Timo Lehes
Timo Lehes, a fintech and blockchain investor, is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Swarm, a compliant, permissioned decentralized finance infrastructure for token issuance, liquidity and trading. A veteran of the tech industry, he has over 20 years of experience starting, running, exiting and investing in enterprise software companies, and leading various merger and acquisition deals. Recently, he had successful exits in advertising technology platform Admeta and virtualization platform Witsbits. He also has experience as a fund manager and led the US arm of Beringer Finance as an M&A advisor under SEC license. Today, he serves as an investor at Aurigin Inc., a private equity deals platform, and media rights management platform, Pex.com.
Timo Lehes Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Co-Founder and Managing Director
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Co-Founder and Council Member
Academic History
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M.S., Computer Science and Data Communication
EARLY CAREER
Lehes has worked on both the buy-side and sell-side of financial transactions with multiple successful exits.
He was an advisor for BootstrapsLabs and an investor at Incentive Inc., a software development company.
He was an investor and chairman of the board at Admeta, acquired by WideOrbit in 2014.
He was an investment and fund manager at Chalmers Innovation Seed fund, where he executed 40+ seed and A-round investments.
He was an M&A portfolio manager and consultant for Logan Orviss International, involved in due diligence and merger integration.
He was a venture capital portfolio analyst at Speed Ventures and an enterprise SW entrepreneur and investor for EHPT USA.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Lehes has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.