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Meet Innoplexus the startup which fights ALL diseasesDespite the commonly held belief, I grew here faster in Germany than in the US or in the UK Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus   Important information upfront – the Fight against Corona Virus / Covid19 For the corona virus, we not only have to flatten the curve, we have to flatten the disease. Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus   Innoplexus grants free access to the research platform “Acceleration of Covid19 research:” https://coronavirus.ontosight.ai/ Here is the COVID19 Dashboard of Innoplexus: https://covid19.innoplexus.de/news   We are working on a completely new molecule to address the current and future coronavirus. The current problem with Corona will not stop. There will be further strains coming in. Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus   The EnablerThis is a video interview from our podcast Tech Startups Germany. All the recordings on this channel are made possible by Invest in Hessen (learn more here https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/home).   We fight all diseases. Right from the start, we wanted to provide an AI platform to solve all relevant problems in drug discovery and development. Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus   The PodcastsWe will post this interview and all others as podcast(s) next Tuesday night Central European Time. Subscribe here and have them on our device when you wake up:

Sono Motors Raised Money with it and the tool is now freeWe challenged ourselves how we can help … as a small software developer in the current crisis for struggling companies…. So, we reduced the price of the funding tool to ZERO. Johannes Laub, CEO and Co-Founder CrowdDesk Covid19This interview is part of our ongoing coverage of Covid19 for the German startup scene. We talk to the startup CrowdDesk since we found their tool very helpful. Please note that CrowdDesk is neither paying for the interview nor are there affiliated links to sign up for their service.   The founderIn this interview, Joe from Startuprad.io talks again to Johannes Laub, CEO, and Co-Founder of CrowdDesk, the financing startup from Frankfurt. You can learn more about him in our other interview here: https://www.startuprad.io/interviews/the-fintech-crowddesk-offers-funding-as-a-service/   You only need a website and our software. Even our law firm is giving away the contract for free, for everyone affected by the Covid19 crisis. Johannes Laub, CEO and Co-Founder CrowdDesk   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/2VaUDSl  The StartupThe fintech CrowdDesk offers Funding-As-A-Service. With the go-fund-me Button a company placed on its website, any company sticking to the local rules could raise funds this way. ONE StarterCrowdDesk gives away the ONE Starter package, with which startups can raise up to 400.000 Euros from friends, customers, fans, network and, website visitors: https://www.crowddesk.de/crowdvscorona/ Note: The tool is only available in Germany right now, due to legal constraints. The Munich-based startup Sono Motors raised more than 50 mn Euros in total and out of that they raised more than 2.5 mn Euros with the tool of CrowdDesk.   We all share the same fate at the moment. Johannes Laub, CEO and Co-Founder CrowdDesk   The ONE Starter is a software tool, which startups can use to raise funds in Germany   The startup has to activate their own network … so everybody knows about your campaign. Johannes Laub, CEO and Co-Founder CrowdDesk  Observations in Fundraising during Covid19 When you come to the VCs when you need the money, you are too late. Johannes Laub, CEO and Co-Founder CrowdDesk   CrowdDesk is also currently raising venture capital. So Johannes also shares some insights on how fundraising is working right now: An urge to need the money now hurts your valuationVCs safe their cash for follow-up investments of their current portfolioMost VCs can’t lookout for new deals, as they did in the last few monthsIt is very hard to start fundraising right nowIf you return to fundraising in fall, you may find the VCs unable to raise VC funds and add new investments.Only some investors try to push down startup valuationsStartups raising for shorter time periods to get better valuations further d...

