Invests in
Locations:
Min Investment:
$5,000.00Max Investment:
$50,000.00Target Investment:
$25,000.00
Skills
Education
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- MB
Lists including Julia
Work Experience
2024
Head of Growth
2024
2010
Early Career, Own Companies & Side Hustles
2010
Side Hustles: Angel investor with over a dozen early stage investments; LP and deal scout for several VC funds Real estate investor, flipper, and owner/operator of 6-figure short-term rentals business Trader since age 14 including options day trading, outperforming the market for 15+ years Advisor to several early- and growth stage startups, on the jury for various startup competitions Contributor to podcasts, blogs, journals on topics like entrepreneurship, real estate, immigration & others Traveller with 80+ countries under my belt Mom to a wonderful baby girl Own Companies: Founded and ran startup studio in 2015/2016 with 8 employees and 100k+ app downloads Founded and ran third biggest online couponing startup in Germany in 2011-2012 Early Career: Various internship in online marketing and operations at startups in Germany in 2009-2011 Sales Manager for Qype Deals in 2010-2011 Various freelance gigs doing website development and online marketing for local businesses since 2008
2021 - 2024
VC Principal & Advisor
2021 - 2024
Led digital transformation of VC fund (deal discovery through AI, back end automations, & more) Supported portfolio companies with GTM and scalability strategy Co-led over a dozen Series Seed and Series A investments Together with Founding Partner raised the firm's third Fund from dozens of UHNWIs
2022 - 2024
Head of Growth
2022 - 2024
Reduced CAC by over 50% and overall marketing costs by nearly 80% without slowing growth Launched B2B arm of the business, now majority of revenue Led re-pricing, resulting in a double-digit margin improvement
2020 - 2022
Co-Founder & Managing Director
2020 - 2022
Supported over two dozen VC-backed hyper-growth startups on GTM, operations, fundraising, and product diversification Grew to 7 figures in retainers within first year with average client staying 7+ months See pinned post for some of the key achievements for clients
2016 - 2020
Head of Central Operations; Launcher
2016 - 2020
Head of Central Operations - UberWorks - 8/2019-9/2020 - Chicago $0-$20M ARR within a year; 98% fill-rate (vs ~50% industry average), led team of 50+ Launcher & Interim GM - JUMP - 12/2018-8/2019 - Washington D.C. Launched and ran largest US Electric Scooter city & only profitable one worldwide General Manager, Russia - UberEats - 10/2016-4/2018 - Amsterdam, Moscow Launched, scaled ($10m+ ARR) and sold (Yandex) UberEats Russia; Signed exclusive delivery deal with McDonalds ahead of Uber's global deal
2014 - 2018
Global Venture Development Manager; Interim CMO
2014 - 2018
Interim CMO - GoReadyMade - 5/2018-12/2018 - New York $15M ARR within 1 year Interim CMO - Global Savings Group - 6/2015-5/2016 - Munich Led marketing for leading couponing platform in 20+ countries Marketing Manager - EatFirst - 9/2014-6/2015 - London $0 to $10m+ ARR for FoodTech delivery service