the Hundert Vol. 6 - Berlin Startups reaching for the Stars 2015 by NKF Media

NUMBER 06

BERLIN STARTUPS

REACHING FOR THE STARS With Jobspotting, OptioPay, Helpling, Number26, Kitchen Stories, eWings, Lesara, Marley Spoon, AppLift, ShareTheMeal, Priori Data, Cashboard, Deliveroo, Sonnenrepublik, ZipJet and 85 other great companies you cannot afford to miss! All photographed in Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s coolest locations.

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THE HUNDERT // FOREWORD

MICHAEL MÜLLER © SENATS VERWALT UNG FÜR S TADT EN T WICK LUNG UND UM WELT BER LIN/MARC O URBAN

MICHAEL MÜLLER HAS BEEN GOVERNING MAYOR OF BERLIN SINCE 11 DECEMBER 2014.

The first edition of The Hundert was published in 2013. Since then, Berlin’s startup ecosystem made another huge step forward. Berlin entered the club of the top ten startup cities worldwide. It surpassed London as the most attractive aim in Europe for VCs and had some impressive exits, such as 6Wunderkinder or Octreopharm. Therefore, the title of the sixth edition is not a wish or vision anymore, but is getting real: “Berlin Startups reaching for the Stars”. The startup hub Berlin grows, in size and success. More and more of the young corporates, such as Zalando or Wooga, employ hundreds or thousands of people and create new jobs. Growing startups reinvest in the creative infrastructure and help the next generation of founders and inventors. Last but not least, the innovative founders’ spirit and the creative talent has become one of the most important reasons for established corporates to invest in the German capital. The Senate of Berlin supports this development wherever it is possible. The recently founded Berlin Startup Unit works towards ideal conditions for founders and investors and a better exchange between startups and established corporates. Berlin`s Investment bank obtained more VC for seed financing. On the national level, Berlin is fighting for a better understanding of the startup needs. During my visit to the Part-Time Scientists some time ago, I learned that Berlin could be part of a moon mission, so maybe the next edition’s title has to be “Berlin Startups reached the moon”.

Yours

Michael Müller Governing Mayor of Berlin

HELPLING / P. 20

JOBSPOTTING / P. 22

BIGREP / P. 24

KITCHEN STORIES / P. 26

PARKU / P. 28

EWINGS / P. 44

APPLANGA / P. 46

FOREVERLY / P. 48

KAROSSO / P. 50

GOODNITY / P. 52

NUMBER26 / P. 70

EVERGREEN-FOOD / P. 72

ZIPJET / P. 74

DALIA RESEARCH / P. 76

BERLINSTARTUPOFFICES / P. 78

DESCAPE / P. 94

ELOPAY / P. 96

CAREERFOUNDRY / P. 98

CONTORION / P. 100

MINODES/ P. 102

PAULCAMPER / P. 118

COMATCH / P. 120

BOX AT WORK / P. 122

UNU / P. 124

SHARETHEMEAL / P. 126

CASHBOARD / P. 142

ROQ.AD / P. 144

SOMUCHMORE / P. 146

ONE MINUTE APP / P. 152

EINFACH DIREKT MEDIA / P. 154

PUBNATIVE / P. 168

OPTIOPAY / P. 170

TAILOR & TALES / P. 172

SIXTYONE MINUTES / P. 174

ROOM.ME / P. 176

TESTOBJECT / P. 192

LOOPLINE SYSTEMS / P. 194

RIVALFOX / P. 196

SWOCKET / P. 198

REMINTREX / P. 200

DECIDR / P. 214

VONCHURCH P. 216 DECIDR / P./ 214

TRUFFLS / P. 218

PICSASTOCK / P. 220

FOODORA / P. 222

LESARA / P. 240

HOMETOGO / P. 242

SPRYKER SYSTEMS / P. 244

ABEND / P. 246

REMERGE / P. 248

MAKERS / P. 32

DELIQAT / P. 34

KOAWACH / P. 36

APPLIFT / P. 38

PRO BOOKING / P. 40

CASENIO / P. 58

ROOM IN A BOX / P. 60

SERVICE PARTNER ONE / P. 62

SHOUTR LABS / P. 64

CARJUMP / P. 66

GET AMBER / P. 82

MYNIGMA / P. 84

LOCAFOX / P. 86

DELIVEROO / P. 88

3YOURMIND / P. 90

EINHORN / P. 106

DEINEHELFER24 / P. 108

SONNENREPUBLIK / P. 110

DATAPINE/ P. 112

FACTOR-E ANALYTICS / P. 114

STUDYDRIVE / P. 130

CLIPDUELL / P. 132

ASCRIBE / P. 134

PRIORI DATA / P. 136

LOCKBOX / P. 140

CONICHI / P. 156

FAIRR / P. 158

BOOKINGKIT / P. 160

SAVVIE / P. 162

WIRNACHBARN / P. 164

TANDEMPLOY / P. 180

WUNDERFLATS / P. 182

MARLEY SPOON / P. 184

TIME CHANGE / P. 186

POTETIALSPACES / P. 188

DISTRIBUSION GO-POPUP TECHNOLOGIES / P. 202 / P. 111

BITBOND / P. 204

BUDDYGUARD / P. 208

TEAMPLACE / P. 210

DISTRIBUSION TECHNOLOGIES / P. 212

PERDOO / P. 228

PHIZZARD / P. 230

NEXTSOCIAL / P. 232

PAPRCUTS / P. 234

JUNIQUE / P. 236

CLARK / P. 252

MONOQI / P. 254

LEINENTAUSCH / P. 256

CAGEBOT INDUSTRIES / P. 258

JUICE DUDES / P. 260

DEAR READER, Here we are again! One year and a half after our first issue of “the Hundert – Berlin Startups reaching for the Stars”, we are very proud to present the complete new 2015 edition. Just like last year, we introduce one hundred remarkable Startups from Berlin. This task could not be easier, yet it could not be more difficult. Easy, because the startup scene in Berlin surely is one of the fastest growing ecosystems in the world. It is in the process of overtaking London‘s reputation as the Online- Metropolis of Europe. Statistics show that there is a new startup founded daily in Berlin. Many of them are definitely “reaching for the Stars”! However, that is precisely the difficult part: Once more, we could certainly not choose all those that would have deserved it. As always, we were spoilt for choice. At „the Hundert“, the name speaks for itself!

