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Now Private Equity Intern · AEM Unternehmerkapital, Berlin
Hi, I'm David.
Private Equity
I study business administration and business mathematics in Augsburg, work in private equity and build apps and media on the side. I like numbers that hold up and products people open twice.
- Roles & internships
- 7
- Own projects
- 4
- Languages
- 5
- Times I failed
- ERR_OVERFLOW
About
Footballer, gamer, professional respawner. Now private equity.
Spawned in Hamburg, grew up in Augsburg, between a football pitch and a gaming PC. Five years in the DFB talent program taught me how to train. Gaming taught me how to fail: lose, respawn, queue again. Most of what I started didn't work the first time, and that is exactly how everything that did work came about.
Since then I have worked in sales at Apple, M&A at Vindelici, cost engineering at RENK and growth in Enpal's CFO office. Today I'm in private equity at AEM, working on buy & build.
In between I build things: iOS apps, a newsletter on early-stage startups, and one more thing I'm not ready to talk about yet.
Questlog
Career so far
Every station added a skill. Most recent first.
Experience
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Private Equity Intern
AEM Unternehmerkapital · Berlin
Buy & build in the German Mittelstand.
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Growth Intern · CFO Office
Enpal · Berlin
- Helped build a new business unit from pilot to live operations as one of the first team members, with weekly KPI reporting to the CFO
- End-to-end responsibility for pre-construction operations of 21 customers, leading three team members
- Built a planning web app that cut CSV creation from hours to seconds
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Working Student · Cost Engineering & Strategic Procurement
RENK Group · Augsburg
- Analysed global commodity markets and built cost-breakdown and should-cost models for strategic supplier negotiations
- Built a globally used Power BI dashboard with 20,000+ data points
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Intern · Strategy Consulting & M&A
Vindelici Advisors · Augsburg
- Supported the M&A partner in capital raise processes: long and target lists, investor outreach, client meetings
- Ran pricing, profitability and competitive analyses, including decision-ready presentations
- Built an automated investor outreach workflow with Power Apps, Zapier and the OpenAI API
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Working Student · Sales
Apple · Augsburg
B2B customer advisory and new sales and customer experience concepts.
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Creator · Faceless educational content
@dqvidbuilds · Instagram · Remote
- Ran a faceless educational Instagram account during my first two semesters
- Sold digital products through it, mostly Notion templates
- Around 6,000 followers at the time, combined across all platforms
- Edited short-form video for a client on a monthly retainer for three months
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Steam Market Investor · Self-employed
Steam Community Market · Remote
- Started trading CS:GO skins and cases while playing and noticed the marketplace had pricing gaps
- Bootstrapped with €200 of savings, 16,403 market transactions over the period
Education
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B.Sc. Business Administration
Universität Augsburg · Augsburg
Four semesters of business administration, then two of business mathematics for the quantitative side, followed by a deliberate return to business administration with a focus on strategy and corporate finance.
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Abitur
Rudolf-Diesel-Gymnasium · Augsburg
Majors in mathematics, business & law, English, German and advanced sports. Member of the school tech crew.
Engagement
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Consultant · Student consultancy
Junior Management Solutions Augsburg · Augsburg
- Project lead on an M&A mandate (company sale), from buyer identification and outreach through to signing
- Head of Lead Sourcing: built and led a 10-person team that sources clients with an AI workflow for personalised outreach at scale
- Controller of a 5-person team building an AI workflow that writes SEO and GEO optimised blog posts
- Led a team of 4 on a financing strategy for an early childhood education centre
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Aspire Leaders Program · Cohort 3
Aspire Institute · Harvard · Remote
Leadership program of the Aspire Institute, founded at Harvard University.
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Corporate Scholarship
Vindelici Advisors · Augsburg
Economics scholarship of the University of Augsburg with financial support and mentoring by Vindelici Advisors.
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Member
Börsenforum Augsburg · Augsburg
The investment club of the University of Augsburg.
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Member
MPV Augsburg · Augsburg
Mathematical-Physical Society of the University of Augsburg.
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Selected player
DFB · Bayern
DFB talent development program.
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Player
TSV Schwaben Augsburg · Augsburg
Three training sessions and one or two matches a week, with wins against academy teams like FC Bayern and FC Augsburg.
Inventory
Things I build
Indie budget, AAA standards. Designed, built and shipped by me. On evenings, weekends and too many late nights.
Live 
In App Review iOS app
Repot.
Your workout as a portfolio.
A gym app that treats every exercise like a stock, with a chart and a history, plus 3D models that show which muscle is working. The return lasts a lifetime.
Open · repot.fit
In App Review iOS app
Kamikaze
The score counter for Cabo.
Keeps score for the card game Cabo with the official rules built in, so nobody at the table has to do the maths. Free, with a one-time Pro upgrade. No subscription.
Coming soon
Classified
Tsuna
Something is cooking.
Player one
I used to game. A lot.
Before spreadsheets there was a controller. From Minecraft and Clash of Clans to Fortnite, World of Tanks and CS:GO, and lately far too many hours of Rocket League. Gaming taught me to train for something, to lose and queue again, and that there is a market hiding in almost everything.
- 01 Minecraft Where it all started
- 02 Clash of Clans Clan wars and base building
- 03 Fortnite The battle royale years
- 04 World of Tanks To this day I know every tank and its tier
- 05 CS:GO Where I found the market
- 06 Rocket League Where the hours went Main
RL · 1v0 Score 0
Click or tap the pitch to hit the ball. Score in the goal.
Side quest: Steam Market
I started trading CS:GO skins and cases while playing and got hooked on the investing side more than the game itself.
€200
starting capital
16,403
market transactions
Languages
This site speaks every language I do.
Switch at the top right.
Toolkit
What I work with
- Excel & PowerPoint
- Power BI
- Power Apps
- Zapier
- Make
- Airtable
- OpenAI API
- Claude Code
- Wispr Flow
- SwiftUI
- Xcode
- Cloudflare
- Framer
- Notion
- Clay
- OpenRegister
- Final Cut Pro
- SAP
- Salesforce
- HubSpot
Off the clock
- Video & photography
- Hiking
- Chess
- Football
- Rocket League
Contact
Let's talk.
About deals, products, a role, or a 1v1 in Rocket League. LFG! 🚀