Maximilian Kuss, the co-founder and current managing partner and managing director of European Media Holding AG (EMH), is a natural entrepreneur whose savvy business skills were evident even in his young age. During his high school years, he established his first online company, Fastplay, which he then sold at a profit to Pingparadise after 6 months.
In 2006, he co-founded a gaming and software publishing company, eraffe media, which was then sold to a consortium of publishers in early 2010. Kuss then used the proceeds from the sale to establish European Media Holding AG, thus, setting him on the path toward extraordinary success in the dog-eat-dog investment industry at a young age.
Today, European Media Holding AG is a multi-million investment company that manages over 250 million euros. Its main focus is on merging digital technologies with so-called old economy corporations, thus, ushering in a new era in investments.
As a venture capital firm, European Media Holding AG specializes in growth capital, seed to series A funding, and even in later rounds. Its investments are in e-commerce and marketplaces, Internet of things (IoT), financial technology, eHealth, smart data, and software as service. It also has concentrations within each sector, such as online retail and marketplaces for e-commerce as well as capital markets technology, data analytics, and corporate banking and finance in financial technology.
For his success in the industry, Kuss has been recognized with several awards and honors. In 2012, he was selected as one of the 2012 Young Global Shapers by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He was also selected to the 2014 Forbes 30 Under 30 for Finance list, an honor that further spread his fame in the industry considering the prestigious nature of the list.
Kuss was also instrumental in the sales of Tirendo, an online tire retailer, for 51 million euros in September 2013 to Delticom, a publicly-traded company. European Media Holding AG was one of Tirendo’s founding shareholders.
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