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  • Startup Teams – Berlin Startup Scholarship 2024

    Startup Teams – Berlin Startup Scholarship 2024

     We present our Berlin Startup Scholarship Teams from 2024!

    Novostock

    NovoStock is transforming efficiency in healthcare. By enabling seamless management of supplies in medical practices and clinics, healthcare professionals can focus entirely on delivering exceptional patient care.
    Founder: Isabel Orcun and Gregor Pölzing

    Onni Care

    Onni Care aims to provide reliable and individual support to women on their fertility journey, specifically egg-freezing. Each fertility path is deeply personal and emotionally charged. Onni Care understands that, and acts like a “big sister” – from discovering a starting point, to identifying reliable partners and securing the deserved aftercare.
    Founder: Anne Hartmann
    Website: https://www.onni-care.com

    xounds

    xounds is an AI-supported peer-to-peer platform to explore and share authentic audible pleasure in a safe(r) space for consensual, inclusive, and diverse audio content around erotic pleasure. xounds empowers people to share real pleasure in diverse audio formats (stories, sounds, tutorials, …) while giving them the option to stay anonymous and always keep control over consent and ownership of their data. The choice of freemium and premium allow inclusive access to exploration of audible pleasure. The »xoundcheck« ensures consent and policy adherence using advanced speech recognition AI.
    Founder: Cornelia Steinbock and Gabor Farkasch
    Website: https://xounds.de/

  • Introducing the Berlin Startup Scholarship Women Batch I – 2024

    Introducing the Berlin Startup Scholarship Women Batch I – 2024

    We are welcoming our first Batch for the Berlin Startup Scholarship Women at the Startup Incubator Berlin. The first month is over and we already accomplished the first steps: Mentor-Matching, Deep Dives, Lean Startup Canvas and more.

    Our scholars for a period of 9 months are:

    Margarita Fray with Dreamsome

    Dreamsome is an app that helps deepen self-understanding and improve well-being through dream journaling and lucid dreaming practices. Are you passionate about dreams? Or curious about lucid dreaming? Follow us and set on a journey of self-discovery -> https://www.instagram.com/dreamsome.space

    Madina Katter with Grains

    Grains is the-first-of-its-kind non-profit hospitality school that helps displaced people to integrate into new communities and find jobs in the hospitality industry. Launched in Ukraine with the aim to help globally.

    Daria Trints with Periodly

    Periodly helps menstruating people understand their menstrual cycle and organize the life around it. The Periodly Chatbot sends information about what’s going on in a body according to each day of the cycle of users, every day providing nutrition and productivity tips to be efficient and have peace of mind.

    Shannon Weißel with SmrtCut

    SmrtCut is a plugin that provides customized keyboard shortcuts and AI-powered automations to increase productivity in software applications.

    Ran Liu with Space Egg

    With Space Egg the customer can use cutting-edge AI tools to create a unique art piece, then collaborate with top-tier artists to transform it into a stunning oil painting. Whether online or at exclusive offline events, it will be a personalised, high-quality art experience.

    Katharina Schultz-Ebert with Unite

    Unite gets refugees into good jobs faster by digitizing the recognition process for foreign nursing qualifications. Our automatic analysis of application documents reduces costs and waiting times, and migrant applicants receive targeted information on required qualifications and further training. Additionally, our solution enables companies to better compare foreign qualifications, allowing them to fill vacancies more efficiently.

    Anna Motzek with Queer World

    Queer World will be a comprehensive platform that lists all queer bars, events, and gatherings, fostering a vibrant community. Users can connect with others and join activities together, enhancing the social experience within the queer scene.

  • HWR Berlin scores with startup funding

    HWR Berlin scores with startup funding

    HWR Berlin Scores with Startup Support

    The network of the Startup Incubator Berlin, qualification programs, and the ever-present entrepreneurial spirit distinguish the Berlin School of Economics and Law as a leading startup university.

    The Stifterverband der deutschen Wissenschaft has published the “Gründungsradar 2022.” The Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin) holds its ground as one of Germany’s best startup universities, ranking among the top 10 of the 76 evaluated universities with up to 15,000 students.

    Particularly well received was the diverse and active networking work of the Startup Incubator Berlin (SIB). Founders benefit from collaboration with many different partners from industry and politics, as well as from partnerships with organizations, other startup initiatives, and networks.