Meet Berlin-based cryptocurrency challenger bank Bitwala“We let people buy and sell bitcoin directly from their bank account” Benjamin Jones, CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Bitwala This interview is our Easter Special. Keep safe, stay at home and enjoy the video. Please note at the very bottom of this post, there is a link where you can give us direct feedback. The founderIn this interview, Joe from Startuprad.io talks to Benjamin Jones (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminpeterjones/), CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Bitwala (https://www.bitwala.com/). Bitwala is a challenger bank, based in Berlin which offers shifting from fiat currency (Euro) into Bitcoin and Ethereum on their app. Benjamin is originally from Bristol and studied Philosophy and Economics in London. He traveled one year in South America and became …as he says, “became a hippie.” An internship than took him to Berlin, where he worked in a startup. He tried out many things, including a company builder which aimed to become the “Rocket Internet of Cryptocurrencies.”   “Core banking is relatively unexciting. That’s not where the innovation is happening” Benjamin Jones, CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Bitwala    ______________________________________________ Affiliate LinksLooking for a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Sign up with Bitwala here. Due to regulations, Bitwala can only accept customers resident in the European Economic Area (EU plus Norway, Iceland, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and Lichtenstein), with a few exceptions like US citizens. ____________________________________________________ The Startup“A [bitcoin to cash] transaction takes usually 20 minutes” Benjamin Jones, CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Bitwala The name Bitwala comes from a computer bit, and wallah. In India, you call someone who brings the, for example, the tea a chai wallah (https://chaipilgrimage.com/blogs/journal/8413337-what-is-a-chai-wallah). The company wants to be “the bringer of bits.” Bitwala is describing itself as a challenger bank. As is typical for many challenger banks, they don’t have a banking license, but rather work together with licensed banks.   “All startups need to focus in an extreme way” Benjamin Jones, CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Bitwala   Bitwala is a challenger bank, founded in Berlin. Their USP is the ability to shift between Euros, Bitcoin and Ethereum in their app, without the need for a cryptocurrency exchange.   “What most people got excited about crypto currencies in the earlier times was their application in the developing world. …there is 1.7 bn unbanked.” Benjamin Jones, CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Bitwala   Right now Bitwala does not have a third-party custodian for the crypto assets, they are offering non-custodian wallets. So the client has to take care of their crypto assets by themselves, but the client also holds her/his private keys. During the interview, we also talk about their former product, a bitcoin credit card, which they had to drop. This put Bitwala in a difficult position, in which they decided to build the world’s first cryptocurrency bank account. After the interview Bitwala published their number of customers, they had (at release) more than 50.000 clients in 32 countries (Link opens PDF).   The Video Interview is Our Easter Special – It is set to go live on April 10th 15.00 CET (10 am East Coast Time, 14.00 London)https://youtu.be/DuomByTCLKk     Venture Capital Funding  Bitwala is looking to raise a Series B in Q3 2020 of 15-20 million Euros (up to 22 mn USS). Keep in mind this interview was recorded before the Corona Virus Outbreak. “In our last funding round, we have been in this [notary] room together for 19 hours … but I understand why. It is just good for everybody to hear the contract one last time” Benjamin Jones, CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Bitwala   Bitwala has already raised several financing rounds, totaling...

How to lure corporate talent in a Startup?  I think most entrepreneurs will know that it never goes right … you see stories in the media of overnight successes … but most founders will know this is not the case. William Laitinen, CEO and Founder Exige  The FounderWe talk to William Laitinen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-laitinen-93282/, https://twitter.com/WilliamLaitinen), co-founder of Exige International an executive search agency (https://www.exigeinternational.com/). During this interview, we are talking to him not only as a founder, who bootstrapped his company, sleeping on his cousins’ couch, but also who survived the global financial crisis starting in 2008.   A lesson to learn - from early on as possible - is: You are going to be facing problems in your team and your organization. William Laitinen, CEO and Founder Exige   Affiliate LinksThe hard thing about hard things https://amzn.to/2S62X30Ben Horowitz tells his story from an employee, afraid to lose his job to CEO of a company caught in the dotcom bubble to VC investorZero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future https://amzn.to/37H2MSpPeter Thiels, the famous investor tells you his mental framework to think about innovationBlitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies https://amzn.to/2Ob0xySReid Hoffmans, the founder of LinkedIn, advice on scale fast   Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything https://amzn.to/2v97KZG Read-worthy book to familiarize yourself with economic theory, or learn more about how to apply it.Need a bank account? Try our partner Pentahttp://bit.ly/3bdHX3dNeed space to work? Try our partner WeWorkhttps://we.co/2GYbxvSLooking for someone to design a logo, do a transcript or a voice-over? Find all of it and more at our partner Fiverrhttp://bit.ly/2S0f2YFYou can listen to Venture Capital books or entertainment on your way to work with an audible subscription – you get the first month for free https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00NTQ6K7E?tag=startupradi0e-21 The Startup William started headhunting in financial services (Mergers and Acquisitions) and strategy consultancies during the early 2000s, with a laptop and a phone. He classically bootstrapped his company, starting crashing on the couch of his cousin and working his way up from there. He called it “the golden age of headhunting,” and like many others he thought it would always go on like this. So, he was in a great spot, just before the bankruptcy of Lehmann Brothers which almost froze hiring in Investment Banking and strategy consulting.   I was in the worst place you could be in the financial crisis … I didn’t do a deal for 18 months. William Laitinen, CEO and Founder Exige   William used the global financial crisis to change his focus and now is working primarily with insurance companies in Western Europe, specifically in Switzerland, as well as with insurtechs.   You will face a whole heap of problems and challenges starting a company … Who you want to hire is really really important in overcoming the problems you will be facing. William Laitinen, CEO and Founder Exige  Advice in Hiring  People leave their job for just two reasons: Logic and emotions. William Laitinen, CEO and Founder Exige   William talks about hiring for startups, especially about the importance of the first hires. He is recommending looking for four core values in the new hires: IntegrityHumilityAssertiveResilienceYou could add curiosity  I love hiring people smarter than me! You turbo charge your environment. William Laitinen, CEO and Founder Exige   William also encourages founders to look for cognitive differences, especially in the first employees. Ideally, you hire someone smarter than you with different thinking, so he/she will be able to attack problems in another way. He is recommending a different gender, ethnicity or different de...

