# Top 50 Angel Investors in United Kingdom in June 2026

## Reece Chowdhry
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence

Reece Lal Chowdhry is based out of London, England and is the Founding Partner of Concept Ventures. Reece previously worked at Ernst & Young as a Management Consultant and Technology Advisory. Reece Lal Chowdhry attended the Durham University. Reece Lal Chowdhry has been awarded as the Seed VC of the Year and Asian Tech Pioneer in their career.

## Alan Morgan
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Alan co-founded MMC Ventures in 2000. As an active business angel investor he saw the opportunity for a more structured strategic and due diligence approach to venture investing.

Alan is a member of the Investment Committee and leads MMC's financial services focus. He has lead responsibility for Small World.

## Alex Macdonald
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, FinTech

Alex Macdonald is the Co-Founder and CEO Sequel. He previously Co-Founded Velocity Black. He attended The University of Manchester.

## Michael Bristow
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Real Estate, SaaS, Software

Experienced business leader with a proven track record as CEO of CrowdProperty, where I delivered >20x revenue growth, 7-figure profitability whilst scaling up, and a leading market position. With 18 years strategy consulting experience, I specialise in defining clear and differentiated strategies, driving transformation and creating value incomplex environments for mid-cap to large-scale corporates and private equity owned businesses with experienced operator, investor, advisor and Board perspectives. Venture capital investor and advisor to HM Government on tackling constraints to SME business growth (99.9% of businesses in the UK supporting 27m jobs with £4.5tn of annual turnover).Key skills:
• Leadership • Strategy • Growth • Transformation • Value-creation • Consulting • Private Equity / Venture Capital • Capital Raising • Commercial Due Diligence • Board-Level Governance • Stakeholder ManagementToolkit:
• 18 years strategy/transformation/private equity consulting • 7 years transformational growth CEO • 6 years venture capital investment committee • Multiple Board positions (Executive & Non-Executive) • Broad sector experience to leverage • International perspective working in 18 countries and on many more • Multi-asset class investor • London Business School MBA • FT Non-Executive Director Diploma • Chartered Management Accountant • 1st Class Masters in Mechanical EngineeringAwards & Recognition:
• CrowdProperty has been widely recognised including in the ‘Sunday Times Hundred’ (Britain's fastest growing profitable businesses), Deloitte Fast 50 / Deloitte Technology Fast 500 (UK’s/EMEA’s fastest growing technology businesses), and the Financial Times FT1000 (fastest growing businesses in Europe) for 4 consecutive years; Selected for high-profile scaleup programmes including ‘TechNation Fintech 5.0’, ‘Silicon Valley comes to the UK Scaleup Club’ and a ‘WIRED Trailblazer’
• Personally recognised as a finalist in 'Tech Entrepreneur of the Year' in the Go:Tech Awards, finalist in ‘Inspirational Leader of the Year’ at the UK PropTech Awards, awarded 'Entrepreneur of the Year' and 'Business Person of the Year' by the Midlands Business Awards and featured in the Alternative Credit Investor Power 50 list 5 years in a row (top 10 in 2022)Other:
• Angel investing: London Business School E100 member; UKBAA member; 12+ years angel investing; 35+ investments
• Real estate investing: 20+ years building an extensive residential property portfolio across tenant segments
• Sport: ECB Cricket Foundation Coach, MCC Member; Active player

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Farhad Farhadi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Information Technology, Food and Beverage, Software

All-round digital and customer focused strategist with experience in responsive web design, application development, marketing business development, leading multi discipline teams and nurturing start-ups. Having followed my passion in User Experience I am a true believer in UCD techniques, that will enhance and simplify a persons day to day task.Having previous designed secure applications for 20 years with the Ministry of Justice, Department for International Trade, Home Office, DEFRA, NHS and the Department of Health. I have also designed applications for RBS, Deutsche Bank, London Stock Exchange Group, worked as the Head of UX at HSBC and served as the Head of UX and Interaction Design for Lloyds Banking Group where I designed their flagship website and managed the strategy for their entire Commercial Banking department (UX, UI and Research). With this background in design, development and security, I will provide additional support and assurance.I have also had the pleasure of being an Investment Trader for a Mid Market Investment firm, both managing Investor's portfolios and making investments on behalf of the firm.Featured in:
The Independent - https://www.independent.co.uk/money/spend-save/shoppers-pressured-into-taking-store-card-1962152.html
The Evening Standard - https://www.standard.co.uk/business/money/teenagers-scared-of-getting-into-debt-6504457.html
The Telegraph - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/borrowing/8171236/Ill-die-in-debt-say-one-in-three.html
Daily Mail - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1344068/Rows-money-likely-cause-relationship-splits.html
This is Money - https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/article-1344038/Money-worries-biggest-cause-relationship-break-ups.html

## Michael Tefula
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS

Michael has been a pre-seed investor for over six years. He is a self-taught developer, former operator and angel investor. Founders value his ability to engage with the technical aspects of their products and the transformative journey of growing from Pre-seed to Series A. Michael is incredibly curious and seeks to build a deep partnership withevery founder he backs.

