Dr. Julian Blessin serves as a Partner at Speedinvest. Dr. Blessin serves as Board Member at Freeplay and Yardlink. He Co-Founded & served as Managing Director at TIER Mobility and Partner at Speedinvest. He co-founded B8ta. Prior to starting TIER, he completed a Ph.D. 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.