Urte Zahn: Helping Entrepreneurs Grow
Urte Zahn sees herself as a sparring partner, especially for female founders, by providing strategic business and mental support as a coach, mentor, or advisory board member. With 25 years of professional and leadership experience, she guided over 30 startups as they grew and founded three successful startups herself. Find out which advice for founders…
German Startup Changemakers: Jens Urbaniak
Jens Urbaniak is an entrepreneur, a mentor and a pledger. He’s the Founder of DrSmile, a dental brand for modern teeth straightening, a mentor at Techstars, a startup accelerator that holds 13-week programs & a Pledger at the Founders Pledge, a global community of entrepreneurs, finding and funding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems. Find out how he…
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…
German Startup Changemakers: Christoph Räthke
Since we are live Germany we have been interviewing German Startup Changemakers as well. We talked to Christoph Räthke, the founder of Berlin’s boutique accelerator program Berlin Startup Academy, a startup founder, investor, writer, speaker and mentor. Find out more about his background, what he predicts for the Berlin startup ecosystem, and what are the…
Industry Changemaker: Johan van Mil
In our new ‘Industry Changemakers’ blog series, we pick the hottest topics and the experts that can tell us all about them. We talked to Johan van Mil, an active investor, entrepreneur and the co-founder of Peak Capital about the European VC scene. Find out more about the main VC hubs in Europe and the…