Lalafo is an artificial intelligence powered C2C marketplace. Lalafo uses computer vision and natural language processing to create a frictionless selling experience. When a new item is listed, its characteristics are instantly extracted. Lalafo AI detects products, colours, materials, makes, models, year of manufacturing and many more characteristics of each item. Features extracted from images can be used to suggest price and match items to buyers with incredible accuracy.
Anna Polischuk, Co-Founder
Anna is a co-founder of Lalafo. Prior to that Anna served as a Commercial Development Manager and, later, as a Chief Operating Officer at general classified Slando. Slando was acquired by Naspers and re-branded to OLX, reaching 30M monthly users. Anna has also previously co-founded a wedding services marketplace provider iBride.com. Anna holds an MBA in International Management from Royal Holloway, University of London.
Yuriy Mukhin, Co-Founder
Bitbond is the first global marketplace lending platform for small business loans. The company leverages blockchain technology to connect creditworthy borrowers with individual and institutional investors. Credit scoring of small business owners is done with a proprietary machine learning algorithm that takes data from business accounts like eBay, Etsy, PayPal etc. into account.
Bitbond is headquartered in Berlin, Germany and is the first blockchain based financial institution with its own BaFin licence. Bitbond’s mission is to make investing and financing globally accessible.
Radoslav Albrecht, Founder & CEO
Radoslav is the Founder & CEO of Bitbond, the first global marketplace lender for small business loans. The platform leverages blockchain technology to connect creditworthy borrowers with individual and institutional investors from around the world. Before founding Bitbond, Radoslav was a senior consultant at Roland Berger and advised financial services providers in Europe and Western Africa. Prior to that he was with Deutsche Bank London in sales & trading of structured products.
The TravelPerk application is a tool created for travelers, by travelers. Revolutionizing the way that organizations budget, book and manage their business travel, TravelPerk offers reporting, dashboards, expense integrations, flexible payments and more, all within a single easy-to-use platform and at no cost to the user.
Avi Meir, CEO
Avi is the CEO and Co-Founder of TravelPerk, a ground-breaking business travel platform offering companies of any size, a one-stop- shop to book and manage all their travel in one place. TravelPerk is one of the fastest- growing tech startups in Europe and raised $8.5m from some of the world’s leading investors including Spark Capital, famous for Twitter, Trello and Slack.
Prior to founding TravelPerk, Avi was Co-Founder of Hotel Ninjas, which was acquired by Booking.com in 2014, and VP Product at Budgetplaces.com, which was acquired by Palamon in 2011.
Carsten Frien
Co-Founder & CEO, Roq.ad - AdvertisingAs Europe’s leading Cross-Device technology provider, Roq.ad helps its clients to reach people across all of their devices. Roq.ad’s technology is certified privacy compliant with both German and European data protection regulations and connects devices with individual people and people with households. This revolutionary technology powers more efficient advertising and reduces advertising expenditures across all digital devices. Since Roq.ad’s launch in 2015, the dynamic startup has grown into a strong, international team. To date, various advertisers, agencies, and media owners use the innovative cross-device technology either directly or via Adserver, DSP’s, and DMP’s as resellers.
Iñigo Vega de Seoane
Founder & CEO, TheMotion - AdvertisingTheMotion is a solution that enables any company with a digital catalog (e-commerce, travel, hotels, classified marketplaces...) to create video ads for each and every product in their catalog - automatically, instantly, at massive scale and with dynamic updates.
TheMotion’s video ads are ready to run on Facebook and other advertising channels, immediately multiplying the ROI (return on investment) versus that of any static campaign.
Christian Ryder
Co-Founder & CTO, OpenBack - AdvertisingOpenBack is the new standard for mobile notifications, boosting engagement by delivering notifications at the right moment for each user.
Jürgen Christian Juul
Founder & CEO, Cardlay - FintechCardlay has on top of existing banking infrastructure, built a real-timefront-end solution that optimizes the customer handling for banksdrastically, and is experienced as a better service by the corporate client.
Cardlay has developed a very competitive Expense Management solutionwhich integrates transactions and expense management with a UI designheld to the highest standards.
