zenloop is a SaaS customer experience management platform based on the Net Promoter System® (NPS). zenloop automatically fetches quantitative customer feedback from various channels and analyzes and clusters it using artificial intelligence. This empowers companies and organizations to better understand, and faster and more comprehensively satisfy their customers.
What Makes a WOW Moment? The Power of Customer Centricity.
Tuesday, 17.05
08:45 - 10:15
Halle B4
German
LoyJoy transforms customer journeys into automated and emotional chatbot dialogues. The LoyJoy toolbox offers ready-made, customisable chatbot processes from lead acquisition to loyalty. LoyJoy Chat can represent the entire customer journey and answer more than just questions.
It is no longer appropriate to impose advertising on people. Welect is the leading solution for Quality Ads. This enables advertisers and media agencies to achieve the best possible advertising impact for their campaigns. The secret is choice-driven advertising: people decide themselves which ad they want to see.
F*ck Data based targeting: Will the real best targeting please stand up?!
Tuesday, 17.05
08:45 - 10:15
Halle B4
German
OptioPay is a technology provider that processes payments from companies to customers, employees or partners. Recipients can combine bank transfers with higher-value gift cards to increase the actual value of their payment. Between bank transfers, e-wallets and higher value gift cards, OptioPay offers complete flexibility and adds value at both ends by offering diverse payout options. It is a Win-Win-Win situation for advertisers, issuers and recipients.
WorkGenius revolutionises working with freelancers. Using artificial intelligence we deliver qualified freelancers within minutes based on needed skills. WorkGenius offers access to thousands of freelancers in Marketing, Design or Content Generation but also IT Engineering, Project Management or Consulting. We provide freelancers for all kinds of digital work: that might be the setup of a new online shop but also be a semi-permanent collaboration in a complex IT development project. Not only does WorkGenius find perfectly fitting candidates but the project management, payment and contract management is also included in our solution. In short: WorkGenius offers the #future of work for collaborating with freelancers.
Project A is an international venture capital firm based in Berlin.We invest in passionate early-stage entrepreneurs and provide them with exclusive access to our team of 100 operational experts in areas such as Software Engineering, Marketing, Product, Design, Communications, Business Intelligence, Sales & Customer Success, Organizational Building, and Talent Acquisition.We believe that cutting-edge infrastructure, a data-driven approach, and a sustainable organizational setup are instrumental to the success of digital companies. And we know: it can be a long and hard journey to get there. That’s why we developed a new approach to venture capital: combining capital and in-depth operational support.
MOIA is a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group. The company develops mobility services in Berlin and Hamburg and works in partnership with cities and local public transport operators. MOIA is currently developing and implementing a ridesharing system to avoid individual car traffic and use the road infrastructure more efficiently. Cities are relieved of congestion, noise and emissions. Together with Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles and Argo AI, MOIA is currently developing and testing autonomous ridepooling in a pilot project in Hamburg. The goal is to develop an autonomous, internationally scalable ridepooling system by 2025.
MyPostcard is your #1 app to send photos as real postcards and greeting cards. We print, stamp, and mail them worldwide! We are a creative and international team passionately upholding the postcard tradition in the digital age. We deliver memories. We support movements. We send postcards to inmates, to Trump, to grandmas, representatives, moms, and celebrities. The MyPostcard App has been downloaded over 5+ million times and is available in 10 languages on iOS, Android and web, providing 10.000+ designs for just about any occasion. We are a privately funded company, based in Berlin and New York, and are part of the German Accelerator Incubator as well as Facebook's FbStart program.
Initiated in 2015 next media accelerator is the leading pan-European startup program for innovation in media & marketing. A strong ecosystem of startups, media partners, mentors and investors. We have sucessfully built during the past years a strong international community. With several partners on board in USA, Europe and Israel, we aim to become the largest hub for media innovation in Europe.We are proud to be members of GAN, a highly curated community of accelerators, partners, and investors.
Next Commerce Accelerator is a pre-seed venture capital fund and startup accelerator from Hamburg. Together with 25 leading Northern German corporations, we have been identifying innovative products and services since 2017, questioning market potential and supporting founders in setting up digital, scalable, and sustainably successful business models. Our approach as an accelerator and investor is service-oriented. We offer our portfolio startups comprehensive support through a proactive partnership. In doing so, we draw on the market expertise and assets of our corporate partners and together we form an innovation network in order to benefit from an unfair advantage.
Increase your customer value. With our all-in-one loyalty solution you can reach your customers anytime & anywhere – directly on their smartphone. Your sales increase through higher shopping cart value & customer frequency. Your loyal customers will attract new customers – on a regular basis. We help power medium-sized companies to increase their customer valu. Our product consists of two components: a control center including a dashboard and a customer database for the entrepreneur and a loyalty app, which can be modularly adapted to different customer requirements and is used by end consumers. Over 500 companies from 25 countries are already using a hello again solution.
