At CFO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Germany based CFO’ operating in the FinTech space. If you think a CFO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Michael Hock
CFO & Managing Director of finleap
Michael oversees all finance, tax, legal and regulatory topics as well as all people & organization activities at finleap. He is also responsible for the investment management. Michael has many years of experience in the corporate M&A and venture capital investment business. Previously, he held the roles of Managing Director and Senior Investment Manager at Holtzbrinck Digital and Digital Science for almost six years, where he was most recently responsible for global strategic investments in the Digital Science & Education segments. During this time he took over numerous board and advisory board positions at leading digital companies and was also interim CEO at myphotobook. At the beginning of his career, he gained experience in various positions at Siemens in corporate finance and investment in Munich and Boston, before assuming responsibility for the CFO division at VC boutique smac partners. Michael holds an Executive MBA from the Technical University of Munich as well as a Diploma in Business Administration from the Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University in Stuttgart.
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About finleap: finleap is Europe’s #1 fintech ecosystem. In addition to access to capital, it offers a network of investors as well as partners and talent.
Julia Feldhusen
CFO of Atlantic Labs
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About Atlantic Labs: Atlantic Labs is an early-stage venture capital investment firm that is based in Berlin, Germany.
Christian Müller
CFO of Spotcap
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About Spotcap: Spotcap empowers SMEs with tailored finance, allowing them to focus on their business.
Tim Strunk
Chief Financial Officer of Mambu
Tim heads the finance team and supports Mambu’s growth. He is committed to creating efficient and robust finance structures and processes while ensuring compliance. Tim brings over 20 years of experience in the field of financial strategy, planning and control.
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About Mambu: Mambu is a software-as-a-service banking engine provider that powers lending and deposit services.
Eva Riesenhuber
Partner & CFO of Next47
Eva brings more than 15 years of deal making and finance experience to her role as Partner and CFO at next47. Prior to joining next47, Eva served as Senior Vice President of Mergers & Acquisitions at Siemens AG where she was responsible for acquisitions, joint venture formations and divestments, predominantly for Siemens’s Digital Factory and Process Industries & Drives Divisions. Prior to Siemens AG, Eva spent 11 years in New York working as a finance attorney for leading global law firms, Clifford Chance US LLP as well as Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, one of the top ten law firms in the US. During this time, she moved from cross-border financing, to derivatives, to project financing, and eventually settled on mergers and acquisitions. Based in Munich, Eva holds a Ph.D. degree in Law from the University of Frankfurt and a Masters of Law degree from New York University. She is also the author of The International Monetary Fund under Constraint, in which she exposes the legal dilemma facing the IMF as it tackles international crisis management. Eva is an alumni of the German Academic Scholarship Foundation and a member of the Economic Advisory Council of Bavaria.
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About Next47: Next47 invests in groundbreaking enterprise entrepreneurs and accelerates revenue growth by opening doors to customers around the world.
Fabian Wesemann
Founder, CFO of wefox
Fabian is the Co-Founder and Group CFO of wefox group. wefox Group operates two businesses across Europe: Wefox is a platform that connects insurance companies to brokers that manage and consult their customers completely digital. Wefox currently features more than 300 insurance companies on the marketplace and serves more than 1’000 broker agents and 250.000 consumers. ONE: Fully digital European insurance company. The vision is to create a single protection for all risks in life in real time based on actually exposed risk. ONE is fully integrated in the wefox platform. wefox group has raised >€50m to date. This investment is the largest sum invested in an Insurtech company in Europe to date. Before wefox, Fabian founded EMPAUA Gmbh and worked as an investment banker for Deutsche Bank in London.
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About wefox: wefox is a digital insurance company with tech enabled human agents.
Michael Mueller
Chief Financial Officer, Managing Director of Deposit Solutions
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About Deposit Solutions: Deposit Solutions is provider of the open banking platform for deposits connecting banks and depositors.
Igor Kuschnir
Managing Director & CFO of Penta
Igor is Chief Financial Officer at Penta and in charge of our financial strategy. He brings in extensive corporate finance experience and the necessary attention to detail. Before joining Penta, he worked for Citi’s investment banking division focusing on M&A transactions.
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About Penta: Penta is a digital business bank platform designed to help startups and SMEs save time and money on banking.
Thomas Baum
Partner, CFO of Redstone
Thomas Baum is Partner at Redstone, a Berlin-based Venture Capital firm that manages multiple corporate and institutional venture funds. Thomas is also Managing Director and CFO of Rebate Networks, a company builder and investment firm focused on E-Commerce ventures. He started his Internet career in 2000 as CFO and Co-Founder of yousmile.de AG and Mentasys GmbH (bought by Lycos). In 2008 he then joined VZ Netzwerke, Germany’s largest Social Network as CFO. He studied International Business and Management in Germany and France and now lives in Berlin, Germany.
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About i2x, Redstone, TMBA Capital: Redstone is a Berlin-based Venture Capital firm, managing investment funds structured around various sector verticals.
