences, connect with supporters, and monetize.
Practice — Sell your expertise online, and manage your business, all in one place.
Crème de la Crème — Crème de la Crème connects companies with the most talented freelancers in Europe. Crème de la Crème was launched by Jean-Charles Varlet, Théo Dorp and Romain Abidonn in April 2015.

Keith MacDonald

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, Software
Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

docStribute — ALT/AVE helps financial institutions streamline the digital distribution of regulated documents to their customers.
Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.

Harry Serra

Investment focus

Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Bet4talent — Business & Career Blog

Stuart Marks is a successful entrepreneur who has built and sold four businesses over the past 25 years. They have spanned several sectors including CRM, location-based services and digital media. Every company applied innovation to challenge existing business models.Stuart has worked with a diverse and international customer-base includingSainsbury’s, British Airways, Unilever, Vodafone, BMW and various government agencies across the world. His previous company, ITIS Holdings plc, was listed on the London Stock Exchange and was Europe’s leading provider of real-time traffic information and connected car technology.The first company to commercialize crowdsourced data from GPS devices and mobile phone networks, Stuart sold the firm in 2011 to Washington-based INRIX before going on to establish L Marks to invest in the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.

Investment focus

Software, Information Services, Information Technology
Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Urbix — Urbix is producing a management dashboard for municipalities to manage their data and processes to ensure that decisions are made based on hard evidence which is readily available in an easy to understand format.
WeFiFo — WeFiFo launched in 2016 and is a multi-award-winning platform that enables enthusiastic home cooks, Supper Club hosts and professional chefs to share their food with paying guests. WeFiFo is Airbnb for the kitchen table but offers much more than just a marketplace. Designed to encourage and empower talented cooks to monetise their kitchen skills,WeFiFo offers a sophisticated infrastructure allowing hosts to up-skill and earn a transformative income with flexible working hours and rewards. WeFiFo also supports professional chefs who don't want the risk of a bricks and mortar restaurant but want to feed a new audience. Anyone can sign up and join in, hosts are not pre-screened or curated, but ratings and reviews help guests choose between the multitude of events on offer – from novice cooks to award winning chefs at the top of their game. They are the online destination to discover exciting experiential dining near you and their platform promotes, insures and inspires cooks and chefs of all abilities to take the next step on their food journey while keeping hosts and guests safe every step of the way.
Orbital Witness — Instant property insight - Liberation for everyone involved in property transactions.

Sir Terry Leahy joined Cheshunt, England-based Tesco in 1979 and held marketing positions at the retailer before becoming commercial director of fresh foods in 1986 and a member of the board in 1990. Leahy was appointed Chief Executive of Tesco plc in March 1997.Leahy received a Knighthood for services to food retailing in the 2002 New YearHonours. He was voted as Britain’s Most Admired Leader (2005 and 2006) by Management Today, recognized by the Wall Street Journal and CNBC as European Business Leader of the Year (2005), and named European Businessman of the Year by Fortune (2004). A Guardian Unlimited Politics panel found him to be the most influential non-elected person in Britain in 2007.Leahy is a Director on the Liverpool Vision Regeneration Board and a member of the Prime Minister’s Business Council.In 2010 he received the Daily Telegraph’s Award for a Decade of Excellence in Business, a Lifetime Achievement award from Director Magazine, and was voted Business Person of the Year by the Sunday Times.Sir Terry Leahy retired from Tesco in March 2011.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sirenum — Sirenum is a cloud-based platform for managing the staff lifecycle for agencies, recruiters and organisations who rely on staff for operational purposes.Sirenum is built on a highly agile technology platform, which allows us to connect with other service providers for functions not yet in the system. This trick allows us to deliver features thatthey would not otherwise have, if a client requires these features up front. Once significant demand for a particular feature becomes apparent, they may decide develop that feature in house, replacing the outside vendor and retaining additional profits.Sirenum is geared towards employers who operate complex workforces of shift workers. Sirenum is particularly suited to the Staffing, Railway, Aviation, Construction, Hospitality, Healthcare, Home care, Deliveries, Logistics and Transportation. Operators in these sectors typically have hundreds or thousands of employees.
SYNALOGiK — Synalogik helps organisations improve efficiency and slash costs through automated data aggregation when multiple data sources are required.
Uptime | Knowledge Hacks — Thousands of life lessons extracted from the world's best books, courses, documentaries, and podcasts - packed into 5 minute Knowledge Hacks.

Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to: • Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic). Today Showroomprive.com is: • A team of 500 employees • A community of 20 million members in Europe • A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development: Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi Health : Feeli, Lifen, May, Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot, Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor, FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE. More info : http://www.made-for-all.com

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
Seed, Series A, Angel
France, Côte d'Ivoire

Portfolio highlights

Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
mobee travel — Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment duringtheir trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.

Udo Schloemer founded his first company in 1992 and realized € 500 million project volume as a real-estate entrepreneur ever since. After angel investing in 50+ Berlin-based startups - including local heroes, such as 6wunderkinder, EyeEm, Monoqi and more - he founded Factory, Germany’s largest startup campus in 2011. At Factory, Udo combines hisone of a kind real estate expertise with his passion for startups. His long-term vision is to create a European Silicon Valley by bringing together best in class technology businesses and connecting old & new economy.

Investment focus

Apps, FinTech, Software
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, Austria, Liechtenstein

Portfolio highlights

Sdui — Sdui is the solution for mobile communication in schools. With amazingly easy features for messaging, timetables and a wide range of third party integrations, the app digitizes processes and reduces administrative effort. Within two years, Sdui has reached hundreds of institutions and grown a serious reputation in the educational market.
Actio — Learn from the best experts. Live, interactive classes and consultation in topics around Business, Finance, Arts, Love & Relationship, Career, Yoga, Nutrition, and many more. Book 1-on-1 consultation or group sessions. Download for free!
Startup Insider — Startup Insider is an industry portal for the startup scene in Germany, Austria and Switzerland helping them grow.

Rajan Navani - CEO & Founder @ JetSynthesys

Investment focus

Art, Coffee, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Angel
India, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Peepul Tree — Peepul Tree is a platform for the hand-made artisanal works. Peepul Tree celebrates the rich and varied legacy that these artisans carry.
Punt Partners — Punt Partners is a company that provides marketing technology services. It provides results through the use of proprietary data, technology, and services.
Assiduus Global — We are a trusted Global E-commerce partner and accelerator, a unified platform helping to Build and Scale E-commerce Brands Globally. Reach us Now!

Frank Freund is CFO & founder at SavingGlobal.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Angel
Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Empion — EMPiON – The Robo Advisor for Cultural FitEmpion is a data-based job platform that matches companies and applicants based on company culture, values and skills. Using an AI-based Robo Advisor, Empion quantifies company culture and implements automated headhunting.Every second employee is currently thinking about a job change. The 5 mostimportant factors for job satisfaction have to do with company culture and values. And yet, company culture remains largely ignored on customary job portals. The results for companies and applicants are inefficient hiring processes and high employee turnover.Our vision is bringing company culture to every hire in the world.For more information visit www.empion.de
8returns — 8returns is the returns platform that turns your customers into loyal fans, while saving you time and money.
Next Matter — Next Matter enables teams to digitize their complex, manual business processes within hours, and realize substantial performance improvements within days. No code, consultants, or IT project management required. Our customers - like HelloFresh and Home24 - design and deploy high-value, end-to-end business processes at a fraction of the time andcost required for typical enterprise-grade solutions. And we’re covering a growing number of teams and use cases across businesses including operations, finance, HR, procurement, logistics, and supplier management.Take the lead on digitization today. Find out how you can use Next Matter to transform your business at https://nextmatter.com.

• Partner of Catalyst Romania VC Fund (part of 3TS Capital Partners) - http://catalystromania.ro/ • “Investor of the Year in Romania 2016 and 2017" award by CESA with Catalyst Romania Fund • Serial entrepreneur and business-angel with successful investments in SEE, ranks in fortune Romanian surveys Capital, Forbes. • Experienceas an start-up entrepreneur with Flamingo, from zero revenues and capital to a $50M company, the largest IT product distribution network in Romania, in 7 years. Setting-up a Flamingo International group structure with direct operations in 7 SEE countries (Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldova, Yugoslavia) and one fully-fledged subsidiary in Holland, 1999 – 2001. • Manager of team of 500+ people with Flamingo, employees from various countries (majority Romanian), cultures, backgrounds and contributing to the creation of one of the best teams in the IT business in the Balkan region • Experience in private equity and venture capital investments. Deal-leader on 6 (123ContactForm, VectorWatch, Marketizator Friends, Intelligent IT/SmartBill, Smartdreamers, Vola.ro) out of 10 investments of Catalyst Romania Fund. • Exit track-record: VectorWatch, sold to FitBit early 2017, PCGarage, bought by Naspers/Emag in 2016; VikingProfil, bought by Pruzsinski of Poland, 2008, Flanco, successful exit in 2006, Flamingo, successful IPO in 2004, etc. • Co-Founder VentureConnect (regional matchmaking platform for tech start-up entrepreneurs and early-stage investors); President Romanian Association for the Online Stores (ARMO) • Entrepreneurship, Innovation and New Business Ventures Professor, Maastricht School of Management EMBA program • Co-organizer Schoolforstartups Romania, the first SE European entrepreneurship school • Author of “Entrepreneurship”, the first Romanian book on entrepreneurship and TV dragon in the Romanian Dragons’ Den

