Volker Hirsch

Mentor

2024 - Current

The EIC Scaling Club is an exclusive community of 100+ European deep tech scale-ups and their partners. The 2-year program brings together high-potential deep tech companies focusing on major global challenges with investors, corporate innovators, and other industry stakeholders to spur growth. I am mentoring in their New Biotech Platforms group.

Co Founder & Director

2009

Blue Beck is a developer of games and apps across every smartphone and digital online platform imaginable. Standing 40+ strong, our engineers boast an average (!) of 15 (wo)man years in relevant experience, so we are second to none on deep, deep knowledge. If someone moans about Android's device fragmentation, we have a good laugh... I co-founded the company and I provide guidance on company strategy and market development as well as driving business development.

Chairman

2021

Advantage Creative is an advisory and investing body focused on the creative industry and the evolving sector of CreaTech.

Non Executive Director

2020 - 2020

Co-Founder & Director

2016

Tech North Advocates is a collection of tech leaders, experts and investors uniting to form the most influential independent, private sector group in the North of England. Tech North Advocates is a private sector led coalition of expert individuals from the tech sector and broader community who will be committed to championing the North of England’s potential as a world-class hub for tech and digital businesses. It will strive to support the North's tech start-ups and high-growth businesses in finding new investment, new talent and continued success. The group will consists of technology entrepreneurs, established digital giants, journalists, government figures and vital suppliers to our industry. The group also has Overseas Advocates from 20 countries and territories across the world which include Tech London Advocates, Tech Nordic Advocates, Tech China Advocates, Tech India Advocates to name but a few.

Coach & Mentor

2017

Coaching and mentoring in a number of the European Innovation Council (EIC) programmes.

Owner

2015

Quantified Ventures invests and advises at early stage in EdTech, “deep” tech, AI, robotics, climate change and related fields.

Advisor

2020

The Greentech Alliance brings together green technology businesses, that fight climate change with their products and services in the most responsible and respectful to our planet manner, to support them with advice about funding, impact, visibility and strategy with the help of top VCs, journalists, advisors and entrepreneurs.

Angel Investor

2018

Official Audio Partner of World Book Day. Yoto is an interactive audio platform for kids. They make carefully connected audio players that kids control without using a screen. And they have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning. I invested in their very first funding round.

Angel Investor

2017

Enroly connects students with trusted university admission and visa support in their home country - for free.

Angel Investor

2016

Wonde helps simplify the way in which school data is accessed by third party applications. For developers, a simple API gives them access to reading and writing school data.