Tilo Bonow
Helping entrepreneurs get global exposure for their technologies, ideas and impacts is my passion. As an ambassador for innovation and value-adding investor, I drive global market leadership for challenger brands.
Tilo Bonow
Helping entrepreneurs get global exposure for their technologies, ideas and impacts is my passion. As an ambassador for innovation and value-adding investor, I drive global market leadership for challenger brands.
Berlin, Berlin
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2006 - Current
PIABO is the leading communications agency for the European digital industry, located in Berlin. PIABO has a well-documented success story of achieving excellent international media presence for clients in the Internet, mobile, media, hardware and clean tech sectors. Services provided include Public Relations, strategic Social Media Management, and Content Marketing. PIABO's goals are to assist entrepreneurs in actively achieving their local and global growth targets, thus contributing significantly to the company's further success.
Investor
2016
Cavalry Ventures aims at supporting young companies as well as facilitating their development into global market leaders by connecting the expertise of successful founders, investors and mentors. Prior to founding Cavalry Ventures, the founders did more than 60 startup investments and founded and scaled companies like Delivery Hero, Plista or Book a Tiger. With this fund, the team combines their industry expertise and an international network to support entrepreneurs accordingly. Additionally, Cavalry Ventures is backed by another 20 experienced founders and business angels, offering a value-add that goes beyond a single financial investment. Cavalry Ventures provides a true value-add besides its financial investment. The fund not only invests alongside business angels but also makes fast decisions and is straightforward concerning contracts and investments. Cavalry Ventures exclusively focuses on pre-seed and seed investments and reserves financial resources to financially support its most successful portfolio companies in their later stages. The main geographic focus is DACH, but the fund is able to invest worldwide. The target industry is Tech, relevant submarkets include consumer internet, SaaS, marketplaces, AdTech, Big Data, Machine Learning & AI, Enterprise Software, Mobile, Internet of Things, FinTech, LegalTech and PropertyTech.
Investor
2019
Headline is a Venture Capital firm actively on the ground in 7 cities around the world. We invest across geographies, leading rounds at every stage. Once we commit to a team, we go to the ends of the earth to make their success global. Our Early Stage Funds are based in the US, Europe, Asia, and Brazil, and invest locally. Our San Francisco-based Growth Fund invests globally from Series B and beyond, working in collaboration with our Early Stage Teams. The sizes and locations of these funds make it possible for us to see local trends up close, identify winning founders, and lead rounds at every stage. Sonos, The RealReal, Creditas, Sorare, Pismo, AppFolio, goPuff, Acorns, Farfetch, Segment, Bumble and Yeahka are among the stars in Headline’s world.
Investor
2020
Since 2000 HV Capital, formerly HV Holtzbrinck Ventures, has invested in Internet and technology companies through various generations of funds and is one of the most successful and financially strongest early-stage and growth investors in Europe. HV Capital has already invested in around 200 companies, including Zalando, Delivery Hero, FlixMobility and SumUp. The total of all HV Funds amounts to €1.7 billion. The company supports startups with capital between €500,000 and €50 million. This makes HV Capital one of the few venture capitalists in Europe that can finance startups through all growth phases.
Investor
2022
Gutter Capital is a pre-seed and seed venture firm built on the belief that entrepreneurs have the greatest chance of solving humanity's most significant challenges. We are operators-we take board seats, recruit founding teams, and shape strategy on the path to product market fit. We partner with founders to build companies of consequence.
Investor
2021
MAGIC Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund built by founders for founders. We back founders solving daunting challenges across the globe at their earliest stages (pre-seed/seed). We've backed 80+ tech startups around the world: Bank Novo, Payfazz, Frubana, Retool, CafeX, Py, KiwiBot, Muxy, Chronus Health, Mono, Oxygen, and many more.
Investor
2022
Pact is an early-stage tech fund backing mission-driven founders with global ambition. Pact invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies under three themes which we call our ABCs - Access, Betterment, and Climate. - Access: democratizing access to products and services - Betterment: solutions for personal and professional wellbeing - Climate: technology targeting sustainability and climate solutions
Co-Founder
2021
MXP is the grwoth platform for launching and scaling marketing agencies globally. We are the founders behind the founders. MXP invests in agency entrepreneurs who want to start and scale globally. Our focus is at the intersection of technology and data-driven PR, marketing, social, content, digital, paid media and influencer communications.
Investor
2021
Nucleus Capital is a new venture capital firm supporting purpose-driven founders. We profoundly believe that entrepreneurial innovation is necessary to enhance planetary resilience. We partner with entrepreneurs at the nucleus of their journey, investing at the Pre/Seed stage and are focussed on Synthetic & Computational Biology, Food- and Climate Technology.
Investor
2021
World Fund is a European Climate Tech VC investing in startups that have the potential to save at least 100Mt CO2e per year. We focus on the key emitting sectors of Energy, Food & Agriculture, Manufacturing, Buildings and Transport, aiming to fill two significant investment gaps for climate tech: when it goes from lab to market and when it leaves the pilot stage to scale. We invest from Seed to Series B stage.
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