Ferry Heilemann

Founder & Partner

2021 - Current

AENU era of impact venture capital. AENU is an early-stage climate tech VC (Art. 9 SFDR) focused on Europe.

Co-Founder | Board Observer

2022

Co-Founder | Chairman of the Board

2020 - 2021

Co-Founder & CEO

2016 - 2020

Forto is the leading digital freight-forwarder in EU with > 700 team members and > $ 600 mn in capital raised. We provide our enterprise customers with transport services for global sea-, rail-and air-freight, empowered by our proprietary supply-chain-management software.

Co-Founder & Vice President

2019

We are a community of entrepreneurs, that got united by the will to counter the climate crisis with our own actions and demand more effective legislation from policy makers. Our 1400+ members represent >160.000 employees and jointly saved >850.000 t of CO2. Become part of our community at https://lfca.earth

Ambassador & Climate Champion

2017

Founders Pledge is a non-profit supporting entrepreneurs to donate a % of their exit proceeds to social causes of their choice. FP provides research & due-dili on which charities are most effective (free of charge). The global FP community includes > 1000 members that pledged > $ 3.1 bn. of which > 475 mn were already fulfilled incl. founders of Tesla, Klarna, Uber, Spotify or Farfetch.

Venture Partner

2016 - 2022

Earlybird is a pan-European early-stage VC with > € 1,5 bn in assets-under-mgmt. We backed category-leaders like N26, UI-Path, InterHyp, Smava, Peak Games, Aiven, Sennder and Isar Aerospace.

Book Author

2020 - 2021

Time for Climate Action! What are important levers to reduce emissions? How can entrepreneurs best contribute to the climate movement? How can you implement Climate Action into the company DNA? This is the ideal guide for Entrepreneurs and Leaders that care about our - and our grandchildren's - future.

Founder & Managing Partner

2011 - 2015

Heilemann Ventures is a micro VC investing private funds of the Heilemann brothers in Angel/Seed stage across consumer and enterprise. Track record includes McMakler (exit to Warburg Pincus), DiviMove (exit to RTL/Bertelsmann), Eyeota and Test.io (exit to Epam; NYSE:EPAM).

Founder & Managing Director

2009 - 2015

General Director Google Offers DACH

2011 - 2013