Julian Teicke

In 2009, Teicke played an active role in starting up the UK branch of Chocri, a chocolate company based in Berlin. He later joined Groupon where he headed up the European sales operation.

In 2010, he joined the e-commerce platform DeinDeal in Switzerland.

Teicke served as the DeinDeal's COO until it was sold to media publisher Ringier for an undisclosed sum in 2015.

In 2015, Teicke founded FinanceFox, a company that initially offered customers the ability to manage their insurance contracts online. In the following years, the company received permission to sell insurance products and rebranded as wefox. Since its launch in 2015, wefox has doubled its yearly revenues, reaching $580 million in 2022, and serving more than 3 million customers across Austria, Germany, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands, and Switzerland. wefox was the fastest European fintech to ever reach $1bn valuation and in 2022 had a valuation of $4.5bn.

In 2023 Julian Teicke and wefox were criticised by media outlets for their aggressive acquisition strategy and that the acquired companies did not yet fully adopt wefox technology.