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Top 50 Social Media Angel Investors in Europe (November 2026)

The most active angel investors investing in Europe Social Media startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in Europe Social Media startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Angel round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Michael Birch
Angel
5 United States, United Kingdom, Denmark Seed, Series A, Angel Apps, Internet, Social Media $465k–$10M
Claire Valoti
Angel
4 United Kingdom, France, Germany Pre-Seed, Seed Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Apps $131k–$7.5M
Stefan Glänzer
Angel
4 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A, Angel FinTech, Financial Services, Social Media $197k–$16M
Hesham Zreik
Angel
4 United States, India, Nigeria Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce $10k–$5M
Johann Hansmann
Angel
3 Austria, United Kingdom, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Health Care, Fitness $300k–$3.4M
Paul Mears
Angel
3 United Kingdom, Ghana, Hong Kong Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding Mobile, E-Commerce, SaaS $23k–$1.1M
Shane Naughton
Angel
3 Ireland, United States Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown SaaS, Software, Apps $971k–$3M
Carlos Domingo
Angel
3 Spain, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Social Media, Internet, Software $221k–$2.5M
Richard Brennan
Angel
3 United Kingdom Angel, Series A, Series B Mobile, Software, Social Media $500k–$929k
Saint Mihiel
Angel
3 France Seed, Private Equity Social Media, Brand Marketing, Outdoor Advertising $2M–$2.8M
Rob Dobson
Angel
3 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, SaaS, Robotics $41k–$3.5M
Folabi Obembe
Angel
3 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed PaaS, EdTech, Events $100k–$500k
Rene Rechtman
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Denmark Series A, Seed, Angel Education, Social Media, Information Services $5.5M–$22M
Stephen Bullock
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $549k–$634k
Paul Walton
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, SaaS, Digital Media $38k–$1.4M
Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel
2 Ireland Seed Video, Publishing, Social Media $1M–$1.4M
Balaji Srinivasan
Angel
2 United States, India, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $650k–$28M
Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel
2 Germany, United States, Mexico Seed, Series A, Series B Software, E-Commerce, Internet $221k–$66M
Alexander Rindom-Andersen
Angel
2 Denmark Pre-Seed Mobile, Software, Freelance $400k–$400k
Tom Kennedy
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed Travel, Software, Video $869k–$3.4M
Santiago Fernández López
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed Travel, Content, Publishing
Paddy Byng
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed Marketing, Advertising, Social Media
Klaus Nyengaard
Angel
2 Denmark, United Kingdom, France Seed, Series A, Angel E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace $100k–$18M
Szymon Klimczak
Angel
2 Poland Seed Marketing, Reputation, Social CRM $223k–$343k
Joachim Behrendt
Angel
2 Turkey, United States, Germany Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed E-Commerce, SaaS, Software $103k–$1.9M
Brent Hoberman
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States, France Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $1.5M–$21M
Bartosz Olchówka
Angel
2 Poland Seed Marketing, Reputation, Social CRM $223k–$343k
José María Torroja
Angel
2 Spain Seed E-Commerce, Social Media, Content $407k–$876k
Amir Nooriala
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Germany Pre-Seed, Seed Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, E-Commerce
Albert Armengol
Angel
2 Spain, United Kingdom, Norway Seed, Pre-Seed Mobile Apps, Apps, Software
Simon Murphy
Angel
2 United Kingdom, The Netherlands Seed, Series A Retail, Consumer Goods, Events $653k–$19M
Will Martin
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Japan, United States Seed, Series A Software, Financial Services, FinTech $655k–$11M
Jag Singh
Angel
2 Germany, United Kingdom, United States Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel Software, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence $100k–$5.3M
Hal Philipp
Angel
2 Ireland Seed, Angel News, SaaS, Big Data
Stefano Martinetto
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Fashion, Mobile Apps, Social Media
Peter Gabriel
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Belgium, United States Seed, Series A Music, Software, Artificial Intelligence $1.3M–$22M
David Carrero Fernandez-Baillo
Angel
2 Spain, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Mobile, E-Commerce $100k–$2M
William Ahlefeldt-Laurvig
Angel
2 Luxembourg Seed, Pre-Seed Social Media, Social Network, Sustainability
Rajan Navani
Angel
2 India, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Series A Mobile, Travel, Information Services $2.8M–$15M
Desigan Chinniah
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Canada, Nigeria Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel Software, Apps, Events $670k–$6.4M
Graham Paterson
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed Apps, Events, Software $2.4M–$2.5M
Thomas Rebaud
Angel
2 France, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Internet $539k–$5.6M
James Farnhill
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed, Angel Software, Apps, Events $2.4M–$2.5M
Simone Cimminelli
Angel
2 Italy, United Kingdom Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding Social Media, Apps, EdTech $39k–$2.1M
Husayn Kassai
Angel
2 United Kingdom Pre-Seed, Seed E-Learning, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$2.2M
Didier Tranchier
Angel
2 France Seed, Angel Apps, Software, Social Media
Robin Knox
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Canada, United States Pre-Seed, Seed Software, SaaS, Digital Media $38k–$3.1M
Will Brooks
Angel
