About
Serial tech entrepreneur for 35+ years and active AI startup investor. Specialties: - Excited about Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Large Language Models (LLMs) and the impact to business & society - CEO of Venture Capital Fund AI.FUND, investing in European AI champions - Founder, CEO & President of successful high-tech companies in Germany and Silicon Valley; - Senior Executive of an eCommerce company from startup to IPO; - Extensive International Business Alliances in the Internet, Telco and adtech industry. - First IT startup with 19.
Experience
Founding Partner & Managing Director
AI.FUND · Hamburg, Germany
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Venture Capital Investing in European AI Leaders in Seed and Series A
Founder
AI.HAMBURG (AI for Hamburg GmbH) · Hamburg
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AI for Hamburg is an initiative to accelerate the adoption of AI in companies in Hamburg and create an Ecosystem to support it. Please see our website www.ai.hamburg
Ceo
AI.GROUP · Hamburg
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Family Office. Investing in AI companies in Europe and building an AI Eco System.
Co-Founder
AI.IMPACT · Hamburg, Germany
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AI.Impact leverages human-made intelligence such as AI to create positive social and environmental impact and is an AI service provider in Germany.
Co-Founder
AI.STARTUP.HUB Hamburg · Hamburg, Germany
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The AI.STARTUP.HUB Hamburg is an AI Accelerator with an Ideation and Accelerator program, promoting AI ideas and AI startups in the Hamburg metropolitan region and northern Germany. Within the last 3 years we accelerated 99 AI startups in the region.
Member of the Supervisory Board
Enapter · Hamburg, Germany
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We design and manufacture AEM Electrolysers for cost-effective onsite green Hydrogen production.
Member of the Board of Directors
German American Chamber of Commerce, Inc. · San Francisco Bay Area
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Your Partner for Unlimited Business Opportunities. #GACCNY
Ceo
Product Factory GmbH
Ceo & Co-Founder
Smaato · San Francisco, California, United States
Smaato was one of the leading Global Mobile RTB Ad Exchange & Supply Side Platforms. Smaato is a global programmatic advertising platform and supply-side platform (SSP) focused on mobile and in-app advertising. It operates an ad exchange where publishers sell ad inventory to hundreds of demand-side platforms (DSPs) through real-time bidding. The platform connects advertisers and publishers, enabling automated buying, targeting, and monetization of digital advertising inventory at scale. With over 10,000 publishers, over 150 Ad Networks and 450 DSPs* delivering up to 300b ads to 1b+ unique users per month in over 230 countries & territories. Sold in 2016, now part of Verve (https://www.linkedin.com/company/verve-ad-solutions/)
Education
University of Hamburg
Law
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Law
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