venturemic
By START Munich
It’s us, Manuel, Mihkel, Sophie and Timo, joined by guests, talking about entrepreneurship, startups and things to help us think, do, and be better. We try to answer the more significant questions along the journey: what do we need to establish high-performing startups? And what have other successful people done about it?
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venturemicOct 23, 2020
#23 Dr. Daniel Reese | Investment Manager at UVC Partners on using data to stay ahead in the Startup World
In this episode of the START Munich podcast, we dive into the world of data-based investing with Dr. Daniel Reese, Investment Manager at UVC Partners. As an ex-McKinsey and experienced investor, Dr. Reese shares his insights on how startups can use data to define clear goals and objectives, identify KPIs of interest, and stick to them.
Dr. Reese discusses the influx of VC money and how it has increased the competition to identify startups. He emphasizes that learning from past data about possible future outcomes can help startups look for patterns and reduce the noise in their decision-making.
This is a must-listen episode for anyone in the startup world who wants to gain a competitive edge and make data-based decisions. Tune in now on your favorite podcast platform to learn from one of the top investment managers in the game.
UVC Partners is a Munich- and Berlin-based early-stage venture capital firm that invests in European tech startups from pre-seed to series A. With more than €350m under management, the fund typically invests between €0.5m - 10m initially and up to €30m in total per company. With more than 100 industry partners in the network and a close cooperation with UnternehmerTUM, Europe’s leading innovation center, UVC Partners offers startups unique access to talent, industry contacts, and other financial partners.
#22 David Meiborg | Partner at First Momentum Ventures: Enter The VC World
Have you ever thought of founding your own VC? How might Germany be more attractive than Silicon Valley for gaining traction?
David Meiborg is a partner at First Momentum Ventures, a Karlsruhe-based VC fund with a remarkable origin story. As an early-stage investment fund, they support rising startups and provide them access to a broad industry network with an authentic community. Find out more in the episode!
#21 Felix Krauth & Nimar Blume | CEO and CTO @ Sento: from University to Seed Funding
Sento is a rising startup in the B2B SaaS Business who just moved into great new offices after their recent impressive Seed Funding. In our interview with them, CEO Felix Krauth and CTO Nimar Blume tell us about their journey from broad ideation, about assembling the team and securing first funding onto their current growths stage. Strongest recommendation for everyone who wants to found in the Munich ecosystem.
#Bonus Noel Zeh | Managing Partner at Alstin Capital: From curbstone to Maximiliansstreet
We talked about how he made business with gangster rappers like Bushido, what it is like to invest the money of one of Germany’s wealthiest families and what Alstin looks for in a startup.
A big thank you to Noel and Alstin for supporting START Munich!
#20 Victoria Hauzeneder | Founders real-talk, leaving successful StartUps to found again
Victoria has started her first company directly after university, since then has been working for two successful scale-ups demodesk and finn.auto and is currently about to start her next business. We talked about her insights from scale-ups, how to evaluate ideas and find the perfect team and the Munich entrepreneurial ecosystem.
#19 André Petry | Co-Founder @ Tacto: 400 interviews for guaranteed success
In this episode, André showed us some quite interesting ways to run a startup. What helped their mission was to first assemble the team, and then start working on the product. By being in close contact with their customers, the team was able to shape their solution for their special needs. And lastly, one shouldn’t be too focused on “nailing” the product perfectly at first, but to get feedback, iterate, and grow together.
#18 Paul Günther & Thomas Kirchner | Co-Founders @ ProGlove: An insatiable passion for building products
ProGlove builds efficient wearable barcode scanners, which improve logistic processes for more than 500 renowned organizations from industries like manufacturing, logistics, and aerospace. For that, the company has also been awarded as a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. In this episode, we‘ll be talking about their challenges in business and on a personal level. But we‘ll also get an understanding of their values and their decision-making process when tackling life in general.
#16 Helmut Schönenberger | CEO & Co-Founder @ UnternehmerTUM: The Munich startup ecosystem
Welcome to the START Podcast! In this episode, our guest is Helmut Schönenberger, co-founder and CEO of UnternehmerTUM. We're talking about the early days of UTUM, its development to one of the largest entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe and Mr. Schönenberger's personal journey along the way, current developments and all the reasons, why you should start pursuing your own project right now.
