Bjoern W. Schaefer

Building modern high-performance companies with AI-native operating systems | Bestseller Author | Trusted Advisor to B2B SaaS & AI Founders & VCs | Co-Founder FUNKY bont

📍 Switzerland🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
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Angel Investor
Jun 2025
Bauprojektmanagement auf Autopilot.
Angel Investor
Dec 2024
Not "yet another email & phone finder". We aggregate contact infos from 20+ premium vendors. This means that if we can’t find the emails & phone numbers of your leads, no one else can. Enrich leads your way with our Bulk CSV enrichment, or our CRMs, Zapier, n8n and Make integrations.
Angel Investor
Sep 2024
We are committed to rewrite the data usage in early phase drug discoveries to rapidly meet todays unmet medical needs with greater certainty. Our cutting-edge software solution contextualizes Multiomics data to significantly lower the risks of key decisions on targets and diseases. With 80% of data context often overlooked, we harness Multiomics data to significantly de-risk research and enhance decision-making on disease markers, targets, and target-indication fits before entering clinical phases. Our Cellmap technology offers unmatched flexibility, being fluent across all biological data types, and streamlines research and insights to advance therapeutic strategies. By rapidly unlocking both private and public data, we break down traditional barriers to data contextualization, speeding up outcomes and deepening therapeutic understanding. knowing01 is more than a software; we are a strategic partner to rewrite your R&D data-to-outcome process. Together we will overcome tomorrows medical challenges. Better research = Better health Follow us. Join us on our journey. --- Under the hood-technologies – Our technology ranges from knowledge graphs, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Our core technology effortless establishes billions of links in Big Data supporting the step getting from information to insight. --- Behind the scenes – knowing01s founding team combines a strong vision with proven expertise in research, deep tech, software and commercial experience. We commercialise IP from Helmholtz Munich, Germany.
Angel Investor
Jul 2024
VoiceLine is transforming the efficiency of field sales operations through cutting-edge voice collaboration and AI technology. Our mission is to liberate professionals from cumbersome administrative tasks, enabling true freedom and optimal performance every day. We are pioneering in the field of voice and AI, aiming to facilitate knowledge capture in the field and providing a competitive edge in understanding the market dynamics for sales professionals.
Angel Investor
Jul 2024
eyva is revolutionizing product development with AI-driven solutions. Our SaaS platform empowers consumer goods companies to optimize product development, streamline processes, and drive innovation and growth across the entire product lifecycle, by connecting market, product, and consumer data. By enabling data-driven decisions, we help businesses identify portfolio gaps, optimize existing products, and eliminate underperformer
Angel Investor
Jun 2024
SaleSqueze is a visual CPQ platform that enables small and medium-sized complex product sellers to digitalize and automate their sales processes. We help manufacturing businesses in industries such as home and garden, agro tech, industrial machinery and equipment, and medical devices deliver a delightful customer experience and a seamless and speedy sales process. Visually configure complex products, calculate pricing in real-time, and automatically turn inquiries into quotes. Plus, saves countless hours of manual admin work! Our end-to-end sales platform includes an easy-to-use configurator builder that lets businesses affordably build their own visual configurators. Thanks to our Sales Hub, the sales team can keep track of every inquiry and quote to make sure nothing is missed or replied to twice. Let customers configure their own dream product with the Showroom, and offer B2B partners a streamlined purchasing experience with tailored pricing in the Customer Hub. Say goodbye to manual processes and hello to a future-proof solution that revolutionizes the way you sell complex products. Join the industry leaders who have embraced SaleSqueze to unlock new levels of success in the digital era.