2 United Kingdom, United States Seed, Series A FinTech, Financial Services, Software $524k–$30M
Pablo Morenes
Angel
2 United Kingdom, Spain Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, Events $2.4M–$2.5M
James Phipps
Angel
2 United Kingdom Seed Apps, Events, Software $2.4M–$2.5M
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Michael Birch
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Michael Birch is the Co-founder of Bebo. He previously worked at Blab as a Co-Founder. Michael Birch attended Imperial College London.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Internet, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 51
  • Round size: Seed $465k–$4.3M; Angel $500k–$750k; Series A $4.5M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Keyo — Keyo is an end-to-end solution that offers apartment rentals. Now, Keyo has blossomed into a full-scale software-as-a-service for landlords, targeting small-to-medium-sized renters with 20 to 5,000 units. Founded in 2017, the company is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA.
  • HolidayFox — Discover and book every kind of place to stay - hotels, B&Bs, cottages, cabins, glamping and campsites - plus activities and experiences, worldwide.
  • Whatifi — Whatifi provides a new way to make and consume interactive experiences on your phone with friends. Whatifi unlocks the ability to discuss, debate and decide what happens next in the movies you watch with friends and family, offering dozens of plotlines, character arcs, and endings.
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Claire Valoti
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Claire Valoti is General Manager UK Sales of Snapchat, Inc. and chair of Mobile Marketing Association. Claire became Head of Agency Relations at Facebook and Media Director at Weve. She also joined O2 Media Telefónica UK as Managing Director and MindShare as Head of Digital Display & Mobile and Business Director.Claire studied BA Hons,Politics at University of Nottingham.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, France, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$7.5M; Pre-Seed $131k–$900k
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Sylvi — Meet Sylvi, your AI language tutor. She tracks your mistakes as you chat to build custom lessons. The more she knows, the better you get. Ready to speak?
  • Omada — Get in on the action with Omada, the ultimate and insanely fun Sports Prediction Community.
  • ComplyStream — ComplyStream enables faster and smarter FinCrime alert resolution by unifying your fragmented data, communication and workflows in a single AI-native platform.
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Stefan Glänzer
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 4 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Stefan is an entrepreneur and investor from Germany who enjoys living in London. He is the co-founder of companions.de, companionsTV, ricardo.de and myblog.de. He is the founding investor and executive Chairman of Mendeley.com and RjDj.me and has been and in the same role at Last.fm. Stefan is a firm believer in European entrepreneurship and an active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Germany, United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 44
  • Round size: Seed $584k–$3.9M; Angel $197k–$1M; Series A $2M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Minitap — mini, the AI QA agent, writes, runs and maintains your iOS, Android and web regression tests, cross-app, multi-device and offline flows included.
  • HEY HOLY — HEY HOLY is redefining dog nutrition with the world’s first breed-specific dog food sold in a subscription. We believe every dog deserves food tailored to their unique health needs – because a German Shepherd isn’t a Chihuahua.Backed by science and crafted with only high-quality ingredients, HEY HOLY supports better digestion, fewer intolerances,and healthier, longer lives for dogs. Thousands of owners have already made the switch, choosing HEY HOLY to give their dogs personalized care and optimal health outcomes.
  • Mozart AI — Artho has revealed its first product, Mozart AI, a groundbreaking AI-powered Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) that aims to accelerate and magnify human creativity. This hybrid musician will have complete control over their musical vision with no creative friction. They will create, engineer, and perform at the speed of their imagination. They willoutperform and innovate the best pure human artists by combining human artistry with AI co-creation. We are a team of musicians, technologists, and creative visionaries.
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Hesham Zreik
Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates · 4 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Hesham Zreik is the CEO of FasterCapital. He previously worked at DreamApps as a Project Manager. Hesham attended the University of Westminster.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 1191
  • Round size: Seed $20k–$2M; Pre-Seed $10k–$1M; Series A $170k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 53% lead, 47% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FellowMe — FellowMe is the APP for the people to follow their passions while they are connecting with other people in a simple way. Coming soon...
  • UrbanFarmers — UrbanFarmers is a platform that connects city dwellers with local urban farms and community gardens.
  • Primelocation care givers foundation — Primelocation care givers foundation is the promoter and sponsor of an 80-bed secondary..
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Johann Hansmann
Angel · Vienna, Wien, Austria · 3 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Johann Hansmann is based out of Vienna, Vienna and currently works as a Chairman for Hansmann Family Office. Johann previously worked at tractive as a Partner and Advisor. Johann Hansmann attended WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business).

