Fabrizio Gramuglio, CEO of Xperience+, on reinventing how we watch sports and movies — from a geneticist-turned-founder in Frankfurt.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Rethinking immersive media experience is consumer deep tech at the edge of content, audio, and interaction.

In this episode, we cover:

• Fabrizio Gramuglio (Co-Founder & CEO, Xperience+)
• Reinventing the sports and movie experience
• A geneticist turned founder and TED speaker
• Co-founder Pedro of Frankfurt Valley
• Building immersive media tech

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Martin Kreitmair, CEO of Tangany, on a licensed white-label custody solution that lets clients hold crypto assets without their own license.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Regulated crypto custody is fintech deep tech where bank-grade security and licensing are the real product.

In this episode, we cover:

• Martin Kreitmair (Co-Founder & CEO, Tangany)
• White-label custody for crypto assets
• Clients skip applying for their own license
• Security held above banking standards
• In partnership with the FinTech Forum

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Two new unicorns, Auto1’s €1.5B IPO, and Mambu’s banking-SaaS rise headline the first news episode of 2021.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Banking-infrastructure SaaS like Mambu — the backbone behind N26 — is exactly the quiet deep tech powering fintech.

In this episode, we cover:

• Two new German unicorns to open 2021
• Auto1’s IPO targeting €1.5B+
• Mambu, Germany’s newest fintech unicorn
• Banking software as SaaS behind N26
• Delivery Hero goes into VC

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Startuprad.io’s 2020 year-in-review looks back at COVID startup aid, megarounds, and the top German startup stories of the year.

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Why this matters for deep tech: A full-year read of how DACH startups weathered 2020 is essential baseline context for the deep-tech decade that followed.

In this episode, we cover:

• German startup COVID-aid overview
• The 2020 German startup ecosystem in review
• Top startup stories of the year
• Megarounds that kept European tech growing
• A cautious outlook into 2021

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Alex von Frankenberg, MD of High-Tech Gründerfonds, on running Europe’s most active seed investor — ~600 investments and €2.8B in follow-on capital.

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Why this matters for deep tech: HTGF is foundational to German deep tech; how it seeds and supports founders shapes the entire pipeline.

In this episode, we cover:

• Alex von Frankenberg (MD, High-Tech Gründerfonds)
• Europe’s most active seed investor
• ~€890M AUM and close to 600 seed investments
• €2.8B in follow-on funding raised
• Public and corporate LPs behind the fund

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Germany’s €10B investment package, a reshaped DAX, and Peter Thiel’s German bets headline the December 2020 wrap-up.

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Why this matters for deep tech: State capital and high-profile investor moves are the policy signals that shape which deep tech gets built next.

In this episode, we cover:

• Germany’s €10B investment package
• A newly reshaped DAX
• Peter Thiel’s investments in Germany
• Taxes, AI, and more
• Recorded with Chris and Joe

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German startups racing on COVID vaccines, Rocket Internet’s delisting, and a potential digital Euro headline the November 2020 wrap-up.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Vaccine biotech beside a digital-Euro debate shows the breadth of DACH deep tech under pandemic pressure.

In this episode, we cover:

• German startups working on COVID vaccines
• Flixbus and Finleap updates
• Rocket Internet’s ongoing delisting
• A potential digital Euro
• Recorded with Chris and Joe

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Felix Rolf, CEO of Artificial Connect, on using AI to auto-generate local event announcements at newsroom scale.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Automating structured local content is early generative-AI deep tech — the same pattern now reshaping media.

In this episode, we cover:

• Felix Rolf (CEO, Artificial Connect)
• AI-generated local event announcements
• Tens of thousands of events per city per year
• Helping publishers scale coverage
• From the CONTENTshift accelerator

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Patrick Kaiser, COO of Scriptbakery, on an AI that analyzes manuscripts and predicts a reader’s emotional response.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Modeling narrative and reader emotion is applied NLP deep tech tackling a real publishing bottleneck.

In this episode, we cover:

• Patrick Kaiser (COO, Scriptbakery)
• AI analysis of manuscripts
• Predicting a reader’s emotional response
• 98% of submitted manuscripts go unread
• From the CONTENTshift accelerator

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A monster N26 round in the making and fresh Wirecard-insolvency details headline the October 2020 wrap-up.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Neobank momentum against the Wirecard collapse framed the trust-and-scale questions defining DACH fintech deep tech.

In this episode, we cover:

• A monster funding round brewing at N26
• New information on the Wirecard insolvency
• Questions around Heidelberg’s Getsafe
• The month’s DACH ecosystem signals
• Recorded with Chris and Joe

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