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#Germany's Funded Startups Directory. You can view the list of startups funded in #Germany whenever you need it. Access the directory here https://lnkd.in/dc9emGbb #startup #startups #vc #venturecapital #investmentbanking #privateequity #managementconsulting #b2b #founders #entrepreneurs

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List of Startups Receiving Funding in #Germany. Check out the list of #Germany-funded startups available for your reference at any time. View the list now https://lnkd.in/dc9emGbb #startup #startups #vc #venturecapital #investmentbanking #privateequity #managementconsulting #b2b #founders #entrepreneurs

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Studying at Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences: How we use the Master program as an academic incubator for our startup journey… 🚀 Sarah & I are currently on a mission to identify an idea for our climate tech startup. We also started a Master's program in Sustainability, Entrepreneurship and Technology at Tomorrow University in March. We did not start the program for the sake of an M.Sc. (we both already have a master's degree) but rather to help us on our journey. While we knew we had the skill set to build digital solutions, we also knew we had more to learn, especially in entrepreneurship. The program at ToU allows us to use our ideas in the courses, get feedback from a diverse group of students and extend our skill set. It's kinda like using the Master's program as an academic incubator for our startup journey ✨ Of all the courses (challenges) at ToU I did so far, three stood out for me: 1️⃣ Mission Identification with Dr. Thomas Funke This was the first challenge I've done and it really helped me to understand what drives me. I knew I wanted to work on solving the climate crisis, but I had never identified my why (purpose) and how (mission). This challenge with Thomas helped me accomplish that and also to build a support network for the future. 2️⃣ Finance for Entrepreneurs with Johannes Arning A few months ago, Sarah & I calculated a business case for an idea we had. It was alright, but after this challenge with Johannes, we had created a really sophisticated model that could easily be adapted for different business ideas. We had a clear overview of our profit & loss, cash flow and cost structure. This challenge gave us crucial new insights into our cases and helped us a lot in planning for 2025. 3️⃣ Getting Funding Ready with Christian Rebernik It is safe to say that funding from business angels or VCs is still way down the road, but nonetheless, I would say that this challenge was really eye-opening. Honestly, before this challenge, I would have always seen external funding as the second option and bootstrapping as the preferred choice. Learning about the different aspects, including shares, convertible notes, and dilution, was really eye-opening. Overall, it is safe to say that our pitch decks and business cases would not be as good without our studies at Tomorrow University. The vibrant community and discussions with fellow students are inspiring and broaden my horizons every time. I'm excited for my next year at Tomorrow University! 🚀 🦋

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"Mut statt Angst" was the inofficial motto of the CONTACT Software #OpenWorld24 conference. I liked the positive vibes and enjoyed some key takeaways regarding the current state of AI in engineering: We need strong leadership to succeed: Nor more "analysis, analysis, paralysis" as Dr. Siegmar Haasis elegantly put it. We need technologically apt leadership that helps to set clear goals for implementing AI assistants and to avoid ending up in the PoC trap. We need better education around the technology: Many people still don't know that implementing an industrial AI assistant normally does not require model training. It is important to understand the basics of #RAG (Retrieval Augmented Generation) in order to create good entry-level use cases. We can get started today: Feasibility studies for many use cases can be run in days and implementing a solution that already serves real user needs only takes weeks. There is no excuse not to start right now! Thank you Udo Göbel, Christian Groh and Michael Krause for the interesting discussions and Maximilian Abenthum for hosting the great session. #FFWDX #AI #PLM #Innvoation

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I personally have no Coding Skills. We had no CTO. We had no developers. But it turned out to be: No Problem. Thanks Sergey Ryabenko for your consulting as our part time CTO for URBNTIGER I never wanted to work with freelance developers or agencies, that do not have any stakes or strong commitment to our core business. I think what you are offering is needed in many startups. Thanks for introducing the SCRUM method to our team and helping us to find the right digital product for our resilience training. What I really appreciate is that you don't want to just sell developing, you are really challenging our ideas 💡 and bring your startup and development knowledge to our team. Thanks for being there my friend, see you soon in Portugal. #cto #startup #scrum #growth

