# Top 45 Video Games Angel Investors in United Kingdom in June 2026

## Sam Enrico Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 17
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Web Apps, Sports

Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr.
Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.

## Rupert Loman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Digital Entertainment, Video Games, Media and Entertainment

Rupert Loman

## Livingstone Ian
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Video Games, Gaming, PC Games

Ian Livingstone is based out of Menlo Park, California and is the Co-Founder and Partner of Hiro Capital. Ian previously worked at Flavourworks as a Non Executive Chairman.Ian Livingstone attended Altrincham Grammar School.

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

Matt Robinson is the CEO and a co-founder at Nested, a property technology company. Prior to this, he founded GoCardless in 2010 and remains on the board of the recurring payment company.

## Ben Wynne-Simmons
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Mobile, Apps, Video

An investor, engineer and entrepreneur.Ben is a Managing Director at Coral Reef.  He works with and invests in tech entrepreneurs, startups and growth companies. He also works on a number of social impact and art projects such as TradeRelief, Root Matter and Exhibition Collective. Prior to this Ben held investment director roles at 3i Group plcand Barclays Private Equity where he managed investments, exits and sat on the board of 10 companies. In 2008 Ben helped set up and now manages TradeRelief - a charity investing in social enterprises in developing countries.Ben holds a 1st class Masters in Engineering Science from Oxford University, an Investment Management Certificate from the CFA, and obtained a Chartered Accountancy qualification from ICAS

## Phil Mansell
- Type: Angel
- Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Messaging

Phil Mansell is based out of Cambridge, Massachusetts and was the  Chief Executive Officer of Jagex. Phil previously worked at Ukie as a Board Member. Phil Mansell has been Certified as a Scrum Product Owner.

## Chris Lee
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Digital Entertainment

Chris Lee is an investor at Facemoji. The Attended University of Nottingham.

## Tom Blomfield
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, FinTech

Tom Blomfield is based out of San Francisco, California and is currently works as a Group Partner for Y Combinator. Tom previously worked at Monzo Bank as a President. Tom Blomfield attended the University of Oxford.

## Fernando Rizo
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: News, PC Games, Video Games

Fernando Rizo currently works as a Chief Sales and Business Development Officer for Raw Fury. He previously worked at Modern Wolf as a Founder and CEO. Fernando Rizo attended Columbia University.

## Markus Wilding
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: News, PC Games, Video Games

Markus Wilding is an individual investor

## Craig Fletcher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: PC Games, Video Games, Gaming

Craig Fletcher is the current CEO of Player1 Events. He previously worked at Liberal Democrats as a Parliamentary Candidate for Romsey and Southampton North. Craig Fletcher attended the University of Edinburgh.

## Anonymous
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet

Anonymous  

## Catherine Chew
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: iOS, Apps, Gaming

Catherine Chew

## Jason Avent
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games

Jason Avent is based out of Henfield, West Sussex, and is the Founder and Non-Executive Director of Six Peaks Games. Jason previously worked at Hardball Games as a CEO and Co-Founder. Jason Avent attended the University of Plymouth.

## Jane Walerud
- Type: Angel
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Video Games, Manufacturing, ISP

Walerud Ventures joins high tech companies in very early stages, repeatedly from just an idea and a couple of people.

## Conor Sharpe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Co-Founder and Partner at CircleRock Capital. Angel Investor of the Year & Exit of the Year, Finalist @ UKBAA Awards 2019.Conor has extensive experience in the Venture Capital ecosystem, with his returns and impact recognised with nominations for both Angel Investor of the Year and Exit of the Year at the UKBAA Awards (representing 18,000angel investors) in 2019. Conor started his career in the City of London, spending 13 years in the derivative markets, including 10 years building a market-leading global commodity business. He is also a Venture Scout at €200m VC fund Backed.Conor is based in our Dublin office.

## Juha Paananen
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Gaming, Health Care, Wellness

Juha Paananen - CEO & Co-Founder @ Soba

## Nick Button-Brown
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, PC Games, Software

Nick Button-Brown

## Siqi Chen
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Gaming

Siqi Chen is the Chief Financial Officer of Runway. He previously worked as an Advisor at Laserlike Inc. Siqi attended UC San Diego, where he obtained a BA in Mathematics and Computer Science.

## Kevin Lin
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Information Technology, Video Games

Kevin Lin is the Co-Founder and CEO of Metatheory. He previously worked at Everyday Ventures as an Owner and Manager. Kevin Lin attended Yale University.