## James Sherwin-Smith
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Energy

James Sherwin-Smith is the Founder at Fintech & Payments Club.
Engineer by education, Consultant by experience, Entrepreneur at heart.
Equally at home in a startup or large corporate, I specialise in the application of technology within Financial Services businesses - aka Fintech & Payments.

## Bryan Baum
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Bryan Baum is the Co-Founder of K5 Global. He attended University of Oxford.

## Kevin Gould
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Finance, Venture Capital

Kevin Gould is president of Markit and a cofounder of the company. He was appointed head of Markit’s Asia Pacific operations in July 2013, a role that spans Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan and Australia. Previously, Kevin led Markit’s business in North America, which he established in 2005 and now serve more than 400 customers.Kevin holds a BSc inMechanical Engineering from Bristol University.

## Dr. Zehan Wang
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computer Vision

Former CTO Magic Pony Technologies - acquired by Twitter in 2016.

## Dorothy Chou
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Health Care, Financial Services

Dorothy Chou is the Head of Public Affairs at DeepMind.

## June Angelides
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Rental, Retail

June Angelides currently works as an Investor for Samos Investments. She previously worked at the University of Oxford as an Oxford Foundry Mentor. June Angelides attended UCL.

## Desigan Chinniah
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Communities, Apps

Tech Advisor | Startup Mentor | Angel Investor | Board MemberDesigan Chinniah, aka Dees, provides seasoned startup, dot-com hardened, functional, strategic, creative and zero-bullshit executive advice. Dees possesses a unique set of Swiss-Army-Knife like talents and experiences - at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Business Development,Marketing, Fundraising and Developer Relations.A self-confessed geek — this sneakerhead lives in London with his wife, Sanne and their two kids, Summer Skye & Kiran Quinn.You’ve come this far… Why not say hello?
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## Matt Penneycard
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Women's, Software, Wellness

Matt has been a pre-seed investor for over fifteen years. He is the former head of Downing Ventures and has worked supporting US and UK companies across PE, M&A and growth capital. Matt is on the Board of Durham University's Venture Lab. As a founder coach, Matt's mission is to help founders realise their full potential and buildbusinesses that truly matter.

## Guy Carling
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Funding Platform

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## Nigel Wray
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, FinTech

Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.

## Toni Nijm
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Big Data, Analytics, Manufacturing

Toni Nijm - Founder & CEO @ Yobi Partners

## Ross Mason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Geneva, Geneve, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Ross Mason is based out of Geneva, Geneve and is the Founding Partner of DIG Ventures . Ross previously worked at MuleSoft as a Founder. Ross Mason attended the University of the West of England. Ross Mason has been awarded as a Top 25 CTO.

## Ivan Massonnat
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Consulting

Ivan first joined PAI in 2000 as a member of the Investment Group, where he was involved in a number of transactions including Elis. In 2004 Ivan started to focus on PAI’s investor relations and fundraising activities. In 2008, he joined the newly created mid-market fund Fondations Capital as Partner, Chief Operating Officer. Late 2010, he rejoinedPAI as member of the Investor Team. He started his career at Paribas, holding an e-business consulting role to various business lines within the investment bank in Paris, New York and London. Ivan graduated from the Institut National des Télécommunications (INT) and holds a Master’s Degree in Management from the Université d’Evry. His French and English are fluent, and he has notions of German.

## Rémi Tuyaerts
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Finance, Leisure, Hospitality

Technology Executive passionate about incentivising people using technology.

