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Datability enables airlines to safe money with digital twins  We enable fuel savings for airplanes with digital twins of individual airplanes Sebstian Baumann, Founder and Co-CEO DATAbility   Frankfurt Forwards Startup of the MonthThis interview is in a media partnership with Frankfurt Forward. DATAbility is the Frankfurt Forward Startup of the Month July 2020. Congratulations! Learn more about Frankfurt Forward and how to apply here: https://www.frankfurtforward.com/   We are looking for funding or a strategic partnership. Sebstian Baumann, Founder and Co-CEO DATAbility  The FounderIn this interview Startuprad.io is talking to Sebastian Baumann (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sebastian-oliver-baumann/), Founder and Co-CEO of Rhine-Main based AI startup DATAbility (https://www.datability.ai/). He is not only an entrepreneur but also working on his Ph.D. Thesis, which he hopes to submit this year. So he will be a Ph.D. in 2020 or 2021. Fingers cross for him!   Different airplanes are operated differently by different airlines and from pilots. You want to phase this in your digital twin to make more precise calculation Sebstian Baumann, Founder and Co-CEO DATAbility   PatreonYou can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content.  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 StartupThe startup enables digital twins of real existing airplanes, helicopters, and the like. With their tool, they can calculate the fuel flow of the engine with the respective plane. Now the machine learning framework will train the algorithm. DATAbility develops customized software solutions and digital services for the diagnosis and prognosis of machine status and the automation of processes aiming to reduce the quality-related costs in failure control, prevention, and correction. A high level of customer satisfaction and strong customer loyalty should have top priority in mechanical and plant engineering. But machine downtimes impede these and cost a lot of money. The identification of the correct spare part or the cause of system downtime is not trivial.  Venture Capital FundingDATAbility is looking for funding, a Series A for the development costs of their scalable software solution. They are also open for a strategic partner to widen their (sales) network.     The Video Interview is set to go live on Thursday, July 16th 19.00 Frankfurt local time (CET), 1 pm Eastern (EST), 18.00 London local time (UTC)https://youtu.be/3uFBqxkxBk8   The Audio Interview is set to go live on Tuesday, July 21stThe Audio Podcast will be published next week. Subscribe to our podcasts here     Further Readings / Additional RessourcesJet Stream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet_stream Digital Twins: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin Hannover Messe (the trade fair Sebastian refers to) https://www.hannovermesse.de/en/   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

Our founderA summer message from our founder Jörn “Joe” Menninger (LinkedIn, Twitter, Crunchbase) in times of Corona. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCGvgRhIKAw/ Hello and welcome, everybody, this is Joe – Founder and Host – of Startuprad.io. It is the beginning of July and I wanted to take the opportunity to reach out to you. First, I wanted to wish you a great summer – as great as it can be under the current circumstances. Second, I wanted to let you know that for July and August we take some time off. Our news is in the regular summer break – Enjoy your summer in New York Chris! We will also publish interviews only every other week. We normally used summer to publish interviews from our backlog, but since there have been almost no events we attended in person, there is less backlog. We will be back to a weekly publishing schedule in September. Until then, enjoy your time and thank you to all our listeners, who made us reach the podcast charts in now 35 countries across the world. The last ones added have been Hong Kong and Kuwait. If you like our podcast, consider supporting us on Patreon. Have a great summer and see you again in September! PatreonYou can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content. 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 Feedback – Suggest Interview Partners and moreReach 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 Video – Enjoy the summer – As much as you can and stay safehttps://youtu.be/cmCgRkvO7xY   Folge direkt herunterladen

