# Nicole Junkermann

Nicole Junkermann (born 27 April 1980) is a German entrepreneur and investor. She was born in Düsseldorf and is the daughter of businessman Heinz Junkermann. She lives in West London.
Junkermann is the founder of NJF Holdings, an international investment company with interests in venture capital, private equity, and real estate.

## Biography

Nicole Junkermann is the daughter of Heinz and Ingrid Junkermann. Her father Heinz Junkermann, born in 1928 in Frankfurt am Main, owned several companies. He founded a jewellery store (Schmuck-Kassette GmbH), a real estate company (IFG Gesellschaft für Immobilienbesitz) and a private bank for wealthy clients. He took his daughter with him to business meetings when she was 12 in order to prepare her for her future career. Junkermann grew up in Marbella, Spain and studied business administration and management at the International University of Monaco (1998) and Harvard Business School.
Junkermann co-founded online sports gaming platform Winamax. Junkermann later co-founded Infront Sports and Media in 2002 and grew the business into one of the world’s largest sports media rights businesses. As a major shareholder and Vice Chairman, she oversaw the company’s sale to the private equity group Bridgepoint Capital in 2011 for approximately $650 million.
Shortly after the sale of Infront, in 2012, Junkermann founded NJF Holdings. NJF Holdings’ venture capital arm, NJF Capital, manages a portfolio with investments in healthcare, sports, fintech, and deep tech. Three of NJF’s early investments include Songza, Dollar Shave Club, and RelateIQ, which were acquired by Google, Unilever, and Salesforce respectively (10). She is currently an investor in companies such as SpaceX, Rippling, Lendable.
Junkermann’s approach in NJF Capital has been to bridge tradition business models and emerging technologies which has created a portfolio of highly successful unicorn companies.
Junkermann previously served on the Department of Health and Social Care’s Healthtech Advisory Board, having been appointed by Matt Hancock, MP in November 2018. The board guides the Secretary of State and government on its mission to transform technology in the National Health Service. She is part of the board of the cybersecurity investment fund created by Pablo Casado in 2024. In sports, Nicole has also served as an advisor to the Italian Olympic Committee.
In 2005, she established the private equity firm United in Sports, which focuses on investing in the media and sports sectors and manages a portfolio valued at approximately 250 million euros. United in Sports and Junkermann's name appeared in the Panama Papers published in 2016 as clients of the law firm Mossack Fonseca.
In 2024, Junkermann was also the director of Owkin, a start-up that uses AI for drug development and diagnostics, and an advisor to Trilantic Capital Europe, in addition to her work as an investor.

## Family

In March 2017, Junkermann married Ferdinando Brachetti Peretti. They have a daughter born in December 2017.
Junkermann speaks six languages. As of 2018, she lived in South Kensington, London and often travels. She is a fan of the football club Real Madrid.
She is a member of the Tate Americas Foundation, an independent charity that supports the work of the Tate Gallery in the United Kingdom, since 2005. In 2023, she became a trustee of the Royal Society of Arts and in 2024 a trustee of the Royal Marsden Cancer Charity.