Dr. Jan Brinckmann

Full Professor of Entrepreneurship at ESADE Business School, Builder, Board Member, Business Angel with a Passion to Empower Entrepreneurs

📍 Greater Barcelona Metropolitan Area, Spain🔄 Updated September 2026💼 24 investments📅 15 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
Operator-angel🌍 Spain20+ investments
24
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15
Early stage
5
Mid stage
1
Late stage
15y
Years active

Portfolio

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Supporter & Business Angel
Sep 2024
CareerOS: A whole new way for university students to land their dream job. In today’s job market, finding job listings is easy—but landing your dream role is the real challenge. Why? With so many job boards, it’s all too common to apply, submit a resume, and then… wait. At CareerOS, we know that success goes beyond the basics. Securing your ideal position means building a network, connecting with advocates, and staying organized at every step. That’s where CareerOS comes in: the one place to organize, manage, and execute your job search effectively. CareerOS helps students and professionals advance their careers by providing tools to connect with key decision-makers, strategically network, and organize every aspect of their job search in one platform. We’re here to help you move past the job search grind and make strides toward a career you’re passionate about.
Supporter & Business Angel
Sep 2024
Introducing Cosmos: Your advanced provider management platform. Centralize data, foster transparency, and drive efficiency with real-time insights and customizable solutions. Transform your ground operations and elevate service excellence through smarter collaboration between airlines, airports, and service partners with Cosmos.
Supporter & Business Angel
Jun 2024
Jamie is a privacy first AI note taker built for professionals and teams who care deeply about data privacy and control over their information, especially in regulated and high trust environments. It is used by consultants, legal teams, financial services, and EU based companies to turn meetings into precise notes, summaries, decisions, and action items without joining calls as a bot. Jamie works across all meeting platforms and in person. It standardizes documentation with templates, separates facts from interpretation, and makes meetings searchable across time. Built in Europe with privacy by design: • Full EU data residency • GDPR compliant architecture • Audio is not stored after transcription • End to end encryption • Customer data is never used to train AI models Jamie is built in Germany for teams that need reliable meeting documentation without compromising on privacy, compliance, or control.
Supporter & Business Angel
Apr 2024
Wir sind ein junges, wachsendes Handwerks-Unternehmen in NRW, das sich auf die Installation und Inbetriebnahme von Wärmepumpen für Privathaushalte spezialisiert hat. Dabei sind wir für Endkunden die Wärmepumpen Spezialisten, die von der Montage bis zur Wartung Lösungen aus einer Hand für alle Fragestellungen haben. Aber auch als Arbeitgeber im Handwerk gehen wir neue Wege und bauen für alle Kollegen und Kolleginnen einen Arbeitsplatz mit moderner Kultur.
Supporter & Business Angel
Dec 2023
Kini simplifys recruiting by effortlessly synchronizing data between stakeholders. Our integration platform empowers agencies, talent channels and end customers to exchange data with low to zero tech effort. #hrtech #recruiting #integrations
Supporter & Business Angel
Mar 2022
Were a tech company that believes healthcare should feel less like paperwork and more like people. Powered by AI, our platform automates medical practice workflows, from patient journeys to billing to next-generation payments. Backed by €50M in Series B funding from investors like Cathay Innovation, Notion Capital, Lakestar, and b2venture, Nelly is one of the fastest-growing health and fintech companies in Europe. What we are really proud of: We only work with nice people. We bring together ambitious humans, give them real ownership, and invest in their growth from day one. If youre looking for a place where your impact is visible and want to work with a great team driven by our Start-Up culture, Nelly is your place to be! Become part of the mission that genuinely transforms European healthcare.
Business Angel & Investor's Representative
Oct 2020
Methinks vision is to provide universal and timely diagnosis for life-saving treatments worldwide. Our first focus is on stroke, the second cause of death and a major cause of disability in the world. Our product is an artificial intelligence medical imaging software capable of performing stroke triage and unlock stroke treatments potential from non-contrast CTs. Methinks is a VC backed digital health start-up that recently won the prestigious EIC Accelerator of the European Commission and has obtained two gold medals in the RSNA Kaggle competitions. The recent funding of the company will allow us to grow rapidly and we are looking for exceptional and passionate individuals to help us face these challenges and build together a unique company.
