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“For banks the pandemic meant that they had to digest 10 years of digitalization in only two years.” Paolo Sironi - Thought Leader and Author

 

Hello and welcome everyone to our 2021 Fintech Review for the German Speaking Area - Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, also called GSA. This is an annual tradition started in 2014, first in German, now in English. You can find the older reviews in the blog post below:

 

“Crypto is coming, no question. The metaverse is coming and exciting for me is the question how we will pay in the metaverse” Oliver Oster - CMO and Founder OptioPay  

 

“What struck me the most in 2020 is Crypto. It is sooo much more popular today than one or two years ago” Janis Dust - CMO and Co-Founder Epap

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“As people are going from in-person to remote a lot of [banking] processes have to be updated. It is basically a huge accelerator for the whole banking industry.” Frank Schwab - Co-Founder Fintech Forum

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“[Venture] Capital becomes more concentrated. It will get harder for the new kids on the block” Frank Schwab - Co-Founder Fintech Forum

 

Our Guests

Today I welcome our guests:

• Janis Dust - A young fintech entrepreneur, co-founder and CMO of epap (https://de.linkedin.com/in/jannisdust)
• Paolo Sironi - A fintech entrepreneur, turned global research leader in banking and financial markets as well as a book author (Website: https://www.thepsironi.com/, https://www.linkedin.com/in/thepsironi/)
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• Frank Schwab - Co-founder of Fintech Forum (http://fintechforum.de/) and multiple board member (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankschwab/)
• Oliver Oster - Fintech entrepreneur, founding partner AQVC, founder and COO OptioPay (https://www.linkedin.com/in/oliver-oster-37611063/)

 

“10 years ago adding the valuation and market capitalization of the global top 500 banks and fintech unicorns plus the payment providers: 10 years ago banks represented 97% of that value, today they are down to almost 70%.” Paolo Sironi - Thought Leader and Author

 

This time I ask our guests 4 questions on the current state of fintech, their outlook and drivers for the future.

 

The questions are:

1) What is the strongest impact of corona on the financial and fintech world, immediately and in the future?

2) What is the most important development you have seen in total in 2021 for fintechs?

3) What do you see in 2022 for the fintech scene in GSA?

4) What field of fintech do you see becoming more important in 2022? Is it already the year of the green fintech?

 

Wishing you happy holidays from Frankfurt! We will be back on January 13th with an interview. Enjoy your time with family and friends and stay safe!

 

 

“The most obvious impact [of corona] for me was, that here in Berlin people have stopped paying cash and now pay by card or digital [cell phone or wrist watch]” Oliver Oster - CMO and Founder OptioPay  

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“Some neobanks retreated with their business from abroad. They understood that volume is not enough for a great value offer” Paolo Sironi - Thought Leader and Author

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Chris and Joe wrap up the startup year

HoHoHo Welcome to This Month in German Startups in December 2021 by Startuprad.io - in a news recording with Chris from New York City and me Joe, from Frankfurt am Main.

We recorded this new episode on Monday, December 20th. All news not included here will be published in our next news episode. There will also be our annual Fintech Review on December 25th and we will be back with an AI startup interview on January 13th. So we take a few weeks off around the holidays. Happy Holidays!

We are not there yet, so let's get started:

Today we bring you another new unicorn, a monster funding of 266 mn US$ at Mambu, Volocopter calls off its SPAC IPO and gets a backlash from its early crowd investors, also Jokr is now the 3rd quick delivery unicorn - in record time - and we have an update on Sono Motors. We also take a look at the State of European Tech survey by Atomico and several news pieces on the German Venture Capital Market, as well as VC in general.

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They give you EV charging points for online shopping

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We learned in our projects that charging electric cars is challenging for B2B and B2C customers Simon Vogt, Co-Founder and CSO &Charge

 

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Charging can still be challenging for the EV driver. Simon Vogt, Co-Founder and CSO &Charge

 

The Founder

Simon Vogt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-vogt-a9a07931/), Co-Founder and Chief Sales Officer of Frankfurt-based startup &Charge is our guest today. They just raised seed funding to help online shoppers offset their climate impact and reward them with points e.g., for charging electric cars or using e-scooters.

Simon has collected already some experience in mobility. He worked in emobility projects of BMW, been with Porsche Consulting and finally been the coordinator for e-services for Porsche’s model Taycan.

Charging is more than refueling. You have time. Simon Vogt, Co-Founder and CSO &Charge

The Startup

The founding team realized that charging is different from refueling, so the team behind &Charge (charge.com/#/">https://and-charge.com/#/) realized that the charging EV owner has time on his or her hands. So, &Charge started connecting charging with eCommerce, so an online buyer gets rewards points for recharging their EV or using an e-scooter or similar stuff. Currently, they are covering 95% of the German eCommerce market with partnerships.

We help our customers to decrease the price of re-charging and the total costs of ownership. Simon Vogt, Co-Founder and CSO &Charge

 

Venture Capital Funding

They just raised a seven-digit seed round (https://buff.ly/3oW9C1m) but will surely look soon at a Series A funding round. Amongst their investors are the corporate venture capital arm of energy company Helen, called Helen Ventures and Porsche Ventures.

 

I could be considered a pioneer or dinosaur of emobility, I stared with it 10 years ago. Simon Vogt, Co-Founder and CSO &Charge

 

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Interview with Frankfurt-based analytics startup Cogia

“To accelerate our growth, we need to buy companies” Pascal Lauria, founder and CEO Cogia

 

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“My goal is 10 mn Euros revenue. To reach this we need to keep buying [companies]” Pascal Lauria, founder and CEO Cogia

 

The Founder

Pascal Lauria (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pascallauria/) has a very diverse background, raised in the Rhine-Main-Area his studies took him to Canada. He later worked in Taiwan, Silicon Alley (New York’s startup hub) and in Silicon Valley. He took his experience to go back to Frankfurt and set up Cogia there (https://www.cogia.de/?locale=en_us).

 

“Acquisitions are not always successful. We are very aware of that. We are working on it. For example, in our last acquisitions, we did not lose even one employee.” Pascal Lauria, founder and CEO Cogia

The Startup

Cogia Intelligence (https://www.cogia.de/?locale=en_us) is a big data, ai startup. It provides in its current setup innovative products and solutions in the areas of web and social media monitoring, market research, and open-source intelligence. The company Cogia GmbH is the startup, the company Cogia AG is the listed entity. Pascal started Cogia in 2010 but listed Cogia AG only in 2021 in Düsseldorf. Then the two entities merged and so Cogia GmbH got listed. You can learn more about the listed entity here: https://cogia.ag/de/investor-relations/

“With the access to capital markets I want to do one to two acquisitions per year.” Pascal Lauria, founder and CEO Cogia

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Driverama is the German startup of one of Europe’s largest used car dealers AAA Auto

We are looking at the whole western European used car market Stan Galik, Chairman of the board Driverama

 

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The used car market in Europe is quite fragmented. There are more than 50.000 dealers, buying and selling used cars. Stan Galik, Chairman of the board Driverama

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We are obsessed with transparency … the most trustworthy player will win. Stan Galik, Chairman of the board Driverama

 

The Founder

Stan Galik (https://www.linkedin.com/in/stanislav-galik-555b2219/) is today our guest. He has been focusing his studies on organizational behavior. He held several corporate positions before he started with Driverama. Driverama is the German startup of one of Europe’s largest used car dealers AAA Auto (https://www.aaaauto.cz/), entering the German market and competing with companies like Auto1. This is why we bring you this interview, looking at the increasing competition in the market.

 

When you sell us a car, we are checking in all regions and European markets and offer you the best price. We also already know where we will sell it. Stan Galik, Chairman of the board Driverama

The Startup

Driverama (https://www.driverama.de/) is buying up used cars in Germany, trying to utilize the European network and market data of its AAA Auto network. They are trying to offer the car seller the best price available in Europe and therefore competing head-to-head with large startups (Auto1 / Auto Hero, Heycar (VW), ….), existing platforms (Autoscout24, mobile.de, …) and local dealers. The market is currently really hot and we take a peak into it.

Driverama is a data-driven e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars with the physical infrastructure of micro-branches that serve as car buying inspection points as well as pickup points for customers purchasing cars online. We aim to become the first truly pan-European cross-border eCommerce seller with international delivery.

 

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We take a deep dive in the annual startup survey, taking place since 2013

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The Survey

Hey guys, this is Joe from Startuprad.io. Today we bring you an audio-only episode. We know this is uncommon, but there is a special occasion for this. The most comprehensive startup survey in Germany was published, so we wanted to bring you some highlights. This extensive survey is conducted by the German Startup Association in cooperation with partners annually since 2013.

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For the busy professional on the go: Chris and Joe cover the most important news

Welcome to This Month in German Startups in November 2021 by Startuprad.io - in a news recording with Chris from New York City and me Joe, from Frankfurt am Main.

We recorded this new episode on Friday, November 19th. All news not included here will be published in our December News (to be published on December 23rd). There will also be our annual Fintech Review on December 25th and we will be back with an AI startup interview on January 13th. So we take a few weeks off around the holidays. We are not there yet, so let's get started:

Today we have escooter Tier’s newest funding and acquisition, N26 pulling the plug on their US operations already in January 2022, and the amazing IPO of Sono Motors on NASDAQ. There are also new unicorns, we proudly present Frankfurt’s first unicorn, the insurtech Clark.de. Also, Razor Group (an Amazon shop buyer) becomes a unicorn with a 125 mn US$ fundraising. In November, there is no unicorn tracker. We will keep our eyes open and maybe the next news will have a unicorn tracker companion.

Happy Thanksgiving to our US audience!

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The founder of Fastbill talks about his learnings

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We started serveral early SaaS Platforms and Fastbill was one of them. We just solved our problems at the time. René Maudrich, MD Germany FreshBooks

 

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We have been one of the SaaS pioneers here in Germany. René Maudrich, MD Germany FreshBooks  

The Founder

In this interview, we talk to one of the most experienced fintech founders in the greater Frankfurt area. René Maudrich (https://www.linkedin.com/in/renemaudrich/) is the CEO and founder of Frankfurt-based accounting and invoicing fintech Fastbill. They have been bought by Toronto, Canada-based, fintech unicorn Freshbooks (https://www.freshbooks.com/). He now holds the position of managing director of FreshBooks Germany.

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We became a top 3 provider in GSA (Germany, Switzerland and Austria), but we also have clients in 13 other countries. René Maudrich, MD Germany FreshBooks

The Startup

Fastbill (https://www.fastbill.com/) was one of the early fintech startups, that have been around, before fintech was a thing. They help small companies and freelancers with their invoicing and accounting. They are a top 3 provider for this kind of software in Germany. You can learn more about them here:

Also, Mario (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mahachemer/), the CTO of Fastbill has been a frequent guest. Mario is also part of the frequent crew of our annual fintech review. You can learn more about the company, him, and René in our interviews linked below.

 

We bootstrapped for six years before we took VC money. That was a bit too late. I would recommend it later. René Maudrich, MD Germany FreshBooks

The Exit

FreshBooks already knew Fastbill from events. FreshBooks was interested in purchasing a stake in Fastbill with their next investment round. During the conversation, they decided on an outright takeover. FreshBooks now owns all equity in Fastbill and the core team with René, Mario and Benjamin stay on board. All former Fastbill shareholders are now FreshBooks shareholders.

The Fastbill team is not permitted to speak about the transaction price. We can make estimates about the price range:

In 2019 they had approx. 2.5 mn Euros revenue (according to estimates in several databases). Assuming a growth to 3 or even 5 mn Euros annualized revenue in 2021 one can estimate the range of the transaction volume with normal multiples from 45 mn Euros at the low end to 110 mn € at the higher end, adding an “earn-out clause” of approx. 10% over the next few years.

 

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We listen to Jörg, the co-founder of TIS - the world's leading B2B outbound payment platform on his advice for new founders

Meet TIS the world’s leading SaaS-B2B outbound payment platform

The problems we are solving for our clients now are the problems I had in my former corporate job. Jörg Wiemer, Co-Founder and CSO at TIS

 

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  Our goal is for the topline 3x in the last three years. Jörg Wiemer, Co-Founder and CSO at TIS

 

The Founder

In this interview, we talk to Jörg Wiemer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/joerg-wiemer/) the co-founder, former CEO and current CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) of the grown-up tech company TIS (https://www.tis.biz/). Jörg had already an extensive corporate background with stops at Deutsche Bank and Douglas Holding (a beauty retailer). Was Senior Vice President and Head of Global Treasury at SAP, where he saw an opportunity and took a leap into entrepreneurship. In 2010 he co-founded TIS.

 

Joe always wanted to interview them, because they have been an important early success story that made startups sexy again. Also, any current or aspiring entrepreneur can learn a lot from Jörg in the interview.

 

Jörg has a lot of good advice from his early times starting TIS. You will find it in the last 1/3^rd of the interview.

 

For us … getting venture capital early was a good decision. Jörg Wiemer, Co-Founder and CSO at TIS

 

You don’t want to optimize your shareholdings in the company, you want to maximize your chances of success. Jörg Wiemer, Co-Founder and CSO at TIS

The Tech Company

TIS has been part of FT 100 Europe’s fastest-growing companies in 2019, 2020, and 2021.

TIS stands for Treasury Intelligence Solutions (https://www.tis.biz/) and is headquartered in Walldorf. Yes, the Walldorf is also home to SAP. The company has routes within SAP but is by now an independent grown tech company with more than 200 employees worldwide and a strong presence in Europe and North America. Startuprad.io always aims to bring you interesting founder stories, so it was about time to bring you the founder of a successful tech company.

 

Founders first have to do the hard work and then hire someone. Jörg Wiemer, Co-Founder and CSO at TIS

 

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This interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder, and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email

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The startup from Kaiserslautern offers a software for the quality control of computer chips

Our software can assure, that the chip design you approve for production is correct. … we can guarantee that there are no bucks. Tobias Ludwig, CEO and Founder LUBIS EDA

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The faster you can get the chips in production, the higher are your profit margins. The first company takes almost all of the profits in this industry. Tobias Ludwig, CEO and Founder LUBIS EDA

A Brief Introduction to K-Town

This time we talk for the first time to a startup and a founder, based in Kaiserslautern (to the GI’s stationed close by known as K-Town). The city is locally also known as “Lautern.” This is a city in the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz, approx. 1,5 hours away from Frankfurt. They are known for their rich history, dating back to the 12^th century, and their great Technical University. The Technical University of Kaiserslautern is home to two Fraunhofer Institutes and the Max Planck Institute for Software Systems. They are also home to one of the locations of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), one of the world's largest nonprofit contract research institutes for software technology based on artificial intelligence, which shareholders include Google, Microsoft, SAP, and Daimler.

I found a colleague, working on a new method of hardware design. Tobias Ludwig, CEO and Founder LUBIS EDA

 

The Founder

We interview the founder Tobias Ludwig (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tobias-ludwig-5b1274a0/), CEO and founder of LUBIS EDA (eda.com">http://lubis-eda.com,https://www.linkedin.com/company/lubis-eda/). Tobias has developed software since he was 14, starting out writing websites. Ever since he was working, developing software, and studying. He also spent one year at Michigan State University on an exchange program. The company is an early-stage startup, providing software for the semiconductor industry, likely a game-changer for the industry.

 

If you have a problem with the design of your chips is faulty, you may only find out after you started production. Than you have to trash all the newly produced faulty chips Tobias Ludwig, CEO and Founder LUBIS EDA

The Startup

The software of LUBIS EDA helps semiconductor producers to accelerate their production of new (eda.com">http://lubis-eda.com,https://www.linkedin.com/company/lubis-eda/). In the chip industry, the first company to offer a new chip gets almost all the profits. Therefore, it is very important for semiconductor producers to be fast. The software of LUBIS EDA helps you to save up to 2 months in your development and assures your chip design is fault-free. With LUBIS EDA there is no need for starting over the chip development shortly before the production is about to start, since an error was discovered.

 

Conservative time savings estimate with our tool is 10%, which can go up to 20%. This may add up to two months in time savings. Tobias Ludwig, CEO and Founder LUBIS EDA

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We track the unicorn creation and existing unicorns

Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io – in a news recording with Chris (from New York City) and me Joe (from Frankfurt am Main).

Guys, it is October, it is getting colder outside and cozier inside, so we bring you another “Doppelpack”of our news recording! We bring you another bonus news episode as part of our news coverage of the German startup scene. We recorded this episode on October 25th, 2021, wrapping up October. This is a Bonus Episode following our special coverage of the unprecedented creation of unicorn startups in the German speaking startup scene!

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News Wrap-up for Germany, Austria and Switzerland

This Month in German Startups - October 2021

Welcome to This Month in German Startups in October 2021 by Startuprad.io - in a news recording with Chris (Back Home in New York) and me Joe, from Frankfurt am Main.

We recorded this new episode on October 25th. Note that there is also another episode of our unicorn tracker, getting published along with this episode in order to keep the news brief.

Today we have to announce that N26 reclaimed the title of Germany’s most valuable fintech (but not startup, that is still Celonis), Sono Motors is filing for an IPO in the US - ahead of even delivering their first car -, corona is leaving the first traces in the startup scene, less startups, but more funding for the surviving ones.

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We discuss the law and it's implication with a lawyer

A Look Inside the World’s First Law Regulating Autonomous Driving (Bonus Episode)

 

The law should be the first one to govern autonomous driving globally. Jan-Philipp “JP” Günther-Burmeister, Lawyer

 

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The Expert

This is another episode in our subject matter expert interviews. This time we are joined by Jan-Philipp “JP” Günther-Burmeister (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-philipp-g%C3%BCnther-burmeister-4b3421106/), a Lawyer practicing for more than 5 years in Germany.  

The New Law

The Federal Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure published a press release: Germany will be the world leader in autonomous driving on-autonomous-driving.html">https://www.bmvi.de/SharedDocs/EN/Articles/DG/act-on-autonomous-driving.html

Together with JP, we are talking about the newest update/amendment / Novellierung of an already existing traffic law. As we will see in the interview, not all aspects are covered yet and complete autonomous driving is not yet permitted, BUT the law allows for semi-autonomous driving with a remote controlling human taking over control if needed.

Lawyers are not sure yet about how many vehicles such a remote operator could control, but more than one is certain. This may open up opportunities for fleets for remote-controlled trucks, buses, cabs, and delivery vans steered by a handful of people with a normal workday, working in shifts from a control center, or even from home.  

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Frankfurt-based startup is expanding across Europe

Meet Emma Sleep – They are on their way to becoming the world’s No 1 Sleep Brand

 

We only raised just about 5 mn Euros … we grew to 405 mn Euro revenues in 2020 Dennis Schmoltzi, CEO and Co-Founder Emma Sleep

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We were very capital efficient. We are profitable, most competitors are not. Dennis Schmoltzi, CEO and Co-Founder Emma Sleep

The Founder

This time we hear the impressive story from Dennis Schmoltzi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennis-schmoltzi-b61b21109), CEO and co-founder of Emma Sleep, Europe’s leading sleep tech startup. Before founding Emma, Dennis got his degree in business administration in Germany, an advanced diploma from New York University Law School, and his Ph.D. in finance. He spent more than 6 years with McKinsey, before starting out on his own.

