Johannes Mattmann, founder of Mainz-based flyingshapes, on VR software that accelerates industrial design for cars, machines, and planes.

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Why this matters for deep tech: VR-native design tooling is deep tech built by a CERN-trained physicist — collapsing product-development cycles in 3D.

In this episode, we cover:

• Johannes Mattmann (Founder, flyingshapes)
• VR software for industrial design
• Designing cars, machines, and planes in VR
• A particle physicist with a CERN research stay
• Accelerating product development

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The December 2019 wrap-up closes the year with the top German-speaking startup funding and ecosystem news.

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Why this matters for deep tech: The monthly signal desk is the continuous record behind every DACH deep-tech trend line.

In this episode, we cover:

• Top German-speaking startup news of December 2019
• Funding rounds and ecosystem moves
• A bird’s-eye view across GSA
• Sources in English and German
• Recorded with Chris and Joe

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Perun on accelerating blockchain payments with private off-chain channels that push throughput far beyond base-layer limits.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Layer-2 scaling is blockchain deep tech — the protocol engineering that makes on-chain finance fast and cheap enough to use.

In this episode, we cover:

• Perun’s second-layer, off-chain protocol
• Private peer-to-peer payment channels
• Thousands of transactions per second per channel
• A B2B approach for blockchain adopters
• Roots in TU Darmstadt research

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Friedrich “Freddy” Zwanzger, CDO of Mainz-based Anyblock Analytics, on indexing blockchains so activity can be searched and analyzed like web analytics.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Making blockchain data queryable is infrastructure deep tech — the analytics layer on top of otherwise opaque ledgers.

In this episode, we cover:

• Friedrich Zwanzger (Chief Data Officer, Anyblock Analytics)
• “Google Analytics for blockchain”
• Indexing blockchains for analysis
• Tracking on-chain activity
• Discovering blockchain back in 2015

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The November 2019 wrap-up rounds up the German-speaking startup scene’s latest funding rounds and ecosystem signals.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Reading the monthly cadence is how you catch DACH deep-tech and funding inflections as they form.

In this episode, we cover:

• Top German-speaking startup news of November 2019
• Funding and ecosystem developments
• A bird’s-eye view across GSA
• Sources in English and German
• Recorded with Chris and Joe

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CONTENTshift winner QualiFiction, presented by Gesa, on an AI that evaluates a SciFi manuscript in 60 seconds and generates its metadata.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Modeling narrative quality and genre is applied NLP deep tech tackling the slush-pile bottleneck in publishing.

In this episode, we cover:

• QualiFiction, a CONTENTshift winner
• AI that evaluates SciFi manuscripts in 60 seconds
• Auto-generating genre and metadata
• Cutting the 4M+ yearly proposals problem
• Helping more authors get read

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Johannes Noll of Darmstadt-based App Guard on keeping developers’ third-party components updated so known loopholes can’t be exploited.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Dependency-security automation is deep tech racing the attackers who weaponize known flaws within hours of release.

In this episode, we cover:

• Johannes Noll (Co-Founder & CEO, App Guard)
• Keeping app components patched and safe
• Support for docker, composer, NPM, Drupal, yarn, python
• “5 hours after release, automated hacks start”
• Raising venture capital

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Kostas, CEO of Athens-based Blendo, on ELT tooling that makes a company’s data instantly accessible and validated.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Data-integration infrastructure is quiet deep tech — the pipes that let every other analytics and AI effort actually work.

In this episode, we cover:

• Kostas (Co-Founder & CEO, Blendo)
• ELT for accessible company data
• Validating data as part of the stack
• Becoming part of a company’s infrastructure
• Startuprad.io’s first Athens startup

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Georg Horn, CEO of Munich-based varia.media, on an NLP tool offering “Perspective-as-a-Service” to help readers escape their filter bubble.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Applying NLP to surface multiple perspectives is media deep tech aimed squarely at how we consume news and research.

In this episode, we cover:

• Georg Horn (Co-Founder & CEO, varia.media)
• NLP “Perspective-as-a-Service”
• Different perspectives on news and research
• Helping readers escape the filter bubble
• A CONTENTshift-associated startup

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Serial entrepreneur Suhas Patel on his 18th startup, industrial-AI company Tvarit — and his ambition to build Frankfurt’s first unicorn.

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Why this matters for deep tech: Industrial AI optimizing manufacturing is deep tech with a clear energy, quality, and cost payoff on the factory floor.

In this episode, we cover:

• Suhas Patel, serial founder (18 startups)
• Tvarit, an industrial-AI company
• Ambition to build Frankfurt’s first unicorn
• AI to optimize manufacturing
• 14 years building in Germany

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