About
Hans Bukow
LinkedInA serial venture-backed technology founder and CEO who has built, financed, scaled, repositioned, turned around and exited technology companies across four decades of technology change.
The point of this history is not the résumé. It is pattern recognition — the ability to look at your company's current stage and recognize which problem you actually have, which one is a symptom, and what a founder in your position doesn't want to get wrong next.
$35M+
venture capital raised
250+
professionals hired
20+
offices built or staffed
3
continents of operating experience
6+ M&As + IPO
strategic exits
Building categories, not just products
Hans's first company, FASTech, helped define manufacturing execution software — selling complex systems into some of the most demanding factories in the world. Most of that revenue ultimately came from semiconductor and electronics manufacturers in Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Southeast Asia, which meant learning early that a technology thesis has to survive translation into markets that evaluate credibility very differently. Later, with eWork and Provade, he did it again in vendor management systems.
Financing and rebuilding under pressure
Raising capital is one skill; keeping a company alive and investable through a downturn is another. Hans has raised more than $35M, taken a European company through a NASDAQ First North listing, and led a turnaround from substantial losses to profitability at more than $40M in revenue. He has operated through the dot-com collapse, the 2008 financial crisis, pandemic disruption and now the AI transformation.
Operating between the Americas, Europe and Asia
Hans holds US, Brazilian and Portuguese/EU citizenship and has built and staffed teams across three continents. That is not a travel résumé — it is the reason he can tell an international founder which of their instincts will read as strength in the US market and which will quietly cost them credibility.
Current in the AI era
Hans is actively building and advising in the AI era, including through Globiant, a separate venture-building platform focused on taking proven AI companies into Brazil and other international markets. AmerEU is the advisory practice: direct, fee-based counsel to founders and CEOs, independent of that portfolio work.
Across technology generations
Experienced across technology generations. Active in this one.
From factory automation and enterprise software to cloud platforms and agentic AI, Hans has built through successive transformations in how technology companies create and capture value.
AI has changed what companies can build, how fast they can operate and what investors expect. It has not eliminated the need for repeatable go-to-market, operational control, leadership, capital discipline and sound CEO judgment.
Factory automation & MES
Category building in manufacturing execution software
Enterprise software & the web
Category building in vendor management systems
Cloud & SaaS platforms
Scaling, turnaround and exit experience
Agentic AI
Currently building and advising AI-era companies
Referrals
What founders and CEOs say about working with Hans.
“For nearly a decade Hans has helped me with Plataforma and now Kodie grow an international impact IT services company.”
“Hans was critical in Lexi's evolution into now recognized as a leading edge AIoT company.”
“Kompyte survived the pandemic and had a successful exit to Semrush because of Hans' help.”
“Over the years Hans has been a highly experienced go-to founder-CEO counselor that our portfolio companies can and have counted on for “what next?” help.”
“Hans helped us in Brazil and then worked on planning AXUR's global vision — excellent advice.”
“Hans' pioneering work in online staffing helped us get Candidately to success.”
“Hans planned and delivered funding for JExperts to go to the next growth level.”
“Hans delivered successful cross-border execution to help our investment and leadership team acquire Revolution.”
“As AI has transformed the tech landscape, Hans has advised myself and our partners, as well as driving expansion with The ScaleBridge Program and Globiant internationally.”
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