Furthermore, Cardlay offers extended services such as VATTAX andEnriched Data for further Business automation.
Heiko Rahlfs
MD & COO, Figo - Fintechfigo has become Europe's first banking service provider with its ‘Banking as a Service’ platform. Data from 3,200 financial sources such as bank accounts, credit cards, deposits, PayPal and FinTech companies can be reached via figo, with more to come. The PSD2 itself outlines a successful concept for the infrastructure provider. One aspect of the new EU directive is the Access to Account (XS2A), which requires banks to make bank data available to so-called third parties.
Sebastian Diemer
CEO, BlackBill - FintechBlackBill provides working capital financing for freelancers and SME’s over a fully automated data driven scoring technology, which can provide same-day decision-making and liquidity.
We are a 7 digit funded stealth startup created by strong investors and experienced founders. Everybody in C level of Blackbill has built a 50+ mn EUR Fintech company before. We are pragmatic, fast moving and eager to go the extra mile. Blackbill is fast executed, data driven and will have a huge impact on the finance industry. This is the place to be if you want to learn everything from probably the most experienced Fintech team out there. You should bring good humor and eagerness to learn. We bring you up to speed and show you how to explore your whole potential.
Matthias Eireiner
CEO, FinReach - FintechFinReach drives bank digitalization with SaaS to enable retail banking excellence.
FinReach develops consumer-centric products that bring decisive changes in user experience and deliver long-lasting benefits for banks and their customers. Our first product (Account Switch Kit) is now used by more than 100 banks in Europe. We are currently expanding internationally and we will launch our new lead generation solution in Q3 or Q4 2017.
Andy Flury
Founder & CEO, AlgoTrader - FintechAlgoTrader the first fully-integrated algorithmic trading software solution for hedge funds and trading companies. Today many trading companies are poorly equipped using tools like Excel & MatLab for their trading, which results in a tremendous manual overhead. Our software AlgoTrader allows automation of complex, quantitative trading strategies and provides everything a typical hedge fund needs on a daily basis to run his operation.
Josef Korte
Co-Founder & CPO, Bonify - Fintechbonify provides a unified access to all data relevant for a user’s credit score and leverages this data to optimize personal finances through individualized offers.
Philipp Bock
CEO, Allpago - Fintechallpago (www.allpago.com) is a leading payment service provider for Latin America, enabling e-commerce merchants and payment providers to accept all relevant local payment methods through a single platform and API. allpago’s state-of-the-art technology and regulatory knowledge are used by merchants including Art.com, Getty Images, McAfee, Paylogic, Symantec and Teamviewer to maximise conversion rates and ensure compliant transactions with customers in Latin America, and as a ‘last mile’ payment interface by leading payment companies around the world.In 2016 allpago was nominated as “Top 10 Late Stage Startup” by Money20/20, the “World’s Largest Payments & Financial Services Innovation Event”. Furthermore, allpago was the only Latin American provider included in Gartner’s “Market Guide for Digital Payments Gateways and Payments Service Providers 2016”.
Christian Pirkner
Chairman, Blue Code - FintechBlue Code operates a mobile payment scheme for European banks. Blue Code never receives personal data from its partners and can thus guarantee full security / anonymity in the payment process. Blue Code tokens work OmniChannel with Barcode scan, BLE, NFC or InApp confirmations. Payments are executed in real time - a live access to account implemenation with some of the largest banks in the Germany and Austria, now expanding in more countries in Europe, while expanding the value added services.
Andrea Fernandez
Chief Commercial Officer, LIQID - FintechAt LIQID, we level the playing field for affluent investors. We provide a unique combination of 30 years’ investment expertise with a transparent and intuitive digital platform. Through our relationships, we are able to offer affluent investors terms and opportunities previously reserved for the very rich.
Samir El-Alami
CEO, ONE - FintechONE is a 100% digital, fully licensed, European insurance carrier. Launching in September 2017, with ONE you are able to sign up and get active coverage in minutes, manage & customise your policy via web or app, handle all of your claims online, with a clear focus on transparent and personalised protection.
