Felix Staeritz

Felix Staeritz is the founder and CEO of FoundersLane, the leading corporate venture builder in climate and health. He is a member of the Board of Digital Leaders of the World Economic Forum and an accomplished author. In his role as a founder and entrepreneur, he had successfully led the exits and IPOs of his companies. Staeritz is also a business angel and venture capitalist. One of FoundersLane’s projects has been a collaboration with Vattenfall to establish the company Solytic. Within two years, 100.000 PV stations in 42 countries have been connected to the world's fastest-growing platform for monitoring and analysing photovoltaic power stations.

FoundersLane has already worked with 30 Forbes listed companies and consists of a team of over 200 digital experts, whose company value collectively sits at more than 30 billion US dollars. Staeritz also helped build the non-profit “ShareTheMeal”-initiative, a donation platform to fight global hunger and part of the United Nations World Food Programme. Due to his diverse interests, Felix is in a position to assess the relevance of startups, venture capital and corporations to develop and scale innovations for large international organisations. His approach has always been geared towards solving a problem with the most effective solution at hand.