Since 2002, Jochen Klueppel has been discovering and developing the market leaders of tomorrow, together with the German-based venture capital firm Grazia Equity. For more than 20 years, Grazia Equity has been supporting strong entrepreneurial teams as a reliable partner in building up international market-leading companies. Investing his own capital, and driven by extensive entrepreneurial experience, empathy and passion, Jochen is accompanying as principal investor and board member many success stories of global digital champions such as MisterSpex, Statista, Moviepilot, Lingoda or Gitti. Prior to his engagement at Grazia Equity, Jochen founded an Internet startup himself. As managing partner of 100world.media, he experienced the highs and lows of starting one’s own business and can thus give lots of valuable advice to the entrepreneurs he is working with today. In 2001, 100world.media was aquired by a strategic investor. Before that, Jochen had worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey where he gained insight into a wide variety of industries and companies. Jochen studied Business Administration in Germany, France and the US and graduated from HHL – Leipzig Graduate School of Management in 1998.