Marc Lubke
Global Venture & Technology Scouting at ZF Group
Zurich, Zurich
Overview
Work Experience
Head of Global Venturing
2024 - Current
Lead a global team across Europe, North America, China, and India to execute strategic M&A, investments, and technology partnerships for ZF Group - the world-leading automotive supplier (USD 46bn revenue, 170.000 employees). Drive inorganic growth for ZF Commercial Vehicle Systems by sourcing and implementing high-impact collaborations in automation, autonomous driving, connectivity, energy efficiency, and electrification — delivering up to $1.3B in business value per engagement. Shaping an emission- & an accident-free future of mobility.
Head of Venture & Technology Scouting
2022 - 2024
Responsible for startup scouting at ZF Commercial Vehicle Systems, the world's leading commercial vehicle supplier. Focus areas include automation, autonomous driving, connectivity & data, efficiency, and electrification.
Private Investor
2017
Angel tickets in technology startups (incl. Circular Economy, Logistics, IoT, and Medtech)
Self Employed is a contracting company that provides independent contracting services.
Investment Associate - Venture Capital
2021 - 2021
Redalpine provides venture capital to highly scalable start-ups, with the mission to help talented entrepreneurs turn an ambitious vision into reality by providing money, experience, coaching and door opening. Redalpine invests in disruptive business models with a moderate total capital need in the fields of information technology (ICT) and life sciences in seed and early stage. EUR 1-10m tickets, EUR >1 bn AuM. Companies include: N26, Robinhood, SpaceX, Sennder, Ethos Life, Taxfix, Zenjob, Inkitt, Magaloop, Carvolution, Razor Group, Sanity Group and more.
Investment Analyst - Corporate Finance
2018 - 2020
Deal sourcing, due diligence, and fundraising for fast-growing start-ups and SMEs with a scalable business model that are active in an attractive, growing market. Details on requirements: - Sales of more than CHF 1 million and a diversified customer base - Capital requirements: at least CHF 3 million growth financing (equity / hybrid capital) - Convincing and sufficiently documented business case Companies include: On Running, Anybotics, Ava, Cutiss, Farmy, InSphero and VIU Ventures.
UBS Realty Investors is an institutional investment advisor that managed real estate equity assets on behalf of its clients.
Analyst
2017 - 2018