Mathias J. Klenk

Entrepreneur Angel Investor Builder

a. Hello!

I love building scalable software, infrastructure & engineering teams.

I’m Mathias, Co-Founder & CTO of Passbase. We are building the identity layer of the internet.

I'm also investing into fast growing startups via my investment syndicate Squad Capital.

b. My Work

Founding Partner

Investing in fast growing technology startups that are founder led in Europe and the US.

Co-Founder & CTO

Built up end led an engineering team of over 25 engineers, built next-gen platform and raised over $17m in venture capital.

Software Engineer

Worked on the mobile SDKs to passively authenticate users via walk cycle analysis & machine learning.

Researcher

Conducted research on engineers and their innovation experiences at their worplaces.

c. Investments

I write angel checks in promising startup teams who want to change the world.

«Mathias helped me during my fundraising with valuable introductions to other angel investors and VC funds.»

Jakob Bodenmueller

CEO & Founder Parkdepot

d. Stack

Tools I love building with.

Node
React
JavaScript
TypeScript
Python
Swift
Zapier
MongoDB
PostgreSQL
Firebase
AWS
Visual Studio Code
Google Cloud Platform
GitHub
GitLab
Atlassian
Docker

f. Articles

Passbase Founders on Forbes 30 under 30 List

March 2020

Felix Gerlach, Dave McGibbon and Mathias Klenk founded Passbase in 2018 and currently employ more than 20 people. The firm has so far raised $4.2 million from Cowboy Ventures, Eniac Ventures, and Lakestar.

Online ID verification is seeing a spike in demand driven by COVID-19

March 16, 2020

With many businesses switching staff to remote working during the COVID-19 pandemic there’s been a clearly chronicled surge in demand for videoconferencing and others comms tools like Zoom...

Passbase grabs $3.6M to power privacy-preserving online ID checks

September 25, 2019

Digital identity startup Passbase has closed a $3.6 million seed round, led by Cowboy Ventures and Eniac Ventures, with participation from Seedcamp and other European investors...

g. Contact Me