Marcus Polke

Marcus is a Managing Partner. He’s an experienced Venture Capital investor with an extensive background in building and financing digital businesses, making them work and assembling world-class teams. As an investor in European technology companies, he’s been working closely with several high profile companies successfully exited to strategic and Private Equity buyers. Before joining signals Venture Capital, he worked at renowned Growth and Later Stage VC Acton Capital Partners for many years, and as a Venture Partner for Henq Capital Partners from The Netherlands. Prior to becoming a VC, he ran the European business of Abebooks.com (sold to Amazon.com in 2008) as Managing Director, led all e-commerce activities at AOL Germany and was one of the first people to work for Amazon Germany. He holds a degree in Economics and Management from Technical University of Berlin. Marcus is a long distance runner, too, something that fits nicely with the long-term perspective they are taking with their portfolio companies.