Alec Rauschenbusch

Alec is founder and managing director of Grazia Equity. An entrepreneur by heart, Alec discovered his passion for technology and entrepreneurship early in life. He launched his own windsurfing board brand at the age of 16, designing and producing them himself. When he was 20 and studying aerospace technology at the Technical University in Munich his sister and he were managing their own jewelry business. He gained further insight into process management and organizational behaviour later during his time at ABB and Behr, after graduating from Harvard Business School. It was then that he discovered his love for helping to build breakthrough companies. Alec is fascinated by technology and innovation and passionate about working with great entrepreneurs. With Grazia he has helped a number of game changing companies become successful, such as Conergy, Statista, Quantenna and FACT. Alec is the first investor that has been awarded with the title “German Business Angel of the Year” by BAND (Business Angel Netzwerk Deutschland).