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Roman Scharf
General Partner at 3VC
Vienna, Vienna
Overview
Roman Scharf is the General Partner at 3VC and has co-founded successful ventures like Talenthouse and Jajah. He has a track record of investing in notable companies like Pactum and Kaia Health, showcasing his expertise in venture capital and entrepreneurship.
With a background in marketplace startups and angel investing, Roman Scharf has leveraged his skills to co-found successful companies and make strategic investments in emerging sectors like Data Services and IoT, solidifying his reputation as a key player in the startup ecosystem.
Work Experience
General Partner
2017 - Current
Advisory Board Member
2019
Chairman
2019 - 2024
Co-Founder & CEO
2010 - 2018
Talenthouse is a global online collaboration platform and creative community of artists, filmmakers, musicians, designers and photographers spanning 175 countries. We host and manage creative briefs for brands and celebrated icons. In response to these briefs, our community delivers on-brand content reliably and at scale to power creative innovation and meet the evolving needs that brands have to power their paid, owned and earned media channels. TALENTHOUSE — Connecting brands, creators and influencers
Co-Founder, President
2005 - 2009
With the vision of changing the world of voice communication, I co-founded Jajah 2005 in out of a basement in Austria, Europe. A few months later, after an extensive viral ramp-up period, I found myself in Silicon Valley backed by some of the most prestigious funds like Sequoia Capital (the early backers of Google, Yahoo, Cisco, Youtube, and many more) and strategic investors like Intel, Deutsche Telekom or Telus. Within 4 years we grew Jajah's user base from zero to more than 25 million with offices in Mountain View, California, Luxembourg, Europe, Israel, Middle East and Philippines, Asia. Additional partnerships with Yahoo, Microsoft, eHarmony, and other Internet players drove our expansion even further. In 2009 Jajah has been acquired by Telefonica for $207 million.
General Manager
2005 - 2009
CMO
1998 - 2000