Alexander Straub

Alexander Straub (born June 14th, 1972 in Erlenbach, Bavaria) is an Internet and Telecom entrepreneur and investor. Alexander Straub is a German born entrepreneur and European venture capitalist at London based Straub Ventures as well as Cambridge based Cambridge Accelerator Partners. He is a native of Darmstadt, Germany. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he started a DPhil, and holds two engineering degrees, one from Dar... more

Alexander Straub (born June 14th, 1972 in Erlenbach, Bavaria) is an Internet and Telecom entrepreneur and investor. Alexander Straub is a German born entrepreneur and European venture capitalist at London based Straub Ventures as well as Cambridge based Cambridge Accelerator Partners. He is a native of Darmstadt, Germany. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he started a DPhil, and holds two engineering degrees, one from Darmstadt and one from Cornell. Straub has also conducted research in material science for his diploma thesis as a German Academic Exchange Service Scholar at Stanford University. In 1999, Straub and business partner Rouzbeh Pirouz entered and won a Sunday Times of London entrepreneurship contest. With their prize money the two founded Mondus - an online B2B marketplace for SMEs, which was inspired by eBay's business model and Straub's internship experience at Degussa. Mondus was partially sold (40.7%) to the Italian Yellow Pages giant Seat... less