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If you are new to our podcast(s), we are wrapping up the startup news of the German-speaking area in a monthly recording from Frankfurt and New York. Have a look at our website www.startuprad.io or www.startup.radio and you will find all the links to our recording and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German.

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In this interview, Joe talks to Gesa of this year’s winner of the CONTENTshift (https://www.contentshift.de/en/) accelerator QualiFiction. Learn more here: https://www.contentshift.de/en/contentshift/news/congratulations-to-qualifiction/.

Publishers receive more than 4 million book proposals for SciFi novels each year, in the German-speaking area alone. Now QualiFiction wants to help here so more texts can be evaluated by the publishers. The startup has an AI, which can – within 60 seconds – evaluate a SciFi text. So, they avoid publishers sending back unread proposals to the aspiring authors, due to a lack of readers for evaluation. They also generate the metadata (e.g. genre) for the text.

QualiFiction is also looking for publishers who give them masses of texts in different languages so they can extend their offering to other languages, besides German.

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Peter F Hamilton: The Armageddon Series https://amzn.to/2rolpu9

Craig Alanson: Expeditionary Force Series: https://amzn.to/2QTNm7H

Arthur C. Clarke – Collected Stories: https://amzn.to/2Oo5HrT

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Tech Startups Germany - By Startuprad.ioThis is the first video of our new podcast Tech Startups Germany. All the recordings on this channel are made possible by Invest in Hessen (learn more here https://www.invest-in-hessen.com/home).

You can find this specific channel here as audio and video stand-alone podcast or via all channels of Startuprad.io.

Frankfurt as a location is good from an international recruiting standpoint, since Frankfurt has a really really great reputation.

VC FundingIn this interview, Joe from Startuprad.io is talking to Florian Brokamp (https://www.linkedin.com/in/florian-brokamp-5a329876/), CEO of Thinksurance (https://thinksurance.de/en/start/), a Frankfurt-based insurtech startup. The fintech just raised 13 mn venture capital (https://www.policendirekt.com/en/thinksurance-raises-e13m-in-series-b-funding/) so Startuprad.io took the opportunity and stop by on short notice to ask one of the founders what they will do with all the money.

Startup is not about the events, it is not about “raising big”… its more important to believe in yourself, be happy and create your vision.

ThinksuranceFirst some information on the startup: Thinksurance is the leading commercial insurance distribution platform in Germany. Its technology connects insurers, distributors from all sales channels and business customers on its intelligent analytics and distribution platform. The company was founded in Frankfurt, Germany, first entered the market in 2016 under the brand “Gewerbeversicherung24” and was rebranded in 2019. By now, the insurtech has almost 50 employees and is led by its two founders Florian Brokamp and Christopher Leifeld as well as Vasil Vasilev and Timm Weitzel.

The insurtech is looking to increase headcount considerably and expand to other countries like France, Belgium and the Netherlands. As second priority they are looking to the USA and Asia.

Tune in the interview to learn more.

We would hope that in Germany in general and Frankfurt in specific there would be more support from the Government …

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In this interview, Joe talks to Andrew Rhomberg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/arhomberg/) Founder and CEO at Jellybooks (https://www.jellybooks.com/), a startup based in London. The company is a marketing tech startup (martech) for the book publishing industry. Jellybooks has been called a “Goole Analytics for eBooks” by Wired and “Moneyball for publishing” by the New York Times.

“When someone reads 30 to 50 pages they read the whole book”

Jellybooks is a cutting-edge platform for collecting data and insights on book reading. The company offers free eBooks in exchange for the readers reading data. The books are provided free of charge by the Sponsors (either the author or the publisher). All the readers need to do in return is to click a button at the end of each chapter to send Jellybooks their reading data.

This interview is in association with CONTENTshift, the accelerator program of the Association of the German Book Publishers & Booksellers. You can learn more here https://www.contentshift.de/en/. The winners are announced on a live ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair each year https://www.buchmesse.de/en. The accelerator program aims to push the boundaries of publishing. We will bring you this year’s winner of CONTENTshift at Thanksgiving (Nov 28th).

