Top 50 Travel Angel Investors in Europe in January 2026
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Travel startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Travel companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Travel Angel Investors in Europe in January 2026
| Investor | Travel Europe investments |
|---|---|
| Melih Odemis | 9 |
| Chris Hitchen | 4 |
| Erdem Yurdanur | 4 |
| Jorg Mohaupt | 4 |
| Oliver Slipper | 4 |
| Andy Phillipps | 4 |
| Andreas Mihalovits | 4 |
| Andreas Ehn | 3 |
| Charles Petruccelli | 3 |
| Eduardo Ronzano | 3 |
| Federico González Tejera | 3 |
| Bobby Healy | 3 |
| Samuel Shank | 3 |
| Ahmed Mhiri | 2 |
| Guillem Serra | 2 |
| Frederic Halley | 2 |
| Eva Janečková | 2 |
| Wolfgang Heigl | 2 |
| James Gibson | 2 |
| Pia Vemmelund | 2 |
| John Ayton | 2 |
| David Murray-Hundley | 2 |
| Will Brooks | 2 |
| Chris Adelsbach | 2 |
| John Fontein | 2 |
| Fritz Demopoulos | 2 |
| Lisa Enckell | 2 |
| Carlos Domingo | 2 |
| Theo Osborne | 2 |
| Peter Read | 2 |
| Thibaud Elziere | 2 |
| Alejandro Artacho | 2 |
| Michael Liebreich | 2 |
| Ingo Drexler | 2 |
| Rolf Schromgens | 2 |
| Will Martin | 2 |
| Felix Haas | 2 |
| Marco Valta | 2 |
| Yorai Linenberg | 2 |
| Christopher Spray | 2 |
| Luca Ascani | 2 |
| Xavier Niel | 2 |
| Errol Damelin | 2 |
| Denis Fayolle | 2 |
| Thierry Petit | 2 |
| Kees Koolen | 2 |
| Jochen Engert | 2 |
| Brent Hoberman | 2 |
| Tom Kennedy | 2 |
| Thomas Glocer | 2 |
Melih is one of the pioneer Internet entrepreneurs in Turkey. Born in Istanbul, he studied Computer Engineering and MBA at Bogazici University. After one year of professional experience in Citibank, Melih founded yemeksepeti.com with his partners in 2000. Yemeksepeti.com became the online food delivery giant first in Turkey, and then in Middle Eastand Eastern Europe. As a co-founder, Melih has acted as CTO of the company until 2013 and as Board Member until May 2015, when the company was acquired by Delivery Hero writing one of the biggest Internet exit stories in the region.
Melih has been selected an Endeavor Entrepreneur in 2007. Since 2011 he has been an active angel investor in internet and technology companies with more than 30 investments. He is one of the cofounders of Galata Business Angels, which is one of the first business angel networks in Turkey. He is a founding member of EO Turkey.
Melih lives in London now with his family and continues to invest in tech start-ups globally.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Turkey, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Deplike — Everyone can make music!
- UP School — UP School fills in the gap of female participation in society’s most important technology roles by offering free educational programs for women through technical education programs that train them in a specific area of technology. UP School launched two pilot programs in Robotic Process Automation and in Data Science, and have two activecorporate-sponsored programs in Data Analytics and Android Development in partnership with Ford Motor Company, and Akbank.Students who graduated from the program have been recruited by globally lead companies such as Ford Motor Company, Unilever, Siemens and Coca Cola Company.
- HotelRunner — HotelRunner is a cloud based hotel online sales and channel manager tool with an online marketing suite. Power your online sales now!
Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
- re:cap — re:cap enables companies in the subscription economy to trade future revenues for on-demand, non-dilutive capital. Fast, transparent and easy.
- Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
Erdem Yurdanur - Founder & Director @ Admost
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Advertising, Marketplace
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Turkey, United States, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Ulak — [ENG] ULAK is a mobile app, that helps you find nearby couriers and place a custom order. With ULAK, the nearest courier to your location is directed to you, serves with the shipment you choose, app displays the instant location information until your shipment is delivered, shares delivery details with you, securely collects your payment from yourcredit card and completes the transaction. If you wish, you can get service with cash payment as well...[TUR] ULAK akıllı telefonlar üzerinde çalışan, motorlu kuryeye ihtiyacı olanlarla, güvenilir motorlu kuryeleri buluşturan bir mobil uygulamadır. ULAK ile size en yakın kuryeyi çağırarak gönderinizi yapabilir veya özel sipariş verebilirsiniz. ULAK ile bulunduğunuz konuma en yakın kurye size yönlendirilir, seçeceğiniz gönderi şekli ile hizmet verir, gönderiniz teslim edilene kadar anlık konum bilgisini gösterir, teslimat detaylarını size iletir, ödemenizi güvenli bir şekilde kredi kartınızdan tahsil eder, işlemi tamamlar. Dilerseniz nakit ödeme seçeneği ile hizmet alabilirsiniz.
- Charmy — Charmy is a music social media site available online. Users can create playlists, share photos, and search for songs they prefer.
- Tiramisu — TIRAMISU MOBILE GAME STUDIO
Jörg was appointed to the Board when Access Industries acquired the Company in 2007. Jörg is responsible for the media/online and telecom businesses at Access Industries, which he joined in May 2007. He was previously a Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners. Jörg has been active in the media and communications space since 1992. Hehas, as an investor, been involved with several businesses dealing with sports rights (RGE Group, Digiturk), internet services (Bibit NV, Adyen, Speedera Networks) and content delivery (Casema NV, Comhem AB). Jörg’s current board positions include Tory Burch LLC, Rebate Networks GmbH, AINMT Holdings AB, RGE Group Limited, Icon UK Distribution Holdings Limited and Mendeley Research Networks. Prior board positions include Digiturk, Casema NV, Comhem AB, Bibit BV, VersaTel Telecom NV and Speedera Networks Inc.
