Chris Schagen

Hi. I am an angel investor, entrepreneur, and startup advisor in Berlin, Germany. Some background on me:

• angel investor in about 35 companies
• CMO of Contentful
• Co-founder of Wooga, Linklift, OAS, and Mundwerk
• Ran the US business of Jamba/Jamster
• Studied business administration at WHU

As an angel investor and advisor, I am focussing on enterprise software startups that cater to a developer audience. I prefer to join as early as possible, usually at pre-seed or seed stage.

I currently follow three investment criteria, and would like for investment opportunities to check at least two boxes:

• The Contentful for X. Products built for developers who want to get sh*t done.
• Personal pain. An area where I experienced massive problems and could not find a vendor to fix it.
• Great founders. I only invest in founders that I admire, like, and trust.

My specialty is advisory on how to go to market. If you ask 100 successful tech founder of why they were successful, they will say "because of our amazing tech". Alas if you ask 100 tech founders that failed, they will say "our tech was amazing, but we were not able to bring it to market". In my opinion, founders spend too much time with product and too little with customers/prospects. Thus, I try to help with:

• how to identify the target persona and first ideal customer segment
• how to craft a positioning statement and use this to inform messaging on your website and sales deck
• how to track and measure go-to-market progress
• how to set up an early sales process

Beyond, I sometimes help with a weekly "homework" calls and occasionally serve as board member.

My angel portfolio consists of the following companies:

• Alvin - data lineage platform
• Ampcontrol - electric vehicle fleet charging mgmt platform
• Cobee - employee benefits platform
• Compado - B2B tech platform for contextual ads
• Dash0 - open telemetry based APM platform
• EqualTo - spreadsheets-as-a-service for devs
• Garden - architecture-as-code to standardize and accelerate deployments
• Giskard - testing framework for ML models
• Glassfy - in-app subscription platform
• GrowBlocks - revops monitoring and revenue planning software
• Hubilo - webinar platform
• Humanitec - built your own dev platform
• Infinyon - stateful data streaming pipelines
• Kili Technology - review and labelling platform for AI training datasats
• Levity - business process AI augmentation platform for business users
• Ninetailed - composable personalization and optimization platform
• Partykit - deployment platform for AI agents, multiplayer, and local first apps
• Plain - composable support platform
• Poolside - coding foundation model (via Athenian)
• Quix - end-to-end event streaming app platform
• Restate.dev - elegantly build resilient applications using distributed durable async/await
• RapidCompact - 3D model optimization and delivery platform
• Saleor - composable ecommerce platform for multi market deployments
• Scramjet - intra-environment API integration
• SmartRecruiters - modern all-in-one hiring platform (via Jobpal)
• Stateful (Runme) - interactive runbooks built with markdown
• Terramate - code generator and orchestrator for Terraform
• Tilores - identity resolution software for fraud prevention, KYC, and marketing
• Trevor (Embeddable) - toolkit for building fast, interactive, fully-custom analytics experiences into your app
• Uify - AI assistant for frontline operations
• Unikraft (Kraft.cloud)- revolutionizing cloud deployments with Unikernels
• UXcam - mobile app analytics platform
• Vivenu - composable ticketing platform
• Wasp - DSL for React, Node.js, and Prisma
• WeFlow - pipeline mgmt and forecasting for sales teams

I invest via the legal entity Osorno Capital GmbH. Please see the imprint for legal info.

You can email me at chris.schagen[]osornocap.com.

Happy building!