“You can ruin a book by it’s cover”

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During the interview Andrew and Joe talk about:The book, by the late Nobel laureate in literature is called “one hundred years of solitude” by Gabriel García “Gabo” Márquez and is available here (AL) https://amzn.to/336TT1w You can learn more about this amazing author, who invented magic realism, here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez

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 “The book cover even influences if you recommend a book … I am judged by you what I recommend”

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The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, 6 Vols. Vol. 1 - 3 (AL) https://amzn.to/2QCHaRn

History Every year the Frankfurt book fair is also the place where Startuprad.io interviews the finalists and eventual winners of the program. We did this already in the past. Have a look at our interviews from 2018 on our playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUbiCAQc22WsdxEzE7iASbXD4_rAAVQbx

OutlookDuring the course of the next few weeks we will publish five interviews with startups (https://www.contentshift.de/en/contentshift/news/who-will-become-the-content-startup-of-the-year/) from the CONTENTshift accelerator from the Frankfurt Book Fair (https://www.buchmesse.de/en), with startups from Germany, Denmark and the UK.

Only the publication of our regular news will interrupt the series. We will end with a very special day at Thanksgiving, where we will publish our News, as well as the interview with the winner of the program.

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In this interview, Joe talks to Uli, founder of Mitmalfilm. He is a professional animator and painter and he enables his project children from 4 to 7 to draw their own animated movie in a combination of coloring book and app.  Learn more in the interview.

“We want to find a publisher for our coloring books”

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In this interview, Joe talks to Georg Horn, Co-Founder, and CEO at varia.media, a startup based in Munich. Their service provides different perspectives on news, research or other topics, so one can escape their own filter bubble. Learn more in the interview.

Hint: You will hear Joe saying that this is the third interview, but the 2nd interview we recorded is the winner to be published on Nov. 28th, so our original order is screwed-up. Sorry, but at the time of recording, it was not clear, which startup would win.

You can learn more here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/publications-until-end-of-november-thanksgiving/

Find all the links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/varia-media-offers-with-their-nlp-tool-perspective-as-a-service-for-journalism-and-research/

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Startuprad.io brings you in a Frankfurt-to-New-York recording the startup news Germany for October 2018. We wrap-up the news of the German-speaking startup scene (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Liechtenstein) of October in our recording. 

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In this interview, Joe talks to Jacob, Co-Founder, and CLO at Easy Correct, a startup based in Denmark. Their tool allows teachers to give better, more consistent feedback to students. Learn more in the interview.

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This time Joe talks to Kostas, CEO, and Co-Founder of Blendo, our first interview with a startup from Athens. Blendo works in ELT, they allow their clients to access all of their data, so they can use the data directly. Blendo helps the company to validate its data. One could say Blendo becomes, therefore, part of the infrastructure of the company. 

Kostas started with technology at an early age. He started early on in his studies to work with data.

“Data is the blood and oxygen of companies to remain competitive” 

The HQ of Blendo is in Athens, but the legal entity is registered in Delaware. The reason behind it is that the first investors of the company have been from Israel and they agree to locate the headquarter of the company there. For some time, the startup has also been located in Tel Aviv, so Blendo now considers itself a global company. 

“Being a founder is a life-transforming experience.”

Blendo has most of its customers in the United States but has employees in the US, Israel, and Greece. 

“We re-invented the ETL process”

“I belong to the analog to digital generation. We started analog and ended up in the digital age”

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This interview is a Columbus Day Special. Suhas Patel is a serial entrepreneur. He is originally from India. Suhas is living for 14 years in Germany. He started 18 startups so far. Startuprad.io visited him in a meeting room in a co-working space in Frankfurt to talk about his new venture Tvarit, an Industrial AI company.

“I believe this startup has the potential to be a unicorn”

Suhas calls himself a “Technology Evangelist” Before founding his startups he was working in R&D departments of Qualcomm and Intel.

“With the 18 startups, I helped entrepreneurs to start their business”

Suhas is working on a concept of “Business Driven Philanthropy” to build new business verticals on the latest technologies. He had to close 70% of the startups he helped to start. This is great, especially since normally 90% of startups do not survive. Now he decided to stop all his assignments and concentrate 100% on Tvarit, to make the AI startup the first unicorn in Frankfurt.

“B2C Ai startups are mainly in China and the US. For B2B there is a great potential for Germany”

Tvarit (त्वरित)is a Sanskrit word, almost 3000 years old, it means fast. Tvarit's core values are based on "FASTER customer journey" and "PERSISTENT prediction accuracy". The concept of Industry4.0 is misunderstood as condition monitoring. Tvarit takes a step further by taking the data from the condition monitoring and provide the analytics to give actionable insights.

“we have the potential to become the SAP of Artificial Intelligence, since we can get a 360 degree view of the whole manufacturing unit.”

For those, who do not understand Joe’s joke: Skynet is the evil computer AI in the Terminator franchise, trying to eliminate mankind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)

“Two things are important, execution and focus”

Having strong R&D, Tvarit guarantees a patent application during the first 4-months project.

“You need to execute wisely and fast”

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