Top 35 Sporting Goods Angel Investors in Europe (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Peter Troensegaard Jensen
Angel
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2 | Denmark | Angel, Seed | Drones, Retail, Sports | |
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Omar Fonseca
Angel
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2 | France, Portugal | Seed, Pre-Seed | Sports, Soccer, Fitness | $1.1M–$2M |
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Giovanni Gardelli
Angel
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2 | United States, Italy, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | E-Commerce, Fashion, Software | $66k–$2.4M |
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Tony Parker
Angel
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2 | France | Seed, Angel, Series A | Sporting Goods, Sports, Finance | |
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Matthieu Pigasse
Angel
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1 | France | Seed | Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods | |
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Guido Giordano
Angel
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1 | Canada, United Kingdom | Pre-Seed | SaaS, Email, Content | |
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Nigel Wray
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A | E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech | $916k–$10M |
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Marc Simoncini
Angel
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1 | France | Seed, Angel, Series B | Finance, Software, Audio | $1.1M–$21M |
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Patrick Bamford
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Angel, Series A | B2C, Shoes, Medical | |
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Thomas Rebaud
Angel
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1 | France, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $494k–$5.5M |
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Simon Josefsson
Angel
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1 | Sweden, Germany | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Sports, Consumer Goods | $183k–$1M |
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Carsten Maschmeyer
Angel
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1 | Germany, Austria, Switzerland | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $99k–$29M |
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Markus Zengerer
Angel
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1 | Austria | Angel | E-Commerce, Sporting Goods | |
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Tim Dempsey
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Financial Services | $962k–$2.5M |
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Robin Knox
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Canada, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, SaaS, Digital Media | $38k–$2.9M |
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Mark Livings
Angel
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1 | Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Software, Education, Communities | $269k–$5M |
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Georg Kofler
Angel
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1 | Germany, Austria | Angel, Seed | Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet | $82k–$424k |
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Tom Boonen
Angel
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1 | Belgium | Seed | Cycling, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods | |
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Xander Schauffele
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Angel | Sporting Goods | |
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Jonas Søholt Grundtvig
Angel
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1 | Denmark | Retail, Sports, Cycling | ||
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Kåre Sand
Angel
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1 | Denmark | Retail, Sports, Cycling | ||
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Emir Selimovic
Angel
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1 | Austria | Angel | E-Commerce, Sporting Goods | |
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Fabio Mondini de Focatiis
Angel
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1 | Italy, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology | $329k–$2.9M |
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Arno Gerken
Angel
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1 | Germany | Pre-Seed | Consumer, Sporting Goods, Sustainability | |
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Sjaak Fleer
Angel
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1 | Austria | Angel | E-Commerce, Sporting Goods | |
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Teddy Riner
Angel
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1 | France | Series A | FinTech, Finance, Software | $8.8M–$11M |
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Paul Walton
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States | Pre-Seed, Seed | Software, SaaS, Digital Media | $38k–$1.3M |
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Andrea Lederer
Angel
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1 | Germany | Pre-Seed | Consumer, Sporting Goods, Sustainability | |
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Jesper Buch
Angel
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1 | Denmark, United States | Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed | Internet, Software, E-Commerce | $142k–$500k |
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Livingstone Ian
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, United States, Malta | Seed, Series A | Video Games, Gaming, PC Games | $950k–$12M |
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Rouven Dresselhaus
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States, Mexico | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, E-Commerce, Internet | $221k–$66M |
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Ted Hettich
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Pre-Seed | Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce | |
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Bernd Geilen
Angel
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1 | Germany | Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Consumer, Online Portals | |
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Michael Carrick
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom | Seed | Fitness, Wellness, Health Care | |
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Johannes Müller
Angel
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1 | Austria | Angel | E-Commerce, Sporting Goods | |
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Peter Troensegaard Jensen
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- Industry: Drones, Retail, Sports
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
- KEEPR —
- CYKOM — The all-in-one app for runners & cyclists. Discover and join communities, organize and create runs & rides and earn rewards while having fun and being active.
Omar da Fonseca is the Ex-player.
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- Industry: Sports, Soccer, Fitness
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, Portugal
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nolt — Nolt provides high-quality sports equipment for athletes, offering durability, customization, and accessibility through their 3D Configurator, making it suitable for both amateurs and professionals.
- ScorePlay — ScorePlay is an AI-powered media asset manager dedicated to sports. The MAM centralizes assets in a single media workspace, with AI-tagging. Distribute to athletes and sponsors automatically through app. Amplify your brand.