Dennis was convinced by his friend Manuel to start Emma. Manuel has been in the business of selling medical matrasses, so he knew more about the business before.

 

We had to invest smartly: How do we get to a better marketing efficiency? How can we build better products, how can we reduce costs in the supply chain? Now we are profiting from this. Dennis Schmoltzi, CEO and Co-Founder Emma Sleep

 

Enabler

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In 2016 Emma really started to grow and competitors like Caspar entered the market … but the competition was actually good. It helped us to educate the customer, that buying mattresses online is a thing Dennis Schmoltzi, CEO and Co-Founder Emma Sleep

The Startup

Emma Sleep (sleep.com/">https://team.emma-sleep.com/) is helping people to improve their sleep, starting out with matrasses. They are currently one of Europe’s leading sleep tech companies.

Emma sells their products (matrasses, pillows, …) online and increasingly with retail partners. Originally they did not start out with their own products but selling products of other companies online.

In 2020, Emma sold 50,1% of their equity stake to German investment holding Haniel Group (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FranzHaniel%26_Cie.).

 

We met Haniel and found we have a very similar view on how to build strong businesses. … eventually our friends and family sold their shares to them. Dennis Schmoltzi, CEO and Co-Founder Emma Sleep

Find all links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/meet-emma-sleep-they-are-on-their-way-to-becoming-the-worlds-no-1-sleep-brand/

We struggled to raise capital … we were too realistic in our projections, but we always kept our promises. Dennis Schmoltzi, CEO and Co-Founder Emma Sleep

Edupression an anti-depression app from the greater Vienna area.

Meet Edupression A Vienna-based App on Prescription

A friend of mine suffered from depression and committed suicide. That is what got me started with Edupression Daniel Amann, Co-Founder and CEO Edupression

 

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In this interview, we talk to Daniel Amann (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-amann-4a1b0711a/), the CEO and Co-Founder of Edupression (https://edupression.com/). Edupression is an anti-depression app from the greater Vienna area. Daniel has a background in financial services, where he held a lot of different positions with companies like Allianz or Raiffeisen International. One of his friends committed suicide, which drew his attention to depression.

So, he co-founded Edupression.

When you have a depressive episode, there is a 50% probability, that you will have another depressive episode. Daniel Amann, Co-Founder and CEO Edupression

 

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In total the founding team of Edupression (https://edupression.com/) are 4 co-founders, which spent approx. three years working on Edupression before the interview, including advice from the Medical University Vienna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MedicalUniversityof_Vienna).

Edupression is a certified medical product, as a stand alone therapy for mild to medium depression symptoms, stand alone or in combination with drugs or psychotherapy. The company plans to have the app available on prescription in January 2022 in Germany and Austria.

 

In the German-speaking area (Germany, Switzerland, Austria) there are approx. 8 million people suffering from depression. … It is also the same in the US, Canada or developing countries, around 7-8%. Daniel Amann, Co-Founder and CEO Edupression

App Download

Apple’s App Store (https://apps.apple.com/app/id1562982041)

Google Play Store (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.proappdev.edupressionwebmobile_app)

 

PHQ-9 Questionaire

There are a number of different depression questionnaires that can be used. The PHQ-9 patient questionnaire is effective, as it not only evaluates the severity of depression, but also identifies whether a patient is actually suffering from depression in the first place. You can find the questionnaire here https://edupression.com/phq-test-complete/

We also want to expand internationally, we are looking at the US expansion for the end of 2022. Daniel Amann, Co-Founder and CEO Edupression

 

Venture Capital Funding

Edupression is currently looking to raise a Series A funding for their international expansion in 2022. They would like to close the round end of 2021 or early in 2022.

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Meet Susanne, the co-founder of Meetfox

MeetFox Makes Managing Your Client Meetings a Breeze

 

We are Calendly meets Zoom with payment processing. Susanne Klepsch, CEO and co-founder Meetfox

 

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With our video solution you just need one click and not to download and software. Susanne Klepsch, CEO and co-founder Meetfox

 

The Entrepreneur

In this interview, we talk to Susanne “Susie” Klepsch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/susanneklepsch/, https://twitter.com/susanneklepsch) CEO and co-founder of Meetfox. The startup is headquartered in New York City, since the user base is largely in the US. Originally the company was founded in Vienna. Susanne one of the Forbes Next1000 (https://www.forbes.com/next1000/)  

We experienced a very big spike [in new clients] right at the beginning of the pandemic. Susanne Klepsch, CEO and co-founder Meetfox

 

The Startup

Meetfox (https://meetfox.com/) provides a simple one-step solution for freelancers and companies to schedule and monetize their online meetings with clients. They combine an online scheduling tool, with video conferencing and payment processing. Jokingly Susanne said We are Calendly meets Zoom with payment processing.

Originally the company started as a marketplace for coaches and realized the need for the current tool. Soon after they realized that they are much better at building this software instead of a marketplace, so they pivoted. They found investment in the US and moved eventually to New York City.

Originally, we started with a platform for coaches, where we found the need for our current project. So we pivoted Susanne Klepsch, CEO and co-founder Meetfox

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Johanna will bring you more interviews with amazing women

The Female Entrepreneurship track

This is a bonus episode for Columbus Day 2021. It is also the first interview Johanna will do for our new female entrepreneurship track. She will take turns with Joe to interview great female startup founders, investors, and executives. Join us in welcoming her to the Startuprad.io team! Johanna is currently the CEO of her own business, before that she headed the US expansion of a startup from New York, where she lived for some time. When you listen to our radio slots on female entrepreneurship, you will also hear her in the audio snippets between interviews. If you want to reach out to her, you can do so here:

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Meet a very interesting Berlin-based startup

Incari wants to be the OS for the cars of the future

We make the design process of user-friendly interfaces in cars easier. … we can reduce the production time from almost 4 years to 18 months Osman Dumbuya, CEO and founder Incari

 

The Founder

Today we bring you the interview with Osman Dumbuya (https://www.linkedin.com/in/osman-dumbuya/), the CEO and founder of Incari (https://www.incari.com/). They create the required tools and technologies, necessary for developing future-based HMI systems (human-machine interface) in the automotive and other industries. He has a fascinating story, being born in Sierra Leone and immigrating with his parents to Germany, spending most of his life in Berlin. He has always been fascinated by 3D visualizations, for example early on by spaceships.

We will disruptively change the understanding of operating systems. Osman Dumbuya, CEO and founder Incari

The Startup

Incari (https://www.incari.com/) is a software provider, founded in Berlin, May 2011. Currently, they are mostly working on interfaces for the automotive industry but want to develop further into an operating system for the interfaces of cars. Their system is already used by brands like Audi, Bugatti, and Porsche.

What you have in hardware in your car is not comparable to your PC or even smartphone. The hardware is much less powerful Osman Dumbuya, CEO and founder Incari

Venture Capital Funding

A recent investment round of 15 mn Euros, led by Lukasz Gadowski. We had him in the interview, you can learn more about him here

https://www.startuprad.io/blog/german-startup-awards-2021-special-award-for-lukasz-gadowski/

Short intro to the German Esports Market with Philipp Walter

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The Founder

As you may know, FIFA 22 was published just a few days ago. That is like Christmas for most eports fans. So, we took the opportunity to talk to Philipp Walter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/philipp-walter-51563/), CEO, and Founder of Gamers Academy (academy.com/">https://gamers-academy.com/) from Munich, to talk about the German esports market.

Philipp can already look back at a successful career with stops at PWC, Adidas and Under Armor, before founding Gamers Academy approx. 2 years ago in Munich.

The German Esports Market

The German esports market grew 27% to 8.5 bn € in 2020 (almost 10 bn US$). Many famous brands are already there and making an impact on the young fans and players there. You can learn more in the interview.

The Gamers Academy offers remote Fifa 22 coaching on different plans from more than 100 coaches. Either with on demand tutorials, Game Play Analysis, Group or 1:1 Coaching. If you want to up your Fifa Game, have a look here: academy.com/en">https://gamers-academy.com/en

 

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This is another installment of our unicorn tracker

Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io – in a news recording with Chris (from New York City) and me Joe (from Frankfurt am Main).

 

Guys, it is fall and we are back from the summer break! We bring you another bonus news episode as part of our news coverage of the German startup scene. We recorded this episode on September 28th, 2021, wrapping up July, August, and September. This is a Bonus Episode following our special coverage from June!

 

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Chris and Joe Wrap-Up what was going on in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

This Month in German Startups - Summer Wrap-Up (July, August, September) 2021

 

Welcome to This Month in German Startups in September 2021 by Startuprad.io - in a news recording with Chris (Back Home in New York) and me Joe, from Frankfurt am Main.

We recorded this new episode on September 28th. Not that there is also another episode of our unicorn tracker, getting published along with this episode. Have a look.

This will be a bit longer recording. Best get a snack and a drink right now.

The summer was hot here in Germany in terms of startups, but not so much in terms of temperature. Since we have the weather out of the way. Let's talk startups:

 

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Meet Hamburg-based's HAUSGOLD new CFO

The Proptech HAUSGOLD matches real estate brokers with buyers and sellers

The impact one can have on a smaller company is exponentially larger than just being a small fish in a large pond Andreas Wellinger, CFO HAUSGOLD

 

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Yes, we achieved break even in 2020. Currently we are not running at break even, but at a low cash burn. Andreas Wellinger, CFO HAUSGOLD

 

The CFO

In this interview, we talk to Andreas Wellinger (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreas-wellinger-2735b1191/), the CFO of Hamburg-based proptech platform HAUSGOLD (https://www.hausgold.de/). Andreas is originally from Vienna. He has been hired as CFO, having a background in consulting and investment banking. During his time in consulting, he spent more than two years in Brazil and half a year in South Africa. In investment banking, he was covering financial institutions in IBD.

 

This has been a thesis for two decades, that the existence of real estate portals will result in the complete irrelevance of the job of a real estate agent. … a real estate agent can bring a certain value add to the transaction, that sellers do appreciate. Andreas Wellinger, CFO HAUSGOLD

The Startup

Hausgold (https://www.hausgold.de/) is a platform to match potential buyers and sellers of real estate with the right broker.

According to their 2021 press release, the startup broke even in 2020, despite corona. Their revenue grew 50% and they had real estate transactions on their platform worth 5 bn Euros (5.9 bn US$). As stated in January 2021, they are looking to double revenue this year and increase the transaction volume to 13 bn Euros (15,4 bn US$). https://www.presseportal.de/pm/117034/4809967

 

The startup got press coverage with the investments of Rocket Internet in 2016 and Deutsche Bank in 2019. The investment of Deutsche Bank was one of their first public startup investments.

 

What we already see in our data is a certain trend of de-urbanization. Andreas Wellinger, CFO HAUSGOLD

Venture Capital Funding

At the time of the interview, HAUSGOLD was not actively seeking external investors.  

The Interviewer

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Monkee found a way to attract women to fintech

Meet Austria-Based Monkee – A fintech with more than 80% Women as Clients

 

With Monkee I am combining my passions for finance and what I learned in the area of habit forming technology Martin Granig, CEO and Co-Founder Monkee  

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The Founder

This is one of our interviews, covering a startup from Tirol, Austria, the fintech Monkee (https://monkee.rocks/). We have Martin Granig (https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-granig-52775054/) in the interview, CEO and co-founder of the fintech. Martin is an engineer by training, having worked more than a decade at Swarovski, in his last position he was leading the global innovation department. He is also currently working on a Ph.D. in savings behavior. It may not surprise you now that Monkee is a startup helping you to save money and with vouchers on the spending as well. During his studies, he also attended 北大 BeiDa (Peking University), Fudan University 復旦大學, London Business School, SDA Bocconi, Ashridge Business School and many more.

 

Nudges are only slight tips in the right direction if someone is already in the process of making the right decision to form habits. Martin Granig, CEO and Co-Founder Monkee

The Startup

The startup Monkee is based in Tyrol, one of the states of Austria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrol). The goal of Monkee is to improve the financial well-being of its clients. The app works with small nodes in order to help you save money, either for your rainy-day fund or towards an actual goal like a vacation, a laptop or another large purchase.

The Monkee-App also helps with (retail)-partners to save money with discounts to get your actual savings goals cheaper. They are also in the process of getting partners for daily necessities.

What really differentiates Monkee from other fintechs is that they have 84% women as active clients. That turns the normal client base of fintechs upside down. On the other hand, their female clients also like to interact more frequently with the app.

 

The Monkee App

Apples App Store

Google Play Store

 

Money worries are already the No 1 worry for most people. Martin Granig, CEO and Co-Founder Monkee

Venture Capital Funding

Monkee is currently raising a new round of venture capital, they are currently planning to close the round end of 2021.

 

There are many things coming together for Monkee so we could attract more women as clients. Martin Granig, CEO and Co-Founder Monkee

 

Further Readings / Additional Resources

PSD2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PaymentServicesDirective#RevisedDirectiveonPaymentServices_(PSD2)

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Corporate Culture Starts with the Founder

Entrepreneur Tools #6 – How to Start Thinking About Your Corporate Culture

 

You, as a founder will impact the culture, which than becomes a brand. Michelle Tsing, Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, Podcast/Radio Host

Entrepreneur Tools

This is a new series, within Startuprad.io’s YouTube Blog. We meet a lot of people and of course, we talk with some of them about the typical entrepreneur problems. Sometimes an entrepreneur solves known problems in a very systematic way, which we find great, or has great insights. In both cases, we will talk to him or her and bring you these recordings as entrepreneur tools.

We are looking forward to your feedback.

 

I learned that humans are basically good. Michelle Tsing, Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, Podcast/Radio Host

The Entrepreneur

Michelle Tsing (https://www.linkedin.com/in/laptopradio/) is an investor and entrepreneur. She hosts a weekly show on the Stanford University Campus radio, called Laptop Radio. She used to work at PayPal, Samsung, Cisco, and eBay. She is also a podcast host at Starting Y, based in Silicon Valley. In addition to that Michelle works with several startups as an advisor. She shares in our 6^th episode of entrepreneur tools her thoughts about company culture and how to start thinking about it. Company culture is a very complex topic and we are just scratching the surface here, but it is a good point to start.

The culture is usually the founder … think about your vision, your mission, and the values you care about. Michelle Tsing, Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, Podcast/Radio Host

Further Readings / Additional Ressources

 

1. Start with a self-assessment, good places to start are for example the book “The Four Agreements “
2. Look around examples for values

 

Great examples

• Paypal – Practise detachment
• Ebay – Humans are basically good
• Google - Don’t do evil
• Zappos your culture is your brand – Pursuit of happiness https://www.huffpost.com/entry/zappos-founder-tony-hsieh_1_b_783333

 

Every aspect of your company should correlate to your values. Embrace it not only in words but also in action. Michelle Tsing, Entrepreneur, Investor, Mentor, Podcast/Radio Host

 

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The Entrepreneur Tools Playlist

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The Interviewer

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We interview Lukasz Gadowski, one of the key figures of the German startup scene, think Volocopter, Mr. Spex or Delivery Hero.

German Startup Awards 2021 – Special Award

The secret to winning is to have the right vision. To bet on the right pattern. … the execution is a lot about the nitty gritty details. Lukasz Gadowski, Winner Special Award German Startup Awards

 

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It is not desirable to sell a company. … there may be instances where it makes sense. … there are exceptions to every rule. Lukasz Gadowski, Winner Special Award German Startup Awards

 

Media Partnership

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It always starts with a general pattern. … if you want to get ideas in a specific area, expose yourself to this area. Lukasz Gadowski, Winner Special Award German Startup Awards

The Founder

In this interview, we talk to Lukasz Gadowski (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukaszgadowski) (known as one of the co-founders of Delivery Hero (Lieferheld) or Mr Spex). He received a special award for his special merit with and for the German startup scene. Among his many ventures, he co-founded or is invested in are Spreadshirt, studyVZ, Point Nine Capital, brands4friends, Aroundhome, Vertical Media (Gründerszene), the escooter startup Circ, Volocopter, Enpal, Mr. Spex and of course, Delivery Hero. He works with his private investment company Team Europe https://www.teameurope.net/ During his interview he also shares insights in big enablers shaping the future, which will opening up opportunities for entrepreneurs. He also shares advice for entrepreneurs on how to win, even if you are entering a market late.

Congratulations to Lukasz! Tune in to the interview to learn more.

I think Circ went from zero to 1.000 employees in 15 months. That is what I would call hypergrowth. Lukasz Gadowski, Winner Special Award German Startup Awards

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The Corporate Startup offer White Label Services to Banks

We started with 2-3 employees. Olaf Zetnitz, MD VisualVest

   

At the start we wanted to build a robo advisor. Now we have a platform on which our clients, the banks, can customize their own robo advisor. Olaf Zetnitz, MD VisualVest

The CEO

Olaf Zeitnitz is also kind of a returning interview guest (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-olaf-zeitnitz-722b0a1b/). He was part of our Robo Advisor talk, dating back to October 2016, when not every video was turned into an audio podcast. VisualVest is not an average Robo Advisor, it is a white-label company, integrated into a much larger group of cooperative banks in Germany. Olaf studied physics and his Ph.D. studies took him to the CERN particle accelerator, where he was one of the first users of the newly invented internet. He also attended the first www conference.

 

Not one robo advisor startup was ever able to become profitable in a few years … VCs have to invest for the long term. If you invest for two to three years, a robo advisor is the wrong VC investment. Olaf Zetnitz, MD VisualVest

The Corporate Startup

VisualVest (https://www.visualvest.de/) is part of the cooperative banking group, a group of independent banks – known as Volksbanken and Raiffeisenbanken - (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VolksbankenundRaiffeisenbanken), working closely together on many services, including asset management. Their asset manager is called Union Investment (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Investment) and VisualVest is a corporate startup of Union Investment and the DZ Bank, the central bank of the cooperative banks in Germany.

VisualVest is a SaaS platform. They are basically a toolbox where the different banks within the group can choose their features to create their own robo advisor.

 

I was there at [CERN], when they invented the internet. Our experiment was one of the first users. Olaf Zetnitz, MD VisualVest

Youtube Video from October 2016

Olaf has been a guest in our robo advisor talk back in 2016, together with other returning guests. You can find it here:

https://youtu.be/akCaXmFfgMQ

 

Investing is the opposite of sexy. Olaf Zetnitz, MD VisualVest

I was positively surprised that BaFin did not try to kill robo advice from the start. Olaf Zetnitz, MD VisualVest

 

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We follow-up our 2019 interview

Follow-Up with SAX Power, the Cutting-Edge Battery Startup

Our battery technology is totally different from the one currently on the market. Lei Shen, CEO, and Founder of Sax Power

 

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Our battery technology directly generates alternating current, without inverter. Lei Shen, CEO and Founder of Sax Power

The Founder

In this interview, we are talking to Lei Shen, the CEO and Founder of the Ulm-based battery startup Sax Power power.net/">https://sax-power.net/. Lei still does not have a LinkedIn profile 😊. She is originally from China, studied in Germany and enjoyed the country so much, she decided to stay. You can learn more about her in our older interview or on the company website.

 

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The Startup

As we interviewed the startup back in 2019, they were just in the development of their battery. They were looking at putting their batteries in cars and heavy machinery. Now they pivoted and first offer their battery technology for homes, to store solar energy. Startupers will see the pages they took out of the Tesla playbook. At the time of publication, the startup is producing the first industrial miniseries of its battery.