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Fitness
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Austria, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 73
  • Round size: Seed $300k–$3.4M; Angel $350k–$630k; Pre-Seed $439k–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
  • Newsrooms.ai — Newsrooms.ai is an AI-powered content production and management platform that enables businesses and news organizations to automate their whole content pipeline—from research and content generation to publishing across many digital channels.
  • Donnerstag.ai — Donnerstag automates finance operations with AI: AR, AP and bank reconciliation at line-item level, exception handling and a full audit trail.
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Paul Mears
Angel · Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong · 3 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Paul Mears is the Co-Founder of CUT Carbon Distributed Technologies AG. He previously worked at Mogu as an Advisory Board Member. Paul Mears attended Loughborough University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Ghana, Hong Kong

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $23k–$762k; Angel $90k–$413k; Equity Crowdfunding $154k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Travalian — Travalian is an open source, free leisure, and travel social media resource, where members are encouraged to participate in the content, can add, edit, review and rate all categories, including any location, based on personal experiences as a visitor or local. Members can express their own detailed insight into every aspect of travel and fun forevery community, combining local information with experiences, images and video on each location, giving perspective views from local communities and visitors alike. Where everyone can rate and review villages, towns, cities and countries, showing the world how different locations compare in popularity by visitors and the local communities giving unique perspectives that can be used by locals to promote where they live and the attractions and activities that visitors can enjoy, while visitors can supply invaluable perspective to what they most like.
  • Moneymailme — Download now from Google Play: https://t.co/sRr9IHlgpR Download now from App Store: https://t.co/7AkCDtnMkX
  • Dopecard Holdings Limited — Dope provides financial services. Their services include mobile banking, fintech, e-commerce, africa, innovation, social media, onboarding, ecobank, technology, and education.
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Shane Naughton
Angel · New York, New York, United States · 3 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Shane Naughton - Founding Partner and Board of Directors @ On The Stage

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, Software, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: Ireland, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 6
  • Round size: Seed $971k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Trustev — Stop online fraud with Trustev, a new approach.
  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
  • Spring Moves — Spring Moves’ mission is to make working out as interesting, enjoyable, and addictive as humanly possible. They harness the power of music and rhythm to turn casual runners into athletes and newbies into pros. It was founded in 2012 and is based in New York.
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Carlos Domingo
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 3 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Carlos Domingo is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Securitize. Carlos previously worked at du as a Chief New Business and Innovation Officer. Carlos Domingo attended Polytechnic University of Catalonia.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Internet, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Spain, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $221k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bag on Board — Bag on Board partners with airlines to offer their passengers a service to check-in their bags from anywhere in the city.
  • Betterness — Betterness is Augmented Wellness: intelligence for people, providers, and builders across the Betterness app, Betterness One, and the developer stack.
  • Hawkeye Systems — Hawkeye Systems is develops cutting edge optical imaging products for military and law enforcement markets to assist with intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance. Hawkeye Systems serves customers in the United States.
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Richard Brennan
Angel · 3 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Richard Brennan is a seasoned Senior Executive in the Telecommunications industry with significant strengths in Global Marketing and Branding. He joined Hutchison Whampoa in 1993 in the UK as part of the Founding Executive Management Team for Orange plc. He has held Board positions with Mobistar, GSMA CEO Board, and was Chairman of the Board for Wildfire, Inc. He now works around the globe with innovative, energetic, and fast moving companies. He also serves as an Executive Consultant for HTC, specifically assisting them break into the competitive world of consumer branded smartphones. Richard is a keen cyclist and runner, and fundamentally believes the intelligence being built into smartphones will revolutionise the way mobiles are used for recreational outdoor activities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Social Media
  • Stage:Angel, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Angel $500k–$929k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Zynstra — Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge. Its Intelligent Infrastructure is specifically designed and built for the retail edge, not the datacenter. It leverages intelligent automation to transform the way thousands of distributed sites are managed. By choosing Zynstra, the retail edge becomes the source of your competitiveadvantage in an era where superior customer experience is not only a great-to-have, but a must-have. You establish a lasting platform where new innovative apps and services are tested and launched to delight consumers at the retail edge, all while driving down operational costs and better managing risk, With its DNA deeply rooted in edge software products, Zynstra provides purpose-built edge infrastructure for the world’s largest, most distributed, innovation-driven enterprises. Zynstra is a strategic partner of HPE in delivering intelligence infrastructure – under the HPE Proliant Easy Connect brand – and is based in the United Kingdom.
  • SwiftKey — SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages.SwiftKey wasfounded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
  • Samba Networks — Looking to earn money from your connected TV or mobile app? Our award winning video advertising platform helps you improve your income through smart, fast and easy integration.
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Saint Mihiel
Angel · 3 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Saint Mihiel

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Brand Marketing, Outdoor Advertising
  • Stage:Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.8M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Phenix Groupe — Hireup is a responsive, high-converting, and beautifully designed job board for technology businesses. Bright, vibrant, and easily adapted, it offers the perfect starting point for numerous business types.
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Rob Dobson
Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 3 investments in Europe Social Media startups

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 to PE 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.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 64
  • Round size: Seed $211k–$1.8M; Angel $104k–$3.5M; Pre-Seed $41k–$603k
  • Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Robotical — Robotical brings STEM learning to life. Explore coding, robotics, and physical computing with Marty the Robot and other hands-on STEM tools.
  • Mallzee — Mallzee started as a Tinder style Shopping app to help consumers find clothes quickly on mobile. In the last 3 years we’ve grown to be the biggest multi retailer shopping app in the UK with nearly 1m users. Consumers love our simple approach to browsing and now swipe tens of millions of products every month. As we developed this incredibly engagedcommunity we used this swipe data to improve our business.We're now opening up this data source to our partners to help improve their marketing, merchandising and buying - all whilst showcasing their products and brand hundreds of thousands of times each month.
  • Connect4 — The client-centric platform for you and your team. Consistently deliver outstanding client meetings. Every single time.
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Folabi Obembe
Angel · 3 investments in Europe Social Media startups

