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Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Germany in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Web3 startups based in Germany. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Germany. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Germany in January 2026

Investor	Web3 Germany investments
Andrew Keys	3
Markus Ament	3
Paul Forster	2
Vel Kanniappan	2
Ravindra Kumar	2
Luis Cuende	1
Gregor Stuhler	1
Ryan Sean Adams	1
Heiko Rauch	1
Jag Singh	1
Nitin Sharma	1
Florian Reike	1
Anthony Sassano	1
Robert Maier	1
Robin Matzke	1
Jens Lapinski	1
Charlie Songhurst	1
Janis Zech	1
Pranay Mohan	1
Sekip Can Gokalp	1
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	1
Jakob Schreyer	1
Marcus Erken	1
Jens Hewald	1
Ingo Hillen	1
Christian Reber	1
Andreas Bodczek	1
Gloria Baeuerlein	1
Jason Choi	1
Trent McConaghy	1
Tim Draper	1
Declan Kelly	1
Dr. Rainer Zimmermann	1
Sundeep Ahuja	1
Nelson Holzner	1
Jaesung Park	1
Omid Ashtari	1
Henrik Gebbing	1
Valeria Kholostenko	1
Jenny Dreier	1
Tom O'Keefe	1
Alex MacCaw	1
Balaji Srinivasan	1
Johannes Schaback	1
Florian von Bodman	1
Malte Pollmann	1
Heiko Hubertz	1
Sam Bankman-Fried	1
André Zimmermann	1
Matthew Graham	1

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Andrew Keys is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Andrew Keys. He previously worked for ConsenSys as a Head of Global Business Development. Andrew Keys attended Loyola University Maryland.

Investment focus

Software, Finance, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
Zivoe Finance — Join Zivoe in disrupting predatory high-interest lending.
Ithaca Finance — Ithaca Finance a cross-chain derivatives trading and settlements protocol, is composed of an on-chain settlement layer with an innovative off-chain matching engine.

Serial FinTech entrepreneur, Markus Ament, or Maex as he is known, has led many companies from early-stage startups to global leaders, loved by thousands worldwide. He is currently CEO and co-founder at Centrifuge with the mission to create an operating system for global commerce, in order to fundamentally change how businesses transact andcollaborate. Maex is co-founder and member of the board of Taulia and has transformed the company from an idea in 2009 to the market leading Financial Supply Chain company, connecting businesses to create a more efficient and profitable supply chain. With an enviable list of the of Fortune 500 clients and over 300 employees, Taulia has quickly become the recognized leader in the financial supply chain.

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

Aletiq — Aletiq is an online PLM software that offers technical data management solutions for industrial companies.
Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.

Paul Forster

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Singulate — The early Hopin team (#1, #4, #30 are cofounders) are back together to solve the biggest problem they saw in events and marketing at Hopin. They’re building a next gen AI marketing platform called Singulate. Singulate provides the easiest way to do audience segmentation and better relevance-personalization for marketing to individuals at scale —results of up to 10X higher CTRs and 5X response rates. They’re helping marketers (in demand gen, growth, community/events) nurture and convert more pipeline from their events and existing customers - it’s not an AI cold outreach sales tool (although it can do reactivations) but rather a lifecycle growth marketing tool. The best personalization is invisible - this is the future of large-scale communication. Get a demo to see the product.
Purple Dot — Sell More by Selling Earlier

Vel Kanniappan is the Senior Vice President – Finance, responsible for all global finance functions at NIUM.Vel Kanniappan is with UiPath as Vice President – Global Business & Finance Operations, responsible for the Commercial finance organization for the Asia Pacific, and is also a vital member of the global finance organization.Vel joinedTekion in 2017 at a very early stage when the organization had 20 employees. Being the only qualified finance professional in the organization, he was responsible for managing the global finance and operations (Global Facilities, Procurement, IT Infrastructure, SOC Certifications, Payroll, Compliances, etc.) in addition to product design and management. He was responsible for conceptualizing and building the finance modules for Tekion’s product offering, including designing wireframes and UX. He was involved in three rounds of funding and actively interacted with the investors during the funding and periodical reporting, which included Index Ventures, Storm Ventures, Airbus Ventures, General Motors, BMW i Ventures, Alliance Ventures, and few car dealerships in the Bay Area. Vel joined EMC Corporation in 2002. In a career spanning 15 years with EMC and its group companies, which included 9 years at VMware, Vel managed the Controllership for the Asia Pacific and also managed the global finance organization, which included an end to end ownership for Procure to Pay, T&E, General Ledger Accounting, Global Payroll (Except US), Accounts Receivable (Collections targets of close to $ 3 B per quarter). Vel was also the first employee of EMC and VMware in India and was responsible for growing their operations to 10,000+ employees in India. Vel managed a global team, including a shared services team of 250+ professionals.By qualification, Vel is a Certified Public Accountant from Arizona State-USA, Certified Management Accountant-USA, Certified Internal Auditor-USA, Project Management Professional-USA,He is also a Chartered Accountant-India, Cost & Management Accountant-India, Company Secretary-India, Bachelor of Law-India, Bachelor of Commerce-India.