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Investment focus
- Music, Mobile Apps, Art
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Penfold — Our flexible, simple and powerful pension is designed to get you to your saving goals and stay with you for life, whichever direction it takes you.
- Tracklib — Tracklib is the only service where anyone can legally clear samples from real music. From Isaac Hayes to Mozart, we got it.
- Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
Building Sports & Tech Companies
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Investment focus
- Art, B2B, B2C
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Split — Split will let you know each time someone you’re avoiding is around & suggest an escape route. Split will display ‘hot zone’ map pointers on any location that the people you avoid tend to frequent. Know who the people you avoid are hanging out with (the ‘two birds, one stone’ feature).
- PickGuru — At PickGuru we help betting companies, rights holders and publishers enhance the sports fan customer lifecycle of acquisition, engagement, retention, referrals and revenues. Our dynamic sports prediction games and community building tools supercharge the fan relationship and boost trust and loyalty with our client brands.
- Aura - Museum Genius — MEET AURA - THE MUSEUM GENIUS With Aura, you can explore Britain's leading museums and galleries, design your own journey, and listen to professionally produced audio stories of artworks and exhibits. THEMED ROUTES: For those with limited time You can personalise your way through the museums with cover with our themed routes. Whether you areshort on time, or you are interested in a specific theme, our themed routes will help find the must-see exhibits in your favourite museums. AUDIO STORIES WITH OFFLINE PLAYBACK We are partnering with high-profile museum curators, academics and skilled storytellers with distinct areas of expertise to create short and detailed audio stories of the must-see highlights of the museums. As Aura allows you to download audio content, you don't need an internet connection to listen during your visit. INTERACTIVE FLOOR PLANS Through our innovative technology, we provide interactive floor plans of the museums so you can enjoy your visit with time-efficiency, practicality, and ease. Simply search for a destination point and our indoor navigation system will help you get there easily. KEYPAD FOR EASY ACCESS If the museum is offering a traditional audio guide system, you will see signs next to exhibits with numbers on them. You can use our keypad at these museums. Simply use the keypad function to dial the number of the exhibit and we will take you directly to that exhibit's page on Aura.
Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.
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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.
- Layla AI — Layla operates as a travel discovery platform.
- Civic Marketplace — Civic Marketplace is a platform that simplifies purchasing decisions, helps agencies make efficient, informed choices, and boosts local economic growth by providing access and opportunities to historically underutilized businesses.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Motoreto — Motoreto is a used car and accessories marketplace. They explain the information and details of the used car and provide offers from dealers and payment options. Motoreto University is a Motoreto program designed to train specialized sales profiles in the international automotive industry.
- CheKin — Chekin has developed a framework that covers everything related to guest registration on touristic accommodations. Chekin has made it extremely easy to register guests for third-party software providers (startups, travel companies, Hospitality software and so on..), in two aspects, 1. It helps with all the local touristic regulations across theEuropean Union and 2. With a set of APIs that facilitates all the guest registration process. Chekin is the premier supplier of trusted software solutions for digitalizing the check-in and check-out (and all the key legal points to take into consideration in between). We provide a stack of optimized, ready-to-run software solutions, and support for implementation on travel tech companies. Further, Chekin rapidly updates applications according to regional law changes to ensure optimal results. Chekin integration model is to be embedded into the partner solution, this native integration provides a better experience for the end users, a trusted tool for the hotelier, and lower their cost due to the guest data collection process.
- Drimer Creators — Drimer gives creators the opportunity to build and grow their revenues. Creators can take advantage of a set of tools created to increase revenues and create a brand.
Andreas is working on a service that will connect people, time and places on the web. He also works as an independent consultant helping other startups with product strategy, technical infrastructure, scalability and recruiting as well as financial companies (venture capital and private equity) with technical due diligence and in other advisorroles.He was CTO at Spotify from the launch of the company in August 2006 until November 2009. Before that he worked at Stardoll as an engineer and project manager.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Financial Services
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Sweden, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Prog.AI — Prog.AI helps to find developers based on their technical proficiency, libraries they have used, or even just the contributions they have made to GitHub projects.
- Red Flag — Red Flag develops an automated accounting, expenses, and invoicing platform for SMEs.
- Single Technologies — Founded in Stockholm, Sweden, with its long tradition in fiber optics, ultra-sensitive fluorescence spectroscopy and DNA sequencing, SINGLE’s ambition is to become the instigator of 3-D Sequencing.
Charles Petruccelli
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Investment focus
- Travel, Leisure, Tourism
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, Spain, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Dayuse.com — Dayuse.com is the first site to offer daytime hotel bookings.Founded by David Lebée at the age of 29, along with his two partners Eugénie Lebée and Thibaud D’Agrèves, Dayuse.com saw the day in 2010. Working as director within large Parisian hotel groups at the time, David Lebée was often asked about daytime bookings. Guests wished to book a roomfor just a few hours, but traditional structures never had an appropriate service to offer. Dayuse.com was created to suit this exact need.
- tripAbrood — tripAbrood is an AI-driven travel platform for families to discover and book holidays.
- MagicStay.com — MagicStay is the first alternative accommodation booking site, entirely dedicated to business travelers. MagicStay offers accommodation selected to meet the needs of business travelers, ideally located in city centers or near the congress / exhibition venues. MagicStay allows to save money, have more surface and privacy than a hotel,including a kitchen, but also to travel with colleagues or extend your stay with family. MagicStay offers around 130,000 apartments, studios, villas in 80 business cities. Discover all their destinations MagicStay.com has no legal or commercial connection with event organisers. The names of these events are registered trademarks and are property of the organising companies.
Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kraaft — Kraaft.co is an instant messenger app dedicated to site monitoring for VRD public works trades: roads and various networks. Paris, Île-de-France in 2019.
- Screeb — Make products your users will love by using Screeb, the all-in-one tool for Product Discovery. Product analytics, user recruitment, and more!
- Morpho Labs — Morpho is an open network that connects lenders and borrowers to the best possible opportunities worldwide.
Federico González is the Founder at Radisson Hotel Group.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Software, Travel Agency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- BizAway — Discover a streamlined approach to business travel with BizAway. Our intuitive platform offers a one-click solution to book and manage your trips, saving your company time and money. Over 2000 companies trust us with their travel management needs. Request a demo today!
Bobby Healy is an experienced inventor and technology entrepreneur specialising in booking engine software. He joined CarTrawler in 2005 having begun his career building computer games for Nintendo at 16 years of age. Prior to joining CarTrawler, Bobby founded Eland Technologies which he later sold to airline technology giant SITA and remained asCTO until 2005. His booking solutions are now in use by 80% of the world's top 20 airlines. Bobby continues to be an avid computer programmer and is a frequent speaker on the international circuit on subjects related to technology in the airline industry, ancillary revenue and online distribution.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Local, Guides
- Angel, Series A, Funding Round
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Roomex — Want to make business travel easier? Search, book, manage, and pay for all your business hotel bookings in one place.
- Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
- LikeWhere — LikeWhere's service helps travel brands identify the individual interests of their customers, so they can personalise their digital engagement, generating more revenues. LikeWhere utilises ‘affinity-marketing’ techniques deployed by brands including Amazon, Spotify & Netflix (‘others like you also liked this’), enabling travel brands tooptimise their retail strategy.
Samuel Shank is a Board Member at Operto Guest Technologies. He attended Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management and the University of Virginia.
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Investment focus
- Marketplace, Mobile, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- 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)
- YieldClub — YieldClub is a mobile app that helps you grow your savings with higher returns than a traditional bank.
A visionary in mobility and a scale-up builder, Ahmed Mhiri combines deep tech expertise with bold entrepreneurial spirit.
An engineer specialized in computer science and cybersecurity, he began his career leading major digital transformation and security projects across France and abroad.
In 2012, he founded TravelCar, a pioneering car-sharingplatform for travelers. In just a few years, the company raised $25M, expanded to over 60 countries, and caught the attention of Stellantis, which acquired it in 2019 to build the foundation of Free2move.
As CEO of Free2move, Ahmed has transformed the company into a global leader in flexible mobility, serving both individuals and businesses.
Today, he is redefining the future of mobility: more autonomous, more sustainable, and more seamless — to meet the challenges of a world in motion.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, Tunisia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jaylo — Jaylo.ai transforms your email experience by using AI. Automatically organize and prioritize your inbox, ensuring nothing important gets lost. Generate context-aware replies that perfectly match your tone and intent. Save you time and effort, allowing you to communicate efficiently and professionally. Free up your day for what really matters"high-impact, meaningful work."
- Finovox — Finovox provides a solution for detecting false documents. They offer investigative tools to analyze, understand, and explain fraud. Additionally, they provide users with hard evidence of fraud.
- Kare Partners — Kare Partners, LLC provides therapeutic rehabilitation and other ancillary services in the healthcare sector. The company offers physical, occupational, and speech rehabilitation services through a network of outpatient therapy clinics in North Carolina and Arkansas. It also assists home health agencies by providing fully-trained therapy-teams tocomplement their in-house talent or add a new dimension to their service delivery. In addition, it provides a direct educational and credentialing path for therapy clinicians in India to gain employment in the United States healthcare system. Kare Partners, LLC was incorporated in 2004 and is based in Gastonia, North Carolina.
Guillem Serra has an experience of more than 19 years, both in the field of health and in the world of investments.He has been a professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, a search engine and developer as a project manager at Gem-Med, SL, R & D Health manager and head of the health market at Barcelona Digital Technology Center.Currently, he is the director of business development at iSalud.com and CEO & Co-Founder at Medipremium.In addition, he is an investor in several projects, such as Taiga Agile, Singularu, and Cuidum.
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Investment focus
- Internet, EdTech, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Holaglow — Holaglow is an aesthetic medicine and cosmetic dermatology provider of personalized services.
- Mati — Encuentra alojamiento en las mejores residencias universitarias y colegios mayores gracias a Mati
- Caza Tu Plaza — Caza Tu Plaza is an e-learning platform that offers study materials, conducts online tests, plans activities, and broadcasts live classes.
Frederic is an investor focusing on early-stage technology companies in Europe. Some of his area of interests include Retailtech, Saas, AI and traveltech. He has a long experience working with technology companies as an operator, an advisor or a Non-Executive Director (NED) / Board Member.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Retail
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Keyban — Build interoperable customer experience based on Keyban infrastructure
- NectarGo — NectarGo creates local food logistics to benefit communities by stabilizing the food supply. Their products include fruits and vegetables, dairy products, savory and sweet groceries, bakery products, butcher, delicatessen, caterer, and drinks. The company's contact mode is at its physical address.
- Kamino Retail — Ultimate Retail Media Monetization Platform that has been designed for Retailers to unlock their true potential and set up their own private marketplace. The 1st independent and interoperable Retail Media Monetization platform.
Eva Janečková is an individual investor.
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Investment focus
- B2C, Rental, Travel
- Seed
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- Campiri — Campiri is the largest online campervan and recreational vehicle rental site. Choose from hundreds of RVs from rental dealers as well as private owners.
Wolfgang founded NFQ back in 2002 – originally purely as a technology company to support his various ventures.He has found success as both as an entrepreneur and investor. His successes include investing in OXID in 2003, which today is the leading German Enterprise Open Source E-commerce solutions provider. He is also known as the founder ofswoodoo.de, which became the biggest flight search engine in the German speaking region and was sold in 2010 to Kayak.com. His recent investments include GetYourGuide, Kiveda and Dreamlines.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Tourism, Leisure
- Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- HAPPYCAR — As a metasearch engine HAPPYCAR offers customers an extended transparency of offers showing insurance packages, kilometer fees and one-way fees, among many others. By providing an easy, user-friendly booking process and a free customer service hotline in case any questions arise, they ensure that their customers can enjoy a hassle free rental cartrip. To conclude, customers benefit from HAPPYCAR by saving time and money.HAPPYCAR (www.happycar.de) is one of the fastest growing online car rental companies in Europe. HAPPYCAR is operating within the tourism sector as a meta-search engine for rental cars. Their goal is to provide the best prices for rental cars worldwide, while comparing all offers of their partners. To achieve this, HAPPYCAR has access to more than 1.000 car rental companies for eight countries through Europe and worldwide destinations – further expansion is going on.
