Fabian von Heimburg leads Primavera Capital Group’s investments across Europe, focusing on private equity buyouts and growth opportunities in consumer, industrials, healthcare, and technology. He is also Co-Founder of Hotnest Technology, an AI-powered analytics and investment platform connecting European and Asian markets in renewable technology and consumer sectors.
Previously, Fabian worked at Google in London and at the United Nations in New York. He has advised European governmental and policy institutions on China–Europe digital ecosystems, AI adoption, and emerging innovation trends, drawing on years of operational and investment experience in China.
Fabian served as Deputy Chairman of the German Federal Government’s high-level advisory board on the Digital Economy to the Vice Chancellor and is Senior Advisor to the Berlin Global Dialogue. Across these roles, he builds strategic bridges between Europe and Asia at the intersection of technology, capital, and policy.
He has also been recognized by Forbes 30 Under 30 (China & Asia) and Germany 40 Under 40 for his contributions to digital innovation, entrepreneurship, and cross-border cooperation.
When I started my technology company in China 7 years ago, everybody in the West thought China was just copying European and US technology and there was no real innovation taking place.
When I moved to China in 2014 to start my company, the country was still in the slow process of opening up its massive economy and developing its major foreign policy initiative, One Belt...
