Background
Jan Riehle is an entrepreneur who has lived and worked in Brazil since early 2011. Before moving to Brazil, he lived and worked in Germany, Switzerland, France, and Singapore. He speaks fluent Portuguese, French, English, and German. He holds an MBA from INSEAD (Dec. 2009), and graduated with an M.Sc. in Economics and an M.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of Hagen in Germany.
In Switzerland, he worked for the Swiss mid-market private equity fund Constellation and for the Swiss M&A boutique Kurmann & Partners. In Brazil, he co-founded the e-commerce companies eOtica, Juv, Itaro, as well as the digital marketing company OndaLocal. He also invested in several startups between 2012 and 2015.
Jan can reflect upon two exits — having sold Itaro to the local distributor Grupo Cantu (Pneustore) in 2017, and eOtica to the French holding Essilor in 2015. Between 2013 and the exit, he served as Itaro's CEO.
History of Rising Venture
Rising Venture, before its re-launch as a search fund in 2017, was used as the investment vehicle for the principal's investment and entrepreneurial activities in Brasil. Apart from the exits of Itaro and eOtica, Rising Venture is still holding various startup participations, of which three underwent promising developments and managed to thrive — one even to realize an IPO at the B3 in 2021.