FOUNDERS

STRIKE INVEST founders bundle their know-how from different branches for the best benefit to the startup ecosystem. Marcus, who is an international acting lawyer and sports manager for over 15 years now, has direct access to the world of sports and feasts on huge knowledge from legal aspects of the startup industry. Rodrigo, an IT specialist, who worked in the Silicon Valley for several years and already sold an own startup, ist the brain of the technical side of STRIKE INVEST. Iton, a top designer still based in San Francisco, California, works close to the startup industry and is well aware of newest developments. All three are well aware of the startup mind set and created STRIKE INVEST, when realizing that Sports Professionals do not have discrete and direct access to the startup industry, but are interested in it and startups generally do not have contact with Sports Professionals, but could need their visibility and financial resources to succeed. Therefore the founders created STRIKE INVEST, a product which connects both groups, Sports Professionals looking for investment opportunities, and startups searching for the right partner and investor

Rodrigo is an entrepreneur and IT-expert. He is specialized in Information Security and an experienced developer, with more than 20 years of working in the field. Rodrigo has deep knowledge in several languages like Java, Swift, PHP, Autolisp, etc. He designed and deployed many servers infrastructures, because of this he has several certifications from major manufacturers such as Microsoft (USA), Trend Micro (Japan) and Check Point (Israel). Honorable Mention - Entrepreneurial Management Award - SIMPAE (Brazil). Rodrigo was the founder of Toptrend, a winning company of Microsoft WPC Awards Latin America in Washington D.C. and with successful “EXIT” in 2011. He is also the founder of B95 Company Inc. in San Francisco, USA, and B101 GmbH in Berlin, Germany. Advisor on projects in Germany, United States, Portugal, Costa Rica, and Brazil. He launched successful apps like Luzes Coloradas, AstroCalc, and WowRio.

Marcus is working as a lawyer and consultant in sports and football since 2005. He is himself a former competitive athlete and has extensive experience in the sporting industry. He has, among others, worked for the organizing committee of FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany, headed the department "Legal and Administration" of the IAAF World Championships in Athletics 2009 and acted as a consultant for the CAF Africa Cup of Nations 2010. After being involved in FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil he was part of the OC of 2017 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championships in Germany and is currently the legal advisor of the German Ice Hockey Federation. Marcus has an excellent international network and holds contacts to professional athletes from different sports.

Iton graduated in design from San Francisco State University and Multimedia Design from CCSF. He is a former Design and Quality Control of MINTED.COM, where he performed quality control and was part of the merchandise design team. He is also a former in-house designer for GREENS & COMPANY JUICERY where he was in charge of designing the marketing material for the company’s products. Specialized in the whole process from conception to launch of a product, from research, user experience design to user interface, competitor analysis, customer analysis, product strategy and content development, he also was part of the creative team of WOWRIO and MENTIS.