About
Serial Entrepreneur and Investor in Silicon Valley and Europe. I enjoy supporting entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs with my dual background as being a founder myself as well as having made some 200 investments in early and later stage companies. Areas of expertise are fundraising, strategy, business models, monetization, leadership, execution, scaling organizations, marketing, sales, and internationalization.
Experience
Founding Partner
10x Group · Munich, Germany
Present
We invest in founders of digital startups in Europe and USA. We are excited early backers of over 150 startups.
Founding Partner
10x Founders · Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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10x Founders is a network-driven investor backed by over 200 entrepreneurs and angels. We focus on Pre-seed, Seed and Series A rounds of the best & most ambitious tech founders and back them to build global tech leaders out of Europe.
Founding Partner
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FLEX Capital is a private equity fund run by 6 successful entrepreneurs that invests into high-growth and profitable tech pioneers in the German Mittelstand. #MitTechstand www.flex.capital
Founder
Fussball-Talente Freiham e.V. · Munich Area, Germany
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Fussball-Talente Freiham e.V. fundamentally changes the way soccer talents are coached in Germany: we invest in coaches who teach technical and tactical skills that help young players play soccer much better mid term. Instead of forcing kids to win today, we encourage our players to practice their new skills even under high competitive pressure.
Entrepreneur in Residence
Benchmark Capital · London, United Kingdom
Thinking about online dating and other startup ideas - and learning what good Venture Capitalists like to see in young companies before making an investment
Managing Director and Vice President
In charge of the 3 German speaking countries, IPO at the Frankfurt Neuer Markt
Head of 2 Profit Centers
Bertelsmann · Munich, Germany
In charge of a turn-around case and of an internal startup - both part of a bigger publishing house in the professional information space
Education
Bielefeld University
Dr. rer.soc, Sociology of Science - Bielefeld, Germany
Centre International de Recherche sur l'Environnement et le Développement
CIRED - Paris, France
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Visiting Scholar, Science, Technology, and Society - Cambridge, MA, USA
Bielefeld University
Dipl.Soc., Sociology
Università di Trento
Sociology - Trento, Italy
Leibniz Universität Hannover
Master's Degree, History - Hannover, Germany
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