Hi, I’m Benjamin 👋
Helping technical founders to turn their sci-fi vision into reality as an investor at Lunar Ventures 🚀
Completed my Ph.D. in theoretical physics at the age of 24, bootstrapping my own publishing house: Visual Ink Publishing, and writing a blog on Startups Shaping the Future of Computing 🤓
TL;DR
At Lunar Ventures, we invest pre-revenue at pre-seed/seed stage in computer science moonshots e.g. in cryptography, machine learning, databases, developer tools, and much more.
Please reach out, if you’re a technical founder whose struggle is to explain your vision to investors – we set up a fund for you!
Also, I’ll be traveling soon to a couple of startup conferences – let me know if you’d like to catch up at any of those:
28/11/2023 Future of Computing Conference | Berlin, Germany
Early Study
They attend lectures alongside high school, take exams like real students, and there are around 2,000 of them across Germany: schoolchildren taking part in the program ‘early study.’
What began as a pilot project around the turn of the millennium inspired universities throughout Germany with its success and prepares early students today for tomorrow’s studies.
Based on three years of my own experience and a recent survey by the Deutsche Telekom Stiftung, I wrote this book to tell a story of how early study can succeed.
About Benjamin
When I registered for the program “early study” at TU Dresden as a pupil, I would have never imagined finishing my undergraduate studies in physics three years later.
It all began with a lecture about experimental physics in the first term. After passing the exam, I continued freshly motivated to participate in early study also in the following terms. Driven by curiosity and thanks to the constant support of both my high school, Humboldt-Gymnasium Radeberg, and the university, TU Dresden, I completed courses originally not intended for early students and took exams of lectures I could not attend.
After three years, I finished 2015 my Bachelor of Science in physics alongside my high school degree (‘Abitur’). During these three years, for sure, I have learned tons of physics. But, more importantly, I have also learned to manage myself and handle multiple projects – reliably, persistently, and simultaneously.
During my master’s studies in physics at TU Dresden, I went a year on research exchange for my Master’s thesis to the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, thanks to scholarships from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
In 2017, I started my Ph.D. in theoretical physics at TU Dresden, researching the properties of magnetic materials, in particular, chiral antiferromagnets, using mean-field theory and numerical Python simulations. During that time, I also initiated the ‘Student Research Expo,’ an exhibition of student research projects, and led a group within the Youth German Physical Society dedicated to the national research data infrastructure (NFDI).
In 2019, I wrote the first book about ‘Early Study,’ and to publish it I founded my own publishing house: Visual Ink Publishing (‘V.I.P.’). Following the Covid pandemic, I helped publish 10+ books about digitally-assisted learning, agile education, and teaching and learning methods.
I defended my Ph.D. thesis in theoretical physics in 2021 and went through the Entrepreneur First startup program – meeting lots of cool people but no co-founder to launch a tech startup. So I switched gears for now and joined Lunar Ventures as an investor.
More to come, stay tuned for the future! 🚀
