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Welcome to friendly capital.
Like you, we are people who founded companies. We have thought up great ideas, worked day and night to develop them into a product, went from dorm room/garage to corporate office, recruited great teams, convinced customers and investors, had setbacks and sleepless nights - the whole rollercoaster that is the entrepreneur's life.
Alexander Straub
Alexander is a highly acclaimed serial entrepreneur in the internet, mobile and high-tech spaces in Europe.
He was co-founder and former CEO of mondus, an Internet b2b marketplace, which he led to one of Europe's leading exits for technology start-ups in 2000. Following his mondus exit, he was a general partner at Lazard Technology Partners (LTP) in New York. While at LTP he was the lead investor in 20 technology companies investing out of a $300m fund focused on early to late stage companies in the area of software, telecom and Internet. Alexander has also held positions with Goldman Sachs' principal investment area and as a consultant with McKinsey. Alexander was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford and a DAAD Scholar at Stanford University. He holds two engineering degrees - one from TU-Darmstadt in Germany and one from Cornell University, USA. He has been awarded Technology Pioneer at the World Economic Forum, Davos.
He lives with his wife, fashion designer Tilla Lindig, and three young children in London.
Stefan Menden
Stefan is an experienced entrepreneur in the web 2.0, publishing and mobile space and an associate at Straub Ventures in London.
Prior to joining Straub Ventures he worked with strategy consulting firm Oliver Wyman in Munich and Dubai. Here he worked on various growth and turn-around cases in telecoms, retail, automotive and private-equity. In 2000 he co-founded Cologne-based social career network squeaker.net and mobile-commerce pioneer DoTank Mobile in 2001. He holds a Master's in Business Management and international management from University of Cologne. He was president of the OFW World Business Dialogue in 1999 and today serves on OFW's advisory board.
Stefan is passionate about great food and travelling - and particularly happy, when these two can be combined.
Matthias Kuppers
Matthias possesses advanced experience in capital market research methodologies, business development, as well as analytical, psychological, and strong organizational skills. He is a strong team player and motivator with exposure to a wide range of areas.
Before starting as an analyst at Straub Ventures in London he held a position as consultant at cibsys Ltd in Frankfurt, specialising in the financial and investment markets, where he developed business solutions in the investment sector, contributed to business development, and also market and competition analysis. Prior to that he has also been part of a joint research project team in the role of an academic assistant at the University, investigating the financial markets by exploring the institutional and imaginary dimension of time in professional narratives about financial markets.
Matthias studied both in Germany and United Kingdom, and holds an MSc in Social Sciences and Psychology.
In 2009 he enrolled in the PhD programme at the London School of Economics focussing on the fields of game theory, rational choice in correlation to personality types based in the context of internet research. He lives in the centre of London and in his leisure he is interested in pop art, cooking and running.
Our network and experiences
Our comparative advantage lies in our personal networks. Being technology entrepreneurs and investors since 1996, we have considerable access to entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, corporations, leading technology companies and the finance-world.
Major industry events that we participate in include the World Economic Forum, PICNIC, DLD, ETRE, Le Web and Seedcamp.
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