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Lucas Merle

Principal @ eCAPITAL | ex-Rocket | ESCP

Berlin, Berlin

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Principal

    2022

  • Senior Investment Manager

    2021 - 2022

  • Investment Manager

    2019 - 2021

  • Associate

    2018 - 2019

    Sourcing, negotiation, execution and management of early- / later-stage and growth investments (up to €10m equity per deal). eCAPITAL is a leading German DeepTech VC with over €240m AuM and 30+ portfolio companies; eCAPITAL currently manages four funds and invests in technology-driven enterprises in fast-growing business sectors.

  • Board Observer

    2023

    QuoIntelligence offers tailor-made threat intelligence and digital risk protection.

2021

  • Board Observer

    2021

    Exein is a cyber security startup offering an open source framework for behavioral firmware analysis of IoT devices.

  • Board Observer

    2021

    Open-Xchange is a market leader in mail/messaging and DNS-based security services, with more than 220m seats sold through international hosting and telco providers worldwide.

  • Board Observer

    2020

    Papershift is a SaaS solution for planning, tracking and reporting of working time in companies.

  • Board Observer

    2018

    temicon is a leading manufacturer of micro and nano structured films, components and functional surfaces.

2018

  • Board Observer

    2018

    Jedox is a leading global provider of cloud-based enterprise performance management software for creating enterprise-wide and cross-departmental solutions for planning, analysis and reporting.

  • Management Consultant

    2016 - 2018

    UDG Consulting is a specialist digital strategy consultancy that advises large corporates on digital strategy & transformation, commercial partnerships with start-ups as well as organizational restructuring and strategy reorientation. UDG Consulting serves clients in a variety of industries, i.e. energy, automotive, optoelectronics. Selected project topics include: - process optimizations (customer-driven process adaptations), - industry benchmarks, - organizational restructuring, - online / web analytics (Definition of KPIs, assessment of feasibility and implementation planning), - chatbots (assessment of automatization potential and assessment of chatbot providers) - see link: https://www.udg.de/blog/chatbots-zeiss

  • Associate Consultant

    2016 - 2016

    UDG Consulting is a specialist digital strategy consultancy that advises large corporates on digital strategy & transformation, commercial partnerships with start-ups as well as organizational restructuring and strategy reorientation.

  • Operations Manager

    2015 - 2015

    • Inside sales optimization • Development of inside sales controlling dashboard • Conduct of a customer cohort analysis to optimize customer acquisition and retention measures • Communication of analysis results to global CEO and CMO

2014 - 2014

  • Business Development Intern

    2014 - 2014

    BD internship at Helpling GmbH • Inside sales • Partner management • Business development • Cost-benefit analysis of inside and outside sales to optimize Helpling's sales method