Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Born in 1981, Manuel Grenacher is a serial tech entrepreneur from Switzerland. During his IT engineering degree in 2006 at the University of Applied Sciences in Windisch Switzerland, Grenacher founded Coresystems AG. Today, the mobile field service company employs 140 people around the world.

In 2013, Grenacher founded his second company Mila AG and the German subsidiary Mila Europe GmbH. The start-up connects customers, who need tech support with vetted tech-savvy individuals and small businesses. Customers include telecommunications providers like Swisscom Switzerland, Vodafone Germany, energy providers as well as online retailers.

The Deutsche Telecom Innovation Awards, and the Swiss Economic Council have recognized Grenacher’s achievements. In 2012, he was an Ernst & Young’s Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year while in 2013 he won a Swiss ICT Award for Newcomer of the Year for Mila. Under his leadership Mila has received the Idée-Suisse Award 2015, the Innovation Award 2015 in the category “best CRM” as well as the eco Internet Award 2015 in the category “best startup”.