This Month in German Startups - March 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.   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    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) Note that Chris decided to stay in New York to be able to report from there, which is the epicenter of the US corona outbrake! Thank you for that! 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: 

Covid 19 Coverage of Startuprad.io  Our affiliate partners:Startup in need of a bank account? Try our partner Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d Looking for a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala: http://bit.ly/2w01Zye Need office space? Co-Working at WeWork https://we.co/2GYbxvS Need something done fast? SEO / Graphics / Sounds / Transcript look at Fiverr: http://bit.ly/2S0f2YF You can listen to many of the books from our recommendations with an audible subscription: https://amzn.to/2pGzseh   WelcomeWelcome to the 2nd episode of our special covid19 coverage for the German startup scene. This is a special issue with an attorney at law Tim, focusing on special legislation in Germany for the shutdown of public life and the consequences for a business.  Our GuestTim Wullbrandt (Attorney at Law) http://www.wullbrandt-rechtsanwaelte.de/heidelberg-based-law-firm-experienced-attorneys-for-criminal-defense-family-law-insolvency-law-in-germany/  Article by Tim (German) about the new legal rules: Neue Gesetze wegen Corona-Krise - was ändert sich? https://buff.ly/2xltPp4    Our ScopeEverything we discuss here only holds true in GERMANY since Startuprad.io is focused here. The rules, laws, and regulations do not apply anywhere else.    Give us 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    Find the host here: Jörn “Joe” Menninger joe@startuprad.io / Twitter  / LinkedIn / Video Interview (2018)   Keep in mind, there are many people out there looking for help AND THERE WILL BE SCAMMERS, so validate your sources, start from associations and government pages. Be wary of potential scams.  There is an explicit warning on the official portal for insolvency filings in Germany - Insolvenzbekanntmachungen https://buff.ly/2J7RM62  Normal insolvency filings and proceedingsReasons for insolvencyInsolvency / IlliquidityImminent illiquidity (time frame unclear)Overextension, you have more depth than assets Insolvency applicationExamination of applicationOpening of insolvency proceedings  Upfront tax payments / prepaid taxes https://www.sapling.com/8419090/prepaid-taxes  Shareholder loans https://www.financierworldwide.com/shareholder-loans-under-german-insolvency-law#.Xno2T4hKhhE    Special about this situation with Covid19, as of March 2020Here is the link to the current bill/draft law on the homepage of the German Federal Ministry of Justice https://www.bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Gesetzgebungsverfahren/DE/FH_AbmilderungFolgenCovid-19.html Content: Under certain conditions, there is no obligation to file for insolvency until September 30th, 2020.  There is a restriction for termination of rental contracts (think offices) There is also relaxation for decision making for legal entities  ⇒ Talk to your lawyer about it!   The Video Interview (published March 24th)https://youtu.be/0vnA4SoSADc   Top Book Picks by 28-year-old serial entrepreneur Peter (AL)Principles by Ray Dalio https://amzn.to/38ZgmB7 The man who solved the market https://amzn.to/2SZ6Jgw What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture https://amzn.to/2SYi00x The little prince https://amzn.to/3c6hWDm Friedrich Nietzsche’s Books: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is https://amzn.to/2HSuAYDThus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None https://amzn.to/37W2qGLHerman Hesse’s Books Siddhartha https://amzn.to/2PpJzO3Steppenwolf https://amzn.to/32pSPqI Further readings and helpful linksThis is the only reliable English source we could find so far: SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19: Collected Best Practices of the German Startup Scene - German Startups AssociationThey launched ...

