Members

Maria-Johanna Schaecher

I hope that the start-up scene grows in importance and is able to accelerate the overall dynamics in the individual industry sectors with new (disruptive) ideas.

Suman Rewari

As a founder, I know how important support is when implementing a project. With my support, I want to promote and implement innovative ideas.

Randolf Schürmann

I am very curious and impatient, so I am very happy about new topics and visions, i.e. a different view of the world. I am particularly interested in solutions to problems that go further than just bringing short-term benefits.

Dr. Alexandra Pries

I appreciate the opportunity to be present at a very early stage of a company and to have direct contact with the founders.
Since I founded the company myself, I know how important support is during this time. I myself come from the healthcare sector and am particularly interested in early-stage start-ups in this industry. This is where wonderful and innovative ideas are born, which facilitate the diagnosis, therapy and management of diseases and make life a little better. In addition to capital, I contribute industry knowledge, management experience and contacts and try to promote the positive development of the start-up in the role of an advisor and coach.

Oke Harms

I am always interested in new business ideas or products and find the exchange with young and innovative founders very exciting.

Dr. Christopher Özbek

I focus on early-stage start-ups in MedTech and SaaS, but I am also enthusiastic about great teams in other areas. I want to help the next generation of founders and be part of the exciting experience.

Hans-Joachim Schwenke

I enjoy working with young innovative people, and “learning from each other” is important to me. I find early-stage start-ups with sustainable or scalable business models particularly interesting.

Dr. Bernd Ruppert

I studied business administration in Göttingen and received my doctorate in Göttingen. I have many years of international experience as a CEO, COO and CFO.

Thomas Knappworst

Innovative ideas and great founding teams make me curious. I would like to support them with my many years of experience from a large number of companies.

Dr. Joachim Behrendt

As a serial entrepreneur, founder of an angel network in Turkey and management consultant in the field of digitalization I learned how important networking and support are for founders. I find it interesting to see all start-ups that make use of digitalization in the broadest sense and that already have an MVP and a defined and tested business model. For the start-ups I support, I am a mentor, consultant, networker, investor or non-executive board member, depending on their phase in the life cycle.

Thomas Dankwart

It's a matter of the heart for me. I have been in the Berlin start-up scene for more than 20 years and have met many great people and ideas. The Berlin start-up ecosystem is like the salt in the soup for me! I support the start-up teams with advice and assistance; sometimes I am a coach, sometimes a companion but always a friend!

Götz Th. Friederich

I am a business angel because I would like to pass on the experience I have gained in many years of self-employment. I like to accompany you from the pre-formation/early phase. Since my expertise basically extends to advice on the law and tax law of formation, I accompany start-ups across all industries.

Carsten Heidebrecht

I am a business angel because it is simply more fun to invest in up-and-coming start-ups at an early stage than in abstract financial investment instruments. Basically I am interested in all promising start-up projects, preferably with a certain technical focus. A motivated and experienced team of founders with comprehensible planning approaches plays a key role. In addition to my role as an investor with a willingness to take risks, I see myself as a consultant who is happy to contribute his cross-industry experience in IT management of both medium-sized companies and at group level, if required.

Christoph Janott

My first own company foundation back then failed. With the support of an experienced business angel, things might have gone differently. Today, I see myself as a mentor who uses his experience and network to help committed entrepreneurs to become and remain successful.

Wolf Kempert

Wolf Kempert, Business Angel for 15 years, is involved in 9 start-ups, six of which are still active, with a focus on healthcare management. For 12 years he has been a member of the board of the BA Club, responsible for succession and turnaround, among other things. for 15 years as an entrepreneur, he has accompanied family businesses in their succession by coaching the succession and selling the companies.

Peter Lennartz

The founders of today are the medium-sized companies of tomorrow. They drive digital innovations and are very important for the future of Germany as a business location. Therefore, I would like to support and promote founders with my many years of professional experience as head of the EY Start-up Initiative as a business angel. I see myself especially as a sparring partner and business coach for young entrepreneurs, with whom they can reflect their ideas and find solution-oriented approaches to problems.

Lukas Mielke

After working in a variety of industries, I became increasingly interested in promoting innovative business models and thus making my own contribution to overcoming the major challenges facing our world.

Ralf Pogoda

I would like to pass on my many years of experience as a founder and entrepreneur to young start-ups. I am available as a consultant at any time. I am really interested in providing advice “from the sidelines”.