## Allan Murdoch
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Gaming, FinTech

Allan Murdoch

## Nate Mitchell
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, Virtual Reality

Nate Mitchell is the Chief Product Officer of Sesame.
Nate Mitchell was the Co-Founder and vice president of product at Oculus, the company that’s bringing immersive virtual reality technology to the world. Nate currently heads up Oculus product development, including the highly anticipated Oculus Rift headset. Before Oculus, Nate worked on theproduct teams at Gaikai, the cloud-gaming company acquired by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2012, and at Scaleform, developers of the leading user interface solution for the video game industry, which was acquired by Autodesk in 2011.

## Hilmar Veigar Petursson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Reykjavík, Gullbringusysla, Iceland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Online Games, Software, Video Games

Hilmar has been leading CCP Games’ ongoing success and growth since his appointment as Chief Executive Officer in 2004. Under Hilmar’s management CCP’s critically acclaimed science-fiction game EVE Online celebrated an unprecedented ten consecutive years of subscriber growth. In addition, Hilmar has put CCP into the pole position in the VRrevolution by embracing the new technology early. The company released virtual-reality arcade shooter Gunjack for the Samsung Gear VR in 2015, which has been the best-selling game on the platform since launch. And in early 2016 CCP released EVE: Valkyrie, a hotly-anticipated multiplayer spaceship dogfighting shooter built from the ground up for virtual reality, bundled with Oculus Rift pre-orders. EVE: Valkyrie will ship on HTC Vive and PlayStation VR on PlayStation 4 later in 2016. Before his appointment to the CEO position, Hilmar held the title of CCP's Chief Technical Officer, heading the engineering effort required to create the company’s persistent world technology and 3D engine. Prior to joining CCP in 2000, he served as the CTO of SmartVR, an OZ.com spin-off based on that company’s multi-user virtual reality technology following his tenure as the VP of software development for the OZ Studios division of OZ.com.Currently, he is also active on a number of boards and committees relating to Icelandic information technology and innovation. Hilmar has a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Iceland.

## Harald Ludwig
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Fitness, Software

Harald H. Ludwig is the Chairman of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Governance & Nominating Committee.Mr. Ludwig is President of Macluan Capital Corporation, a diversified private equity investment company. He is also a director of Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Seaspan Corporation, Canadian Overseas Petroleum Limited, WestAfrican Iron Ore Corp. and Zattikka plc, and is a member of the Advisory Board of Tennenbaum Capital Partners, LLC.

## Andreas Mihalovits
- Type: Angel
- Location: Marbella, Andalucia, Spain
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## David Helgason
- Type: Angel
- Location: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden, Denmark
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Gaming, Information Technology

David is a technologist, the founder of Unity Technologies, non-exec director to others, and a restless entrepreneur with a passion for creating feedback loops between innovation and teams and products, applying new and old business models to changing industries, and pushing people to do the very best they can do.David's background is inprogramming, an assortment of university dabbling, creating companies, and helping entrepreneurs. He served as CEO of Unity Technologies since co-founding it in 2003 and until October 2014, with an unflinching vision to democratize game development, and to develop technology and business models for the next phase of the games industry. David Helgason attended the University of Copenhagen.

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Patrick Pichette
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Software

Patrick Pichette is based out of London, England, and is the Partner of Inovia Capital and also Board Member of Cohere. Patrick Pichette previously worked at Twitter as a
Board of Directors. Patrick Pichette attended the University of Oxford.

## Theo Osborne
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, E-Commerce

Theo Osborne is a Managing Partner at 9Yards Capital.

## Mark Hales
- Type: Angel
- Location: Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Big Data, Mobile Apps

Mark has spent the majority of his career to date in the Health & Social Care industry, formerly running Claimar Care Group PLC, on of the UK’s largest social care providers.
In 2010, Mark co-founded Optimo Care Group with Richard Walker. Over the past 10 years Optimo has gone from strength to strength, becoming a market leading regional careprovider delivering over 25,000 visits every week to service users in the community.

## Eden Chen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Gaming, Video Games, PC Games

Founder & CEO of Pragma, Fishermen Labs

## Tom Hulme
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech

Tom Hulme is based out of London, Greater London and is the Managing Partner & Head of Europe of Google Ventures. Tom previously worked at IDEO as a Founder, Board Director, and Senior Advisor. Tom Hulme attended the Harvard Business School. Tom Hulme has been recognized as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum,  Wired UK’s Top 100Digital Power Brokers, and the Evening Standard’s list of London’s 1000 Most Influential People and received the Baker Scholar Award.

## Joi Ito
- Type: Angel
- Location: Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Software, Information Technology

Joichi Ito is a Parttime Lecturer at Chiba Institute of Technology. he attended Keio University in 2018.

