# Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in Germany in June 2026 ## Christophe Maire - Relevant deals: 18 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Internet CEO and Founder @ Atlantic Labs Founder @ FoodLabs Venture Capital Architect @ Neufund Co-Founder @ gate5 Co-founder @ Plazes ## Michael Brehm - Relevant deals: 17 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Financial Managing Director & Founder @ i2x Partner @ Redstone ## Kai Hansen - Relevant deals: 16 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Commerce/Shopping, Software, Internet Founder and Partner @ Rheingau Founders ## Rouven Dresselhaus - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Commerce/Shopping, Internet Managing Partner @ Cavalry Ventures ## Matthias Hilpert - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Other, Internet CEO @ MH2 Capital ## Martin Sinner - Relevant deals: 13 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile COO @ 360dialog Venture Partner @ Berlin Ventures MD @ idealo ## Stefan Glänzer - Relevant deals: 12 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Media and Entertainment, Financial Founder @ White Bear Yard Founding Partner @ Passion Capital Chairman / Co-Founder @ Rebate Networks ## Florian Huber - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Health Care, Apps ## Carsten Maschmeyer - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Health Care, Science/Engineering Founder and CEO @ seed + speed Ventures Founding Partner @ Maschmeyer Group Ventures Managing Partner @ ALSTIN Capital ## Rolf Schromgens - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, Hardware Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts Co-Founder @ Monkfish Equity ## Lukasz Gadowski - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Commerce/Shopping Founder and CEO @ Team Europe Co-Founder @ Point Nine Co-Founder @ Delivery Hero Korea Founding Editor @ Grunderszene Co-Founder and CEO @ Circ Entrepreneur in Residence @ Target Global Founder & Chariman @ Spreadshirt ## Bjorn Kolbmuller - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Design, Software, Clothing/Apparel Founder & Managing Director @ zenloop ## Christian Gaiser - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Commerce/Shopping, Financial, Software Co-Founder & CEO @ NUMA Group Founder @ CG Partners ## Klaas Kersting - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Gaming, Mobile Founder and CEO @ Phoenix Games ## Christian Reber - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Apps, Internet Co-founder & CEO @ Pitch Team Member @ Advise.me ## Sven Gabor Janszky - Relevant deals: 9 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Science/Engineering, Biotechnology, Hardware CEO @ JANSZKY GmbH CEO & Founder @ future.me Co-Founder @ 2b AHEAD Ventures Fund Co-Founder @ 2b AHEAD Ventures CEO @ RULEBREAKER Management President @ RULEBREAKER Society Futurist & CEO @ 2b AHEAD ThinkTank ## Dagmar Wöhrl - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Gaming, Health Care, Food/Beverage ## Felix Haas - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Financial, Science/Engineering Executive Chairman and Co-Founder @ IDnow Founding Partner @ 10x Group Founding Partner @ FLEX Capital Management GmbH ## Maximilian Tayenthal - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Financial, IT Co-CEO & Co-Founder @ N26 ## Charlie Songhurst - Relevant deals: 8 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, IT, Data and Analytics Advisor @ Bear Robotics ## Stefan Jeschonnek - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial, Software, Commerce/Shopping Founding Partner @ Discovery Ventures Co-Founder & CEO @ Zeitgold Founding Partner @ Discovery Ventures ## Andre Schwammlein - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Hardware, Transportation Founder and Managing Director @ FlixBus ## Jan Deepen - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Financial, Software, Commerce/Shopping Co-Founder @ SumUp Co-Founder & CRO @ Zeitgold Founding Partner @ Discovery Ventures ## Andreas Burike - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: IT, Administrative, Software CFO @ AnyDesk ## Oliver Roskopf - Relevant deals: 7 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Software, Financial Founder & Managing Director @ Soyan VitaMed Natur ## Marco Valta - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Secondary Market - Focus: Commerce/Shopping, Software, Internet partner @ Ambridge Capital ## Thomas Bachem - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Internet, Software, Education Founder and Chancellor @ CODE University of Applied Sciences Founder & Vice Chairman @ German Startups Association Founder & MD @ Scaling Technologies ## Felix Jahn - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Felix is an active entrepreneur and business angel. A WHU graduate, Felix was one of the first MDs of Rocket Internet, responsible for many of the initial companies incubated in 2007-2009. He went on to start Home24 in 2009 and run it as Co-CEO until 2014. In 2015 he started german hybrid real estate agent McMakler as founding investor and has beenrunning the company as executive Chairman and CEO since then. His current and past private business angel investments include Zalando, Auto1 Group, HomeToGo, among others. ## Verena Pausder - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Food and Beverage, E-Learning, EdTech Verena Pausder ## Michael Wax - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Michael Wax is the Managing Director and Co-Founder of Forto. ## Oskar Hartmann - Type: Angel - Location: Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Automotive Oskar Hartmann currently works as an Angel Investor for YAP. He previously worked at Flaschenpost SE as an Investor. Oskar Hartmann attended WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management. ## Michael Baum - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Grant - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Michael Baum is a successful Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur who has built billion dollar companies. Michael is the founder and CEO of FOUNDER.org, an early investor in young innovators solving world problems. FOUNDER.org provides audacious innovators an unrivaled experience through it’s company building science, deep mentoring and earlyfunding. Having created over 3,500 jobs, 150 millionaires and more than $6B in shareholder value, Michael is driving the next generation of inspired game-changers. ## Peter Mertens - Type: Angel - Location: Kefar Sava, HaMerkaz, Israel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Automotive, CleanTech Peter Mertens ## Marcus Borner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Finance Marcus Borner is a university drop-out and founded his first company reBuy.com when he was 17 years old. Rebuy became Germany's re-commerce leader, raised ~40M€ in venture capital, now employing over 500 employees and with annual revenues of over 70M€. Besides rebuy Marcus has been shareholder in over a dozen companies from many industriessuch as insurance, food