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
- Tomorrow Maximilian Dunker and Henry Stehle at the Oldenburg Investor Summit, and we’re really looking forward to it! 🏡 For Maxi it’s a bit of a homecoming. He was born and raised in Oldenburg, so pitching Aortex there means a lot to him. It’s also the final stretch of our funding round in 2026. If you’re at the summit, come say hi. We’d love to meet you! 🙏 Thanks to the HTI Oldenburg team for putting this together. #Aortex #OldenburgInvestorSummit #Oldenburg #MedTech #HealthTech #Startup #Fundraising #VentureCapital #Innovation
- Would I do it again? Would you? ✈️ 2.5 weeks, half the globe, all for Aortex. 😴 That kind of trip has its price, as you can see in the diagramm. You sleep less, you sleep worse than at home, and it takes a toll on your body. Two nights I skipped sleep completely. Adrenaline kept me awake and focused through pitches, events and discussions, but I definitely came home with a few more grey hairs. 🔥 So would I do it again? Hell yes. No call, no LinkedIn message and no email beats sitting together in a room with no distractions. We
- Last week, Maximilian Dunker and Henry Stehle were at the #4C Unplugged event in Tübingen, and it was well worth the trip! 🤝 We split up to cover more ground. Maxi got in touch with Bentley, a great company working on a similar product, and we’re excited about the overlap and what we can learn from each other. 🎤 Meanwhile, Henry pitched Aortex to a room of investors. The conversations were promising… to be continued 😉 🌱 We also met many other startups from the healthtech ecosystem and talked with some potential future team
- Our CEO Henry Stehle is in Japan for Aortex, and on Friday he will pitch at #TechBIZKON X: LifeTECH+ in #Tokyo, the tenth edition of the startup event connecting the European and Japanese innovation ecosystems. 🤝 Besides insightful visits to medical technology companies, the trip is above all about exchange and networking in one of the most important markets for cardiovascular surgery worldwide. For our next generation aortic stent grafts, early dialogue with Japanese clinicians, partners and investors is invaluable.
- It was a real pleasure and great fun! Thank you Impossible Founders! #startupcityhamburg #innovation #reverse
- 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
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