As a next step, they will use their batteries in boats. They also plan to start working in automotive in the next three years.

 

Our technology can also be used in stationary energy storage. Lei Shen, CEO and Founder of Sax Power

Venture Capital Funding

Sax just received an investment from Sparkasse Bieberach (Chancen Kapital Fonds), which is a local thrift or savings bank. They could also convince the California-based Walden International (http://www.waldenintl.com/index.aspx), which every tech geek should know from their investment in DJI, one of the world’s largest drone manufacturers.

 

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Kate Pohl shares her experience as part of our Entrepreneur Tools Series

Entrepreneur Tools – What startups get Wrong working with Corporates

 

It is absolutely key that they [startups and corporates] cooperate. You cannot … any longer have a one-stop shop, where one bank or company does everything. Kate Pohl, Senior Advisor

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Entrepreneur Tools (EP)

This is a new series, within Startuprad.io’s YouTube Blog. We meet a lot of people and of course, we talk with some of them about the typical entrepreneur problems. Sometimes an entrepreneur solves known problems in a very systematic way, which we find great, or has great insights. In both cases, we will talk to him or her and bring you these recordings as entrepreneur tools.

We are looking forward to your feedback.

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The Entrepreneur

Kate Pohl (https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-pohl-5899766/) is a US ex-pat living in Germany. She has vast experience in commercial banking including stops at JP Morgan Chase, BNY Mellon, ABN AMRO, Citibank, and ING, as well as a Wharton MBA. At the time of the interview, she was working as a consultant for several startups. At the time of publication, she is Head of Banking Strategy at Traxpay. With her experience, we talk about frequent problems in cooperation between startups and corporates, their different way of thinking, and expectations.

 

The interview is a good starting point for thinking about your cooperation strategy, as a startup entrepreneur.

 

You can learn more about Traxpay here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/we-are-nothing-like-greensill-says-frankfurt-based-traxpay/

The Questions to ask

To start: Make your market research.

• What do corporates want?
• How does my startup fit in there?
• How do I get the right positioning?

To approach the corporate: More research.

• Whom to approach?
• How do I approach it?
• How do I get in the first meeting?
• How much do I tell in the first meeting?

For the final agreement:

• Get advice on the final agreement!

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Meet Nina Patrick, co-founder of MiProbes

German Startup Awards 2021 – Best Newcomer

 

I think Berlin is full of culture and it is the startup hub of Europe. Nina Patrick, GSA21 Newcomer of the Year

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The Founder

In this interview, we talk to Nina Patrick (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ninapatrick/), CEO and Founder of MiProbes Biotechnology (https://www.miprobes.de/).

Nina graduated with a degree in pharmaceutical chemistry. She chose this major, despite her chemistry teacher advising her not to do it 😊. After her Ph.D. she went into business and became a Business Intelligence Analyst, later joining startups in the Bay Area, where she is from. In her first startup, she helped to train microorganisms to be sensors.

Nina eventually came to Berlin with an accelerator program and soon after decided to stay and co-found a company.

 

You can buy the MiProbes tests here: https://www.miprobes.shop/

 

Link Blogpost: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/german-startup-awards-2021-best-newcomer/

 

This is a follow-up from our 2017 interview

The Founder

This interview is an overdue follow-up with ottonova, the first German health insurer founded in almost 20 years.

Roman Rittweger (https://www.linkedin.com/in/romanrittweger/) is the CEO and Founder of ottonova, not an insurtech, but a fully licensed insurer (https://www.ottonova.de/).

Roman had a long and successful career, before founding ottonova. As he says in the interview, in insurance everything takes longer.

Roman is a doctor by training, with a Ph.D. in medicine, as well as an MBA from INSEAD. He also served as Platoon Leader in the German mountain troopers and was a consultant with ATKearney and McKinsey, before starting his own companies. He is also a member of the supervisory board of naontek AG, a corporate startup offering digital services to health professionals.

 

When you are a private health insurer in Germany, you basically live forever. Roman Rittweger, CEO and Founder of ottonova

   

We do not report all our funding rounds instantly. We raised more money than is on CrunchBase. Roman Rittweger, CEO and Founder of ottonova

Venture Capital Funding

So far ottonova has raised more than 90 mn US$ up to Series D (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ottonova-holding-ag) and is a licensed health (re-) insurer in Germany. ottonova will start new talks for a growth equity talks end of 2021.

 

We are a full stack insurer, but we also have a re-insurance license. Roman Rittweger, CEO and Founder of ottonova

 

The Audio Interview from 2017

The original interview – the first English interview of ottonova – was published on September 14^th, 2017.

https://www.startuprad.io/interviews/exclusive-first-english-interview-newly-founded-digital-health-insurer-ottonova/

Links and Show Notes

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We interview Thomas Jarzombek, Member of Bundestag, Commissioner for Digital and Startups

We are not only spending 10 bn € on startups, but we also have 5-6 bn € from older programs. … we will spent in total 15 – 16 bn Euros Thomas Jarzombek, MdB, Commissioner for Digital and Startups

   

Startups with a significant presence in Germany – from abroad – also can receive money from the funds. Thomas Jarzombek, MdB, Commissioner for Digital and Startups

The Commissioner for Digital and Startups

In this interview, we talk to Thomas Jarzombek (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-jarzombek-a4227183/) a member of the German Parliament Bundestag, also the Commissioner for Digital and Startups of Germany and in charge of the newly started 10 bn startup program. Thomas is a member of the CDU, Christian Democratic Union, the party of chancellor Merkel. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChristianDemocraticUnionofGermany). Thomas has also been an entrepreneur before he was an elected official. He started out with implementing Windows 95.

Note: In the name tag in the YouTube video, we shorted this to “Digital commissioner”, due to the available space.

  We want to get better in the commercialization of German innovations. Thomas Jarzombek, MdB, Commissioner for Digital and Startups

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How the money will be invested

Note: There is a general election coming up in Germany on September 26^th, 2021. This will lead to a new government since chancellor Merkel will retire. Therefore, another government may change this allocation.

  We also invest in rocket technology. We have been looking at what Elon Musk does with SpaceX and adapted some of his strategies. Thomas Jarzombek, MdB, Commissioner for Digital and Startups

 

Investing Indirectly (as LP)

The new investment program is looking to invest 50% together with private investors, who also chip in the other half.

The program will invest in European VCs, focusing on Germany. They are looking for VCs, investing in Germany approx. the money they receive from the program.

The largest single investment will be as LP of the European Investment Fund, which will get 3 bn Euros (https://www.eif.org/).

HTGF will start the 4^th fund with money from the program. Look in our show notes below for the interview with the CEO of HTGF. They raise funds with half of the money coming from the Government and half from private investors, which include already household names like Bosch, BASF, B. Braun, Boehringer, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Post DHL, Lanxess, RWE, SAP, and many others. You can learn more about HTGF in our interview, see links below.

 

We have patient money and I expect the money to be spent over the next 10 years. Thomas Jarzombek, MdB, Commissioner for Digital and Startups

 

Investing Directly: Deep Tech Future Fund

The Deep Tech Future Fund (future-fonds.de/">https://deeptech-future-fonds.de/) is aiming to commercialize innovations from Germany. They are even investing in startups directly, who do not have a business model yet, for example working in quantum computing.

2 bn Euros will be managed by KfW in discretionary accounts to set up specific investment vehicles and their subsidiary Coparion (https://www.coparion.vc/). Part of the money will be managed in discretionary accounts. These vehicles can invest directly in startups.

 

We expect with our investment to double – with private investors approximately 2x – in the German startup scene. Thomas Jarzombek, MdB, Commissioner for Digital and Startups

 

Julius is just 20 years old, but already the Social Entrepreneur of the Year

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The Founder

In this interview, we talk to Julius de Gruyter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/juliusdg/), who is just 20 years old, but already started a chat version of a crisis hotline called Krisenchat (https://krisenchat.de/), which literally translates to crisis chat. Where people can reach out who need help or someone to talk to, like the crisis hotline, but only for a younger generation (under 25 they state on their website).

Krisenchat came out of a high school project of Julius and friends, called Exclamo an anti-bullying app. Exclamo was developed with the aid of Boston Consulting Groups Digital Ventures (https://www.bcgdv.com/), as well as a funding Deutsche Telekom (https://www.telekom.de). Krisenchat was the reaction of the team to the corona crisis, which wracked their planned launch of Exclamo in March 2020.

Now Krisenchat has approx. 5.000 sessions a month and send or received more than 1 million messages in the last 12 months on their chats. Currently, they are working with 250 volunteers to help aid-seeking teens and tweens.

 

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A change in the German investment law will have a minor impact

(BONUS) German Institutional Funds Will Not Invest Big Bugs in Cryptocurrencies

This is another bonus episode, where we cover interesting – behind the scenes – development in the larger German-speaking tech space. Recently there was a wave of excitement sweeping across the crypto blogs, due to an update in the German Investment Law (im-internet.de/kagb/">https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/kagb/). The reason: Investments of German institutional funds, since they could – theoretically – invest up to 20% in cryptocurrencies, starting on August 2^nd, 2021. Joe gets together with Marco; a specialist lawyer and they talk about what is realistic. Instead of a large wave (theoretical max of ~400 bn €), as many blogs forecast, there may be only a small trickle (likely only millions over time).  

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The Specialist

Marco Zingler (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-zingler-14b2a390/) is a seasoned lawyer, with almost 10 years of experience in capital markets legislation. He also holds a degree in Finance. He, therefore, spent most of his career as a specialist for regulatory and investment law, covering for example the changes to the new German investment Law.

 

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IDnow talks about their acquisition of Ariadnext

We are growing organically 50-60% year over year right now organically. Andreas Bodczek, CEO IDnow

 

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The CEO

This time we have a rarity on our channel because Andreas Bodczek (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasbodczek/) is not a founder, but an early investor in the company, which became later the CEO of IDnow. Andreas has been an early business angel, investing in IDnow. So he has been involved in the company for quite some time before he took the job as external CEO.

Andreas has been with Bertelsmann, where he worked with dial-up internet connections, building one of the broadest platforms for broadband and Voice-over-IP services in Germany. He later moved to become the CEO of Telefonica Germany (https://www.telefonica.de/) and co-founded Fyber (https://www.fyber.com/ ), which they build up in Germany, the US, and several more companies. They sold the company in 2014.

Andreas is also a board partner with Point Nine Capital (https://www.pointnine.com/), a Berlin-based VC fund focused on platforms and SaaS.

 

We will conclude most of the integration work streams of Identity TM at the end of this year. Andreas Bodczek, CEO IDnow

 

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The Startup

IDnow (https://www.idnow.io/products/idnow-videoident/) is an online identification service provider, that helps banks, insurance companies, and other companies to verify the identity of their clients remotely. This has not always been the case in Germany, but IDnow was one of the early companies providing this service.

Today IDnow has amongst their clients some well-known names like N26, Solaris Bank or Sixt, Western Union, Tier Mobility, and WeFox.

The startup grew early with a strong focus on financial services companies, starting when the German regulator moved to allow so-called “video idents.”

Now IDnow extends its services across industries, products, and countries. The acquisition of France-based Ariadnext (https://www.ariadnext.com/) fits in the category of extending in countries, to expand their footprint in France.

SPAC Deal?

From our conversation, we took that IDnow has SPAC offers at hand, still evaluating their options.

 

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We talk to Denis Tudor, the founder of swisspod

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The Founder

In this interview, we talk to Denis Tudor (https://www.linkedin.com/in/denis-tudor-5737a394/) he is the CEO and Co-Founder of Switzerland-based swisspod (https://swisspod.ch/), a startup that aims to develop hyperloop tracks underneath the Swiss alps. Denis is a Forbes 30 under 30. He graduated valedictorian with a degree in engineering and went on to the Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (https://www.epfl.ch/de/), to get his Ph.D.

 

Denis has always been fascinated by the Hyperloop idea from Elon Musk to a level, where he participated with a team in one of Hyperloops competitions. They won the best non-student design award out of more than 3.000 teams, who initially registered.

 

The idea kept fascinating him, which triggered him to founding swisspod.

 

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The Startup

swisspod (https://swisspod.ch/) is working on getting the Hyperloop underneath the Swiss Alps, transporting passengers with capsules of approx. 30 passengers.

SwissPod got a grant from the Swiss Government to set up the first testing facility for Hyperloops in Europe. Therefore their next step is to get this facility up and running and testing the idea and technologies needed

 

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Welcome to This Month in German Startups June 2021 by Startuprad.io - in a news recording with Chris (Back Home in New York) and me Joe, from Frankfurt am Main.

Welcome to This Month in German Startups June 2021 by Startuprad.io - in a news recording with Chris (Back Home in New York) and me Joe, from Frankfurt am Main.

We are reporting live from Germany’s largest unicorn wave ever. We announce two new unicorns (Scalable Capital and Forto (formerly FreightHub)) and Germany’s first Decacorn Celonis, valued at more than 11 bn US$. The 2019 Unicorn Wefox raises large funding of 536 mn € (650 mn US$). About You IPOs for 23 €/share at 4 bn Euro (4.85 bn US$) AND Austria becomes a new most valuable startup with GoStudent (1.4 bn €, 1.67 bn US$) after they had their first unicorn only last month.

Plus SolarisBank is rumored to be in talks of a 100 mn Euro VC Deal, which would make them a unicorn as well, to buy up a competitor. Especially active in this frenzy of unicorn creation is Softbank from Japan and Tencent from China.

We have a special episode on the unparalleled unicorn creation, which is available on the same channels (https://www.startuprad.io/blog/bonus-this-month-in-german-startups-unicorn-stampede/). If you want to know more about the new Decacorn and unicorns in Germany and Austria you want to listen to this episode as well. We keep here the coverage of unicorns to a minimum.

Note: This will be the last news recording before the summer break. There will be no regular news in July or August, but we will be back with news at the end of September, wrapping up the summer news.

We are soooooooooo looking forward to the summer that Joe even wears a Hawaii shirt. Be happy for your eyes if you are only listening to this podcast :-)

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We talk about the unprecedented creation of unicorns in Germany in the last few weeks

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Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io - in a news recording with Chris (from New York City) and me Joe (from Frankfurt am Main).

 

This is a Bonus Episode covering the Unicorn Stampede in German-speaking countries. This recording is from June 29th, 2021 and all-new unicorns, formed afterward will be covered in our next news podcast, to be published End of September!

 

You may remember that we had another bonus episode last month covering the rise of Berlin-based fintech Trade Republic to become Germany’s most valuable startup? There is already a new king in the country with Celonis becoming Germany’s first Decacorn (valuation above 10 bn US$, here even 11bn US$). We also see that all of these monster fundings are driven by international investors, especially Softbank from Japan and Tencent from China.

 

Trade Republic remains Germany’s most valuable fintech for now.

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Meet Germany’s first Decacorn!

Munich-based startup Celonis becomes Germany's first Decacorn (valued at 11.1 bn US$) with a monster funding of 1 bn US$ for their Series D funding https://buff.ly/3it1Mti

Germany’s New Unicorns

Scalable Capital

Yet another startup from Munich made it in the exclusive unicorn club, namely neobroker Scalable Capital. They first started out as a robo advisor in 2016. Now they turn increasingly to online brokerage, including offers for traded securities, money market accounts, and term deposits. Their brokerage also offers a Trading Flatrate model.

Forto (formerly Freight Hub)

Forto has been part of “This Month in German Startups” for quite some time. They underwent a re-branding from Freight Hub. The Berlin-based logistic startup raised 200 mn US$ from investors, led by Softbank, valuing them at 1 bn € (1.2 bn US$) https://buff.ly/3y136bx With this funding they added Citi Ventures and G Squared as new investors.

Austria’s New Unicorn And Most Valuable Startup

We talked about Bitpanda becoming Austria’s most valuable startup in “This Month in German Startups March 2021,” but now there is GoStudent, which takes the title from them. Go student is a platform for remote tutoring and becomes the 2nd unicorn in the country with a 200 mn € (~240 mn US$) investment led by Softbank and Tencent. The investors value the company at 1.4 bn € (1,67 bn US$) https://buff.ly/3qokCDR

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Interview with the co-founder of Sanity Group

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Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 #GSA21

Finn Hänsel (https://www.linkedin.com/in/finnhaensel, https://www.crunchbase.com/person/finn-haensel), founder and CEO of Sanity Group is the Entrepreneur of the Year. Congratulations from our side as well. He has a long history as an entrepreneur, who started his own business already with 17, with a platform to buy and sell 2^nd hand sports clothing and equipment. He went on to work for BCG, did his MBA in New Zealand, and decided – after two calls with Oliver Samwer – to work for Rocket Internet. He builds for Rocket “The Iconic” in Australia, returned to Germany as the CEO of Pro7Sat1’s Epic Companies incubator (think Gymondo, Valmano, or Discavo), and went from there to turn around Movinga. As a side project, he also started the Craft-Beer Brand Berliner Berg. In 2018 he co-founded Sanity Group, which is looking into the medical applications of all the different ingredients in cannabis.

He is also a mentor at Techstars.

 

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Beer / Bock Beer / Eisbock https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bock

Malt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malt

Hops https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hops

 

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Meet Palturai – The Google of Business Data

We used to store data in paper-based handwritten cards. We bring this to the 21^st century … so you can get some great insights from it.

The Founder

We talk in this interview to Tilo Walter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/tilo-walter-18b90567/), the CEO and Founder of Frankfurt-based business intelligence platform Palturai (https://palturai.com/?lang=en).

 

You can use our tool for example in the KYC process. Tilo Walter, CEO and Founder Palturai

Tilo first started out with an apprenticeship at a bank, after studying industrial engineering he was a consultant and then spent quite some time working in Germany’s largest credit bureau called Schufa.

This gave him the idea of Palturai, which allows one to aggregate important business data to companies.

We have data from more than 7 mn companies, from public sources, building a graph with more than 1 bn relations. Tilo Walter, CEO and Founder Palturai

 

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The Startup

Palturai (https://palturai.com/?lang=en) is a business intelligence platform, aggregating important data about companies in their database. The company provides the information as a business graph. The name also originates from a Hungarian mathematician named Pál Turán, who contributed a lot to graph theory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A1l_Tur%C3%A1n). The company was founded in 2014, but re-branded in 2020 with the opening of their first international location close to Philadelphia.

 

We have been bootstrapped, but with the international expansion we needed a proper funding round. Tilo Walter, CEO and Founder Palturai

 

Funding Round

Palturai raised 4 mn Euros Series A investments, and their investors include a German bank and SBI Holding (Softbank’s Berlin entity).

 

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With the outbreak of corona, all of our US expansion plans have been blown to pieces. We had to change our strategy fast. Tilo Walter, CEO and Founder Palturai

The Video Interview is set to go live on June 24th, 2021, at 17.00 CET

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The area around Frankfurt is greatly underestimated for startups. Here are the customers for most startups.

Tilo Walter, CEO and Founder Palturai

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Female Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2021 #GSA21

Henrike Schlottmann Co-Founder and Co-CEO of ProjectTogether (https://projecttogether.org/). She is a former Goldman Sachs intern and BCG consultant, turned social entrepreneur. She is also a great UK fan, one of the reasons she attended university in London, where she studied mathematics and modern languages.

