Former German politician Guttenberg joins Mountain Partners

Guttenberg is chair of US-based investment firm Spitzberg Partners and member of Lufthansa Innovation Hub's advisory board. In 2011, he joined Washington-based thinktank Center for Strategic and International Studies.

He was a member of the German Bundestag between 2002-2011, serving as minister for economics and technology and minister of defence. Guttenberg retreated from politics after the University of Bayreuth revoked his doctorate on the grounds of plagiarism. Following the scandal, he moved to New York and has since advised tech companies, worked with VCs and invested his own money in startups.

Among recent investments of Switzerland-based VC Mountain Partners is online language school Lingoda. In March 2015, the startup raised a €2.5m series-B funding round from Mountain Partners, Global Founders Capital and other investors.

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