Born in Mainz, growing up & going to school close to Stuttgart & La Paz, Bolivia. Civil service in the Picardie in France before studying Law in Mainz, Paris and to some extent in Münster. He started as an attorney specializing in international arbitration & commercial litigation, but chose to take a detour to the entrepreneurial and tech world: In 2013, he co-founded the academic network and recruiting platform Thesius that was sold to persona service AG, as well as the legal tech & automation pioneer Lexalgo (acquired by BRYTER in 2018).
Michael Grupp is a member to the Executive Faculty of the Bucerius Center on the Legal Profession as well as to the Task Force Legal Tech of the Association of Germany Lawyers (Deutscher Anwaltsverein e.V.) and lecture on IT-Law and Legal Technologies at the Frankfurt University. The intersection of law, technology and business is his core topic of research, work and speaking engagements.