Katharina Kramer

Head of Strategy & Corporate Development

2024

Partnerships & Growth Lead

2023 - 2024

Driving growth and and market awareness through consultancy and technology partners.

Strategic Partnerships Manager

2023 - 2023

Defined the sales motion and terms of the partnerships, and acquired new partnerships with consultancies.

Venture Development

2022 - 2023

Explored new channels for business growth and started building Partnerships as a channel.

Investment Associate

2021 - 2022

Cusp Capital is a Venture Capital fund (AUM €300m) investing in software startups across industries and is led by the investors in Zalando, Delivery Hero, Klarna, Scalable Capital, Sumup, and more. 1. Focussed on analysis of climate tech (esp. carbon measurement & reduction, carbon sequestration, spacial monitoring, biodiversity) and health tech. 2. Opened the Berlin office and supported investment and diligence processes throughout all stages.

Analyst | Donor Government Partnerships

2020 - 2020

1. Supported finding, analysing, and creating partnership opportunities in development aid projects for climate change, global food security, and technological innovation in Africa 2. Helped build a Digitalisation in Africa accelerator with the giz (German Development Agency)

Consultant | MIT Sloan School - Center for Collective Intelligence

2019 - 2020

1. Lead consulting projects for Takeda and Deloitte to create intelligent innovation units. 2. Initiated and scaled a new “Plastics CoLab” platform in cooperation with University of 
Massachusetts Boston and The Global Alliance to End Plastic Waste. Created two new challenges on the Climate CoLab Platform to crowdsource climate change ideas with the UN to present the best solutions for climate resilience at COP.

Co-Founding Independent Climate Projects

2019 - 2020

1. Co-Founded Sustainable AI - measuring carbon offset of the rainforest more reliably via drones. Won the MIT IDEAS Challenge, Microsoft's AI for Earth funding, and MIT's entrepreneurship center grant. 2. Scaled and build partnerships with companies for handprinter.org - a platform gamifying sustainable action - with a Harvard Professor for Life Cycle Assessment.

M&A Advisory

2018 - 2018

Supported the M&A Advisory team on one of the biggest transactions in the agribusiness ever (Bayer acq. Monsanto - USD 66bn, all-cash deal).

Product Development

2017 - 2017

CDTM Project with the TUM Chair for Motion Science Developed a Hololense application to support Alzheimers patients.

Business Development

2017 - 2017

CDTM Project with Adidas Innovation Developed new business cases on creating and sustaining healthy habits.

Business Development

2016 - 2016

Developed dynamic pricing models for different product categories and analyzed and adapted the structure of the website to improve sales conversion.