Florian Calmbach

Serial Entrepreneur | Investor | Managing Director

📍 Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2013
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Co-Founder | Investor
Sep 2013
Vitafy Brands is driven by enthusiastic sports and food lovers, who strive to lead you through the jungle of nutrition products and who create the perfect products for a fit and healthy lifestyle. Delivered to our customers directly from our online platforms. We are a growing family of food labels, committed to help you become a healthier, a fitter, a better you. Did you know, that becoming the healthiest, fittest version of yourself not only depends on training, but at least as much on the right nutrition? Join our team! https://vitafybrands.de/#section-jobs
early stageManufacturing
Co-Founder | Investor
Jan 2013
ALPHAPET VENTURES DIGITISES THE PET MARKET AlphaPet Ventures GmbH is a technology-driven brand platform that stands for the digitalisation of the pet market as well as the successful brand building and multi-channel distribution of premium pet food. The AlphaPet Ventures brand portfolio comprises eight premium brands, including Wolfsblut, Wildes Land, PRIMUM and Müller’s Naturhof. The brands belonging to AlphaPet are sold through the in-house multi-brand shops petspremium.de and hundeland.de as well as through the mono-brand shops wolfsblut.com and wildes-land.de. Through the AlphaPet platform and the four connected eCommerce shops, AlphaPet now has direct access to over one million end customers in direct sales. The subsidiary Premium Pet Products GmbH is the sales company and contact for all B2B partners and offline retailers. With its 20-strong office and field sales team, it already serves more than 1,200 independent specialist retailers, key accounts / partners such as Fressnapf, Hagebau, EDEKA, dm and many more – with a total of more than 13,000 connected point-of-sales. Through its digital roots and platforms, AlphaPet Ventures has developed strong expertise in digital brand building. AlpahPet’s core areas can be summarised as (digital) brand building, multi-channel distribution and brand platform services & scaling.
Managing Partner | Investor | Serial Entrepreneur
Jan 2013
Venture Stars is a Munich based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in innovative, digital B2C and B2B business models. The team of serial internet entrepreneurs currently manages its third fund and typically invests €500k – 1.5m EUR initially and up to 4m in total per company. Having started as an incubator, Venture Stars has a tradition of working very closely with the founders of its portfolio companies. Venture Stars’ support goes beyond capital and includes know-how, network and operational manpower on topics such as strategy, organizational development, financing and exit.
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2022
Managing Director | Geschäftsführender Gesellschafter
Apr 2022
Modernizing working environments since 1841! As a full-service partner, we develop customized solutions for your workplace – in the office, in the home office, or in the doctors office – with the help of customized concepts, targeted digitization, and needs-based services. For this purpose, more than 170 employees of Erhardt Bürowelt and Erhardt & Fischer combine their expertise to offer you innovative IT services, modern office technology, advanced furnishing concepts and smart procurement of C-items and advertising materials. The combination of extensive experience and proven best practices, innovative technologies and a powerful network makes us the partner of choice in Modern Work for regional and national customers in the southwest.
2013
Co-Founder | Investor
Sep 2013
Vitafy Brands is driven by enthusiastic sports and food lovers, who strive to lead you through the jungle of nutrition products and who create the perfect products for a fit and healthy lifestyle. Delivered to our customers directly from our online platforms. We are a growing family of food labels, committed to help you become a healthier, a fitter, a better you. Did you know, that becoming the healthiest, fittest version of yourself not only depends on training, but at least as much on the right nutrition? Join our team! https://vitafybrands.de/#section-jobs
early stageManufacturing
Co-Founder | Investor
Jan 2013
ALPHAPET VENTURES DIGITISES THE PET MARKET AlphaPet Ventures GmbH is a technology-driven brand platform that stands for the digitalisation of the pet market as well as the successful brand building and multi-channel distribution of premium pet food. The AlphaPet Ventures brand portfolio comprises eight premium brands, including Wolfsblut, Wildes Land, PRIMUM and Müller’s Naturhof. The brands belonging to AlphaPet are sold through the in-house multi-brand shops petspremium.de and hundeland.de as well as through the mono-brand shops wolfsblut.com and wildes-land.de. Through the AlphaPet platform and the four connected eCommerce shops, AlphaPet now has direct access to over one million end customers in direct sales. The subsidiary Premium Pet Products GmbH is the sales company and contact for all B2B partners and offline retailers. With its 20-strong office and field sales team, it already serves more than 1,200 independent specialist retailers, key accounts / partners such as Fressnapf, Hagebau, EDEKA, dm and many more – with a total of more than 13,000 connected point-of-sales. Through its digital roots and platforms, AlphaPet Ventures has developed strong expertise in digital brand building. AlpahPet’s core areas can be summarised as (digital) brand building, multi-channel distribution and brand platform services & scaling.
Managing Partner | Investor | Serial Entrepreneur
Jan 2013
Venture Stars is a Munich based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in innovative, digital B2C and B2B business models. The team of serial internet entrepreneurs currently manages its third fund and typically invests €500k – 1.5m EUR initially and up to 4m in total per company. Having started as an incubator, Venture Stars has a tradition of working very closely with the founders of its portfolio companies. Venture Stars’ support goes beyond capital and includes know-how, network and operational manpower on topics such as strategy, organizational development, financing and exit.