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Because our founders go All-in, so do we for them.

The Alstin team has a combined deal track record of >300 transactions, >150 follow-on financings and 25 exits, as well as expertise in B2B sales and B2B software.

This is us.

Carsten Maschmeyer is a successful entrepreneur, consultant, key note speaker at startup events, financial investor and television investor juror.

Under the strategic umbrella of the Maschmeyer Group, he bundles his investment and advisory activities. The investments of his private assets range from early stage financing to investments in listed companies.

The focus of his work is the management of the investments made within the framework of Alstin Capital. He devotes himself to being an investor, strategic sparring partner and mentor with the bulk of his working time.

Carsten Maschmeyer invented the independent financial advice. Under his leadership, AWD, which he founded in 1988, expanded into eleven countries and became Europe’s largest independent financial services firm with 6,600 consultants and employees.

In 2000, he successfully launched his company on the stock market and into the M-DAX.

In 2007, Carsten Maschmeyer sold its stake in Switzerland’s largest life insurer Swiss Life. Carsten Maschmeyer started his impressive career in sales. During his medical studies, he also worked in the sales department of a wealth management consultancy and gained his first entrepreneurial and sales experience. Due to his impressive sales successes he devoted himself completely from 1982 to the financial advice.

Carsten Maschmeyer

Alexander Meyer-Scharenberg is an experienced investment portfolio manager with strong expertise in tech, cyber and climate.

Before joining Alstin, he managed Munich Re’s global innovation portfolio for several years. Prior to that, he played a key role in building the corporate venture capital department at ams OSRAM, where he gained deep tech expertise in particular.

His enthusiasm for startups has shaped his entire career path. Alexander was also a founder himself, so he knows both sides of the startup world, and has advised startups at the Technical University of Munich, at UnternehmerTUM.

His academic career has also prepared him well for portfolio management. A bachelor’s degree in business administration at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich was followed by two master’s degrees: business management at Julius-Maximilians-Universität in Würzburg and entrepreneurship at Lund University in Sweden.

**Supported Companies:** Nect, Neodigital

Alexander Meyer-Scharenberg

Sophie Tribius joined Alstin Capital in June 2021 as Investment Manager.

She has many years of venture capital experience with a focus on B2B early-stage start-ups and was most recently Investment Manager at the trans-European VC Nauta Capital Investments. There, she established the fund’s German office and made several investments in the B2B software space, particularly focusing on SME-focused business models, New Work and InsurTech.

Previously, Sophie built her investment experience at High-Tech Gründerfonds, Mountain Partners and LeadX Capital Partners, as well as in the strategic investment arm of Bertelsmann.

Sophie graduated from HEC Paris with a Master of Science in International Business. She received her Bachelor of Science in Economics from the University of Groningen after studying abroad at Copenhagen Business School.

**Supported Companies:** Circula, retraced, Deskbird, Quobyte

Sophie Tribius

Dr. Andreas Schenk has 13 years of experience as an investment manager. At Seventure Partners, he was head of the DACH region for Series A software investments.

Prior to that, he gained extensive experience as an investment manager at Enjoyventure Management GmbH. There he was active for many regional seed funds, with a focus on Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia.

In total, Andreas made over 30 investments and also held and still holds numerous advisory board positions, as his broad expertise is highly appreciated by both investors and founders. He has particular expertise in software startups and in DeepTech companies, across all industries.

His management and finance studies have taken him to colleges and universities in Europe and the US, and he has conducted research on financing and spinoffs from mid-market companies and on digital business models, among other topics. Andreas Schenk received his PhD in economics from the UEM Madrid.

**Supported Companies:** Usercentrics, pliant, Ancla

Dr. Andreas Schenk

Philipp Rehsmann joined the Alstin Capital team in September 2021. Previously, Philipp gained valuable experience in strategy consultancies and in the startup sector.

In the summer of 2020 at McKinsey & Company, he advised an e-commerce company on the development of its growth strategy and the implications on its operating model. In spring 2019 at Strategy&, he advised an e-commerce company on the development of a solution to reduce net working capital and a private equity fund on the sale of a company operating in the healthcare sector. In 2018, he supported unicorn audibene/hear.com in Germany and the United States of America in Controlling & Finance in planning a new, data-driven allocation of marketing budgets as well as an improvement of transparency over inventory.

Philipp Rehsmann holds a Bachelor (B.Sc. in International Business Administration) from WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management with a study abroad program at the University of San Diego and a Master (Grande École Master in Management / Managerial Financial Economics Major) from HEC Paris.

**Supported Companies:** Razor Group, ExB Labs

Philipp Rehsmann

Dr. Christopher Picot has long-standing experience in the field of M&A and corporate finance.

Before joining Alstin Capital, he was Senior Director at BELGRAVIA & CO., an M&A and corporate finance consultancy specializing in medium-sized companies, on national and international transactions.

He gained further transaction and investment experience at HSBC in the corporate broking division, at KPMG in the deal advisory practice with a focus on equity capital markets and at SSC Consult, a corporate finance and M&A consultancy focused on small and mid cap companies.

Christopher Picot completed his studies in law at the Universities of Freiburg, Bonn and Geneva; he received his doctorate in capital markets law from the University of Cologne. He graduated from ESADE Business School in Barcelona with a Master of Business Administration.

**Supported Companies:** Klarna

Because our founders go All-in, so do we for them.

This is us.

Carsten Maschmeyer

Alexander Meyer-Scharenberg

Sophie Tribius

Dr. Andreas Schenk

Philipp Rehsmann

Dr. Christopher Picot

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