Julian Blessin

Julian joined the Speedinvest team full-time as a Partner from one of its portfolio companies, TIER Mobility. He now works as a Venture Partner supporting the Marketplaces & Consumer team in finding and funding Seed stage B2B and B2C digital marketplaces.

Prior to starting TIER, Julian completed a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Munich. He then gained extensive operational venture experience, starting at Partech Ventures, and took his first steps as an entrepreneur as Co-Founder of Ark.com. 

He dove further into the building and launching companies as Venture Lead and GM at BCG Digital Ventures where he had worked since its founding in 2014. Examples of ventures launched during his time at BCG DV include COUP Mobility and NIST. 

Aside from his PhD, Julian studied Business Administration (Dipl.-Kffm.), Business Research (Msc.) and Technology Management (Honors) at LMU Munich, the Center for Digital Technologies and Management (CDTM), and the University of California Berkeley.