JL

Jens Lapinski

Angel Investor

Berlin, Berlin

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $125,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $125,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $125,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Founding Partner & CEO

    2018

    Angel Invest is Europe's most active Superangel Fund. We make over 40 investments per year and actively coach founders for one year post investment. We have backed 100+ companies at Pre-seed and Seed stage, their combined market cap is over €3BN.

  • Advisory Board Member

    2018 - 2022

    I worked with the investment team in an advisory capacity during the investment period of the €100m Fund I. Signals VC successfully raised a Fund II in 2022.

2014 - 2017

  • Managing Director

    2014 - 2017

    I established the Berlin office and was a Managing Director of the Techstars Berlin City Fund. In 2017, Berlin became the most active Techstars office in the world, hosting four programs. I have worked on four programs at Techstars, the companies have in aggregate raised $250m+ in funding.

  • Partner

    2012 - 2013

    I joined Forward Internet Group to set up the UK's first startup studio: Forward Labs. We investigated over 100 products that we could have built/invested in, built a good dozen and created four businesses that have raised in aggregate over $25m. Forward Labs turned into Forward Partners, which went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 and was later acquired by Molten Ventures in 2023.

2007 - 2011

  • Co-founder & CEO

    2007 - 2011

    aiHit was a provider of automated company data to business information companies, credit reference agencies, and business directories. The company was acquired in 2015.

2002 - 2007

  • VP Analysis & Consulting

    2002 - 2007

    Library House was a provider of information and research services. We had a database of privately-held companies, in particular those that were VC-backed. That database is now part of Dow Jones information services offering.