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Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in Europe

Last updated: Sep 2024 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Sports startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Sports companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in Europe

Investor	Sports Europe investments
Sam Enrico Williams	19
Johann "Hansi" Hansmann	11
Andreas Mihalovits	6
Albert Armengol	5
Sinan Güler	5
Stefan Glänzer	5
Taavet Hinrikus	4
Jenny Saft	4
Mattias Weinhandl	4
Mandeep Singh	4
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal	4
Alexander Edward Chesterman	3
Mario Götze	3
Björn Bauermeister	3
Mustafa Vardalı	3
Ralf Dummel	3
Thomas Weidner	3
Jonas Nordlander	3
Ralf Reichert	3
Gregory O’Shea	3
Gloria Baeuerlein	3
Andy Phillipps	3
Wei Guo	3
Reece Chowdhry	3
Raphaël Varane	3
Alper Akcan	3
Florian Körner	3
Pierre Rigaux	3
Zlatan Ibrahimovic	3
Maximilian Tayenthal	3
Samuel Shank	3
Daniel Tomov	3
Veljo Toodo	3
Stephanie Davis	3
Josh Patterson	3
Thomas Visti	3
Ralf Reichert	3
Roman Kirsch	3
Carsten Maschmeyer	3
Tom Hulme	3
Nicolas Julia	2
Murat Balcı	2
Thorsten Mattig	2
David Apple	2
Eduardo Ronzano	2
Steve Brown	2
Ali Ciger	2
David Kasper	2
Matt Isaacs	2
Yigit Ihlamur	2

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Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr. Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

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

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Fitness
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Austria, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
Balun — Balun is a machine learning platform that forecasts electricity generation with unrivaled precision by analyzing multiple meteorological and energy market inputs, allowing renewable energy producers to optimize production, reduce penalties, and assure a stable, efficient grid.
Shopstory — boomerank is a SaaS that helps eCommerce companies grow automatically with help of a powerful AI and the creation of an immense data hub.

Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

BRICKBRO — Currently, Brickbro is one of the leading real estate transactional platforms in the spanish market.
Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.

Albert Armengol took up his MBA at Esade.

Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Apps, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Spain, United Kingdom, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Moonoa — Moonoa is a developer of an online platform to help people sleep better.
WOODEA — Constructora industrializada de edificios en madera. Reducimos incertidumbre y plazos de manera sostenible y digital.
Banktrack — Banktrack provides All the bank movements by Email, WhatsApp, or your favorite channel.

Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.

Investment focus

Apps, Wellness, Fitness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Insumo — Insumo is a personalized productivity & habit building assistant that works with other productivity tools.
Sporzy — Sporzy a booking, payment & progress tracking platform and a SaaS-backed marketplace for sports, bringing together trainers and studios who wish to benefit from digitalization with sports enthusiasts who seek habit-forming sports experiences, through online live, outdoor and in-person activities.
Digime3D — Whether you're a fitness professional, doctor, or even a life coach, Digime3D softwares enables you to extract key body shape and measurements relevant to your industry.

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 andan active angel. He holds a PhD in foreign exchange risk management and was a professional DJ for 15 years.

Investment focus

Financial Services, FinTech, Social Media
Seed, Angel, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Auro — Auro is a mobile fitness-tech solution providing you with a personal trainer in your ear. We believe that fitness is at its effective best, when it is personalized, engaging, and accessible anytime. We break down the barriers to exercise by providing millions of people all over the world access to a personal trainer along with the best of contentthat boutique studio fitness has to offer.We’re creating a truly motivating, connected fitness experience that keeps people coming back for more by combining world class instructors, killer playlists and data science led personalisation.Our mission is to transform lives by making fitness experiences awesome, accessible and affordable.
LIFT99 — LIFT99 is a coworking hub and network of startup founders in Tallinn, Estonia, and Kyiv, Ukraine. In 2018, we launched our Skillsharing Platform for founders around the world.
ClickClickDrive — ClickClickDrive is a developer of a search engine designed for users to find driving schools.The company's platform helps users to find information on different driving schools, find evaluations/recommendations published by driving students and also offers an easy-to-use theory application to help them prepare for the exam, enabling usersto choose the best driving school for them.

