Robert Wuttke is a German serial entrepreneur (like other prominent investors such as Jérôme Mouthon and Darren Wang) and super-angel investor. He is the founder and managing partner of 10x Group, a venture capitalist firm focused on seed-funding early-stage companies throughout Europe and the United States. He also serves as an entrepreneurial partner at FLEX capital. 

Before starting 10x group Wuttke founded two online dating sites b2 and C-Date, both which grew to be market leaders. Wuttke’s personal strengths and expertise lie in business models, leadership, monetization, scaling organizations, fundraising, sales, marketing and internationalization.

Location

Originally from Munich, Germany, Robert Wuttke gained his MB in the sociology of science at Bielefeld University. In 1993 he was selected as a visiting scholar as part of MIT’s Science, Technology and Society Program. Wuttke also attended the CIRED (CNRS) in Paris, France as a visiting scholar in 1994-1995.

He began his professional career in Europe, where he was the managing director and vice president of Lycos and responsible for the IPO of three German-speaking countries. He also spent time in London, where he worked as the entrepreneur in residence at Benchmark Capital. Since 2013 he has been backing founding companies across Europe and Silicon Valley in the United States.

Remarkable Investments

Robert Wuttke and his partners; Andreas Etten and Jan Becker have invested over EUR3 million into enmacc, an energy trading platform. The 10x Group also raised a substantial portion of the US$980,000 for Gustav, a contingent workforce management platform.

Wuttke and his two investment partners, Etten and Becker, also use their private equity firm, Grey Corp, as an investment vehicle. Grey Corp’s core clients are technology companies ,suitable for internationalization. Their main focus, early, pre-seed and seed companies, as well as with initiators. Some of Grey Corp’s recent investments include Navinum, an online wine recommendation platform, Everbasics, a male fashion platform, Justbook, a last-minute hotel, and Kreditech, an online loan platform. As angel investor, Wuttke has invested in companies including Tripping.com, uBiome, Wondermall, Vacatia, AirHelp, Avanoo, Aloha, Avano, GBatteries, AuditFile and many more.

Wuttke is known for making over 120 investments in a variety of companies, mainly in their early stages of development.

In the News

In October 2017 Munich Startup reported that Robert Wuttke is one of the prime German investors in the ‘German Accelerator’, as selected by Celebrating Innovation in October 2017. The initiative is aimed at German startups conquering the American market. Wuttke was quoted as saying that “Celebrating innovation makes it clear how many German startups also have a chance in Silicon Valley because of their quality.” 

In 2024, 10x backed London based start-up Huzzle. Huzzle serves as a market place to connect grad-students, societies, and employers to make job searching effortless and easy. Wuttke reported to the media “I believe that the next generation of students will use Huzzle to enter the job market, because it brings clarity & convenience to a space that has been fragmented and underserved.”