🇪🇺 Dear Europe, please wake up – eu/acc | Andreas Klinger
Talks about Europe's economic competitiveness, European startup ecosystem and Risk mentality in Europe
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Andreas Klinger
Founder of Prototype Capital
Berlin, Berlin
Overview
Andreas Klinger is a recovering technical founder and solo-GP investor with Prototype Capital, investing in pre-seed and seed stages in sectors like Future of Work and Developer Tools. With a background including roles at companies like CoinList and Product Hunt, he has successfully invested in companies such as Luma AI and Softr, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship and angel investing.
Work Experience
Founder & Investor
2024 - Current
Solo GP Fund Investing in Cool Stuff, Hard Stuff, Weird Stuff – globally.
Pre-seed & Seed Investor
2019 - 2024
www.remotefirstcapital.com Pre-seed and seed investor in companies like hopin.com, remote.com, mainstreet.com, beondeck.com, commsor.com, joinclubhouse.com, qatalog.com, and many more
Investing in companies that improve remote work or that leverage global work in a unique way.
CTO
2020 - 2022
On Deck is a community platform designed to develop different ideas and build companies.
Raised $20,000,000.00 from Pioneer Fund.
Head of Remote
2019 - 2020
AngelList acquired Product Hunt beginning of 2017. At first i focused on the integration of Product Hunt, then helped building up teams – eg at CoinList – and beginning of 2019 i switched full-time to the AngelList Talent team.
AngelList is a U.S. website for startups, angel investors, and job-seekers looking to work at startups.
Raised $170,200,000.00 from Beyond Capital, FJ Labs, Nomad Ventures, Kyle Tibbitts, Angel Collective Opportunity Fund, Sprint Vc, Ride Home Fund, Palumni VC, Vishal Rao and Tiger Global Management.
VP Engineering
2018 - 2020
CoinList is a subsidiary of AngelList. I helped set up their product/engineering team and led the world's largest (regulated) crypto airdrop for DFINITY.
CoinList Seed is a early-stage crypto entrepreneurs to connect with the CoinList community.
CTO
2014 - 2018
Sandboxes helps build website for a new product or startup.
Co-Founder
2008 - 2014
die.socialisten.at is one of the few - by facebook - certified Preferred Marketing Developers in central europe. We specialise on Social Apps using platforms like facebook, twitter and foursquare.
Consultant for Product Metrics & Web Analytics
2013 - 2014
Co-Founder
2008 - 2012
I am Co-Founder of http://www.LOOKK.com A new way to DISCOVER and SHOP the best and newest fashion brands LOOKK is a curated social platform, connecting the best of today's contemporary fashion brands directly with the customers that matter. Fashion is changing. Join in. LOOKK was previously known as Garmz.com
Co-Founder, Publisher
2005 - 2008
Club-music print magazine published in Austria and Germany. Leading germanspeaking print media authority in the covered subculture music genres.
Education
MSc
2006 - 2009
BSc.
2002 - 2006
Engineer's degree
2000 - 2002