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Series B
United Kingdom, United States, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Meatable — Meatable is a food production company that produces real and guilt-free meat. With one cell, they are revolutionizing the meat industry's impact on climate change and animal welfare. At the same time they increase food security, without compromising the culinary experience of eating tasty, real meat. They aim to satisfy the world'sappetite for meat without harming people, animals, and the planet.It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Delft, South Holland, The Netherlands.
Open Cosmos — Driven by the vision of making space accessible to anyone, Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.Open Cosmos went from design to delivery of qb01, their first nanosatellite, in only four months, followed by a launch and deployment in LEO early April 2017. They are currently working with innovative payload developers towardsin-orbit demonstration and constellation deployment to enable services ranging from remote sensing to maritime domain awareness and machine-to-machine communications.
Unearthly Materials — Unearthly Materials is a transformative materials company focused on delivering practical room-temperature superconductors and powering the century of superconductivity.

Jenny Saft is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at OVIAVO. She attended Hult International Business School during 2013 - 2014.

Investment focus

Fitness, Wellness, Health Care
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany, The Netherlands

Portfolio highlights

Clare&me — Clare is your virtual coach which calls you whenever you want and wherever you are. Stigma free phone calls and messaging based on cognitive- behavioral therapy. clare&me supports you on your self-help journey to better sleep, less worry and more self-confidence.
Farmless — A farmless fermentation platform has the potential to create an entirely new food repertoire, producing proteins, carbohydrates, beneficial fats, vitamins, and minerals from the ground up," explained Oner. "We are creating a new interface between food and electricity by domesticating microbes chosen for their food properties and abilityto grow on renewable energy-based feedstocks.
LEVY Health — Endometriosis is a condition where tissue like your uterine lining grows outside the womb: on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic tissues, or more rarely, in other parts of the body.

Mattias Weinhandl

Investment focus

Apps, Information Technology, Fitness
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Heja — Free app for your sports team. The only app you need to easily handle communication between coaches, managers, parents and players. Management, scheduling, availability, messaging, roster.
Prion — Prion makes it quick and easy for the preschool staff to give parents insight into what happens at preschool - together with the children. The app is available free for iPhone, Android and iPad.
BlueCall — BlueCall is a B2B mental wellness SaaS. We offer empowerment toolkit for organisation, HR and leaders to manage their employee's mental wellbeing. Hand in hand with our digital toolkit we provide digital and personalised coaching sessions to reinforce self development to individual's specific needs.

Founder and former CEO at Trouva (backed by Index Ventures & exited to LON:MADE). He is now an Angel Investor & Advisor, and a Board Member at Amnesty International. He was previously an investor at BC Partners, one of Europe’s largest Private Equity funds, investors in Intelsat, Foxtons (where Mandeep was on the board), and Chewy. Prior tothat he was a strategy consultant at OC&C and graduated in Natural Sciences (Physics) from the University of Cambridge. He set up his first startup in his bedroom as a teenage coder.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Unify — Route your prompts to the best LLM endpoint. Get the best output and optimize for speed, latency and cost to supercharge your LLM applications!
Galileo AI — Galileo AI creates delightful, editable UI designs from a simple text description. It empowers you to design faster than ever.
Belong — Belong is a personal finance platform for people who are ready to play the long game.

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and activist behind companies like Mondo, 23, Podio and the reboot festival.

Investment focus

Computer, Collaboration, Software
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
Denmark, United States, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Clue — Track your menstrual cycle with Clue, the #1 doctor-recommended free period tracker app built in collaboration with top health researchers.
Corti — Corti offers a digital assistant, augmenting medics in improving patient outcomes and internal performance.
Somewhere — Somewhere, formerly Support Shepherd. We find you amazing employees who cost 80% less than US equivalents, backed by our 6-month Perfect Hire Guarantee.

