# Top 50 Social Angel Investors in Europe in June 2026

## Ian Hogarth
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Artificial Intelligence

Ian Hogarth is based out of London, England, and is the Chairman of Phasecraft. Ian previously worked at Songkick as a Chairman. Ian Hogarth attended the University of Cambridge.

## Shan Drummond
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Social, Analytics

Shan Drummond is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.

## Soleio Soleio
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Product Design, 3D Technology

Software designer turned investor 👨‍💻 Design: Facebook, Messenger, Dropbox 🌱 Capital: Figma, Vercel, Vanta, Framer, Perplexity and more

## Nicolas Julia
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Nicolas Julia is a Blockchain entrepreneur. He is the CEO at Sorare, the leading platform to collect and play with officially licensed football Crypto-goodsNicolas dedicated his career to Blockchain in 2015, and was previously running operations at Stratumn, a $8M VC-backed blockchain company.Nicolas hosts the meetup Crypto-goods Club, theplace of expression for all Crypto-goods
enthusiasts.He believes Crypto-goods will pave the way for a new era of digital ownership and change the internet.

## Richard Fearn
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Advertising, Internet

Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.

## Ned Cranborne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Social, Analytics

Ned Cranborne is a partner at Samos Investments, based in London, UK.

## Pere Mayol
- Type: Angel
- Location: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Film

Pere Mayol - co-Founder - co-CEO & COO @ Avatar Cognition

## Judy Wilson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Machine Learning

Judy Wilson - Seed Haus Partner @ Seed Haus

## Matt Robinson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

## Zac Bookman
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

Zac is the CEO of OpenGov, the "GovTech" cloud software leader. OpenGov has raised $200 million in capital from Andreessen Horowitz and other venture funds and powers more than 1000 cities, counties, and state agencies across the United States. Before co-founding OpenGov, Zac served as Advisor to U.S. Army General H.R. McMaster on theAnti‑Corruption Task Force at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan. He previously practiced trial litigation at Keker, Van Nest & Peters in San Francisco, and served as law clerk to the Honorable Sandra S. Ikuta on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Zac studied corruption in Mexico as a Fulbright Fellow and has taught American Government at San Quentin Prison. He holds a JD from the Yale Law School, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School, and graduated valedictorian from the University of Maryland. Zac serves on the board of and as advisor to various technology companies and funds, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the YPO. He has been named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, a Goldman Sachs 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs, and San Francisco and Silicon Valley Business Journal 40 under 40.

## Will Neale
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Founder (Grabyo, Fonix). Investor.

## Amadeo Brenninkmeijer
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, E-Commerce, Internet

Amadeo Brenninkmeijer - Senior Partner @ inPositiv

## Timo Soininen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, FinTech

Timo Soininen is the co-founder at Small Giant Games.
Timo Soininen is the CEO and co-founder of Small Giant Games, maker of the hit game Empires & Puzzles.
Small Giant joined Zynga, Inc (ZNGA) in December 2018, when Zynga acquired 80% of Small Giant at $700M valuation.
Prior to Small Giant he was the longtime CEO of Habbo Hotel and is also anactive angel investor in several technology startups ranging from biomaterials and digital health to games (Spinnova, Aiforia, Critical Force).
Timo holds a M.Sc. degree in Marketing from Helsinki School of Economics/Aalto University and just loves tennis.

## kaushal kumar
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social, Fashion, Internet

kaushal kumar

## Lopo Champalimaud
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile Apps, Social

Lopo is currently the CEO of Wahanda (http://www.wahanda.com), a London based health, beauty and wellness community & marketplace that connects consumers, wellness businesses and professionals through content, ratings & reviews and commerce. Lopo co-founded Wahanda with Salim Mitha in February 2008.Prior to Wahanda, Lopo wasthe Managing Director of European Lifestyle for lastminute.com. In this role he was responsible for developing all aspects of the non-travel business across Europe at lastminute.com which included Theatre ticketing, concert ticketing, restaurant bookings, days out, experiences and spas. Lopo joined lastminute.com in January 2004 and when he left to found Wahanda, lifestyle respresented more than 40% of all the sales by volume at the company.From 1994 to 2004, Lopo was the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fulcrum Analytics (http://www.fulcrumanalytics.com). Fulcrum is today one of the leading database marketing firms in North America but was initially known as Cyber Dialogue and was the world's first online market research firm. Cyber Dialogue is credited with having created the online survey, the online focus group while providing industry leading insight on the internet consumer.

