Roland Grenke is a Berlin-based angel investor and Co-Founder of Acapela. See portfolio, sector focus and contact routes.
Roland Grenke is a Berlin-based angel investor and Co-Founder of Acapela, previously serving as Co-Founder and CEO of Dubsmash, which was acquired by Reddit in 2016. After leaving Dubsmash, he became a full-time business angel and now focuses on early-stage tech companies in the European Union, particularly at pre-seed and seed stages. His investment thesis centers on consumer software and digital media, with a geographic focus on the EU and a preference for startups building collaborative or remote-work tools. Check sizes vary based on startup needs, typically spanning seed to angel rounds, and he often provides strategic guidance alongside capital, though his lead or follow status is not explicitly documented. Notable portfolio companies include Bloom Health Partners, deineStudienfinanzierung, OWWN, Mapify (which exited in June 2021), and CARL Finance. Grenke has publicly emphasized reducing meeting fatigue through asynchronous collaboration, a viewpoint reflected in his co-founding of Acapela, an asynchronous meeting platform for remote teams.
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