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2021
Acrobator Ventures invests in big impact tech founders at the pre-seed to seed stage. We operate from Amsterdam and Kyiv, and are extra interested Eastern founders building bridges to Western markets like the US. Acrobator Ventures focuses on the network-, data-, and market(ing) access of founders. Our two core competences are artificial intelligence and growth marketing.
2012
2012
- Advisor or board member for companies like Wolf3d, Verbit.ai, Yanu, Bridge, Stream Sage, several Startup Wise Guys portfolio companies. Advisor for programs such as the European Innovation academy where I helped to structure the first program and have been a lead mentor for participating teams. - Speaker at startup conferences, primarily around Europe, on topics such as how to raise from a VC, pitching, customer validation, ecosystem building, sales and artificial intelligence. - Mentor at different Accelerators and incubators such as Techstars and Startup Bootcamp.
2022 - 2023
2022 - 2023
As a global system supplier for the mobility industry, for manufacturing and for life sciences and research applications, the HÜBNER Group is the worldwide leader in gangway systems for buses and railway vehicles (Mobility), a prominent solution provider for rubber products, plastics technologies and elastomer-coated industrial textiles (Material Solutions) as well as a rising supplier for applications in the field of laser, terahertz and high-frequency technologies (Photonics). The HÜBNER Group employs more than 3,300 people around the world. In addition to the headquarters in Kassel, Germany, HÜBNER has built up more than 25 locations around the world in the preceding years and decades.
2018 - 2021
2018 - 2021
OpenOcean is a pre series A venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe Marketing and network: Created DataSeries, a network of top founders and executives at data intensive companies that come together via monthly round tables to discuss in depth technology topics. This included a publication (https://medium.com/dataseries) that has since grown to 170000 minutes read per month and a private network of more than 1000 executives. Investments: Deal flow for series A stage data intensive European startups sourcing and/or evaluating hundreds of startups. Data driven decisions: Launched a pilot project on data driven investment sourcing to automatically score startups based on various data sources. Scored and ranked thousands of startups via the developed method and used a similar approach to rank people in your network by enriching data and assigning seniority scores.
2017 - 2020
2017 - 2020
Co-founded the AI conference World Summit AI run by Inspired Minds in London. The conference grew to 7000+ attendees with annual events in Amsterdam and Montreal.
2015 - 2020
2015 - 2020
Co-founded and built an artificial intelligence community with chapters in 80+ cities across the world hosting hundreds of events. Our global group of hundreds of ambassadors has worked on distributed AI projects together and with their quarterly events reached tens of thousands of AI practitioners. This company was set up as a non profit.
2014 - 2020
2014 - 2020
I have been an advisor to the company since 2014. Until Jan 2020 I served as the chairman of the board. During this time we focused heavily on strategy and professionalizing the team as well as the board.
2017 - 2018
Scoro is an end-to-end work management solution, which allows professional and creative services to control their entire workflow from one place. With more than 1000 customers in 40+ countries, it helps to streamline work and eliminate routine tasks to ensure a business runs as smoothly and efficiently as possible. Scoro is an end-to-end work management solution with more than 1000 customers in 40+ countries. My role as Head of Business Development was focused on professionalizing the sales team whilst expanding into the US and UK market. Furthermore, I helped the company raise their series A.
2016 - 2018
2016 - 2018
Verbit.ai uses its core AI technology and end to end platform with transcribers to make the world’s verbal content accessible to everyone. I was involved since the beginning supporting the CEO.
2013 - 2018
2013 - 2018
The World's Largest Entrepreneurship Summer School Focused on IT Innovations. Advisor for the EIA program - helped since the first program with the structure and content - and lead mentor for participating teams.
2014 - 2016
2014 - 2016
One of the first members of the Amazon Web Services European venture team building the EMEA venture capital network. My role was to engage with and build a network of venture capital firms across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. The goal was to identify high potential startup companies in order to grow the AWS business and interface with the corp dev M&A and Alexa Fund team. In that role I was also the interface for the country general managers for investment related questions.