Johann Völkers

Investor & Strategic Partner

📍 Greater Hamburg Area, Germany🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2017𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 Germany
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Changemaker & Investor
Jan 2017
Learnlife is an innovative Learntech organization that is revolutionizing how learning happens, based on research and science. We are transforming education worldwide by empowering personal learning experiences and a community of lifelong learners based on positive relationships.
Entrepreneur / Investor
2009
mytaxi was founded in June 2009 and was the world’s first taxi app that established a direct connection between a passenger and a taxi driver. With more than 10 million passengers and 100,000 drivers, mytaxi is the leading taxi e-hailing app in Europe. Since February 2019, mytaxi is part of the FREE NOW group, the ride-hailing joint venture of BMW and Daimler. Within 2019, mytaxi will rebrand to FREE NOW. mytaxi today works with 600 employees in 26 offices and is available in around 100 European cities. Eckart Diepenhorst is the CEO of mytaxi. More information is available at www.mytaxi.com Join a fun, global team of top engineers and seasoned entrepreneurs for the challenge of a lifetime. We strive to be passionate yet practical, driven but focused and visionary but humble. Our employees are routinely challenged to solve large-scale, highly complex technical problems. As a new "family member"​ you will be stretched, but will learn best practice at scale in our creative and fun environment!
Founding Investor / Founding Partner
2009
FREENOW is Europe’s multi-mobility app with taxi offering at its core, available in 9 European markets and over 150 cities. Its users can access various mobility services within a single app, including taxis, PHV, carsharing, car rental, eScooters, eBikes, eMopeds and public transport. FREENOW partners with numerous mobility brands and aggregates their offering with the ambition to make urban mobility more efficient and sustainable without adding new vehicles on the street. FREENOW is backed by its shareholders: BMW Group and Mercedes-Benz Mobility. FREENOW’s HQ is located in Hamburg and the company is led by CEO Thomas Zimmermann.
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2025
2017
Changemaker & Investor
Jan 2017
Learnlife is an innovative Learntech organization that is revolutionizing how learning happens, based on research and science. We are transforming education worldwide by empowering personal learning experiences and a community of lifelong learners based on positive relationships.
2016
ORBIT - orbitdigital.de
CEO Founder
Jan 2016
2015
Entrepreneur / Investor
2015
What is characteristic about Outbank? We are a team of experts from all over the world. We are inspired by the vision to revolutionize mobile banking. As a team, we connect people with thousands of banks, support them with their daily wealth management and bring them complete financial freedom. As a team, we work on an app that makes us proud. For over 15 years we have been committed to making our users’ banking experience easier, safer, and more mobile. We want to help you better understand your own finances. Outbank is one of the leading personal finance management apps in the German market. Since 2005, the app helps its users to clarify their own financial position. By using Outbank, users will be able to identify savings potential in they spending and get alternatives to expensive contracts. The core of the app lies in the clear presentation of the financial data of a user from over 4,000 connected financial institutions. Secure mobile banking, overview of fixed costs, budget planning, contract termination and change, and financial analysis – all this is what Outbank offers for iOS, macOS and Android. Outbank acts as an independent development and product team of Verivox GmbH based in Munich.
2009
Entrepreneur / Investor
2009
mytaxi was founded in June 2009 and was the world’s first taxi app that established a direct connection between a passenger and a taxi driver. With more than 10 million passengers and 100,000 drivers, mytaxi is the leading taxi e-hailing app in Europe. Since February 2019, mytaxi is part of the FREE NOW group, the ride-hailing joint venture of BMW and Daimler. Within 2019, mytaxi will rebrand to FREE NOW. mytaxi today works with 600 employees in 26 offices and is available in around 100 European cities. Eckart Diepenhorst is the CEO of mytaxi. More information is available at www.mytaxi.com Join a fun, global team of top engineers and seasoned entrepreneurs for the challenge of a lifetime. We strive to be passionate yet practical, driven but focused and visionary but humble. Our employees are routinely challenged to solve large-scale, highly complex technical problems. As a new "family member"​ you will be stretched, but will learn best practice at scale in our creative and fun environment!
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2009–2017 · 4 investments
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