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Tags:
biofuel, clean tech, Cleantech, Entrepreneurship, investor, renewables, sand hill road, silicon valley, sustainability
Schools:
ETH Zurich, Stanford University, University of Karlsruhe
BioCee, Inc. is an early-stage industrial biotech company commercializing a patented platform technology out of the University of Minnesota – "Biocatalytic Coatings". The first of several applications is to make the fermentation of cellulosic et...
Startup type: Company
Status: Active
Stage: Prototyping
FULL BIO
Tom Schulz is a serial entrepreneur, investor, venture consultant and philanthropist.
Tom focuses on early stage companies in the Cleantech and Internet industries. He is Managing Partner at the Cleantech Circle.
Cleantech Circle's partners are serial entrepreneurs and angel investors with a passion for Cleantech (renewable energy, air and water, energy efficiency, carbon sequestration). We create and invest in startup and early-stage companies, and we advise VCs and their portfolio companies on technology and strategy.
One of Tom's current projects is BioCee, an advanced biofuels startup out of the University of Minnesota. BioCee bridges the gap between microbiology and chemical engineering.
Prior to becoming an investor, Tom already had over twenty years of technical and business experience. He worked on computer languages at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Lab in Palo Alto and artificial intelligence and multimedia projects at Apple Computer in Germany. Tom was a strategic management consultant for The Boston Consulting Group at their Munich and San Francisco offices.
In 1995, Tom co-founded the first publicly traded, nationwide Internet service provider in Germany, Cybernet AG, where he served on the executive management board.
After going public with Cybernet, he went on to become an angel investor with the Munich Business Angel Network. Tom currently serves on the advisory board of Earlybird Venture Capital of Munich and Palo Alto. He is member of The Angels' Forum, a professionally run investor group in Palo Alto which also manages the Halo Funds.
Tom's latest startup, Sageera Institute LLC, is an Internet-based marketing and publishing company. Tom also serves as advisor for Feeva Inc, Autonet Inc, TrustedOpinion Inc., LampDesk Inc., and other Internet and Cleantech companies.
Tom earned an M.B.A. from Stanford University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Specialties:
Strategy Consulting, Coaching
Start-up management
Venture Capital Fundraising and Investing
Internet, Mobile Internet, CleanTech
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
Cleantech Circle, LLC
Position:
Managing Partner
Time period:
October 2007 - Present
Description:
Cleantech Circle's partners are serial entrepreneurs and angel investors with a passion for Cleantech (renewable energy, air and water, energy efficiency, carbon sequestration). We create and invest in startup and early-stage companies, and we advise VCs and their portfolio companies on technology and strategy.
Employer:
BioCee, Inc.
Position:
Co-founder
Time period:
June 2007 - Present
Description:
Industrial biotech startup in the field of advanced biofuels and chemicals.
Employer:
European American Angel Club
Position:
Angel Investor
Time period:
January 2006 - Present
Employer:
The Angels' Forum
Position:
Angel Investor
Time period:
September 2002 - Present
Employer:
Cybernet Internet Services AG
Position:
Co-founder, Member of Management Board
Time period:
December 1995 - December 1997
Description:
Co-founded first nationwide Internet Service Provider in Germany. Became the first public Internet company in Germany.
BioCee, Inc. is an early-stage industrial biotech company commercializing a patented platform technology out of the University of Minnesota – "Biocatalytic Coatings". The first of several applications is to make the fermentation of cellulosic et...
BioCee, Inc.
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