Dr. Fabian Heilemann

Founder & Ceo

AENU · Berlin, Germany

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AENU invests € 1 - 4 m equity at seed-stage in European climate-conscious founders across energy transition / industrial efficiency / systemic resilience. We bring access to operational experience and B2B client relationships to the table.

Co-Founder (Chairman of the Board 2016 - 2020)

Forto

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Forto is the leading digital freight-forwarder in EU with > 750 team members and > $ 500 mn. in capital raised. We provide our enterprise customers with transport services for global sea- and air-freight, empowered by our proprietary supply-chain-management software.

Co-Founder

Leaders for Climate Action

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We are a community of entrepreneurs united by the will to counter the climate crisis with our own actions and demanding more effective climate-legislation from policy makers. Become part of our community at https://lfca.earth/. Our 1.100 members represent > 130.000 employees and jointly saved > 370.000 t of CO2 by reducing and compensating carbon emissions.

Ambassador & Climate Champion

Founders Pledge

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Founders Pledge is a non-profit supporting entrepreneurs to donate a % of their exit proceeds to social causes of their choice. FP provides research & due-dili on which charities are most effective (free of charge). The global FP community includes > 1000 members that pledged > $ 976 mn. incl. founders of Tesla, Klarna, Uber, Spotify or Farfetch.

General Partner

Earlybird Venture Capital · Berlin Area, Germany

Earlybird is a pan-European early-stage VC with > € 2 bn in assets-under-mgmt. We invest across enterprise and consumer and backed category-leaders like N26, UI-Path, Smava, Peak Games, Aiven, Onefootball, Sennder and Isar Aerospace. Some of the companies I worked with include: - HIVE.app (enterprise): integrated software & fulfillment for e-comm clients - SENNDER.com (enterprise): digital road-freight forwarder serving customer pan-European - KREATIZE.com (enterprise): cloud-manufacturing platform for custom-parts - INKITT.com (consumer): globally leading reader-powered digital publishing house - LEXOO.com (enterprise): legal tech for recurring work-streams and project-mgmt - CURIO.io (consumer): premium audio content delivered via curated mobile subscription

Founder + Managing Partner

Heilemann Ventures GmbH · Berlin

Heilemann Ventures is a micro VC investing private funds of the Heilemann brothers in Angel/Seed stage across consumer and enterprise. Track record includes McMakler (exit to Warburg Pincus), DiviMove (exit to RTL/Bertelsmann), Eyeota and Test.io (exit to Epam; NYSE:EPAM).

Founder & Ceo

DailyDeal GmbH · Berlin

DailyDeal is a B2C couponing-marketplace operating in GER, AT, CH, financed by Insight Partners and acquired by Google Inc. in 2011 with a team > 350 FTEs and revenues > € 30 mn. in 2013 my brother Ferry and I bought back the company from Google, restructured it, took it to break-even and sold it a second time in 2015 to an e-commerce holding.

Director General

Google · Berlin, Germany / Mountainview, CA

Managing DailyDeal's post-acquisition integration and supporting the Google Offers team in Mountainview, CA with the roll-out of couponing services in the US market.

Founder

ChiChi-Company UG

Food-Truck for French pastries and coffee. The starting-point of the 20+ years entrepreneurial collaboration with my brother Ferry :-)