Ian Mello

Angel Investor & Business Strategist

📍 Austria🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2020
VC🌍 Austria
5
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2
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1
Mid stage
2
Late stage
12y
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Angel Investor
Feb 2020
Bitpanda is on a mission to reinvent the world of finance and bring investing closer to everyone, everywhere. Today’s financial ecosystem is complex, exclusive and expensive, and we’re here to change this as the #1 investment platform in Europe and beyond. Our platform is rooted in the belief that investing should be safe, easy and accessible to all. With Bitpanda, everyone has the freedom and flexibility to invest in what they believe in — commission-free stocks, cryptocurrencies or even precious metals — starting from as little as $1. Our story started in 2014 with our founders, Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek, and Christian Trummer. Since then, we’ve grown to a powerful and diverse team of over 550 people who represent more than 50 nationalities. Headquartered in Vienna, we’re proud to be Austria’s first unicorn and one of the fastest-growing fintechs in Europe. Our innovative technology serves over 5 million users and operates across multiple hub locations. Our products are built by fast-moving, talented, “roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen” kind of people. If you’re someone who thinks big, moves fast and wants to make an impact right from day one, then get ready to join our industry-changing team.
Angel Investor
Jun 2019
Dooet is a discovery and search engine for mobile content. Mobile content includes mobile applications, games, ringtones, wallpapers, animations, videos, themes and anything that can be installed on mobile handsets. Dooet can crawl any website (not only appstores), extract information from it, identify extracted field and then index them. Dooet has already indexed more than 26 million products from more than 5000 different websites. Dooet can identify key product features such as platform, type, size, version, developer, publisher and category. Dooet can also work on websites in different languages and still identify information correctly. Dooet is the only search engine that covers all mobile content (rather than only games/apps) and the only one to search beyond appstores. Our proprietray algorithms made it possible for Dooet to extract content from variety of websites with no previous training or indicators for those sites. Dooet can offer recommendation of Items (mobile content) based on users previous searchs or based of semantic similarity of description. Dooet can also recommend similar products on other platforms. Unlike other small search engines which concentrate mostly only on mobile applications for smartphones, our vision was to build a one stop shop to address the needs of users worldwide with any mobile (feature or smart) and any mobile content they are looking for.
EdTech Investor
2016
Edunoor has developed several training and education solutions. We have built a portal allowing peer-to-peer education solutions where users can meet tutors (like private tutoring). We also have built several dedicated solutions that can be installed by universities, schools or teaching centers. Our solutions offer several components such as online sessions, scheduling, social, search and discovery. All of those components integrate seamlessly to offer exciting service. With the diversity of our products and the customization of our services we think that we can address all the issues facing online education and take it forward.
Angel Investor
Oct 2015
Foodspring was founded in Berlin in 2013 and since then has been a leading innovator in developing healthy nutrition. We pride ourselves with providing our customers with functional products and services that help them to lead healthier lives whatever their aspiration may be – healthier living, better shape or follow a more responsible lifestyle. Our product range spans protein creams, bars, shakes or additives, all of premium quality, organic and constantly tested versus the highest standards of food safety and quality. Currently we serve our customers across multiple European countries, through our site, through amazon or via premium brick and mortar retailers and were expanding our geographical footprint. We know well that our success is based on understanding our customers and hence we strive to continuously create additional offerings of relevance for them. We achieve this through in-depth understanding of our clients intentions, through cutting edge product development, top notch go-to-market practice across all our sales channels and flawless logistics and delivery. We are a diverse team of talented people, currently around 130 of us, holding passports from 24 countries, 53% of us are female, 47% male. If youd like to join us on our journey, you are invited to get in touch. Either apply for one of our openings or just contact the people team to have a first chat and explore the opportunities to work together.