## Sameer Singh
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Apps, Software, Mobile

Network Effects Investor, Partner @ Speedinvest, Instructor @ Reforge

## Ian Marchant
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Energy, Information Technology, Software

Ian was Chief Executive of SSE, one of the UK’s leading utility companies and Scotland’s largest industrial company for over ten years. He stepped down from that position in the summer of 2013. Ian is now Chairman of Infinis Energy plc, a renewable energy company; Independent Chairman of the oil services company, the John Wood group and NovaInnovation; as well as holding various advisory and non-executive positions in other organisations. Ian is a renowned and innovative leader in the energy industry, and was welcomed to Synaptec’s advisory board in July 2016.

## Jim Mellon
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care

Jim Mellon is an international investor with interests in several industries. After leaving Oxford, where he studied PPE, (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) he worked in Asia and the United States for two fund management companies, GT and Thornton, before establishing his own business in 1991. His business operations include two components, alisted fund management company called Charlemagne Capital, and an Asian mining group, Regent Pacific.In addition, Mr. Mellon is Co-Chairman of West African Minerals Corporation and Regent Pacific Group. He is on the board of a number of public quoted companies, including Brazilian Gold Corporation, Charlemagne Capital Limited, Manx Financial Group, Plethora Solutions, Polo Resources, Port Erin Biophara Investments Limited, and the Speymill plc. He is the life tenant of a trust which owns the Burnbrae Group, which has substantial assets in the biotechnology, financial services, property, mining and leisure sectors. Mr. Mellon spends most of his time working on startup ideas and investing. His book, “Wake Up!” was published in 2005; his second book "10 Investments for the Ten Years Ahead" was published in 2008. In 2012, he co-wrote "Cracking the Code" which focuses on the biotechnology sector and how to profit from it. Mr. Mellon lives in the Isle of Man, Brussels and Ibiza and is an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.

## Robin Shenfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Social, Sports

Robin Shenfield - CEO @ The Mill

## Nicola Volpi
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Social, Internet, Media and Entertainment

Nicola Volpi (born in 1961 in Milan) is an Italian entrepreneur and manager with a deep knowledge of financial matters and more than 25 years of experience in Private Equity. He has been Member of the Board of Directors of several companies. After graduating in Business Administration at Luigi Bocconi University in Milan, he earned a Master inFinance at SDA Bocconi. His professional career started as a Financial Analyst at Sefimeta S.p.A. (Financial Services Department of Montedison Group). In 1987 he joined Sanpaolo Finance, the Investment Bank of San Paolo Group (now Banca Intesa). As Head of Leverage Finance until 1995, he structured the first buyouts ever in Italy. In 1997, Nicola Volpi was a founding Partner of Permira– one of the leading and most successful Private Equity firm in Europe and worldwide with over 40 billion euros under management. In 2005 he was appointed CEO of the Italian branch, Permira Associati SpA, and then Member of Permira Executive Committee which run operations worldwide. Under his leadership, Permira successfully executed several acquisitions and disposals of Italian sector-leading companies, such as Ferretti Yacht, Marazzi, Valentino, Sisal, TFL, and Veneta Cucine. His professional experience at Permira lasted until 2013, when he joined the luxury sports cars manufacturer Pagani Automobili Group as a direct Investor and Member of the Board, a position he is currently holding. In 2014 he was appointed by Erick Thohir, the President of FC Internazionale S.p.A., as Member of the Board of Directors: Nicola Volpi held this position until 2018, with a focus in the area of finance and strategic planning.

## Peter Read
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series E, Series F
- Focus: Software, Apps, Mobile

Peter is a partner at Vitruvian; a venture partner at BlueYard and LocalGlobe; an advisor to Entrepreneur First, Future Positive Capital, and StrongMinds; and a Trustee of Frazzled Cafe, Doteveryone, and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. He is an angel investor/advisor in over 100 tech startups

## Roderick Banner
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series B
- Focus: TV, Music, Video

Rod founded the technology marketing group, Banner Corporation in 1984 and left it in 2009. It had grown to become the largest Business to Business agency in Europe and boasted the best of the world's blue chip tech firms as its clients.Since selling Banner to WPP, Rod became an angel investor - specialising in marketing technologyplayers. Investments include: The Sound Agency, Appinions, EngageSciences, The Filter, EveryOneCounts and Shopa. This sector has proved to be exciting, dynamic and rewarding.Rod has several day jobs, one of which is Forgather - a fresh, new business proposition. Its mission is to build and develop event properties that enhance people’s lives.Rod believes that the power of ‘real life’ experience is often underestimated in an online world. Most social content relates to human interaction and engagement. So Forgather creates events packed with exuberance, intelligence and fun so that participants (both on stage and in the audience) want to be there and want to come back. To complete the offer, the company builds audiences and communities around live events to maximise returns on any investment.Rod is also working on a new proposition - 3LA.com. This business offers digital planning services to help big brand CMOs (and their agencies) grapple with the complex, cluttered landscape of marketing automation technologies, social media platforms and increasing mobile priorities. The company leverages the diverse experience of a global group of highly experienced technologists and marketers and focuses on very pragmatic business outcomes.Specialties: Social media, mobile and marketing automation. 25 plus years in creating tangible, marketing-driven success for technology companies located in EMEA. Architecting brands. Having as much fun as possible - within the law and a good moral compass. Writing Linkedin testimonials.

