Daniel is a serial entrepreneur and an early investor in the digital space. Over the past 20 years he has invested into more than 120 companies and has been an active Business Angel in various startups. The first company he founded was getmobile AG, which he took public through reverse-IPO in 2005. Before setting up Mountain Alliance AG in 2010 he was founder of Tiburon Unternehmensaufbau GmbH, a seed and early stage investor. Amongst his best-known seed and early stage investments are XING, Trivago, Shirtinator and mybestbrands. Daniel is the entrepreneurial brain of Mountain Alliance and has an extensive network in venture capital. He is an active member of EO since 2001 and YPO since 2010.
Dr. Cornelius Boersch (“Conny”) is the founder of Mountain Partners AG and has been a passionate entrepreneur, investor and founder of numerous technology companies for the past 25 years. Cornelius Boersch founded his first company during his studies, has developed it into the smart card broker and RFID-producer ACG AG and successfully floated it on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 1999. Subsequently, Conny Boersch initiated the development of further RFID-based companies, such as Smartrac (IPO’d in 2006), Identiv (NASDAQ-listed since 2006) and recently the cashless payment systems providers Sandpiper Digital Payments. With the founding of MP, Conny dedicated himself to the development of internet and technology companies. Conny is the “European Business Angel of the Year 2009” and currently one of the most active and well-recognized Business Angels in Europe, whose investments are co-financed by the European Investment Fund. He studied at the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Duisburg in Essen.
Daniel is the co-founder of Mountain Partners AG and has built MP together with Conny since 2005. Before the foundation of Mountain Partners, Daniel was CEO of Conny’s private family office. Prior to that, Daniel initiated the corporate office of Smart Card Brokers and RFID manufacturer ACG AG and was in charge of strategy projects, M&A transactions and financings. At the beginning of his career, he worked at Dresdner Bank in Latin America, at BNP Paribas and at Bain & Company. Daniel studied Business Administration at WHU Koblenz – Otto Beisheim School of Management, at Helsinki School of Economics and at Universidad Adolfo Ibañez in Chile. Daniel Wenzel is Honorary Consul of the Republic of Chile in Switzerland.
Investment Approach
We facilitate public investors’ participation in European Tech value creation
Typical Venture Capital Approach
REDUCED RISK
Investment in existing, well-diversified, comparatively mature portfolio
Investment in "blind pool" of (early stage) assets
COST-EFFICIENT
Reduced OPEX through dividends / profit transfer from fully consolidated companies
2% Management fee + 20% carried interest
FLEXIBLE
Individual shareholding volume and timespan
At least 8+2(+x) years until fund liquidation and minimum ticket size
CONVENIENT
Listed share on Xetra, Frankfurt, Munich
Time consuming KYC / QIB process
What we invest in
Disruption
We invest in digital, disruptive and scalable businesses driven by passionate teams
We invest in growth companies that generate significant revenues
Growth
Profitability
We invest in companies following a visible and credible path to profitability
We invest in companies with an exit horizon of 4-6 years
Maturity
How we invest
Discipline
We pursue accretive acquisitions by buying portfolios to discount to NAV
We leverage the Mountain Partners and Mountain Alliance network to access to a large number of interesting portfolios
Network
Diversification
We invest in portfolios which contain companies that we already hold shares in rather than single assets
We actively seek targets that can be accelerated with existing service companies
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atfinity is a RegTech startup, which combines strong banking expertise with an engineering DNA. Their mission is to simplify compliance, reduce compliance risks and enable business. They help banks stay ahead of compliance with their platform regfinity that incorporates a central rule repository with automatically optimised compliance processes.
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Crealytics is located in Passau/Berlin, Germany and in New York, USA
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getonTV is a linear and digital TV marketing agency for digital companies with a full service package incl. media buying and planning, spot creation, performance analysis and optimization.
Lingoda is an online language school with virtual classrooms. You can see, hear and interact with each other – like in a traditional language school, just online.
Locr is a leading provider of geo-based services that let marketers use location to their advantage. Locr takes data from OpenStreetMap and other geodata sources and converts it into geo-information services and personalized maps that can be used by marketers to enhance their mailing lists, create higher engagement, and achieve better response rates. Locr is headquartered in Braunschweig, Germany and maintains offices in the US and the UK.
Miet24 is one of the largest rental portals on the Internet and offers a clear price comparison of more than 1.8 million rental products in more than 2,000 different categories
movingimage is a global leader in delivering secure enterprise video solutions. Its cloud-based solution, is a centralized platform that enables companies to efficiently manage and stream all their video assets for customers, partners, and employees in the best possible quality on any device. Over 500 enterprises including DAX-listed corporations such as the Volkswagen Group and Deutsche Telekom, already use its secure Enterprise Video Platform (EVP).
GCN Global Comparison Network GmbH operates comparison portals such as Netzvergleiche.de and Netzsieger.de. Since GCN entered the world of meta-search marketing, its goal has been to help more than 100.000 daily readers make the right buying decisions by providing them with accurate and detailed information. GCN combines editorial competence with up-to-date technology and works closely with leading e-commerce marketplaces.
RockIt Internet is a SEO and online marketing agency. Next to common online marketing services RockIt offers customized solutions for Amazon Marketing.
Shirtinator is one of Europe’s leading online providers of customised textiles and personalised gifts such as custom t-shirts and hoodies, personalised mugs, and much more.
Tixxt is the operator of the European community platform www.tixxt.de on which each user can create and permanently operate his / her individual community with just a few clicks and without any programming knowledge necessary.
Volders provides innovative services that help users to monitor their personal contracts at any time. Before contracts are automatically renewed, users are given the option to terminate, prolong or switch contracts via a simple and straightforward process.