CEO @ Findadmission

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Investment focus

  • Industry: PaaS, EdTech, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$500k
  • Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Findadmission — At Findadmission, we empower prospective students and international education providers with one intuitive platform for networking, communication, virtual education events, marketing, recruitment and enrolment.From application management to chat, video and voice call features with admission officers, Findadmission provides the solution that helpsto identify, engage and enrol prospective students abroad. We host must-have digital tools through a single, easy-to-use platform that works seamlessly across all devices.What we do for students Here at Findadmission, we make it possible for people looking to study abroad to jump-start their dream by providing a comprehensive platform that combines everything they need into one place. This helps students discover their best fit for educational programmes; whether they are looking for two-year or four-year courses, Undergraduate or Graduate degrees, a certificate program or an online diploma, we’ve got them all - and we’ll be sure to help you through the admission process, as well as through the study visa application.What we do for institutions The need for international education providers to reach new academic talent from all over the world is growing rapidly, even while marketing funding tightens. The old ways of marketing and recruiting have become more expensive, time-consuming, and generally obsolete when it comes to gaining the interest of prospective students. With Findadmission’s all-in-one marketing, communications and recruitment solution, we provide a platform for education providers and recruiters to safely and securely connect with prospective students and their parents – all via any device. Wherever, whenever, and at a price that meets your budget, Findadmission is the international recruitment solution for you. Our dedication to international recruitment has made us the number one student recruitment provider in Africa, and we are even more excited to share further revolutionary technological solutions in the field. Technology allows us to provide a solution where barriers are broken, potentials are unlocked people can connect, regardless of physical distance. We have brought the student recruitment process into the digital world of today: institutions, recruiters and students are able to communicate, collaborate and share information the way they want to - from any device, any location and at any time.
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Rene Rechtman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Rene Rechtman is based out of London and is the co-founder & CEO of Moonbug. Rene previously worked at the Walt Disney Company as a Head of non-linear media. Rene Rechtman attended the University of Copenhagen.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Education, Social Media, Information Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Series A $5.5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fanvue — The creator subscription platform for the future. Sign up before the end of the month and take home 85%.
  • Movellas — Changing the experience of reading and writing stories for teens all over the world. Movellas is a self-publishing platform based around the Japanese concept of mobile short stories. The market in Japan has exceeded 82 million people, meaning it became the fastest growing form of literature amongst Japanese teenagers.Users can create theirown stories and publish to the social and interactive community, with fellow readers able to comment, give feedback and assist in developing each story. Anyone can create their own 'movella' and it is accessible via the web or mobile device.
  • Async — Chat-based AI creative suite for video content production. From raw footage and AI-generated scenes to finished videos in one AI workflow - just tell Async what you want.
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Stephen Bullock
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Stephen Bullock - Exec Chairman @ Autologyx

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $549k–$634k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Audiense — Put consumer segmentation and cultural insights at the centre of your strategy
  • Medwise.ai — Medwise.ai is the Google for doctors.
  • Hammer Missions — Hammer Missions provides a versatile drone flight planning app and data processing software for 3D Mapping, building inspections, surveys and a variety of other use-cases. Our software helps drone businesses and enterprise UAV teams collect and analyze drone data for 3D infrastructure surveys & inspections.
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Paul Walton
Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Digital Media
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $323k–$331k; Pre-Seed $38k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
  • Handl — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
  • My Probate Partner — Fixed-fee help to apply for Confirmation in Scotland, with or without a Will. 97% granted first time. Confirmation granted, or your money back.
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Peter O'Grady Walshe
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Peter O'Grady Walshe is based out of Dublin, Dublin, and is the Non-Executive Chairman of John Paul Construction. Peter previously worked at Midas Productions as a Non-Executive Chairman. Peter O'Grady Walshe attended University College Dublin. Peter O'Grady Walshe has received the Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.

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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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Balaji Srinivasan
Angel · San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups, 12 in the past 12 months