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Setting: It's a rainy day in early winter in Berlin. However, Shlomi (a startup product manager) is in a good mood as he is on his way to the office for a user interview session for his new product, a B2B customer portal. Shlomi: "Good morning! How are you? Can I get you anything?" User: "Good morning, I am good, thanks! Water would be nice." Shlomi comes back with the water and sits in front of the User. Shlomi: "So, I want you to perform action X on the product. Please think out loud, meaning describe what you think." The User starts interacting and talking. User: "Should I do this?" Shlomi: "No, you should start there." The User is getting a bit quiet. Shlomi: "Is everything okay?" What's wrong with the scene above? 💡 👉 The product manager directly answers the User's question, telling them how things should be done. The PM only says this because he knows the product and considers how he would have performed the action. 👉 When the User takes a moment to think, the PM can't stand quietly and asks if everything is okay, which results in more unnecessary stress and fills in the quiet that needs to occur. Revised scene: User: "Should I do this?" Shlomi looks at the User calmly. "I am sure you got this. Take your time!" The User takes some minutes to think and experiment and then successfully performs the action. Outcome: 💡 Shlomi takes notes, realizes there was confusion about the process for a potential real user to act, and finds a way he never considered for performing the action. Product managers, we are not our users; remember that. 😉 How do you ensure you genuinely listen in user interviews and not projecting your biases onto them? --- Follow Shlomi Azran for down-to-earth and practical product management tips and insights 💙 #Userresearch #Productmanagement #Thepowerofsilence #Userinterview #learning

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In February it will be 6 years since I had a 𝗯𝘂𝗿𝗻𝗼𝘂𝘁. With some distance Business Insider has asked me to talk about my experience in consulting, my burnout and the new company I started: WirDämmenDeinHaus.com You can find the link in the first comment.  (I’m also happy to share the pdf, in case you cannot access it.) My ask to you:  𝗣𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸, 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗯𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗳𝗶𝘁 𝗳𝗿𝗼𝗺 𝗶𝘁. Having talked to many people that suffered a burnout, my observation is that it can be tremendously helpful to get a nudge from people that care about you. It is a common burnout symptom to “try to keep pushing through” and “take care of one self, after X, Y, Z is finished” -> this often significantly prolongs the healing process. Be there for the people you care about and encourage them to take care of themselves now and not when it’s too late. I’m also here for anyone that wants to talk 1:1 about their experience or ask questions. Please feel free to reach out. Happy holidays to all of you!

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The culture you create within your business will directly impact the talent that you can attract. And how well you can keep that talent. But where do you start? Find out how to build a winning culture for your startup in Berlin here 👉 https://bit.ly/4cD6Zbb 🐺💜 #sales #startups #recruitment

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🎙️Podcast alert: Had a great catch-up with Kai on 🤝𝑪𝒍𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒍🤝 this week (🇩🇪) After our first session last year, we again talked about the latest developments in the SaaS and M&A market. Topics we've covered: ➡️ Our approach with saas.group, ➡️ Where we stand and what our goals are, ➡️ Current SaaS and M&A market trends, ➡️ How to properly value a SaaS business, ➡️ Role of AI in SaaS and M&A, ➡️ And more... You can check it out on all relevant podcast platforms. Links to Spotify and Apple below: 🟢 Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gn8RaVpD 🟣 Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/g3kBWSBW Enjoy listening! 🙌 @ Kai, Anja + team: Thanks again for having me. Happy to speak again next year and see how good or bad my predictions were.

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We are hiking through Alps as a part of accelerator InnoQube Switzerland. It's a great opportunity to refine our business model, go-to-market strategy, and how to actually scale Workki AI. In one day I have already learned a lot (but more to go). We are building an AI platform for verifying information. Contact me if you want to learn more 👁️ #business #entrepreneur #startups #entrepreneurship

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🚨 Red Alert for Germany’s Startup Ecosystem: A 30% Drop in Active Investors – How Can We Keep the Innovation Engine Running? A recent article from Handelsblatt (link in comments) points out that early-stage startups are especially at risk during this downturn since they depend on venture capital to scale. The expanding funding gap will further stifle growth in areas where innovation is most needed. Yet, within this challenge lies opportunity: 🌱 Resilient Sectors Lead the Way Sectors like #GreenTech and #AI are still drawing investment, showing their potential to drive innovation. These industries highlight where Germany can have the most significant impact. 🏠 Family Offices as Growth Catalysts As traditional investors pull back, family offices can step up. By leveraging patient capital, they can empower promising startups and lay the foundation for long-term success. 🤝 Venture Clienting as a Key to Co-Innovation Strategic partnerships between startups and established businesses bridge the funding gap. These alliances not only drive digital transformation but also deliver mutual value and foster innovation. At D11Z. Ventures, we believe Germany’s competitive edge depends on collaboration. That's why we invest in high-potential startups and create co-innovation opportunities with family offices and industry leaders. Together, we're fostering an ecosystem that drives innovation and supports long-term growth. 🚀 💬 How can family offices and industry leaders support the next wave of startup innovation? Share your ideas below! #D11ZVentures #Innovation #StartupEcosystem #VentureCapital #InnovationLeadership #FamilyOffices #CoInnovation #ArtificialIntelligence

