While we are busy with the second round of the AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator, we always find the time to catch up with teams that we have supported in the past. Such was the case earlier this week, when we sat down to talk with Daniel Seidel, co-founder and CTO of LiveEO. If you’ve been following…
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If you are new to Germany, you may find the following combination of concurrent aspects perplexing: Europe’s industrial hub and one of the centers of global innovation has surprisingly slow internet. By slow we mean below the average speed for the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries and lagging behind less developed…
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While the heat of the past few weeks may have pushed you to search for a cool respite away from the office, summer is quickly approaching its end. September is right around the corner and, with it, the conference schedule and the race to secure investment will recommence. In preparation for the pitch competitions, demo…
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Grover, a Berlin-based startup that offers pay-as-you-go subscriptions for consumer tech, has just raised €37m in funding in a series A round this week. Founded in 2015, the company offers customers the possibility to rent products ranging from hoverboards to espresso machines in exchange for a monthly fee, thus affording them the ability to test…
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Over the years and the course of the more than 40 startup events that AtomLeap has organized, we have been asked repeatedly how to balance fast company growth with effective communication amongst team members and productivity. While there is no one way to tackle this problem—in fact, any effective growth strategy should be tailored to…
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The AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator has recently welcomed a fourth startup—Motor Ai—in the second round of our program. As is customary, we invited the team members to answer a few questions about themselves and what they do. Happy reading! How did Motor Ai come to be? For several years, we had been reading about how…
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Earlier this month, Berlin-based startup AIRTEAM Aerial Intelligence joined the AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator, a program funded by the European Social Fund and the Berlin Senate. In order to introduce this inspiring team of entrepreneurs to the followers of this blog, we sat down with them to ask them a few questions. Happy reading and, as…
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Over the past month, AtomLeap’s in-house UX specialist Aileen Pohl has held several workshops on user research for the startups in our accelerator. We decided to devote this week’s post to this topic because it is extremely important for startups preparing to prototype their solutions to understand the users for whom they are building them.…
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Facebook’s famous mantra for its developers — to move fast and break things — has been used and abused to such an extent that it has become a cliche. Originally employed to refer to the value that the company attaches to the creation speed of new tools and features for its platform, the phrase has…
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The AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator supports a variety of early-stage startups working toward the market launch of their products or services. Since we receive many questions regarding the specific criteria that guide our evaluation of applicants, we will dedicate this week’s post to clarifying the conditions that startups have to fulfil in order to be eligible…
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