Lukas Loers

Venture Partner

2023 - Current

I'm a Venture Partner at Rethink Ventures, looking for mobility / logistics seed deals as a lead investor. Based in Brooklyn, NY. Rethink is a VC Fund based in Munich, focusing on early stage (Seed, Pre-Series A) mobility and logistics investments for EU based startups. Tickets from 500k-1.5M, 50M AUM. Please reach out to me directly or via the website: https://rethinkventures.com/ Companies invested in with active involvement: + Led Seed round with Entroview, France, 1.6M USD, battery tech analytics software + Led Enabler seed round, Finland, EV management platform ... plus more to be announced soon!

Mentor - B2B Sales, GTM, VC Funding

2021

Private Investor - French Company bike marketplace

2021

Director - Strategy & Corporate Development

2021 - 2023

Building the micro-mobility platform of the Mobivia Group, focusing on strategy & corporate development across Europe, with core markets France & Germany. Vehicle focus on e-bikes. + Investments: Seed to Series C for mobility startups, scale-ups and established players + M&A and CorpDev: Build-up, Mergers + Portfolio Management, board observer, divestments + Strategic partnerships Mobivia is the holding of Norauto France, A.T.U. Germany etc., 2.8b EUR Turnover, 23k employees, specialised in Car Repairs, Car Accessories and Car Parts, in corporation with the Corporate VC & Accelerator VIA-ID with 30 portfolio companies. The micromobility platform specialises in 2-wheeler micromobility for Bikes, e-Mopeds and new service models. Portfolio companies Fifteen, SmoveNGo (Vélib Operator), VelyVelo, CycloFix, Chango, GreenOn, Gaya.bike

Board Member - E-mobility marketplace

2023 - 2023

Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) - Prokurist

2019 - 2021

Led 40 FTEs in Sales & Marketing: Content Marketing (Video, Blog, Social, Communications, PR etc.) / Tech driven Demand Generation (Perf. Mkt / Retargeting / ABM / Events (physical & digital) Commercial Tech (Data, Revenue Operations, Tools (CRM, Forecasting, Capacity Planning, Performance tracking... )) Sales (EMEA / US) & Sales Development, GTM (Go-To-Market), Segmentation Account Management (EMEA / US) Responsible for Wunder Mobility's commercial strategy and the development of our commercial organization (Sales & Marketing) while making sure that all functions within Wunder are aligned to meet our revenue targets for new business and existing accounts. Hiring, retaining and developing the best Mobility SaaS Commercial team in this industry! Leading 25 FTEs and constantly looking for more talent - reach out to me if you want to become part of mobility's best sales & marketing team! Always looking for new sales talent. Working closely with Wunder's Leadership team in drafting, implementing, and evaluating cross-functional decisions that will enable Wunder to achieve its long-term business objectives.

VP Sales

2019 - 2019

VP Sales - Built and scaled the Sales team from scratch (4 FTEs -> 25 FTEs) Setup the sales team from scratch, grew ARR by 120%: + Scaled from 4 FTEs to 25 FTEs: setup new team structure (sales pods), opened US Sales office, setup account management team, + Introduced new CRM + Introduced SaaS Sales metrics & performance KPIs  + Defined quarterly & yearly sales quotas, setup sales compensation  + Signed major upsells myself + Established new hardware sales team

Director Of Business Operations

2018 - 2019

Led (i) Finance, Legal & CorpDev (2 FTEs), (ii) Talent Operations & Recruiting (3 FTEs), (iii) Events, PR & Communications (4 FTEs): + Talent: setup talent management system Bamboo, hired 2 FTEs, setup tech recruiting, setup first HR processes (automated contracts etc.) + Finance: Reporting, controlling, investor relations, payments, audit etc. + Corp. dev: Buy-side Due-diligence on 2 targets, closed Fleetbird acquisition + Events: Organised the first Wunder Mobility Summit, the leading invite-only mobility event with 350 external guests + Financing: Closed Wunder’s 60M USD Series B (total: 70M USD raised) Sep-19 Funding Round of 60M USD & US Launch: https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/19/wunder-mobility-closes-60-million-round-to-expand-its-urban-transport-platform-in-the-u-s/

Head of Finance - Prokurist

2017 - 2018

Head of Finance (Prokurist) & Host of the Wunder Mobility Summit (WMS - www.wunder.org/wms) Responsible for Finance & Legal: Corporate Development, M&A, Investor Relations & Funding, Accounting & Reporting, Audit, Data Security, All Legal issues, Internal Processes & Control, International legal entity creation & setup, Cashless payments & managing third party payment service providers for the Wunder wallet in international markets. Founder of the Wunder AutoTech Meetup: https://www.wunder.org/meetup - the leading German Mobility Meetup for startup founders and decision makers from corporates and OEMs! https://vimeo.com/246079657 Speaker at Noah Conference, MLove Mobility Day etc.

Manager - Strategy & Partnerships

2016 - 2017

Right hand of the Founder & CEO Gunnar Froh: + Consulting: New ride-hailing project for major automotive OEM Group + PR Setup: Managed several third-party consultants + Financial Reporting & investor relations
 + International expansion & special projects

Member

2019 - 2021

Sales & Marketing leadership Community with 5k members. Training taken: + CRO School 2021

Freelance Consultant

2015 - 2016

Freelance consulting project for business development of innovative e-learning startup WebCampus.de

Country Manager - Germany

2015 - 2015

La Belle Assiette is the European leader in the Private Chef industry, helping individuals and companies host great events by booking dining experiences with our professional Chefs. We operate a curated marketplace which lets Chefs sell their services (fine dining, cocktails, cooking classes, personal Chef) and clients book securely online. Since 2012, La Belle Assiette offers Chefs, on top of client bookings, all the tools they need so they can manage their business online (quotes, billing, planning, CRM...). Our company was voted Best E-Commerce Innovation in 2012 by the Fevad next to Amazon, Voyages-SNCF and Sarenza. We also won the Push Forward contest organised by l'Express Group in November 2013. Our sales are steadily increasing every month and 2/3 new Chefs sign up every day. We are a small team (23 people), with an entrepreneurial, young, hard-working and extremely motivated culture. My role - Responsible for the launch of the German website of La Belle Assiette from scratch from Hamburg: - Business development: Partnerships and co-marketing (contests, Mkt Stunt with UBER), signing and negotiating business providers - Online and Offline marketing to develop brand awareness - Operations: Chef recruitment (50 chefs, Sep-15), controlling and assuring good supply (Quality control) - Sales & management of new requests - Internationalisation of the website: translations, overseeing freelance work - PR work: PR dinner, interviews with press, other PR initiatives (see publications) - Recruitment of Intern & management = a lot of new learning, some failing but good fun

Senior Consultant - M&A Integration and Separation Services

2014 - 2015

Supporting domestic & international clients in both pre-deal operational and synergy reviews to 'Day 1' planning and post-deal implementation.

Senior Analyst - Transaction Services M&A

2011 - 2014

Senior Analyst in Corporate Finance Division, Paris Specialised in financial due-diligence (buy-side, sell-side), carve-out, in various industries. Previous projects include: - Kermel: Vendor due-diligence for Barclays PE (3rd LBO)