An Essay On The #1 Entrepreneurial Skill
What makes you a successful entrepreneur? In this essay we explore what we think might be a key skill for success for early-stage founders.
Kicking Off 2021
With over a hundred applications this year we were quite busy in the past couple of months selecting, interviewing, and preparing for another exciting round. We finally got around to welcoming all our teams.
Startups Stepping up during the Corona Crisis
Editor’s Note: This article has been created in collaboration with Leaf. As a company focussing on how brick & mortar stores can better engage with their customers, Leaf, a Berlin-based fintech startup, has been in close contact with retailers for the last couple of months. Thus, when closures were first discussed as a possible…
Move Fast and Break… Everything?
Today, the very same platforms and communication apps used by dissidents in the Arab Spring, protestors in Hong Kong, and ordinary folk to chat and organize — like Twitter, or Telegram — can also be employed by those with destructive agendas. This — the pervasive use of digital technologies, and the growing power of the…
Is Insecurity Inevitable in the Connected World?
Every day, companies with billions in their R&D budgets and nascent entrepreneurs tinkering in their garages are connecting ordinary objects to the Internet of Things (IoT) — and creating along the way rafts of new smart functions that spawn from the connectivity. As wondrous as these new functions and services may be, they also open…
Tech in 2020
Happy new year and welcome back! At the beginning of each year, we reflect upon the happenings of the past twelve months, and ponder about what might be coming. What we thought in 2019: Last year, we thought that use cases and sophistication of AI would expand to different sectors, but fall short of…
As it happened: AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator Demo Day 2019
Earlier this week, we celebrated the official end of our 2019 accelerator round at our Demo Day, where we brought together the six teams that we’ve been working with over the past year for a pitch competition. In attendance was a crowd of investors, students, entrepreneurs, and tech insiders. On the slightly rainy December evening,…
Announcement: We are now High-Tech SeedLab
We’re rebranding as the High-Tech SeedLab. We made the decision after confirming that we’ve received funding for the next two years to continue supporting Berlin-based innovators, and we chose a name that better reflects our new program focus. Of course, the changes to our accelerator aren’t in name only. As a part of the new…
What We Look For In Our Startups
In February 2020, we will be kicking off the next accelerator round. For those of you who haven’t heard, the themes are sustainability, promoting women in tech, and scaling Berlin startups beyond German borders. We are currently in the middle of interviewing candidates and reviewing applications — and in light of all the interviews we’re…
Big Tech: Government by CEOs
A central part of the tech startup lifestyle is wearing many hats. On a given day you might shift between marketing, product development, research, or kitchen cleaner — and no position in a startup characterizes this dynamic more than the CEO, or the corporate leader by another name. The heads of big tech firms today…