Primary Job Title Founder & CEO Primary Organization Fliegenglas
Location Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Investor Type Individual/Angel Investor Stage Seed
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Andrea is the Founder of Fliegenglas.
Fliegenglas makes knowledge audible. – We produce and market audiobooks for Science, Philosophy and Literature.
Besides Andrea is an experienced Serial-Entrepreneur. He is now sharing his experience on SalesGrowth.io. SalesGrowth E-Commerce, Online-Marketing, Software Development and Venture Capital
Consulting Services.
Before Fliegenglas and SalesGrowth.io Andrea has been:
The Founder & CEO of Shopgate where he has built the company from zero to a multinational eCommerce platform with hundreds of employees, thousands of retailers and millions of consumers using the platform every day. Today, Andrea is one of the two largest private shareholders in Shopgate and an active member of the board of directors.
Before Shopgate, Andrea has been a co-founder and COO of Sofort.com, a European online-payment leader, acquired by the Klarna-Group for a total price of $150 million. During his time at Sofort, the company has signed up over 20,000 online merchants with a transaction volume of €1.5 billion ($1.9 billion).
Andrea has been named one of the NEXT 100 Top Influencers of the Digital Industry in 2013. He has won the IT-Innovation Prize at CEBIT in 2011 and 2013. Andrea won the Red Herring Global Top-100 in 2012 with Shopgate.
Andrea has studied Philosophy (focusing on Metaphysics, Epistemology, Phenomenology, and Philosophy of Language) and completed a minor study of Musicology and Corporate Finance at the University of Zurich. He is fluent in German, English, French, Italian and Brazilian Portuguese.