Jasper Masemann
Director/Board Member at Canotic, Inc.
Profile
Jasper considers himself lucky that he had very early peaks into deal making and venture investing.
Growing up in a merchant's family he internalized the principle of "a gentleman's handshake" and was fascinated by international negotiations and cultures.
In 2002 at the age of 22, he joined HV as a summer intern and got caught by the team's love for venture investing.
At HV Jasper specializes in software applications and new market opportunities with cloud, AI and new frontier tech.
Jasper was born in the Hanseatic trading city of Bremen majoring A-levels in mathematics and economics.
During his educational years he spent time living in England, Spain and Latin America.
He holds two degrees in business administration and graduated both with first class honors from Lancaster University Management School, England, and the European School of Business (ESB) Reutlingen, Germany.
Jasper also worked as a researcher at RWTH Aachen for his (still unfinished) PhD, where he helped Professor Malte Brettel set up the university's Centre for Entrepreneurship.
Jasper knows from personal experience what founding and running your own company means.
Before joining HV, he bootstrapped greatcontent.com, an online platform selling creative texts in 18 languages to clients around the globe.
After years as the single founder and CEO, Jasper sold the platform to MairDumont publishing group.
Scaling his company from zero to thousands of customers was an eye-opening journey.
He experienced both good and bad times and at the end attributes all success to the people of greatcontent.
During this time he started investing in more than a dozen startups (including McMakler.de, FitReisen.de).
Before his entrepreneurial stint, Jasper worked in corporate finance and strategy for The Boston Consulting Group.
Jasper Masemann active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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Canotic, Inc.
Canotic, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Canotic, Inc. develops AI technology solutions and human data labeling. It offers entity recognition, text transcription and augmentation, product feature verification and comparison, and image categorization. The company was founded by Henry W. Setiawan and Bradford Cordova and is headquartered in Bothell, WA. | Director/Board Member | - |
Cherry Ventures Management GmbH
Cherry Ventures Management GmbH Investment ManagersFinance Cherry Ventures Management GmbH (Cherry Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Christian Meermann, Daniel Philipp Glasner, and Filip Felician Dames. The firm is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | Private Equity Investor | 16/02/2023 |
Former positions of Jasper Masemann
Companies | Position | End |
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HV Capital Manager GmbH
HV Capital Manager GmbH Investment ManagersFinance HV Capital Manager GmbH (HV Capital Manager) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Lars Langusch. The firm is headquartered in Munich, Germany. | Private Equity Investor | 01/12/2022 |
greatcontent AG
greatcontent AG Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG, greatcontent AG operates an online platform for marketing. The German company was founded by Jasper Masemann. greatcontent was acquired by MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG on February 15, 2018. | Chief Executive Officer | 31/08/2015 |
Training of Jasper Masemann
University of Lancaster | Undergraduate Degree |
ESB Business School | Graduate Degree |
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HV Capital Manager GmbH
HV Capital Manager GmbH Investment ManagersFinance HV Capital Manager GmbH (HV Capital Manager) is a venture capital firm founded in 2000 by Lars Langusch. The firm is headquartered in Munich, Germany. | Finance |
Cherry Ventures Management GmbH
Cherry Ventures Management GmbH Investment ManagersFinance Cherry Ventures Management GmbH (Cherry Ventures) is an independent venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Christian Meermann, Daniel Philipp Glasner, and Filip Felician Dames. The firm is headquartered in Berlin, Germany. | Finance |
Canotic, Inc.
Canotic, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services Canotic, Inc. develops AI technology solutions and human data labeling. It offers entity recognition, text transcription and augmentation, product feature verification and comparison, and image categorization. The company was founded by Henry W. Setiawan and Bradford Cordova and is headquartered in Bothell, WA. | Technology Services |
greatcontent AG
greatcontent AG Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Part of MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG, greatcontent AG operates an online platform for marketing. The German company was founded by Jasper Masemann. greatcontent was acquired by MAIRDUMONT GmbH & Co. KG on February 15, 2018. | Commercial Services |
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