Dr. Alex von Frankenberg

Managing Director
2005
Managing a public private partnership with the goals to bring the German startup ecosystem to a world class level and to support established companies in their efforts to stay competitive by connecting them to startups.

2002 - 2005

Venture Manager
2002 - 2005
Company builder in the Siemens Corporate Technology: Identifying promising technologies that are developed within Siemens Corporate Technology with no / little us within the Siemens business units. Then building startups, i.e. writing a business plan, recruiting (external) management, acquiring external financing and in some cases generating first external revenue. Finaly spinning off the startup. In some cases striking relevant licensing deals.

2001 - 2002

Sales and Marketing Director
2001 - 2002
Sales and marketing director of dataware house startup financed by 3i, Siemens and tbd. Company ended up failing.

1997 - 2001

Project Manager
1997 - 2001
Top management consulting unit within Siemens. Then led by Klaus Kleinfeld and Horst Kayser. Did restructuring projects successfully cutting cost and realizing significant productivity gains (Med Tech, Telco, heavy equipment business units, HR benchmarking with focus on recruiting and people development in the IT service division and setting up a Corporate Incubator. Did a very well-received study "Benchmarking Corporate Venture Capital".

1992 - 1995

Senior Consultant
1992 - 1995
Implement a credit card payment system (cobol based) at the largest Mastercard processor in Germany. Spent almost a year at an Anderson client in Columbus, Ohio.

1986 - 1988

Apprenticeship Banking
1986 - 1988
Learned commercial banking. Bought stocks before and after the 1987 stock market crash.

Driving innovation by seed financing highly innovative startups / connecting startups and established companies / speaker / enthusiast / crypto, especially bitcoin. Always open to new things, ideas, people, technologies.