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Romania, Serbia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Marketizator — Serious eCommerce players become customer-centric if they focus on what matters. Optimize your customer journey with data-driven decisions.
Vector Watch — Vector Watch's vision is to change the way people use smart watches and wearable technologies. The company was founded in 2013 by a team of former executives in the technology industry, backed by young engineers and multi-awarded designers for their projects in international innovation competitions.
SmartDreamers — The talent acquisition software that helps you reach and engage more, better candidates in record time through the use of Recruitment Marketing Automation.

Alain Thibaut

Investment focus

Freelance, Recruiting, Virtual Workforce
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Crème de la Crème — Crème de la Crème connects companies with the most talented freelancers in Europe. Crème de la Crème was launched by Jean-Charles Varlet, Théo Dorp and Romain Abidonn in April 2015.

Gonzalo Manrique is Co-Founder and Co-CEO at IronHack.

Investment focus

Recruiting, B2B, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
France, Estonia, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pandas — B2B e-commerce platform connecting Asia with the +10 million of Latin America small merchants
Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
Flowers-Software GmbH — Flowers Software is an organization management for digitizing, simplifying and automating recurring workflows.Flowers -Software can be used independent of company size, industry, region, and existing company structure due to its highly flexible no-code process editor.

Peter Preston

Investment focus

SaaS, Video, Software
Angel, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Willo — Interview anyone, anywhere for free. GDPR compliant one-way video interviews that can be set up in minutes. Trusted in over 100 countries - free to start.

Jaan Tallinn is the Co-founder of Future of Life Institute.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Estonia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
TENYX — Tenyx is developing the next generation of voice-based intelligent systems based on proprietary neuroscience-inspired AI technology

Oliver Hehl

Investment focus

Financial Services, Banking, Apps
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany, Romania

Portfolio highlights

OWWN — wajve offers all financial services like banking, advice, and education in one app.
Jobful — Jobful is your strategic recruitment partner. Simplify your hiring process and align your company's long-term goals with the right people.
deineStudienfinanzierung — deineStudienfinanzierung is the digital platform to help students finance their studies.

Denis Fayolle is the Co-founder & Board Member at Seed & Seeds.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
Angel, Seed, Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Singulart — At Singulart, They are convinced that the digital space is an invaluable tool for bringing transparency and equity to the art market.They provide artists with the tools that enable them to independently manage the sale of their works. Their team is working around the clock, committing their energy to promoting Singulart artists to a globalaudience.In showcasing artists around the world, they also hope to allow art lovers and collectors alike to explore new artistic horizons, to embrace new cultures and to be inspired by the works of talented artists that they never would have come across if it wasn't for Singulart.
Next Station — Next Station is a smart recruiting platform.
Adrenaline Hunter — Adrenaline Hunter offers an online marketplace that makes it super simple for users to search, compare and book adrenaline sports and unique adventure travel experiences around the world.

Simon Murphy Entrepreneur & Investor

Investment focus

Retail, Consumer Goods, Events
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Pieter Pot — Verpakkingsvrij boodschappen doen bij online supermarkt Pieter Pot. Makkelijk aan huis geleverd in herbruikbare statiegeldpotten. Pot leeg? Dan vullen we hem opnieuw. Met onze verpakkingsvrije bezorgdienst verminderen we de hoeveelheid afval en CO2. Waarom zou je nog verpakkingen kopen?
Seat Unique — Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events.
The Smart Container Company — The Smart Container Company is the team behind KegTracker and BeverEDGE, a first-to-market IoT device and platform that instantly turns kegs into SMART containers. Our technology tracks real-time location, volume, temperature, and motion for each keg and delivers actionable insights that enable transparency and zero.

