Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Investor Stage

Seed

Marc has studied economics in Hannover and St. Gallen. Afterwards he completed a doctorate at the University of Oldenbourg and the Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich and graduated with magna cum laude.

Just in time with the burst of the Internet Bubble, Marc started his career at innotech, a smaller VC where he learned the VC business from scratch, in particular all the things that can go wrong.

In 2004, he moved on to Finlab AG (before Altira Group) where he was involved in a number of investments, IPOs, mergers, trade sales and even fund investments, e.g. investments in RTT AG (acquired by Dassault Systèms) and blau.de (acquired by KPN) and fund-commitments in Creathor Ventures and Neuhaus Partners.

In 2007, Marc took the chance to participate in the set up of the AIG Sustainable Investment Group managing finally a €400m fund with focus on later stage cleantech investments
Following the bail-out of AIG during the financial crisis, Marc switched sides and co-founded Zapitano, a social TV platform. He was responsible for the financing of Zapitano, legal, operations and HR.

Besides that, Marc acts as Venture Partner for Finlab AG and Heliad Equity Partners, Coach at the Climate KIC Accelerator, Member of the Supervisory Board SleepZ AG (listed in the Prime Standard, German Stock Exchange), was guest lecturer for Entrepreneurship and Strategy at the University of St. Gallen and TU Berlin and runs also the Berlin Alumni chapter of the University of St. Gallen.