QuoScient helps to analyze, investigate and respond to cyber-threats Attackers are devious… During the current health crisis, they are going after health institutions and hospitals. They don’t basically care that they are doing damage to people who have already health problems. Ioannis Bizimis, Co-Founder QuoScient    The FounderIn this interview, we are talking to Ioannis Bizimis (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ioannis-bizimis-6423527/, https://twitter.com/defense_active), the Co-Founder, CFO, CRO, and  CISO of QuoScient. Ioannis has been an Investment Manager, project lead with Dow Jones, with MarkIt, an employee of Deutsche Bank and other well-regarded companies. He has a lot of experience and with this experience, he started to set up QuoScient.   One of the biggest strategies [of hackers] is to come into your network and stay there and install as many backdoors as they can. They will use them when they need it. Ioannis Bizimis, Co-Founder QuoScient   PatreonYou can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content.   It costs hackers just a few hundred Dollars or Euros to build up an attack campaign. The effort on the other side is thousands, sometimes millions to understand this kind of campaign. Ioannis Bizimis, Co-Founder QuoScient   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 StartupQuoScient (https://www.quoscient.io/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quoscient)  is a cybersecurity startup, which recently split into three parts to better pursue their respective activities. Two of those entities are still headquartered in Frankfurt, one in Columbia, Maryland (close to Baltimore). They basically split along their business lines: QuoLab Technologies – Defense Technology https://quolab.com/QuoSec – Security Consulting https://www.quosec.net/QuoIntelligence – Cyber Threat Intelligence https://quointelligence.eu/  [A company] first must understand what their most critical assets are and what are the [cyber] risks to those assets. Ioannis Bizimis, Co-Founder QuoScient  Venture Capital FundingQuoScient has just raised venture capital. They may be looking at another funding round in the fall of 2020. If you want to keep posted, reach out to us.   Threats can not only come from the outside. Capable hackers can also send you someone, pretending to work for you as contractor. … they do this professionally. Ioannis Bizimis, Co-Founder QuoScient   The Video Interview is set to go live on July 2nd, 2020 19.00 CEThttps://youtu.be/qM_ngqKHuZ4     Subscribe to our podcasts here    Further Readings / Additional ResourcesFront Office https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/frontoffice.aspBack Office https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/backoffice.aspMiddle Office https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/middleoffice.aspNeuer Markt / and its index Nemax https://deutsche-boerse.com/dbg-en/our-company/know-how/glossary/glossary-article/NEMAX-50-248782Trading Floor https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trading_floor.aspSWIFT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interbank_Financial_TelecommunicationHave a look at the other interview Joe refers to with IT SEAL: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/it-seal-helps-companies-to-train-their-employees-in-cyber-security/ 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 Folge direkt herunterladen

This Month in German Startups - June 2020IntroToday we are going to talk about German startups, in the process of producing vaccines for Covid19, the potential accounting fraud at Wirecard, startups in Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne and Berlin, and the 110th Birthday of Konrad Zuse, the inventor of the modern-day computer. Welcome to this month in German Startups by Startuprad.io - in a transatlantic news recording with Chris in New York City. Reach out to usOur audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA Find the hosts here:Jörn “Joe” Menninger joe@startuprad.io / Twitter  / LinkedIn / Video Interview (2018)Christian “Chris” Fahrenbach chris@startuprad.io / Twitter / Homepage / Video Interview (2018)PatreonIf you like our podcast, consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/startupradio  EnablerThis recording was made possible by (Hessen Trade and Invest). Learn more about our enabler here: https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/   Find all options to subscribe here: 

Find all further Links and show notes on our blog post: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/news-wrap-up-developing-wirecard-story/  PatreonYou can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content. 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 Folge direkt herunterladen

