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Jens Lapinski

Founding Partner & CEO of Investor Invest

Berlin, Berlin

Overview 

Jens Lapinski is an Angel Investor based in Berlin, known for his expertise in start-ups, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. With a PhD from the University of Cambridge, he has held key roles at companies like Techstars as Managing Director and has made successful investments in companies like Usercentrics and Rasa. Two significant highlights of Jens Lapinski's career include his role as a Founding Partner & CEO at Angel Invest and his successful investments in companies like Usercentrics and Rasa.

Work Experience 

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Angel Invest

  • Founding Partner & CEO

    2018 - Current

    Angel Invest is Europe's most active Superangel Fund. We make over 40 investments per year and actively coach founders for one year post investment. We have backed 100+ companies at Pre-seed and Seed stage, their combined market cap is over €3BN.

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Signals Venture Capital

  • Advisory Board Member

    2018 - 2022

    I worked with the investment team in an advisory capacity during the investment period of the €100m Fund I. Signals VC successfully raised a Fund II in 2022.

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Techstars

  • Managing Director

    2014 - 2017

    I established the Berlin office and was a Managing Director of the Techstars Berlin City Fund. In 2017, Berlin became the most active Techstars office in the world, hosting four programs. I have worked on four programs at Techstars, the companies have in aggregate raised $250m+ in funding.

Techstars is an accelerator that provides pre-seed investment and mentoring for various early stage startups.

Raised $108,919,999.00 from SVB Financial Group and Foundry Group.

techstars.com
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Forward Internet Group

  • Partner

    2012 - 2013

    I joined Forward Internet Group to set up the UK's first startup studio: Forward Labs. We investigated over 100 products that we could have built/invested in, built a good dozen and created four businesses that have raised in aggregate over $25m. Forward Labs turned into Forward Partners, which went public on the London Stock Exchange in 2021 and was later acquired by Molten Ventures in 2023.

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aiHit

  • Co-founder & CEO

    2007 - 2011

    aiHit was a provider of automated company data to business information companies, credit reference agencies, and business directories. The company was acquired in 2015.

Library House

  • VP Analysis & Consulting

    2002 - 2007

    Library House was a provider of information and research services. We had a database of privately-held companies, in particular those that were VC-backed. That database is now part of Dow Jones information services offering.

Education 

Investments 

Usercentrics

Venture Round

Total funding amount not yet available

Rasa

Seed Round

Total funding: $72M

Impala

Seed

Total funding: $34M

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