Venture Capital Investor
Munich Area, Germany
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- Partner at Target Partners
- Investor and Chairman at Trupoli AG
- Investor at Trigami
- Past
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- Venture Partner at Target Partners
- Founder and CEO at Collax Inc.
- Co-Founder and Managing Director at Sirius Venture Partners
- Investor and CSO at Cobion AG
- Chief Sales Officer at ACG AG
- Senior VP Marketing at Minolta
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Olaf Jacobi’s Summary
Strong entrepreneurial flair
Proven and serial business success in young as well as in established enterprises
Successfully growing embryonic organizations
Transforming start-ups to expansion
International sales- and management experience
Olaf Jacobi’s Specialties:
general management
sales and business development
VC funding
Olaf Jacobi’s Experience
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Partner
Target Partners
(Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
March 2009 — Present (9 months)
Target Partners is one of the leading early-stage venture capital funds in Germany. The firm invests in start-up and early stage companies and supports them during their build-out and expansion phases. With many years of experience as managers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, the team at Target Partners supports entrepreneurs in developing and marketing products and services, building organizations, raising money and taking companies public in Europe and the United States.
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Investor and Chairman
Trupoli AG
(Internet industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
Trupoli is an internet platform and social network about politics. www.trupoli.com
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Investor
Trigami
(Public Company; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)
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Venture Partner
Target Partners
(Public Company; Financial Services industry)
June 2007 — February 2009 (1 year 9 months)
Target Partners is a venture capital partnership with a single, focused mission: to help entrepreneurs build highly successful companies. Target Partners' strategy succeeds through a unique combination of teamwork, excellent contacts, experience, professionalism, and a strong capital base. www.targetpartners.de
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Founder and CEO
Collax Inc.
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)
February 2005 — September 2006 (1 year 8 months)
Collax has been founded in May 2005 by Olaf Jacobi and the co-founders Bill Hite and Boris Nalbach. Collax is based in Bedford, Massachusetts and Munich, Germany.
Collax delivers turn-key, Linux-based server solutions to run a business. The solutions contain a suite of best of breed open source applications for security, networking and communication. Also available pre-loaded on hardware, the server software can be used with any Windows, Mac or Linux client devices and requires no customer administration. SMBs or departments of larger enterprises realize Linux functionality, scalability, security and rapid innovation without learning a new operating system. -
Co-Founder and Managing Director
Sirius Venture Partners
(Partnership; 1-10 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)
January 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 5 months)
As a venture capital investor in technological growth markets Sirius Venture Partners concentrate on investments in young companies during the start-up and early expansion phase, which show above-average growth potential with innovative technologies, products and business models. Sirius Venture Partners invest directly in companies through their own funds.
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Investor and CSO
Cobion AG
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)
April 2002 — August 2004 (2 years 5 months)
Cobion is the technology leader for content security located in Kassel. Cobion's mission is to protect organizations from unwanted or non-business related content, including e-mails, Spam and file attachments.
-Investor and shareholders of Cobion
-Member of the Executive Management Board
-Worldwide responsibility for sales and marketing and international roll-out of the company
-Strategy shift of the company in Q2/2002
-External funding by two international Venture Capitalists in Q3/2002
-Foundation of subsidiaries in Boston, London and Shanghai as well as development of a network of international sales partners
-Growth in net-sales of 430% from Q1/2002 to Q4/2003 (€ 850,000)
-Turn-around to profitability in Q4/2004
-Trade sale to Internet Security Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: ISSX) for € 26 Mio Jan 2004
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Chief Sales Officer
ACG AG
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Semiconductors industry)
June 1999 — March 2002 (2 years 10 months)
ACG is the leading high-tech-broker for chips, smart cards and RFID-technology. The company is listed on the German Stock Exchange in Frankfurt. Since the company’s formation in 1995, it has grown to an international group. The Smart Card Group is the foundation of the ACG business and one of two business areas of the company.
-Worldwide bottom-line responsibility for ACG’s Smart Card Group
-Common responsibility for the entire ACG Group
-€ 105 Mio net sales with an EBITDA of € 6 Mio in 2001
-Growth rate of 40% in terms of net sales from 2000 to 2001
-Management of approximately 300 employees, 18 companies in 12 countries, 8 product management teams -
Senior VP Marketing
Minolta
(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)
October 1992 — May 1999 (6 years 8 months)
Minolta is an international brand and company active in the IT, office equipment and photo market. The European headquarters are located in Hanover. Net sales of the German operation were about € 300 Mio.
-Responsibility for the Marketing Division (Advertising department, PR team, four product management teams, training department, strategic marketing team and service organization) with 44 employees.
-Development of a competitive marketing organization
-Improvement of the brand image to become a strong IT-brand
-Responsibility for the marketing budget (approximately € xx Mio)
-Roll-out of the new matrix and team organization structure
-Raising of the market share in the core markets as well as of the total turnover of Minolta Germany
-Member of the management team of Minolta Germany
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