After consulting she wanted to turn to the large issues and started with ProjectTogether a platform for open social innovations.

Learn more here:

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https://wirvsvirus.org/

 

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeitgeist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schadenfreude

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weltschmerz

 

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We started LIVEDAB with our own savings. Then it is just a story of young people working many long nights. Hannes Meine, CEO and co-founder LIVEDAB

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We are looking for users like wedding planners or re-sellers who would like to work with our software or sell it. Hannes Meine, CEO and co-founder LIVEDAB

The Founder We talk to Hannes Meine (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannesmeine/), the CEO and co-founder of LIVEDAB (https://livedab.com/). Hannes has a background in SaaS, marketing, and eCommerce. He started in eCommerce and online business at the age of 12, when he started a website for his sports team. He worked for a marketing agency, where he oversaw marketing at a SaaS company, which also enabled him to work a year for them in San Francisco. He did not want to start his company alone, only when his co-founder Adrian agreed did, he started LIVEDAB together with him.

We invested the first year in product development. We first reached out to NGOs, but also sports and entertainment are of interest to us. Hannes Meine, CEO and co-founder LIVEDAB

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The Startup The idea of LIVEDAB (https://livedab.com/) started with the idea to work with NGOs to draw attention to important causes. The Corona pandemic made the startup change this and now they are working with sports clubs, the entertainment industry, or virtual event organizers. You can have a look at their solution here: https://app.livedab.com/campaign/new

With our tool you can actually track the interactions from single billboard advertisements. Hannes Meine, CEO and co-founder LIVEDAB

Venture Capital Funding LIVEDAB is currently bootstrapped and after the next release of their software, they are looking globally for investors for a Series A investment, to scale. Their software is already available globally.

The pandemic made us change our business model and target group…. Now we work with sports clubs like Liverpool in the Premier League. Hannes Meine, CEO and co-founder LIVEDAB

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The Founder In this interview, we talk to Gordian Braun (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordianb/?locale=en_US), the CEO and co-founder of onetool (https://onetool.co/), a Berlin-based cloud startup. The startup is also a Y-Combinator Alumnus ( https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/onetool), and an alumnus of the German Accelerator program (https://www.germanaccelerator.com/companies/#onetool). Gordian already had great experiences in his life before he even started onetool. He founded companies before, including one in Austin, TX. He worked at a VC, as an investment scout and is currently a member of the Forbes Technology Council.

Update July 15th, 2021: onetool is the first startup in the world trying to sell itself as NFT

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gordianb_onetool-1st-startup-sold-as-an-nft-business-activity-6820978108804435968-5xo-/

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/onetool-1st-startup-sold-as-an-nft

 

Other solutions allow you to do similar stuff, after up to 6 months of working to integrate them. Our tool only takes you about an hour. Gordian Braun, CEO and co-founder onetool

The Startup onetool (https://onetool.co/) was founded by Gordian since he always ran into the same problem: What accounts did the employee use, that just left. How can I make sure I don’t overspend and no one has access to my customer's data, that is not working here anymore?

Our customers usually use only cloud-based tools, so basically all modern startups. Gordian Braun, CEO and co-founder onetool Venture Capital Funding

The company already counts amongst its investors HTGF. They have already raised more than 1.6 mn Euro in Venture Capital. Likely they will look for a new funding round “very soon” according to Gordian.

We got an email “You are invited to the final interview for Y-Combinator”. Oh, yeah it looks like we applied Gordian Braun, CEO and co-founder onetool

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The Founder

We interview Justin Gemeri, Founder and CEO (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justin-gemeri/) of Frankfurt-based innovation platform ekipa (https://ekipa.de/en/).

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The Startup

Ekipa offers a digital platform for startups, students, student teams and corporates to cooperate on innovation challenges, all in one place: https://ekipa.de/en/

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The Investor

In this interview, we talk to investor Thomas J. Richter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasrichterj/), who is Head of Europe at Santa Monica’s Expert Dojo (https://expertdojo.com/international-accelerator/). Thomas has a fascinating story, which started with studying in Ulm, Germany. After a few stops as an employee, he started out in Santa Monica with his first startup in 2013, later becoming Venture Partner at OneTraction. He is now in charge of Europe at Expert Dojo on “Silicon Beach.”

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The Programm

Expert Dojo offers a virtual acceleration program to immerse for 8 weeks in the Silicon Beach ecosystem (https://expertdojo.com/international-accelerator/). They get access to American venture capital and gaining a competitive advantage to set them apart from the rest. Startups will receive a total investment of $100K including 20K in program fees and will participate in an intensive, two-month acceleration program in Santa Monica. In this program, founders will benefit from US business training as well as comprehensive networking opportunities with investors and potential business partners in the LA ecosystem. You can find some of their portfolio companies here: https://expertdojo.com/portfolio/

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Meet the Startup NanoStruct, they are listening to Molecules

We are working in structures the size of nanometers. The average piece of paper is about 100.000 nanometers thick. Henriette Maaß, CEO and Co-Founder NanoStruct

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The Founder

We talk to Henriette Maaß (https://www.linkedin.com/in/henriette-maa%C3%9F-608792142/), co-founder and CEO of the startup NanoStruct. During her Ph.D. in solid-state physics, she looked at the electronic state of materials. She founded NanoStruct (https://www.nanostruct.eu/en/home-english/)during her post-doc at university.

Henriette went on record here to admit that she is a Star Wars and Star Trek fan.

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The reproducibility of nanostructures is normally not good. We can re-produce them more reliable. Henriette Maaß, CEO and Co-Founder NanoStruct

The Startup

The idea of NanoStruct came when Henriette talked to her co-founder, who pursued his Ph.D. using spectroscopy as well, but another method. They are working on nanostructures like normal antennas but in nanometer sizes. The antennas function for frequencies of visible light, for which they have a reliable way to produce them over and over (which is not common for nanostructures). Their product can be used to search for contaminations like in biotech, pharma, or the food industry. You can learn more on their company website https://www.nanostruct.eu/en/home-english/

They are planning to do the production themselves since their production is neither expensive nor complex.

Don’t be scared of physic, it is actually a lot of fun Henriette Maaß, CEO and Co-Founder NanoStruct

Venture Capital Funding

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Entrepreneur Tools #4 – How to build a tech team

You need to educate the US companies on what is possible and not possible in an employment contract in Germany. Tim Heathcote, Headhunter

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Entrepreneur Tools

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The Entrepreneur

Tim (https://www.linkedin.com/in/timheathcote/) is an English ex-pat living in Frankfurt, making a living as a headhunter in the tech and startup space. He has founded Rebel Soul Recruitment (https://rebelsoulrecruitment.com/)

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The number one complaint of US companies, setting up shop in Germany, are the number of holidays. Tim Heathcote, Headhunter

Here is a little warp-up: The headhunter must:

1. Understand the company and the values of the company
2. Know what technical skill is required for the role
3. Understand the incentive structure of the company hiring
4. Get familiar with the legal restrictions for an employment contract
5. Set up a hiring process (this step may also be at #7, depending on your CTO and his/her network). What are you testing for How do you test it for How do you measure it
6. Use the network of your CTO to build the tech team
7. When the tech team gets larger, you need to rely on a headhunter at one point

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“It’s our ambition to be present across the entire Eurozone in the next four months,” Christian Hecker according to TechCrunch

Welcome to This Month in German Startups - A bonus episode since we have a new king in town. Trade Republic just became Germany’s most valuable startup with a 900 mn USD funding round backed by investors like Sequoia.

Chris joins Joe for this episode.

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Start in 2015 - at comdirect Startup Garage

The story of Trade Republic starts with the comdirect startup garage. comdirect is Commerzbank’s online broker, founded during the late 1990s. Commerzbank again is Germany’s 2nd largest listed bank.

So, the founding team Christian Hecker, Thomas Pischke, and Marco Cancellieri started out with the idea of a German RobinHood Trading app (What is today called a neobroker). The Garage helped at the start in 2015 but did back out at funding the startup. The team did not receive funding from comdirect Garage, because one million Euros was too much to invest in a company at a seed stage

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Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io - in a news recording with Chris (Back Home in Germany) and me Joe, from Frankfurt am Main.

Today we are wrapping up May 2021 for you. We talk about the massive Trade Republic funding, making them Germany's most valuable startup. We are talking about SPACs again, Germany’s institutional funds investing in crypto, and 3 bn shots of the corona vaccine. As always, we have a great show for you!

Housekeeping - Time to brag

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Top News

Trade Republic is now Germany’s most valuable startup with 5.3 bn US$

SPACs

In the US the largest wave of SPAC IPOs is already behind us, but in Europe, it is just gaining speed. Frankfurt Stock Exchange expects up to 20 SPAC IPOs in 2021. In all of Europe, they expect more than 30 https://buff.ly/3h0mMqS

Amazon Shops are still HOT

Berlin’s Razor Group raises $400M to buy and scale Amazon Marketplace merchants – TechCrunch https://buff.ly/2PVJULY

Germany rumored to open flood gates to Crypto Investments - Think again

'Damn Huge': Germany Opens Up to Institutional Crypto Funds - Decrypt https://buff.ly/3vvX3dU

Joe will talk about this soon - as soon as he gets to it - but the main point one has to understand in German institutional funds is that the investors are regulated and not so much the vehicles.

3bn Shots are coming

Corona vaccine producer BioNTech is looking to produce 3bn shots https://buff.ly/2RHzXlA

We just passed a small moment in History

80 years ago, on May 11th, 1941 german inventor Konrad Zuse started his Z3. This was one of today's first - maybe The first - modern-day computer. He developed it, to take over statistical calculation he found tiresome https://buff.ly/3eEJ3sB

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The Founder

We are talking to Jörn-Philipp Plies (https://www.linkedin.com/in/plies/) CEO and Co-Founder of eye2you (https://eye2you.ai/).

Philipp started out his professional life with an apprenticeship and moved to study at Technical University Darmstadt (TU Darmstadt, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technische_Universit%C3%A4t_Darmstadt) computer science and robotics.

While working on his final diploma thesis, he became interested in visual recognition and finally the eye. This led him to take on his Ph.D. at the University of Tübingen, studying how the brain processes visual information.

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The Startup

The story of eye2you (https://eye2you.ai/) started at Korea University (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korea_University), with a project for development aid projects in Ethiopia. Now the company is incorporated in Tübingen Germany and works on AI algorithms to recognize diseases in pictures of the retina.

They are working on empowering general physicians, nurses, or caretakers to perform a basic checkup with their software. Groups at risk for retina diseases are people with high blood pressure or diabetes.

Here is an explainer video for more details: https://youtu.be/nWFbvuYC2PY

Venture Capital Funding

The startup already closed the pre-seed funding round, currently having 5 FTEs and one working student.

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Welcome to Startuprad.io,

we cover the German-speaking startup scene since 2015 with our franchise. Since 2019, we eased access to the German-speaking startup scene further with our special interest podcasts Fintech Germany, Blockchain Germany, Deeptech Germany, and German Startup News.

We have been called "The Authority on German Startups" and are a Top 0.5% global podcast, according to Listen Notes. Chartable.com scored us in 2020 a global Top 100 Science Podcast, a global Top 150 Tech Podcast, and a global Top 750 Business Podcast.

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The Finish company later stopped all their activities in Central Europe. This is where I started crossinx. Marcus Laube, Founder and CEO of crossinx

The Founder

In this interview, we are talking to Marcus Laube (https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-laube/) , the founder and CEO of one of the largest fintech exits this year. He sold the company, he founded in 2007 in 2021 for 100 mn Euros to Unifiedpost Group from Belgium (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210411005030/en/Unifiedpost-Group-and-Crossinx-Join-Forces-to-Create-a-Unique-European-Business-Network).

Marcus has been the chairman of the European Fintech Alliance (https://eufintechs.com/) and the co-chairman of the European E-Invoice Service Provider Association (EESPA https://eespa.eu/)

The story of Marcus as an entrepreneur is totally fascinating: He was helping one of Lufthansa’s businesses (AirPlus) to get their first website and digitize Germany’s Flag Carrier. This brought him in contact with lots of electronic business ideas, with which he ventured out on his own. His first company was sliding into insolvency. He bought the company out of insolvency and this company stayed afloat by selling chairs and tables. This company was bought later by a company from Finland. This Finnish company stopped their business in Germany and Marcus decided to start over again with founding crossinx in 2007. He now sold this company in a 100 mn Euro plus deal (the deal includes a clause of up to 13 mn € further conditional earn-out payments according to the press statement).

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We call what we do the financial supply chain. Marcus Laube, Founder and CEO of crossinx

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The Startup

crossinx (https://www.crossinx.com/en/) is the leading provider of e-invoicing based service solutions in Germany, working with the largest companies and institutions, such as Nestle, Bayer, TNT, Sixt and the German national government. The company was founded back in 2007 by Marcus Laube.

The Exit

On April 12 Unifiedpost Group announced to acquire crossinx for 100 mn Euros (up to 113 mn €): https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210411005030/en/Unifiedpost-Group-and-Crossinx-Join-Forces-to-Create-a-Unique-European-Business-Network

The connection came from Marcu’s work in EESPA, where he met Unifiedpost. There has been interest to acquire crossinx 3 years before, but the deal was sealed after the IPO of Unifiedpost at Euronext (Euronext: UPG).

https://www.startuprad.io/blog/meet-the-fintech-behind-the-100-mn-e-exit-nobody-talks-about/

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The Upcoming Changes to EU Crowdfunding Rules for Startups

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The Expert

We talk to a former guest, Jamal El Mallouki (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamalelmallouki/), Managing Director (MD) and Co-Founder of Crowdfunding SaaS tech company CrowdDesk. He is also chairman of the board of directors of Germany’s Crowdfunding Association (crowdfunding.de/about-the-german-crowdfunding-association-bundesverband-crowdfunding-ev/">https://www.bundesverband-crowdfunding.de/about-the-german-crowdfunding-association-bundesverband-crowdfunding-ev/).

He talks with us about the upcoming rules, which will harmonize crowdfunding for startups across the European Union.

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The new Rules / European Crowdfunding Service Provider (ECSP)

Currently, Germany has national rules, getting retail investors without any prospectus to invest in startups. Each retail investor can invest up to 25.000 € in total. This limit does not exist for professional investors.  A startup can now raise up to 6 million Euros with crowdfunding.

These rules are about to change with upcoming EU rules. You can dig deeper in the rules with the links below. The main points are:

• Crowdfunding campaigns can now target retail investors across the EU. They can now scale up to the whole EU market.
• (Crowd)Fundraising startups can now target directly online retail investors across the EU
• Crowdlending in Germany is now possible, directly via the crowdfunding platform, the need for an intermediate bank is gone. This also means that crowdfunding is competing with classical bank credit here.
• EU Startups, running a crowdfunding campaign can now raise funds in the German market, the largest in the EU with 6.7 trn € (8.14 trn US$) in private household wealth (according to Bundesbank, as end of 2020).
• Fundraising without prospectus is possible, up to 5 mn Euros

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Entrepreneur Tools Episode 3

This is a new series, within Startuprad.io’s YouTube Blog. We meet a lot of people and of course, we talk with some of them about the typical entrepreneur problems. Sometimes an entrepreneur solves known problems in a very systematic way, which we find great, or has great insights. In both cases, we will talk to him or her and bring you these recordings as entrepreneur tools. We are looking forward to your feedback.

This time we talk to Simon Stengelmeier (https://www.linkedin.com/in/simonstegelmeier/), also known as The Data Warrior (https://thedatawarrior.com/). This time we are talking about service design and marketing. Tune in to learn more.

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• Link to HBR Article: Know Your Customers’ “Jobs to Be Done” https://hbr.org/2016/09/know-your-customers-jobs-to-be-done

Put Value First

Know Your Target Audience / Create a Customer Avatar

Craft Your Message

Your Signature Solution

3 Steps to Success: How To Structure & Sell Your Services

• Maximize (Customer Avatar, Message, Solution)
• Monetize (Leads, Trust, Conversion)
• Multiply (Paid, Organic, SEO)

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MOIN! Media Partnership

This podcast is in media partnership with the Hamburg-based startup blog Hamburg Startups (startups.net/">https://www.hamburg-startups.net/).

The Founder

We talk to the Hamburg-based founder Dennis Ahrens, the CEO and Founder of Spacific (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dennisahrens/). Spacific offers a software for augmented reality glasses to measure objects within rooms (https://www.spacific.de). Dennis has been involved in several companies, before starting his startup, one stop including staying for almost 13 years.

Dennis discovered his fascination for augmented reality while working in a project where AR devices have been used to measure stairs to build in stair lifts (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stairlift).

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The Startup

Dennis founded his startup Spacific (https://www.spacific.de/) with customer service engineers in mind, who work for B2B companies.

The startup works on possibilities to measure objects inside a room. This would enable service engineers to put on their AR glasses and measure objects (e.g. lifts, forklifts, …).

Spacific is working on a self-service portal, for their business customers. There the Spacific clients can tailor their specific needs and processes with a work-flow-configurator, making their customer service better and fast than their competitors’.

Venture Capital Funding

Currently Spacific is funded by the savings of Dennis and funding from the City of Hamburg. They would be open to talking to external investors.

Further Readings / Additional Resources

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When we started 5 years ago, London and Berlin were unreachable, getting 60% of the votes. Now they are between 30% and 40%. Thomas Köster, President Startup Heatmap Europe

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Vienna has the highest share of female entrepreneurs in Europe with 34% of the hubs we are tracking. On average only 15,5% of startups in Europe are founded or co-founded by women. Thomas Köster, President Startup Heatmap Europe

The President/Co-Founder

In this interview, we talk to Thomas Köster (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-k%C3%B6sters-8602a247/) , President and Co-Founder of the Startup Heatmap Europe (https://www.startupheatmap.eu/).

Their Annual Survey is out for the 5th time and we take the opportunity to talk to one of the

authors about their findings. You can learn more here: Direct Link: https://startupsandplaces.com/release-startup-heatmap-europe-2021/

In our Heatmap Survey, we only publish the top 50, but we are tracking more than 200 cities in Europe. Thomas Köster, President Startup Heatmap Europe

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27% of startup founders [in Europe] are starting their company in a country, they did not grow up in. … in the top hubs like Berlin and London you have a share of more than 65% Thomas Köster, President Startup Heatmap Europe

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People from outside of Germany have voted for Frankfurt: I can imagine starting my company here. Thomas Köster, President Startup Heatmap Europe

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Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io - in a transatlantic news recording with Chris in New York City and Joe, from Frankfurt am Main.

Today we are wrapping up April 2021 for you. We talk about SPACs, which have been all the rage, but now they get to work. We bring you news about potential SPAC deals with Solarisbank, Infarm, Lilium, and Volocopter. The first three eying a valuation of more than one billion. Also, we have a Gorilla Unicorn.

