Travis Todd: Building Deep Tech Companies
Travis Todd Co-Founded Silicon Allee in 2011 to support international early-stage entrepreneurs in Berlin. They’ve expanded this mission with Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute HHI to transition technology out of research and academia into the startup sector in a better way. Find out why he’s giving his time, money, and opinions to Berlin’s most impactful early-stage…
Charlotta Lundin: Creating Communities and Networks
Charlotta Lundin is an entrepreneur and marketing professional who focuses on creating flourishing communities in real life and online. She bought and sold a coworking company and is now an investor in coworking, as well as the founder of Business Women Sverige, a 10 K-member community. Find out what is it about the entrepreneurial world…
German Startup Changemakers: Kai Malkwitz
Kai Malkwitz is an entrepreneur, a business angel and a startup mentor. He offers strategic consulting for organization development, innovation processes and entrepreneurship. His focus is on b2b (or b2b2c) businesses with disruptive potential in Energy, Mobility, and Smart Cities. Find out why he only focuses on impact founders with great visions, what he likes…
German Startup Changemakers: Marcus Dr Opitz
Marcus Dr Opitz has over 30 years of operational business experience. He is a Managing Director for companies with a turnover of up to €3.7 billion. He managed acquisitions, restructurings, carve-outs and disposals of more than 60 companies on behalf of corporates (i.e.BASF SE), private equity businesses and bank syndicates. Find out which advice for…
High-Resolution Fundraising
If you’re a startup founder looking to raise funding, or an angel investor looking to invest smart capital, you should become familiar with the term high-resolution fundraising. It’s originally from California. The first person to use this term was probably Paul Graham (YCombinator) back in 2010, and Leapfunder has independently been recommending this approach since…
Dutch Startup Changemakers: Nalden
Ronald Hans aka Nalden first came to prominence with his pioneering blog, Nalden.net, which he started as a teenager. He co-founded WeTransfer, bootstrapped it to profitability, raised $25M, opened an office in LA and left a decade later. In addition to WeTransfer, he is the co-founder of the design studio Present Plus and is now building…
Jenseits von öffentlichen Aktien und privatem Beteiligungskapital: Wie können Sie als Startup Angel Investor Geld verdienen?
Sie haben bisher in öffentliche Aktien und Anleihen oder vielleicht in Immobilien investiert und möchten nun versuchen, als Business Angel in Start-ups zu investieren? Sie sind nicht der Erste! Am Wachstum eines neuen Unternehmens teilzuhaben, ist eine äußerst lohnende Erfahrung. Investitionen in Start-ups erfordern viel mehr Geduld, bevor Sie eine greifbare Rendite erhalten, und es…
Können Sie einen Gewinner auswählen? (Oder vielleicht brauchen Sie ein Portfolio)
Egal, was Sie denken, Sie sind wahrscheinlich nicht gut darin, die Gewinner unter den Start-ups herauszufinden. Ein auf Vermögensallokation spezialisiertes Wall-Street-Unternehmen hat einmal eine Gruppe von Finanzexperten mit großem Selbstvertrauen gebeten, aus einer Liste von Unternehmen in der Zeitung die besten Aktien auszuwählen. Sie trafen ihre Auswahl auf der Grundlage einer gründlichen Analyse, die fundierte…
German Startup Changemakers: Michael Friebe
Michael Friebe has been involved in HealthTech ventures as both a founder and business angel for quite some time now. He’s also teaching health startup entrepreneurship at the Technical University of Munich and seven years ago, he started the HealthTEC Innovation Lab at the University of Magdeburg. Find out what particularly attracts him about the startup…
Dutch Startup Changemakers: Pieter ter Kuile
Pieter ter Kuile, ex-Vice Chairman at the Dutch investment bank Kempen & Co, is one of the early investors in Leapfunder. He studied law in Amsterdam, obtained an MBA at Harvard, and started his career at McKinsey & Co, after which he founded his own company in financial fraud investigation. This job led him to…