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In less than a month starts the WeAreDevelopers #WorldCongress in Berlin. Join me at my live-workshop "NoSQL Mastery"! 🚀 I'm looking forward to meet 15,000+ highly motivated developers and tech-fellows. In this workshop, i'll tell you all about the main-principles behind the concepts of NoSQL-databased and share some insights on how we deliver the most performant data-solutions for our customers. #WeAreDevelopers #WorldCongress #NoSQL #MongoDB #S3 #Redis

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🚀 Our first launch of 2025: Zeit (⚡https://readzeit.com) — a daily 2-minute digest that summarizes LLM-developer chatter into bite-sized stories. Why? Zeit actually started out as an internal project. As a team of engineers building in GenAI, we wanted to keep up with what other devs in the community are building, new trending models/projects, and the problems people are facing. But there’s so much noise around AI these days that we found ourselves either 1) missing cool/important developments or 2) going down endless anxiety-inducing rabbit holes of articles, startups, and funding announcements. So we built ⚡Zeit⚡—a fast, easy way to stay in the loop with the hottest topics, projects, and challenges shaping the AI landscape. Who is it for? Zeit is for developers, founders, and industry leaders working on GenAI. What you get with Zeit: 🔍 Quick, bite-sized reads to keep you focused on what really matters. 💡 No fluff. Just trends and developer problems that generate buzz. ❗Disclaimer: Zeit is generative. It scours the web for developer chatter and generates short stories sorted by social voting. 🔗 Sign up for your daily dose of the AI zeitgeist!

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Yesterday I add the chance to give a workshop at the SpinLab - The HHL Accelerator about recruiting lessons that I learned over the past decade. Here some insights for you: If your are a start-up #founder there will be the day you need to hire employees. 🗣️ 🎉Congratulations! You´re growing and....you added a new task to your to-do list. But no worries...you can make your live easier by following some easy steps here on LinkedIn: 1. 💁 Update your profile → are your contact details correct? Do you use the hiring badge? Do you have a nice picture and can people find out what are you looking for? 2. Show what you have → talk about your achievments and success 💡 3. Ask for what you need → Your network should know about what you´re looking for...otherwise they can´t help you. 4. Help others → It´s all about kharma ;) And you know...kharma strikes back...especially if you´re on the positive side! Of course there are more things you need to do...like having a great culture and good product, a homepage that makes applying easy etc. pp. but..this are topics for one of the next posts. But I‘m curios…so what would you add❓ And if nothing helps...ask for professionell help! If you need a recommendation drop me message or get in contact with some experts like HappyHire | Impact & Sports Recruitment ,Yvonne Scheja, Michael Benz, Match on Monday…to be continued. Have a great! 👌☀️ #recruiting #startup #employerbranding

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Just came back from a workshop that I'm organizing together with the VDI Wissensforum GmbH. I had a great time, learned a lot and it made me realize (once again) how much has changed in AI over the last 5 years: When we started with the first workshop in 2019, the format 💠 targeted engineers who were able to code in Python 💠 focussed on the convolutional neural networks architecture 💠 involved building neural networks from scratch in Keras 💠 emphasized use cases that cost >100k to implement On Tuesday and Wednesday, we ✅ were a diverse group with little to no Python knowledge ✅ discussed Transformers (briefly) and RAG (in detail) ✅ used off-the shelve models and tools ✅ talked about use cases from 2k to 200k To me this is another testament to how much more accessible and ubiquitous AI has become. If you are interested in learning how to use retrieval augmented generation in industrial applications check out the workshop: https://lnkd.in/eTsG3x6h Thanks Nicolas Regiani for creating this together! #vdi #rag #industrialai

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