Tom Schulz

Angel Investor

2023 - Current

Angels4Health is a network of private angel investors focused on early stage ventures in the life science industry, including medical devices, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and digital health.

Co-founder and Managing Director

2015

AQAL Capital is a Munich-based, exponential-tech holding company that performs direct investments across multiple stages of a start-up's investment needs, ranging from early stage to growth stages. Its objective is to create successful and integrally sustainable (people, planet, profit) companies from the very beginning. AQAL Capital is using a standards-based, proprietary de-risking model and an investment philosophy called Integral Investing that was developed by Dr. Mariana Bozesan. In this investment style, high financial returns are inseparable from a high impact on Environmental and Social responsibility, ethical corporate Governance (ESG), as well as cultural aspects and happiness factors. AQAL Capital is investing in Exponential-tech and Digital Evolution, Green-tech Evolution, and Life in the 21st Century. AQAL Capital invests in start-up companies based in the European Union with a focus in the DACH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) region. The technology of our investees must be proven and have a short runway to cash flow and break-even. According to our integral philosophy, the business models of our investees must be transferable to other countries, be scalable to market leadership, and deliver sustainable and risk-adjusted returns on all three axes: people, planet, and profit. In order to achieve these goals we also provide entrepreneurial and hands-on business as well as leadership support along the value chain to all our investees. To reduce the investment risk, we perform not only first class financial and legal due diligence but adhere also to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) measurements as defined by the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investing (UN PRI), the Global Impact Investing Network with the Impact Reporting and Investment Standards (IRIS), the Global Impact Investing Rating System (GIIRS) by B Lab, the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC), and Sustainable Asset Management (SAM).

Co-Founder

2015

Mariana Bozesan and Tom Schulz have founded the AQAL Foundation with the intention to fulfill Brundtland’s request for integral sustainability to meet “the need of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” by applying the Integral Investing model and the Theta Factor. Integral Investing is a leading edge investment philosophy developed by Mariana Bozesan and is based on Integral Theory by Ken Wilber. The Theta Factor is an accelerator for screening and decision-making as well as a vehicle for the speedy creation of successful and integrally sustainable companies from the very beginning. It provides an integration and de-risking framework that contains tools and processes, which help integrate traditional due diligence with integral impact investment performance metrics. In collaboration with leading edge research universities, the AQAL Foundation will continue to develop the Integral Model and the Theta Factor and make it available to all those to care about implementing the Parity of People, Planet, and Profit with Passion and Purpose for the greater good.

Co-founder & Investor

2016 - 2022

NDC Data Centers radically re-thinks data centers by innovating both technology and business models. We integrate award-winning cooling technology with future-proof architecture, cutting-edge technical design and perfected project delivery methods. NDC Data Centers offers complete financing and energy services, including power supply and cooling.

Senior Director, European Operations

2014 - 2015

In February 2014, Entelios AG became a fully-owned subsidiary of EnerNOC, Inc.

Co-founder, COO

2010 - 2015

Entelios AG is a Munich-based demand response aggregator. Entelios is enabling renewable energy by applying Internet and telecommunications software technologies to the smart grid.

Co-founder

2007 - 2014

BioCee Inc.’s mission is to enable the cost-effective and environmentally sound production of clean fuels, chemicals, and water treatment by harnessing the full biocatalytic potential of microorganisms. BioCee’s patented, biocoating innovation is a true platform technology that enables the development of novel applications of biocatalysts as well as making existing biocatalysts more competitive by reducing capital and operating costs. Founded in 2007, the company is based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In October 2009, BioCee was among the first recipients of ARPA-E grants for transformational innovations in the energy sector.

Member, Advisory Board

1998 - 2012

Investor/Advisor

2006 - 2011

Trusted Opinion, Inc. is the first Internet rating and recommendation service which is based on real-life social groups. Our patent pending Social Recommendation Engine (SCREEN) is mimicking “word-of-mouth” and peer influence. Our website automatically produces product and service recommendations that are more relevant and more trustworthy than from any other rating and review site.

Managing Partner

2007 - 2011

Cleantech Circle's partners are serial entrepreneurs and angel investors with a passion for Cleantech (renewable energy, air and water, energy efficiency, carbon sequestration). We create and invest in startup and early-stage companies, and we advise VCs and their portfolio companies on technology and strategy.