Matthias Dill Bio

Mr. Dill is an experienced venture capital investor and board-member and has helped dozens of start-ups in Energy and related sectors throughout his career. Prior to building EIPs European presence, Mr. Dill was the founder and Managing Director of Statkraft Ventures, a 100mEUR European Venture Capital Fund focussed on the energy sector. Here he designed and executed a strategy of financially driven investments combined with a deep collaborative model to realize synergies between start-ups and a large corporate player. Earlier in his career Mr. Dill was a senior investment manager with High-Tech Gründerfonds, the largest European investor in early stage start-up. Mr. Dill was trained at Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany and University of Rhode Island, RI, USA. He earned a Masters degree in industrial engineering and a Ph.D. in Finance for his work of private equity financing of small and midsized companies. He lives in Cologne Germany with his wife and two sons.