Energy Robots provides Software for semi-autonomous RobotsWe provide a full software stack, which also makes the robot move … Dorian Scholz, CEO and Co-Founder Energy Robotics  The FounderDuring this interview, we are talking to Dr. Dorian Scholz (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dorian-scholz-3514a8b3/) CEO and Co-founder of Darmstadt based robotics startup Energy Robotics (https://www.energy-robotics.com/). We talk to him in a remote interview, recorded in May 2020. Dorian is already a long time robotics fan, who has been working for more than 15 years in robotics, even participating in the robotics soccer world cup with the team Darmstadt Dribblers (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3jFWB-VP6bFcIFtb-czCcQ). Energy robotics is also a startup, spun off TU Darmstadt (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technische_Universit%C3%A4t_Darmstadt). The Rhine-Main-based startup offers software to make robots operate autonomously, as well as enable them to be operated remotely, in case this is needed. They are called “robotics”, but they don’t build robots or any hardware.   We are providing a very easy user interface to program “missions” for the robots. Dorian Scholz, CEO and Co-Founder Energy Robotics   PatreonYou can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content.  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 Energy Robotics helps to inspect remote places on a regular based. The Darmstadt-based startup offers software to make robots operate autonomously, as well as enable them to be operated remotely, in case this is needed. There are very remote places, running semi-autonomously e.g. platforms to drill for oil and gas (https://www.offshore-technology.com/features/inside-the-first-fully-automated-offshore-platform/). Nonetheless, these places need regular inspections e.g. gas leaks, which can be performed by robots with the Energy Robotics software, on different software platforms.   The robots record automatically the pictures and data on its automated round. Dorian Scholz, CEO and Co-Founder Energy Robotics   Venture Capital FundingEnergy Robotics is currently looking for investors for their seed round, for one million Euros.   The Video Interview is set to go live on Thursday, June 18th 19.00 Frankfurt, 1 PM Eastern Time, 18.00 UTChttps://youtu.be/FedF8gXLxko   The Audio Interview is set to go live next weekThe Audio Podcast will be published next week. Subscribe to our podcasts here   Further Readings / Additional RessourcesThe RoboCup https://www.robocup.org/The soccer play from Darmstadt Bruno Labbadia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_LabbadiaSearch and Rescue Channel https://www.youtube.com/user/TeamHectorDarmstadtHardware Partner of Energy Robotics, the startup EX Robotics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leHdwm7HiSQ  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 Folge direkt herunterladen

Ginmon provides automated and personal online wealth management  We build a platform, that totally automizes the wealth management process. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon  The founderJoe from Startuprad.io talks to Lars (https://www.linkedin.com/in/larsreiner/), the CEO and Founder of the Frankfurt-based rob advisor Ginmon (https://www.ginmon.de/en/). Lars started out as a management consultant inside of Deutsche Bank, in their unit called in-house-consulting, focusing on their retail business.   Our clients are wealthy, but not wealthy enough to qualify for traditional wealth management. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon   PatreonYou can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content.   There was no one at my company interested in what is today robo advisors, so I started my own and do not regret it until this day. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon   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 StartupGinmon (https://www.ginmon.de/en/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ginmon-gmbh) is a Robo Advisor, catering to the mass affluent. They are wealthy enough to have money to invest, but in Germany, the normal threshold to enter the wealth management services of large banks is 2 million Euros, and they do not qualify yet. Ginmon wants to be the online financial advisor for this clientele. Therefore, they became fully licensed as a wealth manager in 2017, by German financial services oversight body BaFin. They now have an investment volume of more than 100 mn Euros for approx. 5.000 clients, according to their website. According to Lars, they have approx. 15% of the share of wallet of their clients, which they aim to increase.   After our business model has been proven with a couple of hundred customers on our platform, we raised our first funding with Passion Capital from London, known for their investments e.g. in Monzo Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon   Video Interview (available on June 11th 19.00 Frankfurt, 1 pm New York, 18.00 London)   The Audio Podcast will go live on June 16thThe Audio Podcast will be published next week. Subscribe to our podcasts here   Six Million Venture Capital FinancingGinmon published (at the day of the recording) a Series A funding worth 6 mn Euros, including old investors and a new investor from Russia. During the interview, we talk about what the new investor did right https://www.ginmon.de/presse/robo-advisor-ginmon-schliesst-weitere-finanzierungsrunde-ab/   Further Readings / Additional ResourcesRobo Advisor Talk (hosted by Joe, in German from October 2016) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akCaXmFfgMQETF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange-traded_fundStock Index https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_market_indexModern Portfolio Theory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_portfolio_theoryGerman Government Retirement System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensions_in_Germany  In Germany we still have a lot of commission based financial advice. Lars Reiner, CEO and Founder of Ginmon   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 Folge direkt herunterladen