Moss is a technology-driven platform for holistic spend management. The product currently offers four modules that companies can deploy either as a complete integrated solution or individually. Moss enables flexible issuing of virtual and physical credit cards, digital entry and approval of invoices, smooth processing and reimbursement of employee expenses, and reliable liquidity management. All four modules benefit from efficient accounting automation and integrations with common accounting software and ERP systems. With Moss, finance departments gain real-time visibility and control over all expenses and boost productivity across the business.
Collato is a content collaboration platform that empowers marketing teams to manage projects, assets, and deliverables in one secure space.
Piwik PRO Analytics Suite provides flexible data collection and reports as well as consent management, tag management and a customer data platform. A diverse set of organizations partner with Piwik PRO for powerful, privacy-compliant analytics software and high-touch support. The Government of the Netherlands, Crédit Agricole and Greiner use Piwik PRO analytics software to optimize their customer and user journeys. The features and hosting options of Piwik PRO Analytics Suite allow for its use in the most demanding environments – to satisfy internal security and legal requirements, as well as comply with data regulations such as GDPR, CCPA and TTDSG.
Google Analytics is illegal in the EU – how to mitigate the compliance risk and find reliable analytics alternative
Wednesday, 18.05
08:45 - 10:15
Halle B1
German
pliant offers businesses the digital credit card solution for maximum flexibility and savings: fully digital card and receipt management, pliant app as well as physical and virtual cards including attractive cashback – seamless integration into existing finance and accounting software guaranteed. With the pliant earth feature, customers also have the opportunity to offset travel-related CO2 emissions automatically and through certified providers. The company was founded in Berlin in 2020 by FinTech veterans Malte Rau and Fabian Terner. Since 2022 the internationalization is making great strides, starting with the market entry in Austria.
ContractHero is a Berlin based startup that offers digital, cloud based management of contracts for SMEs and startups. The intelligent and easy-to-use software provides quick access to the most relevant contract information, reminds users of important deadlines and helps managers to get a 360°overview over their most important documents. ContractHero is suitable for all types of contracts and fast-scaling companies that are relying on ContractHero to win full control over their contract management. Tools such as e-signature are available now and are only the beginning of a long and exciting journey.
INSTINCT3 does not offer campaigns off the shelf. It is our aspiration to live up to the goals and interests of the client, without compromising the individual strengths and characteristics of the influencer. There is no other way to create successful campaigns for which the influencer gladly takes ownership. INSTINCT3 represents this credo since their foundation in August 2018. Since then, INSTINCT3 concepted and executed some of Germany’s most prestigious and biggest gaming events, including the award-winning gamevasion 2020. We are the game changers in building creative connections by combining the excellence of our artists and employees and the proof of concept based on multiple successful campaign launches over the past years.
Hypecast is the Super Simple Corporate Audio Solution and brings audio to the business world. Share your internal podcasts with your teams, B2B clients and business partners and let them access your content easy and secure anywhere, anytime. We are giving our customers the ability to literally speak to their employees and their own customers. Companywide or department specific business updates, new product knowledge for a distributed sales force or roadmap previews for the very best customers are typical use cases. HR teams love it to strengthen company culture, convey values and for onboarding new hires. Whatever our customers’ business, Corporate Audio is about communications. It is our business to make it easy for them.
Entrepreneurial spirit meets high tech technolgies - we accompany startups, techfounders, Fraunhofer experts and technologies along the innovation funnel -- we bring tech to your mission
Cremanski & Company is a location-independent management consultancy specialised in the structuring, digitalisation and optimisation of sales departments in start-ups, scale-ups and medium-sized companies. In close cooperation with its clients from almost all industries, the Cremanski & Company team develops optimised sales structures and processes in great detail and then provides hands-on support in implementing and establishing the defined potentials. For brands such as Gorillas, sennder, EIGENSONNE or TIER, Cremanski & Company has been able to raise existing sales organisations to a new level with its sales-specific know-how and experience.
Allvest GmbH was founded as a subsidiary of Allianz SE in 2019, and is based in Munich. Since September 2020, the company has been offering Allvest, a product of Allianz Lebensversicherungs-AG, via digital channels across Germany. Allvest is a novel combination of retirement provision and investment, targeting primarily the growing number of digital-only customers.
Leadership21 is a leadership philosophy that has the intention of bringing love, joy and enthusiasm for individual and corporate development back into companies. Because we believe: human closeness is not only compatible with entrepreneurial success, it is the condition for it in the first place. In our leadership training Leadership21 we teach you how to establish both in your team. We cooperate with MINDSET MOVERS, a provider of coaching programmes, with the vision that by 2030 10 million people will have familiarised themselves with a positive philosophy in order to deal with each other in a more appreciative way.
How successful leaders resolve conflicts
Tuesday, 17.05
10:30 - 12:00
Halle B2
German
Dealing easily with difficult employees - How successful leaders find constructive team solutions.
Wednesday, 18.05
08:30 - 10:00
Halle B3
German
Uncomplicated and secure trading in cryptocurrencies: this is possible with BISON, Boerse Stuttgart Group’s crypto platform. BISON makes crypto trading as easy as possible and is active in the German, Austrian and Swiss market.
how to sell CRYPTO online
Wednesday, 18.05
10:30 - 12:00
Halle B2
German
unea offers a No-Code Workflow Software that enables Brands and Merchants to manage and optimize the entire Trade Spend process.
Trade Marketing, Shopper Marketing & Retail Media - The new era of marketing
Wednesday, 18.05
10:30 - 12:00
Halle B1
German
Timeless is democratizing investing in collectibles by offering shares in collectibles for everyone. Customers can purchase fractions in physical and digital collectible with as little as 50€ and participate in the value development. During the holding period of a collectible, Timeless is taking care of the storage, maintenance and insurance. The shares can also be traded on the Timeless platform.
Win a Banksy & learn how to invest in things you love
Tuesday, 17.05
12:45 - 14:15
Halle B2
English
The right software for your business! Search by categories and tools and make your decision with the help of the OMR community. Choose your business software and tools based on real user reviews. OMR Reviews shall become the leading platform for reviews of software products in the DACH market. Reviews from real users bring transparency to the SaaS market and give decision makers confidence when buying software products. OMR Reviews offers SaaS providers a digital booth that is live 365 days a year and helps to build reputation and generate leads.
The Power of Reviews - How reviews drive your B2B-software-business forward
Wednesday, 18.05
12:30 - 14:00
Halle B3
German
Make happy customers talk about you! We transfer word-of-mouth to social media, making the most effective form of marketing scalable. Customers share their positive experiences about products or services on their social media. The company remunerates the advertising effect with a cashback or a donation to a good cause. Rekla.Me takes over the complete handling of post control, user verification, participant coordination, payment processing, provision of user generated content and performance analysis through a technically highly automated platform.
Startup Unit Hamburg - first port of call for startup businesses Prospective entrepreneurs and new enterprises with knowledge- and technology-oriented business models are now provided with comprehensive information and support in one place: Hamburg Invest’s Startup Unit serves as the first port of call for any queries regarding municipal startup programmes, funding opportunities, as well as relevant events and networks in Hamburg.
ACCIST Technology represents a team from Germany’s University of Applied Science Stralsund who are taking action on the topic of Safety in Sports with a concussion warning system. The technology integrated into ACCIST helmets recognises the root of concussion – not the symptoms – thus providing immediate feedback on whether there is a concussion risk. The potential applications are widely spreaded, from construction workers to athletes like skiers and to patients who need to wear a medical helmet. ACCIST not only provides a recommendation for action, but also the possibility to categorise accidents in the future.
We at SCHEMA M have the honor to support brands like Paul Valentine, Rosental Organics, waterdrop, yfood, Giesswein & every and some more with their Paid Social Ads with our team of 25 smart minds and make them really successful especially on Instagram and TikTok. January 2021, there were still three of us. Now we are allowed to accompany the most exciting DTC cases in the German-speaking region. Scaling brands from 7-figure to 8-figure or even 9-figure sales. Create brands, develop markets and create jobs!
How Germany's most successful eCom Brands successfully scale through Paid Social with UGC Creatives!
Wednesday, 18.05
14:45 - 16:15
Halle B2
German
Kontist GmbH is Germany's first finance app with a clear focus on freelancers and the self-employed. It has set itself the task of facilitating the everyday working life of the self-employed and freelancers with its service and giving them more financial security and control. With the "Kontist Tax Service" offer, Kontist also organises the execution of the complete bookkeeping and the topic of taxes together with the business account, centrally in an app.
TaxTech - The bureaucracy killer: How the self-employed save massive amounts of time thanks to smart tools
Wednesday, 18.05
14:30 - 16:00
Halle B3
German
JOKOLADE is a brand of the Schoko Winterscheidt GmbH under which name founder Joko Winterscheidt and the eniter Team trade and market fair and delicious chocolate. Led by the mission to take responsibility as a company JOKOLADE decided to produce its chocolate with cocoa from Tony's Open Chain, one of the fairest types of trading cocoa. After a fulminant launch in 2021 the startup now moves into the next growth stage and works not only on a wider distribution in the supermarket landscape but also on exciting new products.
