Madeline Petrow has 5+ years of experience in building businesses and investment raising. She is a social entrepreneur founding 2 start-ups in London including a VC-backed, top 100 UK Social Enterprise which grew to the largest sustainable fashion marketplace in the UK. Madeline is an active member of the London Start-Up community acting as a business advisor and mentor, and spent two years as the Entrepreneur in Residence at King’s College London.
She has lectured at leading universities including London School of Economics, King’s College London, & Cambridge University on entrepreneurship and social impact. As Head of Investments at Q · Advisers, Madeline leverages her experience to oversee new deal flow assessment, portfolio management, and key stakeholder relations.
Madeline holds a MSc in Social Anthropology & Sustainable Development from Edinburgh University as well as an MSc in International Development of Emerging Economies from King’s College London.
As a creative entrepreneur and investor, Fritz has established and developed Q·ADVISERS GROUP and various successful ventures. In his corporate life he formed and led as CEO, CA IB Securities London, the powerful Austrian niche investment bank for Central and Eastern Europe and managed UniCredit’s Global Equity Distribution.
Fritz believes in small, flexible organisations with room for entrepreneurial talent, change and spirit. He likes to work with a network of people who share similar values, do not take themselves too seriously and can work well together over regional or corporate borders.
Fritz holds a Doctor’s degree in Law and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Innsbruck. He is also a chartered CEFA Analyst and Journalist.
Thomas Bogdanowicz has 30+ years experience both as entrepreneur and investor. He created, built up and managed BGS Industrial, a EPC Contractor, as well as Smartcard Systems AG which has been merged into a NASDAQ listed company. He is co-founder to Fritz in Q·ADVISERS. Today, besides his UCP Chemicals AG, he is founder of Q Real and active investor into real estate, sourcing, developing and managing deals across an expansive real estate portfolio. Thomas is also a partner and shareholder in Selina Photovoltaic and SOL PV Capital, as well as founder of SelinaQenergy
Markus started to work as equity analyst at Investmentbank Austria in 1997 in Vienna following a few years as successful manager of Austrian and EME equity fund he moved to CA IB Investmentbank in London and Vienna. As Head of Continental European Sales he was responsible for the distribution of the EME equity product. In 2010 he joined the local Czech brokerage firm WOOD & Company and played an essential role in transforming the company to the leading independent EME brokerage platform.
In 2019 Markus set up his own consulting firm CONSULT/U and following 9 years as passive partner in Q∙Advisers he also started to take an active role within certain projects.
Alex is a long-time investment professional with a deep knowledge of private and corporate banking, as well as legal services. He worked for Raiffeisen, Chase Manhattan, Credit Lyonnais, HVB. He manages the office of an Austrian foundation and has focused on legal structuring, due diligence and legal counsel services in recent years.
Alex studied at the University of Salzburg and holds a Doctor’s degree in Law.
Anna successfully completed her Bachelor of Arts in Management, specialising in international business, at Webster University in Vienna. She completed her Master of Science in Finance and Management at St. Andrews University in England.
She gained work experience in the financial services industry in Hamburg and Vienna as an investment analyst and in controlling for several companies such as Falkensteg, Active Solution GmbH and Immowert GmbH.
Harald Wengust and Fritz Schweiger have worked together for many years and teamed up to set up Q·ADVISERS; they invested in various special situations, including the takeover of the real estate asset manager informica real invest AG. Before, Harald was Head of Emerging Europe Equity Trading at CA IB Investmentbank plc, London and the following years he was in charge of Griffin European Opportunities Fund and Griffin European Hedge Fund.
In recent years Harald has specialised in real estate development. His Austrian based company HGW Finanz- und Beteiligungs GmbH works on real estate development projects and is invested in different start-up companies.
Gottfried Springer was head trader of GiroCredit Bank (today Erste Bank) and head of the Eastern Europe department in the investment bank of the former Bank Austria Group. In the 1990s, he managed the best performing Eastern European equity fund in Europe.
In 1999, he founded Qino Group, in which he held several management positions. Gottfried managed the European Emerging Market Fund (Private Trust Company) and worked as a fund advisor for Springer Investment and Springer European Plus, which were among the best performing European equity funds between 1999 and 2014.
McWin primarily invests in what we call “Unstoppable Trends”, which are: Food Tech, Life Sciences, Space, Mobility, Clean Tech, E-commerce Digital Platforms, Fintech, and Rise of Asia. These trends will continue their transformational impact well into the post-pandemic era. They implement their strategy by investing primarily in private markets, with a small complementary portfolio of public market assets. Within the private markets, they invest both directly and through funds.
Apeiron Investment Group is the family office and asset management business of entrepreneur and investor Christian Angermayer. Our areas of focus are Life Sciences, FinTech/InsurTech/PropTech & Crypto and DeepTech (e.g. SpaceTech, AI, etc.). In these sectors, we have deep experience and a proven track record of more than 20 years.
Ithuba Capital is a technology driven investment and advisory firm focusing on the financial industry. The team’s superior knowledge of capital markets coupled with strong quantitative analytical skills, a state-of-the-art systems infrastructure and broad international network gives Ithuba Capital an edge in servicing financial institutions.
Elevat3 VC is the venture capital arm of serial entrepreneur and investor Christian Angermayer and his family office Apeiron Investment Group. Elevat3 is largely focused on opportunities within European and German-speaking countries, and provides value to its portfolio companies via access to high-profile leads, advisers, and network.
In 2020 high-profile investor and PayPal co-founder, Peter Theil, joined as a strategic partner.
Vedra Partners is a multi-family investment partnership created to meet the long term sustainable goals of its families while protecting their wealth.
The tyrolean business angel network is a network of private investors, who are looking to support the startup ecosystem in the Alpine region. The tba network is, therefore, an important interface between startups and leading international companies.
The tba network emerged from an initiative of the investment company Tyrolean Business Angel GmbH (an associate company of Durst Phototechnik AG and Alupress AG – Harald Oberrauch) and the promoters Gert Gremes (Gremes Holding, Bruneck) and Alexander Pichler (DELMO, Bozen).
Gateway Ventures is Austria’s biggest network of startup investors with currently over 1,000 active investors, including the likes of high-profile business angels such as Johannes Siller, Markus Ertler and Heinrich Prokop. The platform supports the growth and development ofthe Austrian and European startup eco-system by connecting high intent investors and compelling startups.
The startup portfolio covers FinTech, CleanTech, HeathTech, IT & Software, Big Data & Social Impact.
Speedinvest is one of Europe’s most active early-stage investors with €450m AUM and 40 investors based in Berlin, London, Munich, Paris, Vienna and San Francisco. Acting as a bridge between Europe and Silicon Valley, the company manages several funds focusing on the CEE region in the fields of FinTech/InsurTech, DeepTech and ConsumerTech.
Co-investments include Cyberwrite which provides cutting-edge technology to quantify, benchmark, and mitigate the financial impact of cyber-attacks on businesses across industries.
Schütz Family Office (SFO) is the family office of Alexander Schütz. He is founder and CEO of Vienna based C-Quadrat Investment Group (CQ), a serial entrepreneur and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Cyan AG. CQ is the largest independent asset manager in Austria with over EUR 8 billion AuM and active in over 20 countries in Europe and Asia with offices in Paris, Geneva, Zurich, Madrid and Yerevan.
I.E.C.T. (Institute for Entrepreneurship Cambridge – Tirol) Hermann Hauser is a private institution with the aim to foster and support entrepreneurs and start-ups to achieve permanent economic success.