- YGO.AI — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
- GetYourGuide — Find, compare, and book sightseeing tours, attractions, excursions, things to do and fun activities from around the world. Save money and book directly from local suppliers.
CEO Big Yellow Group PLC
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Investment focus
- Travel, Leisure, Tourism
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stasher — Stasher services a major travel need connecting short-term visitors with a network of local hotels and shops who have space to securely store luggage. The Stasher platform allows its customers to book online. The storage can be booked in advance or on the day. Stasher was founded on September 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
Pia joined Momondo A/S in 2007 as Commercial Manager with responsibility for Sales, Online Marketing, Finance and Administration. She was promoted to Managing Director in mid 2012 following Thorvald Stigsen's move to a non-executive Group role.Pia has over 25 years' experience in the travel industry. Prior to Momondo she spent 19years with Scandinavian airline, SAS, in a variety of roles including Director Commercial Intelligence & Sales Support.
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Investment focus
- Local, Travel, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Cogo — All shared rides in one app with Cogo. Find shared electric scooters, e-scooters, bikes, e-bikes, cars and mopeds near you with Cogo from hundreds of shared mobility all over the world.
- Bownty — Bownty is a website that collects all the deals in to a single website and sorts them into categories. It helps online consumers find great offline products and experiences by aggregating all the deals. Bownty operates in Denmark, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Spain. It was launched on March 5, 2011 in Copenhagen, Denmark.
John Ayton
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Investment focus
- Travel, FinTech, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Wevat — Wevat makes it easy for tourists to get tax back on shopping in Europe.
- Togather — Create your event on Togather, the UK's most trusted events booking platform, choose from our roster of over 1,500 of the best and most passionate creators...
- Subdial Watches — Whether you're buying or selling we've got you covered. Sell smarter with Subdial. Quick, simple & transparent.
David Murray-Hundley is the CEO and Co-Founder of Pario Ventures. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Automotive, Financial Services
- Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Estonia
Portfolio highlights
- Hiyacar — Discover safe, quality peer-to-peer car rental. Rent a fully insured car from trusted neighbours or list your vehicle to make extra money. Sign up now!
- Riversimple — Riversimple is a new kind of business, designed from scratch to pursue our purpose: the systematic elimination of the environmental impact of personal transport. Our aim is mobility at zero cost to the planet. We’ve designed a radically new car (the Rasa) which emits nothing but a tiny amount of water and will do the equivalent of c250 mpg.Charging takes 3 minutes, and the range is 300 miles. We’re building a fundamentally new form of business system that aligns our interests with our customers’ and the environment’s. There’s no trade off between profit and purpose. We love what we’re doing and we hope you will too. We’re actively seeking commercial partners and employees. We’re always interested to hear from like-minded pioneering people and companies. We are excited to be coming to our first pilot market in the UK this year.
- Plum Fintech — Join over a million people who save and invest without needing to think about it.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
- Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Bourn — Bourn's technology is designed to automate cash flow management, offering SMEs fast access to capital.
- Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
- Embed — The regulated Payments Platform unifying crypto and fiat rails. Fung has launched early beta. Sign up to secure your spot.
John Fontein is Co-Founder and President at Sesame. Previously, he was the VP of Business Development at GoEuro where he oversaw all revenue functions including sales, marketing and partnerships. John began his career at Goldman Sachs where he worked in both the Investment Banking and Investment Management Divisions of the firm. John is amulti-platinum song-writer, producer, and sound designer. He is the recipient of numerous awards including an MTV Video Music Award, a Berklee Jazz Festival Award and a FringeNYC Award.John attended Saint Ann's School in Brooklyn and graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University with a B.A. in Music and a certificate in Computer Science.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Delfina — Intelligent pregnancy care for healthier moms and babies.
- Fleet — Fleet is a mobility-as-a-Service software for enterprise transportation needs.
- Legion Health — Legion Health is building the infrastructure for health care organizations to scale their virtual mental health offerings.
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.
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- Travel, Hospitality, Tourism
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Germany, Spain, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Tourlane — Tourlane is a booking platform for multi-day tours, offering amazing experiences to over 30 countries worldwide. It creates adventures and authentic travel experiences to fabulous destinations in the world.The company combines the first-hand experience of a travel agency with the simplicity of an online product. Its apps bring travel consultancyto a state-of-the-art level of tech and design and thereby will shape the future of individual and adventure trips. Its product matches travelers with pre-selected travel specialists, making the booking of individual and adventure trips comparable, fast, and easy.
- BibliU — BibliU is an innovative learning enablement platform that gives students access to the course materials they need, from etextbooks to courseware and monographs.
- TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
Partner at Antler. Previously VP marketing at Wrapp. Active angel investor and previously independent consultant to startups.
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- Drones, Travel, Leisure
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Arkion — Skyqraft is a visual data analytics provider helping businesses in the linear infrastructure sector make better decisions about their grid. Today, Skyqraft is a trusted partner of some of the most influential and forward looking critical infrastructure organizations in Europe and North America.
- Triple Global — They are all passionate travelers and explorers and one thing we all have in common is that our best travelexperiences have all been while hanging with locals, learning about their favorite spots, passion or discussing culture differences. As they talked about this with more and more people they realized there’s a lot of people like us - who arestruggling to get past the turist traps with Hop'On Hop'Off busses and inpersonal tour guide groups They started Triple to connect curious travelers with passionate local hosts.
Carlos Domingo is the Founder & CEO at Securitize.
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Investment focus
- Social Media, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bag on Board — Bag on Board partners with airlines to offer their passengers a service to check-in their bags from anywhere in the city.
