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This is the audio track of a video startup interview by Startuprad.io. You find the whole interview here: https://www.startuprad.io/exclusive/sigmundtalks-io-helps-to-create-content-assisted-by-their-ai/   This interview is in association with CONTENTshift, the accelerator program of the Association of the German Book Publishers & Booksellers. You can learn more here https://www.contentshift.de/. The winners are announced on a live ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair each year https://www.buchmesse.de/en. The accelerator program aims to push the boundaries of publishing. In 2018 it was a first, that there has not been one winner, but two. SUMMARIZEBOT and Sigmundtalks are the two winners of 2018. In this interview, Joe talks to Marc T. Suess (CEO https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-thaddaeus-suess/) and Michael Schmitt (CTO https://www.linkedin.com/in/michlschmitt/) from the startup Sigmundtalks.io. Sigmundtalks helps solo entrepreneurs and small marketing teams to create content, assisted by their AI. The web-based AI chatbot helps in writing articles and leads the user through a journey so it can then automatically generate text for marketing. The bot is named after the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmund_Freud You can learn more at www.singmundtalks.io https://www.instagram.com/p/BrTuuoDAu9F/   © Startuprad.io - All right reserved Folge direkt herunterladen

This is the audio track of a video startup interview by Startuprad.io. You find the whole interview here:   https://www.startuprad.io/blog/ekidz-eu-helps-children-to-learn-languages/ This interview is in association with CONTENTshift, the accelerator program of the Association of the German Book Publishers & Booksellers. You can learn more here https://www.contentshift.de/. The winners are announced on a live ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair each year https://www.buchmesse.de/en. The accelerator program aims to push the boundaries of publishing. In this interview, Joe talks to Nataliya Natasha Tetruyeva (https://www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-tetruyeva-2024a84/) founder of eKidz.eu. eKidz.eu helps children to learn another language or improve the mastery of their own language. You can learn more at www.ekidz.eu © Startuprad.io - All right reserved Folge direkt herunterladen

Today we present you Frankfurt Forward’s Startup of the Month – February 2019 – as Media Partner. Unfortunately, we experienced technical difficulties, so we only have an audio podcast this time. In this interview, Startuprad.io is talking to Christina Kraus (https://www.linkedin.com/in/krauschristina/) Founder and Product Management of Frankfurt-based MeshCloud (https://www.meshcloud.io/en/meshcloud/). In this interview, we talk to Christina about MeshCloud, German Accelerator Tech, New York, what Frankfurt means to her and why cloud computing and data centers are big business in Frankfurt. “Given the cloud infrastructure there is actually no other place in Germany MeshCloud could be based” “This whole ecosystem with all the startups – within the last two years – has grown and has evolved so much, it feels like Frankfurt is growing up.” “We as a company grow up and so does the Frankfurt Ecosystem … That’s a very exciting time to be here. Because you can help shape the ecosystem” https://www.frankfurtforward.com/startups/meshcloud Folge direkt herunterladen

This is the audio track of a video startup interview by Startuprad.io. You find the whole interview here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/summarizebot-uses-ai-for-automated-summaries-of-text-video-and-audio/ In this interview, we talk to Dmitry Nedovis (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nedovis/), CEO of summarizebot (https://www.summarizebot.com/), one of the two winners of the CONTENTshift accelerator program. Summarizebot uses AI to generate automated summaries from text, video and audio. The tool works in Facebook Messenger, Slack, and other tools. Their tool can also be used for fake news detection. Their tool could even replace summaries of books and analyze the book, so automated book critiques are in the realm of the possible. They also apply summarizebot to stock market sentiment analysis. This interview is in association with CONTENTshift, the accelerator program of the Association of the German Book Publishers & Booksellers. You can learn more here https://www.contentshift.de/. The winners are announced on a live ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair each year https://www.buchmesse.de/en. The accelerator program aims to push the boundaries of publishing. In 2018 it was a first, that there has not been one winner, but two. summarizebot and Sigmundtalks are the two winners of 2018. You can learn more here: https://www.scienceroot.com/ © Startuprad.io - All right reserved Folge direkt herunterladen

This is the audio track of a video startup interview by Startuprad.io. You find the whole interview here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/evan-network-brings-heavy-machinery-on-the-blockchain/   In this interview, we talk to Thomas Mueller (not the world cup winning soccer player) https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomasxmueller/, but he is even better since he is CEO of Evan Network (https://evan.network/). Evan network enables companies to get their heavy machinery (think large construction machines like building cranes) on the blockchain. With this, the management of their machines becomes much easier, as well as renting them out. Even Networks is currently in the fund-raising phase of a traditional VC round. Evan Network is also the winner of the Blockchain Startup Summit pitch competition, which took place on Nov 15th at Frankfurt School of Management and Finance (https://www.frankfurt-school.de/), in cooperation with EU-Startups (https://www.eu-startups.com/) and us (https://www.startuprad.io/) as media partner. Thomas almost missed his award, since we interviewed him. You can see how happy he was after winning here: https://www.instagram.com/p/BqN2P8LHhqE/ © Startuprad.io - All right reserved Folge direkt herunterladen