Ignacio Lucea - Co-Founder @ Mintted

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Recruiting
Seed
Spain

Portfolio highlights

Drivies —
beWanted — beWanted is an online platform that offers a listing for students and graduates looking for their first employment. The platform provides companies with tailored solutions to simplify their talent research. It also connects university, company and the best young talent through innovation, for quick, easy and effective selection processes.beWanteddelivers original recruitment tools to its clients. The platform makes available to companies a database with integrated information and search parameters so that each firm can easily find the profile it needs.beWanted is operated from Madrid, Spain. It was launched in 2015 by Juan Torroba.
Copypress —

Mehmet Yilmaz is the Co-Founder of Freeletics.

Investment focus

Health Care, Hospital, Recruiting
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
TalentGrid.io — Join a network of the best developers & get matched with full-time software developer roles all around the world. No irrelevant offers!
Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.

Christian Reber is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Crew — Crew is a curated platform that connects designers and developers with vetted clients that need a website, mobile app, or other design work. The company's highly trusted network of independent creatives has worked on products used by tens of millions of people for some of the industry's biggest companies, including Apple, Google, Uber,IDEO, and Dropbox.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.
NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
Crew.work — All-in-one recruiting platform that helps you hire the A players your moonshot mission needs.

Graham Clempson has over 30 years of experience in the Private Equity and Credit Markets, from the development of the European Leveraged Finance and High Yield Markets and as a principal in many of the largest Complex Secondary Private Equity Transactions over the past decade.In partnership with Coller Capital, Graham is Chairman of 3 PrivateEquity Funds in the UK, US and France, and serves as an Advisory Board member to MidOcean Partners (US) and Pearl Diver Capital (UK).Prior to founding Quartic Capital, Graham was Co-Founder and European Managing Partner of MidOcean Partners, and DB Capital Partners, and CEO of Morgan Grenfell Private Equity, following roles as Co-head of European Investment Banking at Deutsche Bank and Bankers Trust Company.Graham is Chairman of Pilotlight (www.pilotlight.org.uk) , a business mentoring Charity in the UK. He has an MA in Law from Oxford University.

Investment focus

Software, Information Services, Retail Technology
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Link Big — Nadav Raviv Portfolio: UXR, UI/UXD, PD.
Fixtuur — DigitalBridge is a Visual Commerce platform that provides retailers and brands with a new way to showcase their products to customers through real-time 3D and Augmented Reality.
Headstart — Diverse candidates are often systematically excluded when it comes to campus recruiting and high-volume hiring. Headstart diversity recruiting software breaks this cycle of exclusion and levels the playing field for all candidates by removing bias from recruiting processes. When it comes to diversity, we are all in.

Co-Founder of Pipedrive.

Investment focus

Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
Angel
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

RecruitLab — Teamdash's built-in recruitment, applicant tracking, and marketing features give you the focus you need to achieve the impossible. Here's how.
Bidrento — With Bidrento you can easily manage PRS, Built-to-rent, Student Housing, Co-Living, Mini-Storages, Commercial real estate in one single software. Save your time and grow your business with Bidrento. Try it already today!

Christopher Huesmann

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Seed, Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Neotaste — Neotaste is the developer of the restaurant-finding app that provides free marketing services for restaurateurs.
WorkerHero — Bei DriverHero findest du Fahrerjobs in Vollzeit, Teilzeit oder Minijob. Jetzt anmelden und Jobangebote von Unternehmen erhalten!

Joshua Cornelius is the Co-Founder at Freeletics.

Investment focus

Health Care, Hospital, Recruiting
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Bloom — Bloom empowers everyone to be their own therapist through interactive video-guided therapy sessions.
TalentGrid.io — Join a network of the best developers & get matched with full-time software developer roles all around the world. No irrelevant offers!
Bloom Health Partners — Bloom Health Partners has been shutdown.

In 2006 Stephen joined Carbon as Non-Executive Chairman. He has a wide knowledge of the financial services industry and extensive experience leading professional services businesses and consulting to top management in various multinationals. He is a Partner of a leading consulting firm and previously held the role of director of group strategy ata major UK international bank. Stephen holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a degree in Banking and International Finance from City University Business School (now Cass) in London. Stephen is a keen amateur actor and enjoys tennis.

Investment focus

Events, Recruiting, Advertising
Angel
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

TalentPool — TalentPool is a Talent Matching Platform connecting talented recent graduates with up to 5 years’ experience with great opportunities at start-ups and SMEs. They specialise in 4 key sectors: Graduate, Marketing, Operations and Sales. Their innovative matching engine takes the pain out of hiring and being hired. They know about the stress for jobseekers of applying to countless employers. And they also know about the challenges faced by employers wanting to speak to the right candidates.

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