- Startupxplore — Startupxplore is a premium startup investment platform that allows unexperienced and time-savvy investors to diversify their portfolio by co-investing with a group of top-level investors with a proven track record on startup investment.
- Albora Technologies — Albora offers a hardware-agnostic, software-based geolocation service platform that boosts the accuracy of any GNSS receiver.
Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- The Dots — Professional networking for the new world of work. Get advice. Meet collaborators. Find jobs. Upskill at events.
- Nova Credit — Nova Credit is a credit infrastructure and analytics company that enables businesses to grow responsibly by harnessing alternative credit data.
- Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.
Peter is a partner at Vitruvian; a venture partner at BlueYard and LocalGlobe; an advisor to Entrepreneur First, Future Positive Capital, and StrongMinds; and a Trustee of Frazzled Cafe, Doteveryone, and the Oxford Mindfulness Centre. He is an angel investor/advisor in over 100 tech startups
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- Software, Apps, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series E, Series F
- United Kingdom, United States, Germany
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- Qapital — Qapital is an award-winning app designed to let you save, invest, and spend with any goal in mind.
- Snap.hr — Sign up to Snap.hr now to get headhunted by 500+ other tech companies
- Car Throttle — The internet's car community
Thibaud Elziere is the Founder of Hexa. He previously worked at Fotolia as a Founder. Thibaud Elziere attended Technical University of Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, United States, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- baCta — We produce high-quality, carbon negative natural rubber from engineered microorganisms and renewable feedstocks.
- Candix — Candix connects ambitious engineers with startups gaining serious momentum.
- Phacet — Achieve rapid ROI with tailored AI Applications connected to your systems powered by Phacet.
Alejandro is CEO and co-founder of Spotahome. He studied Law and Business in Madrid. He speaks English, Chinese and Spanish. He has always been obsessed with making the world smaller by simplifying every possible difficulty cross border.To that end, right after University, he moved to China for 3 years where he set up 2 companies: an exportingbusiness and a travel agency. After that experience, he moved into tech companies and launched a Startup related with job mobility worldwide that got selected in competitions in Portugal and Spain and incubated in the IE Venture Lab in Madrid. After a lot of learning, he moved and worked in Lisbon and London in the Real Estate industry where he saw a massive opportunity to change the real estate industry forever so then launched Spotahome in 2014.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Education, Communities
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Spain, Greece, United States
Portfolio highlights
- GrowPro — GrowPro is a consumer electronics company that offers an inexpensive IoT system for cannabis cultivation. The company aims to give the home cultivator an advanced knowledge set of biometrics, statistics, and image recognition which optimizes their ability to grow cannabis. GrowPro was founded in 2017 and headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
- Welcome Pickups — Book a trusted local driver to pick you up and introduce you to your next destination, pre-order travel essentials.
- GrowPro Experience — We wholeheartedly believe in learning through experiences and in getting out of comfort zones every day. Yes, we know that it’s not easy to leave your family and friends to step into an unknown path away from home. However, we also know that leaving a safe space has its reward.All of us understand that the process that involves moving into a newcity can be hard. It’s right there where we put every effort so that you can reach your destination as smoothly as possible.We are passionate about having the opportunity to help other people live the same experience that each of us has had in foreign destinations. That’s why we exist, to accompany you to live the best adventure of your life.
Michael Liebreich is Founder and Chair of the Advisory Board of Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the world’s leading provider of research on clean energy, energy technology and advanced transportation. Michael founded New Energy Finance in 2004 and acted as Chair and Chief Executive before selling it to Bloomberg LP in 2009. Bloomberg New EnergyFinance is headquartered in London and now has over 200 staff in 13 offices around the world.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Mining, Travel
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Zeelo — Travel to major events, festivals, cities and many more in comfy coaches with Zeelo. Book your seat now.
- Cypher Coders — Coding lessons for children aged 6-12 years, taught live online or in-person in London. Interactive lessons, camps and clubs that develop skills in STEM, computing, communication, collaboration and creativity.
- Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.
Early-stage VC investor since 2005, fund advisor and active business angel with holdings in more than 25 technology companies. Ingo founded Next Level VC in 2019 to bundle his angel and advisor activities. Before, as CIO of Mountain Partners, Ingo reshaped and implemented the direct investment strategy of the group, which led to significant exitsand value creation. In parallel, he initiated and set up the group’s company building activities (Rheingau Founders). As an investment partner at Scail Capital he built up its retail-related investment operations. Ingo is also a co-founder and acted as a chairman of the board of Montredo, a leading online platform for new luxury watches that has recently been sold to Les Ambassadeurs Group. Before joining the VC industry, he served as COO at MovingImage and studied at Technical University of Ilmenau and UFSC in Brazil.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Portfolio highlights
- Refurbed — Refurbed operates as an online marketplace for refurbished products in the german-speaking world. It sells renewed phones, laptops and tablets which are up to 40% cheaper and 100% more environmentally friendly than their brand-new, store-bought counterparts. Refurbed devices are renewed through a 40-step process, making them look like new andfunction like new. On top of that, each device comes with at least a 12-month guarantee.The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Vienna, Austria.
- Honeysales — Welcome to honeysales. With meeting as a service, we offer you hassle-free sales experience
- Surfboard — Get Dialpad Workforce Management (WFM) software for accurate forecasting, demand-driven scheduling, fair shift planning, and more.
Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts
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Investment focus
- Internet, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, Spain, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Langdock — Meet Langdock. Start with a GDPR-compliant daily chat companion for your employees. Then deploy more advanced AI use cases like Assistants and Workflows. All in one easily extendable platform.
- socialbnb — Explore sustainable travel with socialbnb. Book sustainable accommodations, hotels, b&bs, experiences and trips that support local communities. Travel with social impact. Discover now!
- Teech Education — Teech Education is a platform for schools to enable digital teaching.
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, Software, FinTech
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Loadsure — Loadsure is a spot freight cargo insurance company.