Sebastian Hasenack
Co-Founder, Investify - Fintechinvestify is an individual, theme-based digital asset manager for retail, affluent and B2B clients. Our clients always keep control and flexibility over their portfolio. investify - Investing simply feeling right.
Radoslav Albrecht
Founder & CEO, Bitbond - FintechBitbond is the first global marketplace lending platform for small business loans. The company leverages blockchain technology to connect creditworthy borrowers with individual and institutional investors. Credit scoring of small business owners is done with a proprietary machine learning algorithm that takes data from business accounts like eBay, Etsy, PayPal etc. into account.
Bitbond is headquartered in Berlin, Germany and is the first blockchain based financial institution with its own BaFin licence. Bitbond's mission is to make investing and financing globally accessible.
Mirko Krauel
CEO, CollectAI - FintechcollectAI provides AI services to help its clients manage receivables – balancing between collection rates, costs and customer retention. The company is part of Germany’s largest e-commerce retailer: Otto Group. collectAI puts the customer at the centre of the accounts receivables process. It uses digital communication channels and payment solutions to innovate and digitise the invoicing, reminder mechanism and debt collection process. Combined with high automation and deep learning algorithms the customer experience can be improved fundamentally.
Benedetta Lucini
Co-Founder, Oval Money - FintechOval is the first solution that allows the digital natives of the on-demand economy, to finally get some sense of their finances, and become money wise. Oval’s vision is to create a simple financial solution for everyone, that speaks to the new generation of workers, with flexible income, variable expenses and limited access to financial products. At Oval we are committed to financial inclusion, education and fairness, and therefore we help tracking of everyday expenses, and encourage savings based on personal life habits. Oval partners provide bank-level security with unlimited guarantee on the savings account, no hidden fees and full control over privacy. Oval was launched in 2016, and is based in London, UK and Turin, Italy.
Stephan Stricker
Co-Founder & CEO, PAIR Finance - FintechPAIR Finance offers a revolutionary concept in the Fintech and Debt Management industry. We combine the digital opportunities in communication with proven behavioristic customer analysis and data-based machine learning to accelerate and facilitate debt collection processes. With a smart and customer targeted approach we assess the situation of each debtor individually and achieve higher repayment rates to turn debtors back into valuable customers.
Eckart Burgwedel
Co-Founder & CEO, Uberchord - Consumer AppsUberchord is a mobile learning platform for musical instruments. Traditional as well as online music education is broken – it’s inefficient, fails to sustain motivation and in most cases does not even create real musical understanding. Uberchord is bringing music education into the 21st century with best in class audio recognition for real-time feedback, an AI-based adaptive learning concept, a high-quality catalog of popular songs and a UGC platform as the next go-to place for chords and lyrics.
Misha Gopaul
CEO, FATMAP - Consumer AppsFATMAP is the ultimate tool for planning, living and re-living outdoor adventure, powered by the world’s most advanced 3D mapping engine. We are mapping the global natural landscape in unprecedented detail, showing the world as it is in real life - a 1:1 map in virtual reality. Our ultra-high resolution landscape models, with key outdoor reference data, paired with our highly curated expert ‘Adventure Guide Book’ is the ultimate tool for adventure.
Ingo Bohlken
CEO, Goodie Call - Consumer Apps• Innovative app rewarding users for viewing ads while placing or receiving a phone call
• Young start-up founded in 2016 and acquired 2.1€ million total funding in seed round
• Passionate and diverse team of 13 people
• Achieved over 10k downloads in the first 3 weeks after launch
• Revolutionizing the advertising market through in-call ads with a direct user benefit
Ruslan Zaydullin
CEO, DOC+ - HealthcareDOC+ is a digital health company specializing in on-demand medical services (house calls and telemedicine), EHR and medical data management.
Philip Pogoretschnik
Founder & CEO, HUMANOO - HealthcareHUMANOO helps to streamline your work life with your personal life in order to reach your full potential in terms of health, concentration, motivation and nutrition.
Farina Schurzfeld
Co-Founder & CMO, Selfapy - HealthcareSelfapy - Mental health through online therapy courses & personal coaching.
