Volker Hirsch Email & Phone Number

Macclesfield, GB

The EIC Scaling Club is an exclusive community of 100+ European deep tech scale-ups and their partners. The 2-year program brings together high-potential deep tech companies focusing on major global challenges with investors, corporate innovators, and other industry stakeholders to spur growth. I am mentoring in their New Biotech Platforms group.

Macclesfield, Cheshire, GB

Blue Beck is a developer of games and apps across every smartphone and digital online platform imaginable. Standing 40+ strong, our engineers boast an average (!) of 15 (wo)man years in relevant experience, so we are second to none on deep, deep knowledge. If someone moans about Android's device fragmentation, we have a good laugh...I co-founded the.

West Midlands, GB

Advantage Creative is a non-profit (Community Interest Company - CIC) advisory and investing body focused on the creative industry and the evolving sector of CreaTech.

West Midlands, GB

Tech North Advocates is a collection of tech leaders, experts and investors uniting to form the most influential independent, private sector group in the North of England. Tech North Advocates is a private sector led coalition of expert individuals from the tech sector and broader community who will be committed to championing the North of England’s.

Brussels, BE

Coaching and mentoring in a number of the European Innovation Council (EIC) programmes.

Quantified Ventures invests and advises at early stage in EdTech, “deep” tech, AI, robotics, climate change and related fields.

Berlin, DE

The Greentech Alliance brings together green technology businesses, that fight climate change with their products and services in the most responsible and respectful to our planet manner, to support them with advice about funding, impact, visibility and strategy with the help of top VCs, journalists, advisors and entrepreneurs.

London, England, GB

Official Audio Partner of World Book Day. Yoto is an interactive audio platform for kids. They make carefully connected audio players that kids control without using a screen. And they have a catalogue of audio that inspires creative play and learning. I invested in their very first funding round.

London, UK, GB

Enroly connects students with trusted university admission and visa support in their home country - for free.

Newmarket, GB

Wonde helps simplify the way in which school data is accessed by third party applications. For developers, a simple API gives them access to reading and writing school data.

London, Select State, GB

Pi-Top revolutionises STEM education with Raspberry-Pi-based hardware and a comprehensive software package around it. It is the only solution of its kind that is endorsed by the leading UK awarding body OCR.

Macclesfield, Cheshire, GB

London, England, GB

Full partner, then Venture Partner in the early-stage funds of the firm. I was an investor director at Exonar (acquired by NowVertical) and Seldon. Amadeus V Technology Fund (where I was a partner in) invested in Altana AI, Brytlyt, Charco Neurotech, Constructive Bio, Cryptosense (acquired by SandboxAQ) Immense Simulations, iPronics, Nu Quantum.

Alderley, Cheshire, GB

The Medicines Discovery Catapult is a national centre of applied R&D that industrialises and drives the adoption of new techniques, processes and technologies across the UK on medicines discovery. Funded at the core by InnovateUK, it is an independent, non-profit organisation. As CCO, my role was to build the framework enabling partnerships with private.

Manchester, England, GB

The Link App helps law firms improve client communication by utilising a secure channel of communication to clients. It struggled to find wider traction, and ultimately folded.

Macclesfield, Cheshire, GB

I was elected as a Parent Govenor forming part of the school's governing body of our children's "outstanding" (Ofsted) comprehensive school in Macclesfield. I served as Chairman of the Parent Governors Committee and on the Curriculum and National Teaching School Committees.My election followed years of working with the school on its performing arts.

Co-working space co-located with the Blue Beck office. Never recovered post-Covid, so we are using the space in other ways...

London, GB

(Acquired by Ex.Co)Bibblio provided ML-powered content enrichment and contextually relevant recommendations. I invested in and worked with the team to shape the proposition as part of their participation in the Emerge Education accelerator programme. I followed on with the investment and continued to advise the founders, culminating in them asking me to.

Coventry, England, GB

Aula is a communication platform dedicated to education. Think Slack for classrooms. Didn't work out: great product, (too) difficult market. Acquired for pennies by the University of Coventry.

Bellevue, Washington, US

Recurrence was a "flight simulator" for business schools. Case studies for the 21st century.I was an investor as part of their participation in the Emerge Education accelerator and was then asked (and accepted) to serve on their board, which I did until September 2018.The company battled for scale but, ultimately, failed and wound up at the end of 2021.

