About
Entrepreneur, executive and angel investor. +15 years experience in building technology companies. I like research, prototypes, finding a product-market and go-to-market fit and then building companies around it. Currently I obsess about AI, MPP databases and devtools.
Experience
Co-Founder & Ceo
dltHub · Berlin, Germany
Present
We believe that data engineering should be open, collaborative, and accessible to everyone. Our story began with dlt, an open-source project designed to simplify data workflows for developers everywhere. Our mission is to make data engineering as seamless and joyful as writing Python itself. We're creating dltHub, a platform where any Python developer can take on data tasks that once required an entire team — running pipelines, transformations, and notebooks effortlessly, without worrying about infrastructure.
Venture Partner
Angel Invest · Berlin, Germany
Present
As a part-time Venture at Angel Invest I'm investing 5x per year in areas and sectors that interest me. This is mostly AI, data warehouses/cloud, Open Source, dev tools. We are one of Europe's most active angel funds, making 50+ investments every year into European technology startups. Our initial check size is €100k, we invest in Pre-seed and Seed rounds. We actively coach the founders we back for one year and give them access to our networks. Before Angel Invest I wrote angel checks into Rasa, Taktile, n8n.
All Kinds of Jobs
Tenjin · San Francisco Bay Area
Initially helped with sales and product. Helped to define early PMF. As EMEA sales became the majority of Tenjin's revenue I started the EMEA operations including a Berlin office that includes data science, engineering teams and customer success. Later I pushed Growth FullStack, an ETL service for mobile marketing data, from demo to a hitting its early commercial OKRs as a Joint Venture.
Advisor
Rasa · Berlin, Germany
Served as a hands-on operational advisor to Rasa from the companies inception in 2016 until their Series A in 2019, dedicating several hours weekly. I advised across several areas of the business, including marketing, customer acquisition, fundraising, product direction and hiring. I continue to mentor the leadership team today. Read more here: http://salisbury-investments.com/about/
Co-Founder
Xyo
Xyo was a break-through app discovery startup whose technology got acquired by Digital Turbine (NASDAQ: APPS). Simplified, Xyo is a bet that there’s better technology and user experiences for app discovery than Apple’s App Store or Google Play.
Mobilebeat Co-Chair
Venturebeat covers the convergence of web and mobile technologies with more traditional media and advertising industries. As Conference Co-Chair together with Matt Marshall I was responsible for speakers, content and in the last two years revenue as we built the MobileBeat & MobileSummit Conference Series.
Education
RWTH Aachen University
Business Administration, History of Art & Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, Production Systems
Universität Köln
American Management Seminars
Waterford Kamhlaba UWCSA
International Baccalaureate
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