Stephan Uhrenbacher is an engineer, serial entrepreneur, board director and investor.
Stephan has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration in Germany and completed part of his education in Canada. He has always worked at the intersection of technology and business.
Stephan is as of 2026 building a holding company for engineering firms.
Stephan is CEO of Future Aero Lab, the leading global accelerator and think tank for startups in aviation. Future Aero Lab has mentored more than 120 startups in aviation with a global network of mentors from Venture Capital and industry leaders from Boeing, Airbus, Lufthansa, Embraer, Pratt & Whitney, many others.
In Artificial Intelligence, Stephan is advising several startups in Europe and Canada. He is a Fellow at Artificial Intelligence Centre ARIC Hamburg, Germany. From 2016 until 2024 he was a Mentor in the artificial intelligence program at Creative Destruction Lab in Toronto and Oxford.
Since May 2025, Stephan Uhrenbacher serves as a board director of Tucows Inc in Toronto, listed as TSX on Nasdaq.
Previously, he launched Flio , the most used airport app in the world. He also built 9flats.com, a global competitor to Airbnb. He cofounded Avocado Store in Germany, an ecommerce market place in eco friendly lifestyle. He also founded Qype, a local reviews website, which dominated the European market and was later sold to Yelp.
Stephan held senior management positions at large consumer internet companies: He served as COO at DocMorris.com the largest mail order pharmacy in Europe; Head of Content at Bild.de; Head of Northern Europe at lastminute.com, London and at the media company Bertelsmann, where he founded one of the first online travel websites in Germany.