Redmond, Washington, US

This was called "Microsoft Accelerator" at the time; I reckon MSFT for Startups is its closest equivalent...

San Francisco, CA, US

Wearable - IoT World is an end-to-end platform to accelerate products to market. Focused on providing a clear path to market across the Innovation Process. Launched to have high-impact in a high-potetial emerging niche market through accelerator programmes, advisory and events.

This one died.

London, England, GB

Emerge Education, the accelerator operator by Emerge Venture Lab is the premier EdTech accelerator in Europe. Originally born out of the Said Business School at Oxford University, it is now run out of the EdSpace in Shoreditch, London.I was the very first Venture Partner and have been investing in every cohort since its inception. In addition to working.

Vancouver, British Columbia, CA

Live ops and gaming-as-a-service platform. Acquired by Animoca (ASX:AB1).

PO Box 77592, London, GB

Member of the Strategy & Initiatives and Marcomms Committees. Resigned following my resignation from BlackBerry (Memberships in MEF are corporate ones).

Waterloo, Ontario, CA

Having arrived with the acquisition of Scoreloop, I was asked to head business development for their (then very small) games team to build the ecosystem for the BlackBerry 10 platform, contributing key platform and publisher deals (including EA, Rovio, Disney, etc.) in the early stages and help it to a platform launch with more than 70,000 apps aboard.

Scoreloop was a trailblazer for mobile social games. It provided social infrastructure software for games, solving a number of riddles: its solution addresses social discovery, people interaction and organic connectedness of players and their friends. It boasts a feature set that includes challenges, virtual currencies, achievements and many more and can.

Connect 2 Media is a global publisher of games for mobile, iPhone and PC with offices in Manchester, Madrid, Krakow, Tel Aviv, Paris and Bangkok.I was key to the team that raised $9m from Acuity Capital as well as to the buy-out of the business of Hands-On Mobile EMEA, SE Asia & Latin America and the acquisitions of Connect 2 Play and Rayfusion. I designed.

San Francisco, CA, US

I was initially a strategic advisor to the company, helping to define and align positioning and strategy for their European business. This resulted in the acquisition of a game studio, identification of growth areas and shaping of a new executive team. I was then brought on board as the member of the executive team responsible for corporate and strategic.

The German-Maltese Chamber of Commerce helps and connects economic, financial, business and trade partners who operate in, from and between Malta and Germany. It also provides guidance to inward investment to Malta as well as with a view to general trade policy issues.

I founded and ran this specialised strategic consultancy with a focus on cross-border corporate & commercial transactions with special regard to European market entry and cross-border roll-out strategies and implementation. I undertook extensive work in mobile telecoms, media and entertainment, brand licensing, etc. (including projects in Germany, the UK.

iWorld was a fairly audacious project: an incubator that - in 2000 - focussed on mobile only. Boom! Deutsche Bank, Bank of America, UBS/Payne Webber and Hikari Tsushin as well as the late Keith McCaw (of McCaw Cellular fame) agreed with us and invested nearly $40m into the company.I had particular responsibility for corporate governance, corporate.

Köln, DE

02/1995-10/1996: Undergraduate Associate11/1996-10/1999: Graduate Associate11/1999-10/2000: Rechtsanwalt (Attorney)The corporate and commercial law "boutique" law firm then was known as Luther & Partner, one of the most prestigious firms in Hamburg. The partnership was merged with Andersen Legal on 01/01/2000, then became EY Law Luther Menold and now.

London, England, GB

Then Deringer Tessin Herrmann & Sedemund (now merged into Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer). I assisted the office managing partner in Brussels in affairs of European Merger Control and European Competition Law. I also contributed to a commentary text book on the Merger Control Regulation. Finally, I had the immense pleasure (even though I was somewhat.

Brussels, BE

ELSA is the world's largest law student association striving for "a just world in which there is respect for human dignity and cultural diversity".I was elected to the International Board (in spite of delivering my election speech with a high fever) where my responsibilities included all marketing affairs, external relations with partners, editor-in-chief.

Mciarb Course, International Commercial Arbitration

Post-Graduate Degree In European Integration & International Economic Relations, European & International Law

Law, Law

Law, Law