Angel Investor
Sep 2023
Mate ist die Content Creation Software, die speziell für die Markenkommunikation entwickelt wurde. Mit Mate kann jede:r individuelle Grafiken, Animationen oder Videos erstellen, ohne dabei auf das Corporate Design achten zu müssen - denn Mate ist jederzeit markensicher. Mate bietet eine Vielzahl an Designvarianten, die trotz Einhaltung der Corporate Design-Richtlinien maximale Flexibilität bei der Contenterstellung gewährleisten. Die erstellten Inhalte werden automatisch an alle wichtigen Abmessungen angepasst, um eine optimale Darstellung auf verschiedenen Plattformen sicherzustellen. Zusätzlich zur Erstellung statischer Inhalte ermöglicht Mate auch die automatische Animation aller Templates. Um standortübergreifend eine reibungslose Zusammenarbeit zu gewährleisten, bietet Mate die Möglichkeit der Erstellung von Subsworkspaces für weitere Unternehmensstandorte/-abteilungen sowie eine nahtlose Integration der unternehmensinternen Bilddatenbank. Das übersichtliche Rechte- und Rollenmanagement im Freigabeprozess sorgt für klare Zuständigkeiten.
Angel Investor
Sep 2023
SUMM AI is the "Google Translate" for Easy Language: Our AI-powered tool makes complex text easy to understand and accessible for everyone at the click of a button. More info: www.summ-ai.com
Angel Investor
Jul 2023
Mit Startup Insider entsteht ein neues Branchenportal für die Startup-Szene in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz. Hier findet man Nachrichten aus allen Regionen und Industrien sowie eine Übersicht der wichtigsten Akteure und Events der deutschsprachigen Startup-Welt. Die Mission von Startup Insider ist es, Startups auf ihrem Weg zum Erfolg zu unterstützen. Wir helfen Startups und Grownups beim Knüpfen von Kontakten zu Investoren und Kunden, bei der Suche nach neuen Mitarbeitern oder durch mediale Sichtbarkeit auf Events oder Online, in Print oder Newslettern.
Angel Investor
2023
comstruct is the platform for construction companies to digitize and automate their materials purchasing. All delivery notes, invoices and orders are exchanged digitally with material suppliers. Follow-up processes such as invoice approval are automated. All purchasing data is made available for documentation, analysis and process optimization.
early stageConstruction
Angel Investor
2023
Demoboost helps software companies deliver demo experience that sells. Presales, sales, marketing and customer success teams use Demoboost to easily and quickly prepare, share and track product demos with their customers. They avoid spending a lot of time preparing demos or relying on generic ones, frustrating customers with long wait times and stressing about unstable infrastructure. Instead, they use Demoboost and enjoy more effective teams, happier customers and better bottom line. Come and join the demo experience revolution.
Angel Investor
2022
Stop tweaking Google Analytics, Hubspot, Salesforce and your BI Dashboard around. They weren't made for this. Jaxx offers complete Bowtie Revenue Metrics over the full customer journey for the SaaS Industry. Out of the box. Just like this.
Angel Investor
2022
Notch is digital workspace for buyer-seller collaboration, to improve the b2b buying experience from the first sales call to customers onboarding.
Angel Investor
2022
💥 Qualified engineers lose valuable time preparing data instead of innovating. 💥 Multi-CAD, legacy data, incompatible software tools, and imperfect import functions are an obstacle to digital consistency. 💥 Preparing and evaluating a large number of customer inquiries consumes a large part of the time in sales. ✅ clous solves exactly these problems for you! With automated workflows, we offer a solution for your very individual problem and give your team back time for the activities that maximize their progress! For this we rely on our clous.engine. The clous.engine is the platform for the implementation of individual workflows for the automated conversion, enrichment, manipulation and analysis of engineering data. It takes over, automates your workflows and completes them in no time. This allows you to regain the valuable time of your highly qualified experts, which is all too often wasted in repetitive and non-innovative activities. Thanks to hybrid automation, we can also significantly reduce the error-proneness of the processes. You can use the clous.engine in an uncomplicated way web-based, via Windows app or via direct connection to your IT. Thanks to a high level of transparency, you retain an overview of all processes and we ensure maximum security of your data with the latest encryption technologies. ℹ️ We automate your processes with preconfigured workflows: 2D to 3D conversion (neutral to native, neutral to neutral), 3D to 3D (neutral to native, native to native), PMI annotation, model optimization for CNC manufacturing, data extraction from 2D and 3D, drawing derivation 3D to 2D, manufacturability analysis, coloring of 3D surfaces. Learn more about clous on our website. We would be happy to discuss your individual challenges in a personal video call ⬇️. https://go.clous.io/meetings/claasblume/15-minuten-besprechung
Angel Investor
2022
Transform your LinkedIn Go-To-Market efforts into a powerhouse of social selling. Turn cold outbound into warm inbound in three powerful steps: **Tactical Networking** Tons Of “impressions” but not meetings? Fix your network of random contacts that are not your target group. No more friends, family, and ex-workers. Get in front of the right people. Launch targeted connection campaigns automatically and grow your team’s network. **People and Keyword Tracker:** Never miss a conversation. Track profiles and keywords to always join the convo when it matters. Engage with the right people at the right time and build social credibility. **The Lead Harvest:** Reap the rewards of all your social hustle on LinkedIn in a transparent list of enriched contacts. It contains all contacts on LinkedIn that have interacted with you and your team. The profile visitors, the comment likers, the post commenters - everyone. Say goodbye to spreadsheets and manual tracking. Qualify all your leads and import them directly into your CRM. Get Teamfluence now and start leveraging the social network of your B2B team! Want to know more? Visit our website!