This leads me to the most important part of this text. You are holding this magazine because Katarzyna Oldziejewska made its accomplishment her personal mission to Mars. She invested her utmost commitment, meticulous care, enthusiasm and passion. Dear Kata, you are our tower of strength and always the warrantor of an awesome creation. Enormous gratitude for this unbelievable, almost superhuman dedication. Many thanks also to the team that supported you in such a fantastic manner: Simona Luhova and Miriam Banerjee. Together, you took care once again that this issue of the Hundert is the best ever produced. Now, enough of the preamble. Curtain up for one hundred fabulous young enterprises in one hundred of Berlin‘s most beautiful places. Enjoy a lot and until next time, Yours, Jan Thomas

This is why we had to choose one hundred exemplary startups among countless recommendations, applications and personal favorites. A colorful bunch resulted from this which represents, in our view, the present generation of startups in Berlin. Of course, the level of innovation is quite varied among these companies. We purposefully did not concentrate upon the tech-scene, since our goal is to be a forum to all innovation sectors. We hope to have achieved this. As always in the Hundert, it must be remarked that the list is not a rating and the sequence of appearance is not a ranking. This time, we wanted something special to stage our startups: Street Photography is the watchword! We wanted to grab Berlin‘s atmosphere and show the world what it is that makes the city so special. Simply the Berlin flair. This is why we took one hundred startups to one hundred different locations, well-known or not. Hence, this issue of the Hundert is a sort of visual declaration of love to one of the world‘s most beautiful metropolis. Simultaneously, this issue is our most comprehensive one. With almost 300 pages, it is the most extensive one to date. It resembles, in a positive way, the telephone book of a mid-sized city. This can give an idea of the amount of work, sweat and passion that went into the production.

PS – If you are wondering how you can support this ambitious project: you can download the magazine for free at: www.the-hundert.com. We would appreciate your feedback and, in particular, your recommendations sent via E-mail, Facebook or Twitter. Make sure to inform your good friends and colleagues. Our kindest thanks in advance!

TABLE OF CONTENTS 07 Foreword, Michael Müller 08 Startup overview 10 Introduction 12 Statements 42 Tennis-point’s ace in the multichannel commerce game 56 The startup engine in Berlin is revving up 69 It does not work without a venture network

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Shaping the bank of tomorrow together Tidy the house up The big Fernsehturm contest Building Berlin’s future Klaus Siegers, Weberbank How startups and established businesses benefit from deep engagement, and both win Found as a team and love what you do

264 The Hundert at events 270 European coworking partners 272 Network partners 274 Photographers 278 Making of 280 Hey Startups / eywalk 282 Nkf team 284 Thank you / Media partner 286 100 Berlin locations 288 Imprint

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THE HUNDERT // STATEMENTS

FIRST WE TAKE BERLIN WHAT SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS APPRECIATE ABOUT THE CITY AND WHY IT IS THE PERFECT LOCATION FOR THEIR STARTUP

JENS BEGEMANN

JOHANNES RECK

Founder and CEO of Wooga

CEO of GetYourGuide

At Wooga, more than 250 people from over 40 nations develop successful mobile games. Besides our company culture, the fact that we are based in Berlin plays an important role when international talents choose a career at Wooga. Berlin is a very open and creative city with a unique culture scene. This combines with the fact that it is also affordable compared to other cosmopolitan cities, making the Berlin games industry even more attractive to our employees.

There is no other European city where the tech scene is as alive and thriving as in Berlin. Ten years ago, no one would have dared to dream that this city will one day be home to such a big scene of young entrepreneurs. The city is a unique magnet for high calibre international talent, yet very affordable and with a high quality of living. I am very proud to be part of the budding ecosystem that is certainly going to shape Germany and Europe for the decades to come.

IJAD MADISCH Co-founder and CEO of Research Gate

Berlin buzzes with passion, creativity and an almost radical openness: to new ideas, partners and even competitors. Therefore, moving Onefootball from Bochum to Berlin in 2010 was a „nobrainer“. The atmosphere in Berlin is electric, drawing top minds from across the globe and creating an environment where creativity and innovation flourish. It seems that everyone in the city is working on something mindboggling. At Onefootball, we are proud to be part of such a talented community. The dynamics of Berlin inspire us and fuel our passion to build the best mobile football platform in the world.

In Berlin, I appreciate its people most of all. Back in 2010, when we first moved here, the city already had a budding startup scene that attracted talent from all over the globe. Yet, it lacked this one world-changing company to take it to the next level. That was and is a great advantage for us. People moving here are hungry to work on something big. This sets Berlin apart from Silicon Valley. There, many people had been part of successful businesses but had lost their eagerness. Berlin has a lot to offer to make these people stay here. In my case, I like sports, beach volleyball in particular, arts and culture and Berlin is great for that.

PHOTO: GENE GLOVER/R ESEARCHGAT E

LUCAS VON CRANACH Founder and CEO of Onefootball

ALEXANDER KUDLICH

ROBERT GENTZ

Member of the Rocket Internet SE Board and Group Managing Director

Founder and Member of the Zalando Management Board As one of the most vibrant cities in Europe, Berlin attracts people from all over the world. Opening our business in Berlin was a highly strategic decision and, to be honest, one of the best my co-founder David Schneider and I made when establishing Zalando in 2008. We knew: Only in this unique ecosystem would we be able to find Europe’s most talented people in fashion, marketing and technology. Today, Zalando employs people from over 100 nations and this truly international team is the key to our success.

The constant growth and change in Berlin continually inspires us. When I think about Berlin’s entrepreneurial culture, I see a city that is open to new things, new ideas and new people. We are not wedded to one particular ideal or way of doing things. It is the mindset that gives this city its unique creativity. Berlin is perfect for us because it is the most exciting tech environment in Europe right now. There are so many reasons to base a company in Berlin, but the most important for us is the daily access to such a breadth of knowledge, skills, backgrounds and ideas.

LEA-SOPHIE CRAMER Founder and Managing Director of Amorelie

Berlin is a never ending playground! You find inspiration and adventures anywhere you look. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dynamic startup and creative scene attracts talented people from all over the world that come to work here. That is great for us since we cater to men in eight different countries and we always look for new recruits for our very international team. Another incentive is that the standard of living is rather high: Compared to other European capitals, it is still inexpensive; there are plenty of cultural offers and it is the greenest city in Europe.

Berlin is the perfect city to be in for Amorelie: it is open-minded, international and creative. It also has reasonable living expenses, attracts great young talent and is still down to earth. Due to the large number of varied startups, there is easy access to further learning and development through lunch dates, networking events and more. The high density of incubators, VCâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and startups indicate the vibrant and growing entrepreneurial spirit of Berlin.

PHOTO: SEBAS TIAN D ONATH

ANNA ALEX Founder and Managing Director of Outfittery

FLORIAN MEISSNER

JAN BECKERS

Co-founder and CEO of EyeEm

Founder and CEO of Hitfox Group

My co-founders Gen, Ramzi, Lorenz and I always knew Berlin was the perfect place to start our company. We think everything from the creative vibe and supportive and thriving ecosystem, to the talented workers and the great cost of living make Berlin a great choice when it comes to starting a business. Recently, we opened an office in San Francisco and we also spend a lot of time in the UK. However, Berlin is very much our home, and we could not have picked a better starting point for our global community.

