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Top 30 Sporting Goods Angel Investors in Europe in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 2025 A list of 30 angel investors that invest in Sporting goods startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sporting goods companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 30 Sporting Goods Angel Investors in Europe in February 2025

Investor	Sporting Goods Europe investments
Giovanni Gardelli	2
Simon Josefsson	1
Patrick Bamford	1
Carsten Maschmeyer	1
Arno Gerken	1
Sjaak Fleer	1
Livingstone Ian	1
Ted Hettich	1
Teddy Riner	1
Paul Walton	1
Andrea Lederer	1
Kåre Sand	1
Bernd Geilen	1
Emir Selimovic	1
Tom Boonen	1
Nigel Wray	1
Guido Giordano	1
Markus Zengerer	1
Georg Kofler	1
Tony Parker	1
Johannes Müller	1
Martin Kreiger	1
Thomas Rebaud	1
Peter Troensegaard Jensen	1
Tim Dempsey	1
Fabio Mondini de Focatiis	1
Mark Livings	1
Jesper Buch	1
Rouven Dresselhaus	1
Michael Carrick	1

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Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
United States, Italy, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
Promoted.ai — Sort search and promote the best listing at the top to increase revenue. Designed for top engineering teams at scaled online marketplace e-commerce companies.
Growth Kitchen — Growth Kitchen provides a network of delivery-optimized kitchens coupled with food delivery solutions and support.

Simon Josefsson

Investment focus

Health Care, Sports, Consumer Goods
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Sweden, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Allihoop — Allihoop offers Scandinavian styled co-living homes for people on the move. Beautiful spaces designed to make you feel at home. Available in Stockholm and soon in Paris.
We Are Voice — We Are Voice is a new digital meeting place for choirs and choir leaders. We Are Voice facilitates everyday life for all of Sweden's choirs by offering a smarter way of communicating with each other, as well as taking part of choir arrangements and high-quality rehearsal files through an app that can be downloaded free of charge forsmartphones and tablets.
Stockrepublic — Community, benchmarking, and insights features for banks - available via white label and API

Patrick Bamford

Investment focus

B2C, Shoes, Sporting Goods
Series A
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Hylo Athletics — WE ARE A COMMUNITY OF RUNNERS. ON A MISSION TO PROTECT THE THING WE LOVE MOST. AND THE PLANET WE DO IT ON. RUN LIKE THE WORLD DEPENDS ON IT.

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Angel, Series A
Germany, Austria, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Zeedz — Gaming for a green future. Zeedz is a monster collectible game that targets real-world climate change. Discover a world of plantified magic, made in Berlin.
theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
JobSwop.io — JobSwop.io is the employment software that allows you to find available positions but also filled ones for people looking to move jobs. The features of this app are Salary information, a Watch list, Area search, Integrated chat, Up to three Job profiles in one account, Document management.

Arno Gerken

Investment focus

Consumer, Sporting Goods, Sustainability
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

PLANETICS — Planetics revolves around “sustainable and fair sporting goods”. This means clothing, equipment, and nutrition.

Sjaak Fleer

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
Angel
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts

Ian Livingstone CBE is one of the founding fathers of the UK games industry. He co-founded iconic games company Games Workshop in 1975, launching Dungeons & Dragons and Warhammer in Europe.He co-authored The Warlock of Firetop Mountain with Steve Jackson in 1982, writing 14 titles in the Fighting Fantasy gamebook series which has sold over18 million copies worldwide. He designed Eureka, the first computer game published by Domark in 1984. He joined the Domark board in 1992, overseeing a merger that created Eidos plc in 1995 where he served as Executive Chairman until 2002, and as Creative Director until 2006. At Eidos he launched global video games franchises including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. He co-authored the influential Livingstone-Hope Next Gen review published by NESTA in 2011, recommending changes in ICT education policy. Following publication, he chaired the Next Gen Skills campaign, working with government to introduce the new Computing curriculum in schools in 2014. In the Wired 100 list for 2012, he was ranked the 16th most influential person in the UK’s digital economy. He was listed in the 2015 Debrett’s 500 of most influential people in UK.Roles (as of May 2016): Founder and Chairman of the Livingstone Foundation, Chairman of Playdemic, Chairman of Midoki, Chairman of Sumo-Digital, Chairman of PlayMob, Chairman of Antstream, Chairman of The Secret Police, Chairman of Flavourworks, Vice Chair of UKIE, Patron and Non-executive director of Creative Skillset, a Member of the Creative Industries Council, Non-executive director of Creative Industries Federation, Non-executive director of Creative England, Non-executive director of Young Rewired State, GamesAid Trustee, Advisory Board Member of GameCity, and Adviser to the British Council.

