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Axel Roitzsch

General Partner at Vanagon Ventures

Munich, Bavaria

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founder and General Partner

    2022 - Current

    Fueling planet-positive Frontier Tech straight from Munich

  • VP Strategic Partnerships

    2021 - 2022

    Launched the unit Strategic Partnerships which aims to forge bonds with Europe's leading technology and marketing associations, companies, tools, media and events via either collaborations or M&A.

  • Managing Director Germany

    2020 - 2021

    Sortlist is a B2B scale-up and ranked #48 on Deloittes Technology Fast 500™ (EMEA). The merger with Agenturmatching created Europe's largest marketplace in advertising and marketing with a monthly project volume of 35 million euros. During the first 12 months after joining forces we generated 2.180% of revenue growth in Germany.

  • M&A

    2021 - 2021

    Boutique management and strategy consultancy firm for companies in the technology space. Focus on general business strategy, go-to-market strategy, access to finance, venture and grant funding, m&a support on both buy and sell-side.

  • CEO & Co-Founder (Exit to Sortlist SA)

    2014 - 2020

    With a 1-year full Scholarship from German Ministry of Economic Affairs we founded the B2B-marketplace in 2015. We developed an algorithmic backed matching process for SMEs, corporates and NGOs to find their perfect advertising agencies online. Became profitable in 2019. Exit to Brussel based scale-up Sortlist SA in 2020.

  • Lecturer

    2018 - 2018

    Holding guest lectures for Business Planning in bachelor's degree Business Administration and master's degree ETD European Triple Degree at University of Excellence LMU Munich.

  • CMO

    2012 - 2013

    Soma Analytics developed the first scientifically validated smartphone app that helps companies and employees manage stress and mental health at work. Soma's assets got acquired by Hong Kong based Prenetics Group to expand its product portfolio from Genomics into behavioral health.

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