Giovanni Gardelli is the Senior Director at Verizon Media.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Fashion, Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, Italy, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 23
- Round size: Seed $638k–$2.4M; Angel $66k–$878k
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
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.
Tony Parker is a French-American former professional basketball player.
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- Industry: Sporting Goods, Sports, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
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.
- ADN Skis — ADN Skis are developing a technology that integrates eco-design and composite material dismantling processes for the outdoor sports industry. The company shifted its business model to focus on technology licensing, transforming ADN into an ingredient brand, offering solutions for ski manufacturers and recycling players.
- Wavo — Wavo provides debt-free inventory financing for SMEs, allowing them to grow without cash constraints.Unlike traditional financing, Wavo purchases inventory upfront, so businesses don’t have to immobilize cash or take on debt. Repayments are directly tied to sales, ensuring flexibility and preserving financial capacity. The solution is accessibleto fast-growing businesses, as it does not require balance sheet analysis or financial ratios.With Wavo, SMEs can seize new opportunities, optimize working capital, and scale faster—without financial constraints.
Leading investment banking professional and former civilian administrator of the French Ministry of Economy and Finance. In 2002 he joined investment banking firm Lazard. Matthieu is Deputy CEO of Lazard in France and Vice Chairman of Lazard in Europe. He is also the owner of a French publishing group, Les Inrockuptibles and a co-controllingshareholder of the leading newspaper publisher Le Monde and the French edition of the Huffington Post. A Board member of Groupe Lucien Barrière, Derichebourg and Relax News.
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- Industry: Sports, Fitness, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nolt — Nolt provides high-quality sports equipment for athletes, offering durability, customization, and accessibility through their 3D Configurator, making it suitable for both amateurs and professionals.
Guido Giordano - Director - Venture Programs @ Invest Ottawa
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- Industry: SaaS, Email, Content
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 28
- Round size: Seed $916k–$5.9M; Series A $1.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vizzy —
- Implement AI — Implement AI provides managed AI agent solutions and teams of virtual workers via its AI Agent Platform, offering SMEs cost-effective, enterprise-grade solutions to amplify human potential, optimise productivity, and drive growth.
- Tonic Health — Tonic Health is leading a nutrition movement. The 1 million strong community that subscribes to all-natural, high-impact vitamin drinks and gummies to fuel your energy, mood and immunity without the junk. Try our tonic effervescent vitamins drinks, no added sugar gummies, or max strength drinks.
Marc Simoncini is the CEO, Co-Founder and Owner of Jaina Capital. He previously worked at MEETIC as a Founder, Owner and Ex-CEO. Marc Simoncini attended E.S.I.
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- Industry: Finance, Software, Audio
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series B
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$10M; Series B $20M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ADN Skis — ADN Skis are developing a technology that integrates eco-design and composite material dismantling processes for the outdoor sports industry. The company shifted its business model to focus on technology licensing, transforming ADN into an ingredient brand, offering solutions for ski manufacturers and recycling players.
- Shadow — Experience the power of cloud gaming with Shadow.tech. Dive into a world where high-performance gaming is accessible on any device. Enjoy features such as 4K resolution, VR compatibility, and seamless gameplay without the need for expensive hardware. Explore our comprehensive game store and start your ultimate gaming journey today
- URBAN CUISINE — URBAN CUISINE develops connected indoor vegetable gardens.
Patrick Bamford
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- Industry: B2C, Shoes, Medical
- Stage:Angel, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Emerald — Take control of your long-term health with Emerald. Get continuous GP support, in-depth screenings, wearable data integration, and a personalised plan to prevent disease and boost longevity.
- Hylo Athletics — Hylo Athletics manufactures Athletic Footwear.
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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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: France, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $494k–$5.5M; Series A $596k–$4.5M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
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.
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- Industry: Health Care, Sports, Consumer Goods
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Sweden, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $339k–$1M; Angel $183k–$348k; Pre-Seed $366k–$540k
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
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 — Drive trading volume and retention with StockRepublic. Seamlessly integrate social investing, benchmarking, and insights via API and white-label.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 81
- Round size: Seed $106k–$4M; Angel $99k–$603k; Series A $1.6M–$29M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
Portfolio highlights
- MyGutachter — Insuretech / Legaltech / Online Service
- Articly — ARTICLY gives discerning media consumers access to high-quality content in the form of spoken-aloud audio publications. This is accomplished by selecting articles from leading German-language publishers, incorporating professional soundtracks, and making them available centrally by subscription. This helps you to stay up to date while also learningthe backstory of the top stories, despite your restricted time.
