# Top 50 Sports Angel Investors in Germany in June 2026 ## Thomas Madsen-Mygdal - Type: Angel - Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Computer, Software, Collaboration Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and activist behind companies like Mondo, 23, Podio and the reboot festival. ## Ralf Reichert - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Video Streaming, SaaS Ralf Reichert is the Co-CEO, Founder, and Chairman at ESL FACEIT Group. Ralf Reichert attended the University of Duisburg-Essen. ## Jenny Saft - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care Jenny Saft is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at OVIAVO. She attended Hult International Business School during 2013 - 2014. ## Sinan Güler - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Fitness, Wellness Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College. ## Maximilian Tayenthal - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software 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. ## Roman Kirsch - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group. ## Ralf Dummel - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Manufacturing, Product Design 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. ## Samuel Shank - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Marketplace, Mobile, Apps Samuel Shank is a Board Member at Operto Guest Technologies. He attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and the University of Virginia. ## Alper Akcan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Fitness, mHealth Alper Akcan ## Gloria Baeuerlein - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Information Technology, B2B 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 ## Mustafa Vardalı - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Apps, Fitness, Software Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon. ## Nikolaus Glasmacher - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, Soccer, Natural Language Processing Nikolaus Glasmacher ## Heidrun Twesten - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care Heidrun Twesten is a Founder & Managing Partner at Impacct GmbH. ## Cesc Fabregas - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Video, Sports, Publishing Francesc "Cesc" Fàbregas Soler is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for English club Chelsea and the Spain national team. ## Christian Greb - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, Soccer, Natural Language Processing Christian Greb ## Björn Bauermeister - Type: Angel - Location: Leipzig, Sachsen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship Björn Bauermeister is the co-founder and Co-Founder & General Partner at Smart Infrastructure Ventures.Bjoern Bauermeister, CFA attended Leuphana University of Lüneburg. ## Ebru Dorman - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Health Care, Apps, Fitness Ebru Dorman ## Tobias Tschoetsch - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Mobile, Soccer Tobias Tschoetsch is the founder and managing director of Tschoetsch holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and master’s degree in management from Berlin, Germany. ## Matthias Hilpert - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital ## Cornelia Hoppe - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Apps, Health Care, Beauty Cornelia Hoppe ## Robert Ermich - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Mobile, Soccer, Internet Robert Ermich ## Ali Ciger - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, Machine Learning 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. ## Toni Kroos - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Mobile, Rental Toni Kroos is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for La Liga club Real Madrid. ## Serge Gnabry - Type: Angel - Location: Duisburg, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, Soccer, Food and Beverage Serge Gnabry is a German footballer. ## Yigit Ihlamur - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, Fitness, mHealth Yigit Ihlamur - Co-founder, General Partner @ Vela Partners ## Frederick Roehder - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, Soccer, Natural Language Processing Frederick Roehder ## Lina Behrens - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Sports, Medical Lina Behrens serves as the Managing Director at Flying Health. ## Nils Wilde - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Information Technology, Apps, Music Nils Wilde ## Murat Balcı - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Apps, Fitness, mHealth Murat Balci is an angel investor. ## Joanne Wilson - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Mobile, Retail Joanne Wilson is based out of New York, New York and is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Gotham. Joanne Wilson attended Simmons College. ## Inas Nureldin - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care Inas Nureldin - Co-Founder & CEO @ Tomorrow ## Alex Luik - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Mobile, Soccer, Natural Language Processing Alex Luik ## Michael Schweikart - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Fitness, Wellness, Health Care Michael Schweikart is a Co-Founder at Tomorrow. ## Jan Wilmking - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Retail, Fitness I believe in business can be a force of good. That’s why I invest in solutions for our world‘s most pressing issues. Passionate about human centred software, food tech, circularity, and mental positivity. I was part Zalando's leadership team pre-IPO until 2019, several years in McKinsey in consumer industries, and am active as angel investorand mentor for early stage teams at TechStars and beyond. ## Mustafa Sevinç - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Fitness, Health Care Mustafa Sevinç is the CFO and Founder at Teknasyon. ## Marcus Stahl - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Education, EdTech, Mobile Marcus Stahl is the Co-Founder & Managing Director at Boxine. ## Carsten Maschmeyer - Type: Angel - Location: Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence 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. ## Verena Pausder - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, EdTech Verena Pausder ## Thomas Weidner - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship Thomas Weidner ## Patric Fassbender - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Education, EdTech, Mobile Patric Fassbender is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Boxine. ## Florian Körner - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Angel, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Sports, Marketplace, Sponsorship Florian Körner ## Hans Raffauf - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Fitness Hans Raffauf is the co-founder of Clue. He is a technology and media entrepreneur from Berlin and, in addition to co-founding Clue, he is the co-founder of hy!, a creative event series that supports and connects Europe’s startup scene. Other founding projects include the hardware.co, betapitch, and the Berlin Tech Meetup. ## Johann "Hansi" Hansmann - Type: Angel - Location: Vienna, Wien, Austria - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Health Care, Fitness 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. ## Thorsten Mattig - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Sports, Automotive, Marketplace Thorsten Mattig ## Joshua Kimmich - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Sports Joshua Kimmich is a German professional footballer. ## Andreas Mihalovits - Type: Angel - Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps 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. ## Marcus Erken - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning Happy and curious.Marcus is a founding partner of Sunfish Partners, an early stage VC that invests in deep tech startups from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).In addition, he has made angel investments throughout the world and co-lectures an annual university course in which students start their own companies.Previously, Marcus had theprivilege of working with more than 120 student startups at WHU’s university incubator, which he co-built.Marcus holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Business & Management from WHU Vallendar, a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University. ## Lawrence Leuschner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Analytics, CleanTech Lawrence Leuschner is the CEO & Co-Founder at TIER Mobility. ## Christian Saller - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Travel, Tourism, E-Commerce Christian Saller joined the team in 2013 and is managing the fund’s investments into Dreamlines, Easytaxi, Ozon and Onlinetours among others.Before coming to Holtzbrinck Ventures, Christian was CEO of flight search engine swoodoo where he was responsible for company development, from market entry to market leadership in Germany and the sale ofthe company to KAYAK. Then, in his role as Managing Director for Europe, Christian managed the European organization at KAYAK. As a member of the KAYAK management team he was also involved in the successful IPO on the NASDAQ and the subsequent sale of the company to Priceline.Before he worked at swoodoo, Christian first worked as an Investment Manager at a venture capital company and then held management positions in two start-up companies in the media sector. Christian began his career in 1998 at an international strategy consultancy company.Christian holds a doctorate „summa cum laude“ in mathematics and also received an MBA with distinction from the London Business School. ## Fritz Demopoulos - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Travel, Tourism, Hospitality Fritz Demopoulos has been an entrepreneur and investor within the media and internet industries for over 10 years. He co-founded Qunar.com, China's largest travel internet company; and Shawei.com, China's largest sports internet company. Fritz also had senior positions at Netease and The News Corporation.