Chris Adelsbach OBE is an entrepreneur, investor, and mentor. He is Managing Partner of Outrun Ventures, and one of Europe’s most prolific angel investors in Fintech companies.
After a ten year career at GE Capital, Chris 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, his partners and he 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 accelerator, Techstars, for five years. He has also invested, personally, as a first cheque investor, into a further 200 fintech companies, many of them now notable, including Atom Bank, Griffin Bank, Kuda Bank, Post Quantum, Quant Network, Marshmallow Insurance, Smart Pension, Cuvva, and BondAval. 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 as 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. Chris was appointed OBE – Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in the New Years Honours List 2026 by HM The King for his services to entrepreneurship.
Although primarily an angel investor, Chris formed Outrun Ventures to facilitate investment into the growth stage round of some of his most exciting growth stage portfolio companies.
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