Fabian Gruner grew up with a mother who was a computer scientist and a father who was an engineer. This left him with a curiosity not just about what technology is, but about what it can do when pushed to its limits. He studied Business Administration and Computer Science at WHU and TU Munich, graduated top of his class, added a degree in Technology Management from CDTM and Columbia Business School, and started his career at BCG and J.P. Morgan. A chapter at Munich-based growth fund Acton Capital followed, before Fabian made a sharp detour into the operational world.

As employee number one at Foodora, he helped scale the company from a single person to 800 across 13 cities in a matter of months, building the global sales and marketing teams entirely from scratch.

When he joined HV in 2018, he brought two things with him: the analytical rigour of someone trained across the best institutions in the world, and the instinct of someone who has had to make things work under real pressure.

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