Enrico Mellis

Building Animal - angel syndication for early-stage companies | Venture Partner at Lakestar

Berlin, Berlin, Germany

About

Experience

  • Founder at Animal Syndication Company
    Nov 2025 - Present · 8 mos

  • Lakestar (Berlin, Germany)
    • Venture Partner
      Nov 2025 - Present · 8 mos

    • Partner
      Nov 2024 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 4 mos

    • Principal
      Feb 2022 - Nov 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

  • Project A Ventures (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Principal
      Mar 2021 - Feb 2022 · 1 yr

      Project A is an international venture capital firm based in Berlin. We invest in passionate early-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with exclusive access to our team of 100 operational experts in areas such as Software Engineering, Marketing, Product, Design, Communications, Business Intelligence, Sales, and Talent Acquisition. We believe that cutting-edge infrastructure, a data-driven approach, and a sustainable organizational setup are instrumental to the success of digital companies. That’s why we developed a new approach to venture capital: combining capital and in-depth operational support.

    • Investment Manager
      May 2017 - Mar 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos

  • Offline Marketing Lead, Germany at foodora
    Sep 2015 - Dec 2016 · 1 yr 4 mos

    foodora is a Berlin-based online food delivery company which offers meals from over thousands selected restaurants in 8 countries worldwide. In September 2015, Delivery Hero acquired foodora from Rocket Internet and then went on to do an IPO in July 2017.

  • Account Executive at Grey Group
    Sep 2014 - Aug 2015 · 1 yr

    Grey ranks among the world's top advertising and marketing organizations, serving one-fifth of the FORTUNE 500, in 96 countries. Under the banner of "Grey Famously Effective Since 1917,"​ we continue to break new ground in brand experience across every platform and create lasting consumer connections. Our parent company is WPP. Grey won Adweek’s Global Agency of the Year in 2013 and 2015, and was named to Ad Age’s prestigious A-LIST of the world's best agencies in 2010, 2012 and 2013. Grey was the second most-awarded agency in CANNES the world in 2015 and 2016. Grey was also named to CREATIVITY's A-LIST of the 10 most creative agencies in the world in 2013, and took top honors as "best all-around ad agency of 2012"​ in FORBES'​ survey of agency search consultants.