Sven Wollschlaeger
Investor at Insight Partners
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Founding Vice President, Investor
2024 - Current
Brightmind is an early-stage venture firm leading Seed and Series A investments into the brightest minds in cybersecurity, infrastructure, and AI. Email me, and don’t be a stranger : ) 🙂🚀📈
Investor
2020 - 2024
Investing in Series A+ software companies, $90 Billion+ AUM.
Insight Partners is a global software investor that partners with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup companies.
Board Observer
2023 - 2024
Torq is a AI-first security hyperautomation company that provides a no-code automation platform designed to enhance security operations.
Raised $190,000,000.00 from Strait Capital, Greenfield Partners, Notable Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Evolution Equity Partners.
Data Projects (Executive Talent)
2021 - 2021
Supporting Seed-Series A+ technology companies, $10 Billion+ AUM.
Andreessen Horowitz is a stage-agnostic venture capital firm with assets under management across multiple funds.
Product Manager, New Product Strategy (Innovation)
2020 - 2021
Worked directly w/ VP Product Strategy. Built and launched innovation products, along COO, VP Eng, SVP BD, and Head of Innovation. Joined at Series C stage. Series E+ startup w/ $625.3M raised from investors like GV, Altimeter, General Atlantic, Battery Ventures, Mark Walhberg, and Scooter Braun. While here, StockX grew $1.2b to ~$4b and went from 600ees to 1,100ees. #Proudly Built in Detroit
StockX is an online marketplace to buy and sell limited edition and high demand sneakers.
Raised $690,000,000.00 from Dragoneer Investment Group, Altimeter Capital, Whale Rock Capital Management, Tiger Global Management, Altimeter Capital, Hedosophia and Sands Capital Ventures.
Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR)
2019 - 2019
Invested in early-stage tech startups w/ a history of innovation, heart, and Detroit-Midwestern hustle. Seed to Series B, $400M+ AUM. Notable investments: Ethos, StockX, Vroom (NASDAQ: VRM), 100Thieves, Genius, autobooks, Guardhat, etc.
Detroit Venture Partners is an American venture capital firm that funds seed- and early-stage technology companies.
Software Engineer, Data Science (ML) & Fraud
2018 - 2018
Joined at Series A stage, pre-IPO (NYSE: ML). MoneyLion is a consumer fintech startup that leverages modern data approaches to fuel its smart lending and mobile-first personal finance platform.
MoneyLion is a mobile banking and financial membership platform that offers mobile banking, lending, and investment solutions.
Raised $547,499,428.00 from Silicon Valley Bank.
Software Engineer, Data Lake
2018 - 2018
Joined pre-IPO (NYSE: RKT). Rocket Mortgage (QL) is America's #1 largest online mortgage lender.
Co-Founder
2017 - 2018
Co-Founded 3D and virtual reality tech company specialized in higher-ed campus tour creation. Built and scaled VenueTourist from my dorm room to being deployed at universities all across the U.S. – from campuses like GWU to the University of Miami. Operated out of Dan Gilbert’s Detroit Venture Partners. YC (SUS W20), Startup School. Learned empathy for Founders, the value of good products, great execution, and even better teams!
Various Projects
2017 - 2018