Iskender Dirik

Iskender Dirik Iskender Dirik is Founder and Managing Partner at INFINITE DISRUPTION and Venture Partner at EQT Ventures.

He is a Venture Capitalist, Entrepreneur, and Tech Executive having worked for companies like Microsoft, Samsung, and C3 Creative Code and Content.

It’s magical: by changing your story, you can change everything - without changing anything at your business and product...
03/05/2026

It’s magical: by changing your story, you can change everything - without changing anything at your business and product. And that story can turn into one of your strongest moats. I talked about this and much more in the first episode of the podcast hosted by and .me. Check the podcast via the profile link on

Julius Pahmeier und Cedric Jaeger haben €3,3M für VREY geraised.REY ermöglicht Vermietern von Mehrfamilienhäusern, Solar...
23/04/2026

Julius Pahmeier und Cedric Jaeger haben €3,3M für VREY geraised.

REY ermöglicht Vermietern von Mehrfamilienhäusern, Solarenergie direkt an ihre Mieter zu liefern – ohne selbst Energieversorger zu werden. Abrechnung und Compliance inklusive.

Ich hatte das Vergnügen, beide beim Fundraising zu begleiten – und zu sehen, wie sie Klimawirkung und Infrastrukturgeschäft in einer Pitch zusammenbringen.

Wenn du als Seed- oder Series-A-Founder Zugang zur führenden Fundraising-Engine in DACH willst: Schau dir gern mein FundraisingCOUP-Programm an (siehe Profillink).

Synera builds AI agents that run design, simulation, and costing workflows across the entire engineering toolchain. BMW,...
15/04/2026

Synera builds AI agents that run design, simulation, and costing workflows across the entire engineering toolchain. BMW, Airbus, NASA – 60+ enterprise customers.
Yesterday they announced their $40M Series B.

I had the pleasure to advise Moritz Maier, Co-Founder & CEO, on the round.

Airbus cut a 50-hour process to under 10 minutes. BMW compressed a six-week engineering loop to under a day.
That’s the kind of customer proof that changes a fundraising conversation.

Congrats to the whole team – well deserved.

Impossible Founders (iF) builds the infrastructure to turn science into business — from northern Germany, for Europe.Hap...
02/04/2026

Impossible Founders (iF) builds the infrastructure to turn science into business — from northern Germany, for Europe.

Happy to support the CEO Arik and team on this deep tech mission.

iF is already deeply embedded into Hamburg‘s science ecosystem with the DESY, a globally leading research center, TU Harburg, Uni Hamburg, UKE, and more.

iF is founded by the state and the Otto Group, the Michael Otto Stiftung, the Joachim Herz Stiftung, and more.

Happy to see a lot of old friends as part of the iF team, like our Hamburg Chapter Lead Hugo () leading iF‘s community efforts.

Three People in One Room Who See the Inside of Every Funding RoundOn April 15, I’m joining Florian Heinemann and Peter M...
18/03/2026

Three People in One Room Who See the Inside of Every Funding Round

On April 15, I’m joining Florian Heinemann and Peter Möllmann for something worth clearing your calendar for.

Florian is Founding Partner at Project A Ventures. He has backed over 80 companies, was part of building Zalando from the ground up, and has sat on more investment committees than most founders will ever pitch to. When he talks about how VCs actually filter and evaluate deals — what makes them move fast, what makes them pass — he’s not describing a theory. He’s describing Tuesday.

Peter is the Founder of PXR and one of Germany’s most recognized VC lawyers, ranked by Chambers Global, JUVE, and Legal 500. He has been inside hundreds of financing rounds on the legal and structural side. He knows what happens when a term sheet lands — what founders miss, what they accept without realizing the cost, and where deals quietly fall apart.

I work with early-stage founders on fundraising strategy and narrative. My part of the equation is the process itself: how to build momentum, how to create competitive tension, how to make investors feel like they’re running out of time — in a way that’s real, not manufactured.

Three different angles. All from inside the room.
Together, we’ll cover how VCs decide (and what they don’t say out loud), how to engineer healthy fundraising FOMO, and what actually matters once the term sheet hits the table.

This is a curated masterclass. Spots are limited by design.
If you’re preparing a round — Seed through Series B — and you want to understand the full picture before you start: April 15 is the date.
Request your spot here: https://gatsby.events/pxr/rsvp/register?e=fundraising-masterclass

The first blue card in FundraisingCOUP history goes to Malte Kosub.The blue card means one thing: a founder’s pitch has ...
09/03/2026

The first blue card in FundraisingCOUP history goes to Malte Kosub.

The blue card means one thing: a founder’s pitch has entered the Hall of Fame of the best pitches I’ve ever seen in my FundraisingCOUP program.

Malte’s Parloa Series A pitch was the first to earn it – and it shows. $560M raised, $3BN valuation, one of the very few German AI unicorns.

We sat down for almost 2 hours – an exceptional fundraising masterclass.
Tomorrow on the .

€15M Series A for Photoncycle. Congrats to Bjorn, Elina, and the team.Seasonal energy storage — storing summer solar for...
05/03/2026

€15M Series A for Photoncycle. Congrats to Bjorn, Elina, and the team.
Seasonal energy storage — storing summer solar for winter use — is one of those solutions that becomes inevitable once you understand the problem. The round came together quickly. Glad I could support on the equity

€15M Series A for Photoncycle. Congrats to Bjorn, Elina, and the team.Seasonal energy storage - storing summer solar for...
04/03/2026

€15M Series A for Photoncycle. Congrats to Bjorn, Elina, and the team.
Seasonal energy storage - storing summer solar for winter use - is one of those solutions that becomes inevitable once you understand the problem.
Glad I could support on the equity story.

I love working with deep tech founders with real scientific depth.Lukas Werling is a poster-child example. He just raise...
27/02/2026

I love working with deep tech founders with real scientific depth.

Lukas Werling is a poster-child example. He just raised a €5.5M Seed round for ISPTech, led by my friends at Join Capital.

ISPTech builds non-toxic, high-performance propulsion systems that enable satellites to move flexibly and reliably in orbit – from CubeSats to large spacecraft.

If you’re a deep tech founder building hardware, space, climate, energy or advanced industrial tech – and you’re preparing to raise – check out my FundraisingCOUP program. 🚀

Another one — very happy about this round. Circle Health is building a preventive health platform, led by stellar operat...
12/02/2026

Another one — very happy about this round. Circle Health is building a preventive health platform, led by stellar operators Peter Malmqvist and Jannik Tiedemann. What I also like a lot: their design DNA. Portfolio company.

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