More than just a pun | How JOKOLADE sets new standards with product, purpose and authenticity
Tuesday, 17.05
12:30 - 14:00
Halle B6
German
Airbank is a cash flow management solution for start-ups and SMEs that unifies all business accounts and financial data in one place, enables frictionless liquidity control and planning, and simplifies payments.
MARA automatically analyzes thousands of customer feedbacks like product and store reviews or NPS feedbacks and allows decision makers to see where and how to act.
PlayPlay is the online video creation solution that enables anyone in your team to turn any message into a compelling video. With PlayPlay, your message gets across, no matter what you have to say. Information becomes easier to retain, explanations are more convincing, your brand storytelling more compelling, and your organization more human and engaging as a result. That’s why, across 15 countries, 1500+ companies trust us to strengthen the bond with their customers and employees, one video at a time.
Xentral is a lean ERP cloud software that allows startups and SMEs to centrally manage their business processes - from e-commerce to warehouse and production to fulfilment and accounting. Simple, intuitive and flexible, with more than 1,000 features and interfaces to popular tech tools, Xentral ERP allows any business to digitize and automate their individual processes step by step. Xentral takes the pain out of daily repetitive tasks and creates an environment in which companies can grow safely and sustainably.
Dexper enables Enterprises to tell their story. We add new and interactive touch points to our client's marketing and communication propositions through digital events and video platforms. We help you plan, design, build and manage every aspect of your event which seamlessly fits your corporate identity. Event done? Using DEX365 you can publish content to your website’s personalised video-on-demand environment for all relevant stakeholders to enjoy! Your brand and user experience matter! Engage your audience with a premium and branded digital event that your attendees will remember. Your brand story + digital events + DEX 365 = smart storytelling with a measurable effect.
Hive is your holistic e-commerce operations partner, providing both the software and the warehousing service in-house to ensure the highest quality across all processes. With Hive's ongoing pan-European expansion, its network of fulfillment centers allows e-commerce retailers to reach the majority of EU buyers within two days at low prices. Focus on your businesses' growth and offer your customers a seamless experience, using Hive to book and manage your freight, fulfillment, delivery, custom packaging, returns, and an end-customer app.
Mushlabs is a young biotech company based in Hamburg, Germany, that creates a new generation of natural and sustainable food by fermenting edible mushroom mycelium. The start-up was founded in Berlin in 2018 by CEO Dr. Mazen Rizk. Currently, the company is moving into its new headquarters in Hamburg. The team includes nearly 50 employees from over 20 different countries. The vision: use the power of mushrooms and biotechnology to build a sustainable food system for a growing global population.
Take a bite of the future - how we use the roots of mushrooms to revolutionize our broken food system
Tuesday, 17.05
10:30 - 12:00
Halle B6
English
COOVAL is the first social business network for cooperation managers and cooperation officers with relevant key functions. We offer daily inspiration & impulses for higher productivity and successful cooperations as well as insights for your partner search, partner evaluation and rational cooperation decisions. Access is for corporate collaboration & brand managers. Agencies do not have access to our platform. Click on the globe symbol above and book your personal appointment with a contact person from our COOVAL team now.
With melibo you can build your own AI Chatbot – without coding. This way, you can automatically respond to up to 80% of your customer's inquiries. melibo is an intuitive AI Tool and the perfect solution for your Website or your Webshop. Our chatbots use Artificial Intelligence and especially Natural Language Processing. This way, they can constantly learn and answer even complex questions. melibo does not only support your Customer Service with a chatbot, but also with an integrated Ticket Center, a Live Chat, useful Insights and Bot Teaching. Are you interested? Then register now for free on www.melibo.de.
liftbase is a simple e-procurement solution for everyday orders. Employees in different departments or locations can compile purchase requisitions (BANF) and submit them automatically for subsequent review & approval. With one click, you can then submit the purchase order to your supplier. This works for online stores but also for traditional suppliers via email or fax.
misa.art offers a carefully curated selection of art from the primary and secondary market. It is the only online marketplace that brings emerging and established artists together and offers a range of traditional and digital art. Ultra Contemporary artists are presented alongside the classics of art history from the past 70 years. The selection of new discoveries and canonical works is constantly being expanded, and NFTs and editions are regularly dropped.
At Hacker School, we strive to inspire young people to better understand IT and feel they can contribute to future developments. Our aim is to let every child and teenager try their hand at coding at least once, irrespective of their background, so as to enable them to shape their own (digital) future.
We are your crew for DESIGN, CONCEPTION, FURNITURE CONSTRUCTION, SHOP CONSTRUCTION and VAN CONSTRUCTION. Special requests are standard with us! We build custom-made furniture for your home or unique benches, bars, tables or counters for your shop. And for your camper van, we do everything from installing sinks and single modules to the entire van conversion. For everything you have in mind, we also have a large network of artists on hand to give your project even more individuality.
