Partner
Kai Panitzki
Managing Partner, BitStone Capital (+1 more)
- Firm
- BitStone Capital, Realyze Ventures
- Title
- Managing Partner
- Role
- Managing partner
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 21 September 2026
About
In more than 15 years of professional experience, Kai Panitzki gained diverse experience and know-how as an entrepreneur and expert, above all in the technology and finance sectors. After a classic training as a bank clerk (Bankkaufmann) and as a lawyer (Jurist), Kai began his career as an editor at Germany's largest investor magazine "Der Aktionär", where he gained valuable insights into the financial markets. He also built intensive contacts in the venture capital scene. In 1999 he moved to Bonn as project manager at the BBDO subsidiary "Sponsor Partners". Just a year later he founded his own communications agency, from which "Scholz & Friends Düsseldorf" emerged in 2007, which Kai led until January 2013. In parallel, in 2007 he founded a company for press and social media monitoring, "X-Ray PMD GmbH", and sold it completely to Scholz & Friends in 2009. In 2013 Kai became a board member of Börsenmedien AG, publisher of, among others, the investor magazine "Der Aktionär". As part of his board activities
Background
- Education
- Bankkaufmann (Sparkasse Köln/Bonn), Jurist (Universität Bonn)Source (opens in a new tab)
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