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Member of the Board
Jul 2022
Unabhängig davon, in welchem Stadium sich ihr Unternehmen auf der Cloud Journey befindet, wir haben passgenaue Lösungen für Ihr Business.
In Skaylink haben sich erfahrene Cloud-Pioniere zu einem neuen europäischen Cloud und Digital Transformation Anbieter zusammengeschlossen, um ihren Kunden messbare, unternehmerische Mehrwerte zu ermöglichen. Dank eigener Frameworks, Methoden und softwaregestützter Tools sorgt Skaylink für einen schnellen und sicheren Weg in die Cloud und bedient die gesamte Cloud Journey.
Board Member
Nov 2016
Lykke is a Swiss fintech company. The companies of the group offer blockchain solutions on a B2B and B2P levels. The main product is the Lykke Cryptocurrency Exchange on the market from 2015. The venue offers truly unique trading conditions since its business model is commission independent.
All traders can trade without trading fees (to taker and no maker fees), regardless of the volume they generate. At the same time, the buy-sell spreads are very minor, which make the exchange a true golden mine for high-frequency trading.
To trade with cryptocurrency bots, we integrated our trading platform with Margin, a German company providing simple crypto bots.
Apart from the favorable trading conditions, Lykke creates a whole trading ecosystem that makes it an all-in-one solution for any crypto trader:
- deposit fiat or crypto with 0 fees
- trade with limit or market orders with 0 fees
- automate your trading strategies by connecting your own bots through our API or by using the Margin integration
- store your assets in private or even cold wallets
- ask our human support any question any time
- withdraw your revenue to your bank or to another crypto venue and
- prepare your tax report with the help of our partners.
Board Member
Jan 2016
I Believe In You is the most successful sports crowdfunding platform in the world, with 90% of projects reaching their targets. Regardless of whether it is a question of amateur or top athletes, clubs or associations: I Believe In You is open to everyone and advocates for the entire breadth of sport. The platform stands for closeness to sport, high credibility and sustainability. Every day, we accompany and write countless emotional sports stories and lead them to success thanks to individual coaching. In over 2500 realised projects, we have already generated more than 17 million Swiss francs and have thus established ourselves as an important sports supporter. In addition, the in-house agency IBIY Media offers services around the digital activation of sports engagements as well as social media activities in sports (e.g. content creation or community management).
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2023
General Partner
Sep 2023
We invest in the early stages of companies that are transforming markets, creating value, and enhancing people’s lives through technology.
2022
Member of the Board
Jul 2022
Unabhängig davon, in welchem Stadium sich ihr Unternehmen auf der Cloud Journey befindet, wir haben passgenaue Lösungen für Ihr Business.
In Skaylink haben sich erfahrene Cloud-Pioniere zu einem neuen europäischen Cloud und Digital Transformation Anbieter zusammengeschlossen, um ihren Kunden messbare, unternehmerische Mehrwerte zu ermöglichen. Dank eigener Frameworks, Methoden und softwaregestützter Tools sorgt Skaylink für einen schnellen und sicheren Weg in die Cloud und bedient die gesamte Cloud Journey.
2020
Industry Expert & Operational Support
Nov 2020
Waterland is an independent private equity investment group that supports entrepreneurs in realizing their growth ambitions. With substantial financial resources and committed industry expertise, Waterland enables its portfolio companies to achieve accelerated growth both organically and through acquisitions. Waterland is an active investor in the financial, strategic and operational sense.
In the current dynamic business environment with an increasing number of mergers and acquisitions, Waterland is a partner that provides entrepreneurs with a powerful position in the increasingly competitive international arena. Since the start in 1999, the firm has made investments in more than 1100 companies. Waterland currently manages more than €14 billion of investor commitments.
Investments are made in markets with attractive characteristics for a consolidation strategy: consistent growth, sufficient size, sustainable profitability, fragmentation and (indication of) consolidation. Waterland focusses on industries that are undergoing change as a consequence of one or more of the following trends: sustainability, digitalization and outsourcing, ageing population, and leisure and wellbeing.
Waterland employs 200+ professionals. Our teams are based in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, Norway and Denmark and operate across Europe.
2018
Founder & General Partner
May 2018
We leverage our strategic network and years of experience in venture capital and entrepreneurship to help our portfolio companies build disruptive emerging technologies businesses.
Blockchain Valley Ventures is a Switzerland-based company that was launched in 2018 in the heart of the world-famous Crypto Valley. BVV came to life as a spin-off from Lykke Corporation, a pioneer in blockchain based trading.
The team, consisting of successful entrepreneurs, finance professionals and business executives, aimed to address the clear market opportunity for smart investments in the blockchain ecosystem. Through its direct investments and its advisory practice, BVV is pioneering a hybrid approach to evaluating, developing and investing into blockchain-enabled businesses.
With our unique approach we support businesses on their way to build disruptive blockchain-enabled companies.
BVV is uniquely positioned to identify the market needs associated with the future development of the global blockchain ecosystem. Through its offices in Zug, Zurich and Singapore and its unique mix of successful entrepreneurs, finance and blockchain technology experts, we are able to provide a global coverage of the advancements in the blockchain space.
Local teams, global experience.
2016
Executive Member of the Board
Dec 2016
WE CREATE A WORLD WHERE EVERYBODY CAN BE SOMEBODY.
ESL is the world's largest esports company, leading the entertainment industry with online and onsite competitions across popular games. Filling large arenas and reaching over 60% of the global audience of 165M+ (conservative 2017 estimate), esports is one the fastest growing segments of media and entertainment.
ESL evolves the esports ecosystem around games, platforms, and events, createing immersive experiences for gamers and enthusiasts, and generating huge opportunities for publishers, partners and sponsors.
ONSITE EVENTS
✔ 270,000+ event visitors in 2017
✔ 13 mega events on all 5 continents
ONLINE OPERATIONS
✔ 205M unique viewers in 2017.
✔ YoY unique viewers exceeded last year by June 2018
✔ Live video views in 2018 to approach 1 billion.
We operate high profile, branded international and national leagues and tournaments such as the Intel® Extreme Masters, ESL One, ESL Pro Series, StarCraft® II World Championship Series, as well as grassroots amateur cups, leagues and matchmaking systems.
ESL covers a broad field of services in gaming technology, event management, advertising and TV production, fully catering to the needs of the esport’s ecosystem and offering numerous opportunities for brand activation.
The company behind ESL, Turtle Entertainment, was founded in 2000. It quickly grew to be the world leader in electronic sports - esports - and is active in more than 46 different countries worldwide as of 2018. Turtle Entertainment owns the majority of the Chinese esports league PGL (Pro Gamer League).
Important business partners of ESL and Turtle Entertainment are global corporations and brands such as Intel, Mercedes, Red Bull, Paysafe, DHL, Dell, Logitech, McDonald's, MSI, Vodafone, ASUS, Blizzard Entertainment, Wargaming and many others.
Further information is available at: www.turtle-entertainment.com and at www.eslgaming.com.
Thank you for your interest in ESL!
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