delivery, saas and adtech. He is currently founder and CEO of OptioPay.com a Berlin based fintech-company creating the first payment solution software for marketing payouts. OptioPay offer diverse payout options to increase flexibility and value for payment recipients. Backed by international venture capital investors and banks as shareholders, OptioPay is run by a diverse team of over 30 experts from 12 nations, who love to work hard and have exceptional passion for changing how people receive money. ## Robert Maier - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, Software, Education Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management. ## Johannes Reck - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Transportation Johannes Reck is the Chief Executive Officer at GetYourGuide. He leads the company’s long-term vision and strategy.Johannes co-founded GetYourGuide in 2009 while attending the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, and has grown the company into the leading booking platform for incredible travel experiences. Under Johannes’ leadership, over 30million tickets have been booked to date via the GetYourGuide website, mobile app, and partnership network. GetYourGuide has raised over $650M from investors such as the SoftBank Vision Fund, Battery Ventures and KKR. Johannes leads GetYourGuide’s 550-person global team from its headquarters in Berlin, Germany. Johannes originally hails from Cologne, Germany and holds an M.Sc. in Biochemistry from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. ## Julius Göllner - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Julius Göllner - Co-Founder @ ARRtist Summit ## Philipp Kreibohm - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Legal Philipp Kreibohm - born in 1976. After completion of his law studies and PhD at FU Berlin he co-founded Mundwerk AG in Berlin in 2001, which was sold to Excelsis Business Technology AG in 2004. From 2006-2007 Philipp was a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and in 2007 a consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. In 2007 he became foundingManaging Director of Rocket Internet, before he founded FP Commerce in 2009. Later on, this company was renamed to Home24 AG, where he is still the Co-CEO. ## Roman Kirsch - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Software, Mobile Roman Kirsch is the Entrepreneur and Investor of Rapid Pioneers Group. ## Joachim Drees - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Energy, Railroad, Software Joachim Drees was born on November 20, 1964 in Düsseldorf.He studied business administration at the University of Stuttgart and did his MBA at Portland State University.Following his degree, he worked at various management consultant firms and the privatization agency (Treuhandanstalt) in Berlin. Drees held managerial positions in the DaimlerTruck Group and at Mercedes-Benz Trucks from 1996 onward, including as Commercial Director of the Gaggenau Transmissions Unit and as Head of Commercial Vehicle Controlling.In 2006, Joachim Drees joined British investment company HgCapital LLP as Partner for Portfolio Management.From 2012 onward, he was the Chief Financial Officer of Drees & Sommer AG with responsibility for Finance & Controlling, M&A, Human Resources, Administration, and Internationalization Support.Joachim Drees has been CEO of MAN SE and of MAN Truck & Bus SE (formerly MAN Truck & Bus AG) since 2015.He is also a member of the Executive Board of TRATON SE. ## Lothar Stein - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity - Focus: Information Technology, Energy, Railroad Lothar Stein - Mentor @ SINN Power ## Tim Marbach - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Marketplace, Real Estate, Rental Property Tim is a global entrepreneur and venture investor. He started his first company bonial.com in 2008 and sold it to German media conglomerate Axel Springer SE in 2011. In 2013, Tim relocated to South East Asia and has since co-founded and invested in many successful consumer internet companies through his private internet holding company Asia VentureGroup. Those companies have successfully raised several hundred million USD in follow-on venture capital and employ several thousand employees across the global. Those companies include HappyFresh, iPrice Group, iMoney (sold to iSelect), FlowerChimp, audibene (sold to Sivantos/EQT), Scalable Capital (sold to BlackRock), Jewelcandle (sold to Equistone), Vicampo (sold to Burda), CARS24, Movinga, Homebell, Fave, Stoyo and many more. ## Andreas Kupke - Type: Angel - Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Drones, EdTech, GovTech Andreas Kupke is the COO at Finanzcheck.de. ## Florian Heinemann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Internet Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global FashionGroup, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas).Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak).Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor).Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the board of Koerber AG and About You and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.Florian holds a doctorate’s degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing, and Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft. Furthermore, Florian holds a masters degree in business administration from WHU Koblenz. During his studies, he was a fellow of "Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes" (German National Academic Foundation). ## Jakob Fricke - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: B2B, SaaS, Software Jakob Fricke - Co-Founder @ Picpack ## Christian Vollmann - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Christian Vollmann is the Chairman Of The Board at nebenan.de. ## Matthias Wilrich - Type: Angel - Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Delivery, Health Care Matthias Wilrich is the VP Vehicles and Supply Chain at TIER Mobility. ## Jochen Engert - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Rental, Travel Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus ## Tim Schumacher - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, SaaS, Internet Tim Schumacher is a Managing General Partner at World Fund. Tim previously worked at Sedo.com as a Member Board Of Directors. He attended University of Cologne and Stockholm School of Economics.Tim Schumacher Co-Founded and was the longtime CEO of the publicly traded company Sedo AG, which currently has revenues of 130m euros per year andmaintains approximately 350 employees. Since 2012 he has dedicated his professional career to the German startup scene, acting both as a business angel and mentor for young companies with economic potential. His current startups, among many others, are Eyeo/Adblock Plus, Aklamio, Hitfox and Ecosia. ## Frank Thelen - Type: Angel - Location: Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing Frank Thelen is the Founder & CEO of 10xDNA Capital Partners. He previously worked at mytaxi - The Taxi App as an Investor. Frank Thelen attended Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied Sciences.