Marco Lehnert
Partner
Marco Lehnert is Partner at Lehnert Ventures. He brings three decades of building, scaling, and fixing businesses across software, hospitality, renewable energy, IT, and finance, with a practical edge on German and European market reality. He works alongside the Orlando team from the studio's European base in Weissenhorn, Bavaria.
His career spans hands-on commercial leadership: growth models, pricing, sales systems, and the operating detail that decides whether a market entry plan survives first contact with buyers. Hospitality and software are recurring arenas where he has built and invested. That background shows up when US teams need a German go-to-market that fits how buyers actually purchase, not a translated brochure.
At Lehnert Ventures, Marco asks direct questions on growth, pricing, and market selection. That work lands in growth and market entry strategy, studio partnerships, and day-to-day commercial decisions for companies that need a clear first market and a sequence they can run. He partners with Founder & CEO Ralph Lehnert across the US–Germany corridor so founders get one team, not two disconnected offices.
For companies the studio builds and backs, see the venture studio portfolio. For founder notes on Germany and US market entry, read Insights, including Germany market entry for US companies. To start a conversation, use Contact.
Marco is an active investor and hands-on partner. The bar is the same in consulting and studio work: scope you can execute, owners who decide, and honesty when a market or model is wrong.