Acomodeo helps companies to find serviced apartments worldwideThe EnablerThis is a video interview from our podcast Tech Startups Germany. All the recordings on this channel are made possible by Invest in Hessen (learn more here https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/home).   Our first clients know us and trust us, and they do these bookings [28.000 – 35.000 Euros] on a cell phone. Eric-Jan Krausch during his Startuprad.io interview   The PodcastsWe will post this interview and all others as podcast(s) next Tuesday night Central European Time. Subscribe here and have them on our device when you wake up:

This Month in German Startups - Corona Flash - March 19th, 2020This is a special format for our startup news. We will keep you updated on the developing Covid19 story and its impact on the German startup scene. 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 recording 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 share links or just to say “Hallo!” https://forms.gle/mLV6mVKwGwKuut8BA  _____________ Our affiliate partners: Startup in need of a bank account? Try our partner Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d Looking for a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala: http://bit.ly/2w01Zye Need office space? Co-Working at WeWork https://we.co/2GYbxvS Need something done fast? SEO / Graphics / Sounds / Transcript look at Fiverr: http://bit.ly/2S0f2YF You can listen to many of the books from our recommendations with an audible subscription: https://amzn.to/2pGzseh ____________ Find the host here:Jörn “Joe” Menninger joe@startuprad.io / Twitter  / LinkedIn / Video Interview (2018)   IntroHi there, This is Joe from Startuprad.io. Since the Corona outbreak in Europe, we surpassed 150.000 subscribers. I would like to thank you all and keep you up to date with the current development.  Public life in Germany is now  greatly reduced. In most of Germany’s sixteen states the opening hours of bars and restaurants are severely limited and only selected stores (think groceries, pharmacies, …) remain open during normal hours. This has a great impact on startups in Germany, from changing to remote-only work, to a heavy drag on revenues, to finding emergency funding. We thought we would give you an overview, as a short flash update. We want to provide you with collections of links and reports, that point you where to find information, help and can read more.    German Startup Association's Link Collection“This is a list of *public* coronavirus // Covid-19 communications/measures and resources. Disclaimer: The content below is crowdsourcing content, so it is not independently verified. It is intended as a resource for founders and management teams who are currently discussing their own actions on SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 and want to learn from the ecosystem. “ SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19: Collected Best Practices of the German Startup Scene - German Startups Association https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UKRxxg3SiOH7hBUnS8Tn81zAqoG4KcWBpSPBTpfidzk/preview Some highlights from the document: Guide to support measures for startups affected by coronavirus | Sifted https://buff.ly/2QqjAXhCOVID-19 Symptoms and what to do, incl. list of links and phone numbers in relevant geographies - 15.3.20Kurzarbeit is in Germany short term measures to support companies, where part of the employees pay is taken over by the government. Find more information here: Very Detailed Frequently Asked Questions on Kurzarbeit - 17.3.2020Obligation to file for insolvency due to corona suspended for companies in Germany - 16.3.2020Global collection of VC resources, measurement lists, blog posts and other communications - 18.3.2020  Other Link CollectionsWhat to consider? Time to plan now. Consider this situation going on for weeks, even months and make plans accordingly. For all startups cash is king! Here are examples of measures put together by the German government. Measures of the German Federal Ministry of Economics: https://www.bmwi.de/Redaktion/DE/Downloads/S-T/schutzschild-fuer-beschaeftigte-und-unternehmen.pdf?__blo...

Codario.io makes open source security easyMedia PartnershipThis interview is in media cooperation with Frankfurt Forward (https://www.frankfurtforward.com/news/). Codario is the Startup of the Month March 2020. Congratulations! The FounderWe talk to Johannes “Joe” Noll  (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-noll-10907478/), co-founder and CEO at Codario.io (formerly known as App Guard) (https://codario.io/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/codario), a cybersecurity startup from the Rhine-Main Area (Darmstadt). Johannes is a returning interview partner, due to our media partnership. If you want to learn more about him and the startup, see at the end of this post for the interview posted on October 10th 2019, where we talked to him at an event. Johannes got sucked in the startup world by attempting to make a copycat of the app Jodel (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/jodel). It is an app for sharing anonymously gossip. The name is inspired by the Bavarian jodeln (see video below – Further Readings).   We help software developers to use open source in a secure way. Johannes “Joe” Noll of Codario.io during his Startuprad.io interview  Affiliate Links (AL)Is your startup in need of a bank account? Try our partner Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d Looking for a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala http://bit.ly/2w01Zye Need office space? Co-Working at WeWork https://we.co/2GYbxvS Need something done fast? SEO / Graphics / Sounds / Transcript look at Fiverr: http://bit.ly/2S0f2YF You can listen to many of the books from our recommendations with an audible subscription: https://amzn.to/2pGzseh  The StartupCodario is a cloud-based open-source dependency update as a service solution. As a software developer one uses not only own code, but also open-source code (libraries). The startup helps software developers to monitor and update these open source libraries they are using, so known vulnerabilities of old versions cannot be exploited in the new project. They are currently 5 people. Codario has paying customers like the University of Heidelberg (the world's 2nd oldest university) or the European Commission.   Our slogan is “Open source security made easy” Johannes “Joe” Noll of Codario.io during his Startuprad.io interview   Find the video interview from March 12th 2020 here:https://youtu.be/MD4cvuM3usM   If you are not updating your 3rd party code hackers can attack your web application, even if you have your own code secured. Johannes “Joe” Noll of Codario.io during his Startuprad.io interview   Top Book Picks by 28-year-old serial entrepreneur Peter (AL)Principles by Ray Dalio https://amzn.to/38ZgmB7 The man who solved the market https://amzn.to/2SZ6Jgw What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture https://amzn.to/2SYi00x The little prince https://amzn.to/3c6hWDm Friedrich Nietzsche’s Books: Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What One is https://amzn.to/2HSuAYDThus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for All and None https://amzn.to/37W2qGLHerman Hesse’s Books Siddhartha https://amzn.to/2PpJzO3Steppenwolf https://amzn.to/32pSPqI  The old Interview from October 2019https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLmU_5Wp5UA In some cases, four hours after a new release, automated hacks for the fixed issues start Johannes “Joe” Noll of Codario.io during his Startuprad.io interview   Venture FundingCodario is currently closing a 1.5 mn Euro Seed Financing round. If you like to get in, let us know and we will introduce you to Johannes.   It makes sense for hackers to not to target custom code of web applications, but third-party code, because of that you can target several hundred websites simultaneously. Not one product, but several hundred. Johannes “Joe” Noll of Codario.io during his Startuprad.io interview  F...

This is a sponsored video by Ophigo I had a list of five problems the real estate industry is facing and decided to take on one with Ophigo. Valerio, CEO and Co-Founder of Ophigo – During his Startuprad.io interview In this interview, Joe is talking to Valerio (https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerio-siviero-27a2ab96/), co-founder and CEO of Frankfurt-based proptech startup Ophigo (https://www.ophigo.com/). We want to be there for the tenant, from start to finish. Valerio, CEO and Co-Founder of Ophigo – During his Startuprad.io interview The FounderIn the interview, we are talking to Valerio, who is originally from beautiful Milan. After stays in corporate jobs, as well as the COO of another startup – both in London – he decided to set up Ophigo in September 2018 in Frankfurt. Despite his name, Valerio is half German and a very European entrepreneur. He grew up in Milan, studied in Rotterdam and worked in London, before coming to Frankfurt. He is able to speak German with a Bavarian accent.   Ending up with a proptech startup was more a coincidence, than a proper plan. The proper plan always was to eventually found a company Valerio, CEO and Co-Founder of Ophigo – During his Startuprad.io interview   “Potential IT applications rapidly exceeding our powers of imagination”[1] DZ Hyp – Report Real Estate Market Germany 2019 / 2020 The StartupOphigo was founded only in September of 2018 in Frankfurt. None the less, they are well funded and are hiring. If you are interested in a job there, have a look here https://www.ophigo.com/careers. Ophigo was set up with the help of Ampolon Ventures (https://ampolon.ventures/), which is the CVC arm of Wiesbaden based Areal Bank. The company focuses on office leasing, with less than 1000 square meters (approx. 10.000 square feet). The company helps companies to search for spaces and helps the tenant along the whole process, longer than most real estate brokers.   The least amount you need to do is only to tell us your company’s name. Valerio, CEO and Co-Founder of Ophigo – During his Startuprad.io interview Valerio’s Recommended Readings (AL)The lean startup https://amzn.to/2TuOJcQ How to win friend and influence people https://amzn.to/2x5jDkp Blitzscaling  https://amzn.to/32OgnFZ Joe’s TipThe hard thing about hard things https://amzn.to/2Tjx4pt Ophigo is a story of opportunity. Valerio, CEO and Co-Founder of Ophigo – During his Startuprad.io interview  Further ReadingGerman vs German with a Bavarian accent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKF0HfSg_oo CVC = Corporate Venture Capital: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_venture_capital   [1] https://www.dzhyp.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Dokumente/Ueber_uns/Marktberichte/DZ_HYP_Real_Estate_Market_Germany_2019_2020.pdf The video interview: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/ophigo-wants-to-be-the-airbnb-of-office-space/ Folge direkt herunterladen