    A further strength lies in startup awareness-raising and qualification at HWR Berlin. Engaging members of the university community — such as students, researchers, and academics — in the startup concept is a key success factor for startup support. Those interested in founding a company and members of startup teams receive targeted qualification and support at the Startup Incubator Berlin. They are guided through continuous evaluation by means of monitoring throughout the development of their startup idea, from inception to market entry and beyond. Regular milestone meetings, systematic individual coaching, and the application of the Lean Startup method help startups bring their new products, applications, and services to market readiness as quickly as possible, with minimal resource expenditure and regular customer feedback.

    Prof. Dr. Andreas Zaby, President of HWR Berlin, says: “Entrepreneurial education and startup formation are part of our DNA as a university of applied sciences. Our Startup Incubator has been actively and successfully supporting teams of founders for many years. With their innovative approaches and business ideas, they take on major future challenges such as climate protection, resource conservation, and care, and contribute to the transfer of knowledge from research and teaching into business and society.”

    At the HWR startup campus at the Siemensstadt location, creative and interdisciplinary startups have space for collaborative idea development, prototyping, and business model development. The Startup Incubator Berlin provides coworking space, a prototype workshop, and a Design Thinking Lab, as well as financial support in the form of a Berlin Startup Scholarship.

    “The mission of HWR Berlin is to closely interweave entrepreneurship education, practical startup support, and research,” emphasizes Matthias Grytzka from the management team of the startup center, adding that the strong ranking reflects the creativity and dedication of staff, startup teams, and students. “The repeated placement in the top 10 confirms that the unique support provided by HWR Berlin’s university startup ecosystem pays off,” summarizes Marvin Göldner, also a startup coach and one of the two directors of the SIB.

    Currently, 15 startup teams are developing new products and services here. These include, for example, the technology provider We4All, whose founders connect 3D designers and owners of 3D printers with customers on a platform. The app developers at a2zebra are digitalizing learning concepts for children, aiming to make basic education accessible to pupils at any time and to boost their motivation. Knowledge transfer and presentation is also at the heart of what the founders of Trueffles are doing. On their new digital research platform, they create transparency and orientation through the graphical representation of search terms in a mind map model, and according to their own account enable faster research against the backdrop of the often overwhelming flood of information.

    The startup center at HWR Berlin is open to students of all disciplines, from business, administration, law, and security management to engineering sciences. In addition to specific modules and specializations, the university offers the bachelor’s degree program “Company Formation and Succession” and the specialization “Entrepreneurship and Innovation” in the Full-Time MBA. The university’s Institute for Entrepreneurship, SMEs and Family Businesses (EMF) has been recognized by the European Commission with the European Enterprise Promotion Award.

    The Gründungsradar compared for the sixth time the profiles and offerings of startup support at German universities. The components examined include startup anchoring, startup awareness-raising, startup qualification, startup support, startup activities, monitoring and evaluation, as well as startup networks. The self-perceptions of universities regarding startup support, as well as their success criteria and demands on policymakers, are also addressed. The Stifterverband notes that universities are becoming more active in startup support overall. Around the university core, increasingly viable innovation and startup ecosystems are emerging, incorporating other stakeholders such as companies, investors, startup communities, and mentor networks. The Gründungsradar is regularly produced by the Stifterverband in cooperation with the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

  • Many reasons to start a business at the Startup Incubator Berlin

    Many reasons to start a business at the Startup Incubator Berlin

    Startup teams can apply now for startup scholarships until April 17, 2022. Next to funding, the Startup Incubator Berlin also offers coworking, coaching, workshops, labs and networking.

    Do you have a good startup idea and want to further develop your business concept? Haven’t founded a company yet, but have already created a prototype and would like to bring it to the market?

    Financial Support & More

    Startup teams can apply for the Berlin Startup Scholarship and the REACT Startup Scholarship until April 17, 2022. For six months, the Berlin Startup Scholarship provides 2,000 euros per month and per team member from funds from the European Social Fund (ESF) and the state of Berlin. The REACT startup scholarship is financed from the same funds in cooperation with the Berlin University of Applied Sciences (BHT) and is aimed specifically at founders in the healthcare industry. The funding period is nine months.

    Application & requirements

    In addition to an academic degree and a place of residence in Berlin, the prerequisite for applying for the scholarships is a first prototype or a prototype-like process, i.e. first concrete ideas for an entrepreneurial solution to a relevant problem. During the funding period, the teams in the Startup Incubator Berlin will receive extensive support and the ideal framework to further developing their prototypes and business ideas using the lean startup methodology and peer learning.

    Infrastructure & Coaching

    The coworking spaces of the HWR Berlin start-up center are located in Siemensstadt ² at Rohrdamm in Berlin. At this generous and modernly equipped startup hub, the teams can use a design thinking lab, a mixed reality (AR/VR) lab, a smart device & robotic lab and a prototyping lab (3D Printing and more). The coaching team of the Startup Incubator Berlin, external consultants, mentors from the HWR Berlin as well as sponsors of the large partner network of companies, public institutions and associations support the teams. There are also special training offers and regular events such as UX testing, investment pitches, diversity formats and co-founder matching.

    Application period & initial interview

    Interested founders can now apply for the scholarships now. The teams must consist of at least two and a maximum of three people. An individual preliminary interview with the coaching team at Startup Incubator Berlin is mandatory for the application. Appointments for this must be made by April 8, 2022 via the SIB website.

    Links

    Berlin Startup Scholarship

    REACT Startup Scholarship

  • Are you looking for a Startup you can join? Come to our BPW Co-Founder Matching

    Are you looking for a Startup you can join? Come to our BPW Co-Founder Matching

    Are you looking for a Startup you can join? Come to our BPW Co-Founder Matching

    Then join this online match making day to meet outstanding startup teams that are in founding programms of participating incubators or universities. The Business Plan Wettbewerb Berlin Brandenburg (BPW) invited several players to join forces in order to present you with a digital matching event that might kickstart your business journey.

    The event is divided into three slots:

    10:00 – 11:00 h Startups looking for IT / Coding / Software Engineering

    11:00 – 12:00 h Startups looking for Operations Management / Finance

    12:00 – 13:00 h Startups looking for Biologists, Chemists, Pharmacists

    In each session the startups present themselves first with a 60 seconds Elevator Pitch. Afterwards they split up on individual tables for you to join them and introduce yourself. You are welcome to move around and get to know all startups.

    Shortly a list will all startups will be provided here as well as a booklet of all programms of the participating players.

    Please register on Eventbrite fot this event.

  • UX Testing – Startup Expo at Factory Berlin

    UX Testing – Startup Expo at Factory Berlin

    UX Testing – Startup Expo @Factory Berlin Görlitzer Park

    In cooperation with the Factory Berlin, Startups from the Startup Incubator Berlin and the Factory Berlin will show their business idea onsite at the 26th of November starting at 5 p.m. Learn what products are to be launched soon in the market and meet interesting founders with innovative mindsets. Join the Startup Expo as a guest – 2 G applies.

    Factory Berlin is opening the gates for all curious visitors who enjoy testing new products and check out market ideas. Enter the showroom and explore the innovations designed by the startups of the Factory Berlin and the Startup Incubator Berlin. Up to 18 Startups teams are eager to share their business ideas with you.

    The follwing Startups are in the line up already:

    2fingers

    2fingers goal is to provide daily life solutions through technological innovation and progress with the ambition to offer comfort and security on the subject of menstruation.

    Faircado

    Faircado is a search and comparison portal for secondhand shopping online, focusing on sustainability. It aggregates and compares all available products based on their price and a sustainability score, giving customers the information they need to make the best purchase decision – for them, their wallet and the planet.

    Fireflyting

    The goal of Fireflyting is to protect forests, businesses and people with intelligent inspections. Fireflyting creates intelligence to fly autonomous drones for wildfire prevention. They are optimizing the inspection of infrastructure that can start a wildfire, including the utility sector (electric and gas companies, energy, railway and telecommunication providers), and insurance companies that take care of other high-risk assets for the forests.

    Leav – Quit Smarter

    Crisis interventions tools to reduce relapses, cravings and comorbidities. Improving addiction and abuse care by integrating daily interactions. Reflection programs for users undecided about their consumption. That’s us, Leav – Quit Smarter: The App against Addictions.

    LexHub

    LexHub wants to simplify how legal problems, such as contract generation and management, get solved in SMEs and startups. Their team of Tech, Legal and Business experts is building a SaaS platform as the go to option for stakeholders, such as HR, sales and compliance.

    neXpen

    neXpen develops an ergonomic pen & learning app for children. 51% of all boys and 31% of girls have difficulty learning handwriting. neXpen solves this challenge: The neXpen is adapted to the natural hand position and promotes an intuitive posture of the 3-finger grip. Sensors measure the pressure, the acceleration and the writing direction of each writing movement. A learning app is being developed to match this, with which writing can be learned through play and children experience a journey of discovery into the world of letters.

    PreCycle

    Precycle is a radical and new concept: at the moment when a new product enters the global plastic system, it is now possible to already consider the end of its life and prepare adequate infrastructure for the waste that this product will become eventually. This is possible through a plastic credit system via partners. This way PreCycle develops a plastic infrastructure that recycles where the waste goes.

    stand:art

    stand:art developed a standing desk converter that allows users to work ergonomically and flexibly anywhere. Our vision is to promote a healthy and flexible way of work – it is never too late!

