Gabriel Matuschka

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About Investor

Gabriel Matuschka is the Co-Founder and Partner at Fly Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Berlin, Germany, specializing in backing highly technical founders building innovative technology companies across Europe. He co-founded Fly Ventures in 2016 alongside Stephan Seyboth, establishing an investment platform focused on identifying exceptional technical entrepreneurs at the earliest stages of company formation. His investment interests span Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, DeepTech, Robotics, Autonomous Systems, Developer Tools, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Infrastructure Software, Automation, Cybersecurity, FinTech, and Hardware, with particular emphasis on technically differentiated businesses addressing complex engineering and scientific challenges. His investment strategy focuses primarily on the Pre-seed and Seed stages, including opportunities at company inception before a product has been fully developed or commercialized. In a published interview, Gabriel explained that Fly Ventures' third fund typically invests €1 million to €4 million per company, participating in financing rounds ranging from approximately €2 million to €10 million. These figures represent the firm's disclosed institutional investment parameters for Fund III, rather than Gabriel's personal investment commitments, and may not reflect any subsequent changes to the fund's investment policy. His investment approach prioritizes founders with exceptional technical capabilities, strong domain expertise, and the potential to develop category-defining technologies. His investment experience includes involvement with Wayve, an autonomous driving technology company, and exposure to emerging robotics businesses such as Reimagine Robotics through Fly Ventures. Historical investment records also connect him with Candis, an accounting automation platform, and earlier portfolio involvement with Klara, Wunder Mobility, and Yieldr. These investments and board relationships span different stages of his career and should not all be interpreted as personal investments made through Fly Ventures. Gabriel has documented lead investment experience through Fly Ventures' first-check investment strategy, although the lead-investor designation for each individual transaction requires separate verification. Before founding Fly Ventures, he served as a Principal at Partech Ventures from 2012 to 2015, focusing on European technology investments, particularly consumer internet, mobile applications, and SaaS businesses. Earlier, he was the Co-Founder and CEO of TripHunter, a travel technology startup acquired by brands4friends in 2010. He began his professional career at IBM Global Business Services, working in the company's European media and telecommunications consulting practice. Gabriel holds a Master's degree in Business Administration from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, an Honors Degree in Technology Management from the Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM), and studied Business Administration and Economics at the University of Passau. He also completed an academic visiting program at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Through his combination of entrepreneurship, venture capital investing, and technology industry experience, Gabriel supports founders with early-stage fundraising, technical investment evaluation, product-market fit, strategic positioning, investor introductions, hiring, follow-on financing, and scaling research-intensive technology companies. His investment philosophy emphasizes long-term partnerships with ambitious technical founders, patient capital deployment, and backing breakthrough technologies before their commercial potential becomes widely recognized.