Hardy Rudolf Schmitz

I hope that as many successes as possible will make the startup scene more and more attractive. It must be good manners in Germany, a medium-sized country, to remove obstacles from the path of young founders. I myself was the founder of a company in the field of system integration. I like the early phase, the speed and intensity. I think I can best make my contribution as a coach, also as a "door opener" or moderator.

René Richter

I am a business angel because I am interested in working with motivated and inspiring people who I can support with my experience.

Bertram Schwarz

Startups are very important for the economy of Berlin and Germany. Siemens, Mercedes Benz and SAP were also startups. We always have to build new companies. You can't rest at all. We need a permanent start-up scene that always has new ideas. What I can contribute to the success of individual projects with my experience, I would like to do.

Ulrich Urban

Ulli Urban, banker, start-up consultant, real estate investor, 30 yr entrepreneur.
Since 2017 Business Angel. Offices in Berlin/Erfurt, no specific industry focus, competence: U.Structure and planning / financing / team building. Interest in the development of highly effective start-up ecosystems and investor networks.

Michael Weber

Out of curiosity for excellent ideas and courageous, strong-willed founders I became a business angel. I find the early stages of a company particularly interesting for the healthcare market in all its breadth. I see myself as an experienced discussion partner, also as an advisor and investor.

Rocco Weyers

As a founder, I know how important support is. I would like to share my experience from over 20 years of entrepreneurial activity! I find early-stage start-ups with sustainable business models and strong founder personalities interesting.

Markus Zeh

As an entrepreneur I had and have many questions, and I am glad to know people who could help me. I would like to return this now. I see myself as a neutral advisor who can give a view "from outside". Especially in the area of structure and business organization I can actively support.

Dr. Kornelia Berghof-Jäger

I am enthusiastic about good new ideas and can give input and support from my own experience as a founder. Early-stage start-ups, especially in the fields of medical engineering, diagnostics and technology with sustainable business models and strong founder personalities. When working with start-ups, I see myself as an advisor and coach who is always available.

Adalbert Kurkowski

I have been connected to start-ups and the creative industry in various forms for many years. As a business angel, I would like to concretize my commitment, because I know that it takes more than just good words to build a company.

Dr. Christian Probst

As a founder, I would like to support others in the start-up phase with my experience. I am interested in start-ups that use technology in particular to solve everyday problems and challenges for many people.

Bert Heinrich

As an entrepreneur and founder, I know how important it is to have an experienced sparring partner who can advise and support you through the highs and lows.

Simon Rossmann

Simon Rossmann is Managing Partner of the investment company Golden Light. Golden Light invests in companies with a strong sustainable competitive advantage in the medical technology sector.

Frank Reinecke

Frank Reinecke is Principal at High-Tech Gründerfonds and Business Angel Investor at BACB e.V.

Gregor Heinrich

My goals as a business angel: 1. to pass on my management and start-up knowledge, 2. to promote exciting innovation, 3. to contribute to the financial impetus - and to make a profit in the long term.

Sylvia Tantzen

Sylvia Tantzen was a shareholder and board member of a software company for many years. After two decades in the corporate world, she now supports both early-stage start-ups as a business angel and “grown-ups” as an executive advisor in finding and scaling their growth levers.

Georg Heinrich

I see myself as an advisor and coach who is always available. Who helps to find answers to specific topics and questions.

Dr. Frank H. Walter-von Gierke

As the founder of a number of commercial and non-profit companies and a member of the board of our Familien Vermögensverwaltungs AG, I would like to pass on to new founders the experience I have gained from over three decades of successful and unsuccessful investments.

Lorenz Manthey

Lorenz Manthey oversees a broad range of investment activities as a senior partner. He has more than 15 years of experience investing in the public and private markets in all areas of the capital structure and advises numerous venture companies with a focus on the proptech and fintech sectors.

Dr. Daniel Werner

As the founder of several companies, I find the early stages of setting up a business particularly exciting. I look forward to exchanging ideas with other founders and can certainly help in one or two places with my experience and my network.

Dr. Norbert Linn

My vision is that at some point it will become completely normal in our society for people to set up a company without a huge amount of bureaucracy and that there will be an eco-system to help them do so.

Marcel Krönert

I have the greatest respect for people who want to change things with their passion and intrinsic motivation. We need more of these people in our country!

Hamlet Hayrapetyan

IWhen it comes to the BACB, I think that some of the most interesting minds of the startup ecosystem have gathered together and with every member, during every event, you have the opportunity to learn something new. Continuous development and experience sharing are the most important pillars of a strong community.

