Jörg Lamprecht

Jörg Lamprecht

Jörg Lamprecht, born in 1969, is one of Germany’s most experienced and successful entrepreneurs. He and two other students founded his first company, ONLY Solutions, while they were still in college studying mathematics and computer science. That software company really lived up to its name by developing the first image search engine for the Internet. In 2001 the founders sold ONLY Solutions to Biodata AG. In that same year Jörg founded Cobion AG, once again collaborating with a founder from his first company along with a new partner. This second venture created content security software that was sold worldwide, with offices in the U.S., UK, and China. Cobion received funding from prominent venture capital investors and ultimately was acquired in 2004 by U.S.-based Internet Security Systems (ISS) – now part of IBM. Jörg served for two years as Vice President of Central Europe for ISS and grew the company by 25 percent annually. In 2011 Jörg discovered the growing drone market and founded Aibotix, a manufacturer of premium drones for surveyors and engineers. Aibotix grew very quickly and became the market leader with customers in more than 100 countries. In February 2014 Aibotix was bought by Swedish Hexagon Group, a global provider of information technology. Thanks to Jörg's experience in security and drones, Dedrone was able to grow globally right from the beginning. He succeeded in winning over 250 partners in a very short time, and within only 18 months landed $12.9 million in venture capital funding from renowned investors such as Target Partners and Menlo Ventures.