# Top 50 Wine And Spirits Angel Investors in Europe in June 2026 ## Alexander Chesterman - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services Alex Chesterman is the Co-Founder of Houseful. Alex Chesterman attended the University College London. ## Will Greenwood - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Winery, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Will Greenwood ## Simon Gunning - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits Simon Gunning is the CEO of Campaign Against Living Miserably. ## Connie Schwaderer - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Connie Schwaderer ## Milo Mitchum - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Gaming, Winery, Online Games 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. ## Alex Ikonn - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits Alex Ikonn is the Co-Founder of Intelligent Change. He previously worked at Luxy Hair as a Co-founder. Alex Ikonn attended York University. ## Romain Rafecas - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits Romain Rafecas is a partner at Digital Springboard. ## Heinz-Werner Nienstedt - Type: Angel - Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, Rental, Travel Heinz-Werner Nienstedt - Chairman @ Nienstedt ## John Magnier - Type: Angel - Location: Fermoy, Cork, Ireland - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage John Magnier is Ireland's leading thoroughbred stud owner and has extensive business interests outside the horse-breeding industry. ## Sylvain Zimmer - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Financial Services, SaaS Sylvain is a French software developer turned entrepreneur, conference organizer and angel investor. ## Owen Simonin - Type: Angel - Location: Metz, Lorraine, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Web3, Bitcoin, FinTech Owen Simonin is a French entrepreneur, investor, and influencer specializing in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. He is the founder and CEO of Meria (formerly Just Mining), a leading company in blockchain infrastructure and staking services. Through his YouTube channel "Hasheur," he has played a key role in educating the French-speakingcommunity about crypto and decentralized finance. ## Stephen Fitzpatrick - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage 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. ## Stefano Saccardi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Wine And Spirits Stefano Saccardi is managing director at Gruppo Campari. He is also a board member of the company. ## Jad Benabdelkhalek - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Winery, FinTech, Payments Jad Benabdelkhalek - General Partner @ Golden Record Ventures ## Mattéo Serpolet - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits Mattéo Serpolet is a Content creator & investor. ## Sami Chlagou - Type: Angel - Location: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits Sami Chlagou is a CEO Cross the Ages. ## William Simonin - Type: Angel - Location: Metz, Lorraine, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits William Simonin is the CEO at ViVoka. William Simonin attended University of Kent. ## James Murphy - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits James Murphy is the Founder/CEO at New Commercial Arts. ## Christian Mruck - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer Christian Mruck ## James Matthews - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Organic, Wine And Spirits James Matthews is the CEO at Eden Rock Group. ## Fraser T. Smith - Type: Angel - Location: Taplow, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Fraser T. Smith is an English record producer, songwriter and musician. ## Jonathan Goodwin - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Enterprise Software, Internet Jonathan Goodwin is the Founder, Partner & Head of Merchant Banking of Alvarium & he attended University of Nottingham. ## Hubert Patricot - Type: Angel - Location: Uxbridge, Hillingdon, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Food and Beverage, Fashion, Fitness Hubert Patricot - Executive Vice President and President, European Group @ Coca-Cola Enterprises ## Brett Akker - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, Marketplace Brett Akker is a Non-Executive Director at Much Better Adventures. ## Somdip Dey - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, iOS, Apps 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. ## Amy Wilson - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Equity Crowdfunding, Angel - Focus: Manufacturing, Water, Energy Amy Wilson is the Marketing Consultant and Agency Founder at w digital. ## Michael Kleindl - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Internet Michael Kleindl is the Founder and Managing Partner of Collateral Good. He previously worked at Blue Horizon Ventures as a Co-Founder and Managing Partner. Michael Kleindl attended EBS University of Business and Law. ## Robin Knox - Type: Angel - Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Digital Media Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary. ## Rob Dobson - Type: Angel - Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Business Intelligence, SaaS Rob founded Actix (actix.com) in 1991 and as CEO (1991-2005) grew it to over $50m revenue by 2005. More than 90% of the world’s mobile phone customers have their networks optimized by Actix software and Rob has worked with many of the world’s leading mobile operators and infrastructure vendors. In 2005 he sold a majority stake in the company toPE firm Summit Partners at a $100+m valuation. He has invested in a further 30+ startups and has had five very successful exits (he's not counting failures as they come with the territory). Rob is chairman of Robotical (robotical.io) and DevicePilot.com. He's also the founding chairman of Singletrack.com and a supporter of the unique orchestra SouthbankSinfonia.co.uk. As an inveterate tinkerer in software and hardware, he's fascinated by IoT, 3D printing and the maker movement (as you can probably see from his personal website (robdobson.com). Rob is a Fellow of the IET and has a 1st class honours degree in Electronic Engineering. ## Laurent Flores - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits Laurent Flores is an Associate Professor Of Marketing at Panthéon-Assas University. ## Maxime CHERY - Type: Angel - Location: Auxerre, Bourgogne, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits Maxime CHERY is an individual investor. ## Ian Wright - Type: Angel - Location: Woolwich, Greenwich, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Craft Beer, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Ian Edward Wright MBE is an English television and radio personality and former professional footballer. ## Bertrand Jacquelot - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Information Technology, Food and Beverage Bertrand Jacquelot is the Founding President of Projim. He attended the University of Marne-la-Vallee. ## Jean-Sebastien Robicquet - Type: Angel - Location: Merpins, Poitou-Charentes, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Brewing, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Jean-Sébastien Robicquet, was born on the 20th of September 1966 in Bègles, France. He is a french oenologist, master-distiller and company director. He founded EuroWineGate in 2001 which became Maison Villevert in 2016. ## Ann Elliott - Type: Angel - Location: Great Linford, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits Ann Elliott ## Charlie Carroll - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits Charlie Carroll is Founder at Flat Iron. ## Youssef Gabsi - Type: Angel - Location: Frankfurt, Hessen, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits Youssef Gabsi is a Co-Founder @THE HUB ## Maximilien Peeters - Type: Angel - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Distillery, Food Processing, Wine And Spirits Entrepreneur who has a wide range of interests and has a great added value when it comes to creativity and marketing. ## Marc Menasé - Type: Angel - Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, FinTech, Internet Marc Menasé is a Tech serial entrepreneur and Investor ## Paul Walton - Type: Angel - Location: Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Digital Media Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary. ## Jim Mellon - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Health Care 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. ## Andreas Etten - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Energy, E-Commerce, Trading Platform Andreas Etten - Founding Partner @ 10x Group ## John McManus - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits John McManus is the Marketing Director at HUX. ## Ben Bilboul - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits Ben Bilboul - Chief Executive Officer @ Karmarama ## Nick Penny - Type: Angel - Location: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha, Czech Republic - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Winery, Consumer, Craft Beer Project Lead ## Hugues Trijasse - Type: Angel - Location: Montpellier, Languedoc-Roussillon, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits Hugues Trijasse is a French startupper. ## Laurent Lyothier - Type: Angel - Location: Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Web3, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits Laurent Lyothier is a Senior Associate M&A Wine & Spirits. ## David Golding - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits David Golding ## Stefano di Blasi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage Stefano di Blasi ## Jonathan Warburton - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Winery, Manufacturing, Wine And Spirits Jonathan Warburton # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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