# Andy Lenz

Andy Lenz (Andreas Lenz) is a German tech investor and serial founder based in Hannover. Founder of t3n and heise ventures. Advisor at ShopAgentic.

## Investment focus

He invests as an LP in early-stage funds, micro VCs and solo GPs, and as a business angel in Agentic AI, tech infrastructure, longevity and fintech.

## About

Andy Lenz is a tech investor, founder and brand builder from Hannover, Germany. He co-founded t3n and spent more than 15 years building it into one of Germany's pioneering media brands for the digital economy.

Today he is co-founder and venture partner of heise ventures, the venture unit of the heise group. He invests as an LP in early-stage funds, micro VCs and solo GPs, and backs founders as a business angel in Agentic AI, tech infrastructure, longevity and fintech. He founded new zapiens, a hub for healthspan maximization, and advises ShopAgentic on brand and growth.

For more than ten years he has advised Lower Saxony's Ministry of Economic Affairs and State Chancellery, including as a member of the state's startup advisory board.

Off the clock: family & friends, the beach, padel, gadgets, pitch decks and 🔥 brand building ✌️.

## Speaking topics

- Agentic-first companies and the company brain
- Why Europe's AI edge is trust, not intelligence
- Longevity as the next asset class
- Building a media brand: 15+ years of t3n
- Investing as an LP in micro VCs and solo GPs

## Core thesis

0. **Not agentic-first? Uninvestable!** Companies without a company brain, a living memory of their data, decisions and know-how that agents can act on, will not scale with AI. They add headcount instead of leverage. That's where capital will stop flowing.

## 8 convictions on the future of life, technology and capital

1. **AI is not a bubble. It is the largest capital reallocation of our lifetime.** We are entering an infrastructure supercycle across compute energy and data and we are still early.

2. **The internet is being rebuilt for machines.** From browsing to asking, from clicking to doing. Agents, not users, will define usage and demand.

3. **Agents don't click. They execute. UI is legacy. APIs are distribution.** As agents outnumber humans online, power shifts from interfaces to agent-native systems. Execution replaces attention as the primary battleground.

4. **In AI, Europe's edge will be trust, not intelligence.** Data protection, sovereignty and open source are not obstacles, they are infrastructure and create a structural advantage for defensible AI systems. The only trust-based AI ecosystem on the planet is being built here.

5. **Finance is becoming programmable and agent-native.** Stablecoins, real-world assets and onchain markets, combined with institutional adoption, create a perfect storm for autonomous capital and agent-driven trading.

6. **Non-engineers become CTOs. When everyone can build, everything gets built.** The bottleneck was never the idea. It was the build. AI removes it. What follows is an explosion of founders, products, apps and companies the world has never seen.

7. **Robotics is AI's real endgame and it scales itself.** Once machines design, build and deploy machines, growth decouples from human labor entirely. We are entering the first era of self-compounding physical GDP.

8. **Longevity & Prevention is the next trillion-dollar asset class and AI is the unlock.** Time is the most undervalued investment, literally! When AI meets biology, health becomes predictable, preventable and personal. The companies that own the loop between data, diagnostics and intervention will define the next era of healthcare.

## Links

- Website: https://andylenz.de
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-lenz-digital-future/
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/AndyLenz
- Company: TR3X Ventures GmbH, Sedanstr. 70, 30161 Hannover, Germany — https://andylenz.de/

## Pages

- [Website](https://andylenz.de/): Andy Lenz's investment profile.
- [About](https://andylenz.de/#about): Biography, speaking topics and press photo.
- [Portfolio](https://andylenz.de/#investments): Direct investments, funds and representative holdings.
- [Contact](https://andylenz.de/#contact): Public contact links.
- [Impressum](https://andylenz.de/impressum): Legal provider information.
- [Datenschutz](https://andylenz.de/datenschutz): Privacy information.

## Portfolio facts

15+ years building t3n; 12 direct investments; 10 individual VC funds across 7 fund entries; 7 representative unicorns through funds; 2 exits. Representative holdings are indirect fund exposure, not direct angel investments.

