Tech Startups Germany (Video)

doks. innovation enables indoor drone flights for next-level digital logisticsInside a building GPS does not work. We use a combination of global mapping and local mapping… it is very very complex.

Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation

 

The FounderIn this interview, we talk to Benjamin Federmann (https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminfedermann/) the CEO and Co-Founder of Kassel-based drone startup doks. innovation (https://www.doks-innovation.com/). D oks.innovation is not a hardware startup, they only provide  Benjamin has spent some time after university in marketing and consulting for some smaller and also well-known companies like Leica.

 

The feedback from the interviews I conducted was so good, I was sure I needed to found the company

Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation

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The customer can ask almost any question and find the answer in our data.

Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation

 

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When we started with our first prototype, we crashed 30 to 40 drones.

Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation

 

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Our drone is a flying camera to collect data for the inventory management.

Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation

 

The Startup 

The startup doks.innovation enables companies to monitor their warehouses via drones, which can fly indoors without smacking on any shelf or wall. Doks is not a hardware startup. doks.innovation provides only the ai software for the drones to enable them to fly indoors. On the other hand, they are also working closely with hardware providers, since they have very specific requirements for their drones. The drones are using cutting-edge drone hardware, which is not yet publicly available.

The company is still small, but they have reference customers like Mars and BMW.

Our clients have to press a button and come back 3 or 4 hours later. The data collection is totally automated. The customer can ask almost any question and can find the answer in our data.

Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation

 Venture Capital Fundingdoks.innovation is open to talking to new investors from Europe and the US. They are looking for the next financing round in Q1 2021 and to expand to the US in 2021.

 

When we stared there was no hardware available for what we have been looking for.

Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation

 

 

The Video Interview is set to go live on October 15th, 2020 19.00 CET Frankfurt/Paris/Zürich/Milanohttps://youtu.be/yi8SmEMuuj8

 

Drones are good for land surveying, but are there areas where drones are currently not working? So I made more than 100 interviews in one and a half year.

Benjamin Federmann, CEO and Co-Founder doks.innovation

 

Further Readings / Additional ResourcesLearn more about Kassel here: https://www.tripadvisor.com/Tourism-g187342-Kassel_Hesse-Vacations.html

 

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Cyreen provides consumer brands with brick and mortar analyticsWe analyze shopping behaviour based on the contact with an in-store commercial. Our system does not even know if you are male or female.

Davide Scheidegger, Co-Founder Cyreen

 

[caption id="attachment_3655" align="aligncenter" width="1194"]Cyreen establishes a data-driven retail media standard for consumer brands in supermarkets. Courtesy of Cyreen[/caption]The FounderWe talk to Davide Scheidegger (https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidescheidegger/), who is originally from Switzerland, but now lives in Wiesbaden, working with his other co-founders on their startup Cyreen (https://www.cyreen.de/). They provide with movement tracking of shopping carts and in-store-advertisements, analytics for brick and mortar retailers, as well as for retail brands.

 

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This is kind of the best advertisement in Germany, when you say: “Today you save 20%”

Davide Scheidegger, Co-Founder Cyreen

 

The StartupCyreen is an analytics software for inside a brick and mortar retailer. The tool tracks (anonymized) shopping carts and analyze customer behavior in the market. They can also show advertisements to the clients inside the retailer on small screens and track their efficiency. Cyreen can also include outside parameters e.g. temperature.

Cyreen is an award-winning start-up that provides transparent, measurable and close-to-purchase marketing solutions for advertisers. They successfully launched their first product C.A.P. (Connecting Ad-Impressions with Purchase) in several stores. With C.A.P., they have developed a high-end digital signage system. For the first time, detailed advertising effectiveness analyses for offline marketing are possible according to the online logic of Facebook & Co.

We normally don’t talk to our clients directly, but via our ad & media agencies.