You are listening to the audio track of a Google Hangout Chris and Joe do live every month on Youtube, discussing the startup news of the most recent month. You can join them live by joining their meetup group, where they announce every live stream: https://www.meetup.com/de-DE/Startup-Couch-TV-Talks/   Find all the links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/news/startup-news-germany-january-2019-startuprad-io/   Folge direkt herunterladen

This is the audio track of a video startup interview by Startuprad.io. You find the whole interview here:  https://youtu.be/GpEL0maFtD4 This interview is in association with CONTENTshift, the accelerator program of the Association of the German Book Publishers & Booksellers. You can learn more here https://www.contentshift.de/. The winners are announced on a live ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair each year https://www.buchmesse.de/en. The accelerator program aims to push the boundaries of publishing. In this interview, Joe talks to Vlad Guenther (https://www.linkedin.com/in/vlad-guenther/), CEO and Co-Founder of the startup Scienceroot. Scienceroot uses Blockchain to build an ecosystem for scientific research. The startup aims create an ecosystem where anyone in the scientific community around the globe will have the ability to gather funding, interact, discuss research ideas, collaborate and in the end, publish their work through a more efficient, intuitive and transparent platform. You can learn more at www.scienceroot.com You can find the complete transcript here: https://www.startuprad.io/interviews/scienceroot-uses-blockchain-to-build-an-ecosystem-for-the-global-scientific-research-community/ © Startuprad.io - All right reserved   Folge direkt herunterladen

https://youtu.be/sW1gq6KJ8ho In this interview, we introduce you to the Startup of the Month January – Field Buzz – by Frankfurt Forward, as part of our media cooperation with this initiative. Meet Alexis, who is half British, half French, but still, love to live in Frankfurt. He is the co-founder of the app Field Buzz, together with Habib Ullah Bahar. Field Buzz enables field staff to get better connected to their HQ and much faster information flow. The software (dashboard with web login) and app (for field staff) is used by the likes of United Nations Development Program, Welthungerhilfe, US NGO PSI and BRAC. The company has two headquarters, one in Bangladesh and one in the Social Impact Lab in Frankfurt, where we did the recording. During the interview, Alexis is referring to the GIZ (formerly GTZ where Joern was an intern in China) the operational company for international cooperation and development aid from Germany, as well as the bank, backing some of those projects KfW. GIZ is headquartered just outside of Frankfurt and KfW actually has a large presence across many buildings in Frankfurt. Find all other notes and links, as well as the video here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/field-buzz-allows-ngos-to-work-more-efficient-in-remote-areas/ Folge direkt herunterladen

PANDO Ventures is a later stage accelerator program, which does not invest money (like the name first would suggest). In this interview, Startuprad.io is traveling for you to Wiesbaden, the capital in the state of Hessen. There we found ourselves in the basement of an art gallery (great location!). The art gallery is the headquarter of PANDO Ventures, where we talk to Enrico (https://www.linkedin.com/in/enrico-jakob/), who is a junior partner of PANDO. PANDO focuses on digital business models.  You can learn more about their program and the applications here: Website (https://pando-ventures.com/) or straight to the application (https://pando-ventures.com/en/apply/). During the interview, Enrico shows a can at the start of the interview. This was a can of acáo (https://pando-ventures.com/client-item/acao/) Folge direkt herunterladen

This is the audio track of a video startup interview by Startuprad.io. You find the whole interview here:  https://youtu.be/2g-5Go_QXK4 In this interview, we talk to Thomas Grosse – Industry Leader Banking & Fintech Google Germany (https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-grosse-4a07494/). During the interview, we talk to him about Google, Google Pay and Fintechs in Germany. During the interview, he also talks about partnerships and opportunities to contact him. You can learn more here: https://www.thinkwithgoogle.com/intl/de-de/ We are media partners of Euro Finance Tech and we have been there to talk to some startups for you. © Startuprad.io - All right reserved Folge direkt herunterladen

Vishal talks about the tool Gamma, produced by his company. Gamma helps developers to generate better code, using AI. The cool thing is, the longer you work with it, the better Gamma works for you. Folge direkt herunterladen

