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…
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…
We here at AtomLeap are really excited to introduce the latest team to join our accelerator, Hearable Labs. Now, much of the attention within the augmented reality space falls on the visual aspects of how we can manipulate what we see. Yet, sight and sound go hand in hand — so Hearable Labs is developing the auditory…
Bringing on new team members can be a complicated and daunting task; we at the Atomleap High-Tech Accelerator understand this well. Recruiting for startups in particular poses unique challenges, as you do not have the same resources as established companies. Use these tips to help decide if you need to bring on a new member,…
Last week, we kicked off the third round of the AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator with two new promising teams that are developing high-tech solutions to improve event experience — Based Global — and to create more inclusive virtual workplaces — Tribe. In order to introduce the new participants to the followers of this blog, we sat…
As the second round of the AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator is about to come to an end, we would like to share some important news with the followers of this blog. Namely, that we will host our annual Demo Day featuring all the teams we have accelerated over the past year on December 5. The event…
If you have been following this blog, you’ve already come across earlier posts regarding Berlin’s booming startup scene. This week’s post is devoted to Artificial intelligence (AI), one of the most promising technologies at the moment and consequently an important part of high tech ecosystems all over the world — including Berlin’s. We hope you…
It was almost 24 years ago that economist and Harvard Business School (HBS) professor Clayton Christensen introduced the concept of disruptive innovation. Drawing lessons from the downfall of then-incumbents like Xerox and Sears, Christensen posited that new market entrants can disrupt established players by tending to the needs of low-end market segments, which the former…
Now that everyone is back from the summer holidays, we invited the teams participating in the AtomLeap High-Tech Accelerator to an informal get-together over beer and pizza at our office this week. In a relaxed setting, we caught up on their news, shared ours, exchanged tips and impressions about different innovation programs in Germany, and…
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…