We offer Corporate Mobility Procurement 4.0 as a SaaS model Markus Puhl, Founder Airive The founderWe talk to Markus Puhl (https://www.linkedin.com/in/markus-puhl-31355b112/), founder of Airive (http://www.airive.de/). The startup is part of Next Mobility Lab, which is headquartered in Mainz (https://www.nextmobilitylab.com/; https://www.linkedin.com/company/next-mobility-lab/), but also has a location in Boston. During this interview, we are talking to him on how corporate mobility has changed and how he wants to change it even more with “Corporate Mobility Procurement 4.0.”  The market we are aiming for are 16.000 companies in Germany alone, who are operating car fleets bigger than 20 cars. Markus Puhl, Founder Airive PatreonYou can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content. 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/2w01ZyeThe StartupCurrently, large corporates invite mobility providers to bid for their contracts on a regular basis, so they can get the best price. This is a hassle for small companies with corporate car fleets of 50 cars in one country but takes on quite different dimensions if a company has to provide mobility to thousands of employees across several continents. All trips need to be efficient in terms of time, costs, and CO2.    There was a feeling in the market … to end the manual mode of purchasing corporate mobility. Markus Puhl, Founder Airive Airive offers analytics services and a purchase platform where corporates can ask for bids for their required services. The Video Interview is set to go live on June 4th 19.00 Frankfurt (1 pm Eastern, 18.00 London )https://youtu.be/yTDPOXd7xlI   In Germany 189 million business travel trips are taken every year. Markus Puhl, Founder Airive  Next Mobility Labs / Additional RessourcesAirive is part of the Next Mobility Labs accelerator program, based in Mainz. You can learn more about them here: https://www.nextmobilitylab.com/ 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 Folge direkt herunterladen

This Month in German Startups - May 2020If you are new to our podcast(s), we are wrapping up the startup news of the German-speaking area in a monthly recording from Frankfurt and New York. Have a look at our website www.startuprad.io or www.startup.radio and you will find all the links to our recordings and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German.   Reach out to usOur audience survey, to give us feedback, suggest topics, interview partners or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA Find the hosts here:Jörn “Joe” Menninger joe@startuprad.io / Twitter  / LinkedIn / Video Interview (2018)Christian “Chris” Fahrenbach chris@startuprad.io / Twitter / Homepage / Video Interview (2018)PatreonIf you like our podcast, consider supporting us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/startupradio EnablerThis recording was made possible by (Hessen Trade and Invest). Learn more about our enabler here: https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/ Together with our enabler, we are running a podcast called “Tech Startups Germany”, which will focus on startups at a Serie A stage or even more mature. You will also find all the videos we produce for this podcast on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/startupradio. This podcast is available directly on our device as an audio and video podcast. Yes, Startuprad.io makes the first downloadable video podcast. Find all options to subscribe here: 