Jörg Müller

Dipl.-Ing. in electrical engineering and power plant electronics. Professional experience in the automotive industry, e.g. as managing director of a supplier as well as in other group top management functions, including more than 10 years of experience abroad i.e. from Brazil, India, China.Business Angel since January 2016.

Dirk Dantz

I am passionate about innovation and good new (disruptive) ideas. I have founded several companies myself and start-ups have accompanied me throughout my professional life.

Gabriela Rupprecht

Innovations can change the world or at least make a certain customer group more satisfied than they were before. Germany needs new ideas and creative people who want to realize their visions. I am fascinated by exciting personalities and their passion and entrepreneurial spirit. Being able to support start-ups with my experience in the industry and as an entrepreneur and thus perhaps enable faster growth is very enriching for me.

Thomas Utsch

As a business angel, I am motivated by the opportunity to pass on my experience from different industries.

Stefan Judisch

What can I offer startups? In-depth knowledge of the global energy industry, commercial, financial and senior management and structuring experience, including leading “Prima Donnas” in various teams with highly talented people.

Oliver Kranz

As an engineer, I find innovative technologies and product ideas particularly exciting. As a founder, however, I also know how important experience and networks are for their successful development and market launch, in addition to money. I enjoy supporting strong, motivated founding teams in the early phase of their start-ups with my knowledge and accompanying them on their sometimes rocky path.

Peter Bramlage

I focus on the content of my work and have found that commercial success then comes automatically. I like to think outside the box and see opportunities that only become apparent at second glance.

Olga Kaus

I have worked responsibly in many areas between public service and business. I have also been active as an innovation consultant in the commercial exploitation of new technologies (automation, electronics manufacturing (SMT) EMC, power conversion, rapid modeling) and worked as a GF and shareholder in Europe and Asia (Japan, China, India, Singapore). I hope to be able to pass on my experience now.

Timur Soroka

Christina Collin-Hoebel

I am a banker and manager with heart and soul and have many years of experience in the banking and real estate industry. I have always been open to new ideas and have been able to broaden my horizons.

Matthias Koch

I am curious by nature and strive for the ideal situation. I enjoy working on things together with a great team that has just as much drive as I do and that complements each other. I have extensive experience in finance (former CFO), as well as life sciences, healthcare and FMCG. As an executive coach, I can continue to help teams to develop further.

Thomas Schmidt

I love innovation, technology, exponential thinking (and growth) and basically entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs with “Passion for Results”. As an entrepreneur, I have gained experience as a multiple company founder, but also as CEO in a listed, international group of companies with responsibility for approx. 800 employees and more than 50,000 customers in more than 20 countries. Since 2021, I have been working as a business angel, early-stage and VC investor as well as an independent management and M&A advisor. I am mainly interested in B2B software solutions in Mobility, Energy/GreenTech and Enterprise SaaS. Exceptions in terms of focus occasionally confirm the rule. I invest directly in pre-seed, seed and Series A rounds, but am also actively involved and invested in numerous other start-ups through my sector-specific VC fund investments.

Diederik Haalman

I am a small business owner in the field of weather forecasting and am interested in technology, science and artificial intelligence.

Fabian Salomon

I describe myself as a “lifelong learner”; always doing the same thing bores me. My main qualification is software and hardware, but I am more interested in applying it to new topics than writing the most beautiful code. In my own entrepreneurial career, I have founded several companies where I have used my IT knowledge as a competitive advantage.

Volker Panier

I am open to new things, like to combine pleasant with useful and firmly believe that fairness and honesty pay off. I have 27 years of experience in managing small and medium-sized companies as a partner and managing director. There is a certain focus on sales.

Elias Ganal

As part of Ganal Venture GmbH, I experience and support innovative start-ups in their early stages. I am inspired by solutions that contribute to a better world and founding teams that don't let anything stand in their way.

Jörg Ganal

I have a great passion for innovation and entrepreneurship. With Ganal Venture GmbH, I use my experience and knowledge to promote and support new ideas and business models.

Matthias König

I am a pragmatic implementer and supporter of good entrepreneurial ideas. In difficult situations, I look for viable and fair solutions for all stakeholders. It gives me great pleasure to see young people develop and turn an idea into an organization that creates value and makes sense for society. From more than 25 years as a CEO in medium-sized manufacturing companies, in restructuring and in growth management, I can draw on extensive experience in dealing with various corporate situations.