Axel Roitzsch

General Partner and Co-Founder

2022 - Current

Vanagon Ventures targets Europe’s €3T Digital DeepTech opportunity by backing top tech- and industry experts who are driving European technological sovereignty with the most powerful digital tools we have. Our mission is to radically transform Europe's key resilience and GDP drivers—Industrial, Nature, and Finance—unlocking one of the greatest business opportunities of our time.

Advisory Board Member

2025

Premier rating and analytics platform for digital assets.

Advisory Board Member

2025

AI-Powered Materials R&D startup, optimizing for properties, cost, and sustainability. Winner of multiple prizes such as The Next Web Award 2024.

Mentor

2024

Start2 Group was ranked Top 3 Leading Startup Hubs in Europe by the Financial Times, furthermore 1st in Europe for Hub Network and 1st in Europe for Alumni Track Record. I serve as Startup Mentor for DeepTech startups, e.g. spinouts of Max-Planck Fördergesellschaft.

VC Investor

2023

TLG is a catalyst for a natural capital market, which is rapidly emerging due to world largest asset managers and corporates understanding the crucial role of nature for economic value creation and as an attractive asset class.

VC Investor

2023

The world's most trusted digital carbon marketplace.

VP Strategic Partnerships

2021 - 2022

Managing Director Germany

2020 - 2021

Sortlist is a B2B scale-up and ranked #48 on Deloittes Technology Fast 500™ (EMEA). The merger with Agenturmatching created Europe's largest marketplace in advertising and marketing with a monthly project volume of 35 million euros. During the first 12 months after joining forces we generated 2.180% of revenue growth in Germany.

M&A

2021 - 2021

Boutique management and strategy consultancy firm for companies in the technology space. Focus on general business strategy, go-to-market strategy, access to finance, venture and grant funding, m&a support on both buy and sell-side.

CEO & Co-Founder (Exit to Sortlist SA)

2014 - 2020

With a 1-year full Scholarship from German Ministry of Economic Affairs we founded the B2B-marketplace in 2015. We developed an algorithmic backed matching process for SMEs, corporates and NGOs to find their perfect advertising agencies online. Became profitable in 2019. Exit to Brussel based scale-up Sortlist SA in 2020.

CMO

2012 - 2013

Soma Analytics developed the first scientifically validated smartphone app that helps companies and employees manage stress and mental health at work. Soma's assets got acquired by Hong Kong based Prenetics Group to expand its product portfolio from Genomics into behavioral health.