Thomas Bachem

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Thomas Bachem on May 18, 2017 at the Googleplex in Mountain View

Thomas Bachem (born November 14, 1985 in Bergisch Gladbach ) is a German entrepreneur , software developer and venture capitalist . He is the founder and chancellor of the CODE University of Applied Sciences in Berlin .

Career

Bachem grew up in Cologne and taught himself to program at the age of 12 . As a teenager he ran an online portal for software development and developed websites for corporate customers.

Parallel to his studies at the Cologne Business School , he developed the video portal sevenload in 2005 , which raised more than 25 million euros in venture capital during his studies and was sold to Hubert Burda Media in 2010 . Immediately thereafter, he founded the company United Prototype, which developed the social game Fliplife and was taken over by the Cologne-based gaming portal operator Kaisergames in 2012 . In his spare time, Bachem developed the online CV editor Lebenslauf.com, which he sold to the publicly listed XING AG in 2014 .

In 2016, Bachem founded the CODE University of Applied Sciences in Berlin, because as a self-taught software developer, the existing computer science courses already seemed too theory-heavy to him when he chose his own course. The private university for software developers received state recognition from the State of Berlin in July 2017 and began studying in October 2017. Bachem is responsible for the economic management and is Germany's youngest university chancellor.

In addition to its own start-up activities, Bachem supports young start-up companies as a business angel .

Volunteering

In autumn 2012, Bachem and other internet entrepreneurs set up the Federal Association of German Startups as the political mouthpiece for startups in Germany. He has been a deputy chairman of the association's board of directors since it was founded, and in December 2019 he changed office and was appointed chairman of the board of trustees.

As a co-initiator and board member of the Code + Design Initiative and an advisory board member at Startup Teens, Bachem promotes non-profit youth initiatives for digital skills and entrepreneurship.

Bachem is also a member of the Senate of the German Academy of Science and Engineering , a member of the board of trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research , a member of the digital council of the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations and part of the board of the Competence Center for the Creative Industries NRW.

Awards

The business and financial newspaper Handelsblatt named Bachem “Founder of the Year 2017”. In the same year, Capital magazine recognized him as “Young Elite - Top 40 under 40” in the Society and Science category. In December 2017, the business magazine Business Punk named him as one of “100 Rising Stars” in the “Watchlist 2018”. In August 2019, he was awarded the TR35 Young Talent Award from the German edition of MIT Technology Review magazine as one of ten “Innovators under 35” and “Social Innovator of the Year”.

Previously Bachem was in 2010 by the business magazine Wirtschaftswoche as "famous German founder" and in 2014 as a "notorious Neumachern - Germany's pioneers" of Germany's 25 called.

The general assembly of the Federal Association of German Startups recognized him as an honorary member in December 2019 for his many years of support and exceptional performance for the German startup ecosystem.

The university he founded was awarded the “German Excellence Prize” in 2019 as well as an “Excellent Place in the Land of Ideas ”.

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ Ann-Kathrin Nezik : Nerds of Tomorrow . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13/2017 , March 24, 2017, p. 71 ( magazin.spiegel.de ).
  3. ↑ T-Online joins Sevenload. Golem.de , accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  4. ^ European startups prepared for the worst. TechCrunch , accessed January 3, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Burda takes over video platform Sevenload. Handelsblatt , accessed on July 29, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Sevenload founders attract investors. Kressreport , accessed July 29, 2017 .
  7. ↑ KaiserGames buys Fliplife. Start-up scene, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Xing takes over Lebenslauf.com. Heise online , accessed on July 29, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Oliver Voß: The Startup University . In: Der Tagesspiegel . No. 23 271 , October 21, 2017, p. 11 ( tagesspiegel.de ).
  10. ↑ Jens Tönnesmann: Nerds prefer . In: The time . No. 19 , May 4, 2017, p. 25 ( zeit.de ).
  11. ^ Annette Kuhn: Studying with a future . In: Berliner Morgenpost . July 17, 2017, p. 12 ( morgenpost.de ).
  12. ↑ People 2017 . In: Handelsblatt . No. 242 , December 15, 2017, p. 78 ( handelsblatt.com ).
  13. ^ Thomas Bachem - Cavalry Ventures. Cavalry Ventures, accessed August 16, 2019 .
  14. ↑ This startup mediates temporary apartments for business people. Start-up scene, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  15. ↑ PROfounders relies on tax returns for students. deutsche-startups.de, accessed on January 3, 2018 .
  16. ↑ Start-up association wants over 1,000 members. Gründerszene, accessed on July 29, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Board of Directors. Federal Association of German Startups , accessed on July 29, 2017 .
  18. ^ Post on Twitter. Thomas Bachem, accessed December 18, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Code + Design Camp for 150 young people in Cologne. Hochrhein-Zeitung, accessed on July 29, 2017 .
  20. ↑ Startup Teens Advisory Board. Startup Teens, accessed September 10, 2019 .
  21. ^ Members of the Senate. acatech , accessed on July 29, 2017 .
  22. ^ Board of Trustees - Fraunhofer ISI. Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research , accessed on September 10, 2019 .
  23. ^ Starting shot for the BDA Digital Council. Confederation of German Employers' Associations , accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  24. ↑ Creative.Board. Creative.NRW, accessed July 29, 2017 .
  25. ↑ People 2017 . In: Handelsblatt . No. 242 , December 15, 2017, p. 78 ( handelsblatt.com ).
  26. ↑ Young Elite - Top 40 under 40 . In: Capital . No. 12/2017 , November 16, 2017, p. 82 ( capital.de ).
  27. ↑ Watchlist 2018 . In: Business Punk . No. 06/2017 , 7 December 2017, p. 44 .
  28. ↑ The best "innovators under 35": Our visionaries. Technology Review , accessed August 15, 2019 .
  29. ↑ Technology Review selected ten innovators under the age of 35. Technology Review , accessed September 10, 2019 .
  30. ^ Famous German founders. WirtschaftsWoche , accessed on December 15, 2017 .
  31. ↑ You should know these 25 thought leaders in the German start-up scene . In: WirtschaftsWoche . No. 29/2014 , June 14, 2014, p. 64 .
  32. ↑ Post on Facebook. Federal Association of German Startups , accessed on March 15, 2020 .
  33. ↑ German Excellence Prize awarded. n-tv , accessed August 15, 2019 .
  34. ↑ Excellent Places 2019. Germany - Land of Ideas , accessed on August 15, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bachem, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bachem, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German entrepreneur, software developer and venture capitalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 14, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Bergisch Gladbach