Daniel Schellong is an investor and operator, currently a Director at CYVN Holdings in Abu Dhabi (since 2023) and founder of Linien Ventures, his private angel investment vehicle (since 2017). He spent 12 years at Boston Consulting Group, rising to Partner with a focus on industrial goods, automotive and new mobility, and also served as a US West Coast Principal. He was a Venture Architect Director at BCG Digital Ventures. He helped launch and scale ventures as CCO at heycar (2017) and led strategic projects in the CFO Office at Zalando (2014–2016). Earlier, he co-founded and exited the e-commerce startup synergecommerce (2006–2013) and worked in Deutsche Bank’s M&A group.