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Ragnar Kruse

Founder of AI.STARTUP.HUB Hamburg

Hamburg, Hamburg

Overview 

Ragnar Kruse is the Co-Founder of AI.FUND and AI.HAMBURG, as well as the Co-Founder of AI.STARTUP.HUB and Transatlantic AI eXchange. With a track record of successful entrepreneurship, he has led companies like Smaato as CEO & Co-Founder and invested in notable startups such as Frontnow and Enapter. Kruse's career highlights include founding AI.HAMBURG and AI.STARTUP.HUB, showcasing his expertise in AI and startup ecosystem development, and his role as Managing Director at AI.FUND, demonstrating his leadership in the investment and technology sectors.

Work Experience 

  • Founding Partner & Managing Director

    2021 - Current

    Venture Capital Investing in European AI Leaders in Seed and Series A

  • Founder

    2019

    AI for Hamburg is an initiative to accelerate the adoption of AI in companies in Hamburg and create an Ecosystem to support it. Please see our website www.ai.hamburg

  • CEO

    2020

    Family Office. Investing in AI companies in Europe and building an AI Eco System.

  • Co-Founder

    2023

    AI.Impact leverages human-made intelligence such as AI to create positive social and environmental impact and is an AI service provider in Germany.

  • Co-Founder

    2021

    The AI.STARTUP.HUB Hamburg is an AI Accelerator with an Ideation and Accelerator program, promoting AI ideas and AI startups in the Hamburg metropolitan region and northern Germany. Within the last 3 years we accelerated 99 AI startups in the region.

  • Member Of The Supervisory Board

    2020

    We design and manufacture AEM Electrolysers for cost-effective onsite green Hydrogen production.

  • Member of the Board Of Directors

    2015

    Your Partner for Unlimited Business Opportunities. #GACCNY

  • Deputy Head Region North

    2020

  • CEO

    2002 - 2019

  • CEO & Co-Founder

    2005 - 2019

    Smaato is the leading Global Mobile RTB Ad Exchange & Supply Side Platform. Smaato is the only mobile advertising platform which addresses the global monetization needs of mobile app developers and mobile websites. It is the largest independent Mobile RTB Ad Exchange & SSP with over 100,000 publishers, over 150 Ad Networks and 300 DSPs* delivering up to 300b ads to 1b+ unique users per month in over 230 countries & territories.

Smaato is a digital ad tech platform that offers a free ad server and monetization solution.

Raised $43,100,000.00 from Singapore Press Holdings, Aeris Capital, Dr. Cornelius Boersch and EDBI.

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