Ruben Nieuwenhuis is an entrepreneur who already set up five startups. As the former director of StartupAmsterdam and co-initiator of StartupDelta, his purpose is to strengthen the ecosystem in the Netherlands. With his tech talent program TechConnect, he strives to bring diversity in the tech… Read more
Ticketing Group: Make Culture Accessible to Everyone
What are your plans for the weekend? Would you like to attend a cultural event? Yes? Great. Now, where do discover what’s on the menu? We’ve had the pleasure to interview Ticketing Group’s founder and CEO, Robert van Hunsel, to learn more about the problems… Read more
German Startup Changemakers: Meera Innes
As a former founder and a current mentor at Techstars, Meera Innes has almost ten years of startup experience. She is committed to creating a better system which enables founders to access support on an ongoing basis. She works directly with founders and can be… Read more
Dutch Startup Changemakers: Janneke Niessen
Janneke Niessen is a serial entrepreneur, technologist, innovator, and creative thinker, who started her own company almost 20 years ago when ‘startup’ was still a non-existing word. And even though everyone discouraged her, she went on with the idea. Find out how she entered the… Read more
German Startup Changemakers: Kai Malkwitz
Kai Malkwitz is an entrepreneur, a business angel and a startup mentor. He successfully founded and exited two startups in the past. Since 2016, he focuses on helping entrepreneurs in founding and growing their businesses. His focus is on Energy, Mobility and Smart City solutions,… Read more
Luuz Bielars: The New Berlin Event Manager
Luuz Bielars is the new Event Manager at GTEC, the German Tech Entrepreneurship Center. The collaboration GTEC has with Leapfunder lets her co-organize the Investor Readiness Sessions every Wednesday and the Investor Round Table every second Friday of the month. Find out more about her… Read more
ITPA Group: Performance Improvement as a Service
Information technology is the backbone for most organizations. Delay or an outage in the IT performance with your systems being down for some time can cause financial losses and potentially losing business deals. ITPA prevents IT performance issues and resolves delays and instabilities in the… Read more
German Startup Changemakers: Tanja Kufner
Tanja Kufner is a strong supporter of open innovation and believer in the potential of corporate-startup collaboration if done right. She is helping startups grow as Head of Porsche subsidiary MHP’s venturing unit, dynamics.vc and as a mentor at TechStars and Startup Sesame. Find out… Read more
Startup Changemakers: Benjamin Aaron Snow
Benjamin founded Civocracy from what he saw as a clear fundamental problem, the non-leveraging of technology for transparency and civic participation. He spent 12 months researching, developing prototypes and the business model prior to co-founding the company in May 2015. Find out more about his… Read more
German Startup Changemakers: Ingo Juraske
Ingo Juraske is a partner at IMPACT51, a business angel syndicate based in Berlin. He has worked in the IT industry for more than 35 years and has been investing as an early-stage business angel since 2010. Find out more about his background, IMPACT51, and… Read more