Portraits

Portraits The exceptional phenomenon When Michelle Skodowski got the chance to co-found a start-up in 2017, she didn't hesitate for a second. Today, as a woman, she is not only co-founder, but also COO of Botfriends. Still a rarity in the scene.
Lisa Marie Münster Lisa Marie Münster
Portraits These founders are building a finance app just for women Martina Gstöttmayr and Alexa Cotiaux want to get women to finally take care of their finances. The waiting list for their app is already long.
Nils Wischmeyer Nils Wischmeyer
Portraits This is how Upvest wants to reach one million end customers More and more private investors are investing in securities, which is driving the value of companies like Trade Republic or Robinhood. A Berlin fintech wants to occupy a very special niche in this area.
Nils Wischmeyer Nils Wischmeyer
Portraits A start-up in the middle of the grey zone Lars Müller wants to open up the young market for cannabinoids with Synbiotic. Above all, this requires stamina.
Jan Schulte Jan Schulte
Portraits This start-up wants to breathe a second life into batteries from electric cars Batteries from electric cars only have a limited lifespan. The start-up Voltfang from Aachen wants to reuse them after their service life. As a storage device, they could possibly last ten years longer.
Tom Schmidtgen Tom Schmidtgen 12.02.2021
Reports I don't want to go to Berlin Berlin is Germany's fintech capital. But some founders deliberately choose not to locate there. Jamal El Mallouki is one of them. Why?
Nils Wischmeyer Nils Wischmeyer 08.02.2021
Portraits Tinder for corporate loans As CFO of a medium-sized company, Martin Hipp himself struggled for a long time to obtain suitable financing offers. In 2019, he switched sides. With Finmatch, he now wants to bring banks and companies together more...
Jan Schulte Jan Schulte 05.02.2021
Reports The call centre next door The Leipzig-based start-up colpari wants to use its platform to make the call center world more accessible to other young entrepreneurs, thanks to better pay for employees and personal service. But venture capitalists...
Lars-Thorben Niggehoff Lars-Thorben Niggehoff 01.02.2021
Portraits "We assumed the worst case scenario" Tamaz Georgadze deliberately expanded his start-up Raisin to the neighbouring island in times of the Brexit. This took not months, but years. The shock was still deep in Europe, in the UK anyway, when they decided on...
Nils Wischmeyer Nils Wischmeyer 11.12.2020
Portraits The Kontoleser For Stefan Krautkrämer, it's about more than fat cars. This is his story.
Nils Wischmeyer Nils Wischmeyer 04.12.2020
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