Ari Bizimis

CEO Mercurius AG

📍 Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 12 investments📅 21 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2020
Operator-angel🌍 Germany
12
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21y
Years active

Portfolio

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Shareholder
Jan 2020
With QuoLab, security professionals analyze, investigate, and respond to threats within an integrated ecosystem. QuoLab merges deep analytics, TIP functionality, and intuitive workflows in a collaborative, data-centric platform.
Shareholder
Jan 2020
QuoIntelligence informs decision-makers of current and prospected cyber and geopolitical threats by providing customized Finished Intelligence reports. Our team of experts provides full contextual analyses to produce top-quality Intelligence and to better enable organizations to mitigate risk. By prioritizing customer requirements, we ensure our products close real security gaps, support risk management, and facilitate early detection.
Investor / Shareholder
2016
Recorrido is reinventing long-distance bus travel to provide smart and affordable mobility for everyone in Latin America. Operating on a B2B2C model, recorrido provides a comparison platform to travelers that offers convenience and transparency. Bus companies increase profitability and efficiency by using different tools of our SaaS backend.
Investor / Shareholder
2016
Matching value-based artists and brands: Basa Studio is dedicated to shaping the way brands and creatives collaborate. Our passion is value-based matchmaking for outstanding purpose-driven marketing campaigns. Basa Studio has its roots in a small kitchen in Lisbon, but today our base is a cosy, mural-covered office in Kreuzberg, at the heart of Berlin’s creative scene. We’ve been connecting artists and brands like Netflix, BMW, Airbnb, and Patagonia for almost 10 years, and during that time we’ve honed our focus on the most successful and rewarding collaborations – those where a company with ambition and values connects with an artist who can bring their vision to life. We’re passionate about supporting artists to develop their practice, and we encourage the companies we work with to become advocates for art – recognising the unique potential that creativity has in an increasingly automated world. Most of all, we love seeing target audiences react to some of the incredible projects we’ve made. As creative entrepreneurs, we work at the intersection of the art and business worlds, and our experience and knowledge of marketing ensures that our projects fulfil the needs of both companies and artists, while exciting audiences across the globe.
Investor / Shareholder
2016
Built by operators for operators, QuoScient supports customers across all industries against digital threats of all kinds. QuoScient has been founded in April 2016 in Frankfurt am Main (Germany), Fabien Dombard (co-founder and CEO) and Ioannis Bizimis (Co-founder and CFO). Since March 2020 QuoScient has officially spun off its three business lines into separate entities to give each more focus and increased operational flexibility. These new companies will carry forward the product (QuoLab Technologies), threat-intelligence service (QuoIntelligence) and services (QuoSec) lines. QuoScient GmbH will continue as a business enabler for these new entities in the future. For further questions please contact us at: +49 69 33 99 79 38 or curious@quoscient.io.
Investor / Shareholder
2016
FruitBox is a German Holding company investing in African agribusinesses and advising on investments in Africa. The first project is located in Ethiopia.
Investor / Shareholder
2014
Wir planen, bauen und betreiben Glasfasernetze direkt bis in das Gebäude unserer Endkunden. Anspruch der GVG Glasfaser mit ihren Tochterunternehmen 2locate und 2provide ist es, die Unternehmen und Privathaushalte gesamter Regionen an die Telekommunikationsinfrastruktur der Zukunft anzuschließen. Mit einer Vielzahl von professionellen und erfahrenen Partnern bilden wir ein Netzwerk, welches die gesamte Bandbreite des Glasfaserausbaus abbildet. Unser Fokus liegt auf der Verbesserung der Breitbandversorgung insbesondere ländlicher Regionen. Mit unseren Marken nordischnet und teranet versorgen wir bundesweit Privat- und Geschäftskunden mit hochleistungsfähigen Internet-, Telefonie und Fernsehdiensten mit Bandbreiten von 50 Mbit/s bis 1 Gbit/s. In mittlerweile fast 250 Kommunen haben wir die erforderlichen Vermarktungsquoten für einen wirtschaftlichen Ausbau erreicht und sind mit gut 112.000 Kunden einer der führenden Telekommunikationsanbieter im Bereich der direkten Glasfaseranbindung (FTTH). Als Partner von Zweckverbänden oder im eigenwirtschaftlichen Ausbau haben wir uns als Ziel gesetzt, deutschlandweit Endkunden eine direkte Glasfaseranbindung zu ermöglichen und hierdurch den Zugang zur Zukunft sicherzustellen. Die Unternehmensgruppe GVG Glasfaser: - Muttergesellschaft 2014 in Kiel gegründet - Geschäftsführung: Michael Gotowy, Jörg Knöller, Stefan Kreibig, Thomas Müller und Thorsten Fellmann - Ca. 500 feste Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter - Über 112.000 Kunden in fast 250 Kommunen. Davon konnten allein rund 22.500 neue Kunden im Jahr 2020 gewonnen werden.
Member of the Board
2005
Mercurius Real Estate AG is a wholesale company based out of Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany.
Experience · 15 entries
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Investments (12)
Founder (3)
Board (1)
2020
Shareholder
Jan 2020
With QuoLab, security professionals analyze, investigate, and respond to threats within an integrated ecosystem. QuoLab merges deep analytics, TIP functionality, and intuitive workflows in a collaborative, data-centric platform.
Shareholder
Jan 2020
QuoIntelligence informs decision-makers of current and prospected cyber and geopolitical threats by providing customized Finished Intelligence reports. Our team of experts provides full contextual analyses to produce top-quality Intelligence and to better enable organizations to mitigate risk. By prioritizing customer requirements, we ensure our products close real security gaps, support risk management, and facilitate early detection.
2018
Mercurius TP GmbH
Investor / Shareholder
Jan 2018
2016
Mercurius Private Equity GmbH
Managing Director / Founder
Jan 2016
Investor / Shareholder
2016
Recorrido is reinventing long-distance bus travel to provide smart and affordable mobility for everyone in Latin America. Operating on a B2B2C model, recorrido provides a comparison platform to travelers that offers convenience and transparency. Bus companies increase profitability and efficiency by using different tools of our SaaS backend.
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