Daniel Treiber
CFO of Getsafe
Although he claims “the F is for fun”, our CFO’s primary job is to keep Getsafe liquid and financially sound. To this end, Daniel watches our P&L, negotiates with business partners and makes sure our investors are happy. In his pre-startup life, Daniel financed M&A transactions as an investment banker and worked in management consulting.
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About Getsafe: Getsafe is on a mission to reinvent how people do insurance, building the radically best insurance experience at their fingertips.
Christoph Iwaniez
CFO – Managing Director of Nuri
Christoph was previously the CFO of GIZS which connects the German Sparkassen Group to the paydirekt payment scheme and before that 10 years at Landesbank Baden-Württemberg (LBBW), one of Germanys biggest banking groups.
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About Nuri: Nuri empowers people to manage and grow their wealth through innovative technologies.
Daniel Kirch
CFO and Co-Founder of Taxy.io
Daniel is CFO & Co-Founder of Taxy.io where he leads any financial and strategic initiative. Before, he worked for a Venture Capital fund and carried out approx. 30 VC transactions in Europe and USA. The former management consultant has an academic background in mechanical engineering and business (RWTH Aachen University, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Tongji University) and finance (TU Munich).
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About Taxy.io: Taxy.io builds digital assistants for tax advisers to support their daily research and client advisory.
Malte Dummel
COO & CFO of Xempus AG (formerly xbAV AG)
Malte Dummel serves as the Chief Financial Officer at xbAV.
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About Xempus AG (formerly xbAV AG): Xempus is a leading European pension & life insurance distribution platform.
Robin Staszek
CFO of Hasso Plattner Ventures
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About Hasso Plattner Ventures: Hasso Plattner Ventures invests in fast-growing, information technology-driven companies.
Matthias Woppmann
CFO of RECHNUNG.de
Matthias Woppmann joined GoodsTag as CFO in 2020.
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About BestSearch Media, GoodsTag, RECHNUNG.de, Trip.me: RECHNUNG.de offers factoring services to freelancers and SMEs.
Joachim von Bonin
Co-Founder & CFO of simplesurance
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About simplesurance: Simplesurance creates a platform for simple access to insurance to combine traditional insurance industries with digital business.
Michael Morsch
CFO of Quantumrock
Michael has more than ten years’ experience as a CFO in different technology-driven financial sector companies. As a Certified Executive Director he has worked for a European licensed financial institution and served as CFO for subsidiaries of stock listed companies such as SAP AG and Net1 UEPS Technologies. Michael is internationally focused and results orientated. He cofounded the payment service provider Masterpayment AG and real estate developer Sinus Cultor. Michael holds a Degree in Business from the University of Würzburg.
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About Quantumrock: Adaptive Investment Programs for the Asset Management Industry.
Timm Weitzel
CFO & Head of Data Analytics of Thinksurance
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About Thinksurance: Thinksurance is a leading technology consultation platform for business insurance used by brokers, agents, banks and further sales channels.
Jochen Siegert
CFO of Traxpay
Jochen Siegert is a co-founder and managing partner of Finleap, and CEO of two early-stage companies, MD at Bigpoint, EMEA Director of Strategy and Corporate Development, PayPal, Head of Partner and Product Management at KarstadtQuelle Bank, AVP at MasterCard Europe.
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About Traxpay: Traxpay is a fin-tech platform that provides supply chain finance, dynamic discounting and reverse factoring services to corporate clients.
Martin Damaske
CFO & Co-Founder of AAZZUR
CFO Martin Damaske started in physics but moved on to setting up new businesses in financial services. He built up a team of 50 in the securitisation industry, received a licence for a trading bank is also a founding shareholder of Germany’s market-leading loan brokerage platform. Martin thrives on the entrepreneurial thrill of turning an idea into a successful company.
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About AAZZUR: AAZZUR is an open banking platform that facilitates the exchange of data, messages and transactions.
Ralph Pieper
CFO of Invesdor Deutschland (Kapilendo AG)
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About Invesdor Deutschland (Kapilendo AG), Remagine: Invesdor (formally Kapilendo) offers investors to invest online in selected and audited investment projects of companies.
Tobias Auferoth
Managing Director / CFO of Upvest
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About Upvest, Upvest: Upvest empowers financial institutions to offer investment products in their app with a modular, scalable, and accessible API.
Alexander Rennig
CFO & Founder of Cometum
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About Cometum: Cometum´s mission is to become Europe´s No.1 digital private bank for affluents and HNW-Millennials.
Heiko Rahlfs
Chief Financial Officer of wealthpilot
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About wealthpilot: wealthpilot enables professional advisors to deliver a data-driven and truly personal wealth management.
Markus Haggenmiller
CFO & Co-Founder of Bilendo
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About Bilendo: Most companies waste resources to collect and manage their receivables. Bilendo helps to secure these resources and to make good decisions.