Top 50 Wine And Spirits Angel Investors in Europe in December 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Wine and spirits startups based in Europe. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Wine and spirits companies from Europe. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Wine And Spirits Angel Investors in Europe in December 2024
Investor | Wine And Spirits Europe investments |
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Alexander Edward Chesterman | 2 |
Brett Akker | 1 |
Jon Reynolds | 1 |
Heinz-Werner Nienstedt | 1 |
Cliff Sirlin | 1 |
Andreas Etten | 1 |
Stefano di Blasi | 1 |
David Golding | 1 |
Jonathan Warburton | 1 |
Federico Cerelli | 1 |
Simon Gunning | 1 |
James Matthews | 1 |
Sylvain Zimmer | 1 |
Benjamin Darnault | 1 |
Somdip Dey | 1 |
Serena Cordero | 1 |
Chris Paul | 1 |
John Magnier | 1 |
Jad Benabdelkhalek | 1 |
Matteo de Brabant | 1 |
Reto Graf | 1 |
Hubert Patricot | 1 |
Stephen Fitzpatrick | 1 |
Nigel Wray | 1 |
Quentin Griffiths | 1 |
Nick Penny | 1 |
Euan Lonmon | 1 |
Milo Mitchum | 1 |
Jim Mellon | 1 |
James Murphy | 1 |
Alex Ikonn | 1 |
Mauricio Lorca | 1 |
Andy Appelbaum | 1 |
Stefano Saccardi | 1 |
Simon Blake OBE CCMI | 1 |
John McManus | 1 |
Melanie Pfister | 1 |
Ursula Burns | 1 |
Fraser T. Smith | 1 |
Michal Berski | 1 |
Tomas Diago | 1 |
Connie Schwaderer | 1 |
Sam Plunkett | 1 |
Andrea Pederzolli | 1 |
Jonathan Goodwin | 1 |
Maurizio di Robilant | 1 |
Ann Elliott | 1 |
Damien Byrne | 1 |
Amelia Aragon | 1 |
Christian Mruck | 1 |
Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, France
Portfolio highlights
- Zefir — Zefir aims to expand the realm of possibilities for millions of European homeowners. We make home-selling simpler, faster and more certain by buying the property directly from you. Selling a home is now just a few clicks away.
- Pharmacierge — Pharmacierge is the digital e-prescribing service chosen by private clinicians to deliver medication to their patients throughout the UK and worldwide. Clinicians create and transfer e-prescriptions to our pharmacy near London's Harley Street, for free delivery to their patients either the same day or next weekday
- Vyne Technologies — Vyne Technologies is the specialist account-to-account payments platform.
Brett Akker is a Non-Executive Director at Much Better Adventures.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Marketplace, E-Commerce
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Fy! — Fy is an e-commerce company that builds a mobile marketplace to shop online. It uses a combination of social content, machine learning, and a deep understanding of its products and suppliers to create a personalized experience for each shopper using the site and app. Fy was launched in 2017 driven by a mission to make the world of designdiscoverable, affordable, and instantly accessible through social commerce.
- Chargifi — Chargifi empowers synchronous work, orchestrating people and spaces to get the best work done, wherever, whenever and with whoever they choose. We enable the realtime and dynamic orchestration of people and spaces so companies can adopt flexible working at scale. Where, when and who work is done with is now fully intentional, and this is at theheart of workplace experience.
- Much Better Adventures — Do wild things! Join 200+ solo-friendly, expert-led, outdoor adventures with Much Better Adventures.
Jon Reynolds is the Co-Founder and CEO at SwiftKey. He attended University of Cambridge during 2004 - 2007.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Food Delivery, Supply Chain Management
- Series A, Seed, Series C
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Onfido — Onfido digitally proves a user’s real identity using AI technology, by verifying their photo ID and comparing it to their facial biometrics. It means users and businesses can verify their online identities anywhere and anytime, without compromising on experience, inclusion, privacy or security. Onfido powers over 1,500 fintech, banking, andmarketplace clients globally—helping them onboard more users while reducing risk. Identity underpins all transactions, and over the coming years, access to everything will be based on every user's ability to easily and securely prove their legal identity. This will change how we think of access—everything from opening a bank account to self-checking-in to a hotel, and ultimately voting.
- Provenance — Provenance is a software solution for sustainability communications and supply chain transparency.
