Top 50 Renewable Energy Angel Investors in Europe in July 2025

Gabor Cselle is a Partner at Area 120, Google's internal startup incubator. Previously, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of mobile advertising startup Namo Media which was [acquired by Twitter in 2014.

Andy Booke

Philipp has been product manager and inhouse SEO at the market leading price comparison in Germany (Idealo.de) for 6 years. He specializes in the fields of accessability, crawlability and onpage optimization of websites with 1M+ subpages.Since 2011 Philipp Klöckner focuses on search consultancy and angel investing to share his experience insearch marketing, product and business intelligence with publishing houses, e-commerce companies and start-ups as an independent consultant and angel investor.

Christian Bach is the President & Co-founder of Netlify.

David Balensiefen - CEO and Founder @ gridX

Christoph Ostermann is a Co-Founder at Sonnen.

David Tomas is General Manager Cyberclick, group of companies specializing in online advertising and marketing, based in Barcelona, Madrid and Bogota, and awarded in December 2013 as Third Best Workplaces in Spain.He has over 15 years of experience in the online world. He is an engineer and completed a program of Entrepreneurship at MIT,Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In 2012 he was named one of the 20 most influential entrepreneurs in Spain, under 40 years, according to the Global Entrepreneurship Week 2012 and IESE.From Cyberclick, has developed a range of online advertising campaigns: web advertising, email marketing, mobile marketing, coregistros, etc. The objective of this group of companies is to improve the conversion of client campaigns. Specialize in online lead generation through search marketing actions. Only generate quality leads, create and manage mobile campaigns, inbound and email marketing, optimizing the cost of finding customers through online advertising. And also generate databases through coregistros. Cyberclick currently works for both Spanish and international companies from different sectors: education, NGOs, distance selling, or B2B e-commerce, among others.Likewise, David Tomas is a member of the board of Adigital, Spanish Association of Digital Economy, and the Board of Entrepreneurs Organization and actively participates in Founders Institute and SeedRocket, reference initiative in Spain for entrepreneurs with technology-based projects. In the latter, he has mentored projects like Deporvillage, Habitissimo, Captio and Social & Loyal, among others. He has spoken at various events and teaches marketing and ICEMD EADA.

Naruhisa Nakagawa is a Founder & Chief Investment Officer at Caygan Capital.

Juergen Mayerhofer is the CEO and Founder of Enspired and attended Stanford University Graduate School of Business in 2018. Previously he worked with Eurelectric as Platform Member.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Bo Wase is chairman of InCommodities.

Lukasz Gadowski is the Founder and CEO of Team Global. He previously worked at Circ as a Co-Founder. Lukasz Gadowski attended HHL Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

Francois Derbaix is the Co-founder and co-CEO of Indexa Capital. He previously worked at Toprural as a Founder and CEO. Francois Derbaix attended the Catholic University of Louvain.

Ruben Ferreiro is the Founder and CEO of VIKO GROUP. He previously worked at ELOGIA as a CEO. Ruben Ferreiro attended M4c Academy.

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

Bhavik Bajaj

Lucas von Fürstenberg serves as head of the Freiherr von Fürstenberg'sche Forstverwaltung forest administration based in Sauerland.

Dr. Mo H. is a Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at UrbanChain.

