Leon Faulstroh

VP Growth @ Pliant

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 3 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2026
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Angle Investor
Jan 2026
fonio is building the AI communication suite for small and medium businesses; so no call goes unanswered, no lead gets lost, and no customer is left waiting. What we do SMBs lose business every day to missed calls and slow responses. fonio puts AI on the front line of customer communication — handling calls and messages automatically, 24/7, without adding headcount. Our products → AI Phone Agent — answers, qualifies, and routes calls around the clock → AI WhatsApp Agent — keeps conversations moving on the channel your customers already use 9,000+ businesses across Europe run on fonio. Why join us Were a small team shipping fast from Vienna — building software that thousands of real businesses rely on every day. If you want your work to matter from day one and help define how AI changes SMB operations, fonio is the place. Were seed-funded, scaling fast across Europe, and hiring across 35+ open roles: from engineering and product to sales and marketing. Come build with us.
Angel Investor
Oct 2025
Allia keeps accounting firms ahead — unifying client communication, delivering continuous dossier insights, and optimizing every workflow.
Angel Investor
Apr 2025
We’re building Austria’s fastest-growing clean energy company, combining technology, process excellence, and hands-on execution to make renewable heating and solar power radically more accessible. Heizma installs over 1.500 heat pumps and solar systems per year, helping homeowners cut their energy costs and carbon emissions - without the complexity. Our mission: bring the cleanest and cheapest energy to every home. Founded by Alexander Valtingojer, Michael Kowatschew, and Valentin Perkonigg, Heizma merges startup spirit with a real-world problem. Our team unites technology with operations - building one of the cleanest and most data-driven energy companies in Europe. We believe the energy transition isn’t just a vision - it’s a process problem. And we’re solving it. 📍 Headquarters: Austria ⚡ Products: Heat Pumps · PV & Battery · AC · Energy Management 📈 Scale: >1.500 installations/year · 3 regional hubs · 75+ experts 🌍 Mission: Make clean energy the smartest & cheapest option
Angel Investor
Feb 2025
Otto is an AI-powered copilot for wealth managers, designed to streamline and automate essential advisory admin workflows. By handling repetitive tasks and administrative work, Otto frees up advisers and paraplanners to dedicate more time to focus on their clients.
Angel Investor
Dec 2024
Alan Health (formerly Alan Meds) is a telehealth platform dedicated to personalized, results-driven wellness solutions. Our mission is to make personalized health care more accessible, empowering people to achieve better health outcomes through innovation and flexibility. Alan Health is committed to evolving with your wellness needs, ensuring that no two journeys are the same, but each is supported with expert care designed for real results.
Angel Investor
2023
ContextSDK is designed to enhance mobile app engagement and revenue by leveraging real-world user context with machine learning. ContextSDK collects more than 200 signals from the modern smartphone to assess a user’s real-world context instantly - whether theyre commuting, walking or relaxing - and use this for intent detection. This allows for the delivery of precisely timed, context-aware notifications and content that enhance user satisfaction and drive conversions. Its on-device processing ensures privacy by avoiding cloud transfers, which preserves user trust. ContextSDK’s vision is to establish real-world context data as the new gold standard in mobile app engagement, providing product owners and CMOs with a powerful tool to continuously optimize user experiences.
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2026
Angle Investor
Jan 2026
fonio is building the AI communication suite for small and medium businesses; so no call goes unanswered, no lead gets lost, and no customer is left waiting. What we do SMBs lose business every day to missed calls and slow responses. fonio puts AI on the front line of customer communication — handling calls and messages automatically, 24/7, without adding headcount. Our products → AI Phone Agent — answers, qualifies, and routes calls around the clock → AI WhatsApp Agent — keeps conversations moving on the channel your customers already use 9,000+ businesses across Europe run on fonio. Why join us Were a small team shipping fast from Vienna — building software that thousands of real businesses rely on every day. If you want your work to matter from day one and help define how AI changes SMB operations, fonio is the place. Were seed-funded, scaling fast across Europe, and hiring across 35+ open roles: from engineering and product to sales and marketing. Come build with us.
2025
Angel Investor
Oct 2025
Allia keeps accounting firms ahead — unifying client communication, delivering continuous dossier insights, and optimizing every workflow.
Venture Partner
Oct 2025
Project A is a leading European early-stage investor with €1.2b AUM, championing ambitious tech founders from idea to scale. We provide pre-seed and seed capital to firms shaping Europes future across key themes including Fintech, European Resilience, Global Supply Chains, and the Future of Autonomous Work. Our portfolio features category leaders such as Trade Republic, Sennder, Zepz, and Quantum Systems. In addition, our founder-led Studio actively partners with ventures like 11x, ARX Robotics, and Enapi to shape and validate bold ideas from day zero.
Angel Investor
Apr 2025
We’re building Austria’s fastest-growing clean energy company, combining technology, process excellence, and hands-on execution to make renewable heating and solar power radically more accessible. Heizma installs over 1.500 heat pumps and solar systems per year, helping homeowners cut their energy costs and carbon emissions - without the complexity. Our mission: bring the cleanest and cheapest energy to every home. Founded by Alexander Valtingojer, Michael Kowatschew, and Valentin Perkonigg, Heizma merges startup spirit with a real-world problem. Our team unites technology with operations - building one of the cleanest and most data-driven energy companies in Europe. We believe the energy transition isn’t just a vision - it’s a process problem. And we’re solving it. 📍 Headquarters: Austria ⚡ Products: Heat Pumps · PV & Battery · AC · Energy Management 📈 Scale: >1.500 installations/year · 3 regional hubs · 75+ experts 🌍 Mission: Make clean energy the smartest & cheapest option
Angel Investor
Feb 2025
Otto is an AI-powered copilot for wealth managers, designed to streamline and automate essential advisory admin workflows. By handling repetitive tasks and administrative work, Otto frees up advisers and paraplanners to dedicate more time to focus on their clients.
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