Michael Münnix
Founder & Partner at backtrace
Greater Munich Metropolitan Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Münnix is a founder and partner with 25 years of experience at the intersection of venture capital, product development and R&D, now running backtrace, a pre-seed/seed fund focused on foundational technology building blocks. Based in the Greater Munich area, he has led and shaped European tech investing as Managing Partner at Target Partners (€330m AUM) and as a venture partner at Planet A Ventures, while holding numerous board and observer roles across infrastructure, security, storage and IoT startups. His background blends deep technical roots—early software consultancy and research in quantum-dot photonics—with practical startup building, giving him a rare lens on both hard science and go-to-market scaling. He repeatedly backs and advises teams pushing hardware-software boundaries, from database acceleration to smart-home interfaces, and is known for spotting platform-level opportunities that others miss.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Görres GymnasiumMSc, Physics, MSc, Physics at Technische Universität BerlinPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at University of Duisburg-EssenPhD, Physics, PhD, Physics at Boston University
Github Skills (11)
time-series-forecasting8
anomaly-detection6
python5
aws5
deep-learning5
machine-learning5
artificial-intelligence5
time-series5
forecasting5
gpt3
llm3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
muennix/IbHandler
Jan 2016 - Jan 2021
Contributions:30 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
muennix/IbPy
Sep 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
stock-marketapipythonalgorithmic-tradingtrading-bot
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