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2025
Angel Investor
Jun 2025
Bauprojektmanagement auf Autopilot.
Expert for Founder-led Sales & GTM
Jun 2025
Revenue systems have become a complex given. They now require both a generalist and a full team of specialists to help your team design, build, and scale them properly, via a holistic approach. The GTM Syndicate is an international collective of Europe’s best-known domain experts - assembled by a leading generalist and Revenue Architect. We bring deep expertise across 13 critical GTM disciplines, operating as one unified team. Standing behind one single belief: modern revenue systems are like houses - you don’t fix them with one tool or one contractor. Because most challenges today touch multiple domains. We work as a long-term, end-to-end partner, to help B2B technology companies design, operate, and optimize their entire revenue system - across all motions and growth stages. The GTM Syndicate can help you by working on: - Marketing - Sales - Customer Success - Partnerships - Revenue Operations And specific domains of expertise: - AI Workflows & Automation - Revenue Architecture - CRM (Salesforce or Hubspot) - Pricing & Packaging - ABM or Account-based Marketing - ICP or Ideal Customer Profile - Data & Growth Model Let’s talk if your revenue system needs a rethink, a rebuild - or a real upgrade.
2024
Angel Investor
Dec 2024
Not "yet another email & phone finder". We aggregate contact infos from 20+ premium vendors. This means that if we can’t find the emails & phone numbers of your leads, no one else can. Enrich leads your way with our Bulk CSV enrichment, or our CRMs, Zapier, n8n and Make integrations.
Angel Investor
Sep 2024
We are committed to rewrite the data usage in early phase drug discoveries to rapidly meet todays unmet medical needs with greater certainty. Our cutting-edge software solution contextualizes Multiomics data to significantly lower the risks of key decisions on targets and diseases. With 80% of data context often overlooked, we harness Multiomics data to significantly de-risk research and enhance decision-making on disease markers, targets, and target-indication fits before entering clinical phases. Our Cellmap technology offers unmatched flexibility, being fluent across all biological data types, and streamlines research and insights to advance therapeutic strategies. By rapidly unlocking both private and public data, we break down traditional barriers to data contextualization, speeding up outcomes and deepening therapeutic understanding. knowing01 is more than a software; we are a strategic partner to rewrite your R&D data-to-outcome process. Together we will overcome tomorrows medical challenges. Better research = Better health Follow us. Join us on our journey. --- Under the hood-technologies – Our technology ranges from knowledge graphs, machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI). Our core technology effortless establishes billions of links in Big Data supporting the step getting from information to insight. --- Behind the scenes – knowing01s founding team combines a strong vision with proven expertise in research, deep tech, software and commercial experience. We commercialise IP from Helmholtz Munich, Germany.
Angel Investor
Jul 2024
VoiceLine is transforming the efficiency of field sales operations through cutting-edge voice collaboration and AI technology. Our mission is to liberate professionals from cumbersome administrative tasks, enabling true freedom and optimal performance every day. We are pioneering in the field of voice and AI, aiming to facilitate knowledge capture in the field and providing a competitive edge in understanding the market dynamics for sales professionals.
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