Alexander Samwer

Alexander Samwer (born 1975, in Cologne) is a German entrepreneur who founded Alando and Jamba!.

Career

With his brothers Marc and Oliver he co-founded consumer-to-consumer auction house Alando, which was sold to eBay in 1999 for $43 million, then Jamba! which was sold to VeriSign for $270 million in 2004.
With his two brothers he founded the venture capital company European Founders Fund with which they invested in StudiVZ (former German-counterpart to Facebook), MyVideo (German-counterpart to YouTube), Bigpoint Games, Anshe Chung Studios and several other companies. They also founded the startup studio Rocket Internet headquartered in Berlin. The Samwer brothers invested in Facebook in 2008, after selling StudiVZ to the Holtzbrinck Group.
In 2013, the Samwer brothers founded Euro 150 million Global Founders Capital (GFC) fund for early-stage startups. Hamburg-based technology startup Kreditech became their first investment.

Education

He studied politics at the University of Oxford (from 1995), receiving an MA, and then received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Personal life

His parents are both in the legal profession.