Fridtjof Detzner

Speaker at the St. Gallen Symposium

Fridtjof Detzner is a co-founder and general partner of Planet A Ventures, an impact investment firm that provides early-stage financing and mentoring to highly scalable green technology startups while tracking and projecting their positive environmental impact. He is also the founder and a current board member of Jimdo, a website construction kit that has enabled more than 25 million people to create their own websites, and a Member of the Sustainable Finance Committee of the German government since 2022. In 2017, Mr. Detzner shot a ten-part TV documentary with "Deutsche Welle" documenting the world's progress toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The harsh reality of the climate crisis and human-caused environmental deterioration that he witnessed while making this documentary motivated him to devote his time and energy towards sustainability.