About Stephan Uhrenbacher

Currently, Stephan Uhrenbacher is founder and CEO of Sustainable Aero Lab, the only global accelerator for startups in sustainable aviation. In 2023, Sustainable Aero Lab received funding from Breakthrough Energy, the organization founded by Bill Gates. He is also a Fellow at Artificial Intelligence Centre (ARIC) Hamburg, Germany. Since 2016 he is a Mentor at the Creative Destruction Lab at Oxford and in Toronto.
In 2014, Stephan launched the FLIO, the most used airport app in the world. Before that, in 2010, he built 9FLATS, the first global competitor to Airbnb, which later acquired Wimdu. At the same time he cofounded avocadostore, the dominating ecommerce market place in eco lifestyle. His largest business was QYPE, a local reviews website, which dominated the European market and was sold to YELP.

Before launching his own companies, he held senior management positions at large internet and media companies: He served as COO at DocMorris.com the largest mail order pharmacy in Europe; Product Director of Bild.de, the largest media website in Germany; Head of Northern Europe, lastminute.com, and various positions at Bertelsmann, where he founded Travel Channel, one of the first online travel websites in Germany.

Stephan Uhrenbacher has a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration, from University of Kaiserslautern Germany and he was an Exchange student with the MBA programme at Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada.