For this week’s article we sat down with High-Tech SeedLab’s new team member Florian Richert. After our interviews with our very own Startup Coaches Anna Buchmann and Ahmed Mostafa as well as our Marketing Manager Jochen Schwab, we want to introduce Florian, who started in mid August at our program and will be in charge…
The High-Tech SeedLab received more than 100 applications in 2020 from startups who want to join the accelerator in 2021. We had a close look at the applications and extracted a whole lot if interesting insights. Read on to find out the who, what, and why.
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The High-Tech SeedLab is a ten-month acceleration program that started in February 2020. In addition to a monthly grant of 1.500 € every team is assigned a startup coach who makes sure that the participants get the support and knowledge they need. The program also includes tailored workshops and at the end a demo day…
If you google search for German female startup founders, chances are high the results will bring up women like: Franziska von Hardenberg (founder of flower delivery service Bloomy Day), Delia Fischer (co-founder of interior design online shop Westwing), and Ida Tin (CEO and co-founder of female health app Clue) – she also coined the term…
The internet allowed the global sharing of information. The blockchain technology will allow the global sharing of assets. The blockchain is an unchangeable ledger of online records. This ledger is public and shared among a network of computers all around the world. You can only add, not change or remove data. This means that no…
It is the common notion that big companies are the drivers of economies and creators of jobs. However, more often than not startups and SMEs are the main actors creating ample economic opportunities in their local ecosystems. Berlin is the perfect example. The city has 3000 startups – there is no other German city with…
Entrepreneurship is positively associated with economic growth. In 1979 the relaxation of investment rules for U.S. pension funds led to historically large inflows (3% of GDP) to the venture capital asset class. As a result, many forward-looking tech companies were funded. Today, their revenue is equivalent to one-fifth of the country’s GDP. The importance of entrepreneurship…
International Women’s Day is coming up on 8 March. This is a good occasion to take a look at the current status of gender equality in leadership positions. On the invitation of Germany’s Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy, experts from small and large companies and the digital economy gathered on 4 March. The…