Klaus Fuchs

Enabling Visions - today. tomorrow. together

Vienna, Vienna, Austria

About

I trained as a mechanical engineer and studied business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. With four years driving own business and more than 20 years of experience in large organisations in financial and energy sector I set up plenty of different businesses and business units and loves to work in dynamic business environments, creating ideas and getting things done. In one of my professional stages I set up a Corporate Venture Capital Investment House to invest in European early stage startups and built up a huge co-investment network. I like experimenting and thinking different, like to be part of a team willingness creating and changing new things to make the world a better sustainable place. That´s why I´m now enthuiastically building companies. Let´s doing the right things and either we find a way or we gonna make one!

Experience

  • Member of Investment Advisory Board at EquityPitcher Ventures
    Mar 2025 - Dec 2025 · 10 mos

  • Wien Energie GmbH (Full-time · 9 yrs 1 mo)
    • New Business & Venture Development
      Dec 2022 - Nov 2025 · 3 yrs

      Venture Lead and Topic Lead for Business Innovation Modeling & Financials, developing (digital) innovative, scaleable new business models (Venture Cases)

    • Corporate Venture Capital Investment
      Mar 2018 - Dec 2022 · 4 yrs 10 mos

      Venture Capital Investments and Corporate Innovation

    • Corporate Investment Management
      Nov 2016 - Nov 2019 · 3 yrs 1 mo

      Set up and establishing the corporate investment management unit. Conceptioning and founding the Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) investment vehicle Smartworks

  • Member of Advisory Board at Austrian Angel Investors Association
    May 2022 - Oct 2023 · 1 yr 6 mos

  • Managing Director at Vienna Energy Forta Naturala S.r.l.
    Jan 2017 - Oct 2023 · 6 yrs 10 mos

  • Board Observer at IONATE
    Aug 2022 - Nov 2022 · 4 mos

    Ionate has a fundamental breakthrough in digitising transformers that allows a fully renewable-powered future/Net Zero. Represent Smartworks on the board.