## Warrick Shanly
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology

Warrick Shanly

## Uday Kumar Bangalore Shivaraman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Angel / Sophisticated Investor and Trader (Ex London Stock Exchange(LSE), Deutsche Bank, London Clearing House(LCH) ) , Invested in 60+ Startups / 4 successful exits (with Avg 20x) and counting more. (Web3 -> udaybs.ETH )Invested in following asset classes from past 2 decades across UK / India / US / Europe / 
-Private Equity (Seed / Growth / VC/ Acquisition / Merger)
- Equity Markets
- Real Estate
- FX
- Commodity
- Bonds
- Fintech, Blockchain, Crypto Market, Web3 , DeFi, NFT
- Derivative Markets / Hedging / F&O / CFDGrowing Wealth in bumpy economic rides - There is no secret formula. Investment is an art. Being vigilant, dynamic, connecting dots, evaluating risk with constant change, loads of patience and visualising medium to long term.Private Equity Investments across globe in following domains / categories:
- Energy - EV / Carbon Footprint
- Blockchain / FinTech / AI / ML / Web3 / DeFi
- D2C / B2C
- Food & Beverages
- Pharma
- Media & Entertainment

## Gabriel Jarrosson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Gabriel Jarrosson created his first website at 13, then sold his first startup at 25.
Serial entrepreneur and investor in more than 100 startups with 15 exits, he has since founded Leonis Investissement, a private club that offers its members the opportunity to invest in fast-growing startups in Silicon Valley that they would not have access toalone. He has invested more than $30M through this club.
He is the creator of the YouTube channel "Leonis Investissement", the most followed in France on this theme.
Since 2023, he has also manages Lobster Capital, a $10M investment fund that invests in Silicon Valley startups.

## Stephanie Allen
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: FinTech, Art, iOS

Stephanie Allen - Member of the Board of Advisors @ CityFalcon

## Omid Ashtari
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Analytics, E-Commerce

Omid Ashtari has held operational roles at Google (business development, strategic partnerships), Foursquare (MD Europe), Citymapper (President), and Streetbees (COO). Currently he is an angel investor and advisor to early stag startups. He serves as the business advisor to the Mayor of London. He blogs on www.startuppragmatism.blog andwww.thefullspectrum.blog

## Søren Møller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Biopharma, Therapeutics

Søren joined Novo A/S in October 2011 as Managing Investment Director of Novo Seeds.Søren obtained his MSc degree from the Technical University of Denmark in 1993 and his PhD degree in molecular biology in 1997 from the Technical University of Denmark. In addition, Søren has academic training as postdoctoral fellow at Stanford UniversitySchool of Medicine.Prior to joining Novo Seeds, Søren served as global manager of Bioinformatics and Genomics at Novozymes. Before Novozymes, Søren was CSO and Vice President of R&D at Exiqon A/S where he was responsible for development of microRNA based products for life science research, pharma services and diagnostics. Previously, Søren worked in cancer drug development as head of Lead Identification at BioImage and as research scientist at Novo Nordisk.Søren serves on the Board of Directors of Reapplix A/S and Denator AB.  And since 2008, Søren has been board member of Danish Biotech (the Association of Biotechnology Industries in Denmark).

## Charlie Songhurst
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Seattle Area, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Charles Songhurst  is a founding partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies.Charles ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skypeacquisition. Before running corporate strategy, Charles was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry.Prior, Charles was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.

## Lina Chong
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, E-Learning, Open Source

Lina joined Target Global in 2018 after having worked in product and monetization at ResearchGate, a company aiming to connect the world of science. Prior to ResearchGate, she was an investor at Hasso Plattner Ventures, a fund backed by the Chairman of SAP. Lina began her career as an entrepreneur operating two startups, one of which was acquiredby Living Social.

## Cato Sælid
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oslo, Oslo, Norway
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Content, Finance

Cato Saelid is an Oslo and Monaco based angel investor, originally from Oslo, Norway.

## Tim Levy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Westminster, Colorado, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Venture Capital, Angel Investment, Funding Platform

Tim Levy

## Aranit Cenalla
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tirana, Tirane, Albania
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Series A
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Banking, FinTech

Aranit is a venture capitalist, a tech lover and businessman who is focused on investing on startup companies and well positioned businesses. Actually he is founder and general director of Bros Capital Ltd based in London / UK.

## Kim Aviram
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Angel, Series A
- Focus: B2B, SaaS, Finance

Kim Aviram

## Christer Holloman
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Retail

Founder of Divido, the world’s largest white-label saas platform for Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). Prior to starting Divido, he launched Glassdoor.com in EMEA which subsequently got acquired for $1.2bn USD. Hold an MBA from the University of Oxford and is an active early-stage advisor, investor and NED.

