Dieter Büttenbender

Venture Clienting for SMEs, Innovation Ecosystems - Open Strategy

📍 Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 19 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2019
VC🌍 Germany
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Strategic Advisor & Shareholder
Apr 2019
Bankify is a technology company that unlocks digital banking opportunities by providing services that are driven by customer’s need for personalization, social impact and gamification. Bankify platform brings together everything that is required to build sustainable finances for customers. Open Banking and AI is used to personalize the customer experience and to combine customers’ ambitions with affordability.
Angel Investor
Apr 2019
Twikit stands at the forefront of advanced 3D product configurator workflows linked directly to manufacturing, serving a broad spectrum of industries including retail, fashion, and automotive. Twikits software platform specializes in handling complex product configurations, meeting detailed customization needs, and integrating smoothly with the latest manufacturing technologies. Twikit provides the flexibility and scalability your business requires to offer end-to-end, immersive product configuration experiences.
Shareholder & Business Angel -Exit-
Jan 2007
Die DeinDesign GmbH hat sich seit Gründung im Jahr 2006 auf die Individualisierung von elektronischen Geräten wie Smartphone, Tablet, Notebook, Spielkonsolen und Co. spezialisiert. Das Produktportfolio umfasst Hüllen/Cases, Taschen und Designfolien für über 3.000 verschiedene Geräte aus unterschiedlichen Materialien und für verschiedene Anwendungen. Alle Produkte werden am Standort Bad Kreuznach (RLP) mittels speziell entwickelter Produktionsverfahren “on demand” personalisiert und innerhalb von 24h weltweit versendet. Über die Webseite www.deindesign.com können Kunden ihre Hüllen und Taschen mit eigenen Fotos selbst gestalten oder aus einem Motivportfolio von über 4.000 Designs auswählen. Hierzu zählen u.a Designs von Walt Disney, STAR WARS, diverse Vereine der deutschen Fußball Bundesliga, Youtube-Stars, Musiker sowie viele weitere Lifestyle- oder Fashion-Brands. Alle Prozesse werden mit ca. 100 Mitarbeitern aus diversen Fachrichtungen intern entwickelt und abgebildet. Von der Produktentwicklung hin zur Fertigungstechnologie bis zum Webshop mit Design-Editor. Durch diesen ganzheitlichen Ansatz hat sich DeinDesign in einem sehr dynamischen Marktsegment als Innovationsführer etabliert. Hierfür wurde DeinDesign bereits zwei mal mit dem Branchenaward “Druck&Medien” ausgezeichnet. Im Jahr 2010 für das “E-Business Modell des Jahres” und 2014 in der Kategorie “Innovativstes Unternehmen”. Seit Juli 2015 ist DeinDesign ein Tochterunternehmen der CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA. https://www.deindesign.de/de/impressum
Experience · 6 entries
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2021
Senior Advisor
Jan 2021
ABOUT THE IMP THINKTANK IMP is an international think-tank that sets itself apart with a unique network and a wealth of strategically relevant expertise. We implement new, forward-looking solutions and strategies: Business models with unique, coherent and sustainable logic are the focus of our strategy work. Our networked, integrative approach – which we use to make a holistic assessment of our customer’s business – enables us to develop NETWORKED CLIENT SOLUTIONS. Our expertise encompasses the disciplines innovation excellence, value chain excellence and client and marketing excellence aligned with the business model, i.e., the strategic excellence at hand. WHAT MAKES US EXCEPTIONAL: With our connections to the best minds in business and science we have ensured ourselves access to the latest findings (developing know-how), which we then pass on in conceptual as well as in event format (exchanging know-how) or integrate into our real-time consulting projects (applying know-how).
2019
Strategic Advisor & Shareholder
Apr 2019
Bankify is a technology company that unlocks digital banking opportunities by providing services that are driven by customer’s need for personalization, social impact and gamification. Bankify platform brings together everything that is required to build sustainable finances for customers. Open Banking and AI is used to personalize the customer experience and to combine customers’ ambitions with affordability.
Angel Investor
Apr 2019
Twikit stands at the forefront of advanced 3D product configurator workflows linked directly to manufacturing, serving a broad spectrum of industries including retail, fashion, and automotive. Twikits software platform specializes in handling complex product configurations, meeting detailed customization needs, and integrating smoothly with the latest manufacturing technologies. Twikit provides the flexibility and scalability your business requires to offer end-to-end, immersive product configuration experiences.
2018
Owner
Jan 2018
Advisor to Startups and Enterprises related to Business Development, Go-to-Market with innovative solutions (software & Services) driven business model in B2B markets. Helping Enterprise and Corporate to build and manage Innovation Ecosystems. M&A background and Startup Scouting for Enterprises.
2014
Managing Partner & CEO -Exit-
Dec 2014
Designbar Solutions enables businesses to offer personalized accessories at their Points-of-Sale or at Point-of-Interest. Their Designbar systems allow consumers to design accessories like cases and bags for their electronic devices and have them produced on-site within minutes. Designbar Solutions provides business customers end-to-end with everything they need in order to get started with their right away.
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