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He overlooks all topics relating to financial statements, taxes and investments. Prior to CommerzVentures he was controller at Telekom Deutschland where he was responsible for the establishment and investment management of joint ventures in fiber optic expansion. Before that he was Head of Finance of Deutsche Telekom’s VC unit Deutsche Telekom Venture Fund (former T-Venture) and worked for PwC in the audit department. He studied Business Administration at the University of Frankfurt. Besides work, he does CrossFit and is an ardent supporter of soccer club VfB Stuttgart. https://commerzventures.com/judith daily 0.75 2026-01-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f686a38d1746b5c050de238/0a92b7ac-4ed5-4899-b5cd-0f554c144596/HEC_3145_1+sw.jpg Judith - Judith Vogel / Principal Judith joined CommerzVentures in 2022. After some time in early-stage and generalist investing, she’s now focusing on all things FinTech. Previously, she invested into a variety of sectors, ranging from Direct-to-Consumer, to Impact and Health, with Impact FinTech remaining as a sweet spot. Outside of work, Judith can be found exploring contemporary art galleries and is always up to test the latest tech-trends herself, e.g. the occasional new social media app. She holds a B.Sc. from Frankfurt School of Finance & Management as well as a M.Sc. from National University of Singapore. https://commerzventures.com/christian daily 0.75 2022-11-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f686a38d1746b5c050de238/6d599493-e250-49c6-a596-53d339945b12/christian.jpg Christian - Christian Deger / Venture Partner Christian is an entrepreneur with deep experience and knowledge in the Payments and FinTech spaces. In addition to his role at CommerzVentures, he is an investor & advisor to startups and corporate clients. After co-founding Payreto in 2011, a managed services company for payment providers, Christian founded Payworks, a payment gateway technology provider, in 2012. At Payworks he acted as the CEO until the company's acquisition by Visa Inc. in 2019. During his time at Payworks Christian sold to leading payment providers and acquirers in the US, Europe and Africa and advised their executive teams on the implementation and execution of their integrated Point of Sale and digitalisation strategies. As part of the Payworks acquisition by Visa, Christian joined the leadership team of Cybersource and acted as the company's VP Head of Europe until the end of 2021. In this role, he oversaw the entire European business of Cybersource, serving leading retailers, airlines and other blue-chip merchants as well as payment providers and acquirers with Visa's payment processing and fraud solutions. https://commerzventures.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-09-05 https://commerzventures.com/christopher daily 0.75 2024-06-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f686a38d1746b5c050de238/636def16-6f67-41d9-ab14-7dfd5831e014/IMG_8003.jpg Christopher - Christopher Lohmann / Venture Partner As founder and managing director of The Mulberry Ventures, Christopher supports companies and venture funds in the successful implementation of innovative business models and investment strategies. Together with his partners Christopher focuses on addressing the shortage of skilled workers through shoring partnerships and on the digitalization in the Insurance industry. The Mulberry‘s services range from advisory to opening doors and financing. In his work Christopher can build on the network and the expertise he built over 24 years as manager and board member in Insurance. During his time at the helm of Talanx, Gothaer and especially Allianz entities he gained expertise in Property & Casualty Insurance, Sales and IT as well as in successfully managing large transformations. Having been a corporate citizen for a significant part of his life, Christopher today enjoys entrepreneurial freedom to support people seizing megatrends as an opportunity. https://commerzventures.com/christopher-1 daily 0.75 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f686a38d1746b5c050de238/636def16-6f67-41d9-ab14-7dfd5831e014/IMG_8003.jpg Sunil - Christopher Lohmann / Venture Partner As founder and managing director of The Mulberry Ventures, Christopher supports companies and venture funds in the successful implementation of innovative business models and investment strategies. Together with his partners Christopher focuses on addressing the shortage of skilled workers through shoring partnerships and on the digitalization in the Insurance industry. The Mulberry‘s services range from advisory to opening doors and financing. In his work Christopher can build on the network and the expertise he built over 24 years as manager and board member in Insurance. During his time at the helm of Talanx, Gothaer and especially Allianz entities he gained expertise in Property & Casualty Insurance, Sales and IT as well as in successfully managing large transformations. Having been a corporate citizen for a significant part of his life, Christopher today enjoys entrepreneurial freedom to support people seizing megatrends as an opportunity. https://commerzventures.com/sunil daily 0.75 2025-11-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f686a38d1746b5c050de238/0eaf2f76-1c2b-4151-81e6-756eb1edcefe/PastedGraphic-1.jpg Sunil - Sunil Kappagoda / Operating Partner Sunil has been working with Commerz Ventures since early 2023. He is engaged with portfolio companies including Finbourne, Doconomy, Climate X and Onafriq. Since 2016, Sunil has been working with multiple Venture stage and Private Equity owned B2B Fintech companies as Chair, Director or Advisor, helping them scale their businesses. 7 of these companies have now exited. Previously he was President of Verifone Technology’s Asia Pacific Business, Senior Partner at The Boston Consulting (where he was part of the Global Banking and Financial Services Leadership Team & the North American Leadership Team), Partner at Oliver Wyman, and Principal at Booz Allen. He has also worked at The World Bank and Citibank Sunil holds an MBA from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (where he also completed all the coursework for a PhD in Finance, a Masters in Economics from The London School of Economics, a Postgraduate Diploma in Economics from Birkbeck College, and a BSc Engineering from Imperial College, London. He has lived and worked in London, New York, Miami, Singapore, Silicon Valley and Chicago. He has worked with Financial Services and Fintech business across 6 countries in Europe, 12 in Asia Pacific in addition to the US and Canada. He enjoys traveling (50 countries), tennis (until he ruptured his achilles tendon playing an event), golf (as the 9th and then youngest person to play the top 100 golf courses in the world), and football. https://commerzventures.com/linh daily 0.75 2025-10-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f686a38d1746b5c050de238/803eb490-e792-426b-8ead-e7a8a5bd634f/%21stu_2025-09-26+104818_SW.jpg Linh - Linh Richter / Head of Compliance Linh joined CommerzVentures in July 2024 and manages all our compliance and regulatory matters. She brings over a decade of experience in compliance risk management and audit, having previously worked at UBS and Commerzbank. Born in Ho Chi Minh City and raised in Berlin, she has also lived and worked in New York, Singapore and Frankfurt. Linh holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Business Law from the University of Applied Sciences. 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In 2012, he co-founded Azimo, a social digital payments platform that enables simple, fast and secure remittances to 198 countries around the world (remaining as Non-Executive Director until 2018). Ricky has been investing in Fintech businesses since 2003, and has backed other notable Fintech businesses such as Curve, Comply Advantage, Vitesse, Liberis and Modulr.