Techie with a faible for founding banks | Entrepreneur | Co-Founder/CTO at Unstoppable Finance | ex CTO at Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange | ex Co-Founder/CTO at Solarisbank

Peter Grosskopf is CTO/COO at AllUnity, a joint venture of DWS, Flow Traders and Galaxy Digital that is building an E-Money institute in Germany to issue a MiCAR-compliant EUR-denominated stablecoin in the future to enhance liquidity and efficiency in tokenized markets. He is responsible for technology and for setting up the organization. 

Before, he was co-founder and CTO of Unstoppable Finance GmbH, a Berlin-based company with the mission of bringing decentralized finance applications (DeFi) to the masses. With Iron they planned building the first on-chain bank, which is based on a proprietary blockchain technology called "Iron Chain." Iron Chain addresses the three key issues that regulated companies, in particular, face with public, permissionless blockchains: privacy of account data, compliance, and governance. Previously, Unstoppable developed the self-hosted wallet app Ultimate (https://ultimate.app), which was acquired by the decentralized exchange Jupiter in April 2024. Before that, Peter was CTO and Managing Director of Börse Stuttgart Digital Exchange, the first regulated exchange for digital assets (MTF) in Germany. Prior to that, he was CTO and co-founder of Solarisbank, a fullbank with technology platform to enable Fintechs to go to market. Peter has a background in technology and entrepreneurship. In 2008, he founded a software engineering consulting company focused on digitization projects and grew it to 30 employees profitably. In 2014, he moved to Berlin to join the company builder Hitfoxgroup and Finleap as CTO, with a focus on fintech. He has been fascinated by blockchain and decentralization since the end of 2016, and since then, he has pursued the vision of making decentralized banking a reality.

In addition to his entrepreneurial activities, Peter is a speaker at various industry events, a member of the Digital Advisory Board of the German Ministry of Finance ("Digital Finance Forum"), a contributor in shaping regulation (Crypto Taxation in Germany, TFR, MiCAR, MiCAR Level 2, AMLR, BCBS Standards) in Germany (via Ministry of Finance, Bitkom, private initiatives) and EU (via Blockchain for Europe), a lecturer at IKF Lucerne on Blockchain Technology (CAS), and was a lecturer for two years at FH Münster, teaching subjects such as web engineering, as well as at the Data Science Summer School at Saarland University. As a supervisory board member of 21x, he supports the development of the first marketplace for digital assets under the European DLT Pilot Regime.

Peter Grosskopf

Upvest

Series C Fintech with 200+ people and EUR 150m+ venture funding from Hedosophia, Sapphire Ventures, BlackRock, Bessemer Venture Partners, Notion Capital, HV Capital, Earlybird, Motive Ventures. Investment firm licensed by the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority and the UK FCA. The first European Investment API to enable any business to offer investment opportunities to everyone.

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Acatus GmbH

Series A Fintech Startup with more than EUR 5m venture funding from Partech Ventures among others. First digital debt capital markets platform.

Head of Capital Markets

XL Health AG

Single family office of German TecDAX billionaire with focus on VC investments in global digital health startups

Principal (Venture Capital Investment Manager)

CommerceBoard GmbH

Enterprise-level Java e-shop system with cloud-based product data management

Managing Director

FinLeap

B2C marketplace for EU fixed-term deposits backed by Point Nine, Cherry and DvH Ventures

Director @ Savedo.de

Associate Director, European/Asian Equity Sales

Goldman Sachs International

Analyst, European Equity Sales

Investment professional with 17 years experience in venture capital (esp. fintech/crypto) and equities (esp. emerging markets):

• 10 years of venture building/investing with more than EUR 80m of funding by top tier VCs and family offices: Notion Capital, HV Capital, Earlybird, Partech Ventures, FinLeap, German TecDAX billionaire

    - Co-led 6-person VC investment team of single family office XLHealth with largest EU digital health exit mySugr to Roche
    - Built 3 VC-backed Fintech startups: B2B2C Upvest / B2B Acatus / B2C Savedo -> exit to unicorn Deposit Solutions
    - Investor in D2C lifestyle brand Achilles Berlin

• 7 years of top tier investment banking in London and Frankfurt: UBS, Goldman Sachs

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