#15 Veronika Schweighart | Co-Founder & COO @ Climedo Health: Empowering healthcare professionals with smart software solutions
Climedo's mission is to bring the best treatment to every patient by empowering healthcare professionals with smart software solutions. Together with Europe's leading hospitals, Climedo has developed a cloud-based platform for cutting-edge clinical validation of medical devices and pharmaceutical products. By digitally connecting all stakeholders, Climedo allows for increased performance, better cost-efficiencies and accelerated medical innovation.
Website: https://climedo.de/en/
Career options: https://climedo.de/en/careers/
#14 Gregor Gimmy | CEO @ 27pilots: Establishing successful Venture Client competencies
27pilots helps companies to benefit strategically from startups through a breakthrough corporate venturing tool: The Venture Client model. We're talking with the CEO and founder, Gregor Gimmy, to get some insights on his personal journey, as well as the development of the startup. Website: https://www.27pilots.com/
#13 Laura Schütz | co-founder @ Stella Medical: Humanising surgical navigation
Stella Medical is a Munich-based startup, offering a user-friendly, small-size navigation system for spine stabilisation surgeries and was awarded with the TUM IDEAward 2020. We're talking with one of the founders, Laura Schütz, to get some insights on her personal journey, as well as the development of the startup.
Website: https://stella-medical.com
#12 Nicolas Remerscheid | co-president @ TUM.ai: Artificial Intelligence Valley in Bavaria
Please welcome our next guest - Nicolas Remerschied, the founding member of the TUM AI initiative. This student group aims to bring students and artificial intelligence together to solve real-world problems.
Nicolas reveals how they managed to get access to Elon Musk’s GPT3 program and also gives advice to students, who want to pursue the artificial intelligence track. Stay tuned!
- GPT3 Makeathon Website with all workshops, GPT3 Info, etc.: https://tum-ai.com/makeathon
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tum-ai
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tum.ai_official/
#11 Ana Garcia | strategy @ TUM hyperloop: The next generation of transportation
From undefeated student project to state funded research project.
The START podcast is starting out its second season strong with strategy member and spokesperson of the TUM Hyperloop project: Ana Garcia! We'll get to know more about the project and technology behind it, her personal motivation to contribute to the project, its entrepreneurial journey from founding until today and the future challenges the team is tackling.
Welcome to Season II of venturemic!
Guess who's back!
It's time for another season of entrepreneurial insights all around the Munich ecosystem by the podcast of START Munich! In this "episode zero", we're introducing the second season of the START podcast, what START and the podcast are all about, who'll be the team behind the magic and a sneak peak to our first episode next week!
We will publish an episode every second Wednesday at 10:00 am CET, so stay tuned for next Wednesday, 10:00 am CET!
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#10 Eleonore Eisath, co-founder beworm: Bioagents vs. plastic
In this episode, we chat with Eleonore, co-founder of the biotech startup beworm, about taking risks and working on solving hard problems, why she dislikes the shiny veneer that most startups are wrapped in, and how she’s building a company that is working on some of the greatest challenges of our time.
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#9 Yannik Schrade, founder shiftscreen: Hitting the App Store charts
In this episode, we chat with Yannik, a fellow STARTie who has built 2 awesome apps: shiftscreen & flexwidgets, both of which have been topping the iOS productivity app charts since last year. He shared with us his journey of quitting law to study informatics at TUM, how he navigates through his day as a developer and a student, and how he creates solutions for his problems which eventually serve others as well.
Show Notes:
Yannik's instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yannikschrade/
Yannik's apps: https://www.shiftscreen.app/ & https://www.flexwidgets.app/
shiftscreenapp on The Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-to-make-your-ipad-more-like-a-laptop-11613311200
Flex Widgets on 9to5Mac: https://9to5mac.com/2020/12/19/flex-widgets-lets-you-create-and-customize-your-own-widgets-for-the-ios-home-screen/
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#8 Julian Madrzak, co-founder remberg: A passion for building products and the importance of mentorship
Julian Madrzak co-founded remberg, the Asset-Relationship-Management System enabling the service of machines in a digital way by empowering an efficient collaboration between manufacturers, service partners and operators. Working for Celonis in New York, and being a fellow member of START Munich, he shared his passion for creating something from scratch, and his experience of blitzscaling remberg to become one of the fastest growing startups in Germany. We also got his thoughts about mentorship, and creating a so-called "challenger network" by being consciously aware of the people and energy he surrounds himself with.