Investment focus

Video Games, Android, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Angel
United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

Magicave — Magicave is a digital toy, game, and hobby startup.
Whitbread — Whitbread PLC is a hospitality company. The Company operates hotels, coffee shops and restaurants. The Company operates in two segments: Hotels & Restaurants, and Costa. The Hotels & Restaurants segment provides services in relation to accommodation and food. The Costa segment consists of operations of its branded, owned and franchisedcoffee outlets. Premier Inn is the Company's hotel business. The Company's restaurant brands include Beefeater, Brewers Fayre, Table Table and Whitbread Inns. The Company operates over 730 Premier Inn hotels and over 64,000 rooms across the United Kingdom. The Company operates over 2,000 coffee shops across the United Kingdom, over 1,200 coffee stores in approximately 30 international markets and over 5,200 Costa Express self-serve units.
Oxalis games — Founded by Industry Veterans, Oxalis Games is an Independent game dev studio creating the next generation of life-sims. Currently working on Moonfrost...

Focusing on marketplace know-how, eCommerce retail sales, and project management I work daily to enable solutions for businesses globally.

Investment focus

Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

DAYUAN LIMITED — Global online retail platform in multiple shopping categories

Teddy Riner is the three-time Olympic champion and ten-time World champion of judo.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Software
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Colizey — Colizey is building a global sports marketplace, starting with France. It is connecting technical and inspiring brands (and edgy retailers) to passionate consumers. It is centralizing, simplifying and elevating the experience of shopping for sports equipment for men, women and children.
Climb — TacoTax offers an online platform that enables its users to file their taxes while automatically optimizing for the highest tax return and to talk to an expert in order to make financial investments TacoTax was founded by Aldric Emie and Rodrigue Menegaux in April 2016.

Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Social Network
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States

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.
Just Venue — Just Venue is an online platform that aims to socialise event space booking, by connecting event hosts and organisers with space owners and managers. Just Venue aims to connect event hosts and organisers with venue owners and managers.The website has taken inspiration from other community platforms like AirBnB, Uber and TaskRabbit.

Andrea Lederer

Investment focus

Consumer, Sporting Goods, Sustainability
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

PLANETICS — Planetics revolves around “sustainable and fair sporting goods”. This means clothing, equipment, and nutrition.

Kåre Sand

Investment focus

Retail, Sports, Cycling
Funding Round
Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Cykom — Join the ride.

Bernd Geilen used to work as CEO for ING Germany.

Investment focus

SaaS, Consumer, Online Portals
Angel, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Beplus — Jetzt schnell und einfach mit be+ zeitfressende Routineaufgaben reduzieren, komplexe Prozesse vereinfachen und Benefits erlebbar machen.
PLANETICS — Planetics revolves around “sustainable and fair sporting goods”. This means clothing, equipment, and nutrition.

Emir Selimovic

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
Angel
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts

Tom Boonen is an individual investor.