Balaji Srinivasan is based out of Singapore, Central Region and is the Founder, Investor, and Author of Network School. Balaji previously worked at Coinbase as a CTO. Balaji Srinivasan attended Stanford University.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, India, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 276
  • Round size: Seed $2.3M–$15M; Pre-Seed $650k–$4.2M; Series A $6M–$28M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vorflux — 24x7 coworkers that live in Slack. Give AutoBots ongoing responsibilities while you set direction and do the creative work.
  • Dirac Labs — Universal Navigation powered by Quantum Sensing & AI
  • Physical Superintelligence — Physical Superintelligence develops physical superintelligence systems that use AI-driven research to study physics, engineer physical systems, and explore new physical laws. Its approach combines human scientists with virtual physicists that conduct autonomous research campaigns covering hypothesis development, verification, experimentation,engineering, and deployment. The company focuses initially on the physical infrastructure underlying AI, including energy, materials, computation, sensing, and manufacturing.
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Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Rouven Dresselhaus is Founding Partner at Cavalry Ventures, a leading European Venture Fund that he co-led until 2024. His most notable investments at Cavalry include Spread.ai, Forto and Planetly (acq. by OneTrust). He also served on numerous boards, e.g. at BRYTER and Sofía Salud. Rouven started his career at Morten Sondergaard and then moved to Capnamic Ventures. In parallel, as a member of the advisory board, he spearheaded the digitization initiative of his family business Joseph Dresselhaus GmbH & Co. KG (acq. by Nimbus) comprising core processes such as finance, HR, logistics and procurement. Rouven has invested in more than five dozen startups and participated in over two hundred funding rounds. He is a member of YPO, a global community of chief executives, and has been mentoring young entrepreneurs in formats such as Techstars, Techstars SAP.io, next logistics accelerator and the Axel Springer Plug and Play Accelerator. In addition, Rouven is a supporter of the entrepreneurial charity Founders Pledge.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $221k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $17M–$66M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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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Alexander Rindom-Andersen
Angel · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Alexander Rindom-Andersen is the Co-founder & CEO @ Naetion

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Software, Freelance
  • Stage:Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $400k–$400k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • HJAELP — Marketplace, Digital Workplace, Mobile App
  • Naetion — Naetion is a web3 company that is building the world's largest on-chain career network. The company operates at the intersection between consumer and cryptocurrency, providing access to the emerging web3 market for the mainstream user.Naetion is the developer of HAELP, a decentralized, retail-first network of service providers, creators, andtalent which allows its members to show, sell, and manage their skills - while retaining all of their earnings.
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Tom Kennedy
Angel · Dublin, Dublin, Ireland · 2 investments in Europe Social Media 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, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $869k–$3.4M; Venture - Series Unknown $870k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
  • Barespace — Barespace provides end-to-end solutions that manage, market, and grow your beauty business.
  • MARC — MARC is an AI startup dedicated to real estate asset management.
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Santiago Fernández López
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Focused on the achievement of happiness, considering all the meanings of the word for the stake holders in a business project, which are: a) Satisfaction for Clients and Providers, b)Profits for Shareholders, c)Motivation for the Team, d) Innovation, social welfare and sustainability for the Community and e) Happiness for my Family.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Travel, Content, Publishing
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Niume Limited — Niume is a collaborative blogging platform that enables bloggers to create distribute, and monetize their content.The platform enables bloggers to create and distribute content on their range of spheres, consisting of art, photography, fashion, culture, food, and travel. Furthermore, they are able to monetize their content through PayPal andtrack their revenue per post through its dashboard.Niume was launched in 2012 by Alex Hughes, Daniel Gennaoui, and Francesco Facca and is based in London.
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Paddy Byng
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Paddy Byng joined the Smedvig Capital team as an advisor in 2006. He has extensive experience in all elements of marketing from both the agency and the client side with a particular focus on retail.Paddy is currently Managing Director of Aspreys. Prior to that he lead the buyout team as CEO of Smythson. He has spent time in New York and London,most recently as global head of Marketing for Dunhill and before that filling the same role for Polo Ralph Lauren.Paddy began his career at Bartle Bogle Hegarty where he became an account director before moving to AMV.BBDO in a similar capacity. During this time, his clients included the Economist, Pepsi, Haagen-Dazs and Volvo.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Advertising, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Buzzbike — Buzzbike is launching a tech-driven cycle scheme for London, creating a new sponsorship platform for brands.
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Klaus Nyengaard
Angel · Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Klaus Nyengaard is the co-founder and Chairman of GenieBelt, a SaaS-based platform that develops project management software. He is also co-founder of the investment club, Nordic Makers. He serves as the co-chairman of Treatwell, a beauty and wellness community marketplace. Nyengaard has previously been CEO & Chairman of Just-Eat pre-IPO, and build a number of tech companies. In 1994, Klaus Nyengaard graduated from Aarhus University with a specialized degree in economics and management.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Software, Marketplace
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: Denmark, United Kingdom, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 21
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$1.8M; Series A $3.8M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Famly — Easy-to-use software for childcare providers. Our nursery management software makes administration, planning, and learning journals easy. Try it for free.
  • Panion — Panion is a community-building tool that helps companies, schools, and organizations facilitate more social interactions amongst its members. The platform is entirely keyword searchable and filterable so members are able to search for each other based on common interests, values, goals or experiences and even narrow their searches by location,gender, age, language and much more. Members and admins can propose spontaneous events within the network and form social groups around an interest. Community admins are given a dashboard of analytics to track trends in their community and send segmented messages based on interest and location.
  • Grand PMS — Rooms, events and F&B on one AI-assisted platform. GRAND helps hotels and venues automate operations, sell more and spend more time with their guests.
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Szymon Klimczak
Angel · Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Szymon Klimczak is the Chief Growth Officer of Text and a Venture Partner at Unfold.vc. He is an alumnus at the University of Wroclaw.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Reputation, Social CRM
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$343k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brand24 — Get instant access to conversations relevant to your business, grow customer satisfaction and sales. Start now for free!
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Joachim Behrendt
Angel · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Joachim Behrendt is the Head of the Advisory Board at Vali Berlin.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, SaaS, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Turkey, United States, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $110k–$1.9M; Angel $103k–$327k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Influanza — Influanza is an influencer marketing platform for startups. Influanza is a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content.
  • Kolay Randevu — Kolay Randevu is an online beauty booking marketplace and salon management software for salons.
  • Local Guddy, Inc. — A marketplace connecting travelers and locals through unique guddy tours from locals all around the world. Taste local foods, drinks; see must see places, night life, views etc.
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Brent Hoberman
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Brent Hoberman is based out of London, England, and is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Founders Forum Group. Brent previously worked at Founders of the Future as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Brent Hoberman attended the University of Oxford.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, France