## Paul Heydon
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Mobile Apps

I have 30+ years as a founder, operator, investor, board member and advisor. I have founded/co-founded multiple companies and have dealt with cofounder issues directly. I have invested in individual companies that have achieved $2b in revenue, $1b in profit, $30b in valuation. Plus on the other side of the spectrum, I have seen lots ofdifferent poor behaviour by some investors, founders and lawyers. My value add is:
- the ability to quickly filter out the wrong people. 
- fundraising
- strategy
- focus
- making tough decisions
- cashflow planningCurrently investing directly in startups (mainly tech) at all stages and in funds (most asset classes) as an LP globally. I invested early in Supercell (majority acquired by Tencent), Unity Software (NYSE:U), Radiant Entertainment (acquired by Riot Games), Boomlagoon (acquired by Wargaming), Peak (acquired by Hachette Livre), Gameclub (acquired by Take-Two Interactive), Doppio Games (acquired by Fortis). Previously, I cofounded a seed VC firm & was an investment banker at various firms. I have both a HBA & MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario in Canada.If you message me with a pitch deck link for your company or fund then do not send me a docsend link or anything requesting an email and or password as I will ignore it. And make sure you detail the team background, why it’s the best team and why you will win.I’m also open to board positions for companies in Europe and North America. Owner of https://www.heathfieldestatenewforest.co.uk/

## Troy Collins
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Enterprise Software, SaaS, Legal

Troy Collins - Chief Executive Officer @ Endource

## Musaab Hakami
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Founder, Ex-GP. Ex-Entrepreneur. Ex-Computer Engineer. Angel Investor. BoD. Ex-CCO & CFO @trySaryApp

## Christian Faes
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK.

Now building Faes & Co.

## Harry Briggs
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Marketplace

Harry is a partner at OMERS Ventures, previously at Balderton Capital & BGF Ventures- and the youngest investor in the inaugural Forbes "Midas List Europe", thanks to investments such as The Hut Group, GoCardless, Touch Surgery and Revolut. Prior to Balderton, Harry co-founded Firefly Tonics, a healthy energy drink brand that sells inover 30 countries, sold to Private Equity in 2012. Harry started his career at McKinsey & Co., the strategy consultancy, in London and New York.

## Jonathan Milner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical

Having worked in the life sciences industry for over ten years as an academic researcher, Jonathan identified the market opportunity for supplying high quality antibodies to support protein interaction studies and, in 1998, founded Abcam with David Cleevely and Professor Tony Kouzarides. Jonathan is a Non-Executive Director of Horizon DiscoveryGroup plc, The Evolution Education Trust, GeoSpock Ltd and Sydicate Room Group Ltd. He is also Chairman of Axol Bioscience Ltd, PhoreMost Ltd, Repositive Limited, Definigen Limited and Cambridge Allergy Ltd. Jonathan holds an executive director position at Meltwind Limited, being a designated member of Meltwind Advisory LLP. Jonathan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor and is passionate about supporting UK life science and high-tech start-ups. He has provided considerable investment and support to over 30 companies and has assisted three AIM IPOs.

## Ben Holmes
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Gaming, Software, Internet

Ben is a Partner at Index Ventures, having joined the London office in 2002.  Ben focuses on the software and internet sectors and has been actively involved with many of the firm's consumer and media investments.  He currently sits on the boards of Astley Clarke, Grey Area Labs, iZettle, Just-Eat, King.com, Mind Candy, Notonthehighstreet,Rebtel, Secret Escapes, Shapeways, Stardoll and Twoo.  He was previously a Director of Panther Express and Playfish (Electronic Arts).Prior to joining Index Ventures, he worked at the NewMedia Spark investment fund, before becoming Vice President at EO plc, a Spark portfolio company in the consumer financial services sector. Previously he spent four years at OC&C Strategy Consultants, advising firms in the retail and IT sectors.He has a Masters degree in Engineering, Economics and Management from Oxford University.

## Michele Attisani
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Michele Attisani - General Partner @ Insiders Ventures

## Nick Telson-Sillett
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, FinTech

Exited Founder of DesignMyNight (Acquired 2019), Co-Founder trumpet, Founder of Venture Arm Horseplay Ventures, Angel Investor in 55+ Startups and Podcaster - Pitch Deck

## Sarah Drinkwater
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Communities, Fashion

The Tech and Society Solutions Lab draws on Omidyar Network’s long-standing belief in the promise of technology to create opportunity and social good, and works to invest and co-create in tech, programs and initiatives that helps the industry maximize its positive impact. Previously, Sarah headed up Campus London, Google's space forr startups, established and led a global community team for Google Maps, consulted for startups and big brands on community, content and social, and was a journalist.

