Jorge Fonturbel Saez
Founder of Merchlink
Berlin, Berlin
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & CEO
2022 - Current
Creating an innovative collaboration platform for independent e-commerce brands, designed to liberate them from costly paid marketing and restrictive marketplace conditions. Solo-founded the company. Backed by top European VC firms.
Angel Investor
2018
Selected investments: - Taxdown (Spain): personal tax filling - Branded (France/US): e-commerce aggregator - Kuda (Nigeria): african neobank
Co-Founding Member & Investor
2020 - 2022
VC & Growth Investor - Investment Manager
2018 - 2022
Invested in Seed to Series B startups. Portfolio includes: - Zego (UK): flexible car & new mobility insurance - Choco (Germany): restaurant supply - Lili (US): freelance neobank - Flink (Germany): grocery delivery - REEF (US): last-mile delivery network - Drover (UK) (sold to Cazoo): car subscription - Circ (sold to Bird): scooter sharing - Symmetrical (Poland): payroll connectivity
Senior Strategy & Digital Transformation Consultant
2014 - 2017
Engaged in strategy and digital transformation projects for top-tier companies in High-Tech, Telecom, Banking and Manufacturing sectors
Category Manager - Softlines at Amazon Spain
2013 - 2014
• Launched and managed the Fashion Categories in Spain & Italy • Improved and automated processes such as marketing campaigns and vendors integration, achieving comparable outputs with an organization 10x smaller than E.U marketplaces and 100x smaller than U.S • Built biggest selection of products across E.U marketplaces (1+Mn)
Amazon is a tech firm with a focus on e-commerce, cloud computing, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence.
Raised $8,108,000,000.00 from DBS Bank and Mizuho Bank.
Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA
2017 - 2018
Electrical Engineering
2012 - 2013
Electrical Engineering
2011 - 2012