Alex Chesterman is the founder and CEO of Cazoo. He was the Founder & CEO of ZPG Plc, a FTSE-250 listed company. Previously Alex co-founded Lovefilm, Europe's leading digital movie rental business, which was successfully sold to Amazon. Alex is also one of the UK's most active tech angel investors having backed dozens of early stagedigital startups and was awarded an OBE for services to services to digital entrepreneurship in 2016.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Lick — Lick | Paints, Wallpapers and Supplies. Your Room, Covered
Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Xaver — Xaver offers an advanced AI-driven B2B platform for investment and life insurance sales, boosting operational and sales efficiency of banks, insurers, and brokers by up to 65%, while introducing a new era of white-labeled private pension products.
ZeKju — ZeKju provides Messenger Communication for Supply Chains. Leading shippers and logistics service providers rely on ZeKju for efficient transport execution, yard communication and fleet management. With ZeKju, drivers use their favorite messenger (e.g. WhatsApp or Telegram) for everyday tasks while benefiting from features such as auto-translation.
encentive — encentive provides modular building to grid and consumer VPP solutions as a service for existing systems and infrastructure. We are the expert for cost efficient, scalable and fully automated micro-flexibility services!

Björn Bauermeister is the co-founder and Co-Founder & General Partner at Smart Infrastructure Ventures.Bjoern Bauermeister, CFA attended Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

Investment focus

Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship
Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.

Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Moovbuddy — Get started with MoovBuddy app to fix posture, relieve pain, & increase wellbeing. Access to personalized exercises prepated by physiotherapists
Panteon — Panteon is a mobile game developing company established at ODTU Teknokent in 2012 by an experienced team that has been developing games since 2004.
Assistant App — Muslim Assistant, an islamic website for Prayer Times and Adhan Times, Islamic Days, Dhikr Counter, Dua, Qibla Direction and Live Kaaba Broadcast.

Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States, 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.
Frinsh — Many ready-to-drink ginger shots are sweetened or blended with fruit juice and thus contain a lot of sugar. The Frinish Ginger Cubes, on the other hand, is made entirely with ginger. Our fresh ginger is processed into a fine ginger puree and then frozen promptly. This implies that the flavor and nutrients are kept better.
TeaBlobs — TeaBlobs allows you to make tea fast, responsibly, and without using a bag. Now available in seven delectable flavors.

Thomas Weidner

Investment focus

Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship
Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.

Jonas Nordlander is a Co-Founder & CEO at Avito.ru.

Investment focus

Apps, E-Commerce, Lifestyle
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
Sweden, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Werlabs — Werlabs is a Stockholm based medical technology company founded by Will Stoddart and Rickard Lagerqvist, a general practioner. Werlabs provides customers with health analysis via blood testing. The company’s aim is to give users the tools and information to take care of their health.
Glue Home — Imagine coming back from work to a clean home, the parcel from your favourite online store is in the hallway, your groceries have been delivered to the fridge and your dry cleaning is in the closet. All done while you were out. Imagine that at the same time you were helping reduce traffic, pollution and create jobs in your community.Glueenables the secure delivery of products and services into the home while you are away. Glue aims to improve ecommerce, foster trust and collaboration in communities and optimise time and resources.Glue connects consumers homes with businesses. We enable access to the home via a proprietary award-winning digital smart lock and other digital locks using Glue’s API which lets users give out digital keys in the Glue app. We are integrated with leading logistics, retail and services companies to offer delivery into the home. With Glue’s In-Home delivery app couriers can securely unlock a customer’s home to deliver an order while the customer is out.
NA-KD.com — NA-KD.com is the next generation of fashion marketplaces. A predominantly mobile-based online shopping sanctuary for fashion addicts all over the world. Combined with a unique merchant service that unleashes the e-commerce power of digital brands and social influencers. Funded by the original founder and team behind Nelly.com (170 million USDonline fashion store).

Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Investment focus

Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.

Gregory O’Shea

Investment focus

Sports, Fitness, Training
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Runna — Runna is your personalized running coach. With tailored training plans, world-class coaching and an in-app community to help you achieve your goals, whether you're training for a faster 5k or your first marathon. Download Runna today.

Gloria primarily focuses on growth stage investments across all sectors in Europe and Australia. Prior to Index, Gloria worked at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based growth equity fund, evaluating investment opportunities in the DACH region and in software and fintech companies across Europe. Gloria started her career at MorganStanley where she advised technology and telco clients across Europe and the U.S. on financing rounds, IPOs and M&A transactions. Gloria graduated with a master’s degree in management from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Investment focus

B2B, Apps, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Pile — Pile is a cryptocurrency as a service platform for fintechs and neobanks. Founded in 2022 and is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.
Gradient Labs — An autonomous customer operations agent that simulates human agents, only faster and better.

Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.

Investment focus

Software, Travel, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United Kingdom, Finland, Germany

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
Layla — Smartest trip planner AI for ultimate travel. Discover where to go, plan customized itinerary, book hotels & flights. Best road trips with Roam Around.

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, China, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Playbook — Playbook gives creators the opportunity to build and grow a subscription business. Fans get an all-access pass to a curated health and wellness content.
Crossing — Crossing Media is a live broadcast e-commerce service company that builds awareness, engagement, and sales through live-stream shopping.

Reece is the Founder & CEO of RLC Ventures - an early-stage SEIS/EIS VC fund investing in technology companies primarily focused on Fintech, Enterprise and Gaming. He was awarded “Top 5 Asian Tech Investors” 2018 (KPMG & Diversity UK) and is the youngest-ever investor to profiled by The Sunday Times. Reece is a frequent keynote andpanel speaker at prominent industry events such as StartupGrind Europe and Fintech Live. Reece holds a BA in International Business from Durham University and is a Chartered Management Consultant (ACMA, CGMA) having started his career as a Management Consultant at EY.Reece invests personally in all of RLC Ventures' investments.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
United Kingdom, Canada, United States

Portfolio highlights

Odin — Community and investment tools for people building the future.
Condense — Live-streamed volumetric video into game engines
Crowd Data Systems — Crowd Data Systems (CDS) offers a new approach to treasury management. CDS has developed an ‘app by app’ Treasury Management System which is built upon cloud infrastructure, offering everything from cash to exposure management in modular parts.

Raphaël Varane is a French professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Manchester United and the France national team.

Investment focus

Sports, Apps, Soccer
Seed, Funding Round
France, Portugal, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Kinvent — KINVENT is actively involved in the fields of physical rehabilitation and sports biomechanics producing innovative measuring and training devices for the facilitation of every day and athletic movements. Our strengths at KINVENT is that we can think and produce solutions to any challenge of sports biomechanics and physical rehabilitation.Triangular force plates for visual feedback balance training, sensors for continuous 3D kinematic analysis in the water, force sensors for kite surf, accelerometers for rowing and sailing, are some of our on demand products. If you are looking for excellence in hardware and software solutions for your work... work with us.Our KFORCE solution is a range of torque measuring instruments for human strength, balance and motion. This system consists of six instruments with high-precision measuring equipment, which concentrate all the know-how of K-INVENT. The display of the data recorded by the device sensors is transcribed by the KFORCE software, installed on any iOS or Android terminal. This accessory capable of reading and re-transcribing the information given by all dynamometers of the entire range is usable on smartphones or tablets with Android and IOS operating system
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.
Docent — Docent is the first AI-powered mobile application to offer a fully-personalized experience for discovering, accessing and collecting contemporary masterpieces.