Learn from an Indian-born entrepreneur, who raised 35 mn Euros Venture Capital in Germany"Hessen is the natural home for startups and entrepreneurs" Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus  The Enabler of our InterviewThis recording was made possible by (Hessen Trade and Invest). Learn more about our enabler here: https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/ Together with our enabler, we are running a podcast called “Tech Startups Germany”, which will focus on startups at a Serie A stage or even more mature. You will also find all the videos we produce for this podcast on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/startupradio. This podcast is available directly on our device as audio and video podcast, yes, Startuprad.io makes the first downloadable video podcast. Find all options to subscribe here:  Tech Startups Germany by Startuprad.io - Audio onlyiTunes https://apple.co/2Z17bflDeezer http://bit.ly/2Qbh1rlTuneIn http://bit.ly/2M8vpznStitcher http://bit.ly/34xTANOTech Startups Germany by Startuprad.io - VideoiTunes https://apple.co/2M8ZxKJ The Startup FounderOur interview partner is again Gunjan Bhardwaj (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gunjan-bhardwaj-b321a32/), not the actor. He is a former EY and BCG consultant, as well as a TED speaker. He likes to work a lot, so he is also the author of the book “Inside the Cockpit: Navigating the Complexity of Drug Development with AI and Blockchain” (https://amzn.to/2QYI1eL).  “Frankfurt … it is the center of Europe, it is so super connected.” Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus   PatreonYou can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content.   "Everybody has to chart his or her own course. I am a deep believer in instinct." Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus   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   Interview Part 1This is part two of a series of interviews with Gunjan. You find part one of our interview here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/meet-innoplexus-the-startup-which-fights-all-diseases/ “… but I also have to say that investors in this part of the world look at the long term picture … but once they are convinced, they are partners for the long term” Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus   One Day Commute to New YorkOne of the things Gunjan likes about Frankfurt is its great connectivity. With the connections of Frankfurt Airport (IATA Code FRA, therefore know as Fraport) you can get on a plane, meet in New York in the afternoon and be back in Frankfurt early the next morning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraport   Germany is one of the best places to start a company. Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus Advice in FundraisingInnoplexus counts among its investors HCS (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hcs-beteiligungsgesellschaft), as well as Christian Angermayer of Aperion (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/christian-angermayer), as well as EOS VC (https://vc.eos.io/partners/finlab/), the venture capital arm of Block.one.  According to a report by FAZ they have already raised 35 mn Euros and are looking for 40 million more (https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/start-up-innoplexus-ein-google-der-pharmabranche-16473990.html).   "No funding event is easy, but what is easy in life?" Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus   Gunjan strongly recommends doing your due diligence, he likes to quote one of his teachers who said that assuming means "making an ass of you and me”

IDA Pivoted during Coronavirus to a more diversified strategyWe got a call from our largest client [during Corona] and they told us to immediately stop all work for them. Within two hours we lost everything we build up in three years. Hamedo Ayadi – Co-Founder and CEO IDA  The founderIn this interview Jörn “Joe” Menninger, founder, and host of Startuprad.io talks to Hamedo Ayadi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hamedo-ayadi-00021b15a/), co-founder and CEO of IDA – Intelligent Data Analytics (https://ida-analytics.de/). Hamedo is originally born in Morocco and a serial entrepreneur, always based around Frankfurt and the Rhine-Main-Area. He speaks five languages and English is his 5th language. He has not used English in a business setting for 7 years before our interview, so please cut him some slag. He came to Germany early in his life and studied Psychology at the University of Mainz.   PatreonYou can now support us on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/bePatron?u=35246148 if you like what you see and hear consider to support us, so we can keep bringing you great content.   Within two days after our major client called us – to stop all work for them -, we defined a new strategy for IDA … we prepared new services, for new customers for fixed prices Hamedo Ayadi – Co-Founder and CEO IDA   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  Startup of the Month May 2020IDA is the Startup of the Month - May 2020 by Frankfurt Forward. This podcast is in a media partnership with Frankfurt Forward.  You can learn more about the startup and the initiative here (German only) https://www.frankfurtforward.com/startups/ida   Corona really gave us a hard time. 70% of our employees do work related to aviation Hamedo Ayadi – Co-Founder and CEO IDA   The Startup  IDA is the second company of Hamedo, both of which he co-founded with one of his colleagues from Unisys. They sold their first business – a tech consulting company – which worked with SAP tools and their integration and maintenance in large corporates.  They sold the company end of 2017. IDA is a platform to connect all data in a single platform and make them usable for the client. They help to optimize and workflows and business processes   IDA started originally with a meeting of chance in a train driving from Frankfurt to Munich Hamedo Ayadi – Co-Founder and CEO IDA    Venture Capital  IDA has been bootstrapped so far, but they are looking to raise a Series A Venture Capital round. They want to use the funds for global and cross industry expansion. If you want to get introduced to them, let us know.   The Video Interview weng live on April 2nd 19.00 Frankfurt (1 PM Eastern, 18.00 London)https://youtu.be/9mHpBDwHAHc  Further Readings / Additional Resources  Learn more about Frankfurt Forward here: https://www.frankfurtforward.com/   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 Folge direkt herunterladen

