Drumroll… It’s that time again.
Numerous startup teams are eagerly anticipating their big day: the selection day before our jury for the Berlin Startup Scholarship!
Which teams will make it through, we’ll reveal soon.
But at this point, a big thank you to our wonderful jury.
From our own ranks, the wonderful startup coaches Nora Revermann and Viola Breuer are participating, as well as the co-director of the SIB Marvin Göldner.
The external jury members are:
Janine Korbiniak | Businessplan-Wettbewerb Berlin-Brandenburg
Hello, my name is Janine Korbaniak and I have been part of the BPW team for 6 years. At BPW I coordinate the seminar program and serve as the point of contact for sponsors and universities. I am particularly pleased that, in this capacity, I get to be part of the jury of the Startup Incubator Berlin for the Berlin Startup Scholarship. Through my work at BPW, but also as part of the jury, I am time and again fascinated anew by the wealth of ideas and the drive of the founders.
Prof. Dr. Avo Schönbohm | Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin
Dr. Avo Schönbohm has been a Professor of Business Administration at the Hochschule für Wirtschaft und Recht Berlin since 2010. His research expertise lies in the areas of (strategic) performance management, enterprise gamification, and digital cultural transformation. Prior to his work at HWR Berlin, Avo held various international positions in the mechanical engineering industry and concluded his pre-academic career in 2010 as Vice President Strategic Planning at Voith Paper GmbH. With LUDEO, he founded an agency in 2016 that enables leadership and cultural transformations across various industries through playful interventions.
Norbert Herrmann | Senatsverwaltung für Wirtschaft, Energie und Betriebe
Norbert has been dealing with uncertainties to create enabling environments, in Berlin, in Johannesburg and elsewhere. Since 2017 Norbert has been handling startup-affairs at Berlin Government, Senate Department for Economics, Energy and Public Enterprises. He is keen on connecting with and better understanding and supporting the ecosystem. Before, he worked with the Berlin Institute of Technology, Centre for Entrepreneurship, eBay, Technology Foundation Berlin, and many more.
Aziz Sulaiman Rahim | Siemens Energy Ventures
As principal of Siemens Energy Ventures, Aziz sets the framework to identify and onboard new startup technologies to help solve today’s key challenges in the energy industry. In this role he is particularly interested in investment opportunities in the climate tech for Siemens Energy and leads Siemens Energy’s Venture Client unit to pilot and adopt startup solutions.
In his 5+ years within the Siemens Group, he held several leadership roles, in which he established global partnership networks, implemented the transfer of innovative technologies, and developed strategies for new business fields. In his role at Siemens Energy Ventures, Aziz is committed to turning today’s ideas into the reality of tomorrow by driving effective and meaningful partnerships between Siemens Energy and top global Startups.
„Early support structures like the “Startup Incubator Berlin” is especially important for founders because these efforts set the company’s foundation for future success to acquire customers and funding. I would like to contribute with my work as a Jury Member but also Berliner to find and support the next great Startup success story from Berlin!”
Jan Taschlizki |
TTI Gruppe
Born in Baku and raised in Berlin. Abitur in 2007, also in 2007 began studying “Entrepreneurship” (business founding & succession) at HWR.
Back then, nobody could make much of the cryptic word “Entrepreneurship”. However, I always knew that I wanted to create something myself and go into self-employment. Finished my studies in 2011 and since then have been active in various areas of entrepreneurship. My focus is in the area of project development.
My connection with the Startup Incubator came about when we owned the building at Rohrdamm 22 — essentially directly across from the Incubator. At the time I saw that it was curated by HWR together with Siemens and always wanted to pursue my further passion of helping to build up additional companies (startups). I saw the Startup Incubator as an ideal potential nucleus for this. On the one hand, I am connected to HWR as a former alumnus, and on the other hand I also wanted to bring some practical entrepreneurship to the place.
That is how the partnership developed, and I was already involved in the first Make-it-Lean Contest. Now we are developing further formats with the Incubator through the Blockathon, and so the opportunity to participate as a jury member in the pitches also came about quite naturally.
Sebastian Schwenke und Daniel Bosch | The Business Angels Club Berlin-Brandenburg e.V.
The Startup Incubator of HWR Berlin
At the Startup Incubator of HWR Berlin, founding ideas are developed to market readiness. To achieve this, we support academic founding teams with know-how, infrastructure, and scholarships. We create a shared platform for entrepreneurial thinking and action (mindset) with the Berlin business community (including Siemens AG). As a lean incubator, we focus on speed in the development and validation of business models with customers.
Since 2016, the Startup Incubator Berlin has been supporting founding teams with the Berlin Startup Scholarship, now also with the REACT Startup Scholarship. More than 30 startups have been helped by this financial and non-material support, combined with the infrastructure provided by the founding center of HWR Berlin, to successfully develop their business ideas and products. Well-known startups such as Wonder, Forget Finance, SunCrafter, and startupdetector are successfully active in the market today. Forget Finance recently closed a seed financing round of €3.8 million.
About the scholarships
