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(1986 - 1995)
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(1992 - 1992)
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2021
2021
We back entrepreneurs building climate tech for a regenerative world.
2018
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
2014
Helping Ecosia's mission for over a decade now.
2011
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
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
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
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.
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.