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Valentin Stalf is a Managing Partner at DST Global based in Berlin, Germany. Prior to joining the investment firm in early 2024, he co-founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer of the mobile banking platform N26 from 2013 to 2021. Under his leadership, the neobank scaled to serve millions of users and achieved a peak valuation exceeding $9 billion. The business administration graduate has also built a robust personal portfolio of early-stage investments, backing prominent European unicorns such as Personio and Omio. Recently, he participated in the Q1 2025 extension funding round for the climate technology startup Northvolt and discussed artificial intelligence applications at major industry conferences. Stalf currently focuses his efforts on providing seed and Series A funding to founders across the financial technology, consumer technology, software as a service, and climate sectors.
