Victoria has started her first company directly after university, since then has been working for two successful scale-ups demodesk and finn.auto and is currently about to start her next business. We talked about her insights from scale-ups, how to evaluate ideas and find the perfect team and the Munich entrepreneurial ecosystem.

In this episode, André showed us some quite interesting ways to run a startup. What helped their mission was to first assemble the team, and then start working on the product. By being in close contact with their customers, the team was able to shape their solution for their special needs. And lastly, one shouldn’t be too focused on “nailing” the product perfectly at first, but to get feedback, iterate, and grow together.

ProGlove builds efficient wearable barcode scanners, which improve logistic processes for more than 500 renowned organizations from industries like manufacturing, logistics, and aerospace. For that, the company has also been awarded as a Tech Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. In this episode, we‘ll be talking about their challenges in business and on a personal level. But we‘ll also get an understanding of their values and their decision-making process when tackling life in general.

Raphael has built up START Munich as a president together with Csaba and Ben in 2018 from 10 to 100 members and laid the foundation for it being one of the student initiatives with the highest amount of applicants in Germany. We talked with him about his path from studying design to his first steps in Munich's startup area, his START presidency year, current projects he's working on and several interesting and helpful anecdotes.

Welcome to the START Podcast! In this episode, our guest is Helmut Schönenberger, co-founder and CEO of UnternehmerTUM. We're talking about the early days of UTUM, its development to one of the largest entrepreneurial ecosystems in Europe and Mr. Schönenberger's personal journey along the way, current developments and all the reasons, why you should start pursuing your own project right now.

Climedo's mission is to bring the best treatment to every patient by empowering healthcare professionals with smart software solutions. Together with Europe's leading hospitals, Climedo has developed a cloud-based platform for cutting-edge clinical validation of medical devices and pharmaceutical products. By digitally connecting all stakeholders, Climedo allows for increased performance, better cost-efficiencies and accelerated medical innovation.

Website: https://climedo.de/en/

Career options: https://climedo.de/en/careers/

27pilots helps companies to benefit strategically from startups through a breakthrough corporate venturing tool: The Venture Client model. We're talking with the CEO and founder, Gregor Gimmy, to get some insights on his personal journey, as well as the development of the startup. Website: https://www.27pilots.com/

Stella Medical is a Munich-based startup, offering a user-friendly, small-size navigation system for spine stabilisation surgeries and was awarded with the TUM IDEAward 2020. We're talking with one of the founders, Laura Schütz, to get some insights on her personal journey, as well as the development of the startup.

Website: https://stella-medical.com

Please welcome our next guest - Nicolas Remerschied, the founding member of the TUM AI initiative. This student group aims to bring students and artificial intelligence together to solve real-world problems.

Nicolas reveals how they managed to get access to Elon Musk’s GPT3 program and also gives advice to students, who want to pursue the artificial intelligence track. Stay tuned!

- GPT3 Makeathon Website with all workshops, GPT3 Info, etc.: https://tum-ai.com/makeathon

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tum-ai

- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tum.ai_official/

From undefeated student project to state funded research project.

The START podcast is starting out its second season strong with strategy member and spokesperson of the TUM Hyperloop project: Ana Garcia! We'll get to know more about the project and technology behind it, her personal motivation to contribute to the project, its entrepreneurial journey from founding until today and the future challenges the team is tackling.