Roman Kirsch

Roman Kirsch is a German serial entrepreneur and investor in the tech- and consumer-internet-space.

Roman Kirsch
Born
Roman Kirsch

(1988-07-03) July 3, 1988
Almaty, Kazakhstan
NationalityGerman
Alma materWHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management
London School of Economics
OccupationTech Entrepreneur
Years active2003-
Parent(s)Waldemar Kirsch and Helene Kirsch
Websiteromankirsch.com

Early life and education

Kirsch holds a business degree from the German business school WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management.[1] He also has a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics in Finance, Accounting and Management.[2] He also spent time at the University of Southern California[2] as well as the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

Career

At the age of 13, Roman set up a business of importing watches from China.[3] Later in 2003, at the age of 15, Kirsch founded his first company (a souvenir shop in Hamburg).[4] He worked for Bang & Olufsen, J.P. Morgan & Co. and Goldman Sachs, as an intern.[5]

In 2011 Kirsch founded Casacanda; a furniture company that was later acquired by Fab.com in February 2012.[2][4][6] He spent a year as the CEO of Fab Europe.[2]

In 2012 Kirsch started investing and building multiple companies. In 2012 Roman was a founding investor of Amorelie, which became the leading love-toys and lingerie company in Europe. In 2015 media company Pro7Sat1 acquired Amorelie, which is now valued at €100 million.[7]

In 2013 Kirsch, alongside Matthias Wilrich and Robin Müller, founded the Berlin e-commerce startup Lesara with Kirsch as the CEO of the company.[4][8][9][10] The company was awarded as fastest-growing tech company in Europe in 2016 by “The Next Web” and as the fastest growing tech company in Germany in 2017 by Deloitte.[11][12] As of November 2018, Lesara had filed for bankruptcy.[13]

In 2015 Kirsch became the first investor and advisor in the Instagram-DTC-pioneer Fitvia.[14] In June 2019 stock-listed Dermapharm announced the acquisition of 70% of the shares in Fitvia.[15]

Kirsch is a business angel investing in total over 25 companies including Carprice, SevenSenders, Sunshine Smile, FlowerChimp and MoBerries.[16][17]

Awards and recognition

In January 2016, Forbes Magazine US listed Kirsch in its 30 under 30 Europe list for retail and e-commerce.[18] He is also a "Global Shaper” of the World Economic Forum Davos and a member of YPO.[19]

See also

References
  1. "WHU Alumni among Forbes "30 under 30"". WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management. 2016-02-25. Retrieved 2017-07-10.
  2. "Roman Kirsch". TheEuropean (in German). 2 May 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  3. Anna, Isaac (2017-01-03). "Lesara's Roman Kirsch on how to build a fashion empire". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  4. "Fab Buys Casacanda For $11 million To Fight The Samwers In Europe". Tech Crunch. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  5. Lammers, Lena. "Wow. Diese 64 Talente aus Deutschland haben es in die Forbes 30 under 30 geschafft" (in German). Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  6. "Lesara expandiert nach Frankreich". derhandel.de. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  7. "ProSiebenSat.1 bewertet Amorelie mit fast 100 Millionen Euro". Gründerszene Magazin (in German). 2018-07-27. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  8. "Lesara Uses Agile Management and Data to Meet Retail Fashion Trends". insights.samsung.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  9. Nadya, Khoja (20 July 2016). "Changing Clothes: How Agile Retail is Disrupting the Fashion Industry". business.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  10. Lara, Martino (28 June 2016). "Roman Kirsch (Lesara): Il segreto del nostro ecommerce? Qualita, senza intermediari". startupitalia.eu. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  11. "Lesara is Europe's fastest growing company". Ecommerce News. 2016-05-30. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  12. "Gewinner Technology Fast 50 im Überblick". Deloitte Deutschland (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  13. https://www.mdr.de/thueringen/lesara-logistikzentrum-erfurt-offenbar-insolvenz-100.html
  14. "Fitvia: Dieser deutsche Hidden Champion macht achtstellige Umsätze mit Detox-Tee". Daily (in German). 2018-08-21. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
  15. Schnor, Pauline (2019-06-07). "Pharmakonzern kauft Tee-Startup Fitvia". Gründerszene Magazin (in German). Retrieved 2019-06-08.
  16. Christina, Kyriasoglou (14 July 2016). "Warum ich die Zalando-App löschen musste". gruenderszene.de. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  17. "Der Schnäppchen-König". handelsjournal.de. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  18. "30 under 30 Europe". forbes.com. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
  19. "Shaper's Profile - ROMAN KIRSCH". globalshapers.org. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
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