Patrick Hermann
Patrick Hermann
Investment Director
Patrick Hermann joined Fortino Capital in September 2024 as Investment Director in Munich, Germany to launch & build Fortino's DACH VC team & effort. Prior to Fortino, for more than 7 years, Patrick has been investing for Picus Capital in founders that want to solve hard problems with deep technical and ambitious solutions across industries (B2B SaaS, cybersecurity, enterprise infrastructure, vertical AI & financial services) and stages (from pre-seed to Series A). Patrick built the cybersecurity and enterprise infrastructure practice & led investments in ventures such as Hadrian, Formant, Ledge, Spice, Hawk, Zavvy, Perpetual Systems, Conifers, Openlayer, Coboworx, Zazume, & Junto amongst others.
- 7 Years leading up to Senior Vice President at Picus Capital
- Prior board engagements at Hadrian, Junto, Zazume, Coboworx & Zavvy
- Podcast The Craft (thisisthecraft.substack.com) with pioneers of the coding frontier such as CTO Wolt, CTO Algolia, Co-Founder & CTO SumoLogic and Co-Founder & CIO of Flix
- Working Experience from McKinsey & Company, UVC, Horvath & Partners & EY
- Master's & Bachelor's degree in Technology & Management from the Technical University of Munich including study assignments at Copenhagen Business School
- Scholarship at Manage & More, the entrepreneurial initiative of UnternehmerTUM & Technical University of Munich