Who we are
FoundersLaneâs journey to becoming the leading Corporate Venture Builder worldwide has started in 2016 by Felix Staeritz, Andreas von Oettingen, and Michael Stephanblome. Joining shortly were other unicorn founders and operators, entrepreneurs with IPOs and exits and serial investors such as Markus Fuhrmann (Delivery Hero), Lionel Paillet (Apple, Nest), Andrej Henkler (Palantir, Evernote) and Jochen Wilms (Dornbracht, Luqom).
Today, FoundersLane is a proven corporate innovation pioneer, trusted by 50+ corporate partners. We create new, fast-growing digital companies by combining the agility and the mindset of technology entrepreneurs with the strength and unfair advantage of large, traditional corporations. As early-stage experts, FoundersLaneâs team specialises in identifying, validating, building, launching and scaling new business models. We focus on complex and highly-regulated industries such as Energy, Insurance, Manufacturing, Logistics, Mobility, Fintech and Healthcare & Pharma.Â
Everyone on our team truly believes that investing our energy and talent into the topics of climate and healthcare yields the largest possible impact for society. Weâve committed ourselves to building ventures that are not just profitable but also drive meaningful innovation. One example is our portfolio venture Solytic. Â The AI-solar analytics platform, which we have built together with Vattenfall, empowers the adoption and maintenance of photo voltaic plants. Four years after founding, it is the fastest-growing solar start-up worldwide, present in over 65 countries worldwide..Â
Across our offices in Berlin, Cologne, Sofia, Vienna & MENA, we boast a proactive, autonomous, tightly-knitted team of 100+ founders, scaling experts and entrepreneurs with great expertise in the fields of medicine, health, climate, disruptive technologies such as IoT connectivity, AI, and machine learning. Our corporate partners include SMEs, large corporations, as well as more than 30 Forbes listed companies, such as Allianz, Bosch, Vattenfall, Henkel and Baloise.
We co-create a better future.