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Tim Schumacher

Entrepreneur and Investor

Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

Work Experience

2021

  • General Partner

    2021

    We back entrepreneurs building climate tech for a regenerative world.

  • Co-Founder

    2018

    Saas.group acquires promising SaaS companies with a founder-friendly process in order to elevate their product - and their people - to the next level.

2014

  • Board Member and Co-Steward-Owner

    2014

    Helping Ecosia's mission for over a decade now.

  • Investor

    2011

    Startup investments into Eyeo.com, Ecosia.org, Pachama.com, Apptopia.com, Goodwall.org, IONIQ.com, Miomente.com, Contractbook.com, UrbanSportsClub.com, BasicThinking.de, MobileAction.co, Usercentrics.com, FirstStopHealth.com, Joblift.com, Buena.com, Pixsy.com, Apollo.vc, LemonSwan.com, Piwik.Pro & many others.

2011

  • Co-Founder and Chairman

    2011

    Eyeo is the world's leading company protecting users from annoying advertising (we're behind popular ad blocking software Adblock Plus and also power ad blocking in many browsers). We're a team of 300 people and are headquartered in Cologne, Germany.

2012 - 2014

  • Board Member

    2012 - 2014

    After handing over the CEO role to my successor, I stayed on as part of the supervisory board of directors for two years. We then took the company private, and it's now wholly owned by 1&1.

2001 - 2012

  • CEO/Vorstand

    2009 - 2012

    The publicly listed Sedo Holding comprised of two marketplaces: Affili.net (now merged with AWIN), a leading European affiliate marketing network, and Sedo.com, still to this day the world's largest domain marketplace. The group had over 300 employees, and over 100 million in revenues.

  • CEO and Co-Founder

    2001 - 2009

    I was co-founder and CEO of the company, with offices in Cologne (Germany), and Boston (USA). Grew the company to ~300 people and in 2009 took it public on the German stock exchange. To this day, Sedo.com is the leading global marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites.