Christoph Gerlinger
Christoph Gerlinger (born July 27, 1967, in
Frankfurt/Main,
West Germany) is a German
venture capitalist and
Internet entrepreneur. He is best known as the founder and CEO of the former
venture capital investor
German Startups Group, which is publicly listed on the
Frankfurt Stock Exchange and was transformed in late 2020 into a Private Equity firm. In August 2024, the company was rebranded as The Payments Group Holding (PGH) and entered into a share purchase agreement to acquire four PayTech firms. The deal is expected to close in summer 2025, pending certain conditions. Once finalized, PGH will consolidate the four PayTech firms into a single group of operating companies. Prior to that he was a senior executive and
entrepreneur in computer and
online games companies since 1996. He was CEO of the
MMO Games publisher (now Gameforge Berlin AG), listed at Frankfurt stock exchange from 2006 until its takeover in 2010. Gerlinger was named one of Germany's most 50 interesting young entrepreneurs by a leading German business magazine.
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