Alper Akcan

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, mHealth
Seed, Angel
Turkey, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
Lisa AI — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.

Florian Körner

Investment focus

Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship
Angel, Series A, Convertible Note
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.

Pierre Rigaux

Investment focus

Sports, Medical Device
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
Belgium

Portfolio highlights

MYOCENE — Myocene is a Liège-based sports technology company which creates unique and innovative devices for measuring muscle fatigue and performance.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic

Investment focus

eSports, Internet, PC Games
Funding Round
Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Isbit Games —
Challengermode — Leading platform for esports competitions. Compete in high quality tournaments from the best organizers or create your own Space & monetize your community.

Maximilian Tayenthal is co-founder and co-CEO of N26. Together with his business partner and friend Valentin Stalf, he built one of the first and now fastest-growing mobile banks in Europe. Their vision was to create a retail bank that's flexible, transparent and speaks to today's digital lifestyles. Previously, Max worked in a varietyof consulting and financial roles at leading professional services firms, including CMS and Booz & Company. Max holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in economics and business administration from the University of Vienna. He also has a master’s degree in economics from the Community of European Management Schools, as well as a law degree form the University of Vienna. Max is a CFA charterholder. While Max is based in Berlin, he always makes time for his passion outside of personal finance: skiing in the mountains of Austria and Switzerland.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Vitt — Vitt is building a platform that simplifies both fundraising for SaaS founders and creates a new asset class for investors to invest in. A SaaS company that has contracted revenue can apply for financing it upfront — rather than waiting for cash to come in monthly, through Vitt's web application they get the cash upfront.Vitt analyses theirfinancial data and gives them a financing decision in a matter of minutes — not months. No more searching for intros to venture capitalists in your network. It shouldn't be about who you know but what you've built.
Soveren — Soveren helps engineering and security teams protect personal data by detecting privacy risks and analyzing real-time data flows within your infrastructure.
Terra One — Terra One engages in the development and operation of large-scale battery storage systems.

Samuel Shank is a Board Member at Operto Guest Technologies. He attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and the University of Virginia.

Investment focus

Marketplace, Mobile, E-Commerce
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Hitch — Hitch is Uber for Long Distances. We Offer Private and Shared Ridesharing Services, both Door-to-Door and Station-to-Station. View Rates here - over 300,000 rides given.
Foraged — 13K Followers, 701 Following, 195 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Foraged Market (@foraged.market)
Thimble — Get business insurance by the job, month, or year with instant and customizable coverage! Start your quote and get insured in minutes.

Daniel is founding partner at Eleven Accelerator Venture Fund and investing in some of the most promising and exciting tech startups in CEE. Daniel has been involved in startups since 2000 as early stage investor and funded (in some cases bootstrapping) entrepreneur in diverse domains ranging from software to mobile to consumer goods torenewable energy. He has been lucky to meet and befriend with some of the greatest tech entrepreneurs in our region.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Small and Medium Businesses
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Malta

