We exist to empower visionaries like you who strive to build groundbreaking businesses: transforming ideas 💡 into impactful 💥, profitable 🤑, and category-defining companies 🏆 with the support of our Venture Studio Berlin.
MVP combines two powerful concepts: we help turn ideas into Minimum Viable Products with maximum efficiency, while partnering with founders who have the potential to be the Most Valuable Players in their industries
On this page, we'll walk you through our unique co-building approach, show you how we partner with ambitious founders, and explain what makes MVP Founders different
We are not a VC or Incubator. We put our money where our mouth is by investing our own, hard-earned money. We aim to build 2-3 new companies per year. Not more, but also not less!
We believe that sound business principles apply to all ventures across sectors. While our ventures span many different industries, they all follow proven business principles
We partner with entrepreneurs to launch their businesses. We usually aim for an initial financing round of up to €1 million to help get their ventures off the ground. Our goal is to keep founders in control.
We love to ideate and brainstorm! While we have plenty of our own ideas and enjoy co-creating with founders, we're always excited to hear fresh perspectives. Whether you come to us with a fully formed concept or want to explore possibilities together, we're here to collaborate and build something amazing.
Our experience has taught us that the best ideas often emerge through open dialogue and creative partnership.
Let’s be real—in today’s startup world, everyone’s after unicorn status 🦄, but we’re building "camel businesses" 🐫 instead.
This approach allows founders to maintain more control over their destiny and build businesses that can thrive independently
of external funding cycles.
Camel businesses typically share the following traits:
We are not a fund, we invest our own capital 🐝 giving us a maximum of entrepreneurial freedom. We often partner with Angels, FOs, VCs or PEs for later rounds (if needed)
We see the world not as it is, but as it could be 👷. We are maximising the entrepreneur's potential to achieve extraordinary outcomes 🐫
We love our “jobs” / cause and believe
that Entrepreneurship is one way to make the world a better place 🌱
Before founding MVPF, Fabian started CG Partners, building and managing an EIF backed Angel Investment Portfolio of >40 companies. As a founding investor, he launched several successful ventures, supporting startups and founders from the pre-idea stage all the way to exit. Fabian has a proven track record as a hands-on investor, scaling successful ventures from the ground up. Besides this Fabian likes Pizza 🍕, astronomy🪐 and lifting heavy things 🏋️.
Tobias is an accomplished repeat entrepreneur and business angel with a global footprint. He co-founded PricePanda and Lazada (later sold to Alibaba) in Southeast Asia and successfully built strong consumer brands, notably foodspring. His passion for innovation has driven business growth and created impactful solutions. Tobi enjoys finding his Zen 🧘♂️, chasing new fitness goals 🏋️♂️🚣🏻♀️, unwinding with a good movie 🍿, and mastering the art of BBQ & chill 🥩😎.
Tim is a seasoned entrepreneur and active investor with a rich background in Business Administration and Entrepreneurship from Berlin & USA (mainly Denver). Early in his career, Tim discovered his passion for marketing and lead generation 💭 (bootstrapped his biggest success), skills that have been pivotal in his journey as a founder & investor. Tim enjoys smashing tennis balls 🎾, collecting passport stamps ✈️, and getting lost in a good book 📚.
In our Venture Studio we seek like-minded founders who have the stamina to run a marathon with us, no matter how long it takes - founders who strive to be the Most Valuable Players in their field
We love working with commercial animals that can sell anything anywhere
Athletes who are familiar with the grit and determination it takes to push through long and demanding challenges
Founders and operators we’ve worked with before who have repeatedly proven their talent for turning success into a habit
Go-getters who have pushed their limits, faced failure, and bounced back stronger every time
Pragmatic operators who get things done, focus on impact, and apply the 80/20 principle to move fast and efficiently
Resourceful thinkers who excel at achieving more with less, mastering the art of minimum viable products to validate ideas quickly and efficiently
If they don't roughly match yours, you won’t be happy with us
