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Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in Germany in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 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 May 2025

Investor	Web3 Germany investments
Andrew Keys	3
Markus Ament	3
Paul Forster	2
Ahmed Al-Balaghi	2
Anthony Sassano	1
Rahul Sethuram	1
Peter van Hardenberg	1
Paul Becker	1
Mandeep Singh	1
Robert Maier	1
Robin Matzke	1
Jonas Tebbe	1
Jens Lapinski	1
Eric Ebert	1
Charlie Songhurst	1
Mo Dong	1
Ravindra Kumar	1
Jörg Will	1
Michael Bernhoerster	1
Janis Zech	1
Pranay Mohan	1
Sekip Can Gokalp	1
Heiko Rauch	1
Peter Grosskopf	1
Philippe Teixeira da Mota	1
Jag Singh	1
Jakob Schreyer	1
Nitin Sharma	1
Sebastian Schmidt	1
Mike Lee	1
Marcus Erken	1
Ryan Sean Adams	1
Jeremy Yap	1
Jens Hewald	1
Ingo Hillen	1
George Burke	1
Christian Reber	1
Andreas Bodczek	1
Gloria Baeuerlein	1
Jesse Clayburgh	1
Jason Choi	1
Trent McConaghy	1
Mario Götze	1
Tim Draper	1
Luis Cuende	1
Declan Kelly	1
Sam Bankman-Fried	1
Dr. Rainer Zimmermann	1
Sundeep Ahuja	1
Nelson Holzner	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

Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
Anything World — Anything World is a platform that allows you to play with any object you can imagine using the power of your voice.

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

Ahmed Al-Balaghi is the Co-founder of Biconomy and Founder of the Encrypted podcast which is MENA's largest podcast dedicated to blockchain and crypto-assets. Having spent over 3 years within the blockchain industry in China, the U.K., and the UAE, he has developed deep industry expertise and regularly delivers talks and workshops. Hisresearch and investments span across blockchain infrastructure and protocol layers, security tokens, digital identity, cryptoeconomics, and exchanges.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
Germany, United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

EthSign — EthSign is an e-signing platform that utilizes blockchain technology to offer a decentralized, customizable and transparent version of traditional signature service. EthSign aims to tackle data security issues caused by an over-reliance on centralized providers and build back trust in electronic signature services. With its Web3 technology(decentralized Identity, smart contract platforms and decentralized storage networks), the platform enables users to comment on, edit and access each version of an electronic agreement seamlessly and securely.
Altitude — Actively managed collateralised loans
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

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.

Rahul Sethuram - Partner @ Lone Wolf Partners

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Ethereum
Funding Round, Seed
Germany, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

Stackr Labs — Micro-rollups to scale web3 applications
WalletConnect — Reown gives developers the tools to build user experiences that make digital ownership effortless, intuitive, and secure. Explore now
LI.FI — Swap and move any crypto asset across any blockchain ecosystem.

Peter van Hardenberg is the Lab Director / CEO at Ink & Switch. He previously worked at Auth0 as a Board Member. Peter Van Hardenberg attended the University of Victoria.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Operating Systems
Series A
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.

Paul Becker - Co-Founder and CEO @ re:cap

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Stackfix — Stackfix operates as a software comparison platform.
Prior Labs — Prior Labs develops Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs) like TabPFN to solve AI's structured data challenge, enabling native understanding & boosting ML performance.
Bluebook — self-driving accounting

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.

Co-Founder and CPO at re:cap, Co-Founder LIQID and &do. Part-time nerd, fintech, design and ux aficionado.

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.

Eric Ebert - Marketing and Communications Manager @ Zenkit

Investment focus

Internet, Software, Service Industry
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Synctive — Synctive enables equipment-as-a-service and pay-per-use business models for machine and plant manufacturers.
Wundertax — Wundertax provides online tax returns filing and related services.
Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence

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

Mo Dong is a Co-Founder of Celer Network. Mo received his Ph.D. from UIUC. He was founding engineer and product manager at Veriflow, working on network formal verification. He is an expert in applying algorithmic game theory to protocol design and teaches full-stack smart contract courses with hundreds of students graduated.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, UX Design
Funding Round
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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

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.

Jörg Will

Investment focus

Education, Blockchain, Human Resources
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

Michael Bernhoerster

Investment focus

Education, Blockchain, Human Resources
Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

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.

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 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.