Selfapy offers scientifically proven online psychotherapy courses to make fast and affordable care accessible to everyone. Courses are effective at treating symptoms by combining advanced technology with elements of traditional care.
Sophie Chung
CEO, Junomedical - HealthcareJunomedical makes it easy for you to search for clinics which perform any treatment you’re looking for.
Baher Al Hakim
CEO, Medicus - HealthcareMedicus converts health data with its cryptic numbers and medical language into a visual experience with easy-to-understand health insights and actionable recommendations.
Marcel Muenster
Founder & CEO, TraveDoc - HealthcareCambridge, MA-based global digital health company TraveDoc offers business and leisure travelers peace of mind when they travel internationally. Our flagship service Doctor in Your Pocket includes medical travel insurance, medical travel assistance, and doctors you can see in their offices; in your home, or school; or online 24/7. The TraveDoc network offers the world’s most-trusted US- and EU-board-certified doctors and specialists who speak your language.
Anna Polishchuk & Yuriy Mukhin
Co-Founders, Lalafo - MarketplacesLalafo is an artificial intelligence powered C2C marketplace. Lalafo uses computer vision and natural language processing to create a frictionless selling experience. When a new item is listed, its characteristics are instantly extracted. Lalafo AI detects products, colours, materials, makes, models, year of manufacturing and many more characteristics of each item. Features extracted from images can be used to suggest price and match items to buyers with incredible accuracy.
Victor Gomez
Co-Founder, Bongour - MarketplacesBongour is a technology platform that allows amateur and semi-professional cooks to test, build, scale and operate online food businesses (virtual restaurants). We provide the infrastructure needed by anyone wishing to sell his/her culinary creations, but lacking the brand, the capital, and the resources necessary to kickstart a viable business. Think of Bongour as the accelerator for the restaurants of tomorrow.
For customers that means: authentic and hyperlocal food cooked with passion, completely customizable, and delivered to their door.
Philippe Singer
Co-Founder & MD, Joidy - MarketplacesJoidy is an app and web based service, that enables customers to send physical gifts via Messenger, Email or any other communication channel - no home address needed. Doing so Joidy replaces traditional addresses with the addresses of the 21. Century. The gift gets delivered with a video greeting and the presentee himself provides the shipping details. For partner companies Joidy provides an additional sales & marketing channel and an innovative way to introduce their brand to new user.
Albert Ortig
CEO, Roomle - MarketplacesRoomle, the first cloud-based platform for plan-based interactive furniture retail, offers intuitive interior design tools for everybody, simplifying room planning and furnishing. Without any previous training or instruction, everybody can draw individual floor plans, create rooms, choose furniture, customize and fit it and buy at the push of a button. Roomle combines playful planning, smart visualization capabilities (AR, VR, 3-D) and real-time 3-D furniture configuration.
Anna Banicevic
Co-Founder & CEO, Zizoo - MarketplacesZizoo is the leading global boat rental platform. With us, you can select a boat in a location of your choice and book it as easily as a hotel room. We are not an agency; we simply connect holidaymakers with charter companies for an amazing experience on the sea. No booking fees, a simple online booking process, real time availabilities and a professional service – we’re making boat holidays easy.
Franzi Majer
Founder & MD, Catchys - MarketplacesCATCHYS World Wide Vintage - We are the #1 destination for all your 2nd hand & 2nd season bargains.
Angelo Cardinale & Dr. Simon Prieß
Co-Founders, Wawibox - MarketplacesThe Wawibox marketplace allows dental offices to compare prices and order all their supplies online. Wawibox Pro includes a supply management SaaS that manages supply levels, expiry dates and regulatory requirements.
Serhiy Orlov
Co-Founder, Anycars - MarketplacesWe simplify the process of selling cars for our customers and make it possible in a quick and convenient way. Our online system estimates the approximate value of used cars, which is based on different parameters (model year, mileage, equipment, etc.) and current market conditions. After that, we invite the customer to our branch, inspect the car and place it in a 30-min dealer auction. The customers benefit from a superb experience and better price due to dealer competition, while the dealers get a powerful source of inventory.
