Julian Teicke
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Julian Teicke | |
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| Born | October 10, 1986 |
| Alma mater | University of St. Gallen |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Organization | wefox |
| Known for | Founder & CEO of wefox |
Julian Teicke (10 October 1986) is a German entrepreneur who was the founder and CEO of wefox. He is also an investor and board member of several European tech startups.[1]
In 2022, he was recognised with one of the "40 under 40" awards by Capital Magazine. He is also a columnist at Forbes Magazine.[2][3]
In 2020 he was awarded with the "Founder of the Year" Award of the University of St. Gallen.[4]
Career
In 2009, Teicke played an active role in starting up the UK branch of Chocri, a chocolate company based in Berlin.[5] He later joined Groupon where he headed up the European sales operation.[6][7]
In 2010 he joined the e-commerce platform DeinDeal in Switzerland.[8][9]
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.[10][11]
Teicke served as the DeinDeal's COO until it was sold to media publisher Ringier for an undisclosed sum in 2015.[12]
In 2015, Teicke founded FinanceFox, a company that initially offered customers the ability to manage their insurance contracts online.[13][14] In the following years, the company received permission to sell insurance products and rebranded as wefox.[15] 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.[16] wefox was the fastest European fintech to ever reach $1bn valuation and in 2022 had a valuation of $4.5bn.[17][18]
Other roles
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.