The EnablerThis is a video interview from our podcast Tech Startups Germany. All the recordings on this channel are made possible by Invest in Hessen (learn more here https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/home). The PodcastsWe will post this interview and all others as podcast(s) next Tuesday night Central European Time. Subscribe here and have them on our device when you wake up:

This Month in German Startups - February 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 recording and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German.   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) This February our news is quite short. This is due to the fact that we try to shrink them, as well as that we had only approx. 3 weeks since the last news.   Affiliated LinksThe hard thing about hard things https://amzn.to/2S62X30Ben Horowitz tells his story from an employee, afraid to loose his job to CEO of a company caught in the dotcom bubble to VC investorZero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future https://amzn.to/37H2MSpPeter Thiels, the famous investor tells you his mental framework to think about innovationBlitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies https://amzn.to/2Ob0xySReid Hoffmans, the founder of LinkedIn, advice on scale fast   Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything https://amzn.to/2v97KZG Read worthy book to familiarize yourself with economic theory, or learn more about how to apply it.Need a bank account? Try our partner Pentahttp://bit.ly/3bdHX3dNeed space to work? Try our partner WeWorkhttps://we.co/2GYbxvSLooking for someone to design a logo, do a transcript or a voice-over? Find all of it and more at our partner Fiverrhttp://bit.ly/2S0f2YFYou can listen to Venture Capital books or entertainment on your way to work with an audible subscription – you get the first month for free https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00NTQ6K7E?tag=startupradi0e-21 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: 

TEC4MED works on the next generation smart logisticsThis interview is in media cooperation with Frankfurt Forward (https://www.frankfurtforward.com/news/). We talk to Nico Höler (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nico-h%C3%B6ler-7a203283/), one of three founders and CEO of TEC4MED (https://www.tec4med.com/)a MedTech startup from the Rhine-Main Area (Darmstadt). Nico is a returning interview partner, due to our media partnership. If you want to learn more about TEC4MED and their most recent product the NelumBox, scroll down this blog post, we will post the interview from May 2019, where we talked to him for almost 40 minutes. The idea of NelumBox was born in the Entrepreneur Club of the Technical University Darmstadt. The box is used to transport temperature-sensitive medical products, like drugs. During the interview in May 2019, they forecasted to deliver the NelumBox in July 2019. Many startups learn that "hardware is hard" and so they are now shipping the first final products to the clients. None the less the ambitions of the startup is not gone and they have some new products in the pipeline which will turn them in a service provider for logistics in the medical field and pharma supply chains. Tune in to learn more. If you want the next generation of smart logistic products, you should reach out to us Nico Höler, CEO and Co-Founder TEC4MED   Affiliate LinksThe hard thing about hard things https://amzn.to/2S62X30Ben Horowitz tells his story from an employee, afraid to loose his job to CEO of a company caught in the dotcom bubble to VC investorZero to One: Notes on Start-Ups, or How to Build the Future https://amzn.to/37H2MSpPeter Thiels, the famous investor tells you his mental framework to think about innovationBlitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies https://amzn.to/2Ob0xySReid Hoffmans, the founder of LinkedIn, advice on scale fast   Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything https://amzn.to/2v97KZG Read worthy book to familiarize yourself with economic theory, or learn more about how to apply it.Need a bank account? Try our partner Pentahttp://bit.ly/3bdHX3dNeed space to work? Try our partner WeWorkhttps://we.co/2GYbxvSLooking for someone to design a logo, do a transcript or a voice-over? Find all of it and more at our partner Fiverrhttp://bit.ly/2S0f2YFYou can listen to Venture Capital books or entertainment on your way to work with an audible subscription – you get the first month for free https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00NTQ6K7E?tag=startupradi0e-21 Here is the career website of TEC4MED https://www.tec4med.com/career/   Blogpost (including video interviews)  https://www.startuprad.io/blog/tec4med-works-on-the-next-generation-smart-logistics/   Folge direkt herunterladen