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 40
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5.8M; Series A $1.6M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
  • Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
  • Framework — Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school, radically reimagined for them. Born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, we’ve worked with over 100+ operators—across product, growth, ops, people, data, engineering & design, from some of the world's most innovative companiesincluding Monzo, Babylon, Bulb & Depop—to pioneer a new model of lifelong learning.
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Bartosz Olchówka
Angel · Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Bartosz Olchówka - Venture Partner @ Unfold.vc

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Marketing, Reputation, Social CRM
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Poland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $223k–$343k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Brand24 — Get instant access to conversations relevant to your business, grow customer satisfaction and sales. Start now for free!
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José María Torroja
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Jose María Torroja is the founder of Enerpro , Enerpal , Blosom 2002 , Enerpro Construccion Sola r and Alternativa Solar Canaria . It has invested in companies: Gigas , Tourist Eye , Agroterra , Runnics , Weplan , Ironhack , Ticketea , Lucera , Socialbets and Betrocket . As a business angel, she opts for projects in the initial phases, with a committed, solvent team, with a scalable idea and a defined business model. Among his exits are:Ducksboard and Tourist Eye .

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Commerce, Social Media, Content
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $407k–$876k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Otogami — Otogami is a search engine focused only in videogames and has been designed to provide valuable information not only to final users but also to ecommerce sites, videogames studios and publishers.
  • Selltag — Selltag offers a simple online platform for people to sell and buy items. It brings together buyers and sellers using the power of social networks. That means people can sell goods that is no longer needed or not used anymore, maybe something people have made or even digital contents to friends and followers on Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn. Pluspeople can get help from those same contacts, if the link is shared to an ad users will get more potential buyers to see it.Selltag was founded on 2013 and is headquartered in Valencia, Spain.
  • Groopify — APELJITU merupakan BO togel online dengan minimal dp 10 ribu yang dijamin aman dan terpercaya
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Amir Nooriala
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Amir is the COO of OakNorth, Europe’s highest-valued fintech firm focused on unlocking the potential in customised lending to SMEs globally. Prior to joining OakNorth, he was an Ops and Tech MD at BGC, he has also worked at Barclays Investment Bank, Accenture and Cisco Systems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, FinTech, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Sylvi — Sylvi.ai is an AI-powered language learning platform designed to help users achieve fluency through natural, conversational practice.
  • Firenze — Firenze aims to expand financial services by extending investment-backed lending to a wider audience, recognizing its importance in wealth creation and preservation. The founding team aims to democratize Lombard lending, making it accessible to all, while focusing on mass affluent clients.
  • ComplyStream — ComplyStream enables faster and smarter FinCrime alert resolution by unifying your fragmented data, communication and workflows in a single AI-native platform.
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Albert Armengol
Angel · Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Albert Armengol took up his MBA at Esade.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile Apps, Apps, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Spain, United Kingdom, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • WOODEA — Constructora industrializada de edificios en madera. Reducimos incertidumbre y plazos de manera sostenible y digital.
  • Robinsun — Robinsun's Plugin Solar Kits make you save on your energy bill instantly and help in the fight against climate change. Get your Plugin Solar Kit today and generate your own energy for self consumption.
  • Banktrack — Banktrack provides All the bank movements by Email, WhatsApp, or your favorite channel.
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Simon Murphy
Angel · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Simon Murphy Entrepreneur & Investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Retail, Consumer Goods, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, The Netherlands

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Round size: Seed $653k–$5.5M; Series A $5.5M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow

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.
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Will Martin
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 88
  • Round size: Seed $655k–$5.5M; Series A $2.2M–$11M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
  • Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
  • Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
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Jag Singh
Angel · Berlin, Berlin, Germany · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Jag is one of Europe's most active angel investors, and is a Managing Partner at Angel Invest Ventures in Berlin. He's founded several companies (including two exits and a spectacular failure), and invested in over 100 startups over the last six years, including Spire (SPAC), Nutmeg (exit to JPM), Disperse, Eversend, Restack, and Anytype.He’s an ad-man at heart, and spent over a decade as a political strategist advising high-profile politicians, campaigns and corporations across the US and Europe. Jag is fluent in six languages, and can be found on Twitter via @JagSingh