- Hinge Health — We are the leading digital clinic for back, joint, and muscle pain. Explore how our online care solutions go beyond traditional physical therapy to provide lasting pain relief.
Heinz-Werner Nienstedt - Chairman @ Nienstedt
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Rental, Travel
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- VRdirect — VRdirect is the Virtual Reality platform that enables enterprises to create use case-driven VR solutions that truly support real-life business processes and deliver concrete business value.
- Vicampo — Vicampo GmbH engages in online sale of wine. The company is based in Mainz, Germany.Vicampo operates a marketplace for wines that allows users to buy directly from wineries. The company has selected over 25,000 experienced and emerging winemakers from Germany who ship their wines directly to customers. The quality of wines is tested not only by thecompany’s experts but also by the customers who are asked to reviewproducts.
- Zizoo — Zizoo is a leading boat holiday platform. Zizoo is digitalising and transforming the boat rental industry (worth an estimated €33 billion), which is 10 years behind any other travel sector. They are building a global digital booking platform and website connecting suppliers (charter companies) to travelers worldwide, similar to “Booking.com forBoats”. Zizoo also provides charter companies with a powerful inventory management tool and business intelligence.They are making boat holidays affordable and accessible to everyone (bookings starts from €20 a day).Zizoo is a boat rental marketplace where you can select a boat in a location of your choice and book it as easily as a hotel room. They are not an agent; they simply connect holidayers with charters for an amazing experience on the sea. No booking fees, a simple online booking process, real time availabilities, a professional service – without the additional hassle of contacting several companies.
Cliff Sirlin is a career entrepreneur who has founded and operates a portfolio of high growth businesses. Cliff is also an active Angel Investor. Cliff received his law degree from New York University School of Law. While at NYU, Cliff also studied at the Stern School of Business. He earned his BA in History from Colgate University. Cliff’saccomplishments have been profiled by CNBC; Inc. Magazine; Success Magazine; and Crain’s Business.Cliff also is a frequent lecturer at the NYU Stern School of Business.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Litographs — Litographs creates art from literature. We design t-shirts, scarves, tote bags, and posters from the text of classic books.
- Greatist — Greatist | Health and Fitness News, Tips, Recipes, and Exercises
- Flyby Robotics — Flyby Robotics is a developer and operator of autonomous drone delivery systems. the fleet of lightweight unmanned aerial vehicles that easily integrate with merchant's native order systems
Andreas Etten - Founding Partner @ 10x Group
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Investment focus
- Energy, E-Commerce, Trading Platform
- Seed
- Germany
Portfolio highlights
- enmacc — enmacc, the OTC energy trading platform, offers innovative solutions for efficient trading of energy commodities in today's dynamic market.
- NAVINUM — NAVINUM provides e-commerce services of sell wine and beverages. They lead to the best wines by combining the offers of their shop partners with editorial recommendations and soon the personal taste profile of their users.
Stefano di Blasi
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Investment focus
- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
David Golding
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Investment focus
- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Jonathan Warburton
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Investment focus
- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Federico Cerelli
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Investment focus
- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Simon Gunning is the CEO of Campaign Against Living Miserably.
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Investment focus
- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
James Matthews is the CEO at Eden Rock Group.
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Investment focus
- Organic, Wine And Spirits
- Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Goldling Drinks — Goldling Drinks is a organic canned spirit startup offers natural flavour vodkas.
Sylvain is a French software developer turned entrepreneur, conference organizer and angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- France, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- GOURMEY — We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
- Waldo — The codeless way to quickly build a comprehensive test suite for teams who don't compromise on speed and quality.
- TOTEM — A Totem is a place of sharing and conviviality in your office. This is an opportunity for your colleagues to get to know each other better, celebrate victories and defeats together, and build a solid culture.