Investment focus

Manufacturing, Software, Payments
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
India, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Revoh — Electric vehicle powertrain manufacturing company primarily focused on 2 wheeler and 3 wheeler segment.
Frigate — Frigate offers turnkey heavy steel structure fabrication and erection services in India, delivering durable and cost-effective solutions for B2B manufacturers. Reliable, efficient, and built to last.
bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.

Ravindra Kumar is the CEO and Co-Founder of Frontier Wallet. He was formerly the CTO of InstaDApp and Woodstock, is a smart contract developer, an Android developer, and computing polyglot.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Ethereum, Internet
Seed, Funding Round
India, Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

VELAR — VELAR is a Multi-Feature DeFi App with Bitcoin Finality.
bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.
Router Protocol — Router Protocol is a Cross Chain Bridge. Currently live on Ethereum, Polygon, and more. Building an interoperable cross chain future of the blockchain ecosystem.

Luis Cuende is the Co-founder and President of CitizenX. He previously worked at Aragon One as a CEO.

Investment focus

Software, Computer, Ethereum
Seed, Series A
Norway, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Outdid — Verify identities with no storage, processing, or access of private personal information
Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.

Gregor Stuhler is the CEO and Co-Founder of Scoutbee. He is experienced in operations leadership roles within heavy manufacturing brands like Wittenstein in Germany, Gregor leads scoutbee’s technical vision and product innovation.

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
GlassDollar — GlassDollar is the go-to enabler of innovation partnering for large- and medium-sized corporations. Our marketplace of startup solutions and our Innovation Project management software help innovation teams to source, manage, and successfully scale impactful startup collaborations within their organizations.

Ryan Sean Adams

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Spain

Portfolio highlights

Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
Pimlico — Leverage Pimlico to get more users by unlocking the full potential of gas sponsorships.
Soul Wallet — Soul Wallet is a smart contract wallet.

Co-Founder of UFOstart

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.

Jag is one of Europe's most active angel investors, and is a Managing Partner at Angel Invest Ventures in Berlin. He's founded several companies (including two exits and a spectacular failure), and invested in over 100 startups over the last six years, including Spire (SPAC), Nutmeg (exit to JPM), Disperse, Eversend, Restack, and Anytype.He’s an ad-man at heart, and spent over a decade as a political strategist advising high-profile politicians, campaigns and corporations across the US and Europe. Jag is fluent in six languages, and can be found on Twitter via @JagSingh

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Konfetti — konfetti is building the leading platform for local workshops and events by empowering workshop providers with customized SaaS solutions
Widgetbook — Widgetbook is an open source tool for organizing widgets in Flutter. It accelerates UI development and improves the collaboration between developers, designers and clients.
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

For the last 10+ years, I've had the rare fortune of working with world-class entrepreneurs - as a venture or angel investor, startup team member or growth advisor - in the US and in India. Experience: US VC - Investor @ NEA India VC - Principal & Founding Member @ Lightbox (ex. Kleiner Perkins India and Sherpalo) Startup ops in the US- VP, Bus Dev and early employee @ EverFi (one of the largest edtech networks globally) Startup ops in India - Key leadership responsibilities related to 4 Lightbox companiesCurrently, I am especially spending a large portion of my time on blockchain startups and cryptocurrencies. INVESTING: Lots of learnings from working on early to growth stage investments. US: Millennial Media (IPO, acq. by AOL), OPOWER (IPO, acq. by Oracle), Gilt Groupe (acq. by Saks / Hudson Bay), ChannelAdvisor (IPO), AddThis (acq. by Oracle), EverFi, Suniva, Videology, Credibase, new crypto and blockchain projects India: Droom, Melorra, Paymate, Zoomin, Stalkbuylove, Fynd, The Better India, Mech MochaSTARTUP OPERATIONS: Hands-on experience in both hyper-growth and turnaround situations. Wore a few hats as an early employee and head of BD at EverFi (one of the largest edtech networks globally having served 16MM students and raised $250MM), led strategic finance projects for NEA companies Suniva and AddThis, and interned at InMobi. Owned or helped solve problems across strategy, M&A, senior hiring, int'l expansion and fundraising while working closely with management at Droom, Melorra, Paymate and Zoomin

Investment focus

Software, E-Learning, Information Technology
Pre-Seed, Seed
India, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Klub — India's leading Revenue Based Financing platform with a vision to revolutionize growth capital. Join the Klub for fast, fair & flexible funding.
StayQrious — StayQrious Neoschool is an online after-school program that teaches your child self-learning skills, social skills, emotional resilience, and problem-solving skills that are essential to thrive in the real-world.
Molecule — Molecule is a collaborative platform, where stakeholders in drug development work together to accelerate the process of bringing novel therapeutics to patients. We connect leading researchers to investment opportunities by turning intellectual property and its development into a liquid and easily investable asset.

