Dr. Marcus Erken

Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Sunfish Partners
Marcus teaches WHU’s entrepreneurship course timed to students’ startup decisions, was among the first angels in Ramp whose founders later backed his fund, and mentors Polish and Eastern European founders.
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About Dr. Marcus Erken

Marcus has taught the same entrepreneurship course at WHU every year since 2014, timing his lessons for the exact moment students are deciding whether to start their own company, and he and his partners were the very first angel investors in Ramp Network, a relationship that later brought Ramp's founders back as investors in Sunfish's second fund. Beyond the fund, he has made more than 20 angel investments around the world, works to help Polish and Eastern European founders get noticed in Western Europe and the U.S., and mentors founders through groups like NATO DIANA, EWOR, the European Innovation Council, and Women TechEU.

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Sunfish Partners

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Space, Defense, AI, Health, Deeptech / Hardware
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Pre-Seed - Seed
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€150K–€300K

Sunfish Partners is a Berlin- and Warsaw-based venture fund built on the idea that Poland and Eastern Europe have highly skilled technical founders who are underfunded compared to Western Europe, letting Sunfish invest at lower pre-seed prices while structuring the fund under German rules to suit its mostly German investors. After spending years building relationships with local founders and researchers before officially launching, and after being the first angel investors in Ramp Network, Sunfish has grown into a fund that now focuses on backing space and defense startups from Eastern Europe with the stated goal of strengthening Europe's autonomy.

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