Benjamin Darnault
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Investment focus
- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Somdip Dey, FRSA, also professionally known as InteliDey, is an Embedded Artificial Intelligence scientist, engineer, entrepreneur, AI art & music creator and TED speaker. Dey is the CEO of Nosh Technologies. He was named an MIT Innovator Under 35 Europe and a World IP Review Leader for his contributions to developing numerous embeddedartificial
intelligence to fight food waste. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA).Born on December 13, 1990, in Kolkata, India, Somdip Dey is the only child of a painter mother, Soma Dey, and a commercial artist father, Sudip Dey. Dey attended South Point High School in Kolkata, India and went to study bachelor's in Computer Science at St. Xavier's College, Kolkata, where he graduated with a first-class degree. Throughout his schooling, Dey had a passion for visual arts and theatre.After graduating with a Computer Science degree Dey pursued a career of an engineer, a scientist and an entrepreneur. In 2012, Dey invented a digital QR authentication system that was adopted by institutes around the world to stop the generation of fake degree certificates. In 2013, he moved to the U.K. to pursue master's study and while pursuing his MSc at the University of Manchester in 2014, his parents had a car accident that made him the family's sole breadwinner. Sending money to his family to support them left Somdip with an empty bank account and he was left to collect food waste from dumpsters. This led him to co-found Codeepy, a start-up committed to co-developing the world's first crowd food-sharing platform. It won the 3Scale API Award at the Koding's 2014 Global Hackathon & inspired entrepreneurs to develop similar solutions. In 2020, Dey co-founded Nosh Technologies, which developed an AI-powered food management app to reduce food waste in the household, and Dey also assumed the role of CEO of the company. Dey is also a TEDx speaker.In regard to visual arts and theatre, Dey made his first debut in the documentary, "Unity" (2020), talking about his experience of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dey produces music using AI algorithms and releases them under the stagename InteliDey.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Apps, Brewing
- Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Carwow — Carwow brings you the best offers from thousands of trusted partners so you can buy or sell your car in just a few clicks. No haggling and no fees.
- Milbotix — Revolutionising Dementia Care with SmartSocks
- Dishpatch — Dispatch is a finish-at-home meal kit platform that claims to bring the best of London’s ‘world-beating’ food scene to homes across the UK
Serena Cordero
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Investment focus
- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Christopher Emmanuel Paul is an American professional basketball player for the Oklahoma City Thunder of the National Basketball Association.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Sports, Health Care
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, France, Portugal
Portfolio highlights
- Scout - Make Money Moves — Scout is the financial wellness platform for student athletes in the new NIL era. We empower athletes to make better financial decisions with live financial education sessions and personalized, tech-enabled service.
- Buoy — Zero sugar liquid electrolytes and ionic trace minerals that blend with any beverage, even alcohol and coffee. No sugar, no stevia, no dextrose, no flavorings and no artificial ingredients. Gluten and major allergen free. Vegan and non-GMO.
- Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.
John Magnier is Ireland's leading thoroughbred stud owner and has extensive business interests outside the horse-breeding industry.
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Investment focus
- Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
Jad Benabdelkhalek - General Partner @ Golden Record Ventures
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Investment focus
- Winery, FinTech, Payments
- Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
- Orbital — We bridge the gap between traditional and crypto financial solutions, providing a regulated, secure and frictionless experience for global businesses.
Matteo de Brabant is Founder and Chairman at Jakala Group. He is the CEO of the company since 2000.
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Investment focus
- News, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Italy, France
Portfolio highlights
- faire.ai — We enable banks and financial institutions to provide instant lending services leveraging open banking and Artificial Intelligence
- Futura — Futura makes high quality education accessible to everyone. Our AI-based platform uses Deep Learning to optimize your study time and test scores by learning from your past mistakes and targeting weak points with extra attention. We completely personalize learning, using a data-driven approach and modular classes that adapt to students’ individualneeds.
- We Are Emma — We Are Emma is a provider of salon amenities and products meant to promote healthy hair. It offers services like hair spas and products manufactured from natural resources
Reto Graf - Co-Founder and Managing Director @ EAT.ch
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Travel, Tourism
- Seed
- France, Switzerland
Portfolio highlights
- Somm'it — Restaurant profits are low. Somm’It thinks beverages are the main driver for profit within restaurants, but are not leveraged enough because of management complexity, lack of tools, skills, and expertise.Somm’It is the automated sommelier for every restaurant. Restaurants can also optimize the management of beverages through data intelligence,easy stock management, dynamic purchasing, and reliable, in real-time management of the wine lists.
- TrekkSoft — The leading online booking solution for day tour companies. Use a centralised booking system that connects your online and offline sales channels to simplify back-end booking management.
