All three founders are serial entrepreneurs with intensive US-work experience. Previous investors include Wellington Partners, Sofinnova Ventures and United Internet. The team accomplished two successful exits and gained extraordinary experience in automated crawling, artificial intelligence, high-volume information processing and technology marketing.

	Joerg Lamprecht is the co-founder and CEO of Qitera. Joerg is responsible for Sales and strategic alliances Joerg is a seasoned technology serial entrepreneur who was previously backed by leading venture investors like Wellington Partners and SofinnovaVentures as well as prominent web companies like United Internet AG. He has managed several successful exits and profits from his first-class network within the European and US technology arena. With Rene he founded ONLY Solutions, a leading image Search Engine which was sold in 2000 and is now part of IBM. Later he founded Cobion AG, which was sold to market leader Internet Security Systems in Atlanta in 2004. Joerg stayed in ISS for 2 years to oversee the post-merger activities and run global OEM Sales. He was also responsible within ISS, Inc. for Central Europe and grew the organization of 25% per year.
	Rene Seeber is the CTO and co-founder of Qitera where he manages the engineering team and oversees design and architecture of Qitera's Service Prior to founding Qitera, Rene had an exceptional entrepreneurial career. After finishing his Masters in Maths and Computer Science he founded ONLY Solutions GmbH, a leading Image Search Engine which was sold in 2000 and is now part of IBM. With Joerg he then founded Cobion AG, a content security provider which crawled and indexed all available Web content (images and text) with its own data center and infrastructure consisting of thousands of computers. Cobion AG was sold to Internet Security Systems, Inc. in Atlanta in 2004. Rene was named Chief Scientist at ISS and was responsible for a large engineering team in Europe and North America.
	Carlo Velten is the VP Marketing and co-founder of Qitera. Carlo is responsible for all marketing strategy, corporate marketing, and product marketing Before starting Qitera Carlo was co-founder of Experton Group AG. With over 80 analysts Experton Group is among Europe's leading IT-research firms. Carlo brings in over 10 years as a senior advisor and has helped numerous, well-known IT vendors in strategic market and technology assessment. As program manager at the START Intra + Entrepreneurship Center and partner at GENES Ventures Carlo has initiated, financed and incubated a number of high-tech start-ups. In 2003 Carlo was co-founder of Skymarket a boutique advertisement service firm specializing in aviation marketing and inflight entertainment.