Quantgene can detect early-stage cancer in a single draw of bloodWhat we are doing is a potential game-changer in medicine. … it makes the detection [of dead cells form tumors] single-molecule precise. Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi – CEO and Co-Founder of Quantgene  The FounderIn this interview, we talk to Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-bhakdi-5048811/), originally born and raised in the Rhine-Main Area in Germany, but now founder of the AI and Big Data Startup Quantgene (https://www.quantgene.com/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quantgene) in Santa Monica, CA. Quantgene describes itself as a deep genomics startup. They also have an office in Berlin and they hire for both locations. By training Jo is an economist, who graduated from the University of Tübingen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_T%C3%BCbingen), a research-heavy university known for its 11 Nobel Laureates in Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics. Jo started out in advertising and marketing (marketing strategy). He went from there in corporate development, especially mergers and acquisitions. This brought to the USA, first to New York with a stop in venture capital. He was working with his first startup in quantitative seed-stage investments. What we developed is blood test, that guides physicians in detection of early stage cancer. Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi – CEO and Co-Founder of Quantgene   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 Startup  To give you an idea of what we are doing: It is a few megabytes – a simple sequencing of your genome. What we are doing generates files of 200+ Gigabytes Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi – CEO and Co-Founder of Quantgene   Quantgene is a deep tech startup, working with ai, machine learning, and big data to fight cancer. They describe themselves as a deep genome startup. Quantgene is working on unlocking specific hints about cancer in the human genome since cancer is “encoding” itself into the human genome. Quantgene developed a very specific new capability to unlock the human genome of a very deep level. Startups like 23andme generate averages in genome sequencing, a kind of simplification. Quantgene’s approach, on the other hand, is much more specific, but also very complex. They are looking for dead cancer cells – so-called cell-free DNA – in your blood sample. This only works if they are not working with averages but analyze a single copy of DNA in a sample. They had to develop a vast software infrastructure and their own chemistry to make their idea work. Quantgene also has an office in Berlin, from which Jo joined the Startuprad.io interview. They call it the “Mustererkennungs Einheit” which means the pattern recognition unit. Quantgene launches in 2020 (as planned before Corona) first in the USA and within some time they want to launch in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.   When you have very early cancer, no one can see, and no one can find – with the current methods. The cancer cells die, and they shed the dead cells into your blood. So they are in your blood as cell free DNA. Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi – CEO and Co-Founder of Quantgene     The Video Interview is set to go live on May 7th 19.00 CET(1 pm Eastern, 18.00 London )https://youtu.be/UxghpnCVGSw   What Quantgene develop here in the last five years is a very specific capability. We call it the deep human genome. Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi – CEO and Co-Founder of Quantgene Venture Capital  At the time of the interview, Quantgene was raising a note. They are also looking to raise a Series B (all as planned before Corona). https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quantgene   We are roughly 5 years ahea...

