Building
companies
built to last.

• —Founded first company straight out of university: a drive-to-store discovery platform for local retail deals.
• —Relocated to Bogotá and built operations, product, and team from scratch, raising funding from one of the largest family offices on the continent.
• —Grew to market leader across the region and eventually exited to the existing shareholders.

• —Joined Bonial International Group in Berlin, the European pioneer of drive-to-store, home to kaufDA and MeinProspekt.
• —Led growth as Managing Director across Germany, Europe, and the U.S. for five years.
• —Sold in several transactions to the Axel Springer media group, completing a profitable full exit for the founding team.

• —Co-founded CG Partners with Christian Geiser, founder of kaufDA, as an EIF-backed angel vehicle.
• —Backed 40+ companies at pre-seed and seed with active founding investor and board roles across the portfolio.
• —Now in de-investing phase. No new tickets, focused on supporting portfolio companies through to exit.

• —Co-founded MVP Founders with Tobias Schüle and Tim Tepass, serial founders with two nine-digit exits.
• —2–3 ventures per year co-founded as active partners, not passive backers. From first hire to first revenue.
• —Strategic partnership with DLF Venture, providing structured follow-on funding of up to €10M per company to back the ventures we build.

• —Capability is now abundant. AI can design, code, write, analyse, market, negotiate. Skills that used to require entire teams and years of specialisation are accessible to anyone with a laptop. The barriers that kept most people from building are dissolving.
• —The scarce resource has shifted. When everyone has access to the same capabilities, what differentiates is no longer what you can do. It's what you decide to build. Seeing an opportunity, committing to it, bearing the risk. That's the part AI doesn't do for you.
• —Entrepreneurship is the orchestration layer. The meta-skill that makes every other skill matter. Not one capability among many, but the function that turns AI-amplified inputs into outcomes that create value in the real world.
• —More accessible than ever. The cost of starting has collapsed. You don't need a technical co-founder, a design team, or a six-month runway to validate an idea. AI compresses the path from insight to execution. The window for founders has never been wider.

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Looking to build from scratch? I co-found alongside exceptional operators, from the very first idea.

• —Pre-idea and want someone to brainstorm with? I want to hear from you.
• —Early concept? Let's work through it together.
• —Ready to build? I co-found 2–3 companies per year, rolling up my sleeves from the first hire through to first revenue.

Off-market deal flow in founding-stage companies.

• —Co-investment access: founding-stage deal flow across sectors that rarely reaches traditional VC desks.
• —Deal-by-deal basis. No fund structure, direct access.
• —Select group of angels and family offices, on a relationship basis.