Jan Beckers

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Jan Beckers (born January 25, 1983 in Münster) is a German serial entrepreneur and investor . He co-founded 25 internet companies that now employ 1,500 people.

Professional background

Jan Beckers founded his first two companies, the job exchange Absolventa.de and the event portal Studenta.de, while he was still studying business administration in Münster. He then moved to Berlin and founded the advertising service provider Madvertise together with the Internet entrepreneur Lukasz Gadowski and the advertising service provider Fyber together with the venture capitalist Team Europe. In 2011 Beckers founded the company IONIQ (formerly HitFox Group) together with partners, which they built up into an incubator for advertising technologies: Several startups such as Applift , Ad2Games, and Gamefinder were created on the platform by the end of 2013 . In 2014 Jan Beckers founded the startup factory for financial technologies finleap together with partners . To date, 15 different fintech companies have emerged on the platform . In 2017 Beckers founded another startup factory together with partners - Heartbeat Labs founds and invests in digital health companies. To own foundations of Heartbeat Labs which includes telemedicine -Anbieter remote doctor , the digital midwives counseling children heroine and practice chain Hy studio for minimally invasive aesthetic treatments. At the end of 2018, Jan Beckers brought Dr. Johannes Keienburg, formerly ProSIebenSat1 Media SE , as CEO of the IONIQ Group, will remain part of the management team as Executive Chairman. In April 2018, the Hitfox Group changed its name to the IONIQ Group, with the focus on promoting the digitization of Europe. In 2019 Beckers announced the two equity funds “Global Internet Leaders” through the fund management company BIT Capital with an investment focus on listed Internet companies worldwide and invested 25 million euros from its private assets as an anchor investor.

Awards

In 2014 Beckers was awarded the "Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 - Category Startups" by the management consultancy EY for its entrepreneurial success in the market for online advertising.

Individual evidence

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  4. ↑ Christina Kyriasoglou: Fyber reaches 70 million euros in sales. Gründerszenne, April 16, 2018, accessed on August 9, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Caspar Tobias Schlenk: Berlin Company Builder: Hitfox gives itself a new name. April 19, 2019, accessed June 17, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Corinna Visser: Three new start-ups at the beginning of 2014: Hitfox Group in Berlin hires 150 new people. Tagesspiegel, December 10, 2013, accessed on August 9, 2018 .
  7. ↑ René Gribnitz: serial founder Jan Beckers starts financial service provider. In: Berliner Morgenpost. December 1, 2014, accessed August 9, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Finleap: Berlin fintech forge now also established abroad. In: Wirtschaftswoche Online. July 24, 2018, accessed August 9, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Jonas Rest: Is this man building the new, hot start-up factory in Berlin? In: Manager Magazin. July 20, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Timo Brücken: Heartbeat Labs are behind the new telemedicine provider. In: Gründerszene. March 29, 2018. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Child heroine: The midwife on the Internet. October 27, 2017. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  12. ↑ Pauline Schnor: Wrinkle removal to go: The new start-up of Heartbeat Labs. In: Gründerszene. April 9, 2018. Retrieved August 9, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Editor: HitFox founder Jan Beckers resigns as CEO - VC Magazin. Accessed June 17, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ Jonas Jansen: Digitization: This is how Europe can stand against America and China . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed June 17, 2019]).
  15. ↑ Serial founder Jan Beckers ventures into the fund business. In: Capital.de. May 22, 2019, accessed on June 17, 2019 (German).
  16. ↑ René Gribnitz: serial founder Jan Beckers starts financial service provider. In: Berliner Morgenpost. November 11, 2014, accessed August 9, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Beckers, Jan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur and investor
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Muenster