Davide Scheidegger, Co-Founder Cyreen

 

Davide refers to this advertisement of Wiesenhof, which they helped to measure in storeAtze Schröder Wiesenhof, was one of the commercials measured by Cyreen in-store:

https://youtu.be/7BZfmh7JM68

 More information on their tool CAP - Connecting Ad-Impressions with Purchase (Cyreen is the name of the company)https://vimeo.com/341804155

 

A study by the University of St. Gallen. The link will open a PDF.

 

We even tested the advertisement for ice cream in winter.

Davide Scheidegger, Co-Founder Cyreen

 

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Even though I have not been to Wiesbaden before, I fell in love with the city instantly. Mainz is not too far away and the wine is great.

Davide Scheidegger, Co-Founder Cyreen

The Video Interview is set to go live on September 17th 19.00 CET (Frankfurt / Zürich)https://youtu.be/iN0RgBpMYg8

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Further Readings / Additional Ressources 

Bahncard 100 https://www.bahn.com/en/view/offers...

This is the last episode before our summer break of this podcast. We will be back in September!

QuoScient helps to analyze, investigate and respond to cyber-threats Attackers are devious… During the current health crisis, they are going after health institutions and hospitals. They don’t basically care that they are doing damage to people who have already health problems.

Ioannis Bizimis, Co-Founder QuoScient

  

The FounderIn this interview, we are talking to Ioannis Bizimis (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ioannis-bizimis-6423527/, https://twitter.com/defense_active), the Co-Founder, CFO, CRO, and  CISO of QuoScient.

Ioannis has been an Investment Manager, project lead with Dow Jones, with MarkIt, an employee of Deutsche Bank and other well-regarded companies. He has a lot of experience and with this experience, he started to set up QuoScient.

 

One of the biggest strategies [of hackers] is to come into your network and stay there and install as many backdoors as they can. They will use them when they need it.

Ioannis Bizimis, Co-Founder QuoScient

 

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It costs hackers just a few hundred Dollars or Euros to build up an attack campaign. The effort on the other side is thousands, sometimes millions to understand this kind of campaign.

Ioannis Bizimis, Co-Founder QuoScient 

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The StartupQuoScient (https://www.quoscient.io/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quoscient)  is a cybersecurity startup, which recently split into three parts to better pursue their respective activities. Two of those entities are still headquartered in Frankfurt, one in Columbia, Maryland (close to Baltimore). They basically split along their business lines:

QuoLab Technologies – Defense Technology https://quolab.com/QuoSec – Security Consulting https://www.quosec.net/QuoIntelligence – Cyber Threat Intelligence https://quointelligence.eu/ 

[A company] first must understand what their most critical assets are and what are the [cyber] risks to those assets.

Ioannis Bizimis, Co-Founder QuoScient

 Venture Capital FundingQuoScient has just raised venture capital. They may be looking at another funding round in the fall of 2020. If you want to keep posted, reach out to us.

 

Threats can not only come from the outside. Capable hackers can also send you someone, pretending to work for you as contractor. … they do this professionally.

Ioannis Bizimis, Co-Founder QuoScient

 

The Video Interview is set to go live on July 2nd, 2020 19.00 CEThttps://youtu.be/qM_ngqKHuZ4

 

 

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Further Readings / Additional ResourcesFront Office https://www.investopedia.com/terms/f/frontoffice.aspBack Office https://www.investopedia.com/terms/b/backoffice.aspMiddle Office https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/middleoffice.aspNeuer Markt / and its index Nemax https://deutsche-boerse.com/dbg-en/our-company/know-how/glossary/glossary-article/NEMAX-50-248782Trading Floor https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trading_floor.aspSWIFT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_for_Worldwide_Interbank_Financial_TelecommunicationHave a look at the other interview Joe refers to with IT SEAL:

https://www.startuprad.io/blog/it-seal-helps-companies-to-train-their-employees-in-cyber-security/

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This Month in German Startups - June 2020IntroToday we are going to talk about German startups, in the process of producing vaccines for Covid19, the potential accounting fraud at Wirecard, startups in Frankfurt, Munich, Cologne and Berlin, and the 110th Birthday of Konrad Zuse, the inventor of the modern-day computer.