## Jens Lapinski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Hospitality

Jens is the CEO of Angel Invest Ventures. He is one of Europe's most active angel investors, making 10 - 20 investments per year. Jens lives in Berlin.

## Flaviu Simihaian
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Health Care, FinTech, Finance

Flaviu Simihaian is the co-founder and CEO of Troy Medicare, the first pharmacy-powered, AI-driven Medicare Advantage plan. Flaviu also co-founded and is the chairman of Amplicare (previously iMedicare), a web-based SaaS platform that 7,000 pharmacies use to manage and grow their business.

## Christian Edler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Information Technology, FinTech

Christian O. Edler is an investor and entrepreneur with a proven track record in sectors ahead of mainstream adoption. He invests opportunity-driven, sector- and business-model agnostic. Christian built a 10-year track record investing in early-stage ventures and securing exclusive deal flow in primary and secondary growth opportunites. He isco-investing with the best investors and VCs in the world – like Andreessen Horowitz, Peter Thiel, Christian Angermayer, Gsquared, Bitkraft, Bessemer Ventures, Coatue, Sony, FirstMark Capital, DN Capital, FJ Labs, Moore Capital, Alexis Ohanian (Seven Seven Six), Left Lane, Insight, Tencent, Hive and many others. Due to his track record, he has access to exclusive opportunities in the EU/US. Christian’s >75 angel startup investments returned over 20x including several unicorns. As an entrepreneur, Christian recruited, educated and led over 1,500 sales people with $500M in annual sales. His primary focus is on world-class entrepreneurs with new categories of ideas and a potential for massive scale.  If you like to co-invest with him, follow his syndicate on AngelList: https://angel.co/s/edleredler/fCORTChristian is a Scout Partner of Sequoia Capital, Venture Partner of BITKRAFT VC, an alumnus of Harvard Business School, a former semi-pro alpine skier, and based in Berlin & Los Angeles.

## Simon Jenner
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Big Data, Mobile Apps

Simon Jenner is the Co-Founder at Million Labs.

## 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.

## Paul Gouge
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Gaming, PC Games

Paul is responible for setting Playdemic's strategy and driving the vision. He also signs the cheques!

## 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.

## Mike Ullmann
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Lending

Michael Ullmann has been involved in more than 40 different entrepreneurial businesses in various capacities; always as a shareholder. His main focus has been on turnarounds in the bakery business and engineering. He has served as chairman of the board for more than a dozen companies. He is currently chairman of Prodigy, an educational debtprovider and an investor in H2O, a business in water management and Black Mountain Insulation, a company providing environmentally friendly house insulation; the first two have INSEAD CEO’s and the third has been primary financed via an INSEAD network.Michael was an affiliate professor in entrepreneurship at INSEAD from 1987-2005 where he helped the Entrepreneurship Department develop into one of the most vital and popular departments in the school. Michael has backed many of his former students in their own business ventures and continues to be a mentor to several companies. He has written many cases and articles on Entrepreneurship.He has an MA from St Catherine’s College, Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. He has been a fellow of St Catherine’s since 2004. Apart from his main hobby and passion, business, Michael enjoys games of skill and chance, along with outdoor pursuits such as shooting, sailing, skiing and golf.

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

Mandeep Singh is an Angel investor at multiple firms. He previously was the founding CEO at Trouva. Mandeep Singh studied Physics at the University of Cambridge.

## Jakub Sitarz
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wroclaw, Dolnoslaskie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Mobile Apps, Video Games

CEO of Unfold.vcGraduate of the University of Science & Technology. Experienced investor, IT entrepreneur, new technology enthusiast. Founder and architect of IT systems in companies like LiveChat Software S.A., bankier.pl S.A. and Domena.pl S.A.Founder, Managing Partner, and IT expert in pre-seed & seed funds and incubators: InternetWorks sp. z.o.o., Venture INC ASI S.A., and Inkubator Naukowo Technologiczny sp. z.o.o.. Investor, and business and technology mentor in over 30 projects in the innovative technology space. Active in the venture capital industry and the new technologies market for over 15 years.He is currently the CEO of Unfold.vc. He supports the creation of business strategies for investment portfolio companies and is responsible for implementing the development strategy for Unfold.vc

## Alex Rigby
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wilmslow, Cheshire, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: SaaS, Gaming, PC Games

Alex is focused on making sure the company produces the best-looking, most fun and highly innovative social entertainment apps in the world.

## Sergey Kornikhin
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Video Games

Sergey Kornikhin is a producer and actor, known for I Am Losing Weight (2018), Kak menya zovut (2014) and Samyy luchshiy den! (2015).

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