Roman Kirsch


Roman Kirsch is a German serial entrepreneur and investor in the tech- and consumer-internet-space.

Early life and education

Kirsch holds a business degree from the German business school WHU-Otto Beisheim School of Management. He also has a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics in Finance, Accounting and Management. He also spent time at the University of Southern California as well as the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

Career

At the age of 13, Roman set up a business of importing watches from China. Later in 2003, at the age of 15, Kirsch founded his first company. He worked for Bang & Olufsen, J.P. Morgan & Co. and Goldman Sachs, as an intern.
In 2011 Kirsch founded Casacanda; a furniture company that was later acquired by Fab.com in February 2012. He spent a year as the CEO of Fab Europe.
In 2012 Kirsch started investing and building multiple companies. In 2012 Roman was a founding investor of Amorelie, which became the leading love-toys and lingerie company in Europe. In 2015 media company Pro7Sat1 acquired Amorelie, which is now valued at €100 million.
In 2013 Kirsch, alongside Matthias Wilrich and Robin Müller, founded the Berlin e-commerce startup Lesara with Kirsch as the CEO of the company. The company was awarded as fastest-growing tech company in Europe in 2016 by “The Next Web” and as the fastest growing tech company in Germany in 2017 by Deloitte. As of November 2018, Lesara had filed for bankruptcy.
In 2015 Kirsch became the first investor and advisor in the Instagram-DTC-pioneer Fitvia. In June 2019 stock-listed Dermapharm announced the acquisition of 70% of the shares in Fitvia.
Kirsch is a business angel investing in total over 25 companies including Carprice, SevenSenders, Sunshine Smile, FlowerChimp and MoBerries.

Awards and recognition

In January 2016, Forbes Magazine US listed Kirsch in its 30 under 30 Europe list for retail and e-commerce. He is also a "Global Shaper” of the World Economic Forum Davos and a member of YPO.