In a joint program with IBGR, Startuprad.io digs into the lessons from Atomico's State of European Tech survey — the most comprehensive annual read on the continent's startup ecosystem — and what its findings mean for founders and investors.

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Why this episode matters: Atomico's report is the reference data set for European tech. Distilling its signals helps founders benchmark where the ecosystem — and their opportunity — actually stands.

In this episode, we cover:

• Key lessons from Atomico's State of European Tech survey
• What the data says about the European ecosystem
• A joint program with IBGR and Startup.Radio
• What the findings mean for founders and investors

Related episodes: Driverama Wants to Start a European Used Car Market – And Just Entered Germany · European Tech Sovereignty: The November 2025 DACH Startup News Briefing.

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If your fund or company benchmarks against European tech data, partner with Startuprad.io.

Solytic helps the small solar investor play with the big guys — bringing professional-grade monitoring and analytics to solar assets of any size.

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Why this episode matters: Solar returns depend on performance visibility. Leveling the analytics playing field helps smaller investors compete.

In this episode, we cover:

• What Solytic monitors across solar assets
• Bringing professional analytics to small investors
• Why performance visibility drives solar returns
• Where data improves energy-asset management
• The opportunity in solar and energy analytics

Related episodes: AI Phone Assistants: Revolutionizing SME Customer Service · DACH Unicorn Tracker Spring 2025: Germany, Austria & Switzerland Startups.

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The January 2022 roundup of German startup news — the fundings, deals, and developments that opened the year for the ecosystem.

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Why this episode matters: Monthly roundups are the pulse of the ecosystem. This one captures where German capital and momentum sat at the start of 2022.

In this episode, we cover:

• The notable German fundings and deals of January 2022
• Ecosystem developments to open the year
• Sectors drawing early investor attention
• What the period signaled for founders
• How the moment fits the broader DACH story

Related episodes: DACH 2026: AI Mega-Rounds, Dual Use & New Venture Stack · Fintech & Finance Review 2025: AI Risk Becomes Banking.

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Ben Kohz, COO and co-founder of READ-O, joins Startuprad.io to pitch the "Spotify for books." With over 70,000 new titles published in Germany each year, READ-O tackles a simple but real problem: how readers find the next book worth reading.

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Why this episode matters: Discovery is the bottleneck in reading, not supply. READ-O applies the recommendation playbook that transformed music and video to a market that never got its own.

In this episode, we cover:

• READ-O as the "Spotify for books"
• Solving book discovery amid 70,000+ new titles a year
• Ben Kohz on why readers stall without recommendations
• Bringing the streaming playbook to reading

Related episodes: (+)plural makes Children Books for Blind and Visually Impaired Children Affordable · Meet Berlin-based Fintech Bitbond, the Company Behind Germany's First Regulated Security Token Offering.

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AskBrian is the digital assistant busy professionals need — automating the repetitive research and document tasks that eat into consultants' and analysts' days.

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Why this episode matters: Knowledge workers lose hours to repetitive tasks. A reliable digital assistant that handles them is a direct productivity multiplier.

In this episode, we cover:

• What AskBrian automates for professionals
• The repetitive tasks draining knowledge workers
• How a digital assistant fits into daily workflows
• Where automation helps consultants and analysts most
• The opportunity in professional productivity AI

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If your team wants to automate knowledge work with a digital assistant, partner with Startuprad.io.

The 2021 year-end Fintech Review. IBM thought leader, Amazon best-selling author and podcaster Paolo Sironi — with Oliver Oster and Janis Dust (founder, Epap) — on how the pandemic forced banks to digest ten years of digitalization in barely a year, and what that acceleration meant for DACH banking and fintech. Part of Startuprad.io’s annual Fintech Review — the year-end DACH fintech talkshow Jörn “Joe” Menninger has hosted since 2014, published just before Christmas to close the year and carry the community through the holidays.

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Why this matters for fintech: 2021 was the year digital banking went from roadmap to requirement. Sironi’s framing of a decade of digitalization compressed into months is the definitive read.

In this episode, we cover:

• Paolo Sironi (IBM) on pandemic-forced banking digitalization
• Oliver Oster and Janis Dust (Epap) on the founder view
• Ten years of digitalization compressed into one
• What acceleration meant for DACH banks and fintechs
• The year-end outlook for 2022

Related fintech episodes: DACH Fintech Review 2022 · DACH Fintech Review 2020.

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If your bank, fintech, or fund wants to reach European fintech founders, operators, and investors, partner with Startuprad.io.

The December 2021 roundup of German startup news — the fundings, deals, and developments that closed out a record-breaking year for the ecosystem.

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Why this episode matters: Year-end cuts double as a lens on the whole year. December 2021 capped one of the ecosystem's hottest stretches.

In this episode, we cover:

• The notable German fundings and deals of December 2021
• How the ecosystem closed a record year
• Sectors ending 2021 with momentum
• What the period signaled for founders
• How the moment fits the broader DACH story

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&Charge raised seed funding to help online shoppers fight global warming — turning everyday e-commerce activity into support for EV charging and climate action. A startup blending consumer rewards with sustainability.

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Why this episode matters: Consumer climate action is hard to make sticky. &Charge's model shows one way to embed sustainability into behavior people already do — shopping.

In this episode, we cover:

• What &Charge does and the climate problem it targets
• Turning online shopping into climate and EV-charging action
• The seed round and what it funds
• Making sustainability part of everyday consumer behavior
• Lessons for climate-consumer startups

Related episodes: €1.3B Raised, 1 Fintech Crashes: April 2025 DACH Startup News Breakdown · Why Pitch Decks Fail — and the Story That Wins Funding.

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Pascal Lauria, founder and CEO of Cogia, joins Startuprad.io fresh off the company's IPO. Lauria plans to use public-market access to drive consolidation — buying companies to accelerate growth toward a €10 million revenue goal.

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Why this episode matters: Small-cap IPOs as an acquisition engine are unusual in the DACH scene. Cogia's buy-to-grow strategy is a candid look at using public capital for roll-up-style expansion.

In this episode, we cover:

• Cogia's IPO and its consolidation strategy
• Using public-market access to buy companies
• Pascal Lauria's €10 million revenue goal
• Growth through acquisition in the DACH market

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If you are building, acquiring, or investing in growth-through-consolidation plays, partner with Startuprad.io.

Driverama wants to build a pan-European used-car market — bringing transparency and standardization to a fragmented industry — and has just entered Germany.

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Why this episode matters: Used cars are a huge, opaque, offline market. Digitizing and standardizing it is a large prize with hard operational demands.

In this episode, we cover:

• Driverama's vision for a European used-car market
• Entering the German market
• Bringing transparency to used-car buying and selling
• The operational challenge of scaling across Europe
• Lessons for founders in large offline markets

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If your company is building marketplaces or mobility and auto tech, partner with Startuprad.io.