Welcome to this month in German Startups by Startuprad.io - in a transatlantic news recording with Chris in New York City.

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 Housekeeping - Time to brag Now it is official, Startuprad.io passed several milestones. 

We reached more than 200.000 subscribers for our podcasts alone! 206.014 as of today! We count subscribers, who return at least once in 7 days to our RSS feed over 90 days.We managed to score more than 1.000 days in podcast charts (iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify, and Chartable), actually, we made 1.026 days so far. https://www.startuprad.io/blog/startuprad-io-ranked-now-in-33-countries-and-1-000-days-in-podcast-charts/We now scored with PR China, Croatia, and Singapore in three more countries and now we made it in 33 countries in their respective podcast charts. We are also a steady member of chartable.com’s science and tech podcast charts, for the US as well as globally. https://www.startuprad.io/blog/startuprad-io-ranked-now-in-33-countries-and-1-000-days-in-podcast-charts/And again we have several interviews and blog posts for you. We will also have on July 1st our first live stream after corona. https://www.meetup.com/Startup-Couch-TV-Talks/events/271395382/

 Coronavirus / Covid19 80% of Berlin-based startups see their very existence threatened by the coronavirus https://buff.ly/2UYMi3P CureVac is the first German biotech to receive a direct investment from the German government, an astonishing 300 mn Euros. The reason behind this is the Trump administration. You can learn in our blogpost how the story unfolded https://www.startuprad.io/blog/germanys-hope-for-coronavirus-vaccine-and-how-they-got-a-300-mn-euros-government-investment/Mainz-based BioNTech (we talk about them frequently) is the first company in Germany to start human trials for a Coronavirus vaccine: https://www.pfizer.com/news/press-release/press-release-detail/pfizer_and_biontech_dose_first_participants_in_the_u_s_as_part_of_global_covid_19_mrna_vaccine_development_program  Wirecard - This month’s top news in GermanyIntroWirecard is a company processing payments. The company works as an intermediary and guarantor between buyers and sellers and takes a commission on all transactions. They have about 5,000 employees and actually replaced Commerzbank (we will talk about them later) in DAX 30 (Germany's equivalent of the Dow Jones Industrial Average 30). They are the first “fintech” to achieve this.

The big problem now is that there are accounts missing, which should hold 1.9 b...

This Month in German Startups - May 2020If 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 recordings and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German.

 

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Together with our enabler, we are running a podcast called “Tech Startups Germany”, which will focus on startups at a Serie A stage or even more mature. You will also find all the videos we produce for this podcast on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/startupradio. This podcast is available directly on our device as an audio and video podcast. Yes, Startuprad.io makes the first downloadable video podcast. Find all options to subscribe here: 

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 Housekeeping - Time to brag The current situation looks a bit better, so we feel ok with a tiny bit of bragging :-) We made it in Russia's Apple Tech Podcast Charts (up to #121) and PR China Apple Tech Podcast Charts (up to #485). This gets the total to 30 countries!  We are also now on Patreon. If you like your podcast, become a patron! (www.patreon.com/startupradio)We published again some cool interviews, where we wanted to highlight especially this month’s interview with IDA, where we talk to the CEO and Co-Founder Hamedo Ayadi of Intelligence Data Analytics. At the start of the coronavirus outbreak, 70% of their employees worked related to aviation, which was completely stopped by one phone call. He tells the story of how they changed strategy fast to survive: https://www.startuprad.io/interviews/ida-pivoted-fast-during-corona-before-70-of-their-employees-worked-with-aviation-companies/ Coronavirus / Covid19German government approves the corona aid package for startups. A two billion fund will add to private funding from the package (30% private, 70% public) this is called „Corona-Matching-Fazilität“ (CMF). The package was put together quite fast since the first announcement has been in mid-April. https://buff.ly/2zFr4jL There will be another pillar, called “Startup-Schutzschild” (startup shield), which will assist the instruments of Germany’s 16 states for startups, who have no backing by investors yet. Related we found news about two of the measures of single states: Bavaria: LfA sets up a new loan program for small and very small enterprises - Munich Startup https://buff.ly/3c3MBkp Hamburg: They call their program InnoStartup - Hamburg Startups https://buff.ly/2zPOLpp (some more information in the Hamburg Hub section)Corona cases in Amazon logistics center in Winsen, Germany: Verdi demands to close the location https://buff.ly/3dipDGbGerman unicorns like Dreamlines, Flixbus, Getyourguide, Homelike, Hometogo, Omio, Tourlane and Trivago write an open letter to Google to get 75 mn € advertisement money back https://buff.ly/3f2rFMF  t...

