Portraits

Portraits From top-quality coffee and recycling plants To speak of an "unusual business model" would be an understatement. The start-up Plastic 2 Beans sells coffee from Ethiopia on the one hand and offers knowledge for the construction of recycling plants on the other....
Jan Schulte Jan Schulte
Portraits This founder solves the vaccination certificate problem of millions The Leipzig-based start-up Apo Pharma Immun is one of the most important in Corona-Germany: it prints the QR codes of the EU vaccination certificates of millions on plastic cards. Half of all pharmacies work with it....
Felix Leitmeyer Felix Leitmeyer
Portraits How Wiwin wants to move from financial intermediary to fintech The Mainz-based start-up brokers sustainable investments. It is best known for its crowdinvesting campaigns with Tomorrow and Lemonaid. But now the company no longer wants to just stand in the background, but become a...
Lisa Marie Münster Lisa Marie Münster
Portraits A digital employee for hairdressers The Cube Club is one of the few start-ups in Germany that is active in the craft industry. Founder Stelios Tassias developed an electronic tube squeezer for hair salons.
Maren Jensen Maren Jensen
Portraits Stung by ambition Apic.ai founder Katharina Schmidt wants to save bees with artificial intelligence - and thus wins the Digital Female Leader Award in the Sustainability category.
Maren Jensen Maren Jensen 25.11.2021
Portraits This start-up story shows how important good female investors are Lelia König and her co-founder launch a first dashcam specifically for cyclists. The road to get there was difficult. An investor made the difference.
Nils Wischmeyer Nils Wischmeyer 17.11.2021
Reports 15 minutes instead of eight hours Smart home configuration has been very time-consuming up to now, but a Passau-based start-up now wants to change that. Business customers in particular should benefit from Pionize's offer. Things don't happen quite as...
Lars-Thorben Niggehoff Lars-Thorben Niggehoff 10.06.2021
Portraits Next stops: Munich, Frankfurt, Cologne and Hamburg HYGH AG is currently expanding its billboards from Berlin to the rest of the country - despite the corona pandemic. The founders have set themselves ambitious goals.
Jan Schulte Jan Schulte 20.05.2021
Portraits The measurement of football The start-up Kinexon has developed a new technology to capture motion data and conquered first the US sports world and then football. Now the Munich-based company is increasingly making inroads into industry.
Lars-Thorben Niggehoff Lars-Thorben Niggehoff 17.05.2021
Portraits Exclusive: Enpal wins Volksbank as a partner - and dreams of cars Mario Kohle's solar start-up has prominent investors, is flirting with an IPO and wants to raise money via crowdinvesting. Now the company can inspire a Volksbank - and then there's this car idea.
Nils Wischmeyer Nils Wischmeyer 05.05.2021
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