Primary Job Title Founding Partner Primary Organization 
PolyTechnos Venture Partners
Location Bremen, Bremen, Germany Regions European Union (EU), Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Knut is a founding partner of PolyTechnos. He was a managing director of Freiberger Compound Materials, the world’s second largest producer of Gallium Arsenide wafers. Knut was the director of the technology monitoring division at Daimler Benz, where he was also responsible for corporate venture investments in the Middle East, Asia, and the former
U.S.S.R. He held a variety of posts at Ernst Leitz, the world leader in precision optics, including managing director. He ran R&D and Defense for the Swiss-German Wild-Leitz Group.
Knut is a board member of a number of venture capital groups and technology companies including PolyTechnos' advised funds' portfolio companies DCT (chairman), ColorChip, IMI, and Media Lario. At Varioptic, he holds an active observer seat. Knut is an inventor of 44 U.S. and internationally registered patents and is a member of the Jury of the German Innovation Prize and the Queen’s Prize of Higher & Further Education in the U.K. He is also a member of the board of Futur, a Swiss trust supporting Swiss start-up companies.
Knut received his degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt.