Investment focus

Cycling, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
Seed, Funding Round
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

Classified Cycling — Classified Cycling

Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Glassette — Discover and collect beautiful, curated homeware from the best brands in the UK. Shop thoughtfully, live joyfully.
Get A Drip — All of our Drips and Booster Shots are administered by our medical staff, consisting of GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
Stubben Edge — Financial services for a new generation. Sign up free to sell better financial products, cheaper, faster and to more people with Flightdeck

Guido Giordano - Director - Venture Programs @ Invest Ottawa

Investment focus

SaaS, Email, Content
Pre-Seed
Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Gymbag — Gymbag gives fitness centres and personal trainers the power of having their own online store, stocked with supplements, fitness equipment, and healthy food, all ready to go. It's an instant customized storefront with a massive catalogue of products that fitness professionals use to make money while providing a valuable service to theirclients.Our customers pay a monthly fee for their store and the logistics service that comes with it. There is no minimum contract and they keep 75% of the profits they make.Our distribution partners provide us with competitive wholesale pricing for our customers, and they fulfill the orders with plain packaging so they are invisible to the end client.
Openera — Automatically save, organize, and backup files & attachments to services like Dropbox, Box, and Google Drive. Integrate your email with popular cloud storage services like Dropbox, Box, SkyDrive, and Google Drive. Create rules to automatically save & backup your email attachments. Save photos to Dropbox, documents to Box,spreadsheets to Google Drive - just tell Openera how you want your files & attachments organized, and it will do all the work - automatically.Openera is offered as a fremium / SaaS business model for proffessionals and SMB market.

Markus Zengerer

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
Angel
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts

Georg Kofler is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet
Angel, Seed
Germany, Austria

Portfolio highlights

Layzee — Layzee produces products related to outdoor living and camping.
KONKRUA — KONKRUA is a super delicious, gluten-free, healthy and easy original ingredients from Thailand.
Keego — Keego engages in the manufacture and supply of sports bottles.

Tony Parker is a French-American former professional basketball player.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Sporting Goods
Series A
France

Portfolio highlights

Colizey — Colizey is building a global sports marketplace, starting with France. It is connecting technical and inspiring brands (and edgy retailers) to passionate consumers. It is centralizing, simplifying and elevating the experience of shopping for sports equipment for men, women and children.

As Managing Director and Chief Revenue Officer, Johannes leads the Workpath sales team and is responsible for international expansion and the strategic development of partnerships. He moreover is heavily involved in shaping the Workpath brand and regularly publishes on the topics of organization, leadership and the new working world.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
Angel
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts

Martin Kreiger

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
Angel
Austria

Portfolio highlights

Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts

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!

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

autone — Autone is a SaaS operational platform enabling retail & CPG businesses to make optimal decisions easily and quickly
58 Facettes — Jewelry
The Poken Company — We are a blockchain based technology startup which wants to put the spotlight back to the content creators and artists.

Peter Troensegaard Jensen

Investment focus

Drones, Retail, Sports
Angel, Funding Round
Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Robotto — Advanced drone software with cutting-edge ai technology. Giving you the ability to benefit from autonomous flight, dynamic flight paths, situational behavior, and visualized data in real-time. Intelligent drone mapping software that saves lives and saves nature.
Cykom — Join the ride.

Tim Dempsey is a Managing Partner at Epiphany Capital. He graduated from the University of Manchester.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Lunio — Say goodbye to wasted ad spend and false conversions. Use Lunio to stave off click fraud and invalid users, safeguarding the quality of your traffic and driving better returns from paid media
Mitra bio — We are transforming skin-care by approaching ageing as a disease to be fought. We are developing a genetic and epigenetic discovery platform to help skincare companies find and develop new compounds that actually fight the root cause of skin ageing.
PPC Protect — Say goodbye to wasted ad spend and false conversions. Use Lunio to stave off click fraud and invalid users, safeguarding the quality of your traffic and driving better returns from paid media

