Partner
Steffen Pauls
Managing Partner, Co-Founder, 7 Global Capital
- Firm
- 7 Global Capital
- Title
- Managing Partner, Co-Founder
- Role
- Managing partner
- Location
- Berlin
- Known as
- Investor
Record updated 20 September 2026
About
Steffen Pauls is the Managing Partner of 7GC. Based in Berlin, Steffen founded the firm in 2015 with the purpose of bringing growth investment opportunities to a network of key decision makers, industrial families, and entrepreneurs in Europe. Steffen spent 11 years at KKR, most recently as the Head of Germany and a member of the European Media and Digital Team. Steffen is a serial entrepreneur, who has founded several businesses, among others he cofounded and acted as CEO of firstfive AG (sold to PE investor) and more recently he founded Moonfare ( www.moonfare.com ), a financial services technology firm, which he currently runs as the acting Co-CEO and Chairman. Steffen began his career at BCG.
Background
- Education
- He received a Masters degree from University of Mannheim in Germany, MBA from ESSEC in France, Doctoral degree from University of Trier in Germany and wrote his master thesis and worked as a Research Assistant at Harvard University in the US.Source (opens in a new tab)
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