TiNDLE ist ein saftiges, Pflanzenbasiertes Chicken, das in Geschmack, Konsistenz und Vielseitigkeit überzeugt - und dabei nur einen Bruchteil der Flächen, des Wassers und der Energie verbraucht, die für die Produktion von Hühnchenfleisch benötigt werden. TiNDLE wird aus nur neun einfachen Zutaten hergestellt und ist das erste Produkt von Next Gen Foods, einem in Singapur gegründeten Food-Tech-Unternehmen, das innovative und nachhaltige Lebensmittel entwickelt und vermarktet. TiNDLE ist weltweit in über 500 Restaurants erhältlich. Es ist das erste Chicken aus Pflanzen, das von Köchen, für Köche entwickelt wurde, und wurde mit dem FABI-Award 2022 (Food and Beverage Innovation) der National Restaurant Association ausgezeichnet.
CEO
Douglas Group
Entrepreneur & Investor
Starstrike Ventures
Entrepreneur & Investor
Co-founder
nuruCoffee & nuruWomen e.V.
CEO
KoRo Handels GmbH
Co-Founder & General Partner
Planet A
Gründerin
gitti
Content Creator, Gründerin und Autorin
Lea-Sophie Cramer is one of the absolute top digital entrepreneurs in Germany. After getting her start at BCG and Rocket Internet, she founded Amorelie in 2013 together Sebastian Pollok. Thanks to a clever public relations strategy, the duo were able to grow both revenue and profit to the eight-figure range. She left Amorelie in 2019 and has since been primarily active as an investor. Through her holding company, she has invested in Plus Dental, Lillydoo and Cleverly. Cramer is also member of the “Junge Digitale Wirtschaft" committee for the German government and is followed by nearly 160,000 people in LinkedIn. Together with Varena Pausder, she hosts the “Fast & Curious” podcast. Currently, she is prepping the launch of her next venture.
Sara is a successful entrepreneur, model and co-founder of social business brand nuruCoffee and of the non-profit association nuruWomen e.V. Sara knows how important it is to increase the visibility of women and help harness their standing as role models as an effort to empower others to go their own way. She is not only active in the public eye, but also leverages her company to fight for the rights of girls and women in her native Ethiopia
Piran Asci, born in 1993 in Berlin, is an entrepreneur, mathematician and process enthusiast. He studied mathematics and business administration at Freie Universität Berlin. His enthusiasm for entrepreneurship came about when he won the Funpreneur Competition at Freie Universität Berlin in 2014. He financed his studies and later his start at KoRo by buying and selling Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon cards. The following year he joined KoRo as a working student and in 2016 acquired the company shares of the then founder Roberts.Piran Asci is now responsible for marketing, sourcing and IT.
Tobias Seikel is a senior investment professional with extensive experience in Venture Capital and building startups in the DACH region. He is Co-founder and General Partner at Planet A, believing that it is indispensable to address climate change as well as other pressing environmental issues of our time. Apart from his Planet A-related activities, Tobias is a regular mentor and supports several corporations with their advanced training programs or portfolio patronage respectively, such as Google (juror), HMS Hamburg Media School (lecturer) and Next Media Accelerator (mentor). Furthermore, he acts as a business angel in several startups and as a regular speaker at industry events.
Christian Voß is CMO at Sedo and also responsible for the Domain Brokerage division. As a former managing director of an online marketing and SEO agency, he also knows how central domains are in any marketing setup. Christian can tell spectacular stories about domain purchases and sales and knows what to do if a domain is already taken.
Michael Piotrowski leads the marketing team of InterNetX and is not only a marketing pro, but also an experienced domain strategist. For years he has been following and supporting various brands in building a successful domain management and knows the dos and don'ts. From success stories and tips to worst case scenarios, he will give you many insights and tells you what has been happening in the domain universe since 2010.
Hendrik Brandis is co-founder and partner at Earlybird Venture Capital. As an investor, his current focus is primarily on tech-driven business models from the software and internet sectors. Prior to founding Earlybird, Hendrik Brandis was a partner at McKinsey. Hendrik Brandis studied mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Munich and holds a PhD in aerospace engineering.
June Sun Neyenhuys studied until June 2021 in the Bachelor Product Design at the Berlin University of the Arts and Textile Design at the Weissensee School of Art Berlin. She works at the intersection of innovative, sustainable material development and conceptual design. During her studies, she specialized in the development of brown algae-based materials. From this context, the interdisciplinary team mujō formed in 2018. In 2020, she and her team deepened the startup idea of brown algae-based packaging materials as part of the DesignFarm startup grant. Since the StartUp founding in 2021, Juni has been focusing on the implementation of mujō's vision and company building as a co-founder.