## Podcasts & interviews

- [New Zapiens Founder Stories](https://newzapiens.com/magazine/andy-lenz-built-to-last-founder-stories-2): Built to Last
- [Forward and Far](https://www.linkedin.com/posts/andy-lenz-digital-future_kaesnstlicheintelligenz-zukunftderarbeit-activity-7329070701317865473-1ON6): Into the Future of Work
- [SEM-Deutschland](https://www.sem-deutschland.de/blog/interview-mit-andy-lenz-von-t3n-ueber-markenaufbau-und-unternehmertum/): Brand Building & Entrepreneurship
- [Let's Talk About Tech Baby](https://plus.rtl.de/podcast/lets-talk-about-tech-baby-94yi812u0v691/erfolgsfaktoren-fuer-die-digitale-zukunft-von-unternehmen-und-startups-mit-andy-lenz-ex-t3n-8uiy4k70moc5p): Success Factors for Digital Future
- [Super Dev Club](https://open.spotify.com/episode/5sCe4qJqR2q76fbMnvQgUi?si=7VFPDVqxTVaE5Md2BTf14w): The Future Should Be Good
- [Web3, Bitcoin & DeFi – t3n Podcast](https://t3n-podcast.podigee.io/302-web3-bitcoin-und-defi-das-ende-des-finanzsystems-as-we-know-it): Dr. Alex von Frankenberg & Andy Lenz
- [Sebastian Callies Podcast](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0pd7zY04XBAt4fwGBDdapy?si=X_t6UzXkTsqeptPQtUT2RQ): The Future of Creativity
- [ErfolgsgeDANKE](https://www.erfolgsgedanke.com/episodes/episode_4.html): Andreas Lenz, CEO & Co-Founder t3n Magazine
- [Uwe Bergers Vinyl-Talk](https://open.spotify.com/episode/38Kir4C1TGclW5QWuAE0bY?si=rt7a4d-4RZ6dIY_IC6iQcQ): From Digitalization to FuturePositive
- [Content Compass](https://open.spotify.com/episode/43GbMXmVIFduPEFZS9DKGD?si=3tB4TKIlQiOib4MUochOHQ): How t3n Produces Bestseller Content
- [Verklickt & Zugenäht](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FyvD3Mr4nE&list=PLL3syWKq3nTaKBvXRvHZwYRYDDxZUDw-s&index=9&t=2s): Inside t3n with t3n CEO & Co-Founder Andy Lenz
- [DMEXCO Podcast](https://dmexco.com/podcast/andreas-lenz-programmatic-audio-and-political-conditions/): Programmatic, Audio & Political Conditions

## Identity sources

- [t3n author profile](https://t3n.de/redaktion/andy-lenz/): Andreas Lenz, founder and former CEO of t3n.

## Representative portfolio

- [lovable](https://lovable.dev/): AI app builder | AI · 🦄
- [Wayve](https://wayve.ai/): Embodied AI for autonomous driving | MOBILITY · 🦄
- [n8n](https://n8n.io/): AI workflow automation | AI · 🦄
- [Synthesia](https://www.synthesia.io/): AI video platform | AI · 🦄
- [sorare](https://sorare.com/): Fantasy football on blockchain | WEB3 · 🦄
- [Starcloud](https://www.starcloud.com/): AI data centers in orbit | SPACETECH · 🦄
- [payhawk](https://payhawk.com/): Spend management | FINTECH · 🦄
- [VisionAI](https://www.visionai.co/): Agentic commerce for retailers | COMMERCE
- [gaia](https://www.gaia.law/): Legal AI assistant | LEGALTECH
- [attio](https://attio.com/): AI-native CRM | SAAS
- [jitter](https://jitter.video/): Motion design tool | SAAS
- [amie](https://amie.so/): Calendar & to-dos | SAAS
- [lemon.markets](https://lemon.markets/): Brokerage infrastructure API | FINTECH
- [debtist](https://debtist.com/): AI debt collection | FINTECH
- [xaver](https://www.xaver.com/): AI platform for pensions & insurance | INSURTECH
- [arx](https://arx-robotics.com/): Autonomous robotics for defence | DEFENCE
- [tomorrowthings](https://tomorrowthings.com/): Digital twins for industrial assets | INDUSTRIAL AI
- [LabGenius](https://labgeniustx.com/): AI-driven antibody discovery | BIOTECH