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 87
  • Round size: Seed $180k–$5.3M; Angel $153k–$382k; Pre-Seed $100k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • REMOJO — Achieve sexual self-mastery with the REMOJO apps, courses and coaching programs. Quit porn for good, and bring your A-game to relationships, life and work.
  • Strange Loop Labs — Guru automates tax, insurance, and audit processes with generative AI
  • Lightning Reach — Lightning Reach is a financial support portal that makes it easy for people to find and apply for a wide range of personalised support in one place. This support can range from; charitable grants, local council schemes, help with bills and the cost of living crisis and benefits.
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Hal Philipp
Angel · Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Hal Philipp - Principal Partner @ Meridian Growth Capital

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Investment focus

  • Industry: News, SaaS, Big Data
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: Ireland

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • NewsWhip — NewsWhip is the world's most comprehensive content discovery and analytics database. Their suite of products give customers the ability to predict which stories will be important today, and understand how to create successful content over the long term.NewsWhip serves over 500 of the world's leading publishers, brands and agencies,including: Reebok, the Washington Post, Conde Nast, Google, MasterCard, BuzzFeed, Time Inc., and more. NewsWhip Spike is their real-time, predictive content discovery dashboard — offering a one-stop view of what's important across both the web and 5 social networks. Spike is the only tool that discovers stories within 2 minutes of publishing, and predicts their spread across social.NewsWhip Analytics is a database of how audiences have engaged with stories across every social network over the long term. NewsWhip customers use Analytics to benchmark how they stack up against competitors and track engagement trends around events and seasons.
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Stefano Martinetto
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Stefano Martinetto is CEO at tomorrow ltd.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Fashion, Mobile Apps, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Ubooker — Global online booking platform for the fashion industry where top brands book talent directly
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Peter Gabriel
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3.5M; Series A $5M–$22M
  • Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tumelo — Tumelo is an impact-focused financial technology firm. Our mission is to enable retail investors and pension members to create and benefit from a more sustainable investment system. We do this by partnering with investment and pension providers, enabling them to provide their customers with transparency over the companies they own and ashareholder voice on issues they care about, such as gender equality or climate change. Our solution is white-label software delivered via APIs and/or a user dashboard. Our software integrates with existing investment platforms improving customer engagement, acquisition and retention for providers.
  • Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
  • Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.
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David Carrero Fernandez-Baillo
Angel · Madrid, Madrid, Spain · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

David Carrero Fernandez-Baillo is the Co-founder and VP Sales at Stackscale.

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $100k–$2M; Pre-Seed $100k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Frontity — Frontity is the easiest way to create lightning fast websites using WordPress and React. Open source and free to use.
  • Genially — Genially is the world-leader in interactive visual communication. Use Genially as your all-in-one online tool to create stunning presentations, interactive images, infographics, dossiers, quizzes, resumes, etc. and enrich them with interactivity and animation effects in seconds. You no longer need a team of designers and programmers to make animpact with striking, visual communication in a flash. Use interactive and animated effects to easily distribute information in layers that viewers can explore and discover. Leave outdated content creation software behind, and stun and engage your audience with Genially. The Wow Effect is just a few clicks away.Choose from over 1000 templates, or start from scratch. Join a community of millions of users worldwide that includes businesspeople, teachers, marketers, designers and companies like Hulu, Danone, Michelin and Heineken. The future of communication awaits you.
  • Fuell — With the Expense Management Platform and the Fuell corporate card, we help companies to manage their employee expenses effortlessly. Forget the expense sheets.
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William Ahlefeldt-Laurvig
Angel · Luxembourg, Luxembourg, Luxembourg · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

William is an experienced engineer with a broad background including forestry, the energy sector and IT start-up ventures. He has a wide experience in taking projects from idea stage through development to launch and all the way to market. In Greenworlder, William has been the driving force behind turning Peter’s vision into reality.https://greenworlder.com/william-ahlefeldt/

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Social Network, Sustainability
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Luxembourg

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Greenworlder — Greenworlder is a platform for sustainability. You can share and learn tips for sustainable living, reflect on your sustainable experiences, and read or write articles on sustainability.
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Rajan Navani
Angel · Pune, Maharashtra, India · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Rajan Navani is based out of Pune, Maharashtra and is the Founder, Chairman, Managing Director & CEO of JetSynthesys. Rajan previously worked at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as an Imaging Engineer. Rajan Navani attended the Purdue University. Rajan Navani has received the BMW Herbert Quandt Foundation Young World Leader award.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Travel, Information Services
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: India, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $2.8M–$6.1M; Series A $5.5M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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 — Scale your brand worldwide with Assiduus Global, a Cross-Border E-Commerce accelerator offering AI-driven growth and brand protection.
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Desigan Chinniah
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Tech Advisor | Startup Mentor | Angel Investor | Board MemberDesigan Chinniah, aka Dees, provides seasoned startup, dot-com hardened, functional, strategic, creative and zero-bullshit executive advice. Dees possesses a unique set of Swiss-Army-Knife like talents and experiences - at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Business Development,Marketing, Fundraising and Developer Relations.A self-confessed geek — this sneakerhead lives in London with his wife, Sanne and their two kids, Summer Skye & Kiran Quinn.You’ve come this far… Why not say hello? helloATdesiganchinniahDOTcom#africa #ai #ar #blockchain #bots #community #connectivity #crypto #ethics #fintech #gaming #iot #opensource #privacy #speech #startups #voice #vr #web

