Rolf Christof Dienst

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📍 Munich (County), Bavaria, Germany🔄 Updated October 2026💼 6 investments📅 17 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2016
VC🌍 Germany
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Board Member
2016
Dennemeyer Octimine is a leading provider of cutting-edge technology in the field of semantic and statistical patent analysis and information retrieval. Our easy to use SaaS platform improves the process of patent search and analysis considerably. Our applications of machine learning and deep learning make relevant information easily accessible and enhance patent data-based insights and decisions. Based on extensive technological and scientific research, Octimine was founded by former LMU Munich, and Max-Planck Institute inventors. Our customers include big publicly listed companies, as well as small and medium enterprises, patent attorneys, patent engineers as well as patent offices. We enable our customers to optimize their IP management and to achieve the optimal return out of their assets.
Board Member
2015
Our mission: We free travelers from wasting time & money on travel planning ever again. We believe the future of travel is not search & compare but a delightful conversation to instantly create personalized trips that match your unique style & personal preferences. That’s why we’ve built an interface-agnostic conversation engine powered by advanced statistics & deep learning methods to decode your travel intent faster & better than anyone else. The purpose? To magically deliver perfectly tailored travel experiences instantly to your inbox. Free, transparent & directly bookable.
Board Member
2015
KINEXON stands for connected and automated operations in manufacturing, logistics, sports and media organizations. Our full IoT-stack, which includes state-of-the-art cloud solutions, translates physical worlds into digital twins and provides intuitive tools to identify, optimize and automate processes. Through our leading solutions we enable our customers to achieve next-level performance, efficiency and sustainability. 360-degree connectivity also seamlessly integrates into existing IT infrastructures and allows to realize individual applications. As a full-stack provider, KINEXON covers the entire range of sensors, cloud-software, consulting, and service. In addition, KINEXON possesses profound vertical expertise in manufacturing, logistics, professional sports, and media. Among the clients are top international sports clubs from the NBA, NHL, NFL, Bundesliga, DEL, BBL, and HBL, globally active companies including BMW, Continental, Zalando, and Red Bull, as well as high-reach media enterprises such as Red Bull Mediahouse and Sky. KINEXON has received several awards for its innovative solutions – for example, KINEXON won the awards for most innovative tech company in Bavaria, several IoT Awards in the US, and and "best young tech company" at the "Factory of the Year" awards, organized by A.T. Kearney and the industry journal “Die Produktion.” KINEXON was founded by Dr. Alexander Hüttenbrink and Dr. Oliver Trinchera, former scientists of the Technical University of Munich. The headquarters in Munich, as well as the US offices in Chicago currently employ around 300 people. For more information check https://kinexon.com/ Imprint: https://kinexon.com/imprint/
Board Member
2014
We are private capital’s extended middle office and beyond – we combine sophisticated technology with expert skills to create consistent data sets from multiple data streams and deliver the industrys most advanced performance book of records. Our platform is a versatile and secure hub for data insights, process automation, document logistics, multi-party collaboration and oversight. Our services enable private capital investors to free up their own resources for making investment decisions, benefit from our secure IT system and state-of-the-art analytics, and increase in-house transparency for optimal decision-making. AssetMetrix is a spin-off from a fund-of-funds asset manager. Key members of our team bring up to 25 years of experience in alternative assets, many having previously worked in organizations very similar to those of our clients. Skill and experience are two key success factors in our effort to excel. AssetMetrix currently administers portfolios with a total volume of over 72 billion, more than 1.600 funds and more than 6.200 users on the platform. AssetMetrix GmbH - Theresienhöhe 13 - D-80339 Munich - +49 89 543 28 80 0 www.asset-metrix.com
Board Member
2012
Bei Wegatech geben über 200 Mitarbeitende jeden Tag ihr Bestes, um dem Klimawandel die Stirn zu bieten. Unsere Vision: Jedem Hauseigentümer die Möglichkeit geben, sein Zuhause in ein rentables Ökokraftwerk zu verwandeln. Dafür haben wir seit 2010 bereits über 3.000 Kundenprojekte bestehend aus Photovoltaikanlage, Stromspeicher, Wärmepumpe und/oder Wallboxen realisiert. Wegatech bietet einen digitalen, einfachen, schnellen und transparenten Weg zum erneuerbaren Energiesystem. Du bist auf der Suche nach einer neuen Herausforderung und möchtest die Welt ein bisschen besser machen? Dann schau auf unserer Karriereseite vorbei! https://www.wegatech.de/karriere/
Board Member
2009
The Company ‘bettermarks GmbH’ • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Our goal is to improve maths education worldwide. Therefor bettermarks enables personalized maths learning online. » Founded in 2008 by Arndt Kwiatkowski, Marianne Voigt und Christophe Spéroni » Located in Berlin, Germany » Working with a team of more than 80 teachers, content creators and software specialists The Product: Adaptive Learning for Mathematics • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • bettermarks is an online solution for learning maths at primary and secondary level, providing a powerful learning experience where students can consolidate their maths skills and achieve “better marks”. Teachers and parents are integrated in the process with a comprehensive set of features and reports. » Over 100 interactive maths books » Covering primary and secondary level (grades 4 - 10; age 10 - 16) » More than 100,000 questions with explanations » Help available for every exercise step » Automatic marking and result evaluation » Available in German, English, Spanish The content created by bettermarks offers state-of-the-art interaction tools, tailored to reach the widest range of learning abilities: » bettermarks offers a learning experience that goes beyond “correct” or “incorrect” » bettermarks analyzes all answers in depth, to detect the root cause of errors and/or to propose alternative resolution paths and improvements, thus guiding each student individually and adaptively » bettermarks helps teachers to manage different ability levels in the classroom
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2016
Board Member
2016
Dennemeyer Octimine is a leading provider of cutting-edge technology in the field of semantic and statistical patent analysis and information retrieval. Our easy to use SaaS platform improves the process of patent search and analysis considerably. Our applications of machine learning and deep learning make relevant information easily accessible and enhance patent data-based insights and decisions. Based on extensive technological and scientific research, Octimine was founded by former LMU Munich, and Max-Planck Institute inventors. Our customers include big publicly listed companies, as well as small and medium enterprises, patent attorneys, patent engineers as well as patent offices. We enable our customers to optimize their IP management and to achieve the optimal return out of their assets.
