Kim Olivia Stolz

Associate

Düsseldorf

Kim focuses on advising young technology companies and their investors on financing rounds and beyond.

She advises start-ups from their incorporation through their first financing rounds into the growth phase, as well as on internationalization projects. Kim also advises VCs and corporate venture capital investors on their investments.

Before starting her legal practice, Kim worked as a trainee lawyer for, amongst others, the EU’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs (DG GROW), for one of the most renown German law firms as well as for Orrick.

Engagements
Kim Olivia Stolz has recently advised on, among other things, the following projects and transactions:

Venture Capital and Corporate Venture Capital

Investor Side
- Headline Ventures on its investments in the EUR 38m Series B round of Hamburg-based AI startup Plancraft and the EUR 24m Series A round of the Berlin-based EnergyTech company trawa
- SE Ventures on its investment in the EUR 60m Series B round of the Stuttgart-based software startup Makersite
Company Side
- clockin on a EUR 10m Series A led by Newion and NRW.Venture, with participation from existing investors Scalehouse Capital and D11Z.Ventures
- StratifAI on its EUR 12.5m funding round, led by Picus and Alven
- Proxima Fusion on its EUR 130m Series A round, the largest private investment round in the fusion energy sector in Europe
M&A
- Protect AI, Inc. on the sale of the company to Palo Alto Networks, Inc.
- NRW.BANK, RSI Capital, Gründerfonds Ruhr on the sale of Masterplan to Amadeus Fire