Reinhardt Karpenko

Growth & Sales
2024
Growth of existing accounts, new business for small- and mid-market companies in DACH (inbound and outbound). Current pacing: 196%, first SD to hit target across EMEA, and culture pillar lead for SD organization. Payments infrastructure for the internet - Millions of companies of all sizes use Stripe online and in person to accept payments, send payouts, automate financial processes, and grow revenue. Backed by Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, among others.

2023 - 2024

Investor & Portfolio Support
2023 - 2024
Funding the next generation of tech founders tackling B2B problems - from the first cheque onwards. First Momentum started as the first student-run VC in the DACH area and has grown into a deep & industrial tech specialist fund with two fund generations and >30 investments under management.

2022 - 2023

Venture Scout
2022 - 2023
Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy. We work with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies that challenge the status quo and shape tomorrow. Feel free to approach me anytime for pre-product, pre-seed or seed investments or working opportunities at Picus.

2021 - 2023

Entrepreneur In Residence
2021 - 2023
Changing responsibilities: Sales, Revenue Operations, Customer Success, Product, Talent Acquisition, Marketing. Worked closely with our CEO, Sebastian Schaal. At Luminovo, we bring innovations faster to everyone by reducing the time and resources needed to go from an idea to a market-ready electronic product – currently offering LumiQuote, the next generation EMS RfQ software, and ultimately building the Electronics Operating System. Read my story here: https://luminovo.ai/blog-posts/reinis-journey-at-luminovo

2021 - 2021

Founder‘s Associate (Product & CEO)
2021 - 2021
#1 Product Intern. I supported sento.io to get a clear idea of what the product-market fit looks like, how to execute it by making decisions more data-driven and by understanding unmet market needs. My mission was to sharpen our value as well as our viability.

2021 - 2021

Co-Founder
2021 - 2021
My co-founder and I worked on a problem in society (ambitious students from low-socio economic background, with migration background, and/or non-academic background, like ourselves) and conducted user research with a landing page and countless interviews with a Figma prototype of our software. We were part of a program of WEF Global Shapers. We stopped because the cycles for the use case were too long, and we decided to pursue the idea at another point in life because the problem still exists and people with grit deserve better. They need role models and people they can look up to and understand that everyone can reach everything regardless where they are from.

2015 - 2021

Tutor for Mathematics
2015 - 2021
Since 2015 I was supporting students in Mathematics. In the last two years, I tutored three girls, ranging from 12th grade Gymnasium to the third semester at University.

2020 - 2021

Business Development
2020 - 2021
Naodrinks offers a healthy, sugar-free fruit juice with spritzer (Fruchtschorle). My responsibility was the market introduction in Germany, including tackling major grocery stores and taking care of corporate accounts.

2017 - 2021

Corporate Studies, Wholesale and Foreign Trade Trainee and BA Student
2017 - 2021
Yamaichi Electronics is a semiconductor company offering various electromechanical parts for different industries e.g. medical technology, automotive, data-network and measurement and testing technology. As a trainee I got deep insights into the work of every department from purchase to product management and business development as well as sales. Always being mentored throughout my apprenticeship, I am able to live my hands-on mentality and be part of the development of current projects.

2020 - 2020

Tutor for Mathmatics
2020 - 2020
As I was already tutor of last year's course, the Community College contacted me to participate once again for this year's module. It was held online via WebEx and around 25 students of various degree programs participated in my group.

Increasing the internet's GDP @Stripe