Stefan Pfannmöller

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Stefan Pfannmöller (born December 4, 1980 in Halle an der Saale ) is a German canoeist , company founder and manager.

Pfannmöller drove canoe slalom in the single canoe discipline and was overall winner of the 2002 World Cup. The 1998 team junior world champion finished fifth at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney . When he was third in the world championship in 2003, he also won the bronze medal at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens .

For this he received the silver bay leaf on March 16, 2005 .

Pfannmöller is single and started for the Böllberger Sportverein Halle . Pfannmöller studied business administration in Augsburg and obtained a degree in business administration.

Activity as company founder and manager

After his career as an athlete, Pfannmöller co-founded companies: first he founded the platform "Netz-Athleten" together with handball player Stefan Kretzschmar , which was intended as a kind of "Olympic village on the Internet", i.e. a network for athletes. The managing directors later converted this idea into a marketing platform for advertising on sports websites and later sold the company to the RTL Group for 20 million . Since around 2012 Pfannmöller has been co-founder and managing director of the company "Venture Stars", which promotes Internet start-ups and initially finances them. The new company is based near the main train station in Munich, co-founders are Florian Calmbach and Martin Junker. So far (as of mid-2014), six new companies have been founded by Venture Stars. Venture Stars claims that it has raised money from around 60 investors.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Press release of the Office of the Federal President of March 16, 2005 .... Awarding of the Silver Laurel Leaf to the medal winners of the 2004 Olympic and Paralympic Games ...
  2. ↑ See also today's self-description of "Netzathleten-media.de" under Archived Copy ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.netzathleten-media.de
  3. ↑ Katja Riedel: Higher, faster, wider: Stefan Pfanmöller was an Olympian in the canoe slalom. At the age of 26, he founded a company and later sold it for a good 30 million euros. He is now 33 and founding start-ups in various fields. With "Venture Stars" he is hoping for sales in the Internet trade , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung September 12, 2014, page R6
  4. ↑ so Katja Riedel in the SZ, in a report "Welt" there is talk of 20 million euros, see https://www.welt.de/wirtschaft/article106335875/Millionen-Gewinn-mit-dem-Portal-Netzathleten.html
  5. ↑ see page Employees of Venture Stars at http://www.venture-stars.com/team/
personal data
SURNAME Pfannmöller, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German canoeists
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Halle on the Saale