We are present in Poland and Ukraine right now, and are expanding to Germany in 2018.
Christian Wolf
CEO, parlamind - Business Servicesparlamind helps online retailers to be more responsive to their customers.Shed some light on your customer service communication: all of your customers’ issues are analyzed and turned into structured and actionable data – say good bye to the black box in customer service.Made with care in Berlin.
Murat Soysal
Founder & CEO, Segmentify - Business ServicesWe are a fast growing startup, developing a software-as-a-service conversion optimization tool for small and medium sized e-commerce companies. We help online retailers operating all over the world to engage their visitors and boost their sales with our personalized product recommendation and engagement solutions; let them track their performance with real-time conversion analytics. We have an awesome team who are putting their hearts in what they do and are proud to be developing our own technology capitalizing on artificial intelligence. We are backed by venture capital firm ACT in our endeavors to build the best startup while enjoying the flow.
Sebastian Kellner
CEO, Mesaic Technology - Business ServicesMesaic enables businesses to deliver best customer experience in the fields of service, commerce and logistics via messaging. Connecting involved resources such as business, customer and service partners via messaging allows best customer-business interactions while likewise increasing efficiency through automation. Mesaic enables you to conquer the digital today with a solution for a seamlessly connected service world.
Hartmut Hahn
Founder & CEO, Userlane - Business ServicesUserlane makes people understand any software instantly.
Userlane is a smarter way for businesses to personalize User Onboarding and automate Staff Training with its interactive guidance software.
Henrik-Jan van der Pol
Founder & CEO, Perdoo - Business ServicesPerdoo (www.perdoo.com) helps organizations achieve their goals by improving decision-making and execution. Thousands of employees in more than 250 companies across the world already use the simple yet powerful goal management software. Founded by Henrik-Jan van der Pol and Jonathan Morrice in 2014, the Berlin-based company is supported by MAKERS, Berlin Ventures, and Innovation Nest.Thousands of employees in more than 250 companies across the world already use the simple yet powerful goal management software. Founded by Henrik-Jan van der Pol and Jonathan Morrice in 2014, the Berlin-based company is supported by MAKERS, Berlin Ventures, and Innovation Nest.
Shlomi S. Benbasat
Founder, Social Internet - Business ServicesSocial Internet - THE IRM Company!
We enable enterprises to turn customers into advocate influencers, grow share of voice & sales conversion, and gain unique insights by developing direct relations with their customers / influencers via an IRM (Influencer Relationship Management) Software named Au.thor.i.ty®.
The Au.thor.i.ty® SaaS solution uses proprietary algorithms so that advertisers could launch performance & incentive-based campaigns to influencers from celebrities to ordinary people.
Cornelius Frey
Co-Founder & CEO, Opinary - Business ServicesOpinary makes opinions matter. Our technology visualizes debates and lets over 40 million monthly users share their views in intuitive embeddable tools across the web. The core idea: if you really want someone's attention, you're best off starting with a a question. We help leading publishers from Times to BILD to HuffPost and brands like Toyota and MasterCard engage and understand their audiences at scale.
Nikita Fahrenholz
Co-Founder & CEO, Book a Tiger - Business ServicesBOOK A TIGER is an online booking platform that matches customers with an interviewed, background-checked and tested professional cleaner. BOOK A TIGER makes a clean home an affordable reality for many hard-working individuals.
BOOK A TIGER is more than just a service. In the end we want every participant to be satisfied with what we do. That is why the lively exchange both with the customers and the cleaners is highly important for us.
Holger G. Weiss
Founder & CEO, German Autolabs - Automotive & TransportationGerman Autolabs is a technology startup developing IoT (internet-of-things) solutions to make driving more pleasant, safer and human. Applying latest state of the art software technologies, interaction methods and artificial intelligence, the Berlin-based company works at a solution for consumers to connect their digital lives to every car. The founders Holger G. Weiss (former CEO, Aupeo) and Patrick Weissert (former Director Consumer, HERE) rely together on 30+ years on Automotive & Connected.