Annekathrin Grüneberg is an industrial engineer for chemistry and process engineering with specialization in polymer technology. She has also been a Design Thinking Coach trained at HPI since 2017 and works as a passionate freelance innovation coach for clients such as vodafone, SAP, Rolls Royce, Fujitsu and the German Federal Ministry for the Environment. She is co-editor of the book "Future Skills: 30 Zukunfstentscheidene Kompetenzen und wie wir sie lernen können". In her life, she is always accompanied by her enthusiasm for creating learning spaces in a wide variety of contexts. As co-founder of the startup mujō, she is able to combine her passions for biopolymer-based materials development, innovation and vision development.
More meaningfulness in entrepreneurship – this is what Arne Stoschek strives for and this is also why he founded Leadership21 and MINDSET MOVERS: "After more than 10 years of successful entrepreneurship, I realised that successful work does not make you happy, but only successful. Then I decided to work less on the growth of companies and more on the growth of people. That's what I'm doing now and I'm fulfilled and happy in my work every day." Before Arne Stoschek decided to accompany entrepreneurs in their personal development, he was co-founder of the two online marketing agencies Textprovider and Suxeedo, as well as the digital consultancy Etribes.
"The mindset you live in determines the results you have." – This is what Gergely Galamb strives for and this is also why he founded Leadership21: "A team is only sustainably motivated and successful when leaders have the intention for a win-win-win situation: the employees win, the leader wins and the company wins. And that requires a new mental approach." Before he started coaching entrepreneurs and working as an organisational developer at Bosch, Gergely Galamb led system development for automotive lithium ion batteries at Bosch. Now he develops seminars to enable teams to create a motivating environment for sustainable high performance.
Simone Barilla has been the Head of Performance Marketing at Sowa Labs GmbH since September 2019. As such, he's been responsible for – among other things – customer acquisition, scaling, and optimization for the crypto app BISON. After his time at Rocket Internet and Team Europe, Simone spent 10 years working in various performance marketing positions for startups like Outfittery, Knip, and Locafox.
Dmitrii Zhamanakov is Head of Product for Daily Banking at Vivid. In addition to stops at SAP, Idealo, and eBay Kleinanzeigen, he founded an e-learning platform for learning the German language with over 2 million users back in 2010. At Vivid, Zhamanakov is responsible for Cards, Accounts, Payments, and Transfers. Together with his teams, he develops solutions to integrate Vivid into customers' everyday lives even more closely. In addition to a Master of Business Administration, Dmitrii Zhamanakov holds two Bachelor's degrees in Information Technology.
Hey, ich bin Marc und gemeinsam mit meinem Team aus 25 smarten Köpfen habe ich die Ehre Brands wie Paul Valentine, Rosental Organics, Snocks, waterdrop, yfood und weitere bei ihren Paid Social Ads zu unterstützen.Wir dürfen die spannendsten DTC Cases im deutschsprachigen Raum begleiten. Brands von 7-stelligen auf 8-stellige oder auch 9-stellige Umsätze skalieren. Vor allem im Bereich User-Generated Content konnten wir den deutschsprachigen Markt nachhaltig prägen und Performance-Rekorde für unsere Kunden brechen.Ich habe zudem die Ehre Teil des Gründerteams und CMO der Tracify GmbH zu sein.Tracify ist eine Software für Tracking & Attribution, die es ermöglicht jeden User ohne Cookies oder Modelling zu tracken und das sogar DSGVO-konform!
Melchior Neumann, a qualified tax clerk, is the office manager and co-initiator of Kontist Steuerberatung mbH in Berlin. After completing his training, he worked for KPMGand subsequently advised companies such as felix1, Lexoffice, Debitoor and Klarna. Nineyears ago, Melchior Neumann launched the portal steuerazubi.de.
Coralie Grau leads JOKOLADE jointly with the company's founder Joko Winterscheidt as CEO since December 2021. Together with her team she works towards making chocolate not only delicious but also fair. After stations at the Boston Consulting Group, ABOUT YOU and yfood she is now advancing responsible entrepreneurship at JOKOLADE.
Insa Schniedermeier is a journalist, blogger and digital pioneer at t3n, the leading platform for the digital economy. Insas career started in marketing, before she switched over to journalism – with the Business Punk Magazine as her staring point. Today, she is head of the startups & digital economy department at t3n and has been interviewing many thought leaders from the startup- & tech-scene. Among the main topics she covers with her work are health-, female-, climate- & conscious-tech as well as AI and biohacking. Her focal point: How can tech help us live a more conscious, healthier and happier life?
Thorsten Wittmuetz has been actively involved in disrupting and innovating old-established markets since 2006. As a serial entrepreneur, advisor, and investor he comes along with the expertise of approx. 60 transactions and 150 due diligence analyses from different angles. Thorsten is co-founder and managing partner at NCA, a pre-seed startup accelerator and investment fund. Backed by more than 25 corporate LPs, NCA strives to identify and source the most promising early-stage startups with commerce and software-related solutions since 2017. Today NCA has a portfolio of more than 50 startup companies.
Dimitri Gärtner is FRAMEN’s CEO and previously worked for Deutsche Bank in the strategy department for five years. He founded the Berlin tech startup FRAMEN in 2018 together with 3 co-founders. On the way to revolutionizing the world of entertainment and marketing, FRAMEN managed to exit in 2020 from Europe’s largest media group Axel Springer. FRAMEN currently has 100 employees and is active in 10 countries with offices in Berlin and London.
Hans Elstner impresses with his positive energy and sense of purpose. In 2005, he founded an agency for digital transformation. With his steadily growing team, he advised and supported companies on digitization issues. He was able to gain valuable experience in this field. The essential business idea for a 3D platform came to the entrepreneur in 2012. He dreamed that 3D tech would one day be available to everyone and accessible everywhere, at any time. In 2018, rooom was launched. People joined the mission of “Democratize 3D”. In addition to the powerful platform solution and a motivated team behind the scenes, it was the enthusiastic and freshly presented pitches with which the founder quickly led rooom to a high level of popularity.
Erik Reintjes is co-founder and managing director of MissPompadour, a start-up founded in 2019. He is responsible for Marketing and Sales, but also substantially involved in product development. MissPompadour is a medium-sized e-commerce dealing with interior colours and painting supplies, with a focus on their own product line. After his vocational training within the sports retail sector, Erik studied fashion and design management at AMD in Munich. He later set up the B2B business of a well-known textile company. In 2019, Erik and his two partners foudned MissPompadour. Since then, he is responsible for everything related to the public image of the company.
Florian Heinemann is a Founding Partner at Project A Ventures, where he is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM, and business intelligence. With more than 800m USD assets under management, Project A invests in digital companies at an early stage all over Europe. In addition to capital, Project A provides portfolio companies with exclusive operational support by a team of 100 in-house experts including all areas across product, growth, data and people. Since 2012 Project A has invested in more than 100 companies, among them Trade Republic, Spryker, Kry, Sennder, WorldRemit/Zeps, LUQOM, Voi, and Casavo. Before co-founding Project A, Florian was Managing Director at Rocket Internet with the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved at Zalando, Global Fashion Group, and Spark Networks (aka eDarling/Affinitas). Prior to Rocket, Florian was Co-Founder and Managing Director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon in 2008). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was Co-Founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com (exit to Broadoak). Moreover, Florian has been an investor/business angel in more than 80 startups including Trivago (seed investor), Zalando (founding investor), Audibene (seed investor), Home24 (founding investor), CityDeal/Groupon (founding investor), Betreut.de/Care (seed investor), ClassPass (early stage investor), Mimi Hearing (early stage investor), Bitbond (seed investor), Lillydoo (early stage investor), and the Code University (seed stage investor). Apart from his Project A-related board activities he sits on the supervisory boards of Koerber AG and Fressnapf and the digital advisory boards of Henkel and Oetker.
Lucas Bemer is the Co-Founder of quantilope, the Insights Automation platform empowering brands to free all marketing decisions from gut feel. As CPO, Lucas leads the product development and data science of quantilope’s app, working to transform the ways brands run and manage their consumer insights and market research processes. Prior to founding quantilope, Lucas received international awards for his expertise in consumer insights due to his academic research.Since 2014, quantilope has been automating insights and the entire market research process rooted in the core values of speed, substance, and empowerment. quantilope reduces the average length of a consumer research project from months to just a few days.
Christian Fenner is co-founder and Head of Brand at nucao. His passion for storytelling, communication and branding has catapulted the start-up from zero to 100 among the top sustainability brands in Germany. Previously, the "Forbes 30 under 30" young entrepreneur completed his bachelor's degree in industrial engineering at RWTH Aachen University. After a brief stint in the automotive industry, in 2016 he embarked on a mission with nucao to create sustainable chocolate with maximum positive impact for the planet.
Born in Santiago, Chile, a passion for food has taken Felipe around the world. From the kitchens of Berlin's Horváth to his unique role as Pastry Chef at Germany’s first and only Michelin 2-starred dessert restaurant, CODA, Felipe has a keen interest in all things edible. Most recently, he worked as Sous-Chef at Michelberger in Berlin before joining Mushlabs team in Hamburg this year out of a strong belief that food can change the world. In a time when the future can seem so uncertain, food for Felipe represents hope.
