Top 15 Angel Investors in Germany in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Venture capital startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Angel Investors in Germany in January 2026
| Investor | Venture Capital Germany investments |
|---|---|
| Thomas Wiederspahn | 1 |
| Gunter Dunkel | 1 |
| Dr. Rainer Zimmermann | 1 |
| Jens Hewald | 1 |
| Robert Wuttke | 1 |
| Florian Reike | 1 |
| Michael Beckert | 1 |
| Mirjam Puetz | 1 |
| Timo Weltner | 1 |
| Andreas Burike | 1 |
| Heiko Rauch | 1 |
| Paul Müller | 1 |
| Peter Mertens | 1 |
| Xavier Sarras | 1 |
| Jens Wasel | 1 |
Thomas Wiederspahn
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Aescuvest — Aescuvest’s mission is to facilitate and enable impactful investments into medical breakthrough innovation to disrupt and improve healthcare delivery models, products, and services. Aescuvest enables its investors to build their very individual portfolio of healthcare start-ups - according to their personal investment focus. A cooperation with EITHealth, and a growing network of partnerships across Europe, allow Aescuvest to source and evaluate the most promising healthcare investment opportunities, structure their financing rounds, and enable healthcare technology-driven investors, such as Business Angels, HNWIs, Family Offices, and Corporate Investors, to participate in healthcare investment opportunities by direct investments via SPV structures. The Investment Committee, composed of Aescuvest’s very own investment team and members of tthe Advisory Board of Aescuvest, both deeply rooted in the healthcare industry and with proven track records, have developed a strong and over the last years well tested, pre-screening and due diligence process, to identify and select healthcare start-ups. Aescuvest’’s Management (circle of General Partners) put their ‘skin’ into each investment by committing capital to each company prior introduction to the wider Aescuvest investor base. The combination of innovative ways for equity capital provision, with healthcare industry and investment expertise, provides the Aescuvest portfolio companies a unique platform to develop their business solution, accelerate their path towards commercialization, and lower market access barriers.
Gunter Dunkel
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Funding Round
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Aescuvest — Aescuvest’s mission is to facilitate and enable impactful investments into medical breakthrough innovation to disrupt and improve healthcare delivery models, products, and services. Aescuvest enables its investors to build their very individual portfolio of healthcare start-ups - according to their personal investment focus. A cooperation with EITHealth, and a growing network of partnerships across Europe, allow Aescuvest to source and evaluate the most promising healthcare investment opportunities, structure their financing rounds, and enable healthcare technology-driven investors, such as Business Angels, HNWIs, Family Offices, and Corporate Investors, to participate in healthcare investment opportunities by direct investments via SPV structures. The Investment Committee, composed of Aescuvest’s very own investment team and members of tthe Advisory Board of Aescuvest, both deeply rooted in the healthcare industry and with proven track records, have developed a strong and over the last years well tested, pre-screening and due diligence process, to identify and select healthcare start-ups. Aescuvest’’s Management (circle of General Partners) put their ‘skin’ into each investment by committing capital to each company prior introduction to the wider Aescuvest investor base. The combination of innovative ways for equity capital provision, with healthcare industry and investment expertise, provides the Aescuvest portfolio companies a unique platform to develop their business solution, accelerate their path towards commercialization, and lower market access barriers.
Dr. Rainer Zimmermann
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Venture Capital
- Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Cashlink — The financial technology start-up (Fintech) Cashlink has developed one of Europe's leading Tokenization-as-a-Service solutions. A modular, technological infrastructure enables the legally compliant issuance and management of digital securities for banks and investment platforms as an all-in-one solution. Compared to a traditional security,tokenized financial instruments create significant cost reductions and opportunities for opening up new markets and products, giving issuing companies, banks and investment platforms a sustainable competitive advantage. Renowned companies such as the Frankfurt securities specialist Bankhaus Scheich are already successfully using the Cashlink solution today. Cashlink is an official partner of Deutsche Börse Venture Network and completes its comprehensive range of digital securities by cooperating with experienced and specialized partners such as the globally operating law firm Ashurst. Renowned European investment companies such as the listed FinLab AG and the seed + speed-VC of the Maschmeyer Group are invested in the Fintech. As a founding member of the European forum "International Association for Trusted Blockchain Applications" (INATBA), the Hesse regional group of the Blockchain Bundesverband and the International Token Standardization Association (ITSA), Cashlink is already shaping tomorrow's capital market today.
Jens Hewald is the Co-Founder of Soonami.io and UFOstart. He previously worked at Agrilution as an investor. Jens Hewald attended HTW Berlin.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Finance, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Itembase — Leading Companies use Itembase to onboard merchants across Commerce Systems with enterprise-grade integration and scalability features.
- SPRK.global — AI-driven technology platform approach to eliminate food waste in the supply chain, while driving down climate damage. Become a partner and scale the impact.
- UFOstart — We are an international community of independent marketers, developers, and product managers with a common passion for digital marketing, blockchain, and web3 technologies. We combine our decades-long digital marketing experience with over 6 years of blockchain experience to enable decentralized projects to perform successful marketing.
Robert Wuttke - Founding Partner and Managing Director @ 10x Group
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Investment focus
- Internet, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United States, Germany, India
Portfolio highlights
- MapJam — MapJam provides map publishing tools to personalize, brand, and add important context to maps. It also offers developers and enterprises vector maps that work seamlessly with great Open Source projects from OpenStreetMap, Mapzen, Leaflet, D3, Font Awesome, kolor.js, and others. It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- NAVINUM — NAVINUM provides e-commerce services of sell wine and beverages. They lead to the best wines by combining the offers of their shop partners with editorial recommendations and soon the personal taste profile of their users.