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We talk to Hamburg-based Founder Benny Bennet Jürgens, the CEO and Co-Founder of NECT Germany’s most downloaded self-identification app in 2020. Benny has a past history with insurance companies and found their need for self-identification – required by law – to be a major pain point for them. So he set out to provide a convenient solution, which turned out to be NECT. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

How to Headhunt Tech TalentIf you are coming to Germany, if you do not have any prior knowledge about Frankfurt, you may end up somewhere else. Time Heathcote, Tech Headhunter   Subscribe HereFind all options to subscribe to our newsletter, podcast, YouTube channel or listen to our internet radio station here: Link https://linktr.ee/startupradio 80% of startups fail due to problems in the team. Tim Heathcote, Tech Headhunter  The FounderTim is a British expatriate (https://www.linkedin.com/in/timheathcote/) living in Frankfurt am Main. He originally came to build up a team for a former employer, planning to move further to Berlin. He is now happy with a family in Frankfurt and does not to move anymore. He is now making a living as a headhunter in the tech space, frequently working for startup companies.   Affiliate LinksLearn how to grow your business using the numbers in your profit and loss and balance sheet: https://www.learndesk.us/class/5571076509663232/growth-by-the-numbers-real-small-business-finance-for-real-small-business-owners use our promo code: AccessThe CompanyTim has vast experience working as a recruiter, building up tech teams for example at the time of publication with the startup SumUp. The name of his company Rebel Soul Recruitment (http://rebelsoulrecruitment.com/) was inspired by a book called Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Your Best Life (AL https://amzn.to/32yHuFB). He is looking for rebels in the sense that they are aiming to do things differently with the goal to do things better.   Go to see a game of Eintrach Frankfurt, the flair is totally worth the experience. It is totally different from my experience in the UK. Tim Heathcote, Tech Headhunter   Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3dLooking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01ZyeFurther Readings / Additional ResourcesWarmduscher https://www.thelocal.de/20181101/german-word-of-the-day-der-warmduscher/ Weichei https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Weichei Schattenparker https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Schattenparker The Stadion in Frankfurt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldstadion_(Frankfurt) Frankfurt’s botanical garden: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmengarten_Frankfurt Frankfurts Football Club Eintracht Frankfurt: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eintracht_Frankfurt  FeedbackReach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder, and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email   Follow usInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io Newsletter: https://startupradio.substack.com/subscribe   Keep Up to DateHere is our publication calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MDEyaTI3YWs1MjVxaTNzbWdqbDh2OXRiaW9AZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

The FounderWe talk to Fabian Beringer (https://www.linkedin.com/in/fabianberinger/, https://www.crunchbase.com/person/fabian-beringer), the CEO and Co-Founder of Munich-based e-bot7. Fabian is an early thought leader in chatbots, ai and NLP, he is also writing for the tech blog VentureBeat https://venturebeat.com/author/fabian-beringer-e-bot7/ Fabian is not only the founder of a successful company and a Forbes 30 under 30 (https://www.forbes.com/profile/e-bot7/?list=30under30-europe-technology&sh=6f7fb7391530) , he is also the co-founder of a tech blog called Chatbot News Daily (www.chatbotnewsdaily.com) and he is also a DJ, having worked with the likes of DJ Tiesto. You can find some of his music here: https://www.beatport.com/artist/jensby/164401 Next to all this Fabian and e-bot7 have been founding members of the KI Bundesverband, the German Association for Artificial Intelligence, Germany’s largest AI network: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ki-verband/, verband.de/">https://ki-verband.de/   Affiliate LinksLearn how to grow your business using the numbers in your profit and loss and balance sheet: https://www.learndesk.us/class/5571076509663232/growth-by-the-numbers-real-small-business-finance-for-real-small-business-owners use our promo code: Access  From the start, we centered our product development on customer feedback. Fabian Beringer, CEO and Co-Founder e-bot7   The Startupe-bot7 (bot7.com/">https://e-bot7.com/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/e-bot7) integrates Artificial Intelligence to increase the efficiency of Customer Service. Through its pre-trained machine learning algorithms, the system can automate answers and processes and suggest the best answers to agents. This reduces average handling times, increases sales, and saves up to 80% of costs. Amongst their customers are the small German Tech companies like Loovo, joyn, but also well-known international brands like Audi, Miele, Telefonica, and the University of Northampton. If you want to have a successful company, you have to build it around a mission. Fabian Beringer, CEO and Co-Founder e-bot7 https://www.startuprad.io/blog/conversational-ai-for-customer-service-with-e-bot7/ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

homefully offers co-living (furnished apartments) in many cities across Germany and Switzerland. The company has 50% of ex-pat tenants. Now they are looking to expand in Europe ... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

In this interview, we are talking about best practices on how to keep your cryptocurrencies and crypto-assets safe as a private investor. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Construction sides are usually littered with large and bulky paper-based construction plans. It is also a hassle to keep all people up to date with recent changes, especially on larger constructions. Munich-based startup Capmo wants to change that. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Television.ai helps with ai to generate automatic trailers or short spots for tv programs, independent productions, and much more --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

In this interview, we talk to Christian, a subject matter expert for tokens. He explains what are non fungible tokens and their use --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

In this media exchange, we talk to Frank, who has been a dot-com CEO and he shares his experience during this crazy time, e.g. how he IPOed out of desperation. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Joe gets together with a podcaster, a blogger, and an entrepreneur to discuss the developments of 2020 and 2021 for the greater Rhine-Main and Frankfurt area. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Today we are wrapping up March 2021 for you. We talk about Austria’s first unicorn Bitpanda, a Samwer attempt at a German Tesla, SPACs, indoor farming, open positions at N26, and much more. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

We are nothing like Greensill says Frankfurt-based TraxpaySupply chain financing became a bit shady with Greensill, but it is totally not. It supports the whole economy. Markus Rupprecht, CEO Traxpay The FounderIn this interview, we talk to Markus Rupprecht, (https://www.linkedin.com/in/markusrupprecht/, https://www.crunchbase.com/person/markus-rupprecht) CEO of Frankfurt-based supply chain financing fintech Traxpay. Markus has vast experience, even before his time at Traxpay, for example, he has been with Deutsche Bank, Software AG, or Hitachi Consulting. This is kind of a follow-up because one of the first interviews of Startuprad.io was with Markus’s Co-CEO (at the time) and one of their investors, published in October 2014 here on Startuprad.io.   You have on the supplier and buyer side ERP systems, but in payments, many of the information is lost. Markus Rupprecht, CEO Traxpay   https://www.startuprad.io/blog/we-are-nothing-like-greensill-says-frankfurt-based-traxpay/ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Flash UpdateHey guys, we are posting this short podcast just to keep you up to date on what Startuprad.io is doing. You may know that we have special interest podcast (link to subscribe below) like Fintech, Deep Tech, Blockchain and for our Startup News? We are also a YouTube Blog (link below). We also launched with our friends from Starting Y, Laptop Radio, Radio Free Enterprise and the IBGR Network the worlds first internet radio station dedicated to startups and tech companies on February 18th 2021. We are currently still in beta, but our Alexa Skill should be ready soon, as well as our listing on several radio directories.   Subscribe Here Find all options to subscribe to our newsletter, podcast, YouTube channel or listen to our internet radio station here: Link https://linktr.ee/startupradio   Affiliate Links ·         Is your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d ·         Looking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye    Feedback  Reach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email   Follow usInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io Newsletter: https://startupradio.substack.com/subscribe   Keep Up to DateHere is our publication calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MDEyaTI3YWs1MjVxaTNzbWdqbDh2OXRiaW9AZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

In this interview, we are talking to Nikolaus D. Bayer, the recipient of the Business Angel of the Year Award. The award is granted by the German Business Angel Association "Business Angel Netzwerk Deutschland" also known as BAND. He founded a company focusing on fraud in payments, called IRIS Analytics, which was bought by IBN end of 2015. He uses these proceeds to invest as a business angel. For his investments, he uses the BeAI GmbH. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Mirrakoi Helps Surgeons with 3D Models and 3D Prints to Prepare for SurgeriesWe are focusing with our technology on bone structures at the moment, … especially surgeries to reconstruct bones. Pablo Garcia-Amorena, CEO and Co-Founder Mirrakoi Subscribe HereFind all options to subscribe to our newsletter, podcast, YouTube channel or listen to our internet radio station here: Link https://linktr.ee/startupradio  The FounderIn this interview, we talk to Pablo Garcia-Amorena (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pablo-garcia-amorena-711518166/). He is originally from Barcelona, where he studied Mathematics and Engineering as a double major. He than went on to the Swiss Federal Institute (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne). Within their program he was focusing on processing data from medical devices, where he met his two co-founders of Mirrakoi. You can also learn more about Pablo here: https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Pablo-Garcia-Amorena-2118645293https://mirrakoi.com/author/pablogarciaamorena_mirrako/  Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3dLooking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye The StartupThe startup is called Mirrakoi (https://mirrakoi.com/ https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mirrakoi-sa) and is in a broader sense a medtech startup. The startup helps surgeons to prepare for important operations with 3D printed models or virtual reality. They even help to 3d print assistance tools to help the surgeons with their job. They are currently helping surgeons with the preparation of reconstructive surgeries, like the reconstruction of faces after car accidents. For research projects, they are 3d printing what they call “surgical guides”. For example, these guides help to guide the drill of the surgeon to drill at the right point and depth during surgery.   We are focusing on models for pre-operation. Our models will right now not end up in the patient, but we have a research project for that. Pablo Garcia-Amorena, CEO and Co-Founder Mirrakoi  Venture Capital FundingMirrakoi is currently bootstrapped but will soon be looking for an external investor.   Health Venture Labs (Budapest)In this small section we talk to the accelerator program Health Venture Labs (HV Labs), and its co-founder Daniel Szemerey (https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-szemerey/). HV Labs is the program Mirrakoi went through. If you are curious, they are looking for startups for their next intake: https://hvlab.eu/. As stated in the interview, they have a preference for medical imaging startups. Part of their program is also a chance to dip in the Boston medtech startup hub.   Further Readings / Additional ResourcesCT Scans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT_scan#:~:text=A%20CT%20scan%20or%20computed,of%20a%20body%2C%20allowing%20the  MRT Scans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_resonance_imaging  X-Ray: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray Erasmus Programm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasmus_Programme   FeedbackReach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email   Follow usInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io Newsletter: https://startupradio.substack.com/subscribe   Keep Up to DateHere is our publication calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MDEyaTI3YWs1MjVxaTNzbWdqbDh2OXRiaW9AZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

In this interview, we talk to Manuel Pistner, the founder and CEO of Flash Hub. He studied computer sciences because he thought this would bring him to the fast lane as an entrepreneur. After some stops along the way, he founded an agency. Agency business is a very cyclical business, where he was either short of talent or projects (translating into missing cashflow). This crashed his agency and he talked about it in a Ted Talk. To help himself and others to be able to set up flexible global teams he started Flash Hub. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio EVITADO avoids collisions of planes on the ground –Using Lidar“The direct costs to repair a plane, after a ground collision usually runs least at 250.000 Euros. Not included are indirect costs like delays in schedule or revenues lost” Alexander Kasinec, Co-Founder Evitado   Don’t Miss Any Blog Post, Video, or Audio PodcastSubscribe to our newsletter on Substack here: https://startupradio.substack.com/subscribe   “We found that ground collisions of planes happen on average one or two times a month” Alexander Kasinec, Co-Founder Evitado   Media PartnershipThis podcast is in media partnership with the Hamburg-based startup blog Hamburg Startups (startups.net/">https://www.hamburg-startups.net/). They keep you up to date on the local startup scene in Hamburg, they organize regular events (in normal noncorona times) AND they do have a special section on food startups as well. Even if you are not able to speak German, a visit with an auto-translate is worth it, since they also have an extensive directory of local startups on their website.   “I guess I am a bit an aviation geek myself” Alexander Kasinec, Co-Founder Evitado  The FounderJoe talks to Alexander Kasinec (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-kasinec-87715866/), co-founder of the Hamburg-based startup EVITADO (https://evitado.io/). Alex is an American, who co-founded the company in Hamburg. He started learning German in 8th grade already, spent time during his studies in Germany, and did an internship in Germany as well. He then ended up getting a master’s degree in Hamburg, where he met his co-founders.   “There are some pretty big [aviation] companies here in Hamburg. That is why we decided to stay here.” Alexander Kasinec, Co-Founder Evitado   Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3dLooking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye “There was a list in 2017 by the FAA and one of the pain points were collisions on the ground by planes for example with hangars” Alexander Kasinec, Co-Founder Evitado   The StartupEvitado (https://evitado.io/) provides a warning system for planes pulled on the ground, so the drivers of these pushback tractors do not collide with other planes on the ground, hangar doors and so on. Their system is based on Lidar and offers the drivers a Birdseye view of their plane and vehicle. The idea of Evitado was developed by Alex and his co-founder, who met during their MBA. They made it in the finals in a pitch competition, which gave them their hint that their idea may be much more than just a hobby.   “Hamburg is the world’s third-largest hub for the aviation industry, behind Seattle and Toulouse in France” Alexander Kasinec, Co-Founder Evitado  Venture Capital FundingEvitado is looking for 750.000 € as a seed funding round. They would like to close the round end of June 2021. “Our system is based on Lidar technology” Alexander Kasinec, Co-Founder Evitado    The Audio InterviewThe Audio Podcast will be published at the same time. Please give us a bit to post the Spotify link here. In the meantime, you can subscribe to our podcasts here  “We would love to integrate our software in the Microsoft Flight Simulator. It is a beautiful tool” Alexander Kasinec, Co-Founder Evitado FeedbackReach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email   Follow usInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn ht... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio KONVOI Helps with AI and Sensors to Prevent the Theft of Truck CargoEach year cargo is stolen from at least 26.000 trucks each year in Germany, worth 2.2 bn Euros. Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI   Don’t Miss Any Blog Post, Video, or Audio PodcastSubscribe to our newsletter on Substack here: https://startupradio.substack.com/subscribe   … there is organized crime stealing from parked trucks. … We want to be preventive, before the theft happens. Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI  Media PartnershipThis podcast is in media partnership with the Hamburg-based startup blog Hamburg Startups (startups.net/">https://www.hamburg-startups.net/). They keep you up to date on the local startup scene in Hamburg, they organize regular events (in normal non corona times) AND they do have a special section on food startups as well. Even if you are not able to speak German, a visit with an auto translate is worth it, since they also have an extensive directory of local startups on their website.   Our solution will be a combination of hardware and software. Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI  The FounderIn this interview, we talk to Heinz Luckardt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/heinz-luckhardt-a77a351a0/), Co-Founder of Hamburg-based startup KONVOI. He is originally from Frankfurt, but his studies took him to Hamburg University, where he met his co-founder. But Heinz has already traveled the world, he studied in Milano (Italy), he has been a sales intern in India, as well as working with Fraunhofer Institute. At Fraunhofer, he was working on salt-based 3d printing.   The vision is later to go deep into predictive analytics, like generating heatmaps for truck thefts. Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI   Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3dLooking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye The StartupThe startup was set up already in times of corona, in October 2020. Theft of truck cargo, literally from the back of a truck, is a big problem for the trucking companies, as well as all companies using this mean of transport. So KONVOI (https://www.konvoi.eu/) provides a combination of hardware and software to prevent these thefts. Right now, they are working on the first step of the solution, but the vision is to go deep in predictive analytics.   We are looking for innovative trucking companies in Germany, to give us feedback. Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI  Venture Capital FundingKONVOI is currently not actively looking for external investors. They are currently on a government grant, funding the company at least until end of 2021.   We are not focusing on one technology. We are working with radar, as well as ultra-sonic sound at the moment. Heinz Luckardt, Co-Founder KONVOI   The Audio InterviewYou can subscribe to our podcasts here   Further Readings / Additional ResourcesMilan, Italy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan Frauenhofer Institutes are organized in the Fraunhofer Society: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_Society   FeedbackReach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder, and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email   Follow usInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io Newsletter: https://startupradio.substack.com/subscribe   Keep Up to DateHere is our publication calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MDEyaTI3YWs1MjVxaTNzbWdq... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

