Overview
Henry Stehle is the CEO and co-founder of Aortex, a company he started in December 2025. He is based in Hamburg.
Before that, he was a strategy analyst at Accenture from December 2022 to November 2025, and during 2025 he was a fellow of the World Economic Forum between June and November. From September 2020 to December 2022 he was CFO of BioInterio, and from April 2021 he was an exchange student with the IDEA League.
Earlier in his career he worked at PEM Motion on three occasions: an internship from November 2017 to February 2018, his bachelor thesis from June to September 2018 and a working student position from November 2019 to June 2020. He also completed a project thesis at the Werkzeugmaschinenlabor WZL der RWTH Aachen and an internship at Daimler AG, and worked as a personal fitness trainer at RWTH GYM from October 2015 to December 2021.
He studied mechanical engineering at RWTH Aachen University, followed by a master's degree in management and engineering in production systems there and at Maastricht School of Management, and a master's degree in management at ETH Zürich.
Career history
In the news
- Aortex - The Final Cut. Starring Maximilian Dunker and Henry Stehle Last week we wrapped the final shoot for our Aortex video, and it turned out to be a great day. And even the Hamburg weather did not let us down! 🔬 We filmed part of it where our daily work happens, at the Start-Up Labs Hamburg, and the rest out in #HafenCity, because if you build a company in Hamburg, the city deserves to be in the picture. 📍 A small piece of #advice for everyone who needs that typical Hamburg footage one day: filming commercially at the
- Quiet week from us. We are heads down, and to be honest, LinkedIn is not our core business. ⚖️ One thing worth sharing: we joined the DPMA roadshow by Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA) in the Handelskammer Hamburg and had genuinely useful conversations about patents and IP rights. Henry Stehle had the pleasure of joining the second panel and sharing the startup perspective on the value of patents, both positive (a well written patent is worth a lot) and negative (it takes far too long to be granted). 💡 For a young MedTech
- This week I'm at TechBBQ in #Copenhagen, and the ecosystem here feels genuinely young and active. 🤝 What I like is the mix: familiar faces you see far too rarely in person, plus a lot of new ones that are now firmly on my radar. Maybe the one last investor for Aortex ;). 🚲 Beyond the conference programme, a bit of sightseeing is a must. And the longer I walk and cycle through this city, the more I hope #Hamburg's urban planners have taken a proper look at Copenhagen. Bike infrastructure, waterfront, quality of public space: a
- Running together with Life Science Nord to strengthen our cardiovascular system! 🫀 Last week, our Aortex team (Henry Stehle & Maximilian Dunker) joined the Life Science Nord crew at the #RUN5 and crossed the finish line together. Swapping labs and meeting rooms for a few kilometres along the course is a good reminder of how close knit the life science community here in the north really is. Thanks to Julius Welsch & Lennart Cordes for bringing the team together, and to everyone who ran, cheered or simply showed up. We
- Aortex recently sat down with Startup City Hamburg for an interview that covered pretty much everything at once: What we do, why #Hamburg is the right place to build it with the Impossible Founders, IFB Innovationsstarter GmbH and Start-Up Labs Hamburg, how innovation in #medtech works and how Maximilian Dunker and Henry Stehle work together. 🙏 Thank you Jacqueline Heemann and the whole team at Startup City Hamburg for the great opportunity and work. 🔗 Full video in the first comment. #MedTech #Aortex #StartupCityHamburg
- Am 3. September 2026 von 16:30 bis 19:45 Uhr ist Henry Stehle bei der Innovations-Roadshow des Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (DPMA) in der Handelskammer Hamburg dabei. (Link in den Kommentaren) 🎤 In der #Podiumsdiskussion "Wie wird eine Erfindung zum Erfolg?" diskutiert er über Schutzrechte, Innovation und den Weg von der Idee zum Produkt mit @Dr. Birgitt Fill (DPMA), @Dr. Saskia Wolf (Löwenstein Medical), Karin Berger (RGTH Patentanwälte PartGmbB) und Ingeborg Graefe (tesa), moderiert von Peter Berg (Infineon Technologies/ VPP
- Aortex will be in Copenhagen on 25 and 26 August for the TechBBQ. 🇪🇺 On the first day Henry Stehle is joining a Baltic Sea region seminar with more than 40 local policymakers and economic development organisations from Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Poland, Germany and Denmark. The question we are working on is how to make internationalisation genuinely accessible for micro SMEs and startups, and how to anchor that in local strategies and cross border cooperation models. Our result will be a joint EU policy whitepaper
- Looks like we're growing... At least our to-do list certainly is. 🚀 That's why we're looking for a Working Student (m/f/d) to join the Aortex and support us in our daily operations. 🎤 From helping at startup and MedTech events, to researching topics for LinkedIn posts and newsletters, to supporting market and competitor research, you'll get hands-on experience across many areas of an early-stage startup. 💡 And as everyone in the startup world knows: no weeks are the same. New challenges, new ideas, and new opportunities are
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