Lucas Merle

Principal

2022 - Current

Senior Investment Manager

2021 - 2022

Investment Manager

2019 - 2021

Associate

2018 - 2019

Sourcing, negotiation, execution and management of early- / later-stage and growth investments (up to €10m equity per deal). eCAPITAL is a leading German DeepTech VC with over €240m AuM and 30+ portfolio companies; eCAPITAL currently manages four funds and invests in technology-driven enterprises in fast-growing business sectors.

Board Observer

2023

QuoIntelligence offers tailor-made threat intelligence and digital risk protection.

Board Observer

2021

Exein is a cyber security startup offering an open source framework for behavioral firmware analysis of IoT devices.

Board Observer

2021

Open-Xchange is a market leader in mail/messaging and DNS-based security services, with more than 220m seats sold through international hosting and telco providers worldwide.

Board Observer

2020

Papershift is a SaaS solution for planning, tracking and reporting of working time in companies.

Board Observer

2018

temicon is a leading manufacturer of micro and nano structured films, components and functional surfaces.

Board Observer

2018

Jedox is a leading global provider of cloud-based enterprise performance management software for creating enterprise-wide and cross-departmental solutions for planning, analysis and reporting.

Management Consultant

2016 - 2018

UDG Consulting is a specialist digital strategy consultancy that advises large corporates on digital strategy & transformation, commercial partnerships with start-ups as well as organizational restructuring and strategy reorientation. UDG Consulting serves clients in a variety of industries, i.e. energy, automotive, optoelectronics. Selected project topics include: - process optimizations (customer-driven process adaptations), - industry benchmarks, - organizational restructuring, - online / web analytics (Definition of KPIs, assessment of feasibility and implementation planning), - chatbots (assessment of automatization potential and assessment of chatbot providers) - see link: https://www.udg.de/blog/chatbots-zeiss

Associate Consultant

2016 - 2016

UDG Consulting is a specialist digital strategy consultancy that advises large corporates on digital strategy & transformation, commercial partnerships with start-ups as well as organizational restructuring and strategy reorientation.

Operations Manager

2015 - 2015

• Inside sales optimization • Development of inside sales controlling dashboard • Conduct of a customer cohort analysis to optimize customer acquisition and retention measures • Communication of analysis results to global CEO and CMO

Business Development Intern

2014 - 2014

BD internship at Helpling GmbH • Inside sales • Partner management • Business development • Cost-benefit analysis of inside and outside sales to optimize Helpling's sales method