Learn from an Indian-born entrepreneur, who raised 35 mn Euros Venture Capital in Germany"Hessen is the natural home for startups and entrepreneurs"

Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus

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Together with our enabler, we are running a podcast called “Tech Startups Germany”, which will focus on startups at a Serie A stage or even more mature. You will also find all the videos we produce for this podcast on our YouTube channel www.youtube.com/startupradio. This podcast is available directly on our device as audio and video podcast, yes, Startuprad.io makes the first downloadable video podcast. Find all options to subscribe here: 

Tech Startups Germany by Startuprad.io - Audio onlyiTunes https://apple.co/2Z17bflDeezer http://bit.ly/2Qbh1rlTuneIn http://bit.ly/2M8vpznStitcher http://bit.ly/34xTANOTech Startups Germany by Startuprad.io - VideoiTunes https://apple.co/2M8ZxKJ The Startup FounderOur interview partner is again Gunjan Bhardwaj (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gunjan-bhardwaj-b321a32/), not the actor. He is a former EY and BCG consultant, as well as a TED speaker. He likes to work a lot, so he is also the author of the book “Inside the Cockpit: Navigating the Complexity of Drug Development with AI and Blockchain” (https://amzn.to/2QYI1eL). 

“Frankfurt … it is the center of Europe, it is so super connected.”

Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus

 

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"Everybody has to chart his or her own course. I am a deep believer in instinct."

Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus

 

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“… but I also have to say that investors in this part of the world look at the long term picture … but once they are convinced, they are partners for the long term”

Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus

 

One Day Commute to New YorkOne of the things Gunjan likes about Frankfurt is its great connectivity. With the connections of Frankfurt Airport (IATA Code FRA, therefore know as Fraport) you can get on a plane, meet in New York in the afternoon and be back in Frankfurt early the next morning https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraport

 

Germany is one of the best places to start a company.

Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus Advice in FundraisingInnoplexus counts among its investors HCS (https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hcs-beteiligungsgesellschaft), as well as Christian Angermayer of Aperion (https://www.crunchbase.com/person/christian-angermayer), as well as EOS VC (https://vc.eos.io/partners/finlab/), the venture capital arm of Block.one.  According to a report by FAZ they have already raised 35 mn Euros and are looking for 40 million more (https://www.faz.net/aktuell/wirtschaft/unternehmen/start-up-innoplexus-ein-google-der-pharmabranche-16473990.html).

 

"No funding event is easy, but what is easy in life?"

Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus

 

Gunjan strongly recommends doing your due diligence, he likes to quote one of his teachers who said that assuming means "making an ass of you and me” 😊. He recommends you agree with your investor on a vision for the future of the company. The personal chemistry between an investor and a founder is especial...

This Month in German Startups - April 2020 

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 recordings and the articles we are quoting from there. Some of the source articles are in English, some are in German.