## Donal Smith
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking

Donal Smith Co-founded Credit Benchmark Ltd., in 2012. Donal Smith served as the Chief Executive Officer at Markit Securities Finance Analytics Ltd. from March 2008 to April 2012. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Financial's businesses in Europe and Asia at Thomson Reuters. He joined Data Explorers in March 2008. He servedas the Managing Director of Thomson Financial's banking and brokerage division joined at the end of 2001. He also served as the President and Chief Operating Officer for European and Asia Operations of Thomson Financial, Inc. He worked for the Financial Times Group as Managing Director of Business Information at FT Information and then as Director of Electronic Publishing for the FT Group. Donal Smith was responsible for the integration of Pearson’s portfolio of business and financial information services as well as the expansion of FT Group through acquisition and he was also responsible for the launch of FT.com as a global financial resource which quickly became the number one business website in Europe. He served as Chief Executive Officer of FT.com and member the Financial Times Group’s management board. He Co-founded eCountries.com in 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer and also FT Group’s Member of the Management Board. He serves as Non-Executive Chairman of Pirum Systems Limited. He serves as Chairman of BI-SAM Technologies S.A. He served as Chairman of Selerity, Inc. He serves as a Director of Selerity, Inc. He serves as a Non Executive Director of Commodity Vectors Ltd. Donal Smith serves as an Executive Member and Member of the Board at Data Explorers Limited. He served as a Non Executive Director of Trinity Mirror plc from March 1, 2012 to May 7, 2015. He holds a Degree in the History of Art and English Literature from University College Dublin.

## Tim Howell
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Consulting

Tim Howell was CEO served as Chief Executive Officer of Euroclear SA/NV between 2010 and 2016. Euroclear is a global central securities depository, tri-party agent and asset servicing business. In 2015, Euroclear reported €27.5 trillion in safekept clients assets, and €674.7 trillion in annually traded assets. Prior to this, he was the GlobalHead of HSBC Securities Services in London and oversaw the custody, fund administration and corporate trust businesses of it and also served as its Group Treasurer and Head of Market Risk. He was also responsible for Risk Assessment at HSBC Bank Plc.

## Jim O’Neill
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: GreenTech, Automotive, Transportation

Jim O'Neill coined the "BRIC" acronym in 2001, which was derived from his thesis that Brazil, Russia, India and China would dominate growth in emerging markets; O'Neill first became interested in Paga when he interviewed Oviosu as part of a series on BBC radio discussing the MINT group − a new acronym O'Neill coined torepresent Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey; the next set of countries that he believes will be the growth markets that will shape the world's economy in the coming decades.A firm believer in Nigeria's potential "...to be a spectacular economic success" O'Neill is confident that the entrepreneurial abilities of the countries younger demographic will be a catalyst for growth over the next 20 years. And that indigenous startups, such as Paga, who are focused on a key sector − payments, will be the major drivers of growth.On his decision to invest in Paga, O'Neill said..."On meeting Tayo and understanding his vision for Paga it was very obvious that we both shared the belief that with the right approach Nigeria possessed the potential for huge economic growth. It is clear to me that Nigeria, Africa's largest economy, needs payment systems that work for both businesses and individuals for her to reach her potential. Paga delivers greater convenience to businesses and individuals whether they are banked or un−banked. I have chosen to invest in Paga because the team has demonstrated their ability to execute on a bold vision that can have catalytic impact. It is an exciting time for Nigeria and I believe in Tayo and the team to achieve their bold vision to become the number one way to pay and get paid in Nigeria."

## Stephen Cole
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Bitcoin, Software, FinTech

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## David Gardner
- Type: Angel
- Location: Richmond Upon Thames, Richmond upon Thames, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile, Mobile Apps

DG is a co-founder and General Partner of LVP. He has over 30 years experience in the game sector.Former CEO & board director, Atari Previously EVP & COO, Worldwide Studios, Electronic Arts ("EA"). 25 years at EA including building EA Europe from 0 to $1bn in annual revenue. DG has spent his career working across SiliconValley and Europe. In 2007, David was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his services to industry, and in 2017 he was appointed BAFTA's first Vice President for Games.

## Justin Meadows
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Consulting

Founder of NEX Treasury.

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