Vishal is an entrepreneur from India, who founded his startup in Frankfurt, Germany. Learn what he has learned about the startup world in Germany so far. Folge direkt herunterladen

We talk in this interview to Rory Kenny (https://www.linkedin.com/in/rorykenny/), who is CEO of JAM – Just Add Music (https://www.justaddmusic.net/) a hidden champion of the Berlin startup scene. JAM is sometimes described as the Instagram of music because you can create music in their app the same way you create a photo in the Instagram app. Rory gives us some exclusive insights into JAM, including numbers and the company’s intention to raise venture capital. During the interview, Joe and Rory are discussing the missing differentiation between the streaming services like Deezer, Spotify, Amazon Music or Apple Music. Rory gives his view on why they are different here. Rory also gives us a few numbers, why JAM is a hidden champion. They have more than 2 million monthly active users and 15.000 new users are acquired organically to sign up every month. JAM has a “quite large” user base in the USA, but their fastest growing markets are South America, Russia, and India. Before being hired as CEO of JAM, he was with TripAdvisor, Orange, and other companies. Rory does not fluently speak German but is getting around well in Berlin. He was also the lead singer of a hard rock band in his native Montreal. Exclusively Rory states in our interview, that JAM is looking for venture capital funding towards the end of the year. Some data, Rory give us an update after the interview Called the "Instagram of music"2.000.000 monthly active usersAccumulated 10M+ registered members since 2016Music Maker JAM organically acquires 15K new registered members per dayTune in to the interview, in order to learn more. Links: Just Add Music https://www.justaddmusic.net/en/index.htmlLoudly https://www.loudly.com/ Folge direkt herunterladen

This is the audio track of a Google Hangout. You can find the video on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/startupradio Welcome to the 2018 Fintech Review Germany by Startuprad.io. In the stream you will hear: Paolo Sironi – Crunchbase – LinkedIn – Website – Twitter – InstagramYassin Hankir - Crunchbase – LinkedIn – Website – TwitterJörn “Joe” Menninger Crunchbase – LinkedIn – Website – TwitterHere you can find the 2017 fintech review: https://www.startuprad.io/news/2017-fintech-review-germany-2018-outlook/ here is the 2016 interview with DWINS, the company behind Finanz Guru: https://www.startuprad.io/interviews/dwins-db-hackathon-winner/ Yassin talks about co-branding, for example, Finanz Guru (co-branded with Deutsche Bank, who owns 25% in the startup) https://finanzguru.de/ Paolo talks about regulations (referring to the last year). "The regulatory storm hitting 2018 PRIIPs – A regulation, forcing asset managers to disclose more of the content of their products in a more simplified way.GDPR – A regulation on the usage of customer dataMifid II – A regulation on the transparency of investments.PSD2 – A regulation, which forces banks to open up via API to other companies, including fintechs"  Joe refers to the dot-com company Pets.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com Cost of capital for banks https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/costofcapital.asp Wealth Management https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/wealthmanagement.asp Interview with CreditShelf, which is Germany’s only listed pure-play: https://www.startuprad.io/exclusive/do-you-know-creditshelf-it-is-germanys-only-listed-pure-play-fintech/ As Paolo said, we have been to the Christmas Market and celebrated 10 years of fintech in Frankfurt: https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVqaH4HsXl/ Below you will find all the news we have been discussing, touching fintech in 2018, as well as a transcript.   “It will be really tough to bring Crypto to the masses” Yassin Hankir – at Startuprad.io’s 2018 fintech review “When central banks use the technology behind Crypto to transform fiat money, that will be truly revolutionary” Paolo Siroin – at Startuprad.io’s 2018 fintech review DecemberPan-European Leader: Moneyfarm acquires #Frankfurt-based #roboadvisor vaamo to accelerate growth https://buff.ly/2AaeANC #Germany #startup #fintech #investment #investments #startups #tech #frmstartupscene #rheinmainrocks Study of Comdirect shows, that #Berlin, #Munich and #Frankfurt are the leading #fintech hubs in Germany | heise online http://ow.ly/12AG30mXhDh Keep in mind all the international fintechs active in Frankfurt, who want to work with German banks. Also notice, that there is only an access to international capital markets in Frankfurt. Serious financial situation at Germany’s formerly most valuable #fintech, #Hamburg-based Kreditech. In the last financing round the valuation went from 230 mn Euros down to the 14 mn Euros #VentureCapital just invested reports Gründerszene http://ow.ly/x9wt30mWhnb #Valuation #Berlin based #fintech RatePay gets 83 mn Euro #VentureCapital as #VentureDebt from NIBC Bank https://buff.ly/2AyGZwR #Berlin #startup #startups #payments #Berlin based #fintech RatePay gets 83 mn Euro #VentureCapital as #VentureDebt from NIBC Bank https://buff.ly/2AyGZwR #Berlin #startup #startups #payments IPO: Deutsche Familienversicherung a direct insurance company (think online), which sees itself as an #insurtech just sucessfully IPOed in #Frankfurt, raising more than 50 mn Euros http://ow.ly/CKSp30mTbOf #Fintech #Insurtech #Startup #Startups #IPO #VentureCapital #RheinMainRocks The Most Active Investors In Banking Automation - CB Insights Research http://ow.ly/RgRT30mVmZC #CustomerService #chatbot #bots #CRM #fintech #automation #startup #startups #banking #processautomation #processing #VentureCapital   NovemberEuropean early stage technology investment increases four-fold to 3.6 bn Euro in H1 201...