    The Next Big Thing AG

    Founded in 2016 with its roots in Berlin, Germany, Next Big Thing AG (NBT) is a venture studio for the Machine Economy that co-founds deep-tech ventures with aspiring founders and corporates to deliver real-world impact. With its diverse portfolio of IoT, AI, and DLT projects, NBT provides long-term support for B2B companies, including the full scope of development toolkits, innovation strategies, mentorship to entrepreneurs and startups, engineering know-how, and smart financing — all to empower a more prosperous, sustainable, and democratized world.

    We4All

    We4All provides web-based 3D printing capacities in real time for private and commercial customers worldwide. The printing capacities are provided through the connection of private and commercial machine owners in our public network. Our cloud-based software brings customers and machine owners together in a smart, local and intuitive way.

    Yuucol

    Yuucol is creating the first European user-centric, integrated and bulletproof communication & collaboration software.

    Startup Incubator Special

    In addition, learn everything about the Challenge of the SIB & Werner von Siemens Centre of Technology and Science at the Expo.

    Werner-von-Siemens Centre for Industry and Science e.V. and Startup Incubator Berlin challenge you: How would you a build trustworthy, decentralised solution to connect talented people and projects in co-creative ecosystems?

    Develop your idea to market with together us and get:

    Financial support
    -> 6,000 € start-up budget for concept & MVP development.
    -> 1,000 € budget for external coaching
    -> great chances of receiving follow-up funding
    -> access to business angel and investor networks
    -> Access to the I nfrastructure and Prototyping Labs

    Who can participate?
    -> Anyone with an academic degree (BA, MA) from a Berlin university and who lives in Berlin
    -> Anyone who is enthusiastic about building co-creative communities and would like to build a start-up from them.

    How to apply?
    -> Apply by 30th November via our application form and tell us more about you & your idea: https://bit.ly/2ZEOimZ or come and talk to us at the Factory Berlin Startup Expo.

  • Make It Lean Contest – Interview: Juriverse

    Make It Lean Contest – Interview: Juriverse

    Juriverse has won third place in the Make It Lean Contest 2020/21 and a prize of €2,000!
    Their idea? A platform for free learning materials in law school that students need to optimally prepare for exams and with which authors can earn money.
    Juriverse identified a problem in their environment, tackled it, and want to solve it — this is exactly the kind of mentality we love to support, including through our Startup Now Programme! But how did it all come about, and what else does the Juriverse team have planned? We asked them…

    1) How did you find out about the Make It Lean Contest?
    We became aware of the Startup Incubator Berlin through our consideration of applying for the Berlin Startup Scholarship. That’s where we then also discovered the Make It Lean Contest.

    2) How and when did you come together as a startup team?
    Marvin and Laura have known each other since school. Lucca became a good friend and is now a co-founder through CODE University. So we have all known each other for several years and make a strong team. We also bring together the necessary skills. Laura takes care of legal topics and operations, Lucca handles the technical side, and Marvin looks after product management. We are additionally supported by great legal professionals from across Germany and a network from the startup industry.

    3) How did you come across the problem that you want to solve with your startup idea?
    Laura is herself a law student, so we have our user persona right within the team. When she told us one day about her challenges in law school, we took a closer look at the topic and saw great potential for innovation there. In the meantime, user interviews with law students and conversations with professors have confirmed that there is indeed room for improvement in this area.

    4) What is your most important goal in the next 3 months?
    To make law school less daunting and stressful for law students through our initiatives and materials. In law school, it’s not just about access to the right materials. Above all, it’s about conveying knowledge of how students need to work with the relevant materials — combined with feedback on students’ own solutions.

    5) Who would you like to have a coffee or tea with? Why?
    With investors who ideally have a legal background, or lawyers who are looking for a passion project and want to support it.

  • Curtain up for the “JumpStart” format!

    Curtain up for the “JumpStart” format!

    The Startup Incubator Berlin (SIB) offers with its new format “JumpStart“ an entry point for realizing founding ideas in the pre-founding phase. The SIB’s state-of-the-art Prototyping Labs are also involved, where initial prototypes can be developed. This process is further supported by accompanying coaching.

    To also enable the development of technically complex ideas, founders are connected with experienced partners from business and research, thereby initiating valuable startup collaborations at a very early stage. The JumpStart format thus acts as an enabler within the Berlin innovation ecosystem and promotes the co-creative development of forward-looking innovations.