- Marshmallow — Digital-first car insurance company with a mission to deliver great prices, service, and coverage.
Felix Haas is the Executive Chairman and Founder of IDnow. He previously worked at amiando GmbH as a CEO and Co-Founder. Felix Haas attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Leisure, Internet, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, France, Belgium
Portfolio highlights
- LemonSwan — LemonSwan is the dating service for singles with serious intentions. Prof. Dr. Peter Michael Bak developed the LemonSwan® principle with us: a special test procedure based on modern, international standards, thus creating the best conditions for successful matching.
- Wandelbots — We make robots usable for everyone. Learn how our easy-to-use software solutions can empower your organization to work with robots.
- Todaytickets — Todaytickets enables consumers to book last-minute deals for events with just three fingertips. At the same time, Todaytickets helps the live entertainment industry to monetize their unsold ticket inventory (up to 40% of the available tickets) last-minute.Todaytickets offers a curated daily selection of event deals close to you – rangingfrom AAA concerts of artists such as Rihanna, Elton John, Deep Purple or Lil Wayne to theatres, operas, shows and sport events. The company guarantees a discount between 20 to 50% compared to the official pre-sale ticket price and/or exclusive goodies such as complementary seating category upgrades or free drinks. You can book your tickets at the very last minute (up to 60 minutes before the event) with your iPhone or webbased. Show your e-ticket at the venue, join the party and experience more today!Todaytickets is funded bei EPIC Companies, the company builder of the TV station conglomerate ProSiebenSat.1. The ProSiebenSat.1 Group is one of the leading media corporations in Europe with a reach of more than 41 million TV households in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Furthermore several well-known business angels invested in the „Experience more today“ concept, among others Roman Kirsch (former founder & CEO FAB.com Europe), Christian Tiessen (former Chief Sales Officer FAB.com Europe) and Felix Haas (former founder & CEO amiando).The management team consists of Christian Miele (former Director Global Venture Development – Rocket Internet, Investment Analyst – Bertelsmann India Investments, Member of the Board – German Startup Association), Gleb Tritus (Serial Enterpreneur; founder of the online marketing agency Affaires Media and local search engine Townster) and Michael Jaeger (former Head of Sales / Operations of the last minute hotel booking app JustBook).
Marco Valta is an Entrepreneur and Investor with over 15 years experience in the tech/web industry.
As an internet investor, Marco has a portfolio of more than 150 companies including Appnexus, Soldo, Revolut, Prima, Bolt, Flexport, Deliveroo, Space X, Brex, Fabfitfun, Cloudkitchens, Raya, Playco, Public, Coinbase, Pacaso.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Secondary Market
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Bolt — Bolt makes Ecommerce better with One-Click Checkout and CheckoutOS. See how Bolt checkout boosts your sales today.
- Coinbase — Coinbase is an online platform for digital currency transactions, enabling merchants, consumers, and traders to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrencies. The company provides Bitcoin wallet services, allowing users to manage digital assets and conduct transactions. Coinbase offers merchant payment processing tools, supporting businesses in integratingcryptocurrency payments. It facilitates secure digital currency exchanges, assisting users in navigating blockchain-based financial transactions.
- Salty. — Salty Dot, Inc. is the Embedded Insurance® technology company. Salty removes existing consumer impediments to buying the right policy and having the proper coverage. The company’s platform is a proprietary Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution that enables carriers and distribution partners to offer a customized policy to insure a product orservice in real-time during the purchase process. Salty uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze unique data sources about the buyer and the purchase. It then sorts through multiple carriers to seamlessly offer the right insurance. Salty is licensed in all 50 states. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.wearesalty.com.
Yorai Linenberg is the Founding Partner at UMT360.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Software, Ticketing
- Seed, Series A
- Spain
Portfolio highlights
- TravelPerk — TravelPerk offers the freedom travelers want, and the control companies need. Enjoy an industry-leading travel inventory, 24/7 support and easy booking.
Christopher Spray served as a Venture Partner at Atlas Venture L.P. Mr. Spray worked in the technology group of Atlas Venture and invested in software and services and Internet related businesses. Mr. Spray established firm’s Boston office in 1986 and was responsible for United States operations until 1998 when he moved to London office. Mr. Sprayhad moved to United States in 1985 as an Investment Director at CIN Investment Company. He started his venture capital career in 1983 with CINVen. Mr. Spray serves as Director of DoveBid, GoIndustry, Kalido, NTRglobal, Zinwave, picoChip, KDS, and MOO Print Ltd. He served as a Director at Kalido, Inc., Koodos, Corizon Ltd., and 3V Transaction Services Limited. He has been an investor and Board Member in number of successful companies, including OnDisplay and RightPoint Software. Mr. Spray also served on the Board of Business Objects from 1992 to 1994. He holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BA in English Literature from Oxford University.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Video
- Seed, Series B, Series A
- United Kingdom, Switzerland, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Peak — Challenge your brain with Peak, the No.1 app for your mind. Push your cognitive skills to their limits and use your time better with fun, challenging games and workouts that test your Focus, Memory, Problem Solving, Mental Agility and more.
- The Faction Collective — The Faction Collective - manufacturers of high performance freeride and freestyle skis since 2006.Skis are more than just pieces of wood, steel & fibreglass. They are tools of escape. A medium for personal expression. A way to challenge fears, push limits & share incredible experiences with friends.The Faction Collective was formedin 2006 by a group of friends with the aim of creating the best designed & built freeride & freestyle skis you can buy, with a world-class manufacturing base in heart of the European Alps and a strong commitment to social and environmental sustainability. Every year new ideas and products expand our range - but the manifesto remains the same.In 2010 we partnered with Swiss helmet manufacturer TSG to produce a new line of lightweight, high performance protection, and in 2012 we are working with acclaimed French skier Candide Thovex to create a range of revolutionary superlight park and freeride skis using recycled PET cores and minimalist graphics that support our ethos of uncompromised performance.From our bases in Verbier, Switzerland and Breckenridge, USA we still ski over 100 days a year, refining our products and keeping the stoke alive. We hope you are too.
