Julian Teicke | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 October 1986 Berlin, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of St. Gallen |
| Occupation | Founder & CEO |
| Organization | wefox |
Julian Teicke (10 October 1986 in Berlin, Germany) is a German businessman and founder & was CEO of wefox. He is also an investor and board member of several European tech startups. [1]
He has been bestowed with the "40 under 40" award by Capital Magazine and is a columnist at Forbes Magazine. [2] [3]
Teicke graduated from the John F. Kennedy School in Berlin, Germany. Afterwards, he moved to Switzerland, where he graduated with a Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen in 2010. [4] In 2020 he was awarded with the "Founder of the Year" Award of the University of St. Gallen. [5]
In 2009, Teicke played an active role in starting up the UK branch of Chocri, a chocolate company based in Berlin. [6] He later joined Groupon where he headed up the European sales operation. [7] [8] In 2010 he joined the e-commerce platform DeinDeal in Switzerland. [9] [10] Julian Teicke has been honored with the title of Swiss e-Commerce Champion and received the Swiss e-Commerce award for two consecutive years, in 2013 and 2014. [11] [12]
Teicke served as the DeinDeal's COO until it was sold to media publisher Ringier for an undisclosed sum in 2015. [13] [4]
In 2015, Teicke founded FinanceFox, a company that initially offered customers the ability to manage their insurance contracts online. [14] [15] In the following years, the company received permission to sell insurance products and rebranded as wefox. [16] Since its launch in 2015, wefox has doubled its yearly revenues, reaching $580 million in 2022, and serving more than 3 million customers across Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. [17] wefox was the fastest European fintech to ever reach $1bn valuation and in 2022 had a valuation of $4.5bn. [18] [19]
Since 2015, Julian Teicke has been a Founder and Partner & Non-Executive Chairman at The Delta. The Delta has incubated wefox and has since incubated and invested in more than 50 ventures. Julian Teicke is founding angel and Non-Executive board member of several The Delta portfolio companies. [20]
In 2023 Julian Teicke and wefox were criticised by media outlets for their aggressive acquisition strategy and that the acquired companies did not yet fully adopt wefox technology. [21] [22]
In April 2020, Teicke founded Healthy Together (a non-profit European tech alliance) by supporting the design and launch of the Corona-Warn-App. [23] [24] [25] After this he co-founded Luca App, which belongs to the most successful apps in Germany with more than 40 million downloads. [26]
Teicke is also a board member of the Jewish Museum of Berlin. [27] [28]
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