There is always a bottleneck that is encountered when building great products and successful companies: Talent. Berlin is the place to attract some of the greatest minds of our generation: smart founders, tech masterminds, experienced entrepreneurs and young talent. It is known that great people attract even more great people. HitFox is receiving over 1000 applications per month. The ecosystem has grown strong over the years, and this is just the beginning. The potential for tech innovation is huge and the city is exciting, always changing and looking out for what comes next.

THE HUNDERT // STATEMENTS

GARY LIN CEO of glispa

Back in 2007, we founded Babbel in Berlin with just four people. Eight years on, we have an international team of over 350 working on a truly global product from offices in Berlin and New York. We grew up in Berlin. The style, diversity and overall vibe of the place had a huge impact on Babbel, and had we set up anywhere else, I think we’d be a very different company today. We also gained a lot in those early days from an emerging ecosystem of successful startups – both in terms of inspiration and infrastructure. In turn, we hope that the next generation of startups can follow our lead in turning Berlin’s unique climate into real innovation and international success.

Berlin was the perfect city in which to launch glispa, and is still the best place to continue to grow the company. This is a global nexus of highly educated professionals, culture and creativity, so it is not surprising that Berlin is also home to one of Europe’s most dynamic economies. With a much more diverse community than Silicon Valley, Berlin has emerged as a melting pot of international cultures and innovative industries — and these attributes contribute together to the ideal ecosystem for discovering top talent. Today, glispa employs 150 amazing people representing 40 nationalities and speaking 24 languages. Still, we look forward to hiring the best Berlin has to offer as we continue to grow our team.

PHOTO: MARIA HENNIG

MARKUS WITTE Founder and CEO of Babbel

ERIC WAHLFORSS

CHRISTIAN REBER

Co-founder and CTO of SoundCloud

Founder and CEO of 6Wunderkinder

Berlin is a very creative space with a diverse pool of talent, both in terms of developers as well as in arts and design. We sometimes refer to the general attitude as ‘Punk meets Tech’, to describe the alternative lifestyle feel of ‘going your own way’ that is present in the city. This is one of the elements that make Berlin different from other start-up communities and a perfect location for our company. We are proud to be a part of this infectious air of optimism and determination.

Berlin is perfect in many ways for tech entrepreneurs because of its low costs, high living standards and fantastic infrastructure. If you want to start something in Europe, Berlin is the place to be. The city has gained an impressive reputation over the last 10 years. The community has also greatly matured over the last years, it is very easy to get help from other designers, developers and founders. However, there is still room for growth. I believe Berlin is in its early days while the next 10 years will see big and positive changes in the ecosystem.

THE HUNDERT // STATEMENTS

ALEXANDER ZACKE Founder and CEO of Auctionata

Berlin is a vibrant and dynamic city, enticing talented international people from around the globe to embark here upon a new career journey. At Delivery Hero, we pride ourselves in being a multicultural workforce with employees from over 53 different nationalities and more than 20 different languages spoken. We employ people from different cultures, perspectives and approaches to shape our business and help lead our mission of: ‘the easiest way to your favorite food’. This makes us special and a success to this day. The creative and lively spirit of Berlin, rich in culture and continuously transforming are also qualities that inspire and shape the spirit of our company.

The spirit of Berlin and its start-up environment are extraordinary. No other European city attracts more creative, smart and energetic people – the most important resource for a successful start-up. Moreover, the art scene in Berlin is dynamic, diverse and there is everything from antiques to young, contemporary artists. This variety allows you to make the right contacts and serves as an inspiration for Auctionata as an organization. We are more than happy that we decided to pick Berlin as a location for our company. Without Berlin, Auctionata would not be the same.

PHOTO: GENE GLOVER/R ESEARCHGAT E

NIKLAS ÖSTBERG Co-founder and CEO of Delivery Hero

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FLORIAN HEINEMANN Co-founder and CEO of Project A Ventures The Berlin startup ecosystem is constantly growing. First, the city still attracts ever more talented and creative people from all over the world. The same is true for (new) startups and investors from other ecosystems. The whole startup industry is becoming increasingly interconnected, especially in Europe. In addition, the costs for operating a company remain at a very competitive level. Finally, there is a growing interest on the part of the government and the Old Economy on the digitalization and startups trend. This might further improve the current situation of Berlin as one of Europe’s digital industry “hot spots”. For us as an early-stage investor and company builder, it is important to be an integral of this ecosystem and to provide our startups with the best platform to develop into sustainably successful businesses. 18

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AWAKENING BERLIN SEPTEMBER 12

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THE HUNDERT // HOME SERVICES

Helpling is the leading global online platform for on-demand home services. On the website or the mobile app, customers can book a vetted and insured cleaner in a couple of clicks. Helpling provides assistance in your daily routine, giving back your valuable free time. The cleaners receive access to a large pool of potential clients in their neighborhood and the flexibility to decide when and where they want to work. Helpling was founded by Benedikt Franke and Philip Huffmann in January 2014. Benedikt and Philip have known each other since they were eight years old and Helpling is already the second company they have built together. Today, Helpling has more than 400 employees and offers its services in 14 countries across the Americas, Europe, Asia and the Pacific. In only one year, Helpling has served more than 150,000 households and has raised more than EUR 56,5M in funding. Helplingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ambition is to become the household name for domestic services and the leading brand in its field.

PHOTO GRAPHER: SASKIA UPPENKAMP

WWW.HELPLING.COM

No one has ever claimed to love job hunting and that is a real pity. Jobspotting is a data-driven job discovery engine seeking to change this. Through its custom-developed Skills Graph and using semantic analysis, classification algorithms and user feedback, Jobspotting recommends the most relevant jobs and companies. Their vision is to organize the world’s recruitment market so that finding a job may become an exciting and inspirational experience. With close to 100,000 tracked companies in their database, they currently serve almost 10,000 new jobs to users each day. Founded in Berlin by three ex-“Googlers“ (Jan Backes, Hessam Lavi, Manuel Holtz) and a former „Axel Springerite“ (Robin Haak), Jobspotting was launched in January 2015 in the UK and Germany. What comes next? Jobspotting will expand globally to make a painless job search available to professionals world-wide. WWW.JOBSPOTTING.COM 24

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Neue Heimat started out as the „Berlin Village Market“ in summer 2014 on the RAW compound. It has quickly transformed into a versatile hoopla. The offer includes street food markets, nightdesigner-markets, flea markets, festivals, music, dancing... basically everything your heart and stomach desires. www.neueheimat.com 25

PHOTO GRAPHER: ANA SANTL

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Founded in 2014, BigRep is the market and technological leader for large-scale serial 3D printing, aiming to revolutionize design, prototyping and industrial production from the core. With a volume of more than 1m³//35.31ft³, BigRep One.2 – the current product line – is the largest FFF (Fused Filament Fabrication) printer available on the world market at the moment, thus bridging the gap between 3D printers designed for modelling and industrial use. WWW.BIGREP.COM