Three Interviews from Graduation Ceremony of Founder Institute FrankfurtThis is the first interview for all three startup ideas. The founders just graduated in the first batch of the Frankfurt Chapter of the Founder Institute. The Founder Institute is the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, having helped launch over 4,000 companies across 185+ cities and six continents. The company was founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi and his colleague, Jonathan Greechan. The idea for the program spawned from operating TheFunded.com, where it became apparent that most entrepreneurs at the idea and launch stages lacked the structure, feedback, and support network needed to be successful. Learn more about Founder Institute and the Chapter in Frankfurt here, where you can apply for the next batch as well: https://fi.co/s/frankfurt Interview PartnerYou can reach out directly to the people we have interviewed here: Michelle – Supplino: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-peters-2599263/ Karsten – Xplain: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karsten-helbig-b7575364/ William – TribeLync: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-king-ii-m-s-it-itil-4-pmp-49b51b26/ Some impressions from Founder Institute Frankfurt's Graduation Ceremonyhttps://www.instagram.com/p/B8J5PUfI9vm/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B8J5A5Rodoo/   Find the video interview herehttps://www.startuprad.io/blog/three-interviews-from-graduation-ceremony-of-founder-institute-frankfurt/ Folge direkt herunterladen

The fintech CrowdDesk offers Funding-As-A-ServiceThis interview is in media cooperation with Frankfurt Forward (https://www.frankfurtforward.com/news/). We talk to Johannes Laub (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johannes-laub/), one of three Founders and Managing Partner of CrowdDesk (www.crowddesk.de), a Frankfurt-based fintech. They started out as a crowdfunding tool for municipalities and developed into a white-label solution for crowdfunding platforms, as of January 2020 running 56 crowdfunding platforms. They developed the tool further into a point at which startups can raise funds e.g. by integrating their “Go fund me” button on their website. In the interview, we talk about how he went from an apprenticeship in a bank selling mutual funds, to university, had some experiences with starting a music label. He even experienced sales cycles in municipalities and found startup funding as a lucrative market. With the go-fund-me Button a company placed on its website, any company sticking to the local rules could raise funds this way.   Affiliate Links  The hard thing about hard things https://amzn.to/2S62X30Ben Horowitz tells his story from an employee, afraid to lose his job to CEO of a company caught in the dotcom bubble to VC investorZero to One: Notes on Start Ups, or How to Build the Future https://amzn.to/37H2MSpPeter Thiels, the famous investor tells you his mental framework to think about innovationBlitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies https://amzn.to/2Ob0xySReid Hoffman's, the founder of LinkedIn, advice on scale fast   Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything https://amzn.to/2v97KZG Readworthy book to familiarize yourself with economic theory, or learn more about how to apply it.Need a bank account? Try our partner Pentahttp://bit.ly/3bdHX3dNeed a space to work? Try our partner WeWorkhttps://we.co/2GYbxvSLooking for someone to design a logo, do a transcript or a voice over? Find all of it and more at our partner Fiverrhttp://bit.ly/2S0f2YFYou can listen to Venture Capital books or entertainment on your way to work with an audible subscription – you get the first month for free https://www.amazon.de/dp/B00NTQ6K7E?tag=startupradi0e-21   Video Interview:Find the links and video interview here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/the-fintech-crowddesk-offers-funding-as-a-service/ During the interview we are talking about:Mutual Funds https://www.investopedia.com/articles/mutualfund/08/foreign-mutual-funds.asp MS Dos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bKNts8liWI Johannes (is as Joe from Startuprad.io) hailing from Rheinhessen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheinhessen_(wine_region)), a very nice area and the largest wine growing region in Germany. It is just one-hour drive away from Frankfurt. European Business School (EBS): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBS_University_of_Business_and_Law CrowdDesk Blog (in German only) including the crowdfunding from Quickborn: https://blog.crowddesk.de/die-crowdfunding-pioniere-eine-erfolgreiche-gr%C3%BCnderstory BaFin (German finance oversight body): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Financial_Supervisory_Authority Mezzanine Capital (Between equity and debt): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezzanine_capital KfW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KfW Freakonomics Podcast: http://freakonomics.com/archive/ Folge direkt herunterladen