In the beginning of the 1990´s Lars Windhorst was said to be Germany´s number one business founder and a unique example for entrepreneurial spirit. He was hailed as the "Wunderkind" of German economy and Ex-Chancellor Helmut Kohl was pleased about the economic offspring of Germany. Until 1997 Lars Windhorst accompanied the former primeminister at business delegations abroad. Lars Windhorst started his entrepreneurial activities with electronic components which he imported from the Far East and assembled to personal computers in Germany in order to sell them at profit. An internationally operating business conglomerate was set up by the teenager in no time.Lars Windhorst climbs up the career ladderIn the early 90´s Lars Windhorst began trading electronic components and computer parts and revealed great finesse in negotiating.The Business-Wunderkind always contrived to win the favor of the people surrounding him. At the age of 16 Lars Windhorst met 27-year-old Mellon Zhang who opened for him the doors to China and Hongkong. The sales director of a Chinese electronics company quit his job without further ado, became Windhorst´s partner and accompanied him on his way in the Far East. In 1993 then 17-year-old Lars Windhorst founded Windhorst Electronics GmbH and became the Wunderkind of German economy. With cleverness and incisiveness he quickly put into practice what big industrialists loose sleep over.Lars Windhorst to make millions of profitShortly thereafter followed branches in China, Vietnam, and Europe. Lars Windhorst expanded his business rapidly and was further active in areas such as electronics, industry, trading, real estate and finance. With offices also based in Hong Kong the Windhorst group operated by 1995 in Germany, Europe and Asia to generate a turnover of 180 million Marks. In its second financial year the company of multi-talent Lars Windhorst translated more than twice as much into profits as in its first year. A mere 19 years old Lars Windhorst became Germany´s most successful entrepreneur. The young chief executive ran an international branch network of 20 establishments with over 200 employees world-wide.The Windhorst group and its operating areasAmong the most important business fields within the European area were the distributions of electronic components, the assembly of personal computers as well as the production of advertising films.His Asian companies conducted commerce with primary products and provided business consultancy and real estate business. In the course of business expansion, Lars Windhorst founded later on the trading and investment conglomerate Windhorst AG and additional companies in financial services, including Windhorst Capital Holding GmbH. Young and vibrant Lars Windhorst shifted its focus in the beginning of 2000 to the New Economy and made substantial investments in the internet area, telecommunications and media.The crisis of the New Economy that followed, threw the Windhorst group off balance which had to file for bankruptcy afterwards.Lars Windhorst, CEO of Sapinda Deutschland GmbHNevertheless, exceptional talent Lars Windhorst keeps up. In 2004 Lars Windhorst co-founded the investment group Sapinda. With deft investment strategies in the field of business finance, Lars Windhorst shortly reached high profits for the company. The investment group, under the financial direction of a famous South African industrialist family, transacted investments of more than 2 billion EUR over the last 5 years.In 2007, Mr. Windhorst was seated behind the cockpit in a Bombardier Challenger 604 during takeoff from Kazakhstan when the plane suddenly crashed into a wall. The accident, which left one of the pilots dead, caused serious injuries to Lars Windhorst. He lost consciousness and found himself lying in the snow-covered wreckage with burns, bruises and broken ribs. Following four weeks in the hospital, he has barely recovered just when the stock market took a tumble. Due to the impact of the financial crisis in 2008, the company underwent a restructuring phase in the 2nd half of 2008. In April 2009 it took up its investment activities again under new corporate structure. In May 2009 Lars Windhorst founded Sapinda Deutschland GmbH.The investment and holding company Sapinda Deutschland GmbH manages public equity, private equity and global debt and is the German subsidiary of Sapinda Holding BV. In order to successfully move forward in the international investment market, Lars Windhorst selected a group of financial professionals to head Sapinda's advisory board. The group is headed by Chairman Dr. Hubertus von Grünberg, who is also chairman at ABB Ltd in Zurich and a member of other international supervisory boards. Lars Windhorst chose him to advise Sapinda's management regarding all of its strategic decisions relating to major business investments. Lars Windhorst, together with other backers Robert Hersov and Dr. Kim, invests in the international capital market with a special emphasis on the raw materials market as well as agricultural production.Lars Windhorst Addresses Problems Facing the Younger GenerationWith a heart towards helping young people, Lars Windhorst joined the Mentor Foundation as a member of the board from 1997 through 2002. The group joins with government officials, parents and schools to teach youngsters how to avoid the pitfalls of drug abuse. The Queen of Sweden was one of the co-founders of the organization that is connected with the World Health Organization. A truly global endeavor, the international headquarters are located in the UK, with other offices in Germany, Lithuania, US, Lebanon, Columbia and Latvia.

