Top 50 Wellness Angel Investors in Europe in November 2024

Dr. Johann ‘Hansi’ Hansmann was born in Austria and studied economics in Vienna. He spent the major part of his professional life working as an executive in the pharmaceutical industry in Austria, Germany, UK and Spain. He gathered several years of entrepreneurial experience running successfully his own pharmaceutical company in Spain afterconducting a management buy-out of a big pharmaceutical plant, making an exit in 2003. Since this time he is active as investor and business angel. He currently holds investments with a geographical focus on Austria, Germany, UK and Spain both internet and in the health industry. He led Runtastic, shpock, mysugr and just recently durchblicker and Busuu to extraordinary exits. He was president of the ‘Austrian Angels Investors Association’ until 2021, was awarded 'Best European Early Stage Investor' in 2016 by eban.org and is now based in Vienna and tries to find spare time to ride his mountain bike.

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

Sinan Güler is a Co-Founder at Guler Legacy. He attended Carroll College.

Richard started in his career in advertising but has since shifted his attention to start-ups. As an investor/advisor to over 50 early stage companies, including Sofar Sounds, Blaze, Dojo & What3Words, Richard has learnt a lot about what it takes to launch & grow a start-up. He also the co-founder of the ‘Friday Club London,’ a‘non-profit’ events company aimed at providing start-ups free access to senior marketing expertise. Since launching, over 250 start-ups have benefitted from the programme. And in exchange for their advice, industry mentors have had access to the UK’s brightest founders. In 2013 & 2014 Richard was named in BIMA’s ‘Hot 100’ list and in 2016 and 2017 short-listed for the Europas ‘Investor of the Year’ award.

Edward Lando is the Founder of Pareto Holdings. He previously worked at Horizons School of Technology as a Co-Founder. Edward Lando attended the Wharton School.

Jenny Saft is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at OVIAVO. She attended Hult International Business School during 2013 - 2014.

Thomas Madsen-Mygdal is a Danish designer, entrepreneur and activist behind companies like Mondo, 23, Podio and the reboot festival.

Ralf Dummel, born on 02.12.1966 in Bad Segeberg in Germany, started his career on 01.04.1988 at DS Produkte as a sales assistant to the then founder. Over the years he learned the business from the ground and took full responsibility for purchases and sales after only a year. He vastly participated in the establishment of the company and has been apartner since 1996. Today, the group has an annual turnover of ca. € 250 000 000, 400 employees, and more than 4 000 products in its portfolio. He often travels the world to visit suppliers and customers, and to find inspiration in new innovative products. Dümmel knows Asia inside out, but Northern Germany is the place he calls home. Since 2016 he takes part in the TV program “Die Höhle der Löwen” (literally: The Lions’ Cave, German version of Dragons’ Den on German TV channel VOX ) where he plays one of the “lions”, looking for young entrepreneurs with brilliant products.Ralf Dummel is very convincing with his genuine and appreciative style. From day one, Ralf Dümmel brightened up the surroundings, thanks to his enthusiasm for business and for new products. He has a unique sense for trends and products; he can market them with more success than hardly anyone else. He proudly claims that there hardly is any household without a “DS product” in Germany. Dümmel is often on the road for professional reasons, and when he sees that a customer adds a DS product in their shopping cart, he feels the same tingle of joy after 28 years that he felt in the early days. The 400 employees are Dümmels’s most important asset. They actively take part in the company, invest themselves in it, and help it develop further. Dummel is very proud that the DS products are the result of such a varied cast of people and skill sets. These are people with different personalities and talents that complement each other in a cooperation shaping always innovative business and product ideas.

Mandeep Singh currently works as an Angel Investor and Advisor for Multiple Startups. He previously worked at Accel as a Starter and Scout. Mandeep Singh attended the University of Cambridge.

Tom Blomfield is the CEO of Monzo, a new kind of bank, designed for smartphones. Tom previously founded GoCardless, a fintech startup that has gone on to raise $25m. In 2013, he was nominated as one of the Top 5 Entrepreneurs Under 30 by the European Commission. He gives talks regularly about the future of banking and fintech.

