Christian Angermayer is a serial entrepreneur and investor born in Germany and based in London. He is the owner of Apeiron Investment Group, his own family office and merchant banking business.
Apeiron’s regional focus is Germany and Africa. The sectoral focus is Financial Services (especially fintech), Internet & Technology (from ecommerce to deep tech), Life Sciences, Media, Real Estate and Natural Resources.
Over almost 20 years in business, Christian has created, co-founded and invested in all of these sectors in numerous successful companies, has raised over EUR 1bn and has been involved in more than 40 successful IPO- and M&A-transactions either as an entrepreneur, investor or banker/advisor.
In 2000 Christian co-founded Ribopharma, which merged with US peer Alnylam Pharmaceuticals in 2003 and subsequently went public (ticker symbol ALNY, USD 8bn Market Cap, a leading company for translation of RNAi as a new class of innovative medicines). In 2004, he created JDC Group, Germany´s largest network of independent financial advisors (IFAs) with more than 16,000 IFAs and more than 1.2m retail clients. In 2007, Christian was one of the first international investors to realize that Africa would be one of the most important “megatrends” for the next few decades. Hence, he founded and created the African Banking Holding ADC African Development Corporation, that merged with BobDiamond’s Atlas Mara in 2014.

In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Christian places great value on social, political and societalcommitments. He is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a member of the PresidentialAdvisory Council of His Excellency President Paul Kagame of Rwanda, of the Milken Institute YoungLeaders Circle and of Atlantik-Brücke.
Passionate about the arts and film, Christian has (executive) produced inspiring and critically acclaimed movies like FILTH and HECTOR AND THE SEARCH FOR HAPPINESS and is credited on twelve feature films in total.