Florian Reike is the Co-Founder at Advanced Blockchain AG.

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.

Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Valantis Labs — Valantis is a platform comprising decentralized exchanges (DEXes) and on-chain tools that empower developers to design and implement custom liquidity infrastructure for blockchain ecosystems. Using modular components, Valantis streamlines the process, making it faster, cost-effective, and user-friendly.
Zaros Finance — Zaros is a protocol that provides efficient liquidity, boosts staking rewards from LSTs, and aims to become the preferred liquidity hub for on-chain derivatives.
Creadibly Neutral — Credibly Neutral is a builder-led early stage venture fund investing $50-250k in protocols, infrastructure, and crypto SaaS.

Robert Maier is a Business Angel at Saarbrücker21 and an investor at various companies. Robert was a Founder and Managing Director at Visual Meta. He attended WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

a2zebra — a2zebra is a zebra company that specializes in instructional technology for elementary school kids.
Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence

Robin Matzke is the Academic Advisor at Deutscher Bundestag. Attended Humboldt University of Berlin.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Februar — Fiat-to-Crypto on-ramp solution for every Web3 project. Easy to integrate with a seamless experience for your users.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Pile — Pile is a cryptocurrency as a service platform for fintechs and neobanks. Founded in 2022 and is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
Clarisights — Clarisights streamlines reporting for sophisticated growth marketing teams. Automatically integrate, process and visualize data from all of your marketing sources.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stelia — Stelia stands at the forefront of the AI infrastructure revolution and is driving the transition from Internet 2.0, designed for data movement, to Internet 3.0, designed for data mobility, enabling the seamless flow and processing of data across diverse environments. With its ground-breaking HyperBand platform, Stelia enables businesses toharness the full potential of AI. The company's mission is to become the backbone of the next generation of data mobility, empowering organizations across industries to accelerate innovation, optimize operations, and drive transformative growth. Stelia will be at the gravitational centre of the AI infrastructure ecosystem – a trusted partner and catalyst for change that brings together forward-thinking businesses, technology leaders, and industry experts to shape the future of AI. It was founded in 2021 and is located in London, United Kingdom.
Lodestar — Lodestar is a next-gen robotics company building a fully-integrated solutions to construct, restore and protect high-value assets in space.
Briefcase — Briefcase automates the legwork in accounting so you can focus on growing your practice

Janis Zech is the Founder and CEO at Weflow.

Investment focus

B2B, Banking, FinTech
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
JOBOX.ai — JOBOX.ai is a B2B stealth mode AI startup disrupting the on-demand economy.
Masters — Train mind and body on the Masters app with full workout programs designed and run by the world's best athletes. Join today and start training like a pro.

Pranay Mohan is the Co-founder of Nomad.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, UX Design
Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

Şekip Can Gökalp is the founding partner of Mobilike, a mobile advertisement network. Gokalp's previous experience includes his time as a regional business development manager of Netlog and a part-time interactive marketing lecturer. He also contributes regularly to publications related to his field.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Banking
Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Aiden.ai — Aiden provides an AI analytics platform intended to assist marketers how to spend their budget efficiently. Its platform uses machine learning reading to analyze large sets of paid advertising data, enabling clients to proactively make changes to improve ROI of their manage multichannel paid acquisition campaigns easily.
Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of bonds and other assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization. In 2019 Bitbond received regulatory approval by BaFin to run Europe's first Security Token Offering (STO). The company makes its tokenization expertise and software and credit solutions available tobanks and other intermediaries.

Co-founder of Shapers. Previously Partner at Hedosophia.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Palm — Cash Management for the Modern Treasury
Kontigo — We help underbanked gig workers in Latam build credit and access group financing where small groups of family or friends lend and save money together. Users can validate their income from multiple sources such as gig apps, catalog sales, and open finance (Uber, Rappi, Didi, Indriver, Avon, and all major banks). After verifying the income wedirectly offer them group savings and group loans, without leaving WhatsApp, their primary messaging app.
Keyring Network — Blockchain compliance solutions for the financial sector.

