Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Founder of Bees & Bears, a Green FinTech on the mission to enable €1 trillion of sustainable financing. Before, I founded weview GmbH out of studies at the age of 20 and started investing in stocks at the age of 12. Spent half a year exploring the culture, economy, conflict, rainforest, and mining sector in Eastern DR Congo. Also published a report in the brand eins magazine about the world's biggest lithium mine that is currently built in Congo.
Building the embedded finance platform for the climate economy, funded by leading VCs and a €500M credit facility from a leading European bank.
Started a Podcast together with Paul Hock about the first steps in founding a startup from the day 1 and discussing the topics that occur week by week. As a mentor and mentee, we let you participate in our regular sessions. Paul is currently founding his first startup in the software sector and has hardly any experience with the topic of founding and the associated tasks. Jakob, on the other hand, founded his first startup during his studies and answers all questions about founding.
Founding my next venture in ClimateTech
Spent almost 6 months in Eastern Congo and Rwanda and explored the rainforest, mines, conflict, culture, and business opportunities. Published a long reportage in the brandeins magazine about the world's biggest lithium mine that is currently built in Manono, Congo. https://www.brandeins.de/magazine/brand-eins-wirtschaftsmagazin/2022/design/der-schatz-von-manono
Sold to DemoUp in 2020. Weview is a video provider that embeds user-generated product reviews on online shops. https://weview.tv/ Backed by the Techstars SAP.iO and Plug & Play Retail Tech Hub accelerator, the Bavarian government and investors. Working with companies such as MediaMarkt Saturn, Sony, Sennheiser or Expert.
Initiated and led a charity campaign within our company for GivingTuesday which is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. It is the day that encourages people to do good. For one day, we allowed people to not review products but their favorite charity organization and raise money for them. Every video had a donation button included. I acquired and partnered up with 40+ NGOs such as WWF, or Red Cross, and celebrities such as Toni Kroos.