Dietrich Suemmermann
Co-Founder, Share&Charge - Automotive & TransportationShare&Charge is a network for all types of charging stations. On the one hand, we want to encourage and help emobilists to connect regionally and support each other and on the other hand we want to bring relevant companies and organizations to the same table in order to speed up the expansion of the charging infrastructure in Germany quickly and reliably.
Balazs Szabo
CEO, Konetik - Automotive & TransportationKonetik Deutschland GmbH is a Berlin based company offering e-mobility management solutions for fleets. Konetik also helps to manage administration related to EVs and give access to the charging infrastructure. Konetik team has in-depth expertise in telematics and fleet management. The company was also part of the European Pioneers Accelerator program, German Tech Entrepreneurship Center and Open Data Incubator (ODINE). Konetik was awarded as the Best Automotive Startup at IoT Accelerate Berlin.
Andreas Gahlert
CEO, COBI - Automotive & TransportationThe biking solution for smartphone lovers: COBI is the first integrated system which intelligently connects your smartphone with your bike to create a completely new riding experience. The future friendly, modular system connects to fitness and bike sensors and integrates six accessories into one unique design: smartphone holder with charging function, automatic front and brake light, bike-navigation, alarm system, bell and bike computer. The COBI App for iPhone and Android adds a world full of software smarts. Presented in a simple and beautiful design, remote controlled from the handlebars for more safety. Ride ahead.
Lukas Loers
Strategy & Partnership, Wunder Mobility - Automotive & TransportationWunder Mobility is Europe's fastest-growing mobility technology company, with a growing presence in North America. The company is providing turn-key solutions that enable companies and cities worldwide to provide clean, convenient, and accessible mobility. Over 60 partners in 70+ cities on six continents use the Wunder Mobility platform to launch and scale new mobility services, manage and finance fleets of shared vehicles, optimize daily operations and improve urban planning and traffic management. The company's headquarters and engineering offices are located in Germany, with a US office in Los Angeles.
Maxim Nohroudi
Co-Founder & MD, door2door - Automotive & Transportationdoor2door provides a mobility platform directly to cities and transport companies, allowing them, for the first time, to autonomously and independently operate new mobility services (on-demand rideshare shuttles), to integrate such new services into existing transport infrastructures - via intermodal routing, and to perform a detailed analysis of supply and demand of their existing mobility network. The company employs 100+ employees in Berlin & Porto Alegre (Brazil).
door2door’s power of innovation prompted a visit from Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel, leading to a now regular exchange on mobility and digital transformation issues.
Sven Lackinger
Co-Founder & MD, evopark - Automotive & Transportationevopark is the market leader in seamless, digital off-street parking in Germany. The evopark app allows you to easily find off-street parking locations and check the real-time availability. Car park tickets become obsolete as you can enter and exit car parks with the gates opening automatically through RFID/ANPR technology. At exclusive retail and restaurant partners, you receive a significant discount on your parking fees. Finally, you are invoiced conveniently once a month.
Terence Hielscher
Founder & MD, MoBerries - RecruitmentMoBerries is a AI-driven hiring SaaS platform. Capitalizing on network effects, all partner companies contribute to a shared talent pool consisting of high-caliber candidates seeking new opportunities. In exchange, partner companies receive a pre-ranked selection of exceptionally suited candidates from the entire candidate pool.
Hanno Renner
Co-Founder & CEO, Personio - RecruitmentPersonio GmbH is a SaaS startup company founded in 2015 and based in Munich, Germany. Personio offers holistic cloud-based HR management and recruiting software to small and medium-sized businesses. The solution plays a critical role in making the day-to-day business operations of HR teams more efficient, transparent and effortless, while respecting German privacy standards. Focusing on product quality and great service, Personio has grown from 20 customers in 2016 to over 200 in 2017.
Keilian Knudsen
Founder, Digital Knights - RecruitmentDigital Knights is a due diligence company that connects businesses and entrepreneurs to an exclusive network of trusted on-demand tech teams. With its HQ in Switzerland and base operations in Germany, Digital Knights is Europe’s go-to source for top-shelf tech talent.