Jakob is CEO of orderbird, a berlin based start-up. Before co-founding orderbird AG, Jakob worked as a marketing and strategy consultant for Red Bull‘s lead agency Kastner&Partners in NYC and a german based start up in San Francisco, planing the US market entry.

Investment focus

EdTech, FinTech, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

NAO — NAO curates innovative and hard-to-find investments and creates unprecedented access to sustainable, long-term wealth creation through crowdinvesting.
Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence
Bling.de — The pocket money card and app that empowers children & teens to be money-smart. Safe, simple and educational.

Happy and curious.Marcus is a founding partner of Sunfish Partners, an early stage VC that invests in deep tech startups from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).In addition, he has made angel investments throughout the world and co-lectures an annual university course in which students start their own companies.Previously, Marcus had theprivilege of working with more than 120 student startups at WHU’s university incubator, which he co-built.Marcus holds a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Business & Management from WHU Vallendar, a Ph.D. in Entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University, and was a Visiting Research Fellow at Harvard University.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
Poland, Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

liftOS — liftOS allows you to find, access and work with your SaaS tools without friction. Organise your data & apps and spend less time switching tabs.
AIRMO — Airmo is a space tech company that offers an independent data source that locates, quantifies, and tracks carbon dioxide and methane emissions through a small satellite constellation.
Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence

Jens Hewald is the Co-Founder of Soonami.io and UFOstart. He previously worked at Agrilution as an investor. Jens Hewald attended HTW Berlin.

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.

Ingo Hillen is the Chief Executive Officer of Sino AG.Ingo Hillen completed his training as a banker at Deutsche Bank, where he also met sino's founding partner Matthias Hocke. From 1998 onwards they start building up the sino Wertpapierhandelsgesellschaft together, which starts its business in October 1998. Trade and finance have been partof Hillen's portfolio from the start.In 2000 the company, which had been profitable since 1999, was converted into an AG. On September 11, 2001, the sino board members Ingo Hillen and Matthias Hocke are nominated to take part in the “Entrepreneur of the Year” competition. However, the event is canceled on the afternoon of the same day - due to the tragic events in New York City.A year later, Matthias Hocke and Oliver Wagner started the software company tick-TS together with Ingo Hillen. To this day, sino AG holds more than 25% of the company.As founder and board member, Ingo Hillen and Matthias Hocke finally successfully listed sino AG on the stock exchange in September 2004 - in the regulated market of the Düsseldorf stock exchange, followed by a switch to the primary market in 2013.Since it was founded, sino AG | High-end brokerage repeatedly awarded top marks in industry tests, for example in the annual reader survey by Börse-Online or in Euro am Sonntag.As deputy chairman of the supervisory board of tick-TS AG, Hillen successfully promoted the IPO of the software company tick-TS AG, which he co-founded in 2002 and has since become very successful.But business is only half the life, and that's why he treats himself to a short vacation every now and then, for example on Sylt with sun, beach, great Rieslings and great food ... To compensate, he jogs regularly.Today he is also responsible for the development of a promising FinTech company and who knows, maybe this will be 'his' third IPO.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Wealth Management
Pre-Seed, Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

getquin — Check out a getquin investor portfolio, its positions, dividends and real-time performance.
arttrade — Democratizing the Art Market through Blockchain
Sub Capitals — Sub Capitals believe it is time to democratize artificial intelligence (AI) for private investors on the financial market.

Christian Reber is the founder and CEO of Pitch. The German entrepreneur previously founded the award-winning to-do app Wunderlist. After it was acquired by Microsoft in 2015, he spent two years as Microsoft's Entrepreneur in Residence. He is an active investor and advisor in a number of technology businesses, such as Lilium, Notion,Onefootball, Neufund, Freigeist and more. Prior to his career in business, Christian studied Mathematics and Computer Science as well as International Management in Berlin. Christian received the Forbes 30 under 30 award in 2014 and 2016.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Apps
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Crew — Crew is a curated platform that connects designers and developers with vetted clients that need a website, mobile app, or other design work. The company's highly trusted network of independent creatives has worked on products used by tens of millions of people for some of the industry's biggest companies, including Apple, Google, Uber,IDEO, and Dropbox.It was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Montréal, Quebec.
NUMOS — NUMOS is an insurance tech platform.
Crew.work — All-in-one recruiting platform that helps you hire the A players your moonshot mission needs.