- Plum Guide — Plum Guide handpicks the world's best vacation rentals, holiday homes, short term lets and Airbnbs from over 25 different sites
Luca is founder and CEO of Lambda Alpha, an investment company focused on early stage investment. Its portfolio includes Bear, the Apple Design Award winner notes app, Fintechs as Lendable and Emma App in London, Mansa in Paris and ScalaPay as well as autonomous robots Gideon Brothers and automated pasta restaurant Cala. Recent investmentsincludes Dishpatch, Airbank and RVVUP. Luca started his entrepreneurial career aged 20 when he launched BuyCentral.it, the first Italian shopping comparison site, in 2000. It was sold to Lycos in 2004. In 2002 he founded ADVance which became the leading digital agency in Italy, subsequently sold to NetBooster. In 2004 he cofounded GoAdv, later rebranded Populis, one of the largest vertical digital publishing groups in Europe and Brazil, listed on the Paris Alternext stock exchange. In 2011 Populis was named the fastest growing company in Ireland and part of the top ten in Europe by Deloitte. In 2012 and 2013 he has brought the TechCrunch conference to Italy with the aim of connecting the Italian industry with international investors. For this same purpose he was co-hosting the 2017 Founders Forum in Rome.From 2010 Luca was in the board of IlSecoloXIX, an Italian north west leading newspaper, then acquired by LaStampa in 2014 and he was in the board of the new group, ITEDI, until it was acquired by Gruppo Espresso in 2017.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- France, Italy, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fence — Fence is a SaaS platform to automate debt facility operations like reporting and payments between lenders and borrowers.
- qomodo — Qomodo: La piattaforma BNPL innovativa. Rate a tasso zero, approvazioni veloci, transazioni sicure. Rivoluzionaria nell'acquisto per aziende e consumatori.
- ReportAId — ReportAId is an AI-powered software that breathes life into medical reports to make healthcare more organized, customized, and accessible.
Xavier Niel is based out of Paris, Ile-de-France and is the Co-Founder and CEO of NJJ Capital. Xavier previously worked at Worldnet as a Founder. Xavier Niel attended Saint Michel de Picpus Catholic private high school.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Gradium — Gradium.ai provides audio language models that enable natural, expressive, ultra-low latency voice interactions at scale, unifying speech generation, transcription, voice transformation, and dialogue in a single neural architecture.The platform acts as an audio-native counterpart to text-based large language models, processing tasks like real-timespeech-to-speech with delays under 200 milliseconds through optimized architectures, efficient tokenization, and hardware-aware deployments. It supports multilingual capabilities in English, French, German, Spanish, and Portuguese, with plans for expansion.
- Genesis AI — Genesis AI operates as a physical AI lab and full-stack robotics company.
- Cube AI — Cube AI provides software that applies machine learning to business workflows and data. The platform enables creation of AI assistants, connections to internal data sources, and task automation through APIs and integrations. Capabilities include natural language processing for classification, summarization, and question answering, retrieval overdocuments and knowledge bases, and analytics that surface insights from structured and unstructured data. Solutions cover use cases such as customer support, sales enablement, lead routing, and document processing, helping teams reduce manual steps and standardize processes. Tooling includes SDKs, dashboards, and monitoring to deploy, observe, and refine models in production.
Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal.
Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Zelt — Manage everything from HRIS, payroll, pension, devices, apps and more seamlessly in one central hub, for all processes and applications, third-party included. Improve productivity through enhanced employee experience.
- Claimer — Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom.
- OurRitual — Couple Goals Made Possible. Relationship Support For Busy People, Practical Tools & Expert Feedback
Denis Fayolle is the Co-founder & Board Member at Seed & Seeds.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Marketplace
- Angel, Seed, Series A
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Singulart — At Singulart, They are convinced that the digital space is an invaluable tool for bringing transparency and equity to the art market.They provide artists with the tools that enable them to independently manage the sale of their works. Their team is working around the clock, committing their energy to promoting Singulart artists to a globalaudience.In showcasing artists around the world, they also hope to allow art lovers and collectors alike to explore new artistic horizons, to embrace new cultures and to be inspired by the works of talented artists that they never would have come across if it wasn't for Singulart.
- Next Station — Next Station is a smart recruiting platform.
- Adrenaline Hunter — Live unforgettable moments! Book among hundreds of the best outdoor activities on manawa.com. Best service and best prices guaranteed.
Thierry Petit is a Co-Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Showroomprive.com. Thierry is an Internet entrepreneur, he has nearly 20 years experience in creating start-ups. Thierry has created the first price comparison site in France (toobo.com) sold to Liberty Surf in July 2000. Thierry then created Showroomprive.com in 2006 in partnershipwith David Dayan, a recognized French specialist in stock clearance. Thierry managed to quickly establish the site as a major player in French e-commerce, generating 1bn€ revenue in 2021. Showroomprive.com organizes for its members exclusive sales events on designer brands (ready-to-wear, cosmetics, decoration, travel, ...), with significant reductions (70% on average). In August 2010, Thierry raised a capital of 50 million dollars through US investment funds from Accel Partners (historical investor in Facebook, Groupon, Etsy, ...). This capitalraising gives him the means to:
• Expand internationally and launch the site in Spain, Italy, UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Poland, and Belgium. • Develop its mobile strategy on all devices (today the mobile represents 50% of sales and 60% of traffic).