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, Nigeria

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$6.4M; Pre-Seed $670k–$882k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Klarytee — Klarytee is a SaaS platform that builds security into sensitive content to enable granular control wherever the data goes
  • Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
  • TigerBeetle — TigerBeetle operates as a distributed financial accounting database for mission-critical safety and performance.
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Graham Paterson
Angel · Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Graham Paterson

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Events, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Howbout — The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple. Automatically find dates that work, easily coordinate diaries and arrange plans with friends in seconds.
  • Howbout — Share time & actually keep up with friends
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Thomas Rebaud
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Thomas Rebaud is 28 years old when he founds Meero in 2016, driven by the desire to make the Internet more beautiful. The story begins in 2007 when he joins EMLyon Business School. Still a student, he becomes president of the Junior branch of the World Entrepreneurship Forum, a cooperation present in 15 countries whose aim is to developentrepreneurship as a vector of growth and employment in the world. Through this, Thomas develops a solid knowledge of good business practices. In 2013, with a second Masters under his belt, he sets up his first Internet-free loan comparison company, which works well but doesn’t take off. So he takes up an opportunity with Diji, a new kind of IT consultancy and engineering company. And that’s it. His progress at Diji leads him to discover the professional photography market, which is just waiting to be disrupted. Thomas gets it and seizes the opportunity by creating Meero!

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $539k–$5.6M; Pre-Seed $938k–$1.8M; Series A $585k–$4.6M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
  • Welink — WELINK is a publisher specializing in connecting individuals and liberal and independent professions. We give liberal professionals the platform, solutions, and support they need to grow their businesses and thrive. We measure our success by our customers’ success.
  • The Poken Company — We are a blockchain based technology startup which wants to put the spotlight back to the content creators and artists.
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James Farnhill
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

James Farnhill

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Howbout — The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple. Automatically find dates that work, easily coordinate diaries and arrange plans with friends in seconds.
  • Howbout — Share time & actually keep up with friends
  • Crypcentra — End-to-end digital asset investment tools. Built for institutions.
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Simone Cimminelli
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Simone Cimminelli is a Founding Partner at Cimminelli Holding. He attended ESCP Business School.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Social Media, Apps, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Equity Crowdfunding
  • Geography: Italy, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Seed $580k–$2.1M; Angel $39k–$250k
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • READBUG —
  • Waveful — Become a content creator on Waveful. Build an audience with your simple, everyday content and start to monetize on social media. Download the free app now!
  • Wibo — Scopri le migliori soluzioni per la formazione manageriale. Trasforma il tuo team con i nostri corsi innovativi e efficaci. Contattaci ora!
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Husayn Kassai
Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Husayn Kassai is the CEO and Founder of Quench.ai. He previously worked at Onfido as a CEO and Co-Founder. Husayn Kassai attended the University of Oxford.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: E-Learning, Social Media, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Pre-Seed $1.5M–$2.2M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jely —
  • Sagittal AI — Sagittal AI is building AI solutions that adapt to human workflows instead of forcing humans to adapt to AI.
  • quester — quester is the ultimate platform to share & discuss resources. Imagine Discord meets Google Bookmarks, but with the ability to create your own playlists of any online content and gamified libraries with others who share your passions!
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Didier Tranchier
Angel · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Didier Tranchier is the Co-founder at Digital Pharma Lab.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Software, Social Media
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: France

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Fastory — Increase your conversions through attractive mobile experiences. Create immersive and impactful marketing campaign for Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter with the leading mobile-first marketing platform.
  • Geodruid — The best places in Europe ranked by your friends check-ins / likes / reviews / tips on the web.
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Robin Knox
Angel · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Digital Media
  • Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $323k–$3.1M; Pre-Seed $38k–$1.4M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DragonflAI — Phone-Based AI Moderation Moderate user-uploaded images and videos before they leave mobile devices and reach the internet. Keep your platform and servers free from indecent or illegal content.
  • Handl — Handl is an online platform for vehicle & fleet servicing.
  • My Probate Partner — Fixed-fee help to apply for Confirmation in Scotland, with or without a Will. 97% granted first time. Confirmation granted, or your money back.
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Will Brooks
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures

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Investment focus

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

Investor stats

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

Portfolio highlights

  • Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
  • Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
  • Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
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Pablo Morenes
Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

Pablo Morenes is a founding Partner at Boost, working closely with founders in their product, go-to-market and sales strategies. Previously held roles Algebris Investments. Blackstone and Credit Suisse.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Events
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, Spain

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Howbout — The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple. Automatically find dates that work, easily coordinate diaries and arrange plans with friends in seconds.
  • Howbout — Share time & actually keep up with friends
  • Centinel — The accounting engine for modern finance teams.
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James Phipps
Angel · Swindon, Wiltshire, United Kingdom · 2 investments in Europe Social Media startups

James Phipps

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Apps, Events, Software
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Round size: Seed $2.4M–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Howbout — The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple. Automatically find dates that work, easily coordinate diaries and arrange plans with friends in seconds.
  • Howbout — Share time & actually keep up with friends
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