Ragnar Kruse
Founding Partner & CEO @ AI.FUND
Hamburg, Germany
Ragnar Kruse is a pre-seed investor at AI.FUND in Hamburg focused on SaaS and Artificial Intelligence. Ragnar Kruse is the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder at Smaato Inc. As a serial entrepreneur with 30+ years experience in IT, Ragnar Kruse understands the unique challenges in bringing new technologies to market. Ragnar has built up several companies from inception to market launch in both the US and Europe. At Intershop Communications, aleader in E-Commerce software solutions, Ragnar was Vice President of Sales and Marketing in San Francisco. During his tenure, Ragnar was instrumental in the company’s growth and ushering it through a successful IPO on NASDAQ and the “Neuer Markt” in 1998. More recently, Ragnar held key management positions at high-tech companies in the U.S. and Europe including eCharge and Xtramind. Through his many years in IT, Ragnar maintains strong relationships with companies in the telecommunications and mobile sectors, including Deutsche Telekom, Telekom New Zealand, Telstra, Telia, Cable & Wireless, Siemens, T-Online, T-Mobile, France Telecom, HP and SUN. Ragnar started his career as an entrepreneur. In 1980, Ragnar founded IPT GmbH, a computer retail business that imported products into Germany from the USA and Taiwan. In 1987 he expanded his business by starting DTP Partner GmbH, a distribution company in Hamburg. DTP Partner was the exclusive distributor of several desktop publishing solutions such as Corel and was instrumental in establishing international distribution agreements with American and Taiwanese companies. Ragnar studied law at the universities of Hamburg and Munich, Germany.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Ragnar Kruse invests in
Stages Ragnar Kruse invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (40%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (40%)
- B2B 1 (20%)
- Sports 1 (20%)
- Software 1 (20%)
Stage
- Pre-Seed 2 (40%)
- Seed 1 (20%)
- Series A 1 (20%)
- Private Equity 1 (20%)
Investments
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Frontnow
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Frontnow is redefining e-commerce with AI, providing businesses with powerful pre-sales tools to maximize core KPIs and provide an in-store-like shopping experience. Our vision is to transform online shopping into a dynamic, hyper-personalized, and inspirational experience through an adaptive interface. By revolutionizing the ecosystem, theyempower businesses to thrive in the digital age and significantly impact the way customers shop online, leading to a more profitable and customer-centric retail world. | $1.5M / Pre-Seed / Apr 05, 2022 | |
BLOCKCHANCE
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BLOCKCHANCE is Germany’s leading blockchain congress and trade fair and connects thought leaders and innovators who are creating inspiring concepts and solutions within blockchain technology space. It introduces Artificial Intelligence as a main topic in the upcoming event. | Seed / Dec 08, 2020 | |
Sponsoo
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Sponsoo is an innovative online marketplace that connects non-professional athletes and sport teams with corporate sponsors. Athletes and teams create a profile on sponsoo.com, and sponsors search the database to find the perfect team(s) to sponsor.Important for German investors: Sponsoo is part of the INVEST grant programme that allows privateinvestors to claim back 20% of their investment sum as a grant from the German Department of Commerce. | $1.7M / Series A / Nov 19, 2020 | |
aiconix GmbH
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The souvereign AI platform DeepVA - flexible by design to meet even the most sophisticated workflow demands—from enriching media archives and automating metadata processes to powering live translation and transcription. Backed by scalable multimodal AI models within a composite AI ecosystem, aiconix's DeepVA offers state-of-the-art AI withoutthe security and data compliance headache. | $822K / Pre-Seed / Aug 28, 2020 | |
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aiconix GmbH
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The souvereign AI platform DeepVA - flexible by design to meet even the most sophisticated workflow demands—from enriching media archives and automating metadata processes to powering live translation and transcription. Backed by scalable multimodal AI models within a composite AI ecosystem, aiconix's DeepVA offers state-of-the-art AI withoutthe security and data compliance headache. | $327.4K / Private Equity / Aug 28, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About AI.FUND
AI.FUND invests in the most promising early stage AI first startups in Europe and Israel which put AI at the heart of their impactful solution. AI.FUND focus' on the application of AI across all sectors. AI.FUND's preferred stages are seed and Series A rounds. AI.FUND expects first customer traction and the ambition to scaleinternationally.
AI.FUND Contacts
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Dietlind Wittig
Senior Analyst
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Dr. John Lange
Founding Partner
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Fabian Westerheide
Founding Partner
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Hauke Hansen
Founding Partner
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Ingo Hoffmann
Founding Partner
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What does Ragnar Kruse invest in?
Ragnar Kruse invests primarily in SaaS, Artificial Intelligence and B2B startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Germany. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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