Soon it´s time again: On September 17, 2020 the FinTech Germany Award will be presented to outstanding Fintechs for the sixth time. More than 200 startups have applied, of which exactly 43 have been shortlisted. Some from FrankfurtRhineMain also made it to the final round. The companies are honored in various categories from “Early Stage”...
weSpark: “Our vision is to spread a human centric perspective on innovation”
Most of us entrepreneurs have lost ourselves from the true purpose of innovation – according to my guest today Nelson Javier Mejia – an Innovation enthusiast and entrepreneur from El Salvador, who moved to Germany 10 years ago. Nelson is one of the most active members at WeWork Labs in Frankfurt. That’s where we met...
SWIMSTART: ‘I want to solve the swimming dilemma’
After her son almost drowned, Mynia Deeg decided to take responsibility for the water competence of her family and started teaching him all the essentials. Soon she realized also other parents have a need for more flexible and individual swimming classes and she founded the online swimming school SWIMSTART. We spoke to entrepreneur Mynia about...
guided-doing interview: We created the best way to show people how to be successful
Our new interview series with Founder Institute, a local platform of the world’s largest pre-seed startup accelerator that roperates across 185+ cities with a $20B estimated portfolio value, continues! In February 2020, the first Frankfurt cohort has officially ended, and the result was eight graduates. With the deep- dive interviews you get to know the founders,...
Interview Series HelfenFRM: featuring 91 RAW
Who are the people behind HelfenFRM? A few weeks ago we launched our new platform to show support during the crisis and beyond. By now many enterprises, restaurants and traders in FrankfurtRheinMain have registered on it. We continue running and growing the platform. With this interview series we have started featuring local entrepreneurs and business...
Startup Genome Ecosystem Report 2020 – Interview with Dominik Zborek from TechQuartier
Last week, Startup Genome (SG), in partnership with Global Entrepreneurship Network, released the 2020 Global Startup Ecosystem Report. Since TechQuartier (TQ) has been the regional Member, fostering the visibility of our ecosystem worldwide, we decided to discuss some of the points together with Dominik Zborek , Public Sector & Government Affairs Manager at TQ. The...
Wingcopter Awarded as Technology Pioneer by World Economic Forum
Wingcopter, a leading German drone company from Darmstadt that develops autonomous delivery drones for commercial and humanitarian applications, was selected out of hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s latest “Technology Pioneers”. Dedicated to improving the lives of people worldwide, Wingcopter has been engaged in numerous drone delivery projects – from commercial,...
A Women Who Inspires: Silke Kopp
Guest article by Pedro Ferreira In the first articles of our series “A Woman Who Inspires” we introduced you to Luisa El Bouyahyani from LuBu, Almaz Andezion founder of Ivory Cosmetics , Nadia Doukali from Honeyletter and Imme Scheit from YAY. Together with Women Who Inspire Rhein Main we are now sharing the full interviews done during the article...
A Woman Who Inspires: Imme Scheit
Guest article by By Pedro Ferreira In the first three articles of our series “A Woman Who Inspires” we introduced you to Luisa El Bouyahyani from LuBu, Almaz Andezion founder of Ivory Cosmetics , and Nadia Doukali from Honeyletter. Together with Women Who Inspire Rhein Main we are now sharing the full interviews done during...
Female co-founders bring “&ahead” to the next level during #EUvsVirus
These two inspiring ladies devote themselves to numerous projects with passion and full of energy, driving forward the startup & entrepreneur ecosystem in FrankfurtRheinMain. A few weeks ago they participated in the #WirvsVirus hackathon. The experience was so rewarding that they continued straight on to also complete #EUvsVirus recently with their own project “&ahead”, bringing...