Chris Adelsbach
Venture Partner at Techstars
United Kingdom
Overview
Work Experience
MD Emeritus
2025 - Current
Continuing my partnership with the leading startup investor in the world - focusing on the U.K. ecosystem and how I can continue to help U.K. startups not only start, but scale globally.
Venture Partner
2019 - 2025
After four wonderful years as MD, I remain an active member of the Techstars global network by providing advice and mentorship regarding company selection to Techstars MD’s across Europe.
Managing Director
2015 - 2019
Accelerating some of the highest profile early-stage and growth companies in fintech. Working in concert with amazing business mentors, advisors, VC's and of course, our incredibly supportive friends at Barclays. #founderfirst
Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.
Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.
Founding Partner
2019
Investing in incredible teams who want to reinvent financial services. Our target stage is Series Seed in the UK/Europe. We are excited by b2b and b2c companies tackling fintech, regtech, insuretech, proptech, payments, and lending challenges.
Board Member
2022
Advisory Board Member and Investor
2021
I'm a strategic advisor to Venari Security which helps keep your network safe by conducting encrypted traffic analysis without the need for decryption.
Advisory Board Member
2018
Building Overledger - the first blockchain operating system that facilitates the building of multi chain applications.
Business Mentor
2021 - 2024
Advisory Board and Investor
2020 - 2024
Empowering generations to manage, save, and grow their money. (Acquired by Quilter plc in Sept ‘24.)
Advisory Board and Investor
2020 - 2023
Acquired by GLORY Ltd. July ‘23.
Alumni Board Of Governors
2016 - 2022
Giving back to my alma mater and hopefully connecting graduates with opportunities in Fintech!
2018/19 Angel Investor of the Year
2018 - 2019
Named the United Kingdom’s top Angel Investor.