Juliane Schulze
PITCH JUDGE
Juliane Schulze is Senior Partner at strategic financing consultancy peacefulfish and member of the board of Media Deals, a pan-European investor network being constituted of business angels and early-stage venture capital funds focusing on creative industries and digital media.
Media Deals is a member of 3IT Fraunhofer, EBAN, EBN, and NEM. In 2017, Juliane co-initiated the network initiative VRNext which brings together the worlds of Content, Technology, Distribution and Finance.
As Executive Advisor with 30 years of experience in the creative industries, Juliane holds an extensive cross-industrial knowledge, specialising in financing and business consulting of technology driven entrepreneurs in the creative industries. She is a strategic advisor for European funding institutions and development agencies and is a veteran project director of several EU-projects focusing on accelerating creative and digital businesses through innovation programmes.
Juliane is guest lecturer at Freie Universität Berlin, Director of Investors Lab Berlin, and chairs EBN’S ‘Cultural, Creative and Digital Special Interest Group’. Previously she headed the Multi-Platform Business School, lectured at the Media Business School and teaches at various international audio-visual labs, markets and business summits like Arts+ at the Frankfurt Book Fair, ArtLab Milano or at Laval Virtual. Juliane is Fellow at the Competence Center Cultural and Creative Industries of the Federal Republic of Germany.