Andreas Bodczek is passionate tech entrepreneur, seasoned board room executive, global mindset. Backing fellow entrepreneurs as active early-stage tech investor, and Point Nine Capital board partner. Co-founded, scaled and sold Fyber. Former CEO of Telefónica Deutschland, MD of Telefónica UK, member of Bertelsmann’s junior managementprogram.Excited about bold ideas in mobility, digital health, blockchain beyond crypto currencies.Interested in private equity operating partner assignments, management buy-in/buy-out scenarios, buy-and-build strategies, tech distress/transformation opportunities.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of financial assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization.
Donut — Donut helps people discover new ways to build wealth, by providing the easiest and most trusted way to save & earn high yield with DeFi. Donut was founded in 2018 and is dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Weflow — All-in-one workspace to manage your Salesforce pipeline, notes & to-dos. Designed for sales teams who like to move with speed.

Gloria primarily focuses on growth stage investments across all sectors in Europe and Australia. Prior to Index, Gloria worked at Technology Crossover Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based growth equity fund, evaluating investment opportunities in the DACH region and in software and fintech companies across Europe. Gloria started her career at MorganStanley where she advised technology and telco clients across Europe and the U.S. on financing rounds, IPOs and M&A transactions. Gloria graduated with a master’s degree in management from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management

Investment focus

B2B, Apps, SaaS
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
Germany, Sweden, Denmark

Portfolio highlights

Pile — Pile is a cryptocurrency as a service platform for fintechs and neobanks. Founded in 2022 and is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Procuros — More and more sales teams struggle with supplier portals. We help you integrate digitally with common supplier portals and consolidate all order documents.
PocketLaw — PocketLaw is a user-friendly and affordable solution that allows you to create contracts, get legal guidance, manage your documents and contact lawyers.

Jason Choi is Venture Investor at Contrary Capital.

Investment focus

Financial Services, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Singapore, United States, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Arch — The pioneering network for building bridgeless apps directly on Bitcoin. Arch makes it easy to deploy interoperable smart contract-like programs on the L1, without fracturing liquidity or taking on bridge risk.
Hashflow — Tight spreads. Zero slippage. MEV-resistant.
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

Trent McConaghy is the founder of Ocean Protocol, which is unbounding AI via blockchain technology. Past: - co-founded Analog Design Automation in 1999. AI for generative analog circuit design. It was acquired by Synopsys in 2004. - co-founded Solido Design Automation in 2004. AI for custom circuit verification. It was acquired by Siemens in2017. - co-founded ascribe GmbH in 2014. NFTs. It pivoted to BigchainDB in 2016. Decentralized database. - from BigchainDB, co-founded Ocean Protocol in 2017. Its token $OCEAN went public in 2018.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
Singapore, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — An operating system for the new Internet
Makina — Makina is a finance firm that provides a non-custodial option for users to gain exposure to advanced on-chain strategies.
Yiedl — Rocket is a Financial Institution regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. The vision is to create the world's first decentralized and distributed hedge fund (RocketDAO) driven by a Collective Artificial Intelligence generated through a Blockchain-based (on Polygon) machine learning competition to solve the financial market.

Tim Draper is the Founder of Draper Associates. He was a Member of the Advisory Board at Mode Media. He attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

EtherMail — EtherMail is the Web 3.0 Email Solution setting the standard for anonymous and encrypted wallet-to-wallet communication.
Arkam Intelligence — See intelligence on the addresses, entities, individuals, and assets most important to you.
SignalRank Corporation — SignalRank Corporation is a FinTech company in the Venture space. It focuses on the seed stage asset class and uses data analytics to allocate capital to the best seed fund managers for their top performing companies. GPRank and CompanyRank are two proprietary algorithms it leverages to automate capital allocation. The company invests from balancesheet. Its customers are seed stage investors with outstanding companies in their portfolio.

Founder of Foreword.vc, an early-stage micro fund backing startups throughout their initial chapters. Also advisor at Web Summit and EiR at Seedcamp. Previously covering Europe for Techstars Ventures and founding member of Web Summits venture fund, Amaranthine.

Investment focus

Software, FinTech, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Werk — Werk is building a construction labor marketplace, that matches workers internationally to any country, all while automating the paperwork and HR. Our community provides trade union benefits, globally. Think of it as a mix of Deel & LinkedIn, but for construction that disrupts the European gray economy. Werk is building a digital identity forthe workers building our homes and offices.
Tactic — Tactic helps you use AI to turn documents online and in your systems into actionable insights, no coding needed.
Payable — Scale your business with our payment operations API and dashboard. Track, reconcile and make payments instantly.

Dr. Rainer Zimmermann

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.

