Barnim (George frerich) Kühl

Founder

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Nov 2023 - Present
1 year 8 months
Berlin, Germany

Founder

Pine – Fintech Start-up

Developing an AI-powered treasury operating system – the new single-source of finance data truth for mid-sized businesses.

Nov 2021 - Oct 2023
2 years
Berlin, Germany

Chief of Staff (Procura)

Kadmos – Fintech Start-up

  • Part of the founders team, building own team and owning various projects and functions, including strategy (business development), legal (licensing, licensing partner contracts, customer contracts, data protection), partnerships & sales, financial license (EMI License in UK and DE), finance (accounting, FP&A, financing rounds, investor communications).
  • Substantially influenced scaling of business from pre-seed (6 FTEs) to series A (>35 FTEs) stage and onwards, while collecting €40M in funding.
Mar 2021 - Oct 2021
8 months
Hamburg, Germany

Founder

  • Developed a credit-based subscription golf club concept to ease access to golf and introduce membership flexibility.
  • Stopped just before pre-seed funding due to various reasons (HR, legal, own goals of founding team).
Feb 2019 - Feb 2021
2 years 1 month
Hamburg, Germany

Investment Manager

MAGNA Real Estate AG – Real Estate Developer & Asset Manager

  • Responsible for all transaction activities (single real estate, portfolios, and properties for developments), including related topics (business plans, due diligence, structuring). Volume of accompanied transactions over €100M and GDV of over €100M.
  • Focused on living offices and living.
  • Built up Spanish mezzanine business for another company section (E&V Capital) as part of an expansion strategy.
Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
5 months
Munich, Germany

Analyst

Liberta Partners – Private Equity

  • Mid-Cap restructuring and buy-outs.
  • Tasks included writing information offerings (IOs) and bid-offerings (BOs), conducting commercial and financial due diligence, deal structuring, financial modeling, and maintaining contact with sell-side advisors.
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
6 months
Berlin, Germany

Assistant to CFO & Connection between PE-Investor (Auctus Capital) & Company

Auctus Capital (Holmes Place) – Private Equity / Fitness Studio Chain

  • Served as the connection between investor and portfolio company.
  • Conducted debt financing for acquisition of new clubs, developed and set up financial model predictions, leasing model, and finance structuring.
Sep 2017 - Nov 2017
3 months
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

M&A Intern

DC Advisory – M&A Boutique

  • Worked on sell-side and buy-side mandates in consumer goods, industrials, pharma, chemical industry, and technology sectors.
May 2016 - Jul 2016
3 months
Hamburg, Germany

M&A Intern

MCF Corporate Finance – M&A Boutique

  • Conducted tasks such as market analyses, valuations (CCA, CTA, DCF), target identification for sell-side and buy-side mandates, and pitch preparation.
  • Worked on mandates in tourism, maritime, veterinary, and renewable energy sectors.

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Advanced

Education

Oct 2009 - Jun 2010

Malvern College

Exchange Year · United Kingdom

Oct 2001 - May 2013

Rudolf-Steiner-Schule Hamburg-Nienstedten

German Abitur · Hamburg, Germany

IE University

Bachelor of Business Administration · Business Administration · Madrid, Spain · 8.3/10 (Top 10% of year)