We are an early stage venture capital firm funding entrepreneurs with a focus on supply chain and food tech.
WHO WE ARE
Maximilian
von Poelnitz
MANAGING PARTNER
Maximilian is an entrepreneur, investor, and start up advisor. He has spent 10 years in Asia and following a business school degree at INSEAD launched his first start up in 2011. By 2015, Max’s 3rd venture, NOSH, was funded by Alibaba Entrepreneur Fund and ultimately Delivery Hero, a German publicly traded institutional investor.
Max is passionate about food tech and B2B innovation. He has been featured on CNN, CNBC and Forbes and was named to Tatler’s Generation T in 2019.
Sam
Gellman
PARTNER
Sam has extensive experience in fundamental equity research and unparrallelled operational experience as Uber’s first employee outside of North America. At Uber, he managed the company’s launches into Europe and Asia, setting up London, China, Amsterdam, and Hong Kong. He later was Head of North Asia. As one of the company’s first 40 employees, Sam learned to take a good idea and scale it into a global business.
Before Uber, Sam rose to be one of Goldman Sach’s youngest research executives as the Head of Asia Derivative Research. Sam Holds a Bachelors degree from Stanford University in Computer Science.
In the News
We partnered with Brinc to launch a Food Tech and Supply Chain Innovation 3 month Accelerator.
If you would like us to take a look at your business plan or pitch deck please don’t hesitate to submit. We focus on early stage businesses in the pre-seed, seed, and pre-series a financing rounds. We are entrepreneurs ourselves looking to help our portfolio companies scale up faster. We do weekly partner meetings to review submissions as well as our current pipeline.
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