Oliver Kolbe
Managing Partner and Co-Founder @ Smac Partners
Oliver Kolbe is a startup investor at Smac Partners. Before co-founding smac partners GmbH in 2006, Oliver served as CFO at Siemens Acceleration in Communications. In 2000 he worked for Siemens Mobile as Vice President Strategy and Marketing BA, responsible for the enormous sponsoring and marketing budget of the wireless handset division. Prior to that, he worked at VP level at Siemens in differentfunctions along the various value-added chains of the telecommunications industry, building up new business fields and branches in various geographies.With his deep insight into complex corporate structures, as well as value-added chains in the telecommunications industry, Oliver acquired hands-on experience in building up new business and dealing with challenging sales and marketing tasks worldwide. As such, he was accountable for a business volume of over € 300 million and a workforce in excess of 100.Oliver Kolbe holds a masters degree in business administration and finance from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich, Germany.
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About Smac Partners
Smac Partners focused on early-stage ICT technologies and services of start-ups. The investment geographies are mainly Europe and Israel, with leverage of a global network.The secondary investments provide highly flexible customised solutions to optimise the value of single assets or entire portfolios of corporate and institutional venturecapital companies.In 2001 they started with Siemens Mobile Acceleration as a corporate venture arm of Siemens Mobile. In 2006 they performed a secondary transaction of the total Siemens fund with the new name Tempo Park Fund 1. smac | partners advises the fund with originally more than 30 ICT early-stage investments in the USA, Asia, Europe and Israel.In 2007 smac partners executed a typical tail-end secondary venture capital transaction by acquiring a portfolio from Vertex Venture Capital, Israel. This fund, smac partners Fund II, comprises nine ICT portfolio companies.In 2008 smac partners closed its third fund in 3 years, smac partners Fund III, and so far has acquired stakes in 10 ICT-companies in Finland, Israel and USA.Their exceptional background and remarkable global network in the ICT industry and relevant communities substantially underpins smac | partners’ passion for “leading entrepreneurs to successâ€.
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Dietrich Ulmer
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Ingo Potthof
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Oliver Kolbe
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