Mattias Weinhandl

Judith Williams

Nadav Ben-Chanoch - Partner @ Pareto Holdings

Rolf Schromgens - Co-Founder @ leadership.sprouts

Jonathan Lenson

Gabbi Cahane - Partner @ Stride.VC

Dhiraj Mukherjee is an experienced digital business executive and entrepreneur with a proven track record in both corporate and start-up environments.Recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe’s Top 50 technology entrepreneurs in 2015, he was previously Head of Banking Innovation at Virgin Money. In 2000, Dhiraj co-founded ShazamEntertainment, the world’s first mobile phone-based music recognition service (sold to Apple for a reported $400M). Over the course of his career, he has held senior roles in media & entertainment, consulting and the charity sector. Dhiraj is also an active angel investor, and speaks regularly at conferences on innovation and entrepreneurship.

Catherine is an investor, board director and executive coach. She is based in London and works globally.She is an experienced international C-suite executive with a strong track record in the People, DE&I and ESG fields. Together with Jonathan Lenson. she invests in exceptional early-stage tech companies across the UK, US and Israel, andbrings in-depth previous board experience as both an executive and non-executive director.She writes and speaks on topics including the future of work, corporate culture and purpose, diversity and inclusion, and work/life integration.As part of her coaching practice, she is the first UK-based facilitator to be certified in the Fair Play method. Catherine was the first female Managing Partner appointed at SoftBank Investment Advisers, the world’s largest technology investment firm with $175 billion under management in the two SoftBank Vision Funds and SoftBank Latin America Funds. As the founding Chief People Officer for five years (2017-2022), she led the HR, ESG and Real Estate teams globally.An experienced and trusted executive coach at C-suite level, she worked with companies within the Vision Fund portfolio on leadership, talent, DE&I, ESG, and operating challenges, including as a Board Director.Catherine built SBIA’s ESG practice and designed its strategy for Social Impact. She led SoftBank’s early stage venture funds focused on diverse founders, including the $100m+ SB Opportunity Fund (US) and Emerge (EMEA), including as an Investment Committee member.Catherine is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (Class of 2021) and a founding member of Sustainability30 (which brings together Chief Sustainability Officers from 30 of the world’s leading companies).She spent the formative years of her career at UBS AG, Switzerland’s leading financial services firm, and is proud to have progressed from intern to Managing Director in the same firm. In her final role there, she led Reward for UBS across the UK and EMEA region.

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Nils Glagau

Mustafa Vardalı is the CMO & Founder at Teknasyon.

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Christer Arvidsson

Wei Guo, the founding partner of UpHonest Capital, is an active angel investor in Silicon Valley, focusing on early-stage cross-sector investments. He founded Wei Fund in 2015 and UpHonest Capital Fund I in 2016, invested in well-known companies such as Hims&Hers(NYSE: HIMS), Vicarious Surgical(NYSE: RBOT), Knightscope (NASDAQ: KSCP), Checkr,Lime, Boom, Rescale, Dialpad and more. Since 2015, he has invested in over 400 Silicon Valley startups, over 76 companies with valuations greater than 100 million USD, and 23 portfolio companies that have successfully exited.

Lars-Erik Skjutare is the Chief Executive Officer at Bergendahls. Lars-Erik Skjutare attended IMD.

Catherine is an investor, board director and executive coach. She is based in London and works globally.She is an experienced international C-suite executive with a strong track record in the People, DE&I and ESG fields. Together with Jonathan Lenson. she invests in exceptional early-stage tech companies across the UK, US and Israel, andbrings in-depth previous board experience as both an executive and non-executive director.She writes and speaks on topics including the future of work, corporate culture and purpose, diversity and inclusion, and work/life integration.As part of her coaching practice, she is the first UK-based facilitator to be certified in the Fair Play method. Catherine was the first female Managing Partner appointed at SoftBank Investment Advisers, the world’s largest technology investment firm with $175 billion under management in the two SoftBank Vision Funds and SoftBank Latin America Funds. As the founding Chief People Officer for five years (2017-2022), she led the HR, ESG and Real Estate teams globally.An experienced and trusted executive coach at C-suite level, she worked with companies within the Vision Fund portfolio on leadership, talent, DE&I, ESG, and operating challenges, including as a Board Director.Catherine built SBIA’s ESG practice and designed its strategy for Social Impact. She led SoftBank’s early stage venture funds focused on diverse founders, including the $100m+ SB Opportunity Fund (US) and Emerge (EMEA), including as an Investment Committee member.Catherine is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum (Class of 2021) and a founding member of Sustainability30 (which brings together Chief Sustainability Officers from 30 of the world’s leading companies).She spent the formative years of her career at UBS AG, Switzerland’s leading financial services firm, and is proud to have progressed from intern to Managing Director in the same firm. In her final role there, she led Reward for UBS across the UK and EMEA region.

