Florian Fritsch (entrepreneur)

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Florian Fritsch (2020)

Florian Fritsch (born March 3, 1978 in Albstadt-Ebingen , Baden-Württemberg ) is a German racing driver , entrepreneur and investor . Fritsch is the founder and chairman of the FRITSCH Group based in Vaduz and the Kalrock investment company , which is based in Zug and has branches in London and Luxembourg .

Career

Fritsch is married and lives in Appenzell , Switzerland. Fritsch ended his hobby as a racing driver, most recently in the ADAC GT Masters 2011 , after an accident in 2011. According to his own statements, racing led him to invest in e-mobility .

One of his better-known projects was in 2013 with seed funding and subsequent sale of the Berlin IoT - startups Relayr , the 2015 product Wunderbar also winner of the CODE n -Awards was. Fritsch brought further investors on board, such as the US investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers , who is known for his investments in Amazon and Google . Through his investment company Kalrock, Fritsch invested in the delivery service Delivery Hero . In 2018 Relayr was sold to Munich reinsurance company Münchener Rück for a total of 300 million US dollars.

In addition to Gernot Friedhuber and Patrick Knapp Schwarzenegger, a nephew of Arnold Schwarzenegger , Fritsch is an investor in the Upper Austrian manufacturer of electric batteries Kreisel Electric . Fritsch is a shareholder and chairman of the supervisory board of GROPYUS , which was founded in 2019 and aims to develop buildings that are " resource-saving, durable and efficient ".

social commitment

Fritsch was a volunteer paramedic and firefighter in Germany . In Austria he is a sponsor of the Albertina through the Baumann / Fritsch Foundation . He also promotes child and youth work for the Austrian second division club SC Austria Lustenau . Together with the SC Austria Lustenau and the Freihof distillery , Fritsch initiated a collection campaign for used alcohol in March 2020 in order to use it to produce disinfectants for health facilities in Vorarlberg and Liechtenstein .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Via the Fritsch Group, official website , accessed on May 15, 2020.
  2. ↑ ADAC GT Masters, driver 2011, portrait Florian Fritsch , accessed on May 18, 2020.
  3. ↑ Courage to take risks, article on the official website , accessed on May 15, 2020.
  4. ↑ Investor Florian Fritsch: How entrepreneurs are setting the course for the future with tech startups, Medium.com , accessed on May 16, 2020.
  5. ↑ Star-VC Kleiner Perkins invests again in Relayr , accessed May 17, 2020.
  6. ↑ Kalrock & shareholders announce a successful placement of 2,000,000 existing shares in Delivery Hero, PR Newswire , accessed May 14, 2020.
  7. ↑ Munich Re takes over technology company Relayr , media information from September 4, 2018, accessed on May 15, 2020.
  8. ↑ Schwarzenegger-nephew joins Kreisel Electric, the brutkasten , accessed on May 18, 2020.
  9. ↑ Construction completely rethought, holzkurier.com , article from March 17, 2020, accessed on May 12, 2020.
  10. ↑ Overview of charity activities at www.fritsch.com , accessed on May 11, 2020.
  11. ↑ Vorarlbergers donated 8,822 liters, ORF Vorarlberg , accessed on May 14, 2020.
  12. ↑ Entrepreneurs donate 250 liters of disinfectant, Liechtenstein Fatherland , accessed on May 14, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Fritsch, Florian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German racing driver, entrepreneur and investor
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Albstadt-Ebingen , Baden-Wuerttemberg