Angel Invest

I'’m working closely with a one of our portfolio companies at Angel Invest, Cambridge-based company aiming to build the world’s largest virtual GPU cluster, on top of which they’re building the infrastructure layer for automated research. Deeply technical founder who built the system solo during his Physics PhD, tackling some of the hardest problems in distributed systems. Looking for exceptional founding engineers and research scientists. 3+ years shipping code or a strong PhD. Ground floor, proper equity. DM me if this is of interest. I always think when investing, would I work with this person? The answer is YES!

Our VP Connor Murphy 🌉 is heading to Rebase in Dublin from October 7th to 9th! 🇮🇪 Days of curated conversations between founders and investors from across Europe and the US, and we're excited to be part of it. If you're attending and building something exciting, reach out to Connor and let's grab a coffee ☕

Reliability teams have more machines than hours in the day. Rotomate just gave them an extra colleague. 👀 Their AI colleague 2.0 now answers questions about rotating machines in plain language, and shows its reasoning behind every answer. Ask it what's wrong with a machine and why, and get an answer your team can actually check. Live today. PS: They are also running a public webinar on Thursday 8 October at 10:00 EEST, showing the AI colleague finding a gear fault in Metsä Group's data and answering follow up questions about it live. Worth joining, or passing on to anyone who runs a maintenance team https://lnkd.in/egaZEMS8 Proud to back this team.

Proud to say our partner Nazanin Daneshvar is joining this year's lineup at OGR Torino by Wave by Vento on Oct 7-9. It's always good to see the people we work with sharing what they've learned. If you're in Torino this October, it's worth stopping by! Say hello if you're around, we'd love to connect. 👋

Last Saturday, we held our Annual General Meeting at AchtBerlin, diving into portfolio updates and insights, and the strategy of Angel Invest as Europe's most active Super Angel Fund. This year's AGM was bigger than ever, with more founders, LPs, and friends in the room than we've had before. Henrik Gebbing (Causa Prima), Ben Stephenson (Dream AI), Léon Alex Bamesreiter (reltix), Marius Meiners (Peec AI), and Adrian Renner (feld.energy) also took the stage to walk us through their progress and what they're building. The night before, on Friday, we hosted our Annual Angel Invest Dinner: an evening where founders and LPs from our community came together to connect, celebrate, reflect, and discuss new ideas. 💡 We also shared the news that we're growing steadily, our team is now 25+ people! Thanks to everyone who joined us for the evening and the morning after. Can't wait to see everyone again next year! 💫 Pictures by Jens Ahner 📸

This is why we backed Sebas. 🏠 HOA and property management in Europe still runs on paper trails, phone calls, and fragmented local operators, an industry ripe for consolidation but starved of real technology. Sebas is building the AI native operating system for property management, combining acquisitions of existing HOA companies with a product that automates the manual work at the core of the business, so the same team can manage far more units without sacrificing service quality. "The team knows this industry from the inside, and it shows in how fast this they are moving." Connor Murphy 🌉 Proud to join Entourage Ventures, Green Park Investment Partners, and CNBB Equity Partners in this €5M oversubscribed round, just one year after Sebas got started. 🔥 Congrats to Willem Van de Mierop, Sebastiaan Murre, Michiel Janssen, Vincent Janssen, and the whole Sebas team!

The second meeting of our AI Adoption Executive Club is a wrap. 🎉 We spent Tuesday afternoon in the signals offices, hearing from Causa Prima, cognee, ComplyDo (YC F25), dltHub, Huzzle.com, hyground, KugelAudio (YC P26), Peec AI, Qorelo, trail, and Zelara about what they are building. From compliance to data pipelines, the conversations touched on very different parts of the AI landscape, with each company bringing a different perspective on where the technology is creating opportunities and where there is still room to build. One thing that makes these conversations particularly interesting is seeing just how differently founders are approaching the same broader questions: how do we turn increasingly capable AI into products that actually work in the real world, and how do we get them in front of the people who need them? Thank you to everyone who joined us, shared their companies and opened up the discussion! 🙌

Our portfolio company re:cap just leveled up their capital readiness assessment 🔍 It used to only tell you if you'd qualify for a loan. Now it checks four financing paths debt, equity, grants, or your own cash, and tells you honestly which one fits, even if that's not a loan on their platform. Rare to see a lending platform point you elsewhere when that's the better answer. Try it yourself 👇 https://lnkd.in/ebXhDNRX

🎉 Proud to share that our Partner Jag Singh has joined the #OnestoWatch investor committee, an AgeTechX initiative to find Europe's strongest ventures in ageing and longevity. Jag has backed founders who went on to raise from Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures and Insight Partners. He previously ran Techstars Berlin and built four companies of his own. The top 3 pitch live in Berlin on 6 October. Nominations are open, link in comments.

This is why we backed Cofactor. 🚀 Retailers and suppliers still run their commercial collaboration on email and spreadsheets, and that gap is expensive: an estimated €10M+ in annual leakage for every €500M in retail sales, from mismatched deductions to promotions that don't reflect what was actually agreed. Cofactor's vision is to become the global infrastructure for retailer supplier collaboration, replacing fragmented, manual back and forth with a shared source of truth that makes commercial work faster and far less dependent on Excel and email. Proud to join PSV, Greens Ventures and a group of outstanding retail industry angels in this €1.3M pre-seed round. Congrats to Andreas Willgert, Alexander Back, Robin B. and the whole team! Have a look: https://lnkd.in/d-atYsxn