About Chris Adelsbach

Chris Adelsbach, Entrepreneur (exited to NASDAQ listed entity) and angel investor with a portfolio of 225, mainly fintech, companies. GBEA Investor of the year 2023. Business Insider’s number one Seed investor in Europe (2022) and named by Sifted as the most active Fintech Angel in Europe (2021-2023). His private portfolio of 175 companies have had >£1.5 billion of follow on investment and his 50 investments as Techstars MD are worth >8x to date. He built the number one rated accelerator in Europe and was named UKBAA Angel Investor of the year 2018/19. He is now co-founder and Managing Partner at Outrun Ventures and a Venture Partner at Techstars. Previously, Chris Adelsbach was 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 they exited to a NASDAQ-listed company in 2014, he made the transition from entrepreneur to venture investor. Chris Adelsbach enjoys mentoring unique, mission-driven founders who want to create businesses that do well and do good. Early/first investor into three unicorns. Portfolio companies: Marshmallow, Quant Network, Atom Bank, Smart Pension, BondAval, Kompany, Sharegain, Flare Networks, Bokio, Cutover, Cuvva, Kuda Bank, Griffin Bank and a host of other leading Fintechs. Chris Adelsbachis also the former President of the University of Michigan UK Alumni Association, former member of the Alumni Board at Michigan Ross School of Business, and current member of the University of Michigan International Alumni Board.