THE HUNDERT // 3D PRINTING

PPHOTO GRAPHER: ANA SANTL

Scube Park Neukölln offers unique sleeping cubes of 9m² for a nature getaway right in the middle of the city. Guests may enjoy a panoramic view from their cube or hang out in the common room, BBQ area or beer garden. www.scubepark.berlin

PHOTOGRAPHER: FRANZ GRÜNEWALD

THE HUNDERT // MOBILE APPLICATIONS

KITCHEN STORIES ANYONE CAN COOK

Markthalle IX is one of three indoor markets still existing in Berlin. In 2009, an initiative was formed to prevent a sale of the building and to revive the historic hall as an epicenter for the neighborhood. They succeeded and today there are weekly markets, themed markets and street food days. www.markthalleneun.de

With inspiring videos, step-by-step photo instructions and practical How To‘s – localized in 12 languages – Kitchen Stories brings delicious food back to home kitchens around the world. Since its launch, the mobile application has generated more than 6 million downloads and was named “Best New App“ by Apple in more than 120 countries. Starting early 2015, users may join the Kitchen Stories Family to add their own delicious creations, collect their favorite recipes and share them with others. Kitchen Stories‘ vision is to become the leading brand for cooking – offering inspirational premium content to connect food lovers around the world. WWW.KITCHENSTORIES.DE

THE HUNDERT // PARKING SERVICES

parku is a parking service that allows a more efficient utilization of parking spaces by bringing together parking space owners and car drivers in a digital marketplace. Parking operators, companies and private persons with temporarily unused parking spaces can use this platform to advertise and increase their utilization. To benefit from a guaranteed parking space, car drivers can use the parku app or website to book these conveniently located parking spaces instantly or up to 30 days in advance. The innovative parku SESAM technology enables them to open gates using their smartphone. Founded in 2012 in Germany, parku was initially tested in Switzerland. Fueled by the success, the idea was exported into startup mecca Berlin at the end of 2013. â&#x20AC;&#x153;By now parku advertises 5000 parking spaces in more than 14 cities in Germany and Switzerland and keeps expanding throughout Europeâ&#x20AC;?, says Christian Oldendorff, founder, investor and CEO of parku.

PHOTO GRAPHER: SASKIA UPPENKAMP

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The Brandenburger Tor is over 200 years old. It was a symbol of division until 1989 when it opened to a cheering crowd of more than 100.000 people. Damaged in reunification celebrations, it was restored to be a center of city events again.

MAKERS A COMMUNITY OF PEOPLE THAT ENJOY BUILDING STARTUPS

Makers is one of Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s most active company builders. Founded in 2013 by serial-entrepreneurs Friedrich A. Neuman and Marius Schulze, Makers has already tested 42 ideas and started 8 companies including IconPeak, Cashboard and Run a Shop which count more than 80 employees and have generated revenue of 37 million during the first two years. When asked about the secret of their success, Neuman or Schulze will certainly emphasize two things: acting as a community and their methodical, iterative way of building companies. Makers understands itself as a community of founders, experts and investors that are hands-on and love to share best practices, invest in a vision, sketch ideas, work on product strategy and fight for customer traction. Founders benefit not only from seed capital, but also get access to startup incorporation and accounting, office space, press relations, online marketing and product designs. WWW.MAKERS.DO

PHOTO GRAPHER: SASKIA UPPENKAMP

THE HUNDERT // COMPANY BUILDER

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THE HUNDERT // DIGITAL FO OD MARKETING

Warschauer Street crosses the railroad track installation at Warschauer Bridge, built in 1875. It is a hotspot for both locals and tourists thanks to its surroundings filled with many clubs, the RAW temple, Urban Spree and the popular Simon-Dach Street with its many pubs and restaurants.

PHOTO GRAPHER: SASKIA UPPENKAMP

DELIQAT

THE DIGITAL MARKETING SPECIALIST FOR SALES PROMOTIONS FROM SUPERMARKETS AND FOOD BRANDS

deliqat was founded by Igor and Florian in March 2014. Igor is a former investment banker and private equity manager. Florian worked before in the consulting and finance industry. They are united by many common interests, especially their passion for cooking. deliqat combines the mega trends “cooking” and “saving” in an innovative way: Saving money, buying fresh food and cooking delicious meals was never so easy. Every dish contains discounted products from local supermarket leaflets. “Smart spenders” can save twice as much with cashbacks. Within the last year, the deliqat team has worked hard to build the groundwork with a unique algorithm and an experienced, motivated team. In May 2015, deliqat finished the beta and relaunched the website. In the last three months, deliqat started cooperations with more than 30 of the most popular food blogs in the DACH-region and increased the number of recipes up to 1k. Now, it is time to invest in marketing and expand the business with strong strategic partners! WWW.DELIQAT.DE

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koawach is the first brand of delicious energy cacao powder, a 100% natural fair trade innovation. The chocolaty alternative to coffee is made from fine Latin American cacao and contains the energy of guarana, a caffeine-containing plant from Brazil. koawach offers six different flavors: four containing guarana and two without it. Transparent and direct trade as well as organic farming is part of koawachâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s company culture. With this view, they want to contribute to the protection of the environment and the realization of better working and living standards in the source countries. The founders of koawach have a passion for sustainable products and for Latin America. Daniel Duarte is Colombian and Heiko Butz studied in that country. In summer 2013, they started creating the first drinking chocolates in their own student kitchen. In 2014, they founded koakult GmbH, owner of koawach. Today, koawach is available in more than 200 stores and cafĂŠs all over Germany and online. WWW.KOAWACH.DE

PHOTO GRAPHER: SASKIA UPPENKAMP

THE HUNDERT // FO OD & BEVERAGE

AppLift is an advertising technology platform empowering mobile advertisers to acquire quality users for their apps on a global scale. The company was founded in August 2012 by Tim Koschella, Kaya Taner and the HitFox Group. Since then, it has raised 15 million euros and grown to a multinational company of 200 people spread across 7 offices on 3 different continents. AppLift currently works with more than 500 app advertisers from all verticals. Since the start, it has developed a proprietary technology to improve the accuracy, relevance and efficiency of mobile advertising. In particular, a strong focus was set on performance, by optimizing the lifetime value of the users delivered. Last May, AppLift complemented its offering through the acquisition of Bidstalk, a technologyfirst startup based in Singapore and specialized in programmatic mobile media buying. The company plans to keep on improving its technology and bolstering its position as a leading global adtech player. WWW.APPLIFT.COM