Eduardo Ronzano is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kolet. He previously worked at The Bradery as a Pre-Seed Investor. Eduardo Ronzano attended ESCP Business School.

Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.

Christian Dargnat

Martin Tajur is the co-founder of Pipedrive.

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

I believe in business can be a force of good. That’s why I invest in solutions for our world‘s most pressing issues. Passionate about human centred software, food tech, circularity, and mental positivity. I was part Zalando's leadership team pre-IPO until 2019, several years in McKinsey in consumer industries, and am active as angel investorand mentor for early stage teams at TechStars and beyond.

Peter is a serial entrepreneur with a distinguished career in the leisure industry. Earlier ventures include the formation of Langdale Group Plc which sold for £29m in 1989 to Scottish & Newcastle. He set up nightclub company Luminar, which completed a successful IPO in 1998, food/pub chain Countrystyle Inns which sold in 1995 for an IRRof 35% and a Venture Capital Fund with Lazard Ventures. In 2000 Peter founded Golden Tulip Hotels, a budget hotel group, sold to Whitbread in 2008. In 2015 Peter was named a winner in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards and overall winner for the North of England.Peter is now involved with helping young entrepreneurs to develop their businesses.

Ebru Dorman

Hubert Patricot - Executive Vice President and President, European Group @ Coca-Cola Enterprises

Dagmar Wöhrl

At 31, Sachin Dev Duggal is an innovator, serial entrepreneur, and an advocate of enterprise that touches lives and benefits the world at large.He is the co-founder of shoto – a new startup that lets find unseen photos from your friends when you were together using location, your phonebook, and an algorithm that understands the nature of the momentand who was there.Sachin was the co-founder of nivio (which he exited in 2012 after taking it to a $100m valuation), the company that first made Windows available over the Internet. He sits on the board of Planet M (a large Indian retail chain), Chairs his original technology solutions company SD 2 Labs, and is an advisor to Eros Digital; the digital arm of Bollywood’ premiere distribution company. Sachin’s profile is an unusual mix of experiences & serendipity. He was an entrepreneur at 15, worked for the United Nations and helped write the declaration of youth rights before he completed his first degree from Imperial College. Sachin has also built a successful software business (www.sd2labs.com) and was a young investment-banker (at Deutsche Bank) building complex trading models at 17. The software company continues to grow year on year and now has just over 100 people in India and the US.Sachin started his public foray very early in life, at the age of 12 he went on stage in front of 1200 people and the world media to demand something be done about the state of the environment. He began his professional career at the age of 15, when he formed SMX Corporation (now sd2labs) along with his best friend. In August 2004, Sachin co-founded nivio with a view to disrupt the old compute model; and got seed funding from two of his bosses! Fast forward to 4 years later, nivio was selected as a technology pioneer at the World Economic Forum in January, 2009. Sachin made history in being the youngest attendees at the WEF in Davos. He left nivio in 2012 to start on a new idea having put together a world-class team to grow the business.Sachin’s an avid and recent believer of Vipassana and that life is a zero-sum game – so its essential to spend our time giving; this is one of the main reasons he has put aside stock in all major businesses he works in with Saurabh to their foundation and other notable charities such as Keep a Child Alive – the charity that Sachin & Saurabh’s foundation worked with to raise 4m USD for children in India and South Africa with Aids in 2011.Sachin’s other accolades include the MIT TR35 Indian Innovator of the Year, the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Leader of Tomorrow, Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, the BBC Young Asian achiever of the Year and UNEP Global 500 Youth Award. Sachin is also the Youth Leader of the National Computer and Electronics Committee of the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India. But the real desire and mission has always been on the dream of 100x50 (100m kids educated in 50 years) through their Sachin & Saurabh Foundation, a not-for-profit set up to deliver that dream.Sachin Dev Dugal is currently the Chief Wizard at Builder.

