Lars Buch

Strategic Advisor on Leadership, Transition & Institutional Change | Venture Builder | Trusted Partner in Complex Transformations

📍 United Arab Emirates, United Arab Emirates🔄 Updated September 2026💼 6 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Jan 2025
Most traditional companies build armies of specialists inside legacy structures, but a new breed of extremely competitive companies (autonomous businesses) are now taking global market lead via building small teams of strategic orchestrators powered by a completely new (AI-based) operating system for enabling exponential growth. Thus we created mangroveDLT, a venture client firm focused on 1) supercharging corporate opportunities across industries via leapfrogging of business systems with emerging technologies related to artificial intelligence, financial technology, digital assets|web3 and digital experience, and in parallel 2) exponentially boosting emerging technology ventures (autonomous businesses) via structured and innovative go-to-market building for high-volume niche market dominance with corporate players -- enabling impactful thrive for everyone!
Board Member
Jul 2021
AiFlux aims to be an integral part of the digital transformation for the safe and productive management of heavy assets and resources deployed in harsh environments – namely for the energy sector. Our mission is to unlock the true potential of our customer’s assets, by improving their utilization in the short and long term across their entire lifecycle.
Board Member
Dec 2019
Cardiolyse is a cloud ECG & HRV analytics platform, that enables real-time remote heart health monitoring, providing plain personalized reports, detection and up to two months data-based prognosis on dangerous heart events. Our groundbreaking ECG analytic technology enables people 45+, their families, healthcare providers and insurance companies: - To get in-depth snapshot of cardiovascular system state and to monitor its trend; - Allows making six-month forecast of serious cardiovascular events; - To learn how current lifestyle is interconnected with heart conditions.
Board Member
2013
The Eye Tribe enables eye control on mobile devices and computers, allowing hands-free navigation of websites and apps, eye activated log in, enhanced gaming experiences, and cloud-based user engagement analytics. We utilize standard low-cost hardware components that can be integrated into the next generation of smartphones and tablets.
Board Member
Nov 2012
DARE2 is founded on the principles of the Experience Transformation Economy and Exponential Organizations. We guide companies, organizations and individuals in creating POSITIVE IMPACT. In other words, we create deep, qualitative insights into the experience you provide, explore your full potential for optimization, connect you with the right people, and train, guide and inspire you and your people to excellence. DARE2 believes in the power of diversity. Therefore, we have created a strong network organization with DARE2associates all over the world – all passionate frontrunners in their fields of expertise. We also have a house full of amazing entrepreneurs that love to play. Thus, we provide you with the possibility of always working with the right tools and the best people – even the ones that might disrupt you. To support the growth of early stage entrepreneurs and support corporate innovation on the edges we have created thinkubator - a corporate funded accelerator program that doesnt take equity from the startups, but learn from the brainpower of the entrepreneurs instead. (http://www.thinkubator.dk) We are proud founders of DARE2network, which brings together a diverse group of DARE, CARE, SHARE people. They all meet to personally grow and to have POSITIVE IMPACT on our society through non-profit projects as The STARTUP BUZZ for entrepreneurs and the annual DARE2award that supports Positive Impact Initiatives. Along with the coolest people we know, we work and play in our Home of Opportunity: DARE2mansion - our 1300 m2 Professional Playground in Copenhagen. We have office space, meeting & conference facilities, a café and sooo much more. Come play: http://www.facebook.com/DARE2mansion & http://www.DARE2mansion.com
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2025
Investor
Jan 2025
Most traditional companies build armies of specialists inside legacy structures, but a new breed of extremely competitive companies (autonomous businesses) are now taking global market lead via building small teams of strategic orchestrators powered by a completely new (AI-based) operating system for enabling exponential growth. Thus we created mangroveDLT, a venture client firm focused on 1) supercharging corporate opportunities across industries via leapfrogging of business systems with emerging technologies related to artificial intelligence, financial technology, digital assets|web3 and digital experience, and in parallel 2) exponentially boosting emerging technology ventures (autonomous businesses) via structured and innovative go-to-market building for high-volume niche market dominance with corporate players -- enabling impactful thrive for everyone!
2024
Senior Investment Advisor
Mar 2024
We are an Abu Dhabi based community of people helping traditional companies accelerate digital growth
Venture Partner
Feb 2024
Venturerock is an all-in-one investment and venture building platform on a mission to solve venture liquidity through radical transparency and digitization. We align the interests of founders, investors and venture builders, from seed to scale and beyond, through a shared liquidity infrastructure and AI-powered evidence-based investment and venture building methodology. Our lifeblood - advancing technology, science, and innovation into the next generation of global tech companies. We invest in five proprietary Venture Studios, dedicated to building and scaling ventures across Value and Supply Chains; Sports, Media and Culture; Deeptech; AI and Urban innovation.
2022
General Partner
Dec 2022
Anchors Ventures Holding (AVH) is a multinational private equity firm based in Sydney, Australia. Its focus is on developing technological and industrial solutions for different businesses and companies around the world, creating a smooth transition to digitalization. AVH UAE facilitate investment and open doors to the regional markets, facilitate in generating hard-to-acquire leads, local and regional expert guidance and offer long-term collaborations for growth. Our goal goes beyond value creation and extends making a tangible contribution to market development while expanding the region’s investible universe.
Co-Founder
Nov 2022
We unite stakeholders, remove barriers and guarantee safety to truly scale Real Estate as an accessible asset class for one billion micro investors Globally The Fractional Real Estate Market Place that serves them all.....going live Q2
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