APPLIFT PHOTO GRAPHER: FRANZ GRĂ&#x153;NEWALD

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The Caffetteria Buchhandlung was a book store in GDR times and was turned into a communal kitchen and concert venue in 1990 by the East Berliner house squatting scene. Ten years later, after refurbishing, the current cafĂŠ opened its doors under the motto Cantina Sociale, a multicultural artistic cafĂŠ. www.caffetteria-buchhandlung.kunstzeit.eu

THE HUNDERT // BIG DATA

SO CI AL SC HE DU LIN G We all have appointments, all the time. The internet has revolutionized everyday interaction, but to date there is no truly interconnected social scheduling. Pro Booking stands for appointment-based communication and much more: cross-system import and export of all popular planner formats, fully automatic booking, payment processing, integration of to-do lists, audio and video messaging and social media. Founded by Roman Dyrschka and Marek Wiesner with the ambition of creating a completely new and intuitive user experience, Pro Booking now covers all aspects of appointment coordination via app (iOS/Android) and web. "We only started coding after analyzing the subject thoroughly for two years. No more time-consuming phone calls, e-mails or text messaging: Pro Booking is the perfect solution for service providers who prefer to arrange, postpone or cancel appointments efficiently and reliably". The future of social scheduling is called Pro Booking and cannot be cancelled. WWW.PROBOOKING.DE

PHOTO GRAPHER: FRANZ GRÜNEWALD

Located in a former Berlin Transport Authority gatehouse, the restaurant Café Pförtner attracts many customers with its charming and comfortable DIY atmosphere. A cool addition to the outdoor seating is a decommissioned bus with several small tables. Especially popular are the homemade pastas. www.pfoertner.co

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Tennis-Point seeks to keep an upbeat pace in this daily multichannel commerce game as well as 100% annual growth by scaling up to more than 3000 daily orders. To achieve this, it decided to train its backhand professionally and got a capable sparring partner to improve its skills: UNIORG with the SAP Business One® applications. ‘By just clicking on one button, we can track every single payment and get all accounting information at our fingertips’ says Christian Miele, CEO of Tennis-Point. Eliminating all the headaches caused by old or insufficient data, the system supports the company‘s growth plans and Tennis-Point can fully concentrate on its core business.

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eWings.com provides easy and fast flight booking and managing for companies. Imagine the comfort of having full control over your flight booking itinerary regardless of the airline. Imagine the soothing feeling of always being sure to have the best price. Now, imagine having all this and still save real money with every booking â&#x20AC;&#x201C; thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s eWings.com. WWW.EWINGS.COM

The Berlin Wall Memorial is centrally located at the historic site of Bernauer StraĂ&#x;e and follows 1.4â&#x20AC;&#x2030;km of the original border strip. The historical remains not only remind visitors of the harsh division of the country but also the development it has gone through since. www.berliner-mauer-gedenkstaette.de

PHOTO GRAPHER: ANA SANTL

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Applanga automates all steps of app localization. It was founded in 2014 by Christian Stanke and Steffen Rรถmer who have been working together in leading positions at several mobile app, gaming, payment and marketing startups. They managed to secure funding from Axel Springer and HTGF. Contrary to the outdated and often messy file-based approach commonly used in software translation, Applanga offers automated text extraction, on-device testing and over-theair updates paired with powerful online editing features. The platform enables even basic users to manage, test, and fix localizations in live apps. This drastically improves app quality while reducing time to market as well as developer and QA time spent on otherwise manual and repetitive tasks. Today, it is already in use by known developers and game publishers. Applanga is currently expanding its reach by adding more customers and platforms to become the go-to solution for modern app localization. WWW.APPLANGA.COM

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The first buildings around Hermannplatz were apartments which developed on both sides of the square in 1860. They were demolished in the 1920s to make room for the subway station and the department store Karstadt. Redesigned in the 1980s, it now features a bronze statue and weekly markets.

PHOTO GRAPHER: FRANZ GRÜNEWALD

THE HUNDERT // MARKETPLACE

FOREVERLY ONLINE MARKETPLACE AND SERVICES OFFERS FOR BRIDES-TO-BE

Launched in March 2015 by Jen Browarczyk, Foreverly has grown to display the products and services of over 1,000 vendors and seen over 70,000 brides enter its searchable pages every month. Although wedding-planning can be an enormous headache, brides can now blissfully browse through more than 1,000 relevant and vetted options about wedding trends and tips. They can also get support from a surprisingly active brideto-be community. Couples search by cities and easily turn inspiration into reality, finding and securing the local suppliers best suited to their tastes, price level, and whim. A fun fact: Did you know that in Germany, over 1,000 people get married per day! With each couple spending an average of € 15,000 on “the best day of their lives”, that amounts to over € 15 mil generated daily in Germany by the wedding industry alone. Foreverly operates in the DACH region – giving brides (and their better halves) access to everything they need for that perfect day, in one simple place. WWW.FOREVERLY.DE

On the site of former Reichsbahn repair workshop, the RAW temple spreads out over 8.000 m². It is located in the commuting area of Warschauer Street. Organized by registered society RAW Tempel e.V., it is a space for intercultural projects, exhibitions and markets, as well as several bars and clubs. www.raw-tempel.de

PHOTO GRAPHER: ANA SANTL

R A K Karosso is a two-sided marketplace, connecting trustful buyers and sellers. For sellers, Karosso checks the cars for technical and optical issues while offering a better price than the dealer. Buyers can buy certified cars online, being delivered to their homes with the additional advantage of a one-year warranty. Sellers get more and buyers pay less for the same services as at the local dealer due to centralization and savings in overheads. Karosso erases all the pain found in existing platforms and guarantees quality checks, fixed prices, free delivery, and handling all the paperwork. The company was founded by Johannes Stoffel, Sebastian Specht and Victor Thoma in January 2015 and operates in Germany. By the end of the year, Karosso will be available also beyond the border. It has never been easier before to buy and sell your car. Join the used car marketplace of the 21st century.

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For over 25 years, the area around Moritzplatz was wasteland until the initiative Nomadic Green turned it into a beautiful green garden. Now, locals and neighbors come together in the â&#x20AC;&#x17E;Prinzessinnengartenâ&#x20AC;&#x153; to learn about organic and sustainable living or just enjoy a drink at the container bar. www.prinzessinnengarten.net

Goodnity is a Berlin based mobile app company that offers an innovative approach to child sponsorship: Answering market research questions enables anyone to make donations to support a child of their choosing at no cost. Founded in 2015 by three WHU (Ottoman Beisheim School of Management) graduates, it is possible since July to sponsor underprivileged children while developing global market research space. Companies pay for insights into users’ opinion and Goodnity donates a fixed amount per answered question. Goodnity only works with accredited charities that manage the sponsorship programs. The for-profit business model connects long term engaged users with market research giants that are interested in collecting research from a highly involved, socially active user base. The founding team has a background in consulting, mobile apps and charitable organizations. Goodnity’s vision is to become the go-to app for charitable engagement on mobile phones. Distribution outside of Germany is planned for 2016.

