Linqia

Maria Sipka

Executive Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Maria Sipka, CEO and Co-Founder of Linqia is an online community builder. As co-founder of Linqia, Maria’s vision is to list all online communities and groups existing on the internet. With experience across marketing, business development and community building, Maria aims to establish Linqia as the primary place to search, find and join online communities and groups on the internet.

HIGHLIGHTS

Prior to co-founding Linqia, Maria spent 10 years in formulating customer acquisition and retention programs in Australia with the former 3 years building online communities as the COO and then Director of Community Development at XING.

Why did you found Linqia?

“To make it easy for people to find special interest communities and groups on the internet. There are hundreds of online community platforms and millions of groups. There is no place to find them! The result of people finding the right groups means we contribute to a higher number of active and living groups. The sheer power of connecting people to other like-minded people, knowledge and opportunity has the ability to affect immediate positive change.“

Christopher Pommerening

Non Executive Co-Founder & Chairman

HIGHLIGHTS

Co-founder of AutoScout24 Spain and former CEO of Scout24 Spain. Co-founder and Managing Partner of Active Capital Partners.

Member of the Board of Polymita Technologies and BuyVIP.com.

Why did you found Linqia?

“Mankind is embedded in a complex cluster of communities and groups. Through the Internet people have the opportunity to easily group together and explore their special interest, hobbies and passions. Linqia was created to give a structure to the world of communities and groups, so that anybody is able to find the most adequate community for a certain need. The business model of Linqia satisfies the need of the individual user, of communities and of various other sectors, striving for a win-win-win situation. Linqia is created and managed by a group of wonderful people with a common goal and surrounded by one of the most beautiful and vibrant cities on this planet. This is the kind of set up that fosters my passion for entrepreneurship.”