Thorsten Claus
Telco 2.0 Enthusiast, Corporate Venture Investor, Startup Adviser
Senior Investment Manager(The company name is only visible to registered members)
- 94404 Foster City
- United States
Personal information
- Wants
- startup, startups, innovation, emerging technologies, disruptive business models, new media, investment opportunities, angel investments, ICT, mobile Internet, infrastructure services, cloud computing, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, deal flow, funding opportunities, public speaking engagements, panel positions, panel chair
- Interests
- Startups, Innovation, angel investments, venture capital, public health, organic gardening
Professional experience (11 years, 6 months)
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Oct 2010
- present
(1 year, 5 months)
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(The company name is only visible to registered members)
Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity
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Oct 2010
- present
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Sep 2009
- Oct 2010
(1 year, 2 months)
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Fundstorm, http://www.fundstorm.com
Industry: Venture Capital & Private Equity
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Sep 2009
- Oct 2010
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Oct 2003
- Oct 2010
(7 years, 1 month)
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Director, Playout Intelligence
DETECON, http://www.deteconamericas.com
Industry: Telecommunication, High Tech,Media,IPTV,TelcoTV,NGTV,Web2.0,Digital Entertainment,Telecommunication,Telecom,ICT,ISP,Internet Service Provider,Carrier,RBOC,ILEC,CLEC,IT,Backbone,Broadband,R&D,F&E,Research
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Oct 2003
- Oct 2010
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Oct 2003
- Oct 2010
(7 years, 1 month)
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Deutsche Telekom, http://www.telekom.de
Industry: Telecommunication
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Oct 2003
- Oct 2010
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Apr 2002
- Oct 2003
(1 year, 7 months)
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T-Systems Nova North America, Inc.
Industry: Telecommunication
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Apr 2002
- Oct 2003
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Sep 2000
- Oct 2002
(2 years, 2 months)
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Industry: Telecommunication
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Sep 2000
- Oct 2002
- Employment status
- Employee
Educational background
- Oct 1995 - Sep 2000
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TU Darmstadt
Business and Administration, Bachelor of Science
Focus on management and organization, financial due diligence, and business case calculations
- Oct 1993 - Sep 2000
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TU Darmstadt
Information Technologies, Master of Science
distributed systems, grid computing, content distribution systems; thesis on spatial-temporal media codecs for adaptive media streaming; Assistant Professor to Prof. Dr. Hofmann, Compilers & Programming Languages; preparing and holding lectures and special interest seminars
- Languages
- German (First language), English (Fluent)
About me
I am a telco2.0 enthusiast and corporate investment manager. I help growing startups and building companies for web-based services, telecom enablers, transport network and datacenter solutions. As an adviser I am helping my companies to engineer product and service innovations, and to create and execute strategies for a flat and free world.
I am leading a happy life with my wife Cate and little Emma and Willem in Berkeley, CA. My job at T-Venture is my creative outlet and enables me to do a lot of fun things on and off the job - with great opportunities to network, to chat, and to gain neat industry insights. My heart and soul belongs to the Bay Area - its culture, its vibes, its food.
Do's and Dont's:
- Do not be offended if I don't add you to my network
immediately - I don't call someone a friend, peer, or mentionable
contact just because he or she has spent more than 20 seconds on my
profile, or likes what I'm doing, or wants me to buy something. There is
a bookmark feature in Xing, I'll use that instead.
- Do not contact me for general business advertisement, such as "... we have great programmers ...", or "... we develop XYZ and wanted to let you know that we're out here ..." , or "... we can setup channel partnerships ..." . Be specific about your requests so I am actually inclined to answer you. Otherwise you will not hear from me :)
- Do not contact me for any job opportunity where I would have to move. Family comes first, and currently moving is not an option. My ability to travel is 50%.
- Do contact me if you want to exchange some industry experience, bounce some ideas, etc. - no direct opportunity necessary. I'm always interesting in sharing know-how, market insights, chit-chat about some startup stuff, discuss atest telecom developments, ... My availability is at https://tungle.me/thinkstorm, my open office hours are at http://ohours.org/thinkstorm
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