PHOTO GRAPHER: FRANZ GRÜNEWALD

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Frankfurter Tor is a small square in Friedrichshain. It got its name from the Frankfurt Gate, which was actually located 800m further west before being demolished in 1867. At the western side of the square, you can see two high-rises with domes which actually look like a city gate.

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THE STARTUP ENGINE IN BERLIN IS REVVING UP – WITH THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS AT THE FOREFRONT OF EUROPE The startup scene in Berlin is pulsating. The capital’s startup motor is energizing Berlin with more and more momentum every day. Berlin or London? This is the question insiders, observers and investors are all asking. Both startup cities in Europe are running a tough head-to-head race, and for the first time Berlin is ahead in investments: according to an analysis by the industry service Dow Jones VentureSource for Die Welt, Berlin has collected significantly more venture capital than London in the last year with $2.2 billion. The British competitors only reached $1.5 billion. “Berlin is already a leading location of the digital economy in Germany and Europe with a booming startup scene, innovative medium-sized companies and internationally established players. The number of ICT companies and employees in the IT sector has allowed the State of Berlin to take a dominant position in Germany,“ said Cornelia Yzer, Senator for Economics, Technology and Research. This greatly benefits the business location of Berlin as a whole: growth is above the national average, employment figures are rising and about 40,000 people come from outside the city every year.

The Berlin toolbox offers young entrepreneurs everything they need to successfully establish their business: the necessary startup capital, an exemplary research landscape and experienced entrepreneurs who are open to partnerships. “The best part of two worlds comes together in Berlin: both new and established industries and creative founders with digital expertise. This mixture attracts companies from around the world to the German capital,” says Dr. Stefan Franzke, CEO of Berlin Partner for Business and Technology. The fact that the success stories of the Berlin founders cannot be told in a few quick sentences is demonstrated by the initial public offerings (IPO) of startup stars Zalando and Rocket Internet. They have shown how Berlin startups can forge their way to the top. The topic of “startups and founding a company” is one of the top priorities on the political agenda: the climate in the capital region is very positive for startups. The Senate Department for Economics, Technology and Research optimizes the general framework for entrepreneurial activity, develops strategies, and provides numerous types of support for funding, networking, collaboration, marketing and internationalization. Berlin Partner for Business and Technology supports successful inward investment in the c apital region, consults new companies on a range of subjects including applications for funding, recruiting talent and finding suitable real estate. The Berlin Partner network also provides outstanding opportunities for networking among startups, established local companies, businesses and policy makers. The state of Berlin initiated the Berlin Startup-Unit together with partners from business, science and the startup scene. The unit is based in the premises of Berlin Partner for Business and Technology. Its members are from local and national politics, business support agencies, science, associations and company founders. The Berlin Startup-Unit’s mission is to develop and implement startup initiatives and projects as partnerships with all of the players involved. For more information visit: www.berlin-partner.de/berlin-startup-unit

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Room in a Box is a two-year-old startup which focuses on furniture made of paper based materials. The teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s goal is to offer a new way of living by designing ultra-portable furniture sets sent to their customers via standard parcel services. The furniture can be easily moved the same way and comes ready to use right out of the box. The products target the young and mobile generation which can appreciate beautiful, well-designed and ultra-portable furniture. In June 2014, the team launched their first product successfully, a cardboard bed which won multiple awards and is about to be patented. Gerald came up with the idea in late 2010 after having sat on a cardboard chair which led to the conceptâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s first draft. Together with Lionel, he improved the ideas and was able to obtain first funding in January 2013. Joined by Christian, the highly motivated team pursues the vision of producing the most eco-friendly and flexible furniture. WWW.ROOMINABOX.DE

The old carpet factory (Teppichfabrik) is a typical industrial-style building from the 19th century, now used as a varied event space. It includes a garden, access to the Spree and a grand view perfect for weddings, exhibitions, concerts, workshops and much more. It was a venue for the TOA technology festival in 2015. www.toa.berlin

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PHOTO GRAPHER: FRANZ GRÜNEWALD

SERVICE PARTNER ONE

THE FIRST SMART DIGITAL OFFICE MANAGEMENT AND SERVICE COMPANY IN EUROPE Service Partner One was founded in spring 2015 in Berlin-Kreuzberg and is on a mission to make offices across Europe a more enjoyable place to work in. Their tool of choice is the first digital solution to manage all services surrounding the modern office: conveniently scheduled cleanings, the ordering of supplies, fresh fruits, beverages or even handymen services, just by a tap on the free iPad â&#x20AC;&#x201C; directly installed in the customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; offices. They achieve this simplification by bundling the best service partners and connecting them to the offices in a curated marketplace model. Service Partner One was founded by Sven Hock, Nadine Capoen and Jonas C. Blauth and has gathered a team of currently 25 service enthusiasts. Combining passion with excellent operations, they are already serving more than 100 offices in Berlin, Munich and Hamburg and will be expanding further soon. In order to continue this rapid growth, Service Partner One is supported by Rheingau Founders and international BAs. WWW.SERVICEPARTNER.ONE 64

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Potsdamer Platz began as a trading post in 1685. Severely damaged during World War II and then divided by the Berlin Wall, Potsdamer Platz was desolate for 28 years. After large reconstruction efforts made in the 1990s, it is now a bustling tourist attraction and home to many malls, offices and hotels. www.potsdamerplatz.de

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Shoutr labs, CeBIT‘s Innovation Award winners of 2014, have started 2015 by stirring up the museum and exhibition market. Now hailing from Cleantech Innovation Center Marzahn, they have used the facility‘s well-equipped workshop to build their shoutr. Boxxes, the location-based digital content distribution system that makes buildings smart: With the shoutr. Boxx system, venues can stream high-volume data such as videos and multimedia to their visitor‘s smartphones – location-based with a few meters accuracy. This enables them to create unique guide systems and indoor localization solutions. Founders Ronald Liebermann, Benjamin Werner, Sebastian Winkler and Christian Beier have so far managed to acquire as customers the Tutankhamun exhibition in Munich as well as several museums in Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland. Next on the agenda of the three-tech-plus-one-sales-guy team is equipping even more museums, exhibitions and showrooms and to evolve the shoutr. Boxx system into a wholly new digital approach to curating exhibitions. WWW.SHOUTRLABS.COM 66

THE HUNDERT // SMART BUILDINGS

The current Naturkundemuseum situated in Invalidenstraße was opened in 1889. It now houses more than 30 million specimen including the largest mounted dinosaur in the world, the Brachiosaurus as well as the world famous Archaeopterix. In 2015, the only T. rex in Europe will be temporarily displayed. www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de