Portfolio highlights

Edgar — Edgar believes that a good story can beat even the biggest of marketing budgets. This is especially true for SMBs and all the crafters and makers out there. Instead of spending big on traditional advertising, brands should engage their peers with great content. To fix the industry, they created Edgar. Edgar gives brands the tools and access to thebest creatives (brand storytellers, writers, illustrators), so that they can delight their customers with awesome stories. StoryMarket is the place where Edgar hosts a hand-picked selection of storytellers from around the world. From copywriters, journalists, editors, illustrators, photographers to animators, outreach experts and community managers, they have the talent needed to craft awesome brand stories. Edgar handles strategy, management, creation and distribution of content. The scope of the campaign depends on each customer. Creating the brief and defining the scope is as easy as ordering a frozen yogurt. From a single piece of content, to a set of Instagram/Vine videos, or dedicated storytelling expert that sticks with the brand forever and ever. Edgar makes sure the content is nothing less than perfect and is delivered to you in record time (first piece no later than 10 working days). The creatives and freelancers working with Edgar benefit from their lightweight yet powerful storytelling tools. StoryCrafter is a tool for short, visual stories. Stories take the form of visualized storylines with interactive elements that boost engagement. You create the story by drag and dropping your photos, Instagrams, Vine or YouTube videos and spicing it up with short captions. Brands equip the stories with their contact, brief information and a call to action at the end of the story. Etsy artists for example sell their products straight from the story, while wineries invite people for a wine tasting. Sharing and embedding is done in seconds, while they make sure the story looks and feels exactly the same wherever. Be it web, mobile or tablets. With each story, the Edgar community is growing. A community of freelance storytellers that Edgar empowers with tools and opportunity to be rewarded for their skills. And a community of active visitors who return to be inspired by great content every single day. Brands and individuals benefit greatly from Edgar as it helps them engage their potential customers. And helps them convert existing customers into fans. At the end, there’s no more powerful instrument than people telling stories about your brand.
Native Teams — Native Teams is a platform that offers payments and employment tools for freelancers, remote workers, and clients. Native Teams was founded in 2021 and was headquartered in London.
Join The Players — Join The Players is a tech company that brings the sports experience to the next level by providing automatic video, highlights, and statistics of mini-football games.

Veljo Toodo

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Software
Angel, Pre-Seed
Estonia

Portfolio highlights

YuMuuv — YuMuuv is an employee wellness platform that uses science-based formulas to capture data and keeps track of physical activity & leaderboard.

Stephanie Davis

Investment focus

Sports, Fitness, Training
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Runna — Runna is your personalized running coach. With tailored training plans, world-class coaching and an in-app community to help you achieve your goals, whether you're training for a faster 5k or your first marathon. Download Runna today.

Josh Patterson

Investment focus

Sports, Fitness, Training
Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Runna — Runna is your personalized running coach. With tailored training plans, world-class coaching and an in-app community to help you achieve your goals, whether you're training for a faster 5k or your first marathon. Download Runna today.

Thomas Visti - CEO @ Mobile Industrial Robots

Investment focus

Robotics, Software, Manufacturing
Angel, Grant, Funding Round
Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Rokoko — Rokoko | Affordable high-end motion capture and animation tools for body, hand, and face capture + software with native integrations for all major animation software and game engines
Unicontrol — Unicontrol is a developer of a 3D machine control system for all types of excavators. Unicontrol is a manufacturer of a simple 3D-GPS machine control system for all types of excavators. We are here to prove that machine control can be made simple.
BlueKey — BlueKey is a software developer of a solution that aims to deliver, structure, and automate the world's shipping data, reliably and easily. The platform gathers valuable data in one place so that shipping companies and charterers in the dry cargo industry can hit the competitive price, quality, and speed of deliveries.

Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen.

Investment focus

Education, Video Streaming, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Austria

Portfolio highlights

ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
Dealflow — Dealflow is the next-gen invoicing platform for ambitious business owners. Save transaction fees, get financed and automate every flow in one place. Send and pay invoices on your terms!
Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.

Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Italy, Malaysia

Portfolio highlights

Casavo — Want to sell your house fast? Fill out the online form and receive a free home value estimate and real estate prices from Casavo!
Bending Spoons — We create cutting-edge technologies and products, 500 million app downloads, 100 million monthly active users.
Animoca Brands — Animoca Brands is a metaverse and gaming venture capital firm that focuses on driving digital property rights to gamers and internet users through NFTs. It utilizes gamification and blockchain to develop and market a portfolio of mobile applications, games, and additional products oriented to educational learning to ensure transparency, security,and new business models.

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, Apps, Health Care
Seed, Angel, Funding Round
Germany, Austria, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

theblood — We are giving back self-determination, control and specific health conditions to our users through a non-invasive menstrual blood test
AnimalChat — The messenger app AnimalChat makes communication with pet owners easier and more efficient. It's used to counteract the drastic lack of staff in the animal industry. As veterinarians we know how bad the situation is, but luckily as software specialists we also know how to fix it. With AnimalChat we free up valuable time for businesses andempower them to offer a better digital experience for their customers.
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.

