We change how businesses buy

scoutbee at a glance

2015

founded

$76M

investment

135+

employees

150+

customers

Our Story

2015. scoutbee was founded on the idea of improving supply chain resilience by using Artificial Intelligence and Big Data to transform the way organizations use supplier data to discover and connect with suppliers.

2019. scoutbee was the first start-up ever to be “Highly Commended” in the technology category at the 2019 World Procurement Awards.

2020. To date, scoutbee has raised $76m in funding from investors that were impressed by how scoutbee, as a pioneer and leader in AI-driven supplier intelligence and search, empowers procurement for the world’s top-tier companies. Awarded Gartner “Cool Vendor” 2020.

scoutbee’s objective is to support innovative procurement teams around the world with smarter supplier data. To enable strategic sourcing activities to become faster, more proactive, and more efficient in order to mitigate risk, reduce costs, drive innovation, and support a more sustainable world.

scoutbee’s AI- and ML-powered procurement intelligence and supplier search platform helps companies to optimize their supplier base by making it easier to evaluate, identify, collaborate with, and onboard suppliers around the world.

Our Team

An international Team of over +130 experts, based in Europe and USA

Our Leadership Team

Gregor Stühler

CEO

Experienced in operations leadership roles within heavy manufacturing brands like WITTENSTEIN in Germany, Gregor leads both scoutbee’s technology vision and corporate development.

Mikael Söderberg

CPTO

Having held senior positions at Luxoft, LG Electronics, and as CTO at micro-mobility unicorn Voi Technology, Mikael expertly guides all scoutbee’s product, technology and engineering teams.

David Almström

CCO

As a highly experienced B2B business development, strategic partnership and senior sales leader for key accounts, David has helped companies like Ericsson, Trolltech, Mozilla and Spotify to expand into new sales territories. With deep Asian insights and as a board member of the Sweden-China Trade Council, David is well positioned to make scoutbee successful globally.

Kathrin Neubert

CHRO

With extensive experience in leading Talent teams across various industries such as automotive, film and media Kathrin is uniquely positioned to help scoutbee grow. Having held positions such as the Head of Talent for MetaDesign, one of Germanys most reputable Branding agencies, Kathrin is the perfect fit to lead scoutbee’s People Strategy & Operations.

Alexander Diebald

VP Of Business Development

Having held positions at LG Electronics ín South Korea and Munich, ALLUTO, VOI and Nokia, Alexander has a track record of developing high impact mobility businesses. Alex is our VP of Business Development, and leads our business growth and partnership strategies.

Justin Drees

VP of Product

With extensive experience in senior roles at Klarna, Zettle and Saffron, leading teams to develop, launch and optimize products in high-growth startups, Justin is our VP of Product, with a focus on solving customer challenges.

Jan Kalmer

Director of Finance

With extensive experience in management consulting and e-commerce, Jan is our senior leader for all finance, controlling, administration and billing teams.

Michael Lindqvist

Director of Engineering

With a background in software development and engineering leadership across sectors including Fintech, Medtech, and digital music creation, Michael is building our engineering powerhouse.

Nischal Padmanabha

Director of Data

With a track record of running data science product development programs at companies like omnius and SAP, and co-founding Unnati Data Labs, Nischal leads scoutbee’s Data Science teams.

Michael Strubel

General Counsel

As an experienced German lawyer, Michael is our General Counsel. Both in-house and with international law firms, he has focused on law for technology and start-ups.

Awards

Spend Matters 50 Procurement Providers to Watch for 2021

Locations

Where you can find us

Berlin

address

Lützowstraße 106
10785 Berlin
Deutschland

Google Maps

phone

+49 30 166390040

connect@scoutbee.com

Würzburg

address

Frankfurter Str. 87 Atelierhaus 14
97082 Würzburg
Deutschland

Google Maps

phone

+49 931 87098290

connect@scoutbee.com

Investors

Backed by tech's biggest Investors

Holtzbrinck Ventures (HV) manages investments more than € 1 billion. HV is one of the largest and most experienced independent European early stage venture funds. Funds invested include over 165 companies, including great successes like Zalando, Delivery Hero, HelloFresh, Flixbus, SumUp, Scalable Capital, and many others.

www.hvventures.com

Invests in seed-stage technology-driven companies across Europe with global ambition. The team behind 42CAP built eCircle, one of Europes largest SaaS companies with $50m in revenues, and sold the profitable company to Teradata (NYSE:TDC) in 2012.

42cap.com

Toba Capital manages investments more than €1 billion. Funds invested include over 165 companies, including great successes like Zalando, Delivery Hero, HelloFresh, Flixbus, SumUp, Scalable Capital, and many others.

tobacapital.com

Atomico's team of founders, investors and operational leaders have been responsible for global expansion, hiring and marketing at companies from Skype, Google and Twitter to Uber and Spotify.

www.atomico.com

Lakestar is one of Europe’s leading venture capital firms investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs. Early investments included Skype, Spotify, Facebook and AirBnB.

www.lakestar.com

Next47 is a global venture firm created by Siemens that invests in, and partners with, entrepreneurs who think big and build industry-defining companies.

www.next47.com

Materials

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Case study

Audi's partnership with scoutbee

Success story

How scoutbee helped Siemens to find new innovative suppliers

Whitepaper

Reduce Supply Chain Vulnerabilities with Proactive Second Sourcing