Leonie Lange

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General Partner at Thornfield Seed Fund · board work, venture capital

Thornfield Seed Fund
Munich, Germany · CET (UTC+1)
12+ years experience
École Polytechnique
English, German
Investing
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Overview

29 years around startups; now investing in fintech. Sit on 4 boards. Led or co-led 24 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later. Before that: Deloitte and Zalando. Most at home with board work and venture capital. Learning to draw.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in fintech
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Questions about fintech
Please don't message about
  • Decks without a clear ask
  • Unpaid work or spec projects

Best reached early in the week

Skills
venture capitaldue diligenceboard work
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $50k cheques into Series A fintech in the US

Cheque size
$50k
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Fintech, climate
Geographies
Global
Lead or follow
Any
Decision time
About two weeks
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Typically lead or co-lead. We reply to every founder.

Munich, Germanyventure capitaldue diligenceboard work
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Experience

  1. General Partner
    Dec 2023 - Present
    Thornfield Seed Fund · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · Munich, Germany
    • Backed 41 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Previously an operator for 5 years before investing.
    • Led or co-led 35 investments, 7 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Senior Backend Engineer
    Oct 2020 - Oct 2023
    Deloitte · 3 yr · Full-time · Munich, Germany
    • Moved 94% of infrastructure traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
  3. Director of Engineering
    Mar 2019 - Oct 2020
    Zalando · 1 yr 7 mo · Full-time · Munich, Germany
    • Led the migration of 20 services to due diligence.
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 40 minutes to under 3.
  4. Principal Engineer
    Oct 2015 - Mar 2019
    Wise · 3 yr 5 mo · Full-time · Munich, Germany
    • Led or co-led 22 investments, 2 of them now at Series B or later.
  5. Senior Android Engineer
    Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
    Supercell · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Munich, Germany
    • Moved 68% of ML platform traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Cut p99 latency on the ML platform services from 519ms to 146ms.

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Education

  1. École Polytechnique
    Ingénieur, Engineering
    1993 - 1997

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