Venture Partner, Eurazeo InvestmentInternational Venture Capitalist, Business Angel and SVP with >20 years experience in >20 countries, with a successful track as VC, BA and Entrepreneur in a truly global environment. Fabio is a Venture Partner in Eurazeo Investment, following their acquisition of IDINVEST Partners, a leading Europeanprivate equity firm with >9B€ AUM, focusing on Venture Capital investments in Italy across sectors and in the Smart City sector (Energy, Cleantech, Eco-mobility) worldwide. Fabio is the Founder and CEO of growth Capital, the leading Italian investment banking focusing on advising innovative, fast-growing companies on fund raising and M&A. Fabio is also an active Business Angel, with a personal portfolio of more than 30 startups. a Member of the Investment Committee of Lazio Innova. Previously Fabio has been a Senior Advisor in the European Investment Fund (EIF), leading the joint efforts of EIF and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP) to establish TT Investment Funds in Italy to develop its ecosystem for Innovation. Before entering the Private Equity sector, Fabio has lead Soitec Solar Division sale after it has increased its revenues from ~2M€ to >40M€ and achieved the world record of PV Module Efficiency and Solar Cell Efficiency. He had earlier founded and lead RenEn Renewable Energy to a leading renewable energy consulting firm. Earlier Fabio has been in McKinsey, ENEL and Russell Reynolds. In ENEL, Fabio has been Head of Integration, Head of International Management, Head of HR and Organisation and member of the Board of various international companies. Fabio received his M.S. degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from M.I.T. and his M.B.A. from INSEAD. He is fluent in English, Italian, French and Spanish.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Italy, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Homepal — Homepal, a digital real estate agency, allows owners and buyers to make direct contact and independently organize visits to the house. It is also a site to buy, sell, and rent a house with the full support of a real estate agency, at low costs. The team of the Homepal RE real estate agency will then help in managing the negotiations and thecontracts.It was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in Italy.
HiNelson — HiNelson an Italian-based online store for nautical accessories. HiNelson is the first nautical online store about high-level boating components. They select the best and successful brands in the nautical worldwide market, such as Veleria San Giorgio to guarantee maritime safety with their life jackets, moving through Polyform’s boat fenders foryacht protection, or the best anchoring and docking system by Lofrans’, Max Power and Quick and finishing with the most famous Plastimo’s compasses or and Bartomarine sail’s accessories.
Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.

Founder of a diverse group of businesses including globally-distributed consumer brands (Lyre's Spirits Co) as well as growth-award winning companies specialising in the supply of marketing services and products to the FMCG\ CPG industry. These businesses include an integrated creative agency, a digital printing and personalisation platform,a branded merchandise and speciality packaging supplier as well as a specialty promotional logistics and fulfilment provider.Mark has worked closely with over 50 major FMCG organisations in the grocery, pharma, liquor and health and beauty space and has grown a portfolio of businesses servicing their go to market requirements over the last seven years.Passionate about technology, Mark has invested across all business units ensuring a competitive edge is maintained with best in class platforms to delivery quality creative, product production and fulfilment services to some of the world's most recognisable businesses and brands.

Investment focus

Content Marketing, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Edoome — The most friendly and easy to use social learning management system that connects teachers with their students for effective communication and collaboration and provides tools to help teachers save time in planning, assessing and keeping track of their students’ progress, unifying everything in just one platform.
Compono — Smart, easy-to-use HR management products for sourcing talent and helping them grow.
Creatively Squared — Digital content that brings consumers closer to brands. Create engaging photos, videos and digital ads at scale

Jesper book is the Seed Investor at DIBB Design.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Internet, Software
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States

Portfolio highlights

Jukeit — Jukeit is a B2B music streaming service including a jukebox app.Music is very close to our heart. That is why Jukeit has created an economically sustainable music streaming service for commercial use. With our innovative jukebox app, we can provide music lovers a brand new way of interacting with the music in public spaces. This will both benefitthe venues and the creators of the music that we all love.
Reshopper — Reshopper is an application for buying and selling used kids items. The compamy was founded by Jonas Funk Johannessen, Anders Dahl Pape, Anders Munk, and Nicolai Denmark Johannesen. In 2016 former AirBnB country manager Aja Guldhammer Henderson joined Reshopper as CEO and now she is leading the ambitious international expansion.
ZERV — ZERV is a Danish-owned company that produces and sells sports equipment for various sports.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Internet
Series A, Seed, Series B
Germany, United States, Mexico

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.
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Michael Carrick is an English professional football coach.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

GoJoe — Ditch the step challenge apps and employee engagement platforms and boost inclusivity and engagement with GoJoe.The employee engagement and wellbeing app that people actually use.

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