CEO Maschmeyer Group
Early- & Growth-stage Investor

Carsten Maschmeyer

Carsten Maschmeyer is a highly successful German businessman, investor, speaker, bestselling-author, and panel-member of the German TV-show “Die Höhle der Löwen”. All of his investment activities are combined under the strategic umbrella of the Maschmeyer Group, currently a San-Francisco headquartered global venture capital group (www.mgv.vc). With his investment company ALSTIN (Alternative strategic Investments) he engages in companies in sunrise industries and growing markets. The investment company Seed&Speed provides seed investments to very early-stage companies, and with Paladin Asset Management he identifies undervalued public-listed organizations.

Carsten Maschmeyer founded the independent financial consultancy, AWD, which successfully entered the stock market in 2000 and rose in the MDAX. In 2007 Maschmeyer sold all of his shares in the business to Swiss Life, the largest Swiss life insurer.