 

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Housekeeping - Time to bragA tiny bit of hope is back, so we do a bit a of bragging again:

Wow, the days around Easter have been AMAZING for Startuprad.io. We retained our position in Chartable's Global Top 100 Technology and Global Top 100 Science Charts, but we also entered the iTunes Technology Charts in Vietnam for the first time. Again in the US and UK welcomed us to their Apple Technology Podcast Charts again in the Top 200 https://twitter.com/startuprad_io/status/1252523750123352066

 

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Housekeeping - tracking startups we interviewed 

InvestSuite snaps up €2 million to grow its investment tools for banks and brokers https://buff.ly/3dQLGoy 

Learn more about them in the Startuprad.io interview here: https://buff.ly/2X960cG  (the interview was published on 18th of December 2018)

 

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#Funding in times of Corona#Government aid and direct loansGermany Announces €2 Billion St...

Meet Innoplexus the startup which fights ALL diseasesDespite the commonly held belief, I grew here faster in Germany than in the US or in the UK

Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus

 

Important information upfront – the Fight against Corona Virus / Covid19 For the corona virus, we not only have to flatten the curve, we have to flatten the disease.

Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus

 

Innoplexus grants free access to the research platform “Acceleration of Covid19 research:” https://coronavirus.ontosight.ai/

Here is the COVID19 Dashboard of Innoplexus: https://covid19.innoplexus.de/news

 

We are working on a completely new molecule to address the current and future coronavirus. The current problem with Corona will not stop. There will be further strains coming in.

Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus

 

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We fight all diseases. Right from the start, we wanted to provide an AI platform to solve all relevant problems in drug discovery and development.

Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus

 

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 The founderGunjan Bhardwaj (https://www.linkedin.com/in/gunjan-bhardwaj-b321a32/), not to be confused with the actor with the same name. His first enterprise was selling bean bags during university. He is a former consultant and a graduate of IIT Bombay, as well as a TED speaker. He enjoys a lot of work since he is also the author of the book “Inside the Cockpit: Navigating the Complexity of Drug Development with AI and Blockchain” (https://amzn.to/2QYI1eL). Surprisingly Gunjan is not a physician. He changed careers after one of his mentors became sick with cancer because he wanted to know about alternatives for treatments.

 

Medical Data doubles every 73 days. Medical data at the end of the year is more than 32 times at the beginning of the year.

Gunjan Bhardwaj – Founder and CEO Innoplexus

 

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Acomodeo helps companies to find serviced apartments worldwideThe EnablerThis is a video interview from our 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).

 

Our first clients know us and trust us, and they do these bookings [28.000 – 35.000 Euros] on a cell phone.

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We see that there are a lot of professional suppliers in the market and we digitize them. We make them online bookable.

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The FounderIn this interview for Invest-in-hessen.com we are talking to Eric-Jan Krausch (https://www.linkedin.com/in/ejkrausch/), Founder and CEO of Frankfurt-based proptech and business travel startup ACOMODEO (https://www.acomodeo.com/en-us/). Eric is born in Frankfurt and originally worked in a radio station. He even studied music business in Mannheim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popakademie_Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg).  He also worked for innovation departments at large and established companies. After that Eric became a freelancer, working as consultant for several companies.

 

Our global footprint is supported by our location in Frankfurt.

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The StoryEric developed the idea of Acomodeo together with his roommate, during his graduate studies. The company provides on its platform multinational companies with apartments all around the world. This is a great service for multinationals since they must provide housing for their employees on international assignments. One can book apartments on Acomodeo from four days to two years. The goal is to get the client a seamless travel experience, so the startup sees itself more like a startup in the travel industry (traveltech), rather than a property startup (proptech).

 

For a B2B startup this [Frankfurt] is a better location.

Eric-Jan Krausch during his Startuprad.io interview

 

Acomodeo vets the suppliers before they get on their platform. They focus on other points that a hotel platform would like the question: Is there a fully equipped kitchen, including a toaster?

 

 

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The Video Interview (this interview will go live on Thursday, March 19th 15.00 CET, 14.00 UK, 10 am ET)https://youtu.be/s25u8VrKw6Y

Further ReadingsCity of Mannheim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim

Napster (in case you never have heard of it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzbrVpG90yc

Deutsche Telekom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Telekom

German Accelerator Program (helped Acomodeo to start their New York Office): https://www.germanaccelerator.com/