I am made up of one part IT & data geek and one part integrated marketing tool expert, this hybrid professional straddles the fence between both worlds. Experience as a super user for a bunch of MarTech stack allows me to work across all digital channels to improve business performance.My current role “Product Manager of Integrations & Tracking” focuses on unlocking marketing (Growth & Acquisition) teams to truly leverage our marketing tech infrastructure for their KPIs.
Leonard Diepenbrock is an entrepreneur, designer, creative, speaker and was a presenter and reporter at RTL for 12 years. The overdue turnaround of the family business, provided a hard cut ten years ago, when he traded the world of the rich and beautiful at RTL Exclusiv for a plastic production. In addition to transforming TOX-Dübel-Technik (est. 1941, 110 employees), in 2013 he founded the vegan body care brand Jean&Len (philosophy: "ohne Gedöns"), whose creams and shampoos are available throughout Germany. The Harvard alumnus has two children and lives in Cologne.
Carsten Jens Maschmeyer (born 8 May 1959) is a German billionaire businessman, investor, and panel member of the German investment television series Die Höhle der Löwen ("The Lions' Den"). He is the founder and owner of the Maschmeyer Group which combines all of his current business activities. Through ALSTIN (Alternative Strategic Investments) he invests growth capital in emerging industries and future markets with outstanding innovations in sectors like the Internet, technology, and life sciences. Through Paladin Asset Management, his team undertakes value investments in publicly listed companies. Through Seed & Speed, Maschmeyer provides seed investments to very early-stage companies.
Malte Rau is CEO and Co-Founder of pliant - the corporate credit card that combines digital card management with high limits, premium card benefits and attractive cashbacks. In the last ten years, he has worked for well-known fintechs such as auxmoney and Lendico, as well as helping to build a debt investment fund for Rocket.
Mazen grew up in Lebanon and finished his PhD in biotechnology in Hamburg in 2014. He started Mushlabs in 2018 and today, the company comprises a team of nearly 50 employees from over 20 countries. It's a place where diverse visionaries and experts from around the world come together to find solutions for the future.With a new generation of sustainable food and a revolutionary and safe production process, Mazen wants to create a fair and sustainable food system. The successes of recent years, his unique product and the enthusiasm of partners and investors make this vision seem quite real.
A born and raised Hamburger, Anne-Cathrine ventured out into the world of food with a focus on fermentation. This journey took her to the world's leading restaurants, including noma and Geranium in Copenhagen. Anne-Cathrine even wrote a book on fermentation and consulted and lectured on all things tasty for a few years before she returned to Hamburg to join Mushlabs. There she leads her team to invent new products and recipes based on Mushroom mycelium, the hidden food resource that will build the next generation of sustainable and delicious food.
Tobias leads the Growth Team at TikTok for the DACH + NL region. Together with a team of performance experts, he develops successful market and growth strategies for start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises, and established brands. Before TikTok, he started his career in tech 10 years ago at Google AdWords. He then founded two startups himself, in Germany and Silicon Valley. Topics such as discovery shopping, radically new user experience and marketing strategies have always been his driving force. In 2018, he was voted 2nd out of the 100 most creative founders by Business Punk Magazine. He is the proud father of two children and lives in Berlin.
Constantin Buer is the managing director of Podstars GmbH, OMR's podcast studio, that produces, publishes and markets cross-platform audio content. In 2016, he accompanied the young company in becoming a GmbH (Ltd.) and since 2019 he has been the managing director together with Vincent Kittmann and Jasper Ramm. Together they advise partners strategically on advertising opportunities in podcasting, develop suitable audio formats, and bring advertisers and podcasters together. Podstars now supplies over 100 podcasts with native advertising and are involved as producers in over 80 productions.
Finn is CEO and Founder of Sanity Group, which has rapidly brought more than six cannabis companies to success. Focus. Wellbeeing products and medical cannabis. Finn is a serial entrepreneur and business angel, having learned his trade at Boston Consulting Group and Rocket Internet SE. He spent five years in consulting (consumer goods, insurance, pharma), has founded five companies of his own, including THE ICONIC, Berliner Berg Craft Beer, Sportsecondhand, Valmano and Petobel, and he was the boss of Movinga for years, leading the company through the crisis.
Flemming Pinck is a doer as he is known in the book: With his 34 years he has already rocked a lot, he is the founder of the fashion label Inferno Ragazzi, which provides with his surfer styles in Hamburg and soon also in Bali for good mood. Flemming is also co-founder and managing director of SWAN Beauty Tech GmbH. The startup's goal is to build the world's largest and most honest beauty platform. The community can be joined via the free app or the Beauty Smart mirror. Probably known to everyone at OMR is Flemming's heart project - the Hamburg Goldkehlchen. 92 men - one choir - and no one can sing! Their concerts are always completely sold out and a real highlight.