Biography

Tilman Ehrbeck is a co-founder and managing partner of Flourish Ventures, an early-stage global venture capital firm that invests in mission-driven entrepreneurs and industry influencers working towards a fair financial system. He serves on the board of several portfolio organizations and as chair of the Advisory Council to the U.N. Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance.

Before Flourish, Tilman was a partner at Omidyar Network, where he built the global financial inclusion team. Prior to that, he served for five years as CEO of the Consultative Group to Assist the Poor (CGAP), a global partnership to advance financial inclusion. Before CGAP, Tilman was a partner at McKinsey & Company and worked for more than a decade with leading businesses in North America and India.

Flourish Ventures has $850 million in assets under management and since 2015 has invested in some 100 start-ups across digital banking, alternative-data driven credit, insurtech, wealthtech, and B2B fintech infrastructure. Notable investments include challenger banks Chime and Neon, credit-providers Fair Money and Indifi, insurtechs Kin and Qoala, and B2B fintech infrastructure players such as M2P, Swap, and Unit.

Tilman started his professional journey as a journalist in Germany before earning a PhD degree in Economics from the European University Institute in Italy and joining the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C.