Hubert Patricot - Executive Vice President and President, European Group @ Coca-Cola Enterprises
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Fashion, Fitness
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- France
Portfolio highlights
- Kipli — Re-think sleep, naturally. Kipli is a luxury natural mattress company operating exclusively online. Our 100% natural latex mattress and its unique conception give you a great comfort and perfect natural nights. Kipli mattresses are handcrafted in Italy to create the best natural mattress possible. And because of our low overhead, we are able tooffer high-quality luxury natural mattresses for about twice less expensive than you'd pay anywhere else.
- Feed. — Feed. is a French foodtech that designs nutritionally perfect meals, in formats suitable for active people. It is developed by a team of dieticians-nutritionists, agri-food engineers and chefs, the recipes contain natural ingredients that provide 100% of the necessary contributions of a balanced meal.
- Les Miraculeux — Les Miraculeux is specializing in food supplements in the form of vitamin-enriched fruit gummies.
Stephen Fitzpatrick is founder and CEO of Vertical Aerospace and OVO Energy.
Recognising the potential of EVTOLs to transform air travel, Fitzpatrick resolved to bring together the best technologies from aviation, energy and automobile industries. Today, the company is closing in on its mission of decarbonising flight.A serial entrepreneur,Stephen Fitzpatrick believes in the power of human ingenuity, directing his attention to forming businesses that solve the world’s biggest problems.In 2009 he founded OVO Energy, overseeing its growth to the biggest independent provider of power in the UK, offering customers energy that is cheaper, cleaner and simpler than rivals.Stephen Fitzpatrick’s expansive experience, as founder of an energy company and former owner of F1 team, Manor Racing, led to his setting up Vertical Aerospace. In 2021 the company announced conditional pre-orders for 1,350 aircraft from American Airlines, Avolon, Virgin Atlantic, Marubeni Corp, Iberojet and Bristow Group for an estimated $5.4bn. In December of that year, Vertical Aerospace listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Today the company is poised to launch the most advanced aircraft of its type ever designed, the VX4, with test flights expected to run in 2022.
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Investment focus
- Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
Nigel Wray is a highly successful entrepreneur, and has been a shareholder in several companies amongst others, Domino's Pizza, Carlton Communications and Singer & Friedlander. He also has a strong commercial background built in a range of business sectors.Saracens does a lot of excellent work in its local, north London community.Nigel still calls the area home, too - having attended Mill Hill School, he now lives in Totteridge.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Fitness, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Glassette — Discover and collect beautiful, curated homeware from the best brands in the UK. Shop thoughtfully, live joyfully.
- Get A Drip — Get A Drip offers IV drips, booster shots and Longevity therapies. IV Drips are administered by medical staff, GMC registered Doctors and NMC registered Nurses.
- Stubben Edge — Financial services for a new generation. Sign up free to sell better financial products, cheaper, faster and to more people with Flightdeck
Quentin Griffiths is the Co-Founder and MD of ACHICA.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Internet, GreenTech
- Series A, Seed
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- OLIO — Let's not waste our wonderful world. Connect with your neighbours to give away food & other household items, plus lend & borrow, for free.
- Farmdrop — The UK's first fully certified organic supermarket, Planet Organic offers 1000s of products for delivery across the UK. From food and drink to health and beauty, we think carefully about everything we sell so you don't have to.
Project Lead
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Investment focus
- Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer
- Angel
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- The Original Experience — In our unique beer exhibition, you can experience the story of beer from its history to the present, visit the taproom school, or enjoy dinner with a beer sommelier.
Long years at the helm of transport and tourism companies, (Corsica Ferries, Nouvelles Frontiéres Reseau, Stradeblu) Deep insight in european cultures and languages, have found interest and pleasure in founding, mentoring and sponsoring start-up businesses in very diverse fields.Chairman of Restopolis , sold to La Fourchette, Tripadvisor inoctober 2014, Investor in Wineverse and Checkbonus, founder of THE GIRA, travel and communication, Founder of Proteam, CEO of Pneusmart BV.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, B2C, Retail
- Angel, Seed
- Italy, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Pneusmart — Pneusmart is a pan-european tyre retailer. It has offices in the Netherlands, Germany and Italy and is growing fast in all markets. Pneusmart provides an innovative solution to source tyres for both cars, vans and motorcycles. It provides a full service experience to consumers, delivering tyres to stations in its vast fitting network to ensure asmooth customer experience. The company is expanding fast into a complete car service solution.
