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Simon Leicht

Simon Leicht

Backing teams at the frontier of tech.

Munich, Bavaria, GermanyVenture Capital & Private Equity
Company
SDAC Ventures
Title
General Partner
Seniority
Partner
Department
C Suite
Location
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Industry
Venture Capital & Private Equity

About

We partner with deeply technical teams at inception and help with their first fundraise, commercial hires and customers. As entrepreneurs and operators, we have helped build two unicorns and have backed 100+ preseed and seed teams at the frontier of technology in AI (Orbem, SE3), climate (MarvelFusion, Reverion, ToZero, Crosstown), robotics (ARK), space (Yuri, Gama, Popcorn), bio (Meatable, Epoch, Creasallis) and crypto (Sorare, Glow, Helium, Molecule). We have invested alongside Benchmark, YC, Accel, 50Years, Bessemer, LaFamiglia, EQT, Balderton, BlueYard, General Catalyst and many more.

Experience

General Partner

SDAC Ventures · Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Present

We partner with deeply technical teams at inception and help with their first fundraise, commercial hires and customers. As entrepreneurs and operators, we have helped build two unicorns and have backed 100+ preseed and seed teams at the frontier of technology in AI (Orbem, SE3), climate (MarvelFusion, Reverion, ToZero, Crosstown), robotics (ARK), space (Yuri, Gama, Popcorn), bio (Meatable, Epoch, Creasallis) and crypto (Sorare, Glow, Helium, Molecule). --- We are backed by a tightly knit network of around fifty founders, angels, PE and VC partners, industry veterans and family entrepreneurs. Some of the investors, we've coinvested with: Index, Accel, Creandum, Benchmark, Bessemer, General Catalyst, EQT, 50Y, LocalGlobe, BlueYard, YC, Seedcamp, Adjacent, Inflection, Interface

General Partner

Possible Ventures · München, Bayern, Deutschland

Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact people and the planet in pre-seed and seed. Built the first two Microfunds (Vintage 2020 and Vintage 2022) as founding GP. Invested in Sorare, ImmutableX, Molecule, Avi Medical, Orbem, Yuri Gravity, Epoch Bio, Enveda Biosciences, MarvelFusion, KnowUnity and many more. Invested alongside Benchmark, YC, Accel, 50Years, Bessemer, LaFamiglia, EQT, Balderton, BlueYard, General Catalyst and many more

Angel Investor, Syndicate Lead, Crypto Investor

Private Investor · München, Bayern, Deutschland

Invested > €1m of capital into early-stage technology companies Built and led angel syndicates in Meatable, Anydesk, Xolo3D, Cognigy, Beat81, Donut and many more Invested in crypto tokens and equity, amongst others early positions in Ethereum, Helium, Uniswap

Co-Founder / Md of Portfolio Company Alphapet

Venture Stars GmbH · Munich

Scaled the portolio company Alphapet as part of the Co-Founder team from 5m to 50m € revenue. Lead strategy, business development and fundraising. Built a vertical D2C brand.

Restructuring Unit

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants · Munich

Turnaround and Restructuring Project in the Chemicals / Trade Industry - Market and competitor analysis as foundation for strategic positioning within a turnaround concept - Development of a management tool for operational improvement measures within a turnaround concept Restructuring Project in the electronics industry - Revenue analysis / planning on product level - Support in the validation of the client's pricing concept - Support in validation of operational efficiency improvement measures

Business Development

Rocket Internet SE · Cape Town, South Africa

Various Business Development projects Interim Operations Manager (Inbound and Outbound) in an E-Commerce Fashion Start-up

Financial Services Consulting

Oliver Wyman · Frankfurt am Main und Umgebung, Deutschland

- Development of a stresstesting reporting process, including a senior management reporting tool within a risk management/ stresstesting project for a bank - Involvement in the development of a liquidity risk management framework for a bank

Db Research

Deutsche Bank · Frankfurt am Main und Umgebung, Deutschland

Product Management Illiquid Assets

Deutsche Bank · Frankfurt

Internship in Product Management Closed End Funds/Illiquid Assets • Development of an Excel-model for prognostic calculations and sensitivity analysis for the evaluation and selection of products and initiators • Revision of the training guide in order to prepare the sales employees

Private Banking

Deutsche Bank · Stuttgart

Internship in Private Banking Branch Stuttgart

Education

Stockholm School of Economics

Master of Science (M.Sc.), Finance

CEMS - The Global Alliance in Management Education

Master in International Management, International Management

Goethe University Frankfurt

Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Economics and Business Administration

City University of Hong Kong

Exchange Semester, Business Administration and Finance

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