Matthias Hilpert - CEO @ MH2 Capital

Marc Valerius de Beffort

Hans Raffauf is the co-founder of Clue. He is a technology and media entrepreneur from Berlin and, in addition to co-founding Clue, he is the co-founder of hy!, a creative event series that supports and connects Europe’s startup scene. Other founding projects include the hardware.co, betapitch, and the Berlin Tech Meetup.

Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He is an entrepreneur and early-stage investor.Previously, he lead Facebook's emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card.Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale.Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market.Lee holds an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan, and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area.Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant and financial investor. He was born on May 8, 1959 in Bremen and grew up in Hildesheim. After his graduation in 1978 Maschmeyer completed military service before he began to study medicine in Hannover. To finance his studies, he worked part-time in sales of investment advice to it in 1982completely dedicated financial advice. More about Carsten Masch Meyers consultant. In 1988 Carsten Maschmeyer to AWD financial group, which was successfully launched on the stock market in 2000 and rise to the MDAX and expanded in 11 countries. Was sold in 2007 Carsten Maschmeyer all his shares in the company at the insurance group Swiss Life, who renamed the AWD in AWD Holding. Maschmeyer has today different occupational focuses, inter alia, as entrepreneur, investor and consultant. His experience Carsten Maschmeyer a sought-after speaker on the subject of success. Motivated by the desire expressed by many listeners to learn more about his secret of success, Carsten Maschmeyer published in the spring of 2012 his book "Self Made - performance live richly". In it he describes the basis of his own exciting path and the celebrities strategies for professional, financial and personal success.

Stephane joined Flagship Ventures in 2013 and focuses on providing strategic counsel and support to portfolio companies. He is President and Founding Chief Executive Officer of Moderna Therapeutics, a Flagship VentureLabs - founded company. He is also executive chairman of the board for portfolio company BG Medicine, Inc.Stephane was previouslyCEO of bioMerieux, a world leader in the diagnostics industry. During his five years leading the company, he accelerated the company's sales growth rate, enhanced its position as a global leader in clinical microbiology and re-accelerated its immunoassay franchise by focusing on high medical value biomarkers. During that time, the company's market capitalization nearly doubled despite the financial crisis. Prior to his time at bioMerieux, Stephane was Managing Director of Eli Lilly in Belgium and Executive Director of Global Manufacturing Strategy and Supply Chain at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis.He holds a Master of Engineering from Ecole Central Paris, a Master of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Stéphane was elected a 2009 Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum. He was elected best CEO for Investor Relations in France in 2009 and was ranked #1 CEO in the Biotechnology sector according to the 2011 Thomson Reuters Pan European EXTEL Study.

business angel // entrepreneur // founder lieferando.de // boardmember booksy.com

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

Jean-Charles Samuelian is a French entrepreneur. He is the co-founder & CEO of Alan. Alan mission is to make it easy for people to be in great health. Alan is the first new independent insurance licensed in France since 1986 by the French Prudential Supervisory Authority (ACPR) and have raised more than €35m with leading investors such asIndex Ventures, CNP, Partech and Portage since the creation in 2016.At Alan, we believe that being in good health is a basic need. Because it is a personal and professional challenge, it should be super simple and user-friendly. We challenge the status quo by crafting beautifully designed tools that empower our users to live better and healthier, with minimal effort.Prior to that, he cofounded Expliseat, which has revolutionized aircraft seating for economy class through new technologies, now flying on several airlines all over the world.He programs since he is 12. Samuelian has received several prizes including French Industry Medal awarded by French Industry Minister and 2 Montgolfier Prices from French "Society for the Encouragement of National Industry. Samuelian holds a MSc in Engineering from Ecole des Ponts Paristech, a MBA from Collège des Ingénieurs and is a member of the French Institute of Actuaries.

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

Jean is a Plastic Surgeon with an honours degree in Surgical Simulation from Imperial College London.When not in the lab he can usually be found running along the Thames, or at one of many technology Meetups around London.

Michalis Petrondas

Previously cofounder @ Keldoc - currently early stage investor & VP @ Entrepreneur First Paris