## Mike Lobanov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

At Target Global Mike is focused on investments in the Fintech and E-commerce spaces, as well as overall management of the firm. He also manages the relationships with co-investors who join deals alongside Target Global.Before joining Target Global, Mike worked at one of the largest Russian asset manageres, Alfa Capital, where he wasresponsible for managing $200+ million in assets for Alfa Capital’s 15 largest private clients.Mike holds a bachelor’s degree from the London School of Economics and twice won Russian state competitions in economics and entrepreneurship.

## Vinay Solanki
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, FinTech

Vinay Solanki is currently Head of Channel 4's Commercial Growth Fund responsible for their “media for equity” investment activity on disruptive digital consumer businesses. The model is focused on providing high quality TV airtime in return for passive equity stakes in typically growth phase companies. Since joining in the Summer of 2015,Vinay has led 10 deals in total, including 6 equity investments in consumer businesses alongside Series A VCs (such as DN Capital, Mangrove Partners, Felix Capital, Octopus Ventures & Accel Partners, amongst others). Vinay is actively seeking interesting and high growth consumer facing companies that might benefit from access to UK TV airtime, and has an active pipeline for 2017. Vinay is a highly experienced strategic advisor in media, digital and consumer businesses with over 15 years’ experience. Prior to Channel 4, Vinay held either M&A, strategy and/or commercial business development positions at Getty Images, Liberty Global, Ingenious Media and Ernst & Young.

## Richard Lewis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Social, Travel, Software

Richard Lewis is a Chairman at Earth Blox. Attended University of Glasgow.

## Don Hoang
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Analytics, B2B

Don brings extensive experience building and scaling companies, from early-stage ventures to public market leaders. He has held leadership roles at Revolut and Uber, and serves as a scout for Sequoia Capital, supporting high-growth startups across sectors. His work bridges technology, capital, and operational excellence to help businesses navigatecomplexity and deliver lasting impact.

## Marc McCabe
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Big Data

Marc McCabe is a Scout at Sequoia Capital and General Partner at Nomad Capital. Prior to this role, Marc was a Business Development Lead and before that, a Team Member of Business and Corporate Development. 

Previously, Marc was a Partner at SV Angel and an Online Media Associate at Google.

## Andre Hoffmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Social

Andre Hoffmann serves as the President of FIBA (Fondation Internationale du Banc d'Arguin) at Nouakchott, Mauritanie. Hoffmann serves as an Honorary Treasurer at World Wide Fund for Nature, Gland, Switzerland. He serves as Treasurer of Fondation les Corbillettes pour l'Aide aux enfants handicapés mentaux, Geneva, Switzerland. Hoffmannserves as Treasurer at SGIPA. (Societe Genevoise pour l'Intégration Professionnelle d'Adolescents et d'Adultes) Geneva. He served as an Acting Administrator of a field research station of Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat, Camargue, France. from 1983 to 1985. He served as a Manager of European Mergers & Acquisitions for James Capel and Co., London from 1985 to 1989. Hoffmann served as a Special Project Manager of Food division of Nestlé UK Ltd. from 1991 to 1993. He has been in Private Investment Activities since 1993. In 1985, Hoffmann joined James Capel and Co. Corporate Finance Ltd., London as an Associate at the Continental Desk. In 1999, he established Massellaz SA. He serves as the Chairman of Nemadi Investment Advisors Ltd., Living Planet Fund Management Co. SA, and Massellaz SA. He serves as a Vice Chairman of Roche Holding AG and Givaudan AG. Hoffman has been a Director of Roche Holding AG since 1996 and Inovalon, Inc. since September 2008. He has been a Director of Givaudan AG since 2000, Vernier (Geneva) of Whole Earth Foods Ltd. since 2000 and serves as a Member of Nemadi Advisors Ltd. and Glyndebourne Productions Ltd. He serves as a Director of Brunswick Leasing Ltd., Genentech, Inc., Brunswick Capital Ltd. and Amazentis SA. He serves as a Board Member at IRP, (Institut International de Recherche en Paraplégie) Geneva, Switzerland. He serves as a Board Member of Stiftung Patronatskomitee Kunstmuseum, Basel. He serves as a Board Member of Roche Research Foundation, Basel. He serves as an International Council Member of Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom. He is a Founding Patron at Birdlife International, Cambridge, United Kingdom and President of Executive Committee at Fondation Tour du Valat, Arles, France. He serves as a Board Member at Fondation Sansouire, Arles, and Takh, Association pour le Cheval de Przewalski. He serves as a Member of International Advisory Council at Chugai Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. Hoffmann studied at Geneva Medical School, Geneva, Switzerl and from 1977 to 1978, at St. Gallen School of Economics, St. Gallen, Switzerland from 1979 to 1982 and has an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau in the year 1990.

