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Felix Scheuffelen
Felix Scheuffelen Overview
Investor Type
Angel
Status
Active
Professionals
1
Investments
1
Exits
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Felix Scheuffelen General Information
Description
Mr. Felix Scheuffelen is a Co-Founder & serves as Advisor at Assembly Ventures. He is an Angel Investor. He served as Founding Partner at Iporanga Innovation. He is an investor and founder of Groupon Brasil. He served as Member Advisory Board at Gera Venture Capital. He also helped to found companies like E-Darling and Zalando. Prior to Assembly Ventures, he co-founded and managed Beyond1435, an industry consortium, together with Deutsche Bahn, Siemens Mobility, Bombardier, and Swiss Railways. The consortium focuses on creating joint ventures and innovation alliances in the transportation industry. Prior to his call from Deutsche Bahn, he served as a managing director at Plug and Play Germany on invitation from Daimler, which had just started its innovation platform Startup Autobahn which would scale to more than 30 European partners and is by now considered the leading automotive technology innovation platform in Europe. Before returning to Germany, he spent seven years in Brazil, during which he co-founded Groupon Brazil and scaled it into a 1,500-people organization that went public on a group level in 2011. Afterward, he co-founded Iporanga Ventures in Sao Paulo with three other general partners to invest in Brazilian early-stage startups. His operational startup know-how comes from the early days at the startup incubator Rocket Internet for which He managed Zalando's professional rollout in TV and Online Marketing analytics. In-house he co-founded Zalando Lounge, one of Zalando's biggest EBITDA contributors to date. He holds an engineering diploma from Technical University Berlin. In his personal life.