Chris Adelsbach

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Mr. Chris Adelsbach serves as a Managing Partner at Outrun Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor at Venari Security and Distributed. He served as a Board Observer & Advisor at Crowdz. He is an entrepreneur, investor, and mentor. He is one of Europe's most prolific angel investors in Fintech companies. After a ten-year career at GE Capital, he co-founded a specialty finance company that became one of the fastest-growing businesses in the UK, featuring in the Sunday Time Fast Track 100 for four consecutive years. In 2014, he and his partners sold the business to a NASDAQ-listed entity and specialist buy-out fund. After exiting he turned his attention to venture investing and mentoring founders, running London's leading fintech accelerator for five years. He has also invested personally, as a first cheque investor, into a further 175 fintech companies, many of them now notable, including Griffin Bank, Kuda Bank, Post Quantum, Quant Network, Marshmallow Insurance, Smart Pension, Cuvva, and Atom Bank. He was named the UK's Angel Investor of the Year in 2018/19 and Sifted named him the most active fintech angel in Europe from 2020-23. In 2022 he was named the leading Seed Investor in Europe by Business Insider and Tribe Capital and in 2023 was named the Investor of the Year in the Great British Entrepreneurship Awards. Although primarily an angel investor, he formed Outrun Ventures to facilitate investment into the growth stage round of some of his most exciting growth stage portfolio companies.