- Interior Circle — The interior circle benefit living in one every day and wanting to improve it. Others may appreciate a water supply, but we are pleased with the new vase. What if we could make only one small change while still experiencing wonderful new things This is exactly what we want to accomplish with our company! alongside youWe specifically give up ourcommission for this purpose. We utilize this money to provide housing—their own homes or other important social structures—to those living in nations with inadequate social infrastructure. Our program will not be able to alter the course of history. However, we also want to create our own business.
Markus Zengerer
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts
Tim Dempsey is a Managing Partner at Epiphany Capital. He graduated from the University of Manchester.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $962k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
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
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Digital Media
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Canada, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $327k–$2.9M; Pre-Seed $38k–$1.3M
- 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 — Simplify the probate process in Scotland with expert support. Join our free webinar and book a consultation today.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Communities
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, Sweden, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $269k–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
Georg Kofler is an angel investor.
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- Industry: Consumer Goods, E-Commerce, Pet
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Germany, Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Angel $82k–$424k
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Tom Boonen is an individual investor.
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- Industry: Cycling, Manufacturing, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Belgium
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Xander Schauffele
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- Industry: Sporting Goods
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Theo Health — Theo Health is a Scottish sports technology startup specializing in smart clothing that provides real-time, lab-grade biomechanical data for athletes and strength & conditioning coaches.
Jonas Søholt Grundtvig
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- Industry: Retail, Sports, Cycling
- Geography: Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CYKOM — The all-in-one app for runners & cyclists. Discover and join communities, organize and create runs & rides and earn rewards while having fun and being active.
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- Industry: Retail, Sports, Cycling
- Geography: Denmark
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CYKOM — The all-in-one app for runners & cyclists. Discover and join communities, organize and create runs & rides and earn rewards while having fun and being active.
Emir Selimovic
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Retail, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: Italy, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Round size: Seed $329k–$2.2M; Equity Crowdfunding $1.4M–$2.9M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Icohup — The aim of Icohup is the development of pollution sensors with high performance yet low costs.
- Yobs — Record your interviews, accelerate candidate review, coach recruiters and build a fair and rigorous hiring process.
- Keyless — Reverify and authenticate your users in a glance, without storing biometric data. PingOne Recognize delivers private, fraud-resistant biometric authentication.
Arno Gerken
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- Industry: Consumer, Sporting Goods, Sustainability
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PLANETICS — Planetics revolves around “sustainable and fair sporting goods”. This means clothing, equipment, and nutrition.
Sjaak Fleer
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts
Teddy Riner is the three-time Olympic champion and ten-time World champion of judo.
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- Industry: FinTech, Finance, Software
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: France
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Series A $8.8M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
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.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Digital Media
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 13
- Round size: Seed $327k–$327k; Pre-Seed $38k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% 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.
- 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
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- Industry: Consumer, Sporting Goods, Sustainability
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PLANETICS — Planetics revolves around “sustainable and fair sporting goods”. This means clothing, equipment, and nutrition.
Jesper book is the Seed Investor at DIBB Design.
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- Industry: Internet, Software, E-Commerce
- Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Denmark, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $142k–$500k; Angel $400k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
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.
Ian Livingstone is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the Co-Founder and Partner of Hiro Capital. Ian previously worked at Flavourworks as a Non Executive Chairman.Ian Livingstone attended Altrincham Grammar School.
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- Industry: Video Games, Gaming, PC Games
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Malta
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $950k–$4.5M; Series A $8M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Mediatonic Games — We're one of the largest independent studios in the UK, with multiple locations worldwide. Visit to find out what games we've been working on, what we've been up to and what positions we have open.
- The Secret Police — The Secret Police is a London-based mobile game developer. Now working on an exciting new game
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Browse database — It's Free!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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Germany, United States, Mexico
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $221k–$6M; Series A $3.3M–$19M; Series B $17M–$66M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Reaction Commerce — Product capabilities and documentation of Mailchimp Open Commerce.
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Focusing on marketplace know-how, eCommerce retail sales, and project management I work daily to enable solutions for businesses globally.
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- Industry: Retail, Fashion, E-Commerce
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- DAYUAN LIMITED — Global online retail platform in multiple shopping categories
Bernd Geilen used to work as CEO for ING Germany.
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- Industry: SaaS, Consumer, Online Portals
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- 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.
Michael Carrick is an English professional football coach.
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- Industry: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Sporting Goods
- Stage:Angel
- Geography: Austria
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Plusgear — PlusGear smart gear will solve all of your common sports problems. All product concepts
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