Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Fokussing on Bitcoin, Crypto infrastructure and AI investments. Multiple board seats. Author of the best selling book "Bitcoin - Das ehrliche Geld". Available in German also as audio book. In Q1/26 as english and spanish audio book and as english print book. Key note speaker about innovation, startups, Bitcoin and AI. Learned a bit about #corporateventurecapital, #managinginnovation, conscious and unconscious innovation biases, #startups #entrepreneurship #crypto #bitcoin in more than 20 years of investing in and supporting innovation. Convinced in free markets that need little government support. Running around the world (42.000 km, since January 1st, 2015). Currently at 39%.
Looking for pure Bitcoin startups, crypto infrastructure and AI
Supporting a new AI focused fund with my 25 year VC experience and networks
Bitcoin - Das ehrliche Geld Bitcoin is limited to (almost) 21 million and due to the truly decentralized network structure of the technology noone can change it. At the same time money supply is ever increasing. That's it. The book tells in 21 chapters (in German) personal, interesting, funny and cool stories around Bitcoin. The German audio book will be released November 11th, the Spanish and English audio book in Q1/2026.
Managing a public private partnership with the goals to bring the German startup ecosystem to a world class level and to support established companies in their efforts to stay competitive by connecting them to startups.
Company builder in the Siemens Corporate Technology: Identifying promising technologies that are developed within Siemens Corporate Technology with no / little us within the Siemens business units. Then building startups, i.e. writing a business plan, recruiting (external) management, acquiring external financing and in some cases generating first external revenue. Finaly spinning off the startup. In some cases striking relevant licensing deals.