Today Showroomprive.com is:
• A team of 500 employees
• A community of 20 million members in Europe
• A turnover of 480 million euros in 2014 (38% growth vs. 2013)Thierry is the Vice-President of Digital France. Thierry is an Investor in several Internet companies and participates as a Business Angel in their development:
Eco-transition : Accenta Energie, BlaBla Car, Everdye, Impak Finance, Syroco, Unbottled, Vendredi
Health : Feeli, Lifen, May,
Education, Tourism, Leisure : CantooScribe, EachOne, Mobee Travel, SnapEvent
Sustainable production and consumption : Anka, Ankorstore, Alittlemarket, L'Armoire à Beauté, Back Market, Bonne Gueule, Selency, Vinted
Agriculture & Food : Les Alchimistes, Confiture Parisienne, FAIR? HighFlyers Capital, Inpulse, Javelot,
Lifestyle : Dancefloor, Masions d'Epinal, Redvisitor,
FinTech : Angelsquare, Lyanne, Memobank, October
RetailTech & AdTech : Ab Tasty, Agilitest, Commanders Act, Cubyn, Jolimoi, Hivency, Storetail, TwicPics, Weglot
Incubators and startups studios : 50 Partners, Sparkling Partners
Impact Funds : 2050, Asterion Impact, Daphni, The Galion.exe, Ring Capital
VC Funds : Accel Partners, FirstMinute, ISAI, QUMRA, SIDE.
More info : http://www.made-for-all.com
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- E-Commerce, Software, Fashion
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- France, Côte d'Ivoire
Portfolio highlights
- Feve — Feve seeks to accelerate the agroecological and food transition while also protecting lives and the environment. Feve objective is to assist project leaders in establishing diverse and collaborative groups on medium-sized farms and to enable people to live better by generating synergies between production workshops, on-farm processing, and directsales.
- La Solive — La Solive provides professional course training services. They offer courses for energy renovation, vocational training, professional retraining, ecological transition, professions of the future, and concrete professions.
- mobee travel — Mobee travel is the first holiday booking plate form dedicated to reduced mobility people. We sell more than 30'000 accessibles accomodations all around the world and each of them are checked to ensure to our traveler's that everything's will be good for their needeed. If our traveler's need to have medical equipment duringtheir trip, we provide them on the spot before their arrival.
Kees Koolen is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Koolen Industries. Previously Kees was COO, CEO and Chairman of booking.com. Kees was advisor to Uber from 2012-2017 concerning international rollout.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Travel, Hospitality
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- The Netherlands, Brazil, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Wundermart — Wundermart lobby shops are the perfect unmanned addition to the F&B service in hotels. Powered by smart technology and driven by data, our small 24/7 grab, pay and go convenience shops our built to fit any hotel.
- Skoon Energy — Connect with verified energy suppliers, request proposals, compare technologies and control flexible power solutions from one dashboard, saving time and reducing costs.
- Unravel — Embed video first travel inspiration and AI curated journeys directly in your app. A plug-and-play upgrade that boosts engagement, conversion and loyalty. The fastest way to add travel superpowers to your app.
Jochen Engert - Founder & CEO @ FlixBus
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Investment focus
- Software, Rental, Travel
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Gixel — Creating breakthrough AR display technology for AI glasses and spatial computing.
- YGO Trips — YGO Trips revolutionizes the travel booking experience with our AI-driven platform, providing a seamless, all-in-one solution for planning your perfect getaway. Our innovative platform streamlines your holiday planning by offering an extensive selection of flights, hotels, mobility services, activities, concerts, and festivals & more all inone convenient location. With YGO Trips, you have the power to tailor your holiday to your exact preferences, creating a personalized itinerary that aligns with your desires.Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, YGO Trips discerns your preferences to suggest events and activities that resonate with your interests, ensuring every aspect of your trip is as enjoyable as possible. It's not just about booking a trip; it's about crafting the unique holiday experience that you've always dreamed of, effortlessly and all from one provider.
- feld.energy — feld. energy enables farmers to produce sustainable energy without sacrificing agriculture.Agri-PV is a solution that brings benefits to all parties.
Brent Hoberman is the Co-Founder and Executive Chair of Founders Forum. He previously worked at Royal Academy of Arts as a Corporate Advisory Board. Brent Hoberman attended the University of Oxford.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United Kingdom, United States, France
Portfolio highlights
- Bardeen — Bardeen is an automation app to replace your repetitive tasks with a single shortcut and control your web apps from anywhere. Explore our integrations with your favorite apps and hundreds of pre-built playbooks that help you stay in the flow.
- Nous — Find out exactly how your household finances will be affected by the cost-of-living crisis with Nous on your side.
- Framework — Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school, radically reimagined for them. Born out of Founders Forum, a private network of the world's top tech entrepreneurs, we’ve worked with over 100+ operators—across product, growth, ops, people, data, engineering & design, from some of the world's most innovative companiesincluding Monzo, Babylon, Bulb & Depop—to pioneer a new model of lifelong learning.
Tom has a proven track record as an entrepreneur and in building a global e-commerce business from Dublin as a co-founder of www.hostelworld.com (Web Reservations International). Tom achieved a successful exit from Hostelworld.com in 1999, generating $500m in shareholder value. He previously owned Avalon House hostel in Dublin. When he’s notworking, Tom enjoys the gastronomic delights of life and the views of the Wicklow mountains from the saddle of his bicycle.
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Investment focus
- Travel, Video, Retail
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Gigable — Join the fastest growing delivery network. Signup as a business to access freelancers or signup as a freelancer to earn additional income.
- Coindrum — Coindrum provides coin machines to spend your coin jars. No more manual counting, sorting or bagging!
- VideoElephant — VideoElephant offers ready-to-monetize video content solutions to advertising technology providers, publishers, and advertisers. Its online marketplace enables users to access a library of video contents comprising various short and long-form videos, such as TV shows, movies, documentaries, and short videos. the company was founded in 2012 and isheadquartered in Dublin.
Tom Glocer joined BlueVoyant as Executive Chairman and Founder in 2017.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Superlegal — Superlegal, the world's #1 contract automation platform, is the fastest, easiest and most cost effective way to negotiate and close deals.
- Cradle — Using robust prediction algorithms and AI design recommendations, Cradle assists biologists in rapidly designing better proteins. Cradle gives you complete ownership of the intellectual property while maintaining the privacy and security of your sequences and data.
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
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