PHOTO GRAPHER: FRANZ GRÜNEWALD

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CarJump enables its users to search for, reserve and book carsharing vehicles from a multitude of providers via one simple app. The app is available for iOS, Android and Windows. In the near future, CarJump will enable its users to register with all carsharing providers with one sign-up process – digitally and instantly. CarJump not only aggregates freefloating providers (car2go, DriveNow), but stationary models as well. Stationary carsharing providers are especially functional for trips planned in advance, e.g. an IKEA visit (Cambio) or a car for the next morning (CiteeCar). eMio, an easy and affordable electric scooter sharing service in Berlin is CarJump’s most recent partner. Fabian Kofler and Michel Stumpe founded CarJump with the mission of facilitating the utilization of the carsharing market. CarJump is supported by the company builder „building10“ and recently received 6-digit funding from private investors – among others Florian Heinemann and Philipp Kreibohm. WWW.CARJUMP.ME

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IT DOES NOT WORK WITHOUT A VENTURE NETWORK By Eric Leupold and Stefan Leisner, Issuer and Primary Market Relations, Deutsche Börse AG It is still quiet when Matthias enters the office in Wildau at 8 a.m. Just like every day, he checks the marketing activities from the day before, reviews statistics and tries to find ways to further improve performance. Besides the daily call with his partner in Asia, the teams of “brillen.de” will give their updates today. Matthias is involved in all business areas – a crucial factor for every startup company. In 2012, he and his partner Daniel founded “brillen.de”, a company that sells glasses online in cooperation with local opticians. The company is performing well and growing fast. Therefore, cash flows need to be maintained. “Until now, we were able to finance our business with the help of family and friends. But who knows how long that will be enough in view of the growth rate we are seeing? When we heard about this interesting network, it was clear to us that we needed to be part of it from the get-go,” Matthias explains.

and São Paulo, among others. Matthias Kamppeter is CEO at brillen.de. Both e.ventures and brillen.de are part of Deutsche Börse Venture Network, an initiative that was launched in June this year by the exchange organization and the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie). It is a program designed to help finance young and qualified growth companies from various sectors by offering them a platform to get together with international investors. All participants bring their individual expertise, opinion and connection to promote solutions and transactions. With its Venture Network, Deutsche Börse AG created a comprehensive ecosystem. Deutsche Börse Venture Network encompasses an exclusive online platform to facilitate financing rounds as well as various networking and training events. In summary, it provides improvement for growth companies when it comes to financing possibilities.

Christian has spent the morning negotiating an investment with the team of a young startup company and after a short lunch break, he has half a dozen calls ahead of him with several US investors from both coasts. It is crunch time in the next financing round of a very promising startup company from Berlin and together with its CEO he is trying to build a strong investor syndicate. “When financing rounds pick up in size, we reach our limits here in Germany because there is not enough venture capital to finance and encourage all the good ideas. That is why we like to look for co-investors outside the country when it comes to bigger financing rounds. In this regard, the network enables fast and easy communication between the company that needs financing and the potential investor,” Christian says.

The first “Investor Talks”, an initial encounter between the members of the program, already took place on 16 June in Frankfurt/ Main. Companies and investors were invited to meet face-to-face in pitch presentations and one-on-one meetings. David Blyghton from Highland Europe summarized the event as follows: “The inaugural ‘Investor Talks’ workshop provided a unique platform for growth investors like us to engage with an exciting selection of innovative entrepreneurs seeking expansion capital. Participating in the high-quality presentations and actively engaging in the one-on-one networking sessions introduced us to a number of interesting investment opportunities. Highland Europe is proud to be a launch partner of Deutsche Börse Venture Network.”

Christian Leybold works at e.ventures, a venture capital firm with offices in Beijing, Berlin, Hamburg, San Francisco

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Founded in 2013 by Valentin Stalf and Maximilian Tayenthal, Number26 revolutionizes banking from the ground up. They make it faster, intuitive, and smarter. With over 25,000 accounts opened within the first few months after launching in 2015, Number26 is geared towards digital natives and their home turf – the smartphone. A bank account can be opened in 8 Minutes without any paper forms or the hassle of a personal appointment. Money is easily sent to friends by e-mail or text message. Most importantly, users receive full transparency over their account, as push notifications confirm each transaction they are making in real-time. And to turn banking into a fun activity – the app automatically categorizes all spendings so users always have an easy overview over all their finances – helping to manage their money effectively. Finally, the Number26 bank account is more secure than regular online banking as it replaces the tan procedure with a three-step security process for transactions. WWW.NUMBER26.DE

You can see the television tower at Alexanderplatz from almost any place in the inner city. One of the most popular symbols for Berlin and the tallest structure in Germany with 368 m, it provides marvelous 360º views from the observation deck while turning around on its own axis. www.tv-turm.de

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EVERGREEN-FOOD HEALTHY FOOD MADE WITH EXCEPTIONAL INGREDIENTS

Evergreen-Food has developed the first food topping with added superfood algae Chlorella for healthy and sustainable nutrition. Known for its unpleasant taste and smell, the microalgae has normally been used in medical or naturopathic products. Until now. Founding team Cathleen Cordes, Jutta Reinke and Jens Jablonka have developed a solution to offer Chlorella in a new and more attractive form. Carefully harvested and processed fresh microalgae from Germany can now be packaged in 2 centimeter pearls. Sensitive nutrients such as vegetable vitamin B12 and Omega-3 fatty acids are kept. L端ttge Algenperle comes in three refined flavors, allowing consumers to easily make Chlorella part of their everyday life as a vegan topping for main courses and desserts. Evergreen-Food received the EXIST scholarship in 2015 and is currently focused on their first product launch. In the future, the company plans to develop other vegetable-based products with a high content of secondary plant compounds. WWW.EVERGREEN-FOOD.DE

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ZipJet is a leading urban-convenience, on-demand laundry and dry cleaning service. The company picks up, washes or dry cleans and returns items within 24 hours to a location specified by the customer. The startup founded by Florian Färber and Lorenzo Franzi was initially launched in London in November 2014 and in Berlin in January 2015. Having made their mark as leaders in this field, ZipJet will soon expand within Germany as well as to other European cities. WWW.ZIPJET.DE

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Hackesche Höfe, consisting of eight connected courtyards, was opened in 1906 between Rosenthaler and Sophien streets. The concept of Germany’s largest closed courtyard complex, is a versatile use of the yards through art, culture, industry, gastronomy and living, allowing a lavish design of the facades. www.hackesche-hoefe.com

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Opened in 1913, Clärchen’s Ballhaus is one of Berlin’s greatest ballroom institutions and was a filming location for “Inglorious Basterds”. Aside from their usualdance parties, they also offer dance classes and the event “Gypsy Restaurant” including dinner and music. www.ballhaus.de