Supporter & Business Angel
Sep 2019
Evermood offers a Work Life platform for companies to provide their teams with GDPR-compliant, live virtual events, helpful exercises, confidential 1-to-1 consultations, and insightful reports on the culture and health of their organization in just a few clicks. Whether DAX corporation, administration or medium-sized company - businesses of all industries use Evermood to support their employees around the clock, unify all health and culture offerings and move their company forward.
Supporter, Business Angel
Jul 2019
Bloobirds is the #1 Salesforce app to increase sales productivity. Bloobirds transforms your Salesforce into an amazing software for your sales team in less than three minutes. By seamlessly integrating a dialer, email, and LinkedIn, Bloobirds offers a comprehensive set of productivity tools, including cadences and templates, designed to turn Salesforce into the favored tool of sales representatives. Bloobirds promotes a more efficient utilization of Salesforce, facilitating seamless tracking and recording of all activities, leading to better data management and effortless reporting.
Board Member & Business Angel
Jun 2019
We are the world’s leading platform connecting photographers, agencies, brands, content creators, and industry professionals with aspiring and professional models worldwide. Our mission is to be the platform that stands for diversity, trust and safety with the necessary tools for connecting models with professionals effectively and easily. Creating an all-including and accessible environment for all members of the Modeling Industry. We aim to encourage the success of starting and small businesses looking for an efficient and highly effective way of creating marketing campaigns, give personality to their brand, or find an artistic outline to engage in. Our dedicated team of professionals has over 30 years of experience within the industry, from the catwalks of Milan to designing IT systems for premier model agencies in Europe. Whether you are a photographer, agency, brand, professional model, or a newcomer to the industry, ModelManagement.com offers the most diverse assortment of talented individuals thrilled to start collaborating and creating new alternatives for this ever-changing industry.
Supporter, Business Angel
Sep 2018
Welcome to Semalytix! Semalytix, the trailblazer in AI-driven innovations, empowers pharmaceutical companies to embrace a patient-centric approach like never before. With their revolutionary Pharos platform, fuelled by state-of-the-art AI and LLM technology, Semalytix undertakes the colossal task of consuming and analysing millions of forum posts, social media discussions, and CRM system records in the blink of an eye. Pharos becomes the conduit for capturing and harnessing the pulse of real-world perceptions and experiences shared by both healthcare practitioners and patients in the here and now. Through its captivating living reports, Pharos bestows invaluable insights upon pharmaceutical giants, guiding them to laser-focus on their customers genuine needs. It unlocks the profound understanding of what truly holds the potential to enhance their well-being, transforming lives in ways previously unimagined. Founded in 2015, Semalytix has grown to a team size of 75 employees and has executed more than 40 projects with the pharmaceutical industry with a total volume of EUR 3.8M between 2015 – 2019.
Supporter, Business Angel
Jun 2018
Margin is a German-based software development company that brought the first dedicated trading terminal to the crypto market back in 2014. Today the terminal supports 43 exchanges and is used by thousands of active traders worldwide. Building on top of that experience and our team’s capabilities, in 2017, the company has shifted focus to developing state-of-the-art liquidity management solutions for token projects and financial institutions in crypto and billions of dollars have been traded by our clients using margin's products. Our vision is to become the world's leading financial infrastructure developer for the crypto space. We aim to achieve this through continuous optimization of our existing tech based on close cooperation with our clients and partners. Additionally, with our research we stay on top of the newest developments in the industry to anticipate future market needs. We take pride in being transparent, easy to work with, and having a highly competitive offering. Whether you require market making or dynamic hedging, margin delivers sophisticated financial infrastructure supported by a dedicated business development team and 24/7 client access to our monitoring & control interface. Token projects, centralized exchanges, OTC desks, prime brokerages, and hedge funds can all rely on margin’s experienced in-house software development and business teams to meet your liquidity needs. You can focus on your business, while we ensure your token has fair price and your portfolio is not exposed to asymmetric risk. Want to see our edge in action for yourself? Reach out to us to see what we are about as well as to discuss business and partnership opportunities.
