Number of Portfolio Companies 2
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
  • Primary Job Title Founder & CEO
  • Primary Organization 
    Fliegenglas
  • Investor Type  Individual/Angel
  • Investor Stage  Seed

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.

Number of Investments 2
Andrea Anderheggen has made 2 investments. Their latest investment was Seed Round - SalesGrowth on Oct 24, 2018, when
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
Oct 24, 2018
SalesGrowth
Seed Round - SalesGrowth
Jan 1, 2010
Shopgate
Seed Round - Shopgate
$400K
Number of Current Jobs 2
Number of Past Jobs 2
Andrea Anderheggen has 2 current jobs as Founder & CEO at Fliegenglas and Founder & CEO at SalesGrowth. Additionally, Andrea Anderheggen has had 2 past jobs including Founder & CEO at Shopgate.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
Shopgate
Founder & CEO2009Dec 31, 2017
Sofort AG
Founder & COO2007Feb 28, 2011
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 1
Andrea Anderheggen is the Board Member at Shopgate.
Andrea Anderheggen studied at University of Zurich.
Number of News Articles 5
Funding RoundOct 24, 2018
NewsFeb 12, 2014
NewsMay 5, 2011
The Next Web — The Next Web
Funding RoundJan 1, 2010