About
I am a Serial Entrepreneur, Climate Activist and Impact Investor - fighting to bring our planet back on a sustainable track for future generations. I have co-founded multiple companies with my brother Fabian, including B2C couponing-platform DailyDeal which we sold to Google Inc. in 2011 for >$130M and the B2B logistics-tech company Forto valued >$1Bn. My climate action journey started in 2015 and evolved from drastically changing my personal lifestyle, to making my logistics company Forto climate neutral, to co-founding Leaders for Climate Action (by now Europes biggest climate action community for entrepreneurs) and ultimately moving from the CEO role at Forto to dedicate all my time, energy and resources to this purpose. Besides investing in mostly European early stage Climate Tech start ups (Seed + Ser A) through our fund AENU, I am always open to support other methods (NGO etc.) to accelerate the climate transition.
Experience
Founder & Partner
AENU · Berlin, Deutschland
Present
AENU era of impact venture capital. AENU is an early-stage climate tech VC (Art. 9 SFDR) focused on Europe.
Co-Founder & Vice President
Leaders for Climate Action · Berlin und Umgebung, Deutschland
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We are a community of entrepreneurs, that got united by the will to counter the climate crisis with our own actions and demand more effective legislation from policy makers. Our 1400+ members represent >160.000 employees and jointly saved >850.000 t of CO2. Become part of our community at https://lfca.earth
Ambassador & Climate Champion
Founders Pledge · Berlin, Deutschland
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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 > $ 3.1 bn. of which > 475 mn were already fulfilled incl. founders of Tesla, Klarna, Uber, Spotify or Farfetch.
Co-Founder | Board Observer
Co-Founder | Chairman of the Board
Co-Founder & Ceo
Forto · Berlin
Forto is the leading digital freight-forwarder in EU with > 700 team members and > $ 600 mn in capital raised. We provide our enterprise customers with transport services for global sea-, rail-and air-freight, empowered by our proprietary supply-chain-management software.
Venture Partner
Earlybird Venture Capital · Berlin
Earlybird is a pan-European early-stage VC with > € 1,5 bn in assets-under-mgmt. We backed category-leaders like N26, UI-Path, InterHyp, Smava, Peak Games, Aiven, Sennder and Isar Aerospace.
Book Author
Climate Action Guide Book · Berlin, Deutschland
Time for Climate Action! What are important levers to reduce emissions? How can entrepreneurs best contribute to the climate movement? How can you implement Climate Action into the company DNA? This is the ideal guide for Entrepreneurs and Leaders that care about our - and our grandchildren's - future.
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 & Managing Director
DailyDeal GmbH
General Director Google Offers Dach
Google · Berlin / Mountain View
Education
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management
Bachelor of Science (BS)
Nottingham University Business School
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