- Lawn Love — Lawn Love is modern, on-demand lawn care. Get your #stressfree quote today at lawnlove.com
Florian Reike is the Co-Founder at Advanced Blockchain AG.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Information Technology, Enterprise Software
- Pre-Seed, Seed
- Germany, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Abel — Abel is a technology platform that helps you lend to your business customers, capable of full automation and underpinned by the latest in risk intelligence. Our digital service automates origination, credit decisioning, loan servicing and ongoing risk monitoring front-to-back.
- Forest Park — Your modern operating system for institutional lending, in T+1.
- Unblock — Unblock is building a free, white-labelled, instant and local on and off-ramp to stable cryptocurrencies.
Michael Beckert
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Aescuvest — Aescuvest’s mission is to facilitate and enable impactful investments into medical breakthrough innovation to disrupt and improve healthcare delivery models, products, and services. Aescuvest enables its investors to build their very individual portfolio of healthcare start-ups - according to their personal investment focus. A cooperation with EITHealth, and a growing network of partnerships across Europe, allow Aescuvest to source and evaluate the most promising healthcare investment opportunities, structure their financing rounds, and enable healthcare technology-driven investors, such as Business Angels, HNWIs, Family Offices, and Corporate Investors, to participate in healthcare investment opportunities by direct investments via SPV structures. The Investment Committee, composed of Aescuvest’s very own investment team and members of tthe Advisory Board of Aescuvest, both deeply rooted in the healthcare industry and with proven track records, have developed a strong and over the last years well tested, pre-screening and due diligence process, to identify and select healthcare start-ups. Aescuvest’’s Management (circle of General Partners) put their ‘skin’ into each investment by committing capital to each company prior introduction to the wider Aescuvest investor base. The combination of innovative ways for equity capital provision, with healthcare industry and investment expertise, provides the Aescuvest portfolio companies a unique platform to develop their business solution, accelerate their path towards commercialization, and lower market access barriers.
Mirjam Puetz - Managing Director & Chief Client Office (CCO) @ Deutsche Bank
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Investment focus
- Training, Education, Venture Capital
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
Timo Weltner is a CEO & Co-Founder at ORCAYA GmbH.
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Investment focus
- Beauty, Venture Capital
- Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- GRENION Group — Two thumbs up - I recently switched to WPX Hosting and recommend their speed, service and security - they do know what they are talking about when it comes to WordPress hosting.
Andreas Burike is the Founder and CFO of AnyDesk.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Software, Human Resources
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Germany, Austria, United States
Portfolio highlights
- fynk — Create, edit, negotiate and sign contracts quickly with fynk. Give your team back valuable time. Test it now for free!
- l1r1 — Developing heylara.de the first Conversation Business Automation (CBA) solution
- Chatlyn — Automated, AI-enhancend guest engagement, where your clients are most comfortable.
Co-Founder of UFOstart
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Spain, Germany, United States
Portfolio highlights
- CodeOp — Coding Academy Empowering Women, Trans, and Gender Non-Conforming Individuals in Tech. Join Us to Bridge the Gender Gap and Boost Your Career!
- VisionAI — VisionAI is a rebellious research lab crafting products to enhance and grow online shops with visual and text-based AI. Experience our new website.
- Modelmanagement.com — Model Management connects new faces and models with scouts, international modeling agencies and model photographers.
Paul H. Müller is co-founder of Adjust.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Minitap — Minitap is an AI-driven mobile development company that assists with monitoring mobile devices.
- ThisThat — Brand Lift built for influencer campaigns. ThisThat is an award-winning influencer marketing measurement and insight solution, giving you the tools and services you need to create the most effective campaigns.
- Neocom — Neocom is an AI-Guided Selling Saas for E-Commerce
Peter Mertens
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Investment focus
- Software, Automotive, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Germany, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Certivity — Certivity offers software to model digital regulatory twins of their products. This will ensure that current regulatory requirements are integrated in the right place in the engineering process. Product compliance will be smarter, safer, more transparent, more efficient, and significantly cheaper.
- DeepDrive — We are DeepDrive. We are powered by fusion. Absolute professionalism mixed up with our deeply rooted urge to discover. Deep expertise meets revolutionary innovations.
- Moonblock — Moonblock is a tool to navigate Web3 with the right insights with a Web3 Brand Intelligence platform.
Xavier Sarras is an Impact VC Investor | Experience Economy Expert | Strategy Advisor for C-Levels and Entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
- Software, Education, GreenTech
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
- Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences — Build the skills, competencies, and mindset needed in the 21st-century with our fully-remote and flexible bachelor's and master's degrees.
Jens Wasel - CEO @ KW-Commerce
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Advertising
- Seed, Angel
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- EWOR — EWOR is a platform dedicated to transforming aspiring entrepreneurs into successful startup founders through world-class education, mentorship, and investment opportunities.
- SellerX — SellerX buys and grows Amazon businesses. We are a VC-backed start-up with a growing, diversified portfolio of FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon) sellers. Our goal is to optimize and grow the brands we acquire post-acquisition.Founded by two HBS graduates: one who built an e-commerce business to $1bn+ in revenue as co-founder, and the other a formerGoldman Sachs SSG with extensive PE roll-up experience. Together, they have raised over $250mn in financing led by L Catterton, Cherry Ventures, Felix Capital, 83 North and Silicon Valley-based TriplePoint Capital.
- Admetrics — Maximize ad performance with Admetrics: scientifically based data for faster, smarter budget decisions.
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