Tom Hulme is a General Partner and Head of Europe at GV and was a CEO and Founder at Magnom Corporation. Tom attended Harvard Business School and Bristol University.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Software, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series C
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Smol — laundry capsules. posted.
Kinnu — Kinnu is a learning engine that allows to explore new concepts and master any field of study. Kinnu allows to choose from an ever-expanding list of themes such as artificial intelligence, modern art, intermittent fasting, psychology, philosophy, history, and scientific breakthroughs.
Immersive Gamebox — Electric Gamebox delivers immersive team Adventures in the world's smartest room. Our GameBox Adventure pods combine projection mapping, touch screen, motion tracking and surround sound technologies to create an entirely new form of digital group entertainment.

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

Investment focus

FinTech, Gaming, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
France, Israel, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

cubzh — cubzh is a new free-to-play video game that is all about user-generated content through a cube system.
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.
Tweed — Tweed provides a plug & play white-label wallet solution that includes compliant self-custodial key management, comprehensive wallet features and payment infrastructure all in one SDK. With Tweed, platforms and brands can onboard mainstream users seamlessly and create frictionless web3 experiences which increase the overall activity and saleson platform. Tweed’s architecture is built as a true self-custodial solution, and passes regular legal audits to ensure your platform can offload the regulatory burden and offer a fully compliant web3 experience.The company is still currently in stealth mode.

Murat Balci is an angel investor.

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, mHealth
Seed
Germany, Turkey

Portfolio highlights

Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.
Thread In Motion — Looking for wearables to digitize your operations? Hands-free and ergonomic new generation smart gloves are here to help you reduce cost and risks.
Meditopia — Join 36 million users of Meditopia to get daily mental health support for you and your team. Sleep well, stress less and get 1-1 support if you need.

Thorsten Mattig

Investment focus

Sports, Automotive, Marketplace
Series A, Funding Round, Convertible Note
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sponsoo — Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce.
Chargemaster — Chargemaster Plc benefits from over 25 years collaborative experience of working within the telematics and vehicle orientated infrastructure industry. It provides a comprehensive range of electric vehicle charging solutions that have been developed to accommodate new technological advances and the growing demands of the electric vehicle industry.With flexible and practical charging station solutions, Chargemaster has developed a number of strategic partnerships with energy providers, vehicle manufacturers, government agencies, management consultancies, property development companies and leading blue chip companies. It also works with other data and telematics providers to ensure that its products continually adapt to new requirements within the market.

David Apple is the CBO of ScorePlay, on the Board of the CMTA, and an active Angel Investor and Start-up Advisor.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
France, Portugal, United States

Portfolio highlights

Rayon — Built for Speed. Designed for Teams.
Mentra — Mentra tackles systemic inequality by economically empowering underserved communities. We’re erasing the stigma around Disability Hiring with our recruiting platform that matches neurodiverse talent with inclusive employers.Our mission is to bring neurodiversity to the workplace - providing employers with thought diversity & job seekers witheconomic opportunity
Cycle App — Cycle is a horizontal platform made of flexible building blocks that you can use in customizable workflows. Your way of working shouldn't depend on your tools, they built Cycle so that product teams could ship the way that works for them.

Eduardo Ronzano is the Founder of KelDoc.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
France, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
Spades — Guests Scan a QR code to view the menu and Pay, they can also Split the amount and Tip the staff. Now faster than ever.
Morpho Labs — Morpho is an on-chain peer-to-peer layer on top of lending pools. Rates are seamlessly improved for borrowers and lenders while preserving the same guarantees. Morpho combines the efficiency of P2P with the liquidity of lending pools. Users enjoy an improved APY while maintaining the pool’s flexibility

Steve Brown - Advisor @ ctrlio

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, Robotics
Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Solo60 — Discover your own gym from 60 minutes solo, with friends or as a personal trainer.
Vicarious — Vicarious is an artificial intelligence company that uses the computational principles of the brain to develop general intelligence for robots. The company was founded in 2010 by Dr. Dileep George and D. Scott Phoenix.

