Thomas Korte

Thomas Korte is the founder of [AngelPad](http://angelpad.org), a seed-VC and Accelerator. His notable investments include Mopub (acq. Twitter), Adku (acq. Groupon), Spotsetter (acq. Apple), Postmates, Angellist, Coverhound, DroneDeploy, Periscope amongst 150 others – Thomas is always the first investor in a company. Prior to founding AngelPad, Thomas joined Google’s Product Manager when it was just 7 people. He was responsible for all the Google Product Launches in Europe dating back to 2002. He spent 7 years at Headquarters and was at the origin of Adwords, AdSense, Google Maps and Google Shopping. Thomas is the author of two patents which are still a crucial part of Google search ranking and ads monetization products.