PaceUp Invest Helps Women to Create and Manage Wealth – Founded by a Woman90% of the clients of robo advisors in Germany are still men. This has not changed. The interfaces look all the same. They are not targeting women properly. Rukayyat Kolawole, Founder and CEO PaceUP Investment  Don’t Miss Any Blog Post, Video, or Audio PodcastSubscribe to our newsletter on Substack here: https://startupradio.substack.com/subscribe  The FounderRakuyyat Kalowole (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rukayyat-modupe-kolawole-cfa/) is originally from Nigeria but had already very interesting life. Since her regular visits to her grandmother, who was an active trader, she is fascinated with the fast pace of trading in capital markets. She studied at Georgetown University in the US, Tongji University in China, as well as Mannheim Business School in Germany. Being fascinated by capital markets all her life, it comes as no surprise, that she joined Goldman Sachs in London, as well as Bloomberg in Reuters in London as well. When she relocated to Germany, to study in Mannheim, she also set up a shop there with her hybrid Robo advisor for women.   Affiliate LinksWhy not learn from entrepreneurs and executives who are open to sharing their favorite books. We skimmed through some recommendations and that is what we found. Recommended by: Bill Gates “Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker” https://amzn.to/2XAENlBRecommended by: Jeff Bezos “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras” https://amzn.to/2RGKGKeRecommended by: Elon Musk “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel” https://amzn.to/2REbHhwRecommended by: Tony Hsieh “Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan” https://amzn.to/34KgraQRecommended by: Warren Buffet “Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales From the World of Wall Street by John Brooks” https://amzn.to/2K92z06Recommended by: Tim Cook “Competing Against Time by George Stalk and Thomas Hout” https://amzn.to/3cjMMYn  On our platform there will be a lot of impact investing, so women can choose how they want to invest according to their values and needs. Rukayyat Kolawole, Founder and CEO PaceUP Investment  The StartupPaceUp Investment (https://www.paceupinvest.com/) is a hybrid Robo advisor headquartered in Mannheim Germany. We have talked about Mannheim before, but a short wrap-up: It is the only city in Germany set up in squares. Mannheim is the first city in the world, where a car drove (Carl Benz lived close by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Benz) and the place where the world’s first electric elevator was installed here in 1880 (Werner von Siemens). Rakuyyat set up her company PaceUP here to help women build wealth with a hybrid approach, combining remote investment advice with a Robo advisor. PaceUp provides women the tools to understand the basics. Then they offer advisory and coaching, before investing with their Robo advisor. Full service with LicensePacUp will be able to offer its full service only after regulatory approval. They are currently looking at Q4 2021 or Q1 2022 to go live. PaceUp on Social MediaFacebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/2399668980113869Instagram https://www.instagram.com/paceupinvest/LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/groups/8788895/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3EIqAHmEF0dnPB-IAy6gPw  Venture Capital FundingPaceUp is currently funded by an angel investment in combination with a government grant of the state of Baden Wurttemberg. They will start their next fundraising soon, looking at 900k €.   When I got in a bank to get a mortgage to buy my first apartment, my bank advisor asked me “where is your husband”. … other women had similar experiences Rukayyat Kolawole, Founder and CEO PaceUP Investment   Further Readings / Additional ResourcesCapital Markets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio This Month in German Startups - February 2021Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io - in a transatlantic news recording with Chris in New York City and me Joe, from Frankfurt am Main.  Today we are wrapping up February 2021 for you. There is great news in the German startup scene, the much anticipated Auto1 IPO generated two new tech billionaires, Europe’s first Tech SPAC lists in Frankfurt, more Wirecard details, we talk about Trade Republic and Gamestop, as well as the billion exit of Berlin-based AdJust.   Follow us on Social MediaInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io   Keep Up to DateHere is our publication calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MDEyaTI3YWs1MjVxaTNzbWdqbDh2OXRiaW9AZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ   Affiliated LinksWhy not learn from entrepreneurs and executives who are open to share their favorite books. We skimmed through some recommendations and that is what we found. Recommended by: Bill Gates “Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker” https://amzn.to/2XAENlBRecommended by: Jeff Bezos “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras” https://amzn.to/2RGKGKeRecommended by: Elon Musk “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel” https://amzn.to/2REbHhwRecommended by: Tony Hsieh “Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan” https://amzn.to/34KgraQRecommended by: Warren Buffet “Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales From the World of Wall Street by John Brooks” https://amzn.to/2K92z06Recommended by: Tim Cook “Competing Against Time by George Stalk and Thomas Hout” https://amzn.to/3cjMMYn Housekeeping - Time to brag Stay safe everyone!  In the meantime you can tune in to our internet radio station, the worlds first 24/7 dedicated to startups and tech companies! https://s2.radio.co/sb16d65602/listen - We will soon be available on many platforms, for now: https://raddio.net/373202-startupradio/ https://radio.streamitter.com/station/startupradio-89HNV   Top NewsWe have two new tech billionairesThe IPO of Auto1 went spectacularly well and skyrocketed on the first day of trading on February 4th, surging 45%. We took a look at the data and realized that this was the first tech IPO in a long time that generated new tech billionaires in Germany. Bloomberg: SoftBank-Backed Auto1 Soars in Debut After $2.2 Billion IPO https://buff.ly/2YLTm5jReuters: UPDATE 2-AUTO1 shares go into top gear in Frankfurt debut https://buff.ly/3pLaOSmRead more in our blogpost here: At recording this Auto1 IPO turns founders into billionaires https://buff.ly/3oY45EA  Related: The story from the side of one of their first investors: How VC fund DN Capital invested in car marketplace Auto1 8 years ago and landed an $8 billion IPO winner https://buff.ly/3abVPMO   N26German regulator, stung by past failings, extends oversight of N26 - sources https://buff.ly/2Ymp88F German mobile bank N26 is thinking of making its first acquisition https://buff.ly/3ckRpVq   Trade Republic, Reddit and GameStopBerlin-based SolarisBank needed four years to get to 400k customers, but the next 600k came within half a year says their chief commercial officer Jörg Diewald, many of them have to be attributed to Trade Republic https://buff.ly/3oEKLMc Our take on this topic: https://www.startuprad.io/berlin/gamestop-reddit-and-fintech-trade-republic/ Note: There will be a follow-up on yet another blog post from our side, with hearings of Roaring Kitten and profits for hedge funds.  We're nothing like Robinhood, says Berlin-based broker Trade Republic | Sifted https://buff.ly/3bAqNOq  iCarPorsche's Cayenne Bos... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio Xperience+ Wants To Change How You Watch Sports and Movies ForeverIn 1917, an Italian guy put audio in a movie … more than 100 years later, we are still here. Fabrizio Gramuglio, CEO and Co-Founder Xperience+   The Founder(s)Fabrizio is the Co-Founder and CEO of Xperience+ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gramuglio/). Fabricio is by training a geneticist, but he found the lab work not really appealing, so he set out on a new path. Fabricio is also a Ted Speaker (https://youtu.be/Qw30kQVyvnM). Pedro is the CMO and Co-Founder of Xperience+ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/pedrogmferreira/), who is also the founder of the local tech blog Frankfurt Valley (http://frankfurtvalley.app/), as well as the community manager of Startuprad.io (http://www.startuprad.io/about-us/). Both together manage the local chapter of the singularity university (https://su.org/).  Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3dLooking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye Why don’t we let life the people around the world the experiences they want – in a very immersive way? Fabrizio Gramuglio, CEO and Co-Founder Xperience+   The Startup Xperience+ (https://xperience.plus/) is not itself a hardware provider. The company offers on its app a marketplace for companies to join the Internet of Senses and use the protocols of Xperience+ for this. Part of the offer will also be a Library of Senses, in which experiences can be stored and retrieved at will.   We are working on letting fans experience their favorite game from the perspective of a player – with all five senses. It will be totally immersive. Pedro Ferreira, CMO and Co-Founder Xperience+  The Xperience+ AppThe app is currently not available to the public. Currently, the app is in closed beta status. They are working on the library and the option to stream videos. We will let you know when the app is available.   We are working on disrupting the “old” audio and video media and bring in all the five senses. Fabrizio Gramuglio, CEO and Co-Founder Xperience+  Venture Capital FundingXperience+ has already raised a seed investment of 500.000 €. They are open to additional external investors.   If this works guys, you will put every diet out of business, since people can taste everything, without gaining the calories. Joe Menninger, CEO and Founder Startuprad.io on Xperience+   Audio PodcastYou can subscribe to our podcasts here   Further Readings / Additional ResourcesNothing to see here 😊   FeedbackReach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email   Follow us on Social MediaInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io   Keep Up to DateHere is our publication calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MDEyaTI3YWs1MjVxaTNzbWdqbDh2OXRiaW9AZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ   © Startuprad.io - All right reserved Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio Iconic holding wants to be the largest Crypto Asset Manager in Europe  The idea for Iconic Funds came from investor demand, to invest in cryptocurrencies with more traditional vehicles. Maximilian Lautenschläger, COO and Co-Founder Iconic Holding  The FounderMaximilian Lautenschläger (https://www.linkedin.com/in/maximilian-lautenschl%C3%A4ger/) grew up in the beautiful city of Heidelberg (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg). He stayed in the Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan Area (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhine-Neckar) to study in Ludwigshafen and took every opportunity to study abroad. After university, he started out working in consulting and found his passion in alternative investments. He started as an analyst of private equity funds, moving to a venture developer position. Before joining Iconiq Lab, he has been a startup investor himself.   I am not the guy who said in 2014 Bitcoin is the thing. Maximilian Lautenschläger, COO and Co-Founder Iconic Holding  The StartupIconic Holding is the parent company of Iconic Funds. Iconic Holding originally started out as Iconiq Lab, an accelerator for ICOs, based in Frankfurt. After the end of the ICO craze, they decided what to do next and so they evolved into a crypto asset manager and Blockchain VC. The new structure was renamed to Iconic Holding (no more q). The crypto asset manager is called Iconic Funds (https://funds.iconicholding.com/invest/) and the blockchain venture capital arm is called Iconic Lab (https://lab.iconicholding.com/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/iconiq-lab). You can find their blog on Medium here (https://iconicholding.medium.com/). Iconic Funds offers to accredit investors hedge funds, a fund domiciled in Malta and also exchange-traded notes, to get exposure to cryptocurrency.   There was this craze about a thing we have never heard before, an ICO. Maximilian Lautenschläger, COO and Co-Founder Iconic Holding   Venture Capital FundingIconic Holding is currently preparing the series B round.   Bitcoin for me is digital gold Maximilian Lautenschläger, COO and Co-Founder Iconic Holding   The Audio InterviewYou can subscribe to our podcasts here   Further Readings / Additional ResourcesUCITS https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/ucits.asp WM Daten is a financial service provider, a competitor of Bloomberg and S&P, amongst others, with a strong focus on the German-speaking area: https://www.wmdaten.de/index.php Asset Manager https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_asset_management_firms Custodian https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/custodian.asp   FeedbackReach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email   Follow us on Social MediaInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

2nd UploadHey guys, we are very sorry, but we had some issues with our editing software. The first upload contained a problem and so we had the upload it a 2nd time. Really sorry! Entrepreneur Tools Episode 2This is a new series, within Startuprad.io’s YouTube Blog. We meet a lot of people and of course, we talk with some of them about the typical entrepreneur problems. Sometimes an entrepreneur solves known problems in a very systematic way, which we find great, or has great insights. In both cases, we will talk to him or her and bring you these recordings as entrepreneur tools. We are looking forward to your feedback.   Think in principles, it helps you with a lot of decisions. Peter Hart, Serial Entrepreneur   The EntrepreneurYou may remember Peter (https://www.linkedin.com/in/peter-hart-94373435) from our interview about his latest startup call Pythia https://www.startuprad.io/blog/pythia-forecasts-the-next-trend-in-consumer-products/ (yes, his video interview drops a few links as well 😊). He is a successful serial entrepreneur for more than 8 years now having to build retail brands like Dr. Severin and now an AI startup called Pythia. He likes to think very structured and shares some of the essentials from his journey to running several successful ventures.  If you ever want to do something, you can go through your CRM and look through your contacts … if you wrote down what you talked about last time the outreach will not really be a cold call. Peter Hart, Serial Entrepreneur     Basic infrastructure tools (1 & 2)Get a Drive (Dropbox, Google Drive). Joe recommends you encrypt it with a tool like BoxcryptorCRM Tool to manage your contactsPipedrive (AL)  Everyone should build up their own principles that fit the company you want to build or the job you want to do Peter Hart, Serial Entrepreneur  3. Evolving: Building up PrinciplesThe idea is based on Ray Dalio's book (AL) https://amzn.to/36XZ5td  Develop your own principles, write them down and let them evolve. It also helps to explain the principles to other people. It is a learning process to shape your decision making HiringRiskStrategyWork/Live BalanceThinking in principles helps you make decisions.  I highly recommend thinking about … what kind of a founder am I … and thus and what do I need to think about when I hire people. Not everyone can lead every person. Peter Hart, Serial Entrepreneur   4. Building up a company cultureWhat you do is who you are Benz Horrowitz (AL) https://amzn.to/3tznJtQ The idea is the whole company is following one broader path e.g., Facebook “move fast and break things”, which was later revised. Culture includes traditions e.g., coaching morning at Peters companie(s). It is a day they invest in their people.   Here is an example of an interview with the founders of Airbnb, when they talk about culture. https://youtu.be/RfWgVWGEuGE     Further Reading (AL)The airbnb story (AL) https://amzn.to/3rBGI5aBlitzscaling (AL) https://amzn.to/36UdJSe  Feedback  Reach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder, and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email   Follow us on Social MediaInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io   Keep Up to DateHere is our publication calendar: https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0?cid=MDEyaTI3YWs1MjVxaTNzbWdqbDh2OXRiaW9AZ3JvdXAuY2FsZW5kYXIuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbQ   Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

My Football Space Connects Fans with Clubs GloballyAfter almost 20 years in consulting … it was a good time to think about what I wanted to do in my life, what I have a passion for. Alex Schlicher, Founder My Football Space Media PartnershipThis podcast is in media partnership with the FinTech Forum (http://www.fintechforum.de/). The FinTech Forum - launched 2013 in Frankfurt am Main - is the first and largest hub for FinTechs in Continental Europe, with a community of more than 12.000 companies. With more than 17 events, with more than 270 startups on stage, and more than 1.000 investors and financial institutions. FTF alumni have raised $310mn+ in funding and resulted in exits worth $300mn+ .   I was not really looking for founding a company. The idea came to me since I am passionate about innovative technology, finance and sports. Alex Schlicher, Founder My Football Space   The FounderIn this interview, we are talking to Alex Schlicher, a former management consultant, turned entrepreneur (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-schlicher-cfa-953660/). Alex started out with vocational training in retail banking, foreign exchange trader, and a management consultant in capital markets, where he worked for several consultancies. While he worked in FX trading (Foreign Exchange), he learned how derivatives are working and are structured. He is a born “Frankfurter Bub” (a native Frankfurt boy). In his past, he was also in charge of building up the German business for a London-based consultancy. After almost 20 years in consulting, he decided to do a re-set and spent some more time with his family. Alex has been passionate about sports all his life and is a fan of Frankfurt-based Bundesliga Club Eintracht Frankfurt. Alex currently pursues an executive MBA at Frankfurt School for Management and Finance, in one of these classes the idea of My Football Space “hit him” as he said.   The initial trigger for setting up a company was really driven by technology, because I saw the potential of the technology. Alex Schlicher, Founder My Football Space  The Startup  Alex founded the sports tech startup My Football Space (https://myfs.de/). He got the idea for his startup while one of his professors talked about everything of value is on the Blockchain in the future. So it instantly struck him this may include football in one way or another. Initially, they thought about investing in football players, but changed this amazingly fast, since it was too much like an investment. They do not want to change the memberships of the sports clubs, as they are popular for example in Germany with Bundesliga. This is not available to many people all over the world, this is what they want to change.   This is something everybody shares, the passion, the emotion for the sport. It is a very global thing. There is no difference between a fan in Australia, Asia, the US, or Europe. Alex Schlicher, Founder My Football Space   The Bundesliga Club Bayern München has globally more than 100 million fans, according to Alex. On the other side of those fans there is only a fraction really a member of the sports club (300.000).  The app also helps the club to understand its digital fans and give them matching offers.   My Football Space AppTheir app for membership for fans will be available in app stores like Google or Apple towards End of 2021.  Venture Capital FundingThe company already closed two financing rounds, one by business angels and one by the management team. Currently, they are looking to close the next funding round in 2021 Q2 or Q3.   Blockchain is really stepping out of its baby shoes. The maturity level is really reaching a tipping point where mass adoption in a lot of industries is about to start. Alex Schlicher, Founder My Football Space   Further Readings / Additional Resources  Bundesliga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundesliga Eintracht Frankfurt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eintracht_Frankfu... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

You are listening to the audio track of a YouTube interview. Find all the interviews at YouTube.com/Startupradio Tangany Offers a White-Label Custody Solution for Crypto AssetsOur clients do not need to apply for a license to become a custodian, we already are and offer our service. Martin Kreitmair, CEO and Co-Founder Tangany Media PartnershipThis podcast is in media partnership with the FinTech Forum (http://www.fintechforum.de/). The FinTech Forum - launched 2013 in Frankfurt am Main - is the first and largest hub for FinTechs in Continental Europe, with a community of more than 12.000 companies. With more than 17 events, with more than 270 startups on stage, and more than 1.000 investors and financial institutions. FTF alumni have raised $310mn+ in funding and resulted in exits worth $300mn+ .   Our level of paranoia level is right at the top. The security for crypto assets must be even on a higher level than for banks. Martin Kreitmair, CEO and Co-Founder Tangany   The FounderWe talk to the CEO and Co-Founder Martin Kreitmair (https://www.linkedin.com/in/martin-kreitmair). He is not only with Tangany, but also a member of the Board of Germany’s blockchain association called Bundesblock (https://bundesblock.de/).  He has a master’s in computer science and has been working at a startup for more than seven years, where he was hired as the 7th employee and saw the company grow.   First, we were two founders, …joined by former colleagues from an agency. Martin Kreitmair, CEO and Co-Founder Tangany   Martin became interested early in Blockchain and Bitcoin but was no miner – which he partly regrets now 😊. He felt like it was the right time to start his company after many years as a startup employee.   Security is key for crypto custody. Martin Kreitmair, CEO and Co-Founder Tangany The StartupTangany (https://tangany.com/)  is the all-in-one cloud suite to easily offer crypto and digital asset custody to your clients and customers. They do not offer services for retail customers, but rather to fintechs and financial institutions for save keeping of digital and crypto assets (including, but not limited to cryptocurrencies). They are a regulated custodian. The product of Tangany is a white-label tool (via API) to enable their customers like startups, so they can offer crypto wallets to their (retail)-clients. The big advantage of Tangany for their clients is that they don’t need to get a license since the company is already regulated under German law to be a custodian.   It took us a very very long time to design our architecture … to the highest thinkable level of security. Martin Kreitmair, CEO and Co-Founder Tangany   Excited about a Digital EuroTangany would be quite happy if a digital Euro, based on Blockchain is realized, this would be a huge opportunity for them. Since every citizen would need a digital wallet as Tangany could provide.   I am very convinced that a digital Euro will come, one way or another. Martin Kreitmair, CEO and Co-Founder Tangany  Venture Capital FundingTangany raised a venture capital round in January 2020 and currently, they are in preparation for another round.   Further Readings / Additional Resources  Custodian https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/custodian.asp   Feedback  Reach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email   Follow us on Social MediaInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

This Month in German Startups - January 2021  Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io - in a transatlantic news recording with Chris in New York City. This is the first news episode of 2021, but you can have a look at our 2020 review.    Today we are wrapping up January 2021 for you. There is great news in the German startup scene, from two new unicorns to a much anticipated IPO of Auto1 (will be raising at least 1.5 bn Euros), Delivery Hero goes VC and there may be Amazon TV/Radio in Germany.    Housekeeping - Time to brag Just a bit of bragging today: Listen Up! Here’s Your Guide To European Tech And Startup Podcasts In English https://buff.ly/39S3qyR    Top NewsWe have two new unicornsMambu - Germany’s newest Fintech Unicorn offers Banking Software as SaaS https://buff.ly/3oNEHC2 - Without them, no N26. They provide the software, which enables challenger banks like them.Munich-based HR scaleup Personio lands €103.5 million Series D funding and a €1.4 billion valuation https://buff.ly/35QYn0pRelated: Start-Up Personio Joins Circle of Unicorns - Technical University of Munich - School of Management https://buff.ly/2YgKm7W   Delivery Hero raises 1.2 bn in fresh capitalDelivery Hero raises 1.2 bn Euros (1.47 bn US$) in new funding, selling "in hours" 9.44 mn new shares for 132 Euros each https://buff.ly/394ZFFQRelated:Delivery Hero starts their own Corporate Venture Fund called DX Ventures with 50 m Euros https://buff.ly/2MPUt11   Auto1 IPOAuto1 IPO will be raising a minimum of 1.5 bn Euros (2.2 bn US$) https://buff.ly/3plC62nOlder articles related to this IPO - you can see the fundraising went up 500 million More details of the planned IPO of Auto1 Group emerge. They want to list in 2021 Q1 in Frankfurt in Prime Standard. Out of 1 bn € to be raised 250 m will pay back convertibles, 750 m will be invested in further growth https://buff.ly/38Hq0uz Used-car platform AUTO1 to float in Frankfurt, looking to raise 1 bn Euros from selling new shares, with a valuation of 6-8 bn Euros https://buff.ly/3bxbWWx    Amazon TV or Radio Station in Germany?Amazon has filed paperwork in Germany to get a broadcast license. The filing dates to November 2020 https://buff.ly/3bW0Mur    Wirecard We keep you updated, just a small selection of news here.  Keep in mind there is still an investigative committee ongoing. Oliver Samwer from Rocket Internet gave a private loan to Markus Braun from Wirecard of 75 mn Euros (91 m US$), which he demanded back rather harshly, shortly before Wirecard filed for insolvency https://buff.ly/3bW2ITUIn Austria, an investigation against former Wirecard COO Marsalek is ongoing in potential bribery of an employee of Austrian constitution protection (like their NSA). He is supposed to have checked the solvency of porn site hosts for Mr. Marsalke https://buff.ly/39eVNDz   Ecosystem Slack users in Germany were greeted in the new year with a big outage covering most of the first working day of the new year 2021 https://buff.ly/3972zd0 January 4thTech workers want to relocate to Germany more than any other country in the world https://buff.ly/2Jims8n Germany starts with the test of a countrywide patient file, called "E-Patientenakte." The users can carry around all their medical files (x-rays, reports ...) on their smartphone and grant their physician access https://buff.ly/3hHb3M4Berlin remains the capital of German Venture Capital in 2020. EY tracked 314 financing rounds, out of a total of 743 they found. according to their data, VC funding declined in #Germany in 2020 by 15% to 5.3 bn Euros (6.45 bn US$) https://buff.ly/3oMxaDEIn the most recent fintech ranking #Frankfurt is losing position No 3 to Hamburg and now only scores at No 4 https://buff.ly/3o5IeKU   Hubs Note: The order of news and cities is only due to the time when we discovered the news. FrankfurtFrankfurt-based provider of high performance computing Northern Data ... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