2015
Board Member
2015
Our mission: We free travelers from wasting time & money on travel planning ever again. We believe the future of travel is not search & compare but a delightful conversation to instantly create personalized trips that match your unique style & personal preferences. That’s why we’ve built an interface-agnostic conversation engine powered by advanced statistics & deep learning methods to decode your travel intent faster & better than anyone else. The purpose? To magically deliver perfectly tailored travel experiences instantly to your inbox. Free, transparent & directly bookable.
Board Member
2015
KINEXON stands for connected and automated operations in manufacturing, logistics, sports and media organizations. Our full IoT-stack, which includes state-of-the-art cloud solutions, translates physical worlds into digital twins and provides intuitive tools to identify, optimize and automate processes. Through our leading solutions we enable our customers to achieve next-level performance, efficiency and sustainability. 360-degree connectivity also seamlessly integrates into existing IT infrastructures and allows to realize individual applications. As a full-stack provider, KINEXON covers the entire range of sensors, cloud-software, consulting, and service. In addition, KINEXON possesses profound vertical expertise in manufacturing, logistics, professional sports, and media. Among the clients are top international sports clubs from the NBA, NHL, NFL, Bundesliga, DEL, BBL, and HBL, globally active companies including BMW, Continental, Zalando, and Red Bull, as well as high-reach media enterprises such as Red Bull Mediahouse and Sky. KINEXON has received several awards for its innovative solutions – for example, KINEXON won the awards for most innovative tech company in Bavaria, several IoT Awards in the US, and and "best young tech company" at the "Factory of the Year" awards, organized by A.T. Kearney and the industry journal “Die Produktion.” KINEXON was founded by Dr. Alexander Hüttenbrink and Dr. Oliver Trinchera, former scientists of the Technical University of Munich. The headquarters in Munich, as well as the US offices in Chicago currently employ around 300 people. For more information check https://kinexon.com/ Imprint: https://kinexon.com/imprint/
2014
Board Member
2014
We are private capital’s extended middle office and beyond – we combine sophisticated technology with expert skills to create consistent data sets from multiple data streams and deliver the industrys most advanced performance book of records. Our platform is a versatile and secure hub for data insights, process automation, document logistics, multi-party collaboration and oversight. Our services enable private capital investors to free up their own resources for making investment decisions, benefit from our secure IT system and state-of-the-art analytics, and increase in-house transparency for optimal decision-making. AssetMetrix is a spin-off from a fund-of-funds asset manager. Key members of our team bring up to 25 years of experience in alternative assets, many having previously worked in organizations very similar to those of our clients. Skill and experience are two key success factors in our effort to excel. AssetMetrix currently administers portfolios with a total volume of over 72 billion, more than 1.600 funds and more than 6.200 users on the platform. AssetMetrix GmbH - Theresienhöhe 13 - D-80339 Munich - +49 89 543 28 80 0 www.asset-metrix.com
2012
Board Member
2012
Bei Wegatech geben über 200 Mitarbeitende jeden Tag ihr Bestes, um dem Klimawandel die Stirn zu bieten. Unsere Vision: Jedem Hauseigentümer die Möglichkeit geben, sein Zuhause in ein rentables Ökokraftwerk zu verwandeln. Dafür haben wir seit 2010 bereits über 3.000 Kundenprojekte bestehend aus Photovoltaikanlage, Stromspeicher, Wärmepumpe und/oder Wallboxen realisiert. Wegatech bietet einen digitalen, einfachen, schnellen und transparenten Weg zum erneuerbaren Energiesystem. Du bist auf der Suche nach einer neuen Herausforderung und möchtest die Welt ein bisschen besser machen? Dann schau auf unserer Karriereseite vorbei! https://www.wegatech.de/karriere/
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