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Eyeo (Adblock Plus) backs AI-startup Factmata to fight fake news
Talks about Advertising, AI and Startup
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Tim Schumacher
General Partner at World Fund
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia
Overview
Tim Schumacher is an accomplished entrepreneur and investor with a strong track record in early-stage investments and venture capital. Currently serving as the General Partner at World Fund, he has successfully co-founded companies like saas.group and Eyeo GmbH, while also making impactful investments in startups like SunRoof and Sastrify.
Schumacher's career highlights include co-founding Eyeo GmbH and serving as CEO of Sedo.com, showcasing his expertise in entrepreneurship and business leadership. Additionally, his investments in companies like SunRoof and Sastrify demonstrate his strategic acumen and successful track record in identifying promising startups for growth.
Work Experience
General Partner
2021 - Current
We back entrepreneurs building climate tech for a regenerative world.
Co-Founder
2018
Saas.group acquires promising SaaS companies with a founder-friendly process in order to elevate their product - and their people - to the next level.
SaaS.group LLC is a Software as a Service Portfolio Company.
Board Member and Co-Steward-Owner
2014
Helping Ecosia's mission for over a decade now.
Investor
2011
Startup investments into Eyeo.com, Ecosia.org, Pachama.com, Apptopia.com, Goodwall.org, IONIQ.com, Miomente.com, Contractbook.com, UrbanSportsClub.com, BasicThinking.de, MobileAction.co, Usercentrics.com, FirstStopHealth.com, Joblift.com, Buena.com, Pixsy.com, Apollo.vc, LemonSwan.com, Piwik.Pro & many others.
Co-Founder and Chairman
2011
Eyeo is the world's leading company protecting users from annoying advertising (we're behind popular ad blocking software Adblock Plus and also power ad blocking in many browsers). We're a team of 300 people and are headquartered in Cologne, Germany.
Board Member
2012 - 2014
After handing over the CEO role to my successor, I stayed on as part of the supervisory board of directors for two years. We then took the company private, and it's now wholly owned by 1&1.
Sedo is a domain name and website marketplace and domain parking provider based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Cologne, Germany.
CEO/Vorstand
2009 - 2012
The publicly listed Sedo Holding comprised of two marketplaces: Affili.net (now merged with AWIN), a leading European affiliate marketing network, and Sedo.com, still to this day the world's largest domain marketplace. The group had over 300 employees, and over 100 million in revenues.
CEO and Co-Founder
2001 - 2009
I was co-founder and CEO of the company, with offices in Cologne (Germany), and Boston (USA). Grew the company to ~300 people and in 2009 took it public on the German stock exchange. To this day, Sedo.com is the leading global marketplace for buying and selling domain names and websites.
Sedo is a domain name and website marketplace and domain parking provider based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Cologne, Germany.
Education
MBA
1997 - 2001
Master in Finance
1999 - 2000
High School Exchange Year
1992 - 1992
Investments
Latest Articles
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Changing the game: Here are the numbers behind eyeo’s disruption of the online advertising…
Talks about Advertising, Adblock and Online Marketing
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Our company, Ecosia, makes 10 million in revenues.
Talks about Climate Change, Eco and Earth
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Adblock Plus launches “Trusted News”, a nifty extension to battle fake news
Talks about Advertising, Publishing and Fake News