Roland Stern

Head of Finance
focus areas:
Finance
Operations
Fundraising
Portfolio Success
about:

I earned my degree in Technology and Management from TUM and spent several months at MIT, where the entrepreneurial energy was unlike anything I'd experienced in Europe.

Before joining First Momentum, I spent nine years building and scaling startups and growth companies (both hardware and software), often as a fractional CFO. I lived on the founder side, working with VCs daily, navigating funding rounds, and solving the operational challenges that keep founders up at night.

Now, operating from the investor side, I want to bring that founder perspective to our portfolio companies in the early stages of their success stories. I understand the operational challenges founders face because I've lived them. At First Momentum, everything around investor relations and fund administration is crucial to being among the most successful VCs in Deep Tech. I'm here to make that happen.

focus areas:
Finance
Operations
Fundraising
Portfolio Success
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Start up wish list

  • Support founders in less-hyped industries who might have little or no business background. Their ideas are too important for us as a society to let them fail for lack of financial or operational expertise.

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