Stefan Lederer
Co-Founder & CEO @ Bitmovin
San Francisco, United States
Stefan Lederer is a seed investor at Bitmovin in San Francisco focused on Software and Consulting. Stefan Lederer is co-founder and Head of Business of bitmovinin 2012, a company which focuses on products, cloud services and consulting in the area of adaptive HTTP streaming. He received his B.Sc. (Bakk.) in Information Management in Aug’10, his M.Sc. (Dipl.-Ing.) in Computer Science in Mar’12 and his M.Sc. (Mag.) in Marketing and InternationalManagement in Jun'13, all with distinction from the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. He gained practical and international expertise in various companies (IBM, McKinsey&Company, Dolby, Hillside, Ilogs, etc.) and has a strong business focus in marketing and international management. He founded his first company in 2008 and led several IT projects in central and eastern Europe. In his position of an Assistant Professor at the Alpen-Adria Universität Klagenfurt, Institute of Information Technology (ITEC), Multimedia Communication Group he participated in several EC-funded projects (ALICANTE, SocialSensor). His research topics include transport of modern/rich media, multimedia adaptation, QoS/QoE as well as future internet architectures and he has published more than 20 papers in these areas. He participated in the MPEG-DASH standardization, contributed several open source tools (DASHEncoder, DASHoverCCN VLC plugin) and datasets.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Stefan Lederer invests in
Stages Stefan Lederer invests in
Countries Stefan Lederer invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $1M–$2.3M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 1 (25%)
- Consulting 1 (25%)
- Information Technology 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (25%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (25%)
Investments
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Kickscale
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Kickscale offers playbooks that help sales teams to improve businesses, especially in the area of lead and opportunity development. | $2.3M / Seed / May 14, 2025 | |
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Kickscale
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Kickscale offers playbooks that help sales teams to improve businesses, especially in the area of lead and opportunity development. | Pre-Seed / Sep 04, 2024 | |
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Kickscale
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Kickscale offers playbooks that help sales teams to improve businesses, especially in the area of lead and opportunity development. | $1M / Pre-Seed / Jan 26, 2024 | |
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Kickscale
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Kickscale offers playbooks that help sales teams to improve businesses, especially in the area of lead and opportunity development. | $1M / Seed / Jan 25, 2024 |
Co-Investors
About Bitmovin
Bitmovin is a young and dynamic multimedia company. Their principal expertise is in the domain of information and communication technologies for audio-visual networks, in particular for HTTP streaming services and embedded multimedia applications. Additionally, bitmovin provides consulting and standardization services, specifically towardsISO/IEC MPEG.Bitmovin multimedia is a spin-of company of the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, where most of their experts come from, and the ALICANTE EU FP7-ICT project. Together with the University they are still investigated in all kinds of research in the field of multimedia and especially in state of the art standardization at this sector e.g. ISO/IEC MPEG. Their highly skilled and motivated employees work in their offices in the Lakeside Science & Technology Park, Building B01.Bitmovin offers API-based products to help developers solve the most complex video problems with cloud native software that runs anywhere. The company was founded in 2013 by Stefan Lederer, Christopher Müller and Christian Timmerer.Bitmovin is based in San Francisco, CA, USA and Klagenfurt, Austria and privately owned. The company's investors include Atomico, Dawn Capital, YCombinator (YC S15), SpeedInvest and Constantia Industries.
Bitmovin Contacts
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Christopher Mueller
Co-Founder & CTO
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Stefan Lederer
Co-Founder & CEO
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Christian Timmerer
Co-Founder & CIO
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Gerald Zankl
Director of Global Inside Sales
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FAQ
What does Stefan Lederer invest in?
Stefan Lederer invests primarily in Software, Consulting and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Austria. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Stefan Lederer's check size?
Stefan Lederer typically joins rounds of $1M–$2.3M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Stefan Lederer participates in.
When did Stefan Lederer last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Stefan Lederer closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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