[A Ping-Pong table, a PlayStation or a table football] don’t help that much if the [corporate culture] is broken.  Christopher Oster, CEO and Co-Founder Clark   In this interview we are talking to a previous guest. Christopher Oster is the CEO and co-founder of Frankfurt-based insurtech clark. In the past we talk to him about the appearance of Clark on Bloomberg’s list of startups to watch, back in 2017. Now they raised an 85 m US$ series C venture capital round, with noteworthy investor Tencent from China. We talk to him about the funding, the way to the funding and their plans.    Insurance has still not really penetrated by technology … you have unhappy customers … this is a great opportunity for a founder. Christopher Oster, CEO and Co-Founder Clark  EnablerThis recording was made possible by (Hessen Trade and Invest). Learn more about our enabler here: in-hessen.com/">https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/   In 2015 there was almost no funding for insurtech startups, it all started in 2016 Christopher Oster, CEO and Co-Founder Clark    The FounderIn this interview we are talking to Christopher (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-christopher-oster-3158802/) the CEO and co-founder of Frankfurt-based insurtech clark. In the past we talk to him about the appearance of Clark on Bloombergs list of startups to watch, back in 2017.   You have a paper folder with your insurance policies, but nobody checks if the insurance policies still matches your life.  Christopher Oster, CEO and Co-Founder Clark   The Startup  The startup was built by a group of four friends, who to together, since they could not find the help they wanted with their insurance needs. The whole founding team is still on board, more than 5 years after the company was set up Crunchbase (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/clark-2), company website (https://www.clark.de/).     An average German has six insurance policies with 4 different insurance carriers. Christopher Oster, CEO and Co-Founder Clark   The Interview from 2017  The whole blog post is here: https://www.startuprad.io/interviews/clark-de-startup-germany-bloombergs-list-50-promising-startups/ Or just tune in to the interview here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3xryTBqaxncpSrnXO3L3QQ?si=2qC09ZDDTJ6XnewH7_LMvg   For our series a, we talked to 300 VCs or so. There was a lot of uncertainty and many other companies started as well. Christopher Oster, CEO and Co-Founder Clark   Feedback  Reach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder, and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email   Follow us on Social MediaInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Media PartnershipThis podcast is in media partnership with the FinTech Forum (http://www.fintechforum.de/). The FinTech Forum - launched 2013 in Frankfurt am Main - is the first and largest hub for FinTechs in Continental Europe, with a community of more than 12.000 companies. With more than 17 events, with more than 270 startups on stage, and more than 1.000 investors and financial institutions. FTF alumni have raised $310mn+ in funding and resulted in exits worth $300mn+.   The FounderIn this interview, we talk to Friedrich von Jagow (https://www.linkedin.com/in/friedrich-von-jagow-9778bbb8/), a lawyer by training. He also holds a degree (LL.M.) in Law & Economics, since he was always interested in economics. During his training as a lawyer, he also chooses a station at the German Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai, China. After his final examination, he started with Wirecard but then left to set up his own company. This company turned out to be Commnex, the idea which he has developed with a friend and a professor over a glass of wine.   The StartupThe Munich-based FinTech CommneX (https://www.commnex.de/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/commnex-gmbh) established the digital platform as an online-marketplace for the Public Finance market. Public entities such as municipalities, cities, districts, or enterprises such as utility works or public transport may tender their financial needs on CommneX. Banks and other financial partners submit offers and the best match is found. CommneX provides an all-in-one platform for all financial needs from loans and credits to fund deposits of any size and term, saving products, and public subsidy programs.   Commnex on Social MediaLinkedIn Xing Twitter   The Audio Interview is set to go live at the same timeThe Audio Podcast will be published at the same time. Please give us a bit to post the Spotify link here. In the meantime, you can subscribe to our podcasts here   Feedback  Reach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email   Follow us on Social MediaInstagram https://www.instagram.com/startuprad.io/ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/4837115/ Twitter https://twitter.com/startuprad_io Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

This Month in German Startups - 2020 Review  Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io - in a transatlantic news recording with Chris in New York City. This is an annual tradition, where we look at the past year and forward into the coming one. Not to mention, we have been totally wrong last year with the outlook, so we are more sticking to the review this year.   Today we bring you an overview of the German startup corona aid, an overview of the German startup scene, lists of top startup stories, a few outlooks on 2021, and a bit of wine :-)    Ecosystem  European Startup Scene 2020 - Snapshothttps://2020.stateofeuropeantech.com/chapter/state-european-tech-2020/article/exec-sum/   8 crucial takeaways from Atomico's recently-launched The State of European Tech 2020 report | via Silicon Canals https://buff.ly/3m6MxVg ‘Megarounds’ helped European Tech ecosystem growWhile many founders found it more challenging to get funding, 2020 is on track to be a record year, with potential to surpass $41B invested, driven by more $100M+ deals.Germany is projected 23 bn US$Low capital, pivoting the product, and sales decline hit founders hardest in 2020International investment hasn’t dried upFrance is the only one of Europe’s three largest markets to grow in 2020. London remains the biggest investment hub in 2020Travel sector gets notably low investmentsInvestment in purpose-driven tech companies soarsGender and racial inequality still prevails in the European tech ecosystem  List: 10 biggest healthtech stories of 2020 https://buff.ly/3aQlnjv  The guinea pigs of Germany’s new healthcare revolutionBioNTech: the German biotech startup behind the coronavirus vaccine  Hot or not: Where European VC funding went in 2020 by Pitchbook https://buff.ly/3nMSzf7 - Difference to Atomico ⇒ Different source for data ... UK still has the largest VC market in total (13.7 bn $), but Germany (6.8 bn $) grew three times as fast with 10.9% vs UK’s +1.7% BUT this may also be due to Brexit. We will see what 2021 brings. According to Pitchbook France grew by an astonishing 25.4% to a total of 6.1 bn $. The other markets in Europe surpassing 1 bn $ are Sweden (3.2 bn$), Spain (1.4 bn$), and Finland (1.2 bn$).   These are the 10 largest funding rounds of Europe in 2020 https://buff.ly/2W1KGX8  including AUTO1 Group, Tier Scooters and Lilium from Germany   German Startup Scene 2020 - Snapshot Deutscher Startup Monitor https://deutscherstartupmonitor.de/ This is an annual survey by the German startup association, this year more than 1.900 startups participated.The largest share of the - participating startups - (note, there is a bias here) have been inBerlin 17,7%Rhein-Rhur (Cologne, Düsseldorf, …) 12.8%Munich 6.5%Hamburg 5.8%This is one of the reasons we try to highlight so many startups from different areas, since not only every 5th startup is in Berlin. Please note that we try to have approx. 20% of our interviews from Berlin, to give these startups also a fair representation.On average a startup in the survey employed 14.3 employees, up from 13.3 in 2019 and 12.3 in 2018. Despite Corona, 90% were planning to hire people. 15.9% of founders are female in this survey, slightly up from the previous years (15.7% in ‘19 and 15.1% ‘18)Universities play a central role as a core for a startup cluster, especially Germany’s Technische Hochschule (technical universities aka TU) e.g. TU München, KIT, RWTH Aachen, LMU München, Universität Mannheim, Universität Bremen, WHU, TU Berlin, TU Darmstadt and FU Berlin.~ 20% of founders have a migration backgroundThe most important technology is AI, more than 26.7% of startups had a SaaS business model68.8% of all startups focus on B2B, 26.5% on B2C, and 4.7% on B2G (Business to Government)The most important funding sources are the founder's own savings (used by 78.4%), government programs (used by 44.3%), and business angels (used by 31.6%). Actually... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Meet epap.app, they want to re-invent receipts  In Europe you can pay with your phone or your watch, but you will still get a paper receipt. Jannis Dust, CMO and Co-Founder epap.app  The FounderJannis (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jannisdust/, https://twitter.com/jannisdust, ) is in his early 20s, but already the co-founder of Hannover, Germany based fintech Epap (https://epap.app/).  Originally Jannis was working on a freelance basis for eCommerce startups, but in 2018 he met his co-founders during a startup event.   In Germany the tax code demands to print a receipt for every transaction. This leads to a lot of waste. Jannis Dust, CMO and Co-Founder epap.app   Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d Looking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye   With the app you could also track your spending. It is a companion of your spending. … with the app you get an evaluation on your spending. Jannis Dust, CMO and Co-Founder epap.app   The StartupThe startup is young, it was registered in the Hannover Commercial Registry in April 2020. None-the-less epap.app (https://epap.app/) wants to digitize recipes. In Germany, the tax regulations were changed at the start of 2020. This is called “the obligation to print receipts”. So for each transaction in a store or shop, the merchant needs to provide a receipt, mostly paper-based. This leads to a lot of waste and searching if one needs to find an important receipt in order to claim the warranty. Here the digitalization of epap comes in, since one has all receipts (digital and scans of paper-based ones) in one place, even with little reminders for warranties.   The Epap AppYou can download the epap app in the Apple and Google Stores here: Google Play and App Store   With the app you can also claim the warranty, where you can use epap … we make it easier. You get little reminders for your warranty. Jannis Dust, CMO and Co-Founder epap.app  Venture Capital FundingEpap is looking to expand to German-speaking Europe and willing to try other European countries if the opportunity presents itself. They had their first seed investment round in April 2020 and are planning to raise the next financing round in the first half of 2021, but it will be an extended seed round, they do not plan to scale that fast. Currently, the team is eight people strong.    Our goal is to provide you with a very comprehensive and granular analysis of your expenses. In a normal finance apps, you see the category. In our app the analysis is based on the digital receipt. Jannis Dust, CMO and Co-Founder epap.app     FeedbackReach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Meet Berlin-based Fintech Bitbond, the Company Behind Germany's First Regulated Security Token Offering  In spring 2019 we issued our tokenized bond and with that, we established tokenized securities in Germany. Radoslav Albrecht, Founder and CEO of Bitbond Media PartnershipThis podcast is in media partnership with the Crypto Assets Conference, an event taking place each year in spring and autumn in Frankfurt, organized by the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and their Blockchain Center. You can learn more about the conference here: assets-conference.de/">https://www.crypto-assets-conference.de/ You can learn more about Philipp Sandner, head of the Blockchain Center in our interview with him here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/the-german-bill-to-permit-crypto-securities/ What we are most interested in is to speak to companies, who are interested in tokenization. … to partner up with Bitbond to enhance their tokenization capabilities Radoslav Albrecht, Founder and CEO of Bitbond   The InterviewFind all the links, show notes, and the automated transcript here on our blog post: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/podcast-meet-berlin-based-fintech-bitbond-the-company-behind-germanys-first-regulated-security-token-offering/ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

DueDash wants to help startups become investable and network with potential investors[Startup] Investment is not an event, it is a process Parul Madan, Co-Founder DueDash  The FounderIn this interview we talk to the investor and founder Parul Madan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/parulmadan/), who is the co-founder of the entrepreneur network DueDash (https://community.duedash.com/). Parul can look back at more than 11 years as an employee in well-known companies (Ericson, Unitymedia (now part of Vodafone Germany)). The jobs brought her from India to Germany and the US. After some time in India, she came back to Germany with her family and set up shop in Cologne, Germany. She helped to start the founder institute in Cologne Germany as a Director of the chapter, as well as a mentor https://fi.co/apply/cologne   We try to help with the information asymmetry between startups and investors Parul Madan, Co-Founder DueDash   DueDashIf you don’t like Patreon, there is DueDash. DueDash is a Social Network, for startups and investors. We have a group of supporters there as well. You can join the group here:  https://buff.ly/2R90PYp   Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d Looking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye   The StartupDueDash is a social network, which aims to solve the information asymmetry between startups and investors when investing in early-stage companies. The idea came from the personal background of the founders, being active as a business angel. The actual product of DueDash is not available yet, the team is looking at Q1 2021 to launch it. Therefore they flipped their go to market strategy and first launched the social network part of their idea. One of our goals is that the investment should reach the people who deserve it Parul Madan, Co-Founder DueDash Feedback  Reach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

The Fintech Review is one of the annual traditions of Joe, established in 2014. Ever since shortly before Christmas we get together with Fintech entrepreneurs, event organizers, and thought leaders to look back at the year and forward to the new one in our fintech review. You can find the ones in English here on YouTube:   https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUbiCAQc22WsxyePUkzBI-LKh1y4yy0sq   In this Fintech Review, we talk to  Paolo Sironi, Fintech Thought Leader, Author (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thepsironi/)  Frank Schwab, Co-Founder Fintech Forum (https://www.linkedin.com/in/frankschwab/)  Luka Ivicev, Fintech Entrepreneur, Forbes 30 under 30 (linkedin.com/in/luka-ivicevic/)    Paolos Top 3 News Ant Financial IPO https://www.npr.org/2020/11/03/930799521/regulators-squash-giant-ant-ipo?t=1607260457756   Google Pay Relaunch https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/11/google-pay-relaunch-transforms-it-into-a-full-fledged-financial-service/#:~:text=Google%20today%20announced%20a%20major,Pay%2C%20and%20even%20some%20banks.   Singapore allows fully digital bank license https://www.straitstimes.com/business/banking/mas-awards-digital-full-bank-licences-to-grab-singtel-and-sea-ant-gets-digital   3b Starling digital bank posts first profit  https://www.financemagnates.com/fintech/news/starling-becomes-first-digital-bank-to-post-profits/#:~:text=UK%2Dbased%20Starling%20Bank%20has,million%20on%20an%20annualized%20basis.   Paolo's 2020 impact Digitalization increases, evaluations declining    Franks Top 3 News Cash is still increasing ⇒ Cash in circulation in Germany increasing ⇒ Virtual ATM Songmic Pandemic ⇒ All becomes digital Moving from CrowdFunding ⇒ Government Help for Startups: Capilendo  Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Meet Europe’s most important Seed Investor  We are the most active seed investor in Europe. Alex von Frankenberg, MD HTGF  The InvestorAlexander “Alex” von Frankenberg  (https://www.linkedin.com/in/justdoitalex/, https://twitter.com/Justdoitalex, https://www.crunchbase.com/person/alexander-von-frankenberg) is Managing Director of Germany’s High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF). We helped to raise 2,8 bn Euros in follow-on funding for our portfolio companies. Alex von Frankenberg, MD HTGF HTGF is a venture capital investor with private (like BASF, Bayer, Braun, Boehringer Ingelheim, Cewe, Dräger, Haniel, Lanxess, RWE, SAP, …) and public LPs (KfW, German Federal Government). The fund has approximately 890 m € (1 bn US$) in assets under management and close to 600 seed investments. focuses its investments in Europe, especially Germany, but also invests across the world – even at a lesser degree. In my experience in the venture business: It is really the “long tail” that matters ... it is also in the long tail, in den deal flow, where you need to find the hidden gems  Alex von Frankenberg, MD HTGF Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d Looking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye   I think our record was 28 days between first meeting the startup and signing the [investment] contract. Alex von Frankenberg, MD HTGF     The FundIn 2005 HTGF  (https://www.htgf.de/en/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/high-tech-gr%C3%BCnderfonds, https://twitter.com/HTGF, https://www.linkedin.com/company/high-tech-grunderfonds/) was established as a private-public partnership, to compensate – at the time – for the lack of active, domestic seed investors. Just two years after the bursting of the dot com bubble many seed investors went out of business and so an expert group of the German government recommended setting up a fund. The private investors helped HTGF to develop into a real venture fund, not only a public funding entity. I reply to every email, even one that would just say “Yo, we should talk”.  Alex von Frankenberg, MD HTGF   On average it takes three months between the first contact with HTGF and its investment. Note this may vary significantly during corona and maybe some time afterwards. HTGF always takes the role of a lead investor in a seed-stage investment. This is due to their history. In later rounds, they will give up the role of a lead investor.   HTGF IVHTGF is currently raising its fourth fund and is looking to close the fund in June 2022.   We not only open doors at our LPs for our portfolio companies, we also know many many other companies. Alex von Frankenberg, MD HTGF   Further Readings / Additional Resources  Dot-com bubble: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble, bubble.asp">https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dotcom-bubble.asp  We can invest globally, but we are focusing on Germany. Alex von Frankenberg, MD HTGF   FeedbackReach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The InterviewerThis interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

This Month in German Startups - December 2020  Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io - in a transatlantic news recording with Chris in New York City.   Welcome to the Chris-mas edition :-)    Today we are wrapping up December 2020 for you. Please keep in mind that due to the holidays and the current lockdown in Germany we are recording this news on December 15th. All news not included here will be part of our January warp-up and there will be a 2020 review 2021outlook as well.   Today we bring you news about the 10 bn investment package of the German government, the new DAX, Peter Thiel’s investments in Germany, Taxes, AI, and much more.    EnablerThis recording was made possible by (Hessen Trade and Invest). Learn more about our enabler here: in-hessen.com/">https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/   Find all options to subscribe here:  💢 Tech Startups Germany by Startuprad.io - Audio onlyiTunes https://apple.co/2Z17bflSpotify https://spoti.fi/3kCcgoB  Housekeeping - Time to brag We have only one thing to say: Stay safe everybody! Be grateful for what you have! Affiliate LinksThe current situation with the Coronavirus-related lockdown is frequently compared to severe economic recessions including, but not limited to the 2008 Financial Crisis and the Stock Market Crash of 1929. If you want to know more, consider these books below. “Galbraith was asked by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. if he would write the definitive work on the Great Depression that he would then use as a reference source for his own intended work on Roosevelt.” (from Wikipedia) - The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith https://amzn.to/3cl41sAEssays on the Great Depression https://amzn.to/2VvEsht by former Fed Chairmen Ben S. Bernanke “an American economist at the Brookings Institution[3] who served two terms as Chair of the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the United States, from 2006 to 2014” (from Wikipedia)From John Kenneth Galbraith as well: A Short History of Financial Euphoria https://amzn.to/2VxngbgA great book on crashes, bubbles, and economic uncertainty, in general, is “Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation” by Edward Chancellor https://amzn.to/2VaUDSlAll the news and links here https://www.startuprad.io/blog/this-month-in-german-startups-december-2020/ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

