Christian Lutz is the Founder and President of Crate.io. He has 20+ years of experience as a startup entrepreneur, with a strong track record in enterprise software. After his studies in Industrial Engineering at the Technical University Vienna, he turned into a technology entrepreneur and founded his first software company in 1999. Since then, he has successfully raised 19+ large rounds in venture funding for companies and closed several trade sales, acquisitions and mergers in Europe and the U.S. In 2013, Christian co-founded Crate.io to build CrateDB, the enterprise-grade multi-model database, enabling data insights at scale. Aside from, business and family, he loves to challenge high mountains in winter and summer, as well as every sport on or below water, travel and cook.