Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$100,000.00Max Investment:
$5,000,000.00Target Investment:
$1,500,000.00
Education
Master (MPhil), Innovation, Strategy & Organisation (Judge Business School)
(2020 - 2021)
Lists including Katharina
Work Experience
2024
Head of Strategy & Corporate Development
2024
2022 - 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.
2021 - 2022
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.
2020 - 2020
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)
2019 - 2020
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.
2019 - 2020
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.
2018 - 2018
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).
2017 - 2017
Product Development
2017 - 2017
CDTM Project with the TUM Chair for Motion Science Developed a Hololense application to support Alzheimers patients.
2017 - 2017
Business Development
2017 - 2017
CDTM Project with Adidas Innovation Developed new business cases on creating and sustaining healthy habits.
2016 - 2016
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.