Alexander Straub

Alexander Straub (born June 14, 1972 in Erlenbach, Bavaria) is an Internet and Telecom entrepreneur and investor.

Biography

Alexander Straub is a German-born entrepreneur. Straub Ventures of London and Cambridge Accelerator Partners. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he dropped out while completing his DPhil. However, he previously gained two engineering degrees, one from Darmstadt Dipl. Ing and the other from Cornell Master of Engineering (MEng).

In 1999, Straub and business partner Rouzbeh Pirouz won a Sunday Times entrepreneurship contest. With the prize money from 3i, Eden Capital and Zouk Ventures and total funding of around £7.6m the pair launched Mondus, an online B2B marketplace for SMEs that has been compared to Alibaba and appeared to operate using a similar business model. By April 2000 the business was self-valued at £760 million. Later that year, in August, a 40.7% stake was sold to Italian Yellow Pages Seat Pagine Gialle for £100m in cash and shares. Soon after the transaction Straub was appointed as Vice Chairman. He moved to New York City to establish Lazard Technology Partners II, a $300 million venture fund, while Pirouz stayed on with Mondus. The duo later bought back Mondus from Seat Pagine Gialle.

Alexander Straub (athlete)

Alexander Straub (born 14 October 1983 in Geislingen an der Steige) is a German pole vaulter. He earned a bronze medal at the 2010 World Indoor Championships in Doha.

Straub set his personal best (5.81 metres) on 1 August 2008 in Bochum.

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