Ilya Brotzky
CEO, VanHack - RecruitmentVanHack helps tech talent get jobs abroad. We are a Techstars Berlin alumni that helps companies like Accenture, Booking.com and ZenDesk hire great tech talent from around the world. We also prepare our members in our online school and community to have the skills, mindset and network they need to get hired abroad.
Melikshah Ünver
CEO, Taledo - RecruitmentAt Taledo, we believe that true happiness and fulfillment in life can only happen if you love the thing that you spend the most time on: your job.
We want to get you hired. Being responsible for hundreds of hires in the past, we have built a profound expertise in this area. We are well aware of the daily struggle to hire top talent - both as a candidate and as a recruiter.
Thus, our aim is to facilitate and improve the currently inefficient recruiting process--a process that is key to a company's success! We put a lot of brainpower, time, and effort into Taledo to ensure we connect the right candidates with the right companies at the right time.
You might already know us: Taledo is the result of two year's hard work on our earlier platforms StartupCVs and SalesCVs.
Carl Hoffmann
Founder & MD, Talentry - RecruitmentTalentry GmbH offers companies a cloud-based social recruiting software for digital employee referrals. Using Talentry, companies can inform their employees about vacant positions. Employees can then recommend these jobs via a number of channels (email, social networks, WhatsApp, WeChat, Line etc.) to suitable candidates. Additionally, an intelligent search algorithm suggests contacts from within employees’ networks, who might fit these open positions.
The software results in a win-win-win situation: The company gains a new employee, a talented person gets employed and with the recruiting process having a happy ending, the person who recommended the job to one of his contacts receives a reward.Using a digital employee referral program allows a simplified, highly transparent and cost-efficient recruiting process.
Talentry is now being used in more than 40 countries worldwide and is available in 11 languages.
Sylvia Brune
Founder & CEO, Ahoy - Travel & AccommodationAhoy is a simpler flight booking app for busy travellers. Create a travel profile once, and all info and prefs are automatically added to every booking. with 24/7 support, alerts, and in app flight management, travellers will never have to stress with booking, changing, or upgrading flights again.
Nathan Zielke
Co-Founder & MD, DreamCheaper - Travel & AccommodationDreamCheaper makes customers’ hotel reservation cheaper, after they’ve booked! We monitor hundreds of websites non-stop until the check-in date and rebook automatically every time prices drop - no extra work for the customer. DreamCheaper is a pioneer in the after-sales-optimization market and the perfect add-on for all customers booking hotel stays online.
Avi Meir
Co-Founder & CEO, TravelPerk - Travel & AccommodationThe TravelPerk application is a tool created for travelers, by travelers. Revolutionizing the way that organizations budget, book and manage their business travel, TravelPerk offers reporting, dashboards, expense integrations, flexible payments and more, all within a single easy-to-use platform and at no cost to the user.
Christoph Kruse & Lukas C. C. Hempel
CEO & Founder / CTO & Founder, bookingkit - Travel & Accommodationbookingkit is the European market leader in the area of booking and management software for providers of tours and (travel) experiences. The company enables different providers in the leisure industry, offering different activities like quad tours, escape rooms and cooking classes, to digitize their business operations easily with the smart software solution and provides a Globalistributions System for the third largest tourism market after flight and hotel bookings.
Julian Hueck
Co-Founder, Tink - Digital Home & InfrastructureConnected Home products will be the standard at home. tink.de is the first comparison platform and marketplace that specializes in Connected Home Products. Together with a strong push via TV advertising and content-rich product advice we bring smart home products to the mass market. tink gives guidance across more than 40 top brands (incl. Sonos, tado, netatmo) to simplify consumer decisions.
Oliver van der Mond
CEO, Lemonbeat - Digital Home & InfrastructureLemonbeat GmbH is the inventor of a universal framework, called Lemonbeat smart Device Language (LsDL), which provides the building blocks for the development of smart devices within the Internet of Things (IoT). With LsDL it is possible to place ‘intelligence’ directly onto the devices themselves. Through the networking of such intelligence devices, they can then interact directly with each other, without relying on cloud or gateway solutions. This helps to the reduce the complexity, as well as engineering and servicing costs normally associated with an IoT installation. At the same time it provides increased flexibility. The language can be used in combination with common cable or wireless IPv6-based communication protocols. Lemonbeat was founded in 2015 and is a 100% subsidiary of innogy SE, an established European energy company.