Sundeep Ahuja is a founder, investor & author currently running Climate Capital, a leading early stage climate investor with 300+ portfolio companies; more @ https://www.climatecapital.co/

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
United States, Germany, Estonia

Portfolio highlights

Flagright — AI-powered AML compliance & fraud prevention platform for fintechs & banks to monitor, screen, investigate, and report.
GreenTrade — GreenTrade is a marketplace for nature-based carbon credits and impact claims. The company accelerates the funding of new carbon projects by turning long-term purchase agreements into digital tradable assets and making them available for corporate buyers today. We're a team of experienced entrepreneurs, transforming the Voluntary Carbon Market($200B by 2050) by introducing the concept of Future Credits. Through long-term offtake agreements (ERPAs) with project developers, we’re securing future supply rights and turning them into digital assets (NFTs). Buyers are mitigating future price and access risk, while developers are able to secure funding for additional projects. Our mission is to mitigate climate change through realizing 1B TONNES OF CARBON CREDITS BY 2030. Short Video about us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQehoqCv1Y
Pina Earth — Unlocking carbon markets for European forest owners

Nelson Holzner is CEO and Co-Founder of MODIFI, a Fintech company solving global Trade Finance for small and medium-sized businesses. Prior to founding MODIFI, Nelson was CEO of AEVI, a German-based Fintech company providing an open B2B marketplace for business apps, SmartPOS devices and payment solutions to banks and acquires around the globe.Prior to joining AEVI, Nelson was founder and CEO of BillPay, a leading provider of payment by invoice or installments for e-commerce which was acquired by Klarna in 2017. He was Vice President at Cerberus Capital Management, an international investment firm. Nelson started his career as a lawyer at an international law firm. He is an active business angel in FinTech.

Investment focus

FinTech, Banking, Big Data
Seed
India, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Bitbond — Bitbond radically improves the issuance, settlement and custody of bonds and other assets with the help of blockchain technology and tokenization. In 2019 Bitbond received regulatory approval by BaFin to run Europe's first Security Token Offering (STO). The company makes its tokenization expertise and software and credit solutions available tobanks and other intermediaries.
ZestMoney — Enjoy the convenience of shopping for electronic gadgets, fashion, travel, education on EMI without credit card. No debit card or credit score required!

Angel Investor

Investment focus

Information Technology, Apps, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

bitsCrunch — Forensic and AI-powered NFT analytics that fight wash trading, fraud and give accurate value for digital assets.
Bunch — Bunch is the first app that allows its users to play their favorite games with friends over video chat. Its platform is the easiest way for players to discover, play, and share live mobile games with their friends. It was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in New York City, New York.
EthStorage — EthStorage is a crypto startup and It is a storage rollup built on top of ethereum.

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

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, Sweden, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Sloyd — 3D modeling has never been easier. Select a generator, tweak it, done. Generate with realtime in the Sloyd Webapp or SDK.
Anterior — Lead your plan into the future.
Ctrl Alt — Access the world of alternative assets in a simple, transparent and secure way. Sign up to Ctrl Alt and start your alternative investment journey with us today.

Henrik Gebbing is Co-Founder of Finoa, a FinTech focusing on Banking Services for Blockchain-based Digital Assets. Prior, Henrik worked as a Consultant at McKinsey & Company, serving financial institutions and high-tech companies across the globe. He started his career with a dual degree in the high-tech branch of Siemens AG. Henrik earned aB.A. in Int. Management & Finance (Germany), a M.Sc. in Marketing from Golden Gate University (USA) and an MBA from IE Business School (Spain).

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Cryptocurrency
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cortea — Cortea leverages artificial intelligence to revolutionize the auditing process by enhancing speed, accuracy, and transparency. Cortea transforms audits from traditional, labor-intensive processes into faster, more reliable, and more transparent operations.
Februar — Fiat-to-Crypto on-ramp solution for every Web3 project. Easy to integrate with a seamless experience for your users.

Valeria Kholostenko has almost 20 years of experience helping accelerate innovation and growth. From 2017-2018, Valeria oversaw international collaborations between organizations exploring Ethereum enabled technologies as the Head of Development and Global Community at ConsenSys New York. Valeria's passion for driving global expansion tookher to advise LUKSO Blockchain, founded by the creator of the ERC20 standard for Ethereum, with positioning, and eventually as CMO in Berlin. At Parity Technologies, Valeria focused on collaborations with Polkadot investor network, education about Polkadot, startup incubation, and corporate engagement to drive the adoption of the network. After heading up Partnerships at Reef Finance, Valeria took over the role of CMO and continued to build out the Reef ecosystem, hiring all the marketing team leads, optimizing investor realtions, and negotiations with all agency partners. Venture building has always been one of Valeria’s passions, particularly the opportunity to connect venture to promising startups. In 2020, through her expansive global venture network, Valeria raised capital for more than 15 blockchain companies built primarily on Polkadot and Polygon. Most recently Valeria lead the marketing team for one of the leading Parachains in Polkadot as CMO. Currently looking at projects with the right synergies for early 2023. If you are interested in working together, please say hello!