Show notes:
1. Check out remberg: https://www.remberg.de
2. Video about the "square hole": https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glsr_qualityassurance-developerlife-engineeringexcellence-ugcPost-6758730978983718912-ApZj
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#7 Lukas Rose, co-founder Speech: How to network better and do well with others
In this episode, we chat with Lukas, a fellow STARTie and co-founder of Speech about communication & networking, talking about things that matter, and exchanging opinions regarding them to better understand the world around us. He also gave a sneak peek to his startup - Speech, an audio-only communication app that aims to revolutionize how we communicate with our friends and colleagues around the globe. Sounds interesting? Have a listen! :)
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#6 Anirudh B Rao, Founder DigiVet: Experimenting your way through life
In this episode, our guest Abi shares with us his experience of studying and working across three different continents. From social media to food to pets, Abi committed himself to experimentation. For his current project helping vets digitize the customer interface, he is looking for support. Interested? Have a listen!
Show Notes:
Berlin is the only capital city in Europe that is a drag on its country’s economy - https://qz.com/753244/berlin-is-the-only-capital-city-in-europe-that-is-a-drag-on-its-countrys-economy/
veterinary startups to explore:
Airvet inc. - https://airvet.com/
TeleVet - https://televet.com/
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#5 Marie Griesmar, co-founder rrreefs: Rebuilding the world underwater - brick by brick
In this episode, we chat with Marie, co-founder of an NGO: rrreefs about coral reefs, their essence for marine life, and how her team is working on a modular system to rehabilitate marine life. Being an artist by training, she shares with us the intimate connection she has with the world underwater, and how it helps her to draw inspiration for herself and her work.
Show notes:
rrreefs' Crowdfunding: https://wemakeit.com/projects/help-us-save-coral-reefs?locale=en
Library Lab Series on Marie's project: https://www.explora.ethz.ch/en/s/wiederherstellung-von-korallenriffen/
Book: The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One by Sylvia A. Earle
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#4 Paul Ferdinand Schlag: Making things concrete: what does success really mean to me?
After returning from MIT, Paul, our guest for this episode, felt like a failure when he could not get into a similarly prestigious master's program. Being a CDTM and TUM graduate meant little to the people closest to him and, as he discovered, himself too. In this episode, you will hear why you may lose when you follow your passion, how you can overcome vague fears, and you'll learn about a simple thought that makes Paul hopeful every day.
Show notes:
1) Paul's master's thesis on Entrepreneurship within Refugee Communities: "In the end, I'm a businessman." A theory on refugee entrepreneurship in adverse conditions.
2) Book: Haben oder Sein: Die seelischen Grundlagen einer neuen
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#3 Awais Shafique, co-founder presize.ai: The making of an entrepreneur
In this episode, we chat with Awais, co-founder & CPO presize.ai about reasons and motives for becoming an entrepreneur, aligning self-acceptance with self-improvement, and the finish line for an entrepreneur.
Awais’ CDTM talk (54:15 - 1:08:20): https://youtu.be/N9q0kZQG-9g?t=3255
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#2 Raúl Berganza Gómez, President PushQuantum: Starting the quantum revolution
In this episode, we chat with Raúl, Founding Member & President PushQuantum about quantum technology, the future of quantum tech in Munich & how to launch a course at the Technical University of Munich.
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#1 Sebastian Völkl, co-founder Campuskraft: Skipping college & becoming a founder
In this episode, we chat with Sebastian Völkl, co-founder Campuskraft about relevance of universities, self-learning & how students in Germany can find jobs through his company.
Links
1) Start working with Campuskraft
2) Are you ready to live to 100? Lynda Gratton's interview with McKinsey
3) Disciplined Entrepreneurship - Bill Aulet
4) How to Get Startup Ideas - Paul Graham
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Coming Soon: venturemic
Coming October 23rd, venturemic goes live with its first guest. But before that, we thought we shall introduce ourselves and the reasons for starting the podcast. Send us your thoughts - venturemic@startmunich.de