Daniel von Gaertner
Co-Founder & COO, Fresh - Digital Home & InfrastructureFresh Energy is the first digital energy provider that was built for the 21st century. But we are not an energy company – we are a tech company that is heavily focused on data and design. This allows us to offer a better customer experience and create higher customer value. We do this through utilizing large data sets to derive insights that help our users to understand their energy consumption for the first time – and act on it.
Franz-Philippe Przybyl
Co-Founder, Stegimondo - Digital Home & InfrastructureStegimondo is the world's first online roofer. Yes, we are ourselves actually a fully-fledged roofer.
We have taken on the challenge of digitalising the roofing industry and bringing it into the 21st century. Using our cutting-edge algorithm, we instantly deliver fixed-price offers to customers over the internet. We deploy our nation-wide network of roofers to fulfil jobs fast and effectively. Leveraging this unique position, we will introduce a slew of additional features, from intelligent roofs that are monitored in real-time to efficient solar-paneling solutions that make a new roof the investment of multiple lifetimes!
Denes Honus
Co-Founder & CEO, Green City Solutions - Digital Home & InfrastructureGreen City Solutions addresses the global problem of air pollution by combining a special, vertically installed moss culture with Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology. The product, called the “CityTree”, combines specific plants that eat particulate matter (PM), nitrogen dioxide and ozone – offsetting 240t of CO2e/year in total. The plant filter has the same effect as 275 urban trees, but requires 99% less space. The construction contains sensors collecting environmental and climatic data, to regulate and control the unit and ensure that the plants survive. Thanks to solar panels and rain water retention systems, the unit requires only a few hours of maintenance per year. By using technologies like WiFi, iBeacon, NFC and digital screens, CityTrees can also transmit digital and visual information.
Marian Krüger
Co-Founder & CPO, Ucair - Digital Home & Infrastructureucair utilizes the most recent developments in drones and sensors to make the inspection of photovoltaic plants easier, faster and more transparent for owners, operators and investors. Being a platform and owning no drones itself, ucair utilizes a steadily growing drone pilot network with thermographic cameras in Germany to capture the aerial data. After analyzing it, the customer receives a report, giving him full transparency over the performance and possible defects of his PV plant.
David Nothacker
Co-Founder, Sennder - Logisticssennder is a digital road freight forwarder, guaranteeing affordable and high-quality van and truck services within 180 minutes across Europe: Instant booking, full fleet coverage (van to 40t), digital transfer handling, and integration with customer ERP and supply chain software. Since August, sennder grew by 45% in revenues MoM, completing daily transfers for clients such as Amazon, Zalando and notebooksbilliger.de.
Piotr Zaleski
CEO, Shipwallet - LogisticsWe are a young startup hell-bent on improving all what's broken in shipping.
Right now we're changing the way shipping works for shoppers, merchants and carriers. Let's remove the hurdles and waste, and make this ship fly. We have the knowledge, backing and connections to succeed.
Alexander Leichter
Co-Founder & CEO, Byrd - Logisticsbyrd as a software based logistics company focussed on 'first mile' logistics. It connects multiple logistic partners and e-commerce solutions to enable its customers the seamless shipping of items around the world, without the need for any packaging material or logistics infrastructure. The items are picked-up, packaged and shipped on demand. byrds customer base are individual ecommerce seller (ebay, etsy etc.) as well as SMEs. The business model is based on bulk discounts through the pooling of a large number of individual shipments as well as selling value-add services such as insurance or express delivery.
Michael Walser
Co-Founder & CEO, Packator - LogisticsPackator is an integrated marketplace for courier services. Customers can book all types of courier services through a user friendly interface, the price is calculated and displayed immediately and the whole process can be completed in a few clicks.
The Packator Matching engine dispatches the jobs to the best couriers for the task, based on capacity, route, position and rating. This ensures on the one hand to very efficient rides for the couriers.