Investment focus

Financial Services, Information Technology, Gaming
Seed
United States, Germany, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Lukso — LUKSO is the foundation to unify your digital life through standardised smart profiles and an open decentralized L1 EVM Blockchain.
Tidal Finance — Tidal Finance is the first flexible DeFi insurance platform and marketplace, offering the highest APYs in the industry.
Cross The Ages — Cross The Ages is a universe in which fantasy and science fiction come together. The two worlds share the single continent of Artellium. To the west lies Arkhante, masters of magic and summoning. To the east, the city-continent Mantris is home to ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life.The young Malkha,surrounded by her seven Primus, reigns from the capital, Babylonia. To the west, the city-continent Mantris is home to Neurotechs, an ultra-connected multicultural people whose technology has invaded everyday life. The Amortals, humans who have transferred their minds to super-AIs, run the corporations for which the citizen-shareholders of Mantris work.

Jenny Dreier is working as a venture lead at EQT Ventures.

Investment focus

FinTech, Video Chat, Social Media
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Pile — Pile is a cryptocurrency as a service platform for fintechs and neobanks. Founded in 2022 and is based in Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Wonder — Tired of boring online events? Wonder is an interactive virtual space that empowers users with freedom of movement and leaves everyone energized.
getvoila — voilà is the Berlin-based company that enables people to enjoy fine dining experiences at home, with nationwide delivery.

Tom O'Keefe

Investment focus

FinTech, GreenTech, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

GreenTrade — GreenTrade is a marketplace for nature-based carbon credits and impact claims. The company accelerates the funding of new carbon projects by turning long-term purchase agreements into digital tradable assets and making them available for corporate buyers today. We're a team of experienced entrepreneurs, transforming the Voluntary Carbon Market($200B by 2050) by introducing the concept of Future Credits. Through long-term offtake agreements (ERPAs) with project developers, we’re securing future supply rights and turning them into digital assets (NFTs). Buyers are mitigating future price and access risk, while developers are able to secure funding for additional projects. Our mission is to mitigate climate change through realizing 1B TONNES OF CARBON CREDITS BY 2030. Short Video about us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVQehoqCv1Y

Mr. Alex MacCaw Co-Founded and served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Clearbit. He is also the Founder of Sourcing.io. He also serves as Advisor at Evergrow. He also serves as an executive at Earl Grey Capital.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Germany, Norway

Portfolio highlights

Pogo — Unlock the power of your data to earn and save on shopping, finances and more. Download the Pogo app today to start earning and saving cash. 4.9 stars in the App Store.
Canvas — Canvas is a collaborative data exploration tool that helps modern business teams make decisions without SQL.
Fathom — Records, transcribes & highlights the top moments from your calls. Sends automatically generated call notes to your CRM.

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

ZAR — Enjoy borderless banking with a USD Visa card powered by stablecoins. Available in 180+ countries. Sign up for your account today!
The Arena — Arena. social is a cutting-edge SocialFi platform that is revolutionizing how content producers interact, network, and make money from their work.
OpenGradient — OpenGradient is a leading decentralized AI platform for open-source model hosting, secure inference, agentic reasoning, and application deployment. By developing tooling and a feature-rich platform that makes developing AI workflows both secure and seamless, OpenGradient empowers developers with the ability to build in its ecosystem of intelligentand optimized AI-empowered applications. With native model hosting, permissionless composability, and secure inference execution, OpenGradient also aims to accelerate open-source AI by democratizing model ownership, improving verifiability guarantees, and promoting censorship-resistant model access.Our heterogeneous AI compute architecture (HACA) and our proprietary library NeuroML scale secure AI workflows with features like inference, agentic reasoning, statistical analysis, and more. OpenGradient also accelerates open-source innovation with a web portal and SDK for Web2 developers to leverage our AI stack without navigating blockchain complexities, while enjoying the security and composability benefits of decentralized infrastructure.

Johannes Schaback is the CTO of SumUp and was a Co-founder and CTO at Visual Meta. He attended Technische Universität Berlin and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Funerals
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Germany

Portfolio highlights

SECJUR — Secjur provides a platform for automated compliance using AI. The startup's technology streamlines procedures in the Digital Compliance Office for areas including data security, anti-money laundering, and whistleblowing.
Packmatic — Packmatic finds the ideal flexible packaging solution for your product and lets you manage it online.
Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence

Florian von Bodman is the CEO of Blue Lake Ventures.

Investment focus

Web3, Security, Software
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

AuditOne — Looking for a smart contract audit? Look no further. AuditOne gathers qualified auditors providing quality and affordable smart contract audits.

