Niklas Fritz

About

I'm a seasoned entrepreneur & management consulting expert with over a decade of experience in sales, operations, finance, business management, startups, consulting, and product management. Whether you're looking for expert advice, management, on-the-ground operations to take your digital product from ideation to launch or achieve your next growth milestone, I am here to support you.

Experience

• Founder and Co-CEO · Machine26 GmbH & Inc.10-01-2018 – 12-01-2023

  Founded a startup that helps construction machine owners to sell their machines without any effort. An inspection app collects all relevant data on the machine condition so that customers can receive the best offer from international buyers within a few days through a marketplace. - Engaged in all aspects of the business with particular responsibilities for Sales, Operations, Product Management, Finance, Legal and other. - Led company growth from concept to multimillion Euro marketplace. - Raised total of 1mn US$ in funding from Business Angels, Strategic Investors and world leading Accelerator Y Combinator. - Recognized with scholarships from IBB, state of Berlin & DIN.

• Project Manager & Consultant for sales strategy and organizational projects · PERI02-01-2015 – 09-01-2018

  - Project manager for the acquisition and integration of a start-up to provide new technologies in the IoT field (Corporate Venturing). - Project manager for the establishment of a subsidiary in Southeast Asia and De-Merger (M&A project). - Core team member of group strategy project: responsibility for digitalization and market analysis in cooperation with external 'Tier-1' consultancy . - Development of growth strategies for various subsidiaries in Europe and Asia. - Market, customer and competition analyses; Internal organizational projects.

• Sustainability and infrastructure systems (Research assistant) · Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI05-01-2014 – 11-01-2014

  Research around sustainability of supply chains with regards to Supply Chain Risk Management

• Future of payments · Deutsche Bank10-01-2013 – 03-01-2014

  Design Thinking project to develop innovative products for the future of payments.

• Technology monitoring and research policy (Management assistant) · Daimler AG08-01-2012 – 01-01-2013

  Planning of national electromobility projects

• R&D, quality and energy management | Technology projects · Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG03-01-2010 – 04-01-2010

  Projects around hybrid technology and driving assistants

Education

• Stanford UniversityExecutive course, Stanford Idea to Market Program
• Y CombinatorStartup accelerator
• Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Master of Science - MS, Industrial engineering
• University of Technology SydneyInnovation, Management & IT
• Karlsruhe Institute of TEchnology (KIT)Bachelor of Science - BS, Industrial engineering

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