Angel Investor
Jul 2014
Medicus is an AI-based platform that converts health data into an interactive experience with easy-to-understand explanations, personalized health insights and smart wellbeing coaching. Medicus empowers everyone to easily understand their medical and health info, engage them with personalized health insights, and coach them every step of the way to stay or become healthy. Medicus currently covers biometric data, all vitals, full health profile and family history, medications, and the most tested blood, urine and stool markers. Medicus is used by diagnostic labs and health insurance companies to provide patient-friendly health reports and foster continuous and personalized wellbeing coaching. Medicus is building towards a future where the focus on health is part of everyday life: Empowering people to get and remain healthy, helping them every step of the way to recover from illness, and clearly explaining everything to them in order to make the best decision at any point in time. We are a team of technologists, researchers and medical geeks, passionate about health matters and about utilizing and applying the latest in technology to effect positive health changes in peoples lives, and transform healthcare services across the globe. Were based in Vienna with offices in Berlin, Paris, Beirut and Dubai. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter @MedicusAI
Experience · 6 entries
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Investments (5)
2023
Business Consultant
Feb 2023
Atlas Venture is a leading biotech venture capital firm. With the goal of doing well by doing good, we have been building breakthrough biotech startups since 1993. We work side by side with exceptional scientists and entrepreneurs to translate high impact science into medicines for patients. Our seed-led venture creation strategy rigorously selects and focuses investment on the most compelling opportunities to build scalable businesses and realize value. 
2020
Angel Investor
Feb 2020
Bitpanda is on a mission to reinvent the world of finance and bring investing closer to everyone, everywhere. Today’s financial ecosystem is complex, exclusive and expensive, and we’re here to change this as the #1 investment platform in Europe and beyond. Our platform is rooted in the belief that investing should be safe, easy and accessible to all. With Bitpanda, everyone has the freedom and flexibility to invest in what they believe in — commission-free stocks, cryptocurrencies or even precious metals — starting from as little as $1. Our story started in 2014 with our founders, Eric Demuth, Paul Klanschek, and Christian Trummer. Since then, we’ve grown to a powerful and diverse team of over 550 people who represent more than 50 nationalities. Headquartered in Vienna, we’re proud to be Austria’s first unicorn and one of the fastest-growing fintechs in Europe. Our innovative technology serves over 5 million users and operates across multiple hub locations. Our products are built by fast-moving, talented, “roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-it-happen” kind of people. If you’re someone who thinks big, moves fast and wants to make an impact right from day one, then get ready to join our industry-changing team.
2019
Angel Investor
Jun 2019
Dooet is a discovery and search engine for mobile content. Mobile content includes mobile applications, games, ringtones, wallpapers, animations, videos, themes and anything that can be installed on mobile handsets. Dooet can crawl any website (not only appstores), extract information from it, identify extracted field and then index them. Dooet has already indexed more than 26 million products from more than 5000 different websites. Dooet can identify key product features such as platform, type, size, version, developer, publisher and category. Dooet can also work on websites in different languages and still identify information correctly. Dooet is the only search engine that covers all mobile content (rather than only games/apps) and the only one to search beyond appstores. Our proprietray algorithms made it possible for Dooet to extract content from variety of websites with no previous training or indicators for those sites. Dooet can offer recommendation of Items (mobile content) based on users previous searchs or based of semantic similarity of description. Dooet can also recommend similar products on other platforms. Unlike other small search engines which concentrate mostly only on mobile applications for smartphones, our vision was to build a one stop shop to address the needs of users worldwide with any mobile (feature or smart) and any mobile content they are looking for.
2016
EdTech Investor
2016
Edunoor has developed several training and education solutions. We have built a portal allowing peer-to-peer education solutions where users can meet tutors (like private tutoring). We also have built several dedicated solutions that can be installed by universities, schools or teaching centers. Our solutions offer several components such as online sessions, scheduling, social, search and discovery. All of those components integrate seamlessly to offer exciting service. With the diversity of our products and the customization of our services we think that we can address all the issues facing online education and take it forward.
2015
Angel Investor
Oct 2015
Foodspring was founded in Berlin in 2013 and since then has been a leading innovator in developing healthy nutrition. We pride ourselves with providing our customers with functional products and services that help them to lead healthier lives whatever their aspiration may be – healthier living, better shape or follow a more responsible lifestyle. Our product range spans protein creams, bars, shakes or additives, all of premium quality, organic and constantly tested versus the highest standards of food safety and quality. Currently we serve our customers across multiple European countries, through our site, through amazon or via premium brick and mortar retailers and were expanding our geographical footprint. We know well that our success is based on understanding our customers and hence we strive to continuously create additional offerings of relevance for them. We achieve this through in-depth understanding of our clients intentions, through cutting edge product development, top notch go-to-market practice across all our sales channels and flawless logistics and delivery. We are a diverse team of talented people, currently around 130 of us, holding passports from 24 countries, 53% of us are female, 47% male. If youd like to join us on our journey, you are invited to get in touch. Either apply for one of our openings or just contact the people team to have a first chat and explore the opportunities to work together.
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