Profile

Chris Adelsbach

Location: Europe

Chris Adelsbach is an entrepreneur, investor, mentor and dad. He is the Managing Partner of Outrun Ventures and one of Europe’s most successful Angel investors in fintech companies. He started, scaled, and sold Marlin Financial Group – appearing in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 for four consecutive years. He then helped to build the Techstars accelerator fintech practice in Europe. He’s invested, as an Angel, in over 200 companies and was named Business Angel of the Year in the UK in 2018/19 and the most active angel investor in Europe in 2020/21/22 by Sifted. In 2022 Business Insider named him number one in their inaugural European ‘Seed 50’ rankings.

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#528

Xs

269

Investments

139

Exits

9
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Overview
About Chris Adelsbach
Number of Portfolio Companies 2
Location Europe

Chris Adelsbach serves as Venture Partner at Techstars. Entrepreneur with a 9-figure exit. He serves as Board Observer and Advisor at Crowdz. He is a founding Partner at Outrun Ventures. Angel investor with a private portfolio of 140+ companies that have had >?1.5bn of follow-on investment. UKBAA Angel Investor of the year 2018/19. He led the leading FinTech accelerator in Europe as Managing Director of Techstars, investing in an additional 50 FinTech companies with a 5X return to date. Co-founder of Marlin Financial Group which featured in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 in 2009/10/11/12/13 as one of the top 100 fastest growing privately held companies in the UK. After Marlin exited a NASDAQ-listed company in 2014, he made the transition from entrepreneur to venture investor and startup mentor.

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Smart
$14,25M
76,14
$1 085M
Marshmallow
Seed
$30,2M
43,05
$1 300M

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