Malte Pollmann has been a member of the Utimaco Management Board since 2008 and CEO since 2011. Previously, he was Product Director and Business Unit Leader at Lycos Europe NV (a Bertelsmann company). With a master’s degree in Physics from the Universities of Paderborn and Kaiserslautern in Germany, Malte also received a general managementeducation at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. In parallel to his work at Utimaco, he also serves on the Supervisory Board of the International School of IT Security – isits AG in Bochum.

Investment focus

Hardware, Software, Wireless
Seed, Series A
Germany, France, United States

Portfolio highlights

CyGO Entrepreneurs — CyGO Entrepreneurs empowers European founders to create and scale world-class cybersecurity ventures globally.
Quantum Optics Jena — BEYOND CLASSICAL SOLUTIONS We are a team of passionate engineers, physicists, computer scientists and business developers and we believe that quantum technology allows us to achieve more: More confidence in data security via quantum communication More insights into matter and
Certif-ID International GmbH — Creating Trust in International Technical Recruitment. Our technology and service portfolio digitizes credentials, builds verifiable talent pipelines, automates skill recognition and minimizes cross border recruitment effort.

Heiko Hubertz - Founder & CEO @ Oxolo

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Machine Learning, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Germany, Bulgaria, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

Kini — Learn about Kini's mission to improve recruitment efficiency through data. Discover our team and the solutions we provide to the recruitment industry.
VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.
welevel — Building games with attitude

Sam Bankman-Fried is based out of Nassau, New Providence and is the CEO and Co-Founder of FTX. Sam previously worked at Alameda Research as a CEO. Sam Bankman-Fried attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
United States, Israel, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

DoNotPay — Continue surfing free trials, beating parking tickets, suing robocallers for cash, and more.
Owner — Owner gives you the same tools that major national brands use to drive sales. Online ordering proven to grow sales. Mobile app with rewards. And more.
Causal — Causal replaces your spreadsheets with a better way to build models, connect to data (accounting, CRM), and share dashboards with your team. Sign up for free.

André holds a degree in Business Administration of the Fundação Armando Álvares Penteado, São Paulo (Brazil) and a GMP at CEDEP/INSEAD, Fontainebleau (France). He has more than 22 years experience within the communication industry, having worked for advertising and media agencies in Brazil and in Spain. After having worked at Havas for 12years, where at the end he accumulated the roles of MD at Havas Digital Brazil and MD at Z+, he became an entrepreneur in 2013 and has since then helped building NetCos (influencer marketing), Adglow (social media advertising), Smartclip Brazil, (video distribution platform), Blasting News Brazil (social journalism), Kiddo (customer experience), Oliver Latam (in house agencies), Audioria (podcast production and distribution) and Corebiz Spain (omnichannel agency). Since 2014 also acting as an angel investor at seed and early stage ventures for companies such as iSPORTiSTiCS (artificial intelligence for sports), Sherwa (gaming network), Donamaid (cleaning services marketplace), Mimo (live commerce), Chilligum Creatives (dynamic creatives), Super Troupers (influencer powered commerce solution) and also through Wow Accelerator. André was also a professor for two years at the Master in Digital Marketing of the Instituto de Empresa, Madrid (Spain) and a VP and board member at the Interactive Advertising Bureau Brazil. In 2014 André was ranked second in the Top 50 Innovators of Marketing and Communication in Brazil list, published by Proxxima (Meio&Mensagem Group).

Investment focus

Software, Video, Computer Vision
Seed, Pre-Seed
Brazil, Spain, Canada

Portfolio highlights

DISS-CO — DISS-CO's Innovative GRC SaaS. Blockchain and AI for Easy Compliance, Risk Management and Efficient Workflows.
Super Troupers — Traditional influencers platforms give them a fish for each campaign; we give them a fishing rod.
Sherwa Online Services — JalaLive sajikan kumpulan fakta unik dan menarik seputar penyelenggaraan edisi pertama format 32 tim ini.

Co-Founder and CEO, Sino Global Capital

Investment focus

Software, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
Seed, Series A
Germany, United States

Portfolio highlights

Mintbase, Inc. — Mint a blockchain asset backed by you
Atomic Form — Display NFTs that are verifiably yours. Seamlessly collect, organize, and lend your crypto art with Atomic Form. The Atomic Form 27" Digital Display allows you to beautifully exhibit your NFTs with a modern birch wood frame. 4K LCD display, bluetooth audio functionality, HDMI port, and a rotating mount.
Vybe Network — Vybe Network is a data infrastructure solution that enables the Solana community to query, index, and share on-chain data to build web 3.0 dApps and analytics.

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