The BISON App Allows Uncomplicated and Reliable Trading of Cryptocurrencies on the Smartphone   We were the first to provide crypto buying and selling from an in Germany licensed institution. Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart Media Partnership This podcast is in media partnership with the Crypto Assets Conference, an event taking place each year in spring and autumn in Frankfurt, organized by the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and their Blockchain Center. You can learn more about the conference here: assets-conference.de/">https://www.crypto-assets-conference.de/ You can learn more about Philipp Sandner, head of the Blockchain Center in our interview with him here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/the-german-bill-to-permit-crypto-securities/   The Chief Digital Officer This time we talk to Ulli Spankowski (https://de.linkedin.com/in/ulli-spankowski-08652916, https://twitter.com/uspankowski?lang=en, https://www.crunchbase.com/person/ulli-spankowski ) a fintech and blockchain entrepreneur, who sold his company to the Stuttgart Stock Exchange, which than promoted him to be the CDO (Chief Digital Officer). He is an economist by training, who did his PhD in market microstructure. He co-founded his fintech startup with co-founders from Slovenia.   We met with the CIO of Börse Stuttgart - back then - and discussed what can be done with financial markets in the future, if you completely rethink it, based on blockchain technology. Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart   Affiliate Links Is your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d Looking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye   Bitcoin was much bigger in Slovenia. When my co-founder told me to do something in bitcoin, I said … Bit-What? Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart   The Startup Back in 2013, Ulli founded his startup Sowa Labs together with co-founders from Slovenia, which he met during an EU funded project during his Ph.D. Thesis. The idea of aggregating data from across the web and social media on cryptocurrencies evolved into cryptocurrency trading. They then sold the startup to the Stuttgart Stock Exchange in 2017 and developed what has become their BISON app: https://bisonapp.com/en/ (App Store, Google Play Store). This was not a bad move, since Börse Stuttgart is the market leader in Europe as a trading venue for retail structured products and one of the 10 largest stock exchanges in Europe.   We started out with cryptocurrencies, but we are planning to move gradually into security tokens. Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart     When I was attending conferences [at the beginning of cryptocurrencies] I always said “The biggest problem of cryptocurrencies is that no one cares about them” Ulli Spankowski, CDO Börse Stuttgart     Further Readings / Additional Resources Market Microstructure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Market_microstructure  Börse Stuttgart: stuttgart.de/en/">https://www.boerse-stuttgart.de/en/ Multilateral trading facility: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilateral_trading_facility Euwax (The market for retail structured products, not related to BISON, but we talk about it as an offering of Börse Stuttgart): stuttgart.de/en/investing/euwax-segment/">https://www.boerse-stuttgart.de/en/investing/euwax-segment/ OTC Trading: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/o/otc.asp AML: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/aml.asp     Feedback Reach out to us, here is our audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA   The Interviewer This interview was conducted by Jörn “Joe” Menninger, startup scout, founder, and host of Startuprad.io. Reach out to him: LinkedIn Twitter Email Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Amazing Blocks can tokenize Any Asset LegallyMedia PartnershipThis podcast is in media partnership with crypto assets conference, an event taking place each year in spring and autumn in Frankfurt, organized by the Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and their Blockchain Center. You can learn more about the conference here: assets-conference.de/">https://www.crypto-assets-conference.de/ You can learn more about Philipp Sandner, head of the Blockchain Center in our interview with him here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/the-german-bill-to-permit-crypto-securities/ The asset can be located anywhere, as long as it is legally owned by the SPV. Nicolas Weber, Amazing Blocks   The Interview PartnerWe talk to Nicolas Weber (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas97weber/), in charge of business development Germany for Amazing Blocks (https://my.amazingblocks.io/).   Blockchain has the ability to disrupt every aspect of business. Nicolas Weber, Amazing Blocks Affiliate LinksWhy not learn from entrepreneurs and executives who are open to share their favorite books. We skimmed through some recommendations and that is what we found. Recommended by: Bill Gates “Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker” https://amzn.to/2XAENlBRecommended by: Jeff Bezos “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras” https://amzn.to/2RGKGKeRecommended by: Elon Musk “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel” https://amzn.to/2REbHhwRecommended by: Tony Hsieh “Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan” https://amzn.to/34KgraQRecommended by: Warren Buffet “Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales From the World of Wall Street by John Brooks” https://amzn.to/2K92z06Recommended by: Tim Cook “Competing Against Time by George Stalk and Thomas Hout” https://amzn.to/3cjMMYn Liechtenstein implemented the Token Act as a complete new law, other than for examples Switzerland, which is currently looking at adding to existing laws. Nicolas Weber, Amazing Blocks Find all the links and show notes on our blog here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/amazing-blocks-can-tokenize-any-asset-legally/ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Sciflow helps you to write the best possible research paperMicrosoft Word was never meant to write scientific papers in it Carsten Borchert, Co-Founder Sciflow Media PartnershipThis interview is in media partnership with the CONTENTshif accelerator program (https://www.contentshift.de/en/accelerator/programme/for-startups/), which we follow since its inception. CONTENTshift is the accelerator program of the German Book Publishers and Printers Association. Below you will find more interviews from past batches. We used to record the interviews directly at Frankfurt Book Fair, but since it is canceled this year due to Corona, we resorted to remote only interviews.   Contentshift Winner 2020The winner of this year’s batch is Sciflow (https://www.contentshift.de/en/contentshift/news/congratulations-to-sciflow/). We will publish the exclusive interview with them as the last of our series this year. There is no software without an error. You just need to find them Carsten Borchert, Co-Founder Sciflow  The FounderWe are talking to Carsten Borchert (https://www.linkedin.com/in/carstenborchert/), co-founder of the Berlin-based startup Sciflow (https://www.sciflow.net/en/). His life took him from an internship in South Africa through positions in well-known companies like Bertelsmann or Oracle. He learned how to sell software, which comes in handy right now. Carsten also holds a position in the alumni startup association of FU Berlin, where he helps startups founded by current or former FU Berlin students.   I was a software quality engineer and basically my job was to crash software. … That was a lot of fun Carsten Borchert, Co-Founder Sciflow Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d Looking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye   Blog Post with all Linkshttps://www.startuprad.io/blog/sciflow-helps-you-to-write-the-best-possible-research-paper/ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Learn from Maria – Investor in several of Germany’s renowned startupsNormally you want to invest in people who you already know. Maria Pennanen, Startup Investor   The EnablerThis interview is part of our series of startups and investors in the startup scene in the state of Hessen. The whole series is sponsored by Hessen Trade and Invest, you can learn more about our enabler here: in-hessen.com">www.invest-in-hessen.com Startup investment is a very risky business Maria Pennanen, Startup Investor   The InvestorIn this interview we talk to Maria Pennanen, she is known to our established audience as co-founder of Accelerator Frankfurt, but she is also a Business Angel with more than 10 direct investments. Directly and indirectly, she is or was invested in many renowned startups like Solarisbank, Clark, Bankify, Savedo or Finance Ads. You can learn more about Maria here: Twitter: https://twitter.com/pennanenmariaLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mariapennanen/Accelerator Frankfurt: https://www.acceleratorfrankfurt.com/Mindclip: https://www.mindclip.com/  The best thing to start is joining a business angel organization Maria Pennanen, Startup Investor   The AuthorMaria is also the author of the book “how to f*ck up your startup” in which she helps entrepreneurs to learn from failures. You can find the eBook here https://amzn.to/3oa2Stw   Affiliate LinksWhy not learn from entrepreneurs and executives who are open to share their favorite books. We skimmed through some recommendations and that is what we found. Recommended by: Bill Gates “Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker” https://amzn.to/2XAENlBRecommended by: Jeff Bezos “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras” https://amzn.to/2RGKGKeRecommended by: Elon Musk “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel” https://amzn.to/2REbHhwRecommended by: Tony Hsieh “Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan” https://amzn.to/34KgraQRecommended by: Warren Buffet “Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales From the World of Wall Street by John Brooks” https://amzn.to/2K92z06Recommended by: Tim Cook “Competing Against Time by George Stalk and Thomas Hout” https://amzn.to/3cjMMYnIt is very rare that you invest in an idea from people you just met, especially in seed. Maria Pennanen, Startup Investor Find all information and an automated transcript here:  https://www.startuprad.io/blog/learn-from-maria-investor-in-several-of-germanys-renowned-startups/ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

This Month in German Startups - November 2020  Welcome to This Month in German Startups by Startuprad.io - in a transatlantic news recording with Chris in New York City.  Today we are wrapping up November 2020 for you with an update on German startups working on corona vaccines, Flixbus, Finleap, Rocket Internet’s ongoing delisting, and a potential digital Euro   Enabler This recording was made possible by (Hessen Trade and Invest). Learn more about our enabler here: in-hessen.com/">https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/   Find all options to subscribe here:  Tech Startups Germany by Startuprad.io - Audio PodcastiTunes https://apple.co/2Z17bflSpotify https://spoti.fi/3kCcgoB   Housekeeping - Time to brag  We have only one thing to say: Stay safe everybody! Be grateful for what you have!  Affiliated Links Why not learn from entrepreneurs and executives who are open to share their favorite books. We skimmed through some recommendations and that is what we found. ·        Recommended by: Bill Gates  “Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker” https://amzn.to/2XAENlB ·        Recommended by: Jeff Bezos  “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras” https://amzn.to/2RGKGKe ·        Recommended by: Elon Musk  “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel” https://amzn.to/2REbHhw ·        Recommended by: Tony Hsieh “Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan” https://amzn.to/34KgraQ ·        Recommended by: Warren Buffet  “Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales From the World of Wall Street by John Brooks” https://amzn.to/2K92z06 ·        Recommended by: Tim Cook  “Competing Against Time by George Stalk and Thomas Hout” https://amzn.to/3cjMMYn Show Notes, Links and more reading https://www.startuprad.io/blog/this-month-in-german-startups-november-2020/ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

(+)plural makes Children Books for Blind and Visually Impaired Children AffordableBlind and visually impaired children learn Braille [writing for blind] only in school, so we had to re-think children books for blind and visually impaired Christina Oskui, Co-Founder PlusPlural   Media PartnershipThis interview is in media partnership with the CONTENTshif accelerator program (https://www.contentshift.de/en/accelerator/programme/for-startups/), which we follow since its inception. CONTENTshift is the accelerator program of the German Book Publishers and Printers Association. Below you will find more interviews from past batches. We used to record the interviews directly at Frankfurt Book Fair, but since it is canceled this year due to Corona, we resorted to remote only interviews. At the time of the recording, we did not know who won the final award. The winner of this year’s batch is SciFlow (https://www.contentshift.de/en/contentshift/news/congratulations-to-sciflow/). We will publish the exclusive interview with them as the last of our series this year.   Three things remain with us from paradise: stars, flowers, and children. Dante Alighieri  The FounderThis time we speak to the co-founder of (+)plural (spoken plus plural http://www.plusplural.de/) Christina Oskui (https://www.linkedin.com/in/christina-oskui-825b8615a/, https://www.contentshift.de/en/accelerator/participants-2020/christina-oskui/). Christina wrote her first children’s book about an hedgehog, who lost his spikes, finance with a crowdfunding campaign on StartNext (https://www.startnext.com/en/kinderbuch-igel). During the writing she also designed plush figures to go along with the book (owl, rabbit, duck), but she could not find any publisher who wanted to publish the books together with the stuffed animals. During this time she also realized that books for blind and visually impaired children are extremely expensive, due to the high amount of manual labor going into each book. Also, books catering to sighted and blind children at the same time are not available. So she aims with her social startup (+)plural and modern production techniques to change that and make affordable books for all children. There have been no books that blind and non-blind people can read at the same time. Christina Oskui, Co-Founder PlusPlural   Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d Looking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye   A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires. Paulo Coelho   The StartupBlind children learn Braille writing only in school, so many children have a very small choice of books they can enjoy. The high price comes from a large amount of manual labor going into these books (gluing, stitching, stapling of different textures, textiles, and pieces to the book).  A friend of hers has a blind child who only likes part of one of its books. (+)plural (http://www.plusplural.de/) combines 3d printing, modern manufacturing, and picture books to make affordable picture books for blind and sighted children. The books include stuffed animals, as well as 3d printed parts. (+)plural is a social enterprise.   Venture Capital Funding(+)plural is at a very early stage, but they are open to talk to external investors. They are also looking for partners for sale and distribution for their books.   My first book was about a hedgehog who lost is spikes and I designed a stuffed animal, which went along with the story Christina Oskui, Co-Founder PlusPlural   Further Readings / Additional RessourcesBraille webster.com/dictionary/braille">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/braille Zentralbibliothek für Blinde https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Central_Library_for... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Where to set up Shop in Canada You can get anything here you can in Silicon Valley and all over the US. Ishu Sing, Host “Starting to know business”   Media Exchange This is the first media exchange we are doing. We talk with Ishu Sing (Website, LinkedIn), founder of the Toronto based podcast Starting to Know Business (iTunes, Listen Notes). We thought it would be great to look at the respective countries. So, in this audio-only cooperation, we will talk about where to look if you want to evaluate entering Canada, as a startup based abroad. In his part of the cooperation, we will talk about the diversity of Germany and that there is no default choice for setting up shop in the country as well.   Strong and interesting startups are all over Canada. Ishu Sing, Host “Starting to know business”   Canada Canada is a G7 nation and should be on the list for international expansion for every aspiring startup. For some, it could be the first choice in North America. https://www.canada.ca/en.html   Affiliate Links Why not learn from entrepreneurs and executives who are open to share their favorite books. We skimmed through some recommendations and that is what we found. ·         Recommended by: Bill Gates “Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker” https://amzn.to/2XAENlB ·         Recommended by: Jeff Bezos “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras” https://amzn.to/2RGKGKe ·         Recommended by: Elon Musk “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel” https://amzn.to/2REbHhw ·         Recommended by: Tony Hsieh “Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan” https://amzn.to/34KgraQ ·         Recommended by: Warren Buffet “Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales From the World of Wall Street by John Brooks” https://amzn.to/2K92z06 ·         Recommended by: Tim Cook “Competing Against Time by George Stalk and Thomas Hout” https://amzn.to/3cjMMYn   In Canada we have 3.5 million entrepreneurs. Ishu Sing, Host “Starting to know business”   Startup Hubs in Canada   I feel that right now the startups in Toronto are developing a bit faster than Vancouver … Toronto is growing very very strong. Ishu Sing, Host “Starting to know business”   Toronto We start with the largest city by population and the home town of Ishu, Toronto (https://www.toronto.ca/). Much of the startup activity is here concentrated in the so-called MaRs Discovery District. MaRs was originally founded in 2000 to commercialize public-funded research with local companies. You can learn more here: https://www.marsdd.com/   Montreal is coming up with lots of strong tech startups as well. Ishu Sing, Host “Starting to know business”   Montreal The second-largest city in Canada, also close to the US border. This city is home to the French-speaking population of Canada, French Canadians. A knowledge of French is not required, but helpful. You can learn more about the startup scene in the city here: https://www.bonjourstartupmtl.ca/en/ as well as find some examples of Montreal based startups here: https://builtinmtl.com/.   Vancouver Vancouver is located on the pacific coast of Canada. They have been one of the first tech hubs in Canada. They are also close to Seattle, with the headquarters of Amazon and Microsoft. You can learn more about the local startup scene on the Vancouver based blog https://techcouver.com/   Calgary A few people may remember Calgary from the Olympic Winter Games in 2010. If not, it is located to the north of the population centers in Canada, in the Rocky Mountains. Note that the city is even for Canada a bit on the chilly side. The focus of the city is mostly on energy like fossil f... --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Artificial Connect uses AI to generate automated local event announcementsIn Hannover [a city of 790.000] there are 40.000 to 60.000 events in a normal year. The problem of the publishers was to first generate all the event information and second to write articles about them. Felix Rolf, CEO Artificial Connect   Media PartnershipThis interview is in media partnership with the CONTENTshif accelerator program (https://www.contentshift.de/en/accelerator/programme/for-startups/), which we follow since its inception. CONTENTshift is the accelerator program of the German Book Publishers and Printers Association. Below you will find more interviews from past batches. We used to record the interviews directly at Frankfurt Book Fair, but since it is canceled this year due to Corona, we resorted to remote only interviews. At the time of the recording, we did not know who won the final award. The winner of this year’s batch is SciFlow (https://www.contentshift.de/en/contentshift/news/congratulations-to-sciflow/). We will publish the exclusive interview with them as the last of our series this year. The FounderIn this interview, we are talking to Felix Rolf (https://www.linkedin.com/in/felix-rolf-526a4894/) the founder and CEO of Artificial Connect (connect.com/">https://www.artificial-connect.com/), an AI startup located in the beautiful city of Hannover. Felix originally started with an advertising conglomerate with roots in newspaper publishing, where he got to work in several departments. He enjoyed his time in digitalization projects, especially in data science. During his time there he worked at the intersection of data science and sales. I participated in a boot camp for three months to learn about the statistical tools needed for data science. Felix Rolf, CEO Artificial Connect Affiliate LinksWhy not learn from entrepreneurs and executives who are open to sharing their favorite books. We skimmed through some recommendations and that is what we found. Recommended by: Bill Gates “Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker” https://amzn.to/2XAENlBRecommended by: Jeff Bezos “Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies by Jim Collins and Jerry Porras” https://amzn.to/2RGKGKeRecommended by: Elon Musk “Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel” https://amzn.to/2REbHhwRecommended by: Tony Hsieh “Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan” https://amzn.to/34KgraQRecommended by: Warren Buffet “Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales From the World of Wall Street by John Brooks” https://amzn.to/2K92z06Recommended by: Tim Cook “Competing Against Time by George Stalk and Thomas Hout” https://amzn.to/3cjMMYn Find all links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/podcast-artificial-connect-uses-ai-to-generate-automated-local-event-announcements/ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support

Scriptbakery taught an AI to analyze manuscripts and the emotions of a potential reader98% of the manuscripts sent to publishing houses are not read right now. Patrick Kaiser, COO Scriptbakery Media PartnershipThis interview is in media partnership with the CONTENTshif accelerator program (https://www.contentshift.de/en/accelerator/programme/for-startups/), which we follow since its inception. CONTENTshift is the accelerator program of the German Book Publishers and Printers Association. Below you will find more interviews from past batches. We used to record the interviews directly at Frankfurt Book Fair, but since it is canceled this year due to Corona, we resorted to remote only interviews. At the time of the recording, we did not know who won the final award. The winner of this year's batch is SciFlow (https://www.contentshift.de/en/contentshift/news/congratulations-to-sciflow/). We will publish the exclusive interview with them as the last of our series this year.  The FounderWe talk to Patrick Kaiser (https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrick-kaiser-5978ba1b6/), the COO of Scriptbakery (https://www.scriptbakery.de/), a Freiburg based startup, which taught its AI to analyze a book script and analyze the potential emotions of a reader. Patrick got his job as COO because he has a black belt in Kungfu. The founder of the company knows him from the Kungfu gym, where the founder was Patrick’s student.   We taught our AI with 1.7 mn data points, to make it work with all European languages Patrick Kaiser, COO Scriptbakery PatreonLearn about our interviews hours before they are released, help in the selection of the startups we interview or even suggest startups to be interviewed, by becoming a Patron: https://buff.ly/32bZ4zW   DueDashIf you don’t like Patreon, there is DueDash. DueDash is a Social Network, for startups and investors. We have a group of supporters there as well. You can join the group there:  https://buff.ly/2R90PYp   Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d Looking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye   The largest chunk we get here as scripts are biographies by Professors and Teachers who have retired Patrick Kaiser, COO Scriptbakery Blog PostFind all the links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/scriptbakery-taught-an-ai-to-analyze-manuscripts-and-the-emotions-of-a-potential-reader/ Folge direkt herunterladen --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/startupradio/support