Startup News from Germany - 2016 Summer wrap up

Talk with Luka, who is right now based in Berlin, as co-founder of Penta. We talk to him about his experience in raising venture capital in the USA, which he did before with other ventures versus Europe, where he is looking to raise venture capital soon.

#Roadtrip Interviews from #CODE_n Festival

In the first interview of two interviews, Luka tells us also about his previous ventures. Together with him we take a trip through his live. He tells us how he sold shoes on the streets of New York and about studying in Paris. We learn how he ended up in Berlin and how he approached the idea of Penta. Finally we talk of course about Penta, who is in the current batch of Startupbootcamp Fintech (London). (Disclaimer, Joern is a regular mentor at the SBC Fintech pitch day in Frankfurt)

In the interview Luka also talks about mondo in the UK and N26 in Berlin and his article of things he did wrong, which you can find here

In the second part of the interview we talk with Luka about raising venture capital and his experiences in Europe and the US doing so.

Polish startup Bin-e is going to revolutionize the waste management in offices. In this short audio interview we had the chance to talk with Marcin who’s the co-founder and CTO of Bin-e. The IoT startup Bin-e builds a smart trash can, which recognizes, segregates and compresses the waste and ones it’s full notifies the right people to empty it. Tune in now and find out how the founders came up with the idea, how the smart waste bin will work, which target group they want to reach and how their smart bin will help companies to save money.

As a media partners at the Pioneer Festival in Vienna we are happy to share with you our talk with the winner of the Challenge Day – Pleo Startup. Pleo decentralises company spending, eliminates expense reports and reimbursements and simplifies bookkeeping. Jeppe, co-founder of Pleo, told us about his startup idea, shared his experience in fintech, gave some prognoses that can hit the financial institutions! Moreover, Jeppe told us about his days at the Pioneer’s Festival and what could you experience there. Stay tuned and listen to our podcast!

On the 20th-22 th of May Maria from Startuprad.io visited Startup Weekend Mittelhessen which took place in Giessen. We talked to Martin Lacroix – the main organiser of the event and asked him about the development of the startup scene in Mittelhessen.

This episode we talk with Lengoo, a company provides translation services by matching your translation needs with the best bilingual translators possible.

Learn more about that at http://www.lengoo.de/en

Chris and Joe talk May startup news form a German perspecitve. Tune in to keep up

This episode we talk with Cat Medic, a company that provides 3D models of the human body in animation, illustration and apps - basically you can walk through your own body with them.

Learn more about that at http://www.cat-medic.de