Carlos Oliveira

Tim Bode

Martin Herrmann

Ingo Hoff

General Partner at 3VC.

Jacob de Geer is a Swedish serial entrepreneur and co-founder and CEO of iZettle, the fast-growing mobile payments company that lets anyone take card payments and manage and grow their business. Before starting iZettle, Jacob was the first employee at performance marketing firm TradeDoubler. Here he helped to build one of the largest advertisingnetworks in Europe before leaving to co-found movie sharing firm, Ameibo, and Tre Kronor Media, an award-winning communications agency. Both companies were acquired in 2010. Now, Jacob is fully focused on democratising payments around the world through his latest venture, iZettle.

Pedro Buerbaum is an Angel Investor.

David Pitt-Watson - Visiting Fellow @ Cambridge Judge Business School

Maurice O’ Gorman

Somayeh Taheri is a CEO and Co-Founder at UrbanChain.

Jon Olsson

Chris Heminway is the Chairman Of The Board at Time To ACT Limited

Anatoly is the creator of Solana. He led development of operating systems at Qualcomm, distributed systems at Mesosphere, and compression at Dropbox. He holds 2 patents for high performance Operating Systems protocols, was a core kernel developer for BREW which powered every CDMA flip phone (100m+ devices), and led development of tech that madeProject Tango (VR/AR) possible on Qualcomm phones.

Maximilian Both is the Founder and Managing Director at Rabot Charge. Maximilian Both attended Tu Vienna.

MARKUS W. VOIGT is a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Aream company.

Lars Björk leads Qlik as CEO and is a member of the company’s board of directors. He oversaw the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in 2010 on the NASDAQ, which was recognized as one of the year’s top tech IPOs.Lars is recognized as an authority on driving company culture through an accessible management style, with articles appearing inthe New York Times, Forbes and Harvard Business Review, as well as speaking engagements at conferences including the CEO2CEO Leadership Summit. He was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in the technology category and was named Technology CEO of the Year at the 2015 PACT Annual Enterprise Awards. More recently, he was nominated to participate in Startup America, a White House initiative to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship, and the Clinton Global Initiative, an organization that brings together leaders to drive action on global challenges.Before Qlik, Lars held several positions as CFO at companies such as ScandStick and Resurs Finance. He has an MBA from the University of Lund, Sweden and a Degree in Engineering from the Technical College in Helsingborg.

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.

Martin currently works as the co-founder and CEO of Kocomo. He used to worked for PayU as founder and head of global sales.

Dieter Ammer is the CEO and chairman of the management board of Nordzucker GmbH, Brauerei Beck & Co., and Tchibo Holding AG.

Karim Kaddoura - Co-Founder @ Virtuo

Stuart Gardner

Head of Engineering, Pharma Services Group, Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Ralf Christian has more than 28 years of experience in various roles at Siemens, an international leader in electronics. Prior to taking on his current role as CEO of the Energy Management Division, Ralf served as CEO in several other business units at Siemens, including Low and Medium Voltage Distribution, High Voltage Transmission and Smart PowerDistribution, and was previously general manager of several other departments. He received a Master of Science and Business Administration from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.

Partner

Matt Blythe

Tobias Schuett is the CEO at DZ-4.

Partner

Julian Teicke has 4 current jobs including Co-Founder & Non-Executive Chairman at handly, Co-Founder and CEO at wefox, and Founder at EMPAUA. Additionally, Julian Teicke has had 1 past job as the Co-Founder & COO at DeinDeal. He attended the University of St.Gallen.

Rahul Munjal - Chairman & Managing Director @ Hero Future Energies

Professor Lee is the Professor of Power Conversion Technologies, at the Faculty of Engineering. Lee Empringham is an investor at The Thinking Pod Innovations.

Jonas Schoenbube