## Riccardo Zacconi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Apps, Mobile

Riccardo Zacconi is based out of London, England and is the Board Member of Layer AI. Riccardo previously worked at King.com as Co-Founder and Chairman. Riccardo Zacconi attended Luiss Guido Carli University.

## Philippe Marcel
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social, Sustainability, Information Technology

Philippe Marcel is the President of PBM.

## Soleio ‎‏‏‎ ‎‎ ‎
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Developer Tools, Artificial Intelligence

Software designer turned investor 👨‍💻 Design: Facebook, Messenger, Dropbox 🌱 Capital: Figma, Vercel, Vanta, Framer, Perplexity and more

## Ludvig Linge
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Apps, Mobile Apps

Ludvig has a background as a co-founder of the company The Astonishing Tribe, TAT, and is an active angel investor. He is passionate about helping strong teams that want to combine design and technology to create innovative companies that really make a difference.TAT became during the beginning of the 2000s, the world leader in user interfacesfor mobile phones and delivered design and software for brands like Samsung, Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and Google. In late 2010, TAT was sold to Canadian Research in Motion, RIM, which makes BlackBerry handsets.

## Chris Rodman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Solihull, Solihull, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Gaming, Social, Sports

Chris Rodman is a Head of International & Rights Acquisition at Candy Digital.

## Paul Forster
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Financial Services

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.

## Rob Dobson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Business Intelligence, SaaS

Rob founded Actix (actix.com) in 1991 and as CEO (1991-2005) grew it to over $50m revenue by 2005. More than 90% of the world’s mobile phone customers have their networks optimized by Actix software and Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. In 2005 he sold a majority stake in the company toPE firm Summit Partners at a $100+m valuation. He has invested in a further 30+ startups and has had five very successful exits (he's not counting failures as they come with the territory). Rob is chairman of Robotical (robotical.io) and DevicePilot.com. He's also the founding chairman of Singletrack.com and a supporter of the unique orchestra SouthbankSinfonia.co.uk. As an inveterate tinkerer in software and hardware, he's fascinated by IoT, 3D printing and the maker movement (as you can probably see from his personal website (robdobson.com). Rob is a Fellow of the IET and has a 1st class honours degree in Electronic Engineering.

## Richard Scudamore
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Gaming, Social, Sports

Richard Scudamore is an English sports executive. He was the Executive Chairman of the English Premier League.

## Martin Ott
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Legal, Internet, Information Technology

Martin Ott - CEO @ Taxfix

## Stefan Magnusson
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Social, Internet

Stefan Magnusson is a Co-Founder of Taurus Technologies Electric.

## Jonas Brogårdh
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Social, Internet

Jonas Brogårdh

## Claire Nooriala
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Apps, Mobile, Social

Claire Nooriala VP EMEA, Snap Inc.

## Antonio Zaccheo
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mason, Ohio, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel
- Focus: Social, Internet, Media and Entertainment

Antonio Zaccheo is the CEO at BIC Capital. Antonio Zaccheo attended at University Bocconi.

## Alexandra Mathiolon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social, Sustainability, Information Technology

Alexandra Mathiolon (Chief Executive Officer of SERFIM).

## Paul Chiappe
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Social, Mobile Apps

Paul Chiappe

## Jeremy Darroch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Video, Advertising, Internet of Things

Jeremy joined the Company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in 2004 and was appointed CEO in December 2007. He has extensive experience in the retailing and fast-moving consumer goods sectors. Prior to joining the Company, Jeremy was Group Finance Director of DSG International plc (DSG), formerly Dixons Group plc and prior to DSG, he spent 12 yearsat Procter & Gamble in a variety of roles in the UK and Europe. Jeremy is a Non-Executive Director of Burberry Group plc and a Council Member of the National Centre for Universities and Business. He was previously a Non-Executive Director and the Chairman of the Audit Committee of Marks and Spencer Group plc.

## Houman Ashrafzadeh
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Social, Internet

Houman Ashrafzadeh

## Philippe Bossanne
- Type: Angel
- Location: Lyon, Rhone-Alpes, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Social, Sustainability, Information Technology

Philippe Bossanne (co-founder and president of Huttopia)

## Harald McPike
- Type: Angel
- Location: Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Analytics

Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor.

## Simon Franks
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Health Care, Payments

Simon Franks is the founder and managing partner of Redbus Ventures and Chairman of the Franks Family Foundation. (www.thefff.org)

## Sophia Bendz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Artificial Intelligence

Sophia Bendz - Partner @ Cherry Ventures

## Theo Osborne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, E-Commerce

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.
