Dominik Tobschall

Dominik Tobschall

Venture Partner

Dominik is a developer and lawyer with more than 20 years of experience in software development, product management, and business development.

Previously a Partner on the Speedinvest SaaS & Infra team, he has since transitioned to a Venture Partner role and is a Founder & Partner at backtrace capital.

Before Speedinvest and backtrace, Dominik was a member of the investment team at Target Partners, a leading early-stage tech VC. From 2015 to 2016 he worked on digital projects and took care of technology investments and acquisitions with a member of the executive board at C.H.BECK, one of the major legal publishers in the DACH region. 

In 2010 he co-founded fruux GmbH, the German software company behind the sabre/dav open source technology powering sync functionality in popular products, such as atmail, Box, Nextcloud, Posteo, ownCloud and many others. Active in the IT industry since 1998, he has also worked in various software development and product management roles.

Dominik studied law with a focus on taxation at the University of Münster and was admitted to the bar in 2012.

"I am deeply interested in everything that helps developers build, test, deploy, secure, run and monitor software - all the way down to (software-defined) infrastructure."

Dominik Tobschall