About Julian Teicke

Julian Teicke is an entrepreneur with a passion for founding, building, and scaling companies. He co-founded his first company, DeinDeal, which was sold in 2015 to Ringier. Today, it remains one of the largest e-commerce players in Switzerland. After that, he founded a venture studio called The Delta, with wefox being the very first venture launched through it. While scaling wefox as CEO, he continued to support the next generation of founders at The Delta. Today, The Delta is one of the leading venture studios globally, with more than 150 venture builders across Europe and Africa. wefox now boasts over 1,000 employees, nearly 3 million active customers, thousands of distribution partners, more than $800 million in annual revenues (2023), and around $1 billion raised to date. According to Sifted (FT), wefox was the fastest European Fintech ever to reach a $1 billion valuation and has recently achieved a valuation of $4.5 billion. He is also the founding angel of five other startups (Kenjo, doctorly, luca, handly, and dao) with The Delta in recent years and enjoys passing on what he has learned on his entrepreneurial journey to the next generation of founders. Additionally, he invests in early-stage start-ups (Stoik, Ledgy, trawa, and others) as a business angel, although he typically takes a more hands-off approach. Julian Teicke graduated from the John F. Kennedy School in Berlin, Germany. Afterwards, he moved to Switzerland, where he graduated with a Business Administration at the University of St. Gallen in 2010. In 2020 he was awarded with the "Founder of the Year" Award of the University of St. Gallen. In 2009, Julian Teicke played an active role in starting up the UK branch of Chocri, a chocolate company based in Berlin. He later joined Groupon where he headed up the European sales operation. In 2015, Julian Teicke founded FinanceFox, a company that initially offered customers the ability to manage their insurance contracts online. In the following years, the company received permission to sell insurance products and rebranded as wefox. Since its launch in 2015, wefox has doubled its yearly revenues, reaching $580 million in 2022, and serving more than 3 million customers across Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. wefox was the fastest European fintech to ever reach $1bn valuation and in 2022 had a valuation of $4.5bn.