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Simon Leicht
General Partner at Simon & Daniel Investor Collective (SDAC)
Munich, Bavaria
Overview
Simon Leicht is a General Partner at Simon & Daniel Angel Collective (SDAC) and Possible Ventures, focusing on investing in frontier technology startups at pre-seed and seed stages. With a background in finance and venture capital, Simon has successfully invested in companies like Cello and Zharta, specializing in sectors such as Robotics, BioTech, and Web3/Crypto.
Simon has a Master of Science from Stockholm School of Economics and has held roles at top firms like Roland Berger Strategy Consultants and Rocket Internet SE. He has a track record of backing founders in building innovative tech companies and has experience as an angel investor, syndicate lead, and crypto investor.
Work Experience
General Partner
2024 - Current
We invest - 100k € tickets - in product centric founders - solving big problems - at the frontier of technology. For 2024, we are particularly excited about opportunities unlocked by web3, AI and SynBio as core technology platforms. ___ We are Simon & Daniel, two former operators and entrepreneurs who have collectively backed over 100 founder teams. Founders we've worked with have called us the best early stage sparring partners out there. Our core value add to founders is fundraising support and help with finding product market fit. Our collective is a tightly knit network of around fifty successful founders, angels, PE and VC partners, industry veterans, family entrepreneurs and sports celebrities. We believe start-ups and technology are great ways to solve our generation’s biggest problems. 👋 If this resonates with you, reach out: daniel@sdac.io simon@sdac.io ____ Some of the founders, we've backed: - Application layer: Sorare, KnowUnity, PreMatch, Qatalog, Cardino, ProductLane - DeepTech: MarvelFusion, Orbem, Molecule, Yuri, ToZero, Tromero, Skyflow Some of the investors, we've coinvested with: Index, Accel, Creandum, Benchmark, Bessemer, LaFamiglia / General Catalyst, EQT, 50Y, BlueYard, YC, Seedcamp
General Partner
2020 - 2023
Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact people and the planet in pre-seed and seed. Built the first two Microfunds (Vintage 2020 and Vintage 2022) as founding GP. Invested in Sorare, ImmutableX, Molecule, Avi Medical, Orbem, Yuri Gravity, Epoch Bio, Enveda Biosciences, MarvelFusion, KnowUnity and many more. Invested alongside Benchmark, YC, Accel, 50Years, Bessemer, LaFamiglia, EQT, Balderton, BlueYard, General Catalyst and many more
Angel Investor, Syndicate Lead, Crypto Investor
2018 - 2020
Invested > €1m of capital into early-stage technology companies Built and led angel syndicates in Meatable, Anydesk, Xolo3D, Cognigy, Beat81, Donut and many more Invested in crypto tokens and equity, amongst others early positions in Ethereum, Helium, Uniswap
Co-Founder / MD of portfolio company Alphapet
2014 - 2017
Scaled the portolio company Alphapet as part of the Co-Founder team from 5m to 50m € revenue. Lead strategy, business development and fundraising. Built a vertical D2C brand.
Restructuring Unit
2013 - 2013
Turnaround and Restructuring Project in the Chemicals / Trade Industry - Market and competitor analysis as foundation for strategic positioning within a turnaround concept - Development of a management tool for operational improvement measures within a turnaround concept Restructuring Project in the electronics industry - Revenue analysis / planning on product level - Support in the validation of the client's pricing concept - Support in validation of operational efficiency improvement measures
Business Development
2012 - 2012
Various Business Development projects Interim Operations Manager (Inbound and Outbound) in an E-Commerce Fashion Start-up
Financial Services Consulting
2011 - 2011
- Development of a stresstesting reporting process, including a senior management reporting tool within a risk management/ stresstesting project for a bank - Involvement in the development of a liquidity risk management framework for a bank
CAVOK is a technical consulting firm that supports the development of manual systems and processes.
DB Research
2009 - 2010
Product Management Illiquid Assets
2009 - 2009
Internship in Product Management Closed End Funds/Illiquid Assets • Development of an Excel-model for prognostic calculations and sensitivity analysis for the evaluation and selection of products and initiators • Revision of the training guide in order to prepare the sales employees
DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.
Private Banking
2008 - 2008
Internship in Private Banking Branch Stuttgart
DB Capital Ventures invests in early-stage and emerging growth businesses and is a venture capital firm based in New York.