- Wineverse — Siamo una enoteca dedicata alla vendita online di vino pregiato. Offriamo oltre 350 vini italiani selezionati da Luca Martini, miglior sommelier del mondo 2013.
- restOpolis — With Restopolis book your table at a restaurant online free and you have access to a series of promotions that allow you to eat spending up to 70% less.
Milo Mitchum is a Los Angeles-based British music manager and Partner at Three Six Zero, an entertainment company responsible for selling tens of millions of records Worldwide, and guiding some of music’s biggest stars. Milo’s career in management, promotion, and as a record label executive, has given him an intricate understanding of today’sentertainment landscape at the highest level. He is known for his entrepreneurial approach to artist management, and has a client roster of some of the industry's most important cultural icons.
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Investment focus
- Gaming, Winery, Online Games
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- France, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rumor Rose — Rumor Rose offers premium rosé produced and bottled in Flassans-sur-Issole, the heart of the South of France Provence Region. It blends delicate citrus and fruit aromas with a well-rounded crisp and dry finish, suited for celebrations.
- Genpop Interactive — Genpop Interactive is a global consortium of top-tier software engineers, game designers, artists, and competitive gamers working together to create an original next-generation team shooter.
Jim Mellon is an international investor with interests in several industries. After leaving Oxford, where he studied PPE, (Philosophy, Politics and Economics) he worked in Asia and the United States for two fund management companies, GT and Thornton, before establishing his own business in 1991. His business operations include two components, alisted fund management company called Charlemagne Capital, and an Asian mining group, Regent Pacific.In addition, Mr. Mellon is Co-Chairman of West African Minerals Corporation and Regent Pacific Group. He is on the board of a number of public quoted companies, including Brazilian Gold Corporation, Charlemagne Capital Limited, Manx Financial Group, Plethora Solutions, Polo Resources, Port Erin Biophara Investments Limited, and the Speymill plc. He is the life tenant of a trust which owns the Burnbrae Group, which has substantial assets in the biotechnology, financial services, property, mining and leisure sectors. Mr. Mellon spends most of his time working on startup ideas and investing. His book, “Wake Up!” was published in 2005; his second book "10 Investments for the Ten Years Ahead" was published in 2008. In 2012, he co-wrote "Cracking the Code" which focuses on the biotechnology sector and how to profit from it. Mr. Mellon lives in the Isle of Man, Brussels and Ibiza and is an honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Health Care, Biopharma
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Amy — Amy collects and analyzes information from all over the web and provides actionable insights about your leads, prospects and clients, all in one click.
- Monaco Foundry — We are a team of Serial Entrepreneurs, former Senior Government Advisors and Fortune 500 Executives. A global venture accelerator that invests in early to mid-stage companies and their growth through a unique sweat equity model.
- The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
James Murphy is the Founder/CEO at New Commercial Arts.
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Investment focus
- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Alex Ikonn is the Co-Founder of Intelligent Change. He previously worked at Luxy Hair as a Co-founder. Alex Ikonn attended York University.
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Investment focus
- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
- Lunata Beauty —
Mauricio Lorca
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Investment focus
- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Andy Appelbaum is a Managing Partner at RiverPark Ventures. Andy previously worked at Co-Founder at Managing Partner as a AC Angel Fund. He attended New York University School of Law and Binghamton University.Andy is a career entrepreneur who has founded a portfolio of high growth businesses in industries ranging from Dry Cleaning to FoodDelivery to Energy. Andy began his career as an attorney for Latham & Watkins. He received his law degree from New York University School of Law and graduated summa cum laude from SUNY Binghamton. Andy is also an active Angel Investor and a member of New York Angels.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Spain
Portfolio highlights
- Tag (Acquired) — Share your journey & travel through the eyes of your closest friends, favorite celebrities, athletes, and DJs. Tag was acquired by Cyber Dust in September 2015.
- WayBetter — WayBetter is disrupting the wellness category by turning the hard work of better health into fun, social games. Founded in 2011, WayBetter’s mission is to grow a global community where people inspire each other and build better habits in order to get fit, lose weight, and improve their mindset. By focusing on motivation, behavior change, anddeveloping positive habits, WayBetter offers its members a pathway to real, lasting results. The company was awarded a $1 million NIH grant to develop a smoking cessation game with researchers at Brown University. More than 1.2 million people have played in a WayBetter game, and we’re just getting started.
