Mentorship for your specific needs

We support startups to successfully launch their idea. Advise future companies and join their team as mentors and coaches.

Our executive team

Max Ventures’ team is here to help you along your startup journey!

CEO

Toni Grunwald

As a CEO , Toni is responsible for Max Ventures’ daily operations. He accelerates Startups between their commitment and growth stage. 

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Founder Max Ventures

Patrick Visser

As a serial entrepreneur, Patrick brings a wealth of experience in structuring, tech development, and international business development.

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Business transformations

Jean-Claude Pierre

Jean-Claude has experience leading business transformations as an executive across the globe for over 20 years in startups, midsize companies, and global corporations.

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Office Manager & Admin

Amanda Balieiro

As an Office Manager, Amanda is responsible for the day-to-day administration and managing the coworking place and other back office-related tasks.

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Experienced Mentors, Experts, and Advisors

We have a team of ever expanding mentors, advisors, investors and other professional contacts.

Empowerment Coach

Boyan Dobrev

Boyan co-founded and grew two profitable osteopath clinics before selling them and has years of experience as an empowerment coach.

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PR Representative

Keren Visser

As a PR representative, Keren is responsible for creating and maintaining Max Ventures’ public images.

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Advisory

Paul Evans

Paul is a Managing Partner at United Advisers Group and co-owner of seven companies that have been operating for between one and twenty years.

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Venture Development

Gabbi Richardson

Gabbi is the founder and CEO of Yachting Ventures – the world’s first startup hub for the leisure marine, yachting, and superyachting industries.

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Sales

Chris Boud

Chris has more than 15 years of expertise in sales and five years of experience mentoring startups. He also has experience in early stage GTM strategy, costumers advocacy and fundraising.

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Strategic Business Consultant

Jemima Cooper

Jemima is a strategic business consultant for established companies and disruptive start-ups in the sports, sports tech, and blockchain arenas and an entrepreneur who has launched three profitable companies.

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Business Development & Sales

Aleksey Narko

Aleksey has extensive expertise in business development and sales, ranging from outreach to inbound campaigns and from working with startups to corporations.

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Business transformations

Jean-Claude Pierre

Jean-Claude has experience leading business transformations as an executive across the globe for over 20 years in startups, midsize companies, and global corporations.

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Advisory Board

Delphine Trabaldo

Co-founder of Board Owl and Founder of The Selectionist.

Matching remarkable people with exceptional organisations for board positions to empower growth and make an impact.

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Technology

Bhairav Patel

Bhairav is Atom CTO’s CTO, providing SMEs and scaling startups with Virtual CTO services to connect their IT strategy and operations with their business objectives.

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Digital Marketing

Philip Schmadlak 

Philip is a seasoned digital marketer and serial founder of successful online businesses.

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Coaching

Natasha Mitchell

With over seven years of experience coaching and mentoring startups and early-stage entrepreneurs, Natasha is a highly seasoned mentor.

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Business Development

Jonas Hayajneh

Jonas is the Head of Business Development at Daomaker. Daomaker is a well-known and established Accelerator, Consultancy, Pe-seed Financier, and Market Maker in cryptocurrency.

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Controlling & Finance

Boris Linke

20 years of experience in the field of business analyses & success or failure prediction.

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Content Commerce

Pablo Laurino

Pablo is the founder of public.la and has 20 years of experience in the field of business analyses & success or failure prediction. 

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Technology

Valentin Weidl

Co-founder of NXT Boardroom, an AI-enabled board-level network platform.

Over eight years of sales expertise and over two years of experience coaching startups.

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Recruitment

Andreas Wennberg

Andreas helps with recruitment to grow their teams. He has over five years of experience in recruitment and completed 330+ startup recruitments.

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A community to connect

Startup profiles

We are continiously analyising startups and present the profiles within our community.

Mobile App

Gain access to our community 24/7 with the Circle mobile app.

Extended analysis

To have a better understanding of our startups we analyse them before the program starts to give you a better understanding of the problems they are facing.

Growing Community

Exchange your ideas and opinions with other investors within our growing community. Together we ecide which startups are worth our investment.

Respect and privacy

We respect your privacy and will not ask you for your participation if you don’t want to. You decide how much or how little you want to share.

Live Online Events

With online events and pitches you can simply participate from home.

How to become a Mentor

Why are Mentors so important?

Mentors drive success! In fact, their input makes startups 7 times more likely to succeed. How? They reduce uncertainty and promote the innovation that entrepreneurs require. Leverage their experience to guide startup talent and harvest their potential.

At Max Ventures, we have created the perfect entrepreneurial ecosystem. We allow entrepreneurs, advisors and investors to connect. We provide all the tools and resources needed to create businesses with real growth potential.

Meet Professionals Of Tomorrow

Connect with the innovators of tomorrow: Meet the founders of cutting-edge companies.  Develop your skills: Continually develop your professional abilities and educational skills. Join the ecosystem: Meet other Mentors and Investors in the Entrepreneur Ecosystem.

How To Join Our Team?

Register here with us. We will schedule a call or meeting with you and decide together how this relationship can benefit the startup community.