Connecting Digital Trust & Cybersecurity Startups with Strategic Capital
Speakers
Vice President Investor Community, Partnerships & Sustainability • SICTIC
Steffen Ehrhardt has over 16 years of experience in Go-to-Market, Operations and Strategy across multiple Google products in the EMEA region. His career spans both large-scale corporate environments and fast-moving innovation ecosystems, making him a bridge between global tech platforms and emerging ventures. For the past 10 years, Steffen has been deeply active in the global startup ecosystem. He has contributed from multiple angles – as an investor club member at SICTIC, as part of Google’s StartupX initiatives, as the founder of the EXFI investment syndicate and as an active angel investor supporting early-stage founders worldwide. Steffen also brings in-depth expertise in sustainability and AI, emerging markets, internationalization of technology companies and retail/e-commerce acceleration. His work consistently focuses on helping organisations scale efficiently while integrating responsible innovation and long-term strategic thinking.
General Partner • Planven
Marc Greuter is a seasoned investment professional specializing in early- and growth-stage venture capital across North America, Europe and Israel. With more than a decade of hands-on experience in the startup ecosystem, he has operated from multiple vantage points: as an investor club member (SICTIC), as part of Google’s StartupX initiatives, as a founder of the investment syndicate EXFI and as an angel investor supporting emerging ventures. Previously, Marc held roles in corporate development, mergers & acquisitions and strategy within a global FMCG company, where he advised on more than ten successful M&A exits of privately held businesses. His deep sector expertise spans sustainability, artificial intelligence, emerging markets, internationalisation and retail/e-commerce, enabling him to partner with founders and corporates alike to accelerate growth, scale internationally and deliver value through innovation.
CAIO (Chief AI Officer) • Stealth AI Startup
Entrepreneurial Founder, CEO, Product and Engineering leader passionate about Trust, Security, International growth and expansion, with over 25 years experience in all aspects of the IT industry globally, energised by innovative challenging opportunities. My primary goal is to build and expand cross-functional, world-leading innovative game changing ideas and product. My leadership style is collaborative and inspiring, evolved through years of experience in creating products from scratch, finding investment, building engineering and product teams to execute and succeed. I interested in taking on new adventures that push boundaries and bring products to their next phase of growth.
Principal • High-Tech Gründerfonds
Axel is a senior VC investor with experience across stages and geographies. After six years at Deutsche Telekom’s corporate VC, Axel currently focusses on helping and growing seed companies at High-Tech Gruenderfonds, one of Europe’s largest and most active seed fund. With a strong business backround from Deutsche Telekom and other corporates and solid academic foundation from TU Munich and Hochschule Bonn Rhein-Sieg, Axel is looking for the great tech companies of tomorrow, who differentiate themselves by technology and have no fear of breaking up difficult and complex markets. He is currently invested in ten companies in Germany, Switzerland and the US.