Here is our first live news ever! Enjoy merry X-mas and happy new year! You can find the video here: https://www.startuprad.io/news/startup-new-germany-december-2018-live-hangout/ Startup News December 2018This recording is in media cooperation with Gruendermetropole Berlin. Sponsoring MessageStartups.observer supports this program. Startups.observer is like online dating for startups and investors. It is by far the easiest and most efficient way to research potential investment candidates or look for potential investors. Learn more here: http://startups.observer/   Ecosystem  First off, some Berlin bashing: Sebastian Diemer, calling himself “The Diemer”, founded a couple of startups , right now Farmako, a cannabis startup, has had it with Berlin. He wrote on Facebook: “I am not a fan of hipsters, excessive feminism, so I am looking forward to more conservative roles – men that act and look like men, vice versa for the ladies".” he writes and adds: “Drugs and Party. If you have never taken cocaine or any other chemical drugs like myself and don’t attend the “Berlin clubs” (I haven't made it to any of the trashy druggy places in 2,5 years) there isn’t much value in having 2147124 places around that allow you to party from Wednesday to Tuesday with fucked up people in fucked up locations :)” https://www.deutsche-startups.de/2018/12/17/derdiemer-wuenscht-sich-men-that-act-and-look-like-men-vice-versa-for-the-ladies/   First #German #Social #Entrepreneurship #Monitor (DSEM) published https://buff.ly/2STc9Xp - The #socialstartups are spread across Germany ( 22% #Berlin, 19% Hessen, 15,4% Bayern, Nordrhein-Westfalen (9,4%) and Baden-Württemberg (8,5%). - The biggest trouble is financing German #Fintech market matures - higher investments more international expansion and increasing number of cooperations - EY - Deutschland http://ow.ly/jSfu30n1NuN Fintech Revolut Receives EU Banking Licence | Finance Magnates https://buff.ly/2Ci0nk0 #fintech #Brexit #Banking Study of Comdirect shows, that #Berlin, #Munich and #Frankfurt are the leading #fintech hubs in Germany | heise online http://ow.ly/12AG30mXhDh Keep in mind all the international fintechs active in Frankfurt, who want to work with German banks. Also notice, that there is only an access to international capital markets in Frankfurt. ⇒ As Yassin said during the fintech review: Some competition is good, but it does not really matter where the fintech is located in Germany.   European tech firm have raised a record $23 billion in 2018: The State of European Tech Report - Tech.eu http://ow.ly/IHc030mR1XX   Mood on the German private equity markets are quite good says KfW. -  Only early stage investments and later stage investments see a slight bumper. - Fundraising and exit environment are picking up http://ow.ly/RJnb30n2A9m #VentureCapital   Media PartnershipsWe are media partners: https://www.techjobsfair.com/ April 2019 in Berlin and May 2019 in Vienna  House KeepingWe have published a lot of videos in the last weeks. Just to name a view: We talked to the Winner of Blockchain Startup Summit, to the Fintech and Banking Lead Google Germany and many others. Check our channel www.youtube.com/startupradio   Summarizebot uses AI for automated summaries of text, video and audio https://buff.ly/2PIzvNl #ai #summary #textmining #artificial_intelligence #ai #artificialintelligence #COSH18 #startup #startups #startupsawards #startupradio #Content #contentmarketing #bot   Andreas König will be new CEO at ProGlove - Munich Startup http://ow.ly/gDkm30mVjxh learn more about this #Industry40 and #IoT startup in the interview here: https://youtu.be/dE76h-bKTH0 #wearable #startup #youtube #video #interview #glove HubsFrankfurtWeWork Labs: Starts in Frankfurt - Station Frankfurt http://ow.ly/Qy8z30n20qY   “Ideal Location”: Asana expands to Frankfurt, even building their european data center here (planned ...