Ali is the Head of Vaccines for Pfizer Germany. He was previously part of the global rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine. He is investing at early stage Digital Health startups, being part of Sprinboard Health Angels (www.springboardangels.com). He is also a Newton Fellow, the joint program of London Business School and Local Globe.

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round
Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Halitus — Laser Technology x Gas Dynamics Analysis x Machine Learning.
LEVY Health — Endometriosis is a condition where tissue like your uterine lining grows outside the womb: on the ovaries, fallopian tubes, pelvic tissues, or more rarely, in other parts of the body.
Every Health — Every Health focuses on "holistic, needs-based medical care for the LGBTQIA+ community".

David Kasper is a Czech-born investor, active in the fintech space yet also an avid tennis player with a passion for sport and technology.

Investment focus

B2C, Apps, Sports
Pre-Seed
United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

RacketPal — Find local racket sports partners in minutes. Install the app for Free today

Matt Isaacs is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Counteract. As one of the founding partners, Matt helped shape Essence into the company it is today. That agency is now the world’s largest independent buyer of digital media with billings in excess of $650MM USD, is 480 people strong, and has offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Seattle,Singapore and Tokyo. Current clients include Google, eBay, Financial Times and Barclays. Matt served as Global CEO of the agency until spring of this year. During his last four years in that role, both billings and headcount doubled every year. Today, as Executive Chairman, Matt oversees the Board, supports the execution of corporate strategy and helps to ensure the legacy of Essence exists well beyond the agency and the industry. Before co-founding Essence Matt was Chief Marketing Officer at Create Services & Goldfish Bank, a subsidiary of Lloyds TSB Group that handled all of the bank’s non LloydsTSB branded retail banking business across 15 brands and with £2B in assets. Matt’s ‘first career’ was in strategy consulting at McKinsey spin-off MMG, where he was part of the core team that built MMG Europe from 14 consultants to 400 across 13 offices. Matt lives on a small farm with his wife, 4 children, 5 hens, lots of sheep and bees in the depths of East Sussex, UK.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, AgTech
Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

HeadBox — HeadBox is a new online marketplace for creative, inspiring and offsite spaces. They are the first platform in the UK to directly link their Guests (corporate and SME bookers) to their Hosts (owners of those creative, inspiring spaces) allowing you to instantly search, book and pay in an easy and seamless way saving time and hassle when planning aSpace experience.
Keia Ltd — From acupuncture to yoga, browse, compare and book on the world's most extensive wellness platform from the comfort of your phone, tablet or laptop.
Crowd Connected — Crowd Connected provides location software for mobile tracking, engagement and analytics

Yigit Ihlamur - Co-founder, General Partner @ Vela Partners

Investment focus

Apps, Fitness, mHealth
Seed, Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.
Axiom Cloud — Axiom Cloud Inc. uses AI to solve the biggest energy and maintenance problems plaguing the underserved commercial cooling/refrigeration industry ($120B/year in the US alone). Our first target customer segment is retail grocery. Customers pay an initial setup fee to install/configure the IoT platform onsite, along with recurring SaaSfees for one or more cloud-based software apps that run on the IoT platform.
Meditopia — Meditopia is a mental coach platform that provides guided meditations, music, and contemplative content in a therapeutical context to improve mental wellbeing. The app combines mindfulness, science, and technology with a local look and feels that's more intuitive for each audience. It helps users to reduce stress, sleep well, love, and findpeace in today's hectic environment. Its mission is to help people all over the world discover happiness within themselves and develop the mental resilience to apply to their daily lives.

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