We called our initial offering “Sales as a Service.” Swen Wegner, CEO and Founder Mainstage Incubator Mainstage Incubator helps startups to conquer EuropeWhether your startup is from India, Bangladesh, Brazil, the United States, Argentina, Korea, South Africa, or even New Zealand, you can start exploring the German and European Market with the digital program of Mainstage Incubator. The FounderIn this interview, we are talking to Swen Wegner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/swenwegner/), Founder and CEO of Mainstage Incubator (https://www.mainstage-incubator.com/), which is a relatively new incubator headquartered in Frankfurt, in the heart of Europe. Swen is half Indian, half German, and spent parts of his life in both countries. He spent his time in India for example in Kerala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala).   The interview was remotely recorded during a time of partial lockdown in Germany, due to Covid19.   In the past, he has worked for large multinational corporations, as well as small startups. He refers to a “founder you may know” to Emboled.io (we interviewed the founder Vishal Ray, at this time they were still called Acellere). You find both interviews, dating back to March 2019 below:  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 Incubator As a pilot we positioned some Indian startups to German corporates. Swen Wegner, CEO and Founder Mainstage Incubator   Mainstage Incubator is a distributed company. They have offices in Frankfurt, Germany, and India. They stared out, presenting Indian startups to German corporate customers. Now they help startups from all over the world to present themselves to German customers, to bridge the cultural gap. Their goals are To find clients in Germany, and from here in EuropeThe ultimate goal is to bring international startups physically to Germany, so they can expand all over Europe.Bring startup from Germany to IndiaThe Mainstage Incubator already signed partnership agreements with Argentina, Columbia, Japan Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and now the United States.  Apply here for the Mainstage IncubatorYou can apply to the Mainstage Incubator right here https://bit.ly/ApplyMainstage   The Video Interview is set to go live on May 5th, 19.00 Frankfurt Local time (18.00 London, 1 pm New York, 10 am San Francisco)  We are still experimenting with time zones. Let us know which publication time you like best in the feedback link at the bottom end of this post.   https://youtu.be/Djd8wp8gC10   We give the Indian startups hints on how to wrap up a meeting with a German corporate in 30 minutes with a sale. Swen Wegner, CEO and Founder Mainstage Incubator Here you find the audio-only podcast of our interview - Subscribe so you won't miss another episodeThe interview will be published across our podcasts during the early morning of May 7th, so you have your episode on your device for your commute or morning coffee the next morning. You can subscribe to Startuprad.io here: YouTube http://bit.ly/2LK14oWiTunes http://apple.co/2xsHdaESpotify http://spoti.fi/2DfIt1OThe interview ill be published in our Sub-Podcasts below:

This Month in German Startups - April 2020  If you are new to our podcast(s), we are wrapping up the startup news of the German-speaking area in a monthly recording from Frankfurt and New York. Have a look at our website www.startuprad.io or www.startup.radio and you will find all the links to our recordings and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German.   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    Find the hosts here: Jörn “Joe” Menninger joe@startuprad.io / Twitter  / LinkedIn / Video Interview (2018) Chris Fahrenbach chris@startuprad.io / Twitter / Homepage / Video Interview (2018)   EnablerThis recording was made possible by (Hessen Trade and Invest). Learn more about our enabler here: https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/   Together with our enabler we are running a podcast called “Tech Startups Germany”, which will focus on startups at a Serie A stage or even more mature. You will also find all the videos we produce for this podcast on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/startupradio. This podcast is available directly on our device as audio and video podcast, yes, Startuprad.io makes the first downloadable video podcast. Find all options to subscribe here: 

Cansativa imports medical cannabis for GermanyMedia PartnershipThis interview is in media cooperation with Frankfurt Forward (https://www.frankfurtforward.com/news/). Cansativa is the Startup of the Month April 2020. Congratulations! The foundersCansativa (https://www.cansativa.de/en/) is a family business. The two brothers Benedikt (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johann-benedikt-sons-762a28103/) and Jakob (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jakob-sons-795087133/) Sons are running the business, their father is a doctor and helped them found the startup as a business angel. Prior to co-founding Cansativa, Benedikt worked in the field of strategy consulting within the pharma and automotive industry. He has a wealth of knowledge about every aspect of how to run a cannabis business in Europe, from regulations to logistics and markets. Prior to co-founding Cansativa, Jakob worked as a commercial lawyer in Frankfurt. He worked for well-known law firms in Germany, focusing on Litigation, Corporate Law, as well as M&A topics.   I remember, when we received our first shipment – I hade to tell my colleagues why I had to leave to receive a shipment. So I told them: “I have a side business and will receive 20 kilograms of Cannabis.”