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Florian Leibert is a Co-Founder and General Partner of 468 Capital, the Berlin- and San Francisco-based venture capital firm he co-founded in 2020 with Alexander Kudlich and Ludwig Ensthaler; he previously co-founded Mesosphere (later D2iQ) in 2013 with Tobias Knaup and Benjamin Hindman and served as its CEO for roughly six years, after earlier engineering roles at Twitter and Airbnb where he helped create the Mesos-based Chronos and Marathon schedulers.
Florian Leibert is a Co-Founder and General Partner of 468 Capital, a Berlin- and San Francisco-based VC firm he co-founded in June 2020 with Alexander Kudlich and Ludwig Ensthaler, launching with roughly EUR170 million focused on early-stage deep-tech companies. Before that, he was a software engineer at Twitter, working on distributed search infrastructure and helping introduce Apache Mesos, then at Airbnb, where he built data infrastructure and, with Tobias Knaup, created Chronos, an open-source cron scheduler built on Mesos. In 2013 he co-founded Mesosphere (later D2iQ) with Knaup and Benjamin Hindman, commercializing Mesos-based cluster orchestration, and helped create Marathon, a container-orchestration framework. He was Mesosphere/D2iQ's CEO for roughly six years before moving to venture investing. Reported but unconfirmed: a B.Sc. in Computer Science from International University in Bruchsal, Germany.
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- Co-Founder & General Partner, 468 Capital
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- San Francisco, California
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- Who is florian-leibert?
- Florian Leibert is a Co-Founder and General Partner of 468 Capital, a Berlin- and San Francisco-based VC firm he co-founded in June 2020 with Alexander Kudlich and Ludwig Ensthaler, launching with roughly EUR170 million focused on early-stage deep-tech companies. Before that, he was a software engineer at Twitter, working on distributed search infrastructure and helping introduce Apache Mesos, then at Airbnb, where he built data infrastructure and, with Tobias Knaup, created Chronos, an open-source cron scheduler built on Mesos. In 2013 he co-founded Mesosphere (later D2iQ) with Knaup and Benjamin Hindman, commercializing Mesos-based cluster orchestration, and helped create Marathon, a container-orchestration framework. He was Mesosphere/D2iQ's CEO for roughly six years before moving to venture investing. Reported but unconfirmed: a B.Sc. in Computer Science from International University in Bruchsal, Germany.
- What is florian-leibert's role?
- florian-leibert is Co-Founder & General Partner, 468 Capital, based in San Francisco, California.
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Florian Leibert, an ex-Twitter and Airbnb engineer, co-founded Mesosphere with former Airbnb engineer Tobias Knaup and Benjamin Hindman; at Airbnb, Leibert developed the Chronos scheduler, a cron replacement running on top of Mesos
TechCrunch: Mesosphere Adds Docker Support To Its Mesos-Based Operating System For The Data CenterVerified2013-09-26 - 2
Marathon, a Mesos framework for running long-running services, was created by Tobias Knaup and Florian Leibert at Mesosphere
Gigaom: New open source tech Marathon wants to make your data center run like Google'sVerified2013-09-04 - 3
Florian Leibert co-founded Mesosphere in 2013 and the company's founding team and open-source (Apache Mesos) origins are as described
Stanford Graduate School of Business: Mesosphere: Creating Lasting Value on Top of Open Source SoftwareVerified2026-08-12 - 4
Florian Leibert, together with Alexander Kudlich and Ludwig Ensthaler, co-founded 468 Capital in June 2020, launching with an initial 170 million euro fund
deutsche-startups.de: 468 Capital: Kudlich, Ensthaler und Leibert legen 170-Millionen-Fonds aufVerified2020-06-12 - 5
Florian Leibert holds the title of General Partner at 468 Capital
468 Capital: Florian Leibert - Leadership TeamVerified2026-08-12 - 6
Florian Leibert founded D2iQ, Inc. (formerly Mesosphere) in 2013 and held the position of Co-Chief Executive Officer and Director until 2019
Crunchbase: Florian Leibert - Person ProfileReported2026-08-12 - 7
Florian Leibert earned a B.Sc. in Computer Science from International University in Bruchsal, Germany, 2003-2006, and competed on the school's winning ACM programming contest team
Clay: Florian Leibert - LinkedInReported2026-08-12