Peter Grosskopf is the Co-Founder and CTO at Ultimate. Peter Grosskopf attended the University of Münster.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Software
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.
Otterspace — Otterspace takes care of DAOs.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Sebastian Schmidt

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Blockbrain — AI-Driven Business Excellence

Mike Lee is Co-Founder of MyFitnessPal, the leading free resource helping people improve their health. Prior to founding MyFitnessPal, Mike co-founded NextC, a venture-funded startup focused on building online communities. During his 20 year tenure in the technology industry, Mike has held leadership positions at several other top start-upsin Silicon Valley, including Palm, Handspring, Beyond.com and Regis McKenna. Mike graduated summa cum laude from Princeton with a B.A. in Economics.

Investment focus

Fitness, Software, Wellness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Ireland, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Sock Finance — Sock is a mobile finance app that is the easiest way in the world to earn interest (yield) on your crypto. With Sock, you can send crypto, invest, and earn with crypto anywhere in the world while maintaining self-custody.
VIZTA DGTL — VIZTA is an innovative gaming studio at the forefront of significant technology shifts and increasing demands from new generations and various consumers.
Sunnyside — Cutback Coach is a developer of an alcohol tracking app to help people build healthier habits around their drinking. It offers a custom plan based on current drinking habits and goals, then set a daily reminder via text message that help users set the limit of their drinking habit.

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

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.

Jeremy is a full time angel from Singapore who invests across USA/Canada, Europe, and Israel.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.
Zero — Buy verified cash app account at the best IT service provider smmsellshop at cost-effective price, we provide SSN, Bank & Selfie verified accounts.
Terminal 3 — We empower an equitable Web3 future

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 — Track your assets, dividends, performance and more in real-time. Discuss trades and stocks with the community.
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.

Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

KILT Protocol — KILT Protocol is an open-source blockchain protocol for creating Web 3.0 credentials that are verifiable, revocable, and anonymous.KILT provides Internet Data Sovereignty and puts users in control of their data, allowing them to choose which data to share, when, with whom, and why. It's a blockchain protocol that creates a distributed onlinetrust market to help people manage their online trust connections.It was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Berlin.
Field Complete — Free software for any field service company looking to improve operations and become more profitable! Get access to free home services management software.
Movement Labs — Movement Labs is on a mission to create a global community of Move Builders, working together to improve decentralized network user experience.

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.

Jesse Clayburgh

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, iOS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Gradia Health — Gradia is an integrated, concierge care platform designed for clinics to support patients with chronic conditions.
Superdao — Tools to start, manage, and grow a decentralized autonomous organization

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.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Anytype — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
H2O — H2O is a data-backed stable asset with a managed float regime that serves as a medium of exchange and unit of account in decentralized data marketplaces.
Synesis One — Synesis One provides a play-to-earn model on the Solana blockchain that develops games on the frontend to incentivize users and on the backend creates datasets that train AI. This fully functional system has already been integrated with its beneficiary, Mind AI, which relies on natural language reasoning to produce conversational AI systems. Withcustomers already lined up, Synesis One's key appeal is its ability to attract other projects that will pay to use their AI solutions within the blockchain space and across different industries.

Mario Götze is a professional footballer.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Germany, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

NetBird — Wiretrustee is an open-source VPN platform built on top of WireGuard® making it easy to create secure private networks for your organization or home. It requires zero configuration effort leaving behind the hassle of opening ports, complex firewall rules, VPN gateways, and so forth.
Vivalyx — Vivalyx Omnisol will be a process- and cost-effective one-stop solution for all preservation applications, allowing NMP without the use of blood or human products.
LANCH — LANCH is a startup that provides a virtual kitchen and food delivery service.

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.

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 — for those who celebrate trust & autonomy.
Syndicate — Syndicate enables developers to create scalable, atomically composable appchains with complete control over the network, sequencer, and economy.

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.

Sam is the Founder of Bankman-Fried. He is also the CEO of the said firm.

Investment focus

Internet, Legal, Software
Series B, Series A
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
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.
Compound — Build and optimize your wealth.

Dr. Rainer Zimmermann

Investment focus

FinTech, Cryptocurrency, Venture Capital
Pre-Seed
Germany

Portfolio highlights

Cashlink — Emittieren und vertreiben Sie tokenisierte Kryptowertpapiere regulatorisch konform nach dem elektronischen Wertpapiergesetz (eWpG).

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!

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