- Mouth Foods — Mouth Foods is an online destination for small-batch foods. It features products such as beverages, condiments, candy, snacks, spreads, and other foods from hundreds of talented makers around the United States. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, New York.
Stefano Saccardi is managing director at Gruppo Campari. He is also a board member of the company.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- Italy
Portfolio highlights
- Tannico — Tannin is a project created by a team of web experts with a common passion for good wine. Every day we select carefully the best Italian and foreign cellars, and each bottle is tasted by our team of winemakers. If Tannico was a wine would have an attractive bouquet and a mixed blend, with great adaptability while maintaining its recognisability.
Simon Blake OBE CCMI is the Chief Executive Officer of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) England.
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Investment focus
- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
John McManus is the Marketing Director at HUX.
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Investment focus
- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Melanie Pfister
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Investment focus
- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Ursula Burns is a Senior Advisor at Teneo Holdings. She is also Chairman of the Board at VEON, and director of Uber, American Express, ExxonMobil and Nestlé. She will join Diageo’s board in April 2018.Burns was previously the Chairman of the Board of the Xerox Corporation from 2010 to 2017 and Chief Executive Officer from 2009 to 2016.Shejoined Xerox as an intern in 1980 and during her career she held leadership posts spanning corporate services, manufacturing and product development. She was named president in 2007. During her tenure as chief executive officer, she helped the company transform from a global leader in document technology to the world’s most diversified business services company serving enterprises and governments of all sizes. Shortly after being named CEO in 2009, she spearheaded the largest acquisition in Xerox history, the $6.4 billion purchase of Affiliated Computer Services.In 2016, Burns led Xerox through a successful separation into two independent, publicly traded companies – Xerox Corporation, which is comprised of the company’s Document Technology and Document Outsourcing businesses, and Conduent Incorporated, a business process services company. The separation of the two businesses enhanced their competitive positions and created significant value creation opportunities.Burns, who regularly appears on Fortune’s and Forbes’ lists of the world’s most powerful women, is now a Senior Advisor to global CEO advisory firm Teneo. She is a board director of Uber, American Express, ExxonMobil, and Nestlé, and the chairman of VEON. She will join the board of Diageo in April 2018. U.S. President Barack Obama appointed her to help lead the White House national program on Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) from 2009-2016, and she served as chair of the President’s Export Council from 2015-2016 after service as vice chair 2010-2015.She also provides leadership counsel to several other community and non-profit organizations, including the Ford Foundation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Corporation, Cornell Tech Board of Overseers, the New York City Ballet, and the Mayo Clinic. Burns is a member of the National Academy of Engineers and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Burns holds a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in mechanical engineering from Polytechnic Institute of New York University.
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- Software, SaaS, Events
- Series A, Pre-Seed
- India, United States, United Kingdom
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- CleanCo — Why Clean? A more positive approach to non-alcoholic drinks. It makes it easier to order at the bar and more sense for people who drink less, or not at all as part of a cleaner lifestyle.
- Goodera — Engage employees for social impact with Goodera. We curate, plan, and manage engaging volunteering programs for 10M+ employees.
- Rapport — The smart solution for building superhuman teams. Rapport distills decades of research on high performing teams down to a few smart, simple steps that integrate seamlessly into your workflow.
Fraser T. Smith is an English record producer, songwriter and musician.
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- Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Funding Round
- United Kingdom
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- The Duppy Share — The Duppy Share Caribbean Rum is the best rum for cocktails, mixed drinks and rum gifts. Try all our rum recipes, from rum and ginger to dark rum punch.
Michal Berski is the CEO & Founder of Curlsmith.He Previously worked at L'Oréal as the Senior Manager.
