My JourneyFrom founder
to founding investor.
- —Founded first company straight out of university: a drive-to-store discovery platform for local retail deals.
- —Relocated to Bogotá and built operations, product, and team from scratch, raising funding from one of the largest family offices on the continent.
- —Grew to market leader across the region and eventually exited to the existing shareholders.
- —Joined Bonial International Group in Berlin, the European pioneer of drive-to-store, home to kaufDA and MeinProspekt.
- —Led growth as Managing Director across Germany, Europe, and the U.S. for five years.
- —Sold in several transactions to the Axel Springer media group, completing a profitable full exit for the founding team.
- —Co-founded CG Partners with Christian Geiser, founder of kaufDA, as an EIF-backed angel vehicle.
- —Backed 40+ companies at pre-seed and seed with active founding investor and board roles across the portfolio.
- —Now in de-investing phase. No new tickets, focused on supporting portfolio companies through to exit.
- —Co-founded MVP Founders with Tobias Schüle and Tim Tepass, serial founders with two nine-digit exits.
- —2–3 ventures per year co-founded as active partners, not passive backers. From first hire to first revenue.
- —Strategic partnership with DLF Venture, providing structured follow-on funding of up to €10M per company to back the ventures we build.
Background
Fabian Wittleben is a serial founding investor based in Berlin. Over the past 16 years, he has built, scaled, and exited companies across four continents — from a drive-to-store platform in Latin America to leadership roles at Bonial International Group, part of Axel Springer.
In 2019, he co-founded CG Partners alongside Christian Geiser (founder of kaufDA) as an EIF-backed angel vehicle, backing over 40 companies at pre-seed and seed stage. In 2024, he co-founded MVP Founders, a Berlin-based venture studio that co-builds 2-3 companies per year alongside exceptional operators.
His investment focus lies at the intersection of physical industries and technology — hospitality, wellness, sports, food & beverage, and real estate — where AI-native operations create structural advantages that incumbents cannot replicate.