Supporter, Business Angel
Feb 2018
saas.group is a conglomerate of independent SaaS businesses founded by experienced industry veterans with proven entrepreneurial, investing, and product backgrounds. We love healthy SaaS companies and help them to reach the next level. If being acquired is something that sparks some interest or you’d like to know about our process, we’d love to have a chat with you. We advocate for the founder-friendly approach and are ready to offer you the exit you deserve meaning financial freedom or an opportunity to stay on board in your most exciting role. Learn more about us and our approach on our blog: https://saas.group/blog/tim-schumacher-building-the-worlds-biggest-platform-of-independent-saas-brands/
Supporter, Business Angel, Board Member
Jun 2017
Valuedesk is the booster for your current and planned programs - whether your focus is on efficiency, EBIT growth, transformation, profit finding or savings. We use our modules to analyze your individual needs and check whether there is untapped potential in an ongoing program. In both cases, we will provide you with specific recommendations for action to achieve your goals. We include existing strategies and measures and enrich them with our expert knowledge. This is how we jointly create the foundation for a lasting increase in performance and measurable financial effects. With our structure of systematics, coaching and software, we offer the necessary foundation to implement complex programs as efficiently as possible at all levels. The system is mapped in the software. At the measure level, all degrees of severity and working steps are predefined to guide users through the process. Individual dashboards based on live data are available for control purposes. We see ourselves as a knowledge partner for our customers. Our aim is to make your programs more successful. At the same time we enable your employees to continue the programs on a long-term basis and on their own initiative.
Supporter and Business Angel
May 2015
Savedo is the smart new savings alternative: an online financial marketplace that allows savers in Europe to effortlessly invest in safe and high-return term deposits within the EU. The company operates as a platform for the involved banks, handling customer service and providing standardized account documents. Operated by a team of experienced international finance experts and online professionals, Savedo allows customers to easily invest across Europe, without having to travel to the respective European country. The current EU directive for deposit insurance covers up to 100.000 EUR per person per bank. On top of that, Savedo works closely together with its German partner bank, FinTech Group Bank AG, and coordinates all activities with the foreign partner banks and follows the highest safety and quality standards.
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2024
Supporter & Business Angel
Sep 2024
CareerOS: A whole new way for university students to land their dream job. In today’s job market, finding job listings is easy—but landing your dream role is the real challenge. Why? With so many job boards, it’s all too common to apply, submit a resume, and then… wait. At CareerOS, we know that success goes beyond the basics. Securing your ideal position means building a network, connecting with advocates, and staying organized at every step. That’s where CareerOS comes in: the one place to organize, manage, and execute your job search effectively. CareerOS helps students and professionals advance their careers by providing tools to connect with key decision-makers, strategically network, and organize every aspect of their job search in one platform. We’re here to help you move past the job search grind and make strides toward a career you’re passionate about.
Supporter & Business Angel
Sep 2024
Introducing Cosmos: Your advanced provider management platform. Centralize data, foster transparency, and drive efficiency with real-time insights and customizable solutions. Transform your ground operations and elevate service excellence through smarter collaboration between airlines, airports, and service partners with Cosmos.
Supporter & Business Angel
Jun 2024
Jamie is a privacy first AI note taker built for professionals and teams who care deeply about data privacy and control over their information, especially in regulated and high trust environments. It is used by consultants, legal teams, financial services, and EU based companies to turn meetings into precise notes, summaries, decisions, and action items without joining calls as a bot. Jamie works across all meeting platforms and in person. It standardizes documentation with templates, separates facts from interpretation, and makes meetings searchable across time. Built in Europe with privacy by design: • Full EU data residency • GDPR compliant architecture • Audio is not stored after transcription • End to end encryption • Customer data is never used to train AI models Jamie is built in Germany for teams that need reliable meeting documentation without compromising on privacy, compliance, or control.
Supporter & Business Angel
Apr 2024
Wir sind ein junges, wachsendes Handwerks-Unternehmen in NRW, das sich auf die Installation und Inbetriebnahme von Wärmepumpen für Privathaushalte spezialisiert hat. Dabei sind wir für Endkunden die Wärmepumpen Spezialisten, die von der Montage bis zur Wartung Lösungen aus einer Hand für alle Fragestellungen haben. Aber auch als Arbeitgeber im Handwerk gehen wir neue Wege und bauen für alle Kollegen und Kolleginnen einen Arbeitsplatz mit moderner Kultur.
2023
Supporter & Business Angel
Dec 2023
Kini simplifys recruiting by effortlessly synchronizing data between stakeholders. Our integration platform empowers agencies, talent channels and end customers to exchange data with low to zero tech effort. #hrtech #recruiting #integrations
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