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Tomas Diago - Founder & CEO @ Danel Capital
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- E-Commerce, Apps, Legal
- Seed, Series A
- Spain, United Kingdom
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- Uvinum — Uvinum facilitates the online purchase of wines, beers, spirits, wine accessories and gourmet products. It also publishes descriptions, ratings, consumer reviews, and recommendations of each item it sells.Customers can search for wine and beer based on the type or the country of origin. The wine portfolio includes red, white, sparkling,pinkish, sweet, alcohol-free, bio, generous, and magenta wines.Ale, Craft, Blonde, Strong Ale, Stout, Pilsener, and Ambrée are some of the beer types available in Uvinum. Distillates, accessories, and gourmets are classified by type and brand. The distillates tab has details of Whiskey, Vodka, Rum, Absinthe, Bourbon, Tequila, Brandy, and more. Cups, ice buckets, coolers, decanters, and corkscrews are some of the accessories available. The gourmet tab contains details of jams, tonics, syrups, vinegars, oils, and more. Uvinum also sells gift boxes and packs.Uvinum was launched by Albert Garcia in December 2009 and is operated from Barcelona, Spain.
- Populetic — Populetic is an international legal services company focused on the resolution of claims arising from incidents in the air transport of passengers and luggage.Since its founding in 2014, the company has stood out for its entrepreneurial nature and its international vocation. Their team is composed of specialized lawyers in the field, computerscientists, programmers and translators, all of them with the same identity: specialization, empathy towards the client, technological innovation, independence and ethics. Their mission is to provide quality legal services to resolve The most effective way possible conflicts between their customers and airlines.
- The PayPro — The PayPro is an online tool designed around the needs of professionals and small businesses to make payments in over 30 currencies, avoiding the hidden charges of the banks. By using The PayPro, its users’ small and medium-sized enterprises have access to mid-market rates and many other features that improve their company’s profitability.ThePayPro was launched in 2015 and is based in London, England.
Connie Schwaderer
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Sam Plunkett
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
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- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Andrea Pederzolli - Director @ Mangustarisk
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- Retail, Shopping, E-Commerce
- Angel
- Italy
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- Wineverse — Siamo una enoteca dedicata alla vendita online di vino pregiato. Offriamo oltre 350 vini italiani selezionati da Luca Martini, miglior sommelier del mondo 2013.
Jonathan Goodwin is the Founder, Partner & Head of Merchant Banking of Alvarium & he attended University of Nottingham.
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- E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United Kingdom
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- BridgeU — BridgeU offers world-class university and careers guidance for global secondary schools. Empower your students. Inform your guidance strategy. Improve outcomes.
- Farmdrop — The UK's first fully certified organic supermarket, Planet Organic offers 1000s of products for delivery across the UK. From food and drink to health and beauty, we think carefully about everything we sell so you don't have to.
- MyTutor — MyTutor provides secondary school learners with online access to over 7,000 Russell Group university students, reducing the time, hassle and cost of finding a subject expert locally.Lessons take place in their innovative online lesson space, which allows parents to substitute expensive tutors coming to their house, for live, one-to-one sessionswith young, bright and successful undergraduates. If the pupil forgets something, every session is recorded, so they can play it back after.They also partner with schools and universities to provide larger contracts for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds. School teachers stay up-to-date with the programme through a personalised online dashboard.The company has grown at 3x YoY for the last three years, with 200,000+ bookings and applications from 50,000 tutors. At the same time quality has been maintained, with 70,000+ 5* reviews and every tutor personally interviewed.MyTutor was founded by Robert Grabiner, Bertie Hubbard and James Grant.
Maurizio di Robilant is the president and founder of RobilantAssociati.n He led the company since 1984.
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- E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- Italy
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- Tannico — Tannin is a project created by a team of web experts with a common passion for good wine. Every day we select carefully the best Italian and foreign cellars, and each bottle is tasted by our team of winemakers. If Tannico was a wine would have an attractive bouquet and a mixed blend, with great adaptability while maintaining its recognisability.
Ann Elliott
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Damien Byrne is the Founder at HUX.
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- Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits
- Series A
- United Kingdom
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- Lucky Saint — Heritage Brewing. Modern Drinking. Try Lucky Saint's award-winning alcohol-free beer. Finally rewarding those not drinking with the beer they deserve.
Amelia Aragon
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- Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
- Pre-Seed
- Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- WineSpark — Created by Eamon FitzGerald, formerly of Naked Wines, WineSpark is changing the wine club model, putting you in touch with the best wines in the world.
Christian Mruck
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Investment focus
- Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer
- Angel
- Czech Republic
Portfolio highlights
- The Original Experience — In our unique beer exhibition, you can experience the story of beer from its history to the present, visit the taproom school, or enjoy dinner with a beer sommelier.
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