    Curious already?
    On April 22, 2021, from 4:00 PM to 7:00 PM, the official Kick-Off Event for JumpStart will take place!
    As founders, you will learn in this online event how to develop ideas within specific innovation clusters, or how to cooperate with our startup teams as a business partner or sponsor.
    An informational segment will be followed by a discussion round with the opportunity to ask questions.
    More information and the option to register: Kick-Off Event “JumpStart”

  • Make It Lean Contest – Interview: UrbanFarm

    Make It Lean Contest – Interview: UrbanFarm

    UrbanFarm won the second place of the Make It Lean Contest 2020/21 and with that 3.000€ price money for their startup project.
    Their startup is an environmentally friendly, mobile production system for nutrient-rich microgreens that uses the recycling of food waste from restaurants for their own needs on site.
    As sustainability gets more and more important, UrbanFarms project is spot on. So we were curious, how did they came up with their idea and what are their plans for the future?

    1) How did you find out about the Make It Lean Contest?
    We came across the Make It Lean Contest while we were searching for support programs for startups.
    Then we thought that this contest would be a great chance to share our idea with a large audience and opportunity to get support by every means.

    2) How and when did you get together as a startup team?
    We got together around this idea in October 2020. We have already known each other for a while and both of us wanted to create value for the whole society then we started thinking.

    3) How did you come across the problem that you wanted to solve with your founding idea?
    We have always wished to find a solution for increasing demand for food. With the pandemic, this demand became more significant than ever.
    All of us -even in the big cities- felt the fear of not having enough food in the groceries to feed ourselves.
    Therefore we wanted to find a way to grow food for people in the cities in another manner creating self-sufficient cities. About recycling food waste, Ecem has seen the big issue how much food goes away everyday.
    Since she is a chemist, she proposed to use this food waste as a fertilizer and grow organic food without chemicals.

    4) What is your main goal in the next 3 months?
    We have already set up our prototype system and in the next three months our goal is to launch our operation and present our products in the market. We are currently working on that step by step.

    5) Who would you like to have a coffee or tea with? Why?
    Well, that’s a tough one. If he was alive, definitely Henry Ford. He had a great vision and much ahead of his time.

  • Careloop closes six-figure seed funding round

    Careloop closes six-figure seed funding round

    The Berlin-based Recruiting/Education Tech startup Careloop recruits nursing staff from abroad, thereby addressing the increasingly acute problem of the nursing shortage in Germany. In addition, it is developing an online academy for foreign nursing professionals that is unprecedented in Germany.

    In 2019, Careloop, then still known as Pflegista, joined the Startup Incubator Berlin (SIB). Through the Startup Now Programme, they worked on developing their business model and prototype. Following a successful application, they were admitted to the Berlin Startup Scholarship at the beginning of 2020, enabling them to launch their MVP and carry out their first recruiting processes. After this near-exemplary progression through the SIB’s funding programmes, Careloop was able to continue implementing their plans from the beginning of 2021 – and still has a number of goals for the future.

    The two Berlin-based founders Alexander Lundberg and Matti Fischer have now announced the successful completion of the first funding round for their company Careloop, founded in 2019. The investment, led by the Swiss Founders Fund (SFF), marks the beginning of the company’s next growth phase. A total of six prominent investors, including Mediengruppe Klambt, WestTech Ventures, HNC Capital, and angel investors, are participating in the investment round and thus supporting Careloop’s mission to address the nursing shortage in Germany.

    Careloop offers a solution from which both sides can benefit sustainably and quickly. Both foreign nursing professionals and German clinics and care facilities create a profile on an online platform. After the nursing professionals have been vetted with regard to their qualifications and language skills, German employers apply to them. The Reversed Recruiting Model works contrary to the standardised process in which applicants apply to companies. This candidate-centred approach by Careloop makes it as easy as possible for nursing professionals to integrate into the German healthcare system. Amid the coronavirus crisis, the startup’s early phase brought initial successes: in 2020, over 1,000 nursing professionals registered in just eight months, with the goal of over 3,000 registrations in 2021. In addition, more than 15 employers were acquired as clients.

    Careloop not only helps with the recruitment of nursing staff from abroad, but also with the onboarding of foreign nursing professionals at care facilities. The Careloop Academy enables foreign nursing professionals to make up for any gaps in their nursing training from their home country, regardless of location, and optimally prepares German employers for working with international nursing staff – all online and digitally. Experienced practitioners accompany its development – something that is so far unique in Germany.

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