â&#x20AC;&#x153;There will soon be over 4 billion smartphone users worldwide. How can we leverage this vast potential to get better and faster insights on consumer trends and public opinion?" This was the question that inspired Nico Jaspers and Fernando Guillen to found Dalia Research in October 2013. Today, Dalia distributes hundreds of thousands of micro surveys across a vast network of mobile publishers in more than 80 countries and collects millions of answers per day. The platform is used by some of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading market research agencies, technology consultancies and universities to better understand future trends in mobile shopping: what Europeans think about the Euro-Crisis or how diabetes is spreading across China. Dalia recently won the prestigious IIeX Europe Award for the "most innovative startup" in the market research and consumer insights space. It aims to become the leading source for real-time infomation on market and opinion trends across the world. WWW.DALIARESEARCH.COM

BERLIN STARTUP OFFICES THE HUNDERT // REAL ESTATE

THE MARKETPLACE FOR STARTUP-FRIENDLY OFFICE SPACE IN BERLIN

Startups in various stages need office space – let it be after the establishment of the company or after a round of growth funding. Most of the time, they need office space fast and without bureaucracy. In tough times, startups need to get rid of their office space quickly as well to keep the burn low and not spend their last cash on a 3-year office lease. BerlinStartupOffices is the marketplace that makes it easy for startups and small companies to either quickly find subtenants or to pass on their office lease to another startup. BerlinStartupOffices started small and established itself in a niche market in Berlin. The project was started by Florian Purchess and Daniel Frese in March 2015. Flo and Daniel met back when they were two of the four co-founders of Dreamflat, which sold to Immowelt. This fall, the team plans to enter new market segments with BerlinStartupOffices as well as new cities in Europe, specifically Munich, Hamburg and London. It may be that they need then a new name.

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Get Amber is a Berlin-based men’s underwear label founded in February 2015 by Marius Stäcker and Gennadi Tschernow. The company launched their first undergarments collection in June 2015 and is planning to add further products within the course of the year. Shopping for their own underwear has long been regarded as a chore by most men – an arduous act of necessity and one begrudgingly carried out several times a year. Get Amber believes that shopping for underwear should provide men with as much pleasure as women get shopping for theirs. This belief led the two founders to create a new and exciting brand dedicated to providing their customers with premium undergarments in eye-catching designs, modelled by equally eye-catching women. Made from materials of the utmost quality at an affordable, yet exclusive price, their aim is to awaken a sleepy industry and provide their customers with the perfect underwear for any situation. WWW.GET-AMBER.COM

Today‘s Mauerpark area was once a freight yard situated between Wedding (west) and Prenzlauer Berg (east), divided with the construction of the Berlin Wall. After the fall, the former death strip was titled a public space and subsequently enlarged. Today it is renowned for its Sunday flea markets.

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THE HUNDERT // IT SECURITY

MYNIGMA SAFE E-MAIL MADE SIMPLE

Mynigma is the self-proclaimed future of e-mail encryption. The project began in 2012, long before the NSA revelations brought IT security to the forefront of attention. Its purpose has always been straightforward: simple e-mail encryption that anybody can use. Out of frustration with existing software like PGP, the three mathematicians Dr. Roman Priebe, Lukas Neumann and Dr. Marco Schreiber created a program that does not interfere with the normal workflow and still offers a very high degree of security. By making the app 'M' free for personal use, the team aims to stem the tide of total digital surveillance. This year, Mynigma received the CeBIT Innovation Award for its groundbreaking combination of usability with end-to-end security. Buoyed by this success, the team is rapidly expanding its sphere of influence from a Mac and iOS app to an Outlook add-in and upcoming releases of an Android app and a Thunderbird add-on. A B2B solution is also being developed in partnership with SAP. WWW.MYNIGMA.ORG

Sage Restaurant is located along the banks of the Spree. Its team has over 20 years of experience in various projects next to the restaurant including Sage Club, Marabu Bar and the museum island festival. In summer, Sage Beach is open with sand beach, BBQ, cocktails and parties. www.sage-restaurant.de

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The red brick gothic style transformer station in Kreuzberg was built in 1925 and earned the nickname “Cathedral of electricity”. After its quiescence in 1989, it was extensively refurbished and reopened as an event location with an extraordinary atmosphere in 2001. www.umspannwerk-kreuzberg.de

Digitization has changed today’s customers shopping behavior. While the total turnover in the retail sector is stagnating, online trade is growing. Locafox wants to preserve the diversity in inner cities by helping stationary retailers to connect their business to the Internet successfully. Through a link to the respective merchandise management system, Locafox displays the assortment, product descriptions, prices, and the current availability of products in the local retail sector. Customers can get online information, reserve items and buy from a shop around the corner. The subsequent store visit provides an opportunity to test and receive professional consulting. Locafox was founded in June 2013 by Karl Josef Seilern (CEO), Michael Wendt, Lukas Zels, Rob Morgan, and Fabian Friede and is supported by Holtzbrinck Ventures, Payback founder Alexander Rittweger, entrepreneur Dr. Max Iann, and the German Printing and Publishers Society ddvg. The Locafox office in Berlin-Kreuzberg now has about 50 employees from more than 15 nations. These Berliners‘ vision: to develop a service that allows every consumer to find nearby everything he wants to buy. The Locafox app has been available for iPhones since the end of 2014. WWW.LOCAFOX.DE

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Founded in 2013 by William Shu and Greg Orlowski, Deliveroo is focused on providing the ultimate food delivery experience. Customers are able to get meals from a variety of leading local restaurants, such as Tommi‘s Burger Joint, Mädchenitaliener, Lily Burger and Good Friends, conveniently delivered to their homes and offices in an average of 32 minutes. Restaurants can take advantage of Deliveroo‘s proprietary end-to-end technology and logistics platform to offer delivery, for the first time, without the hassle of running their own fleet of drivers. Deliveroo‘s Germany operations were launched on April 20, 2015 in Berlin, where the company is managed by Felix Chrobog. Deliveroo has raised close to 100 million USD in investment up to date. WWW.DELIVEROO.DE

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You can get your fill of delicious burgers (including gluten-free options) and other treats at Berlin‘s first organic burger restaurant. Since it is a franchise restaurant, there might soon be a Black Cat near you. www.blackcat.berlin

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Before closing in 2008, the Tempelhofer field was military area and an airport. Now it is a public park and a place for togetherness: fairs, concerts, picnics, jogging, projects and other cultural and sportive events. www.tempelhofer-feld.berlin.de

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Descape offers the best shorttrips to other professions around the world, you could call them "micro-sabbaticals". To learn a new skill, to fulfill a long-cherished dream or to get inspired â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sometimes you need to escape your desk for a little while. On the other hand, Descape creates a whole new revenue stream for passionate professionals like craftsmen, artists or farmers who offer authentic experiences in their jobs. Descape was founded in 2014 in Berlin by Lena Felixberger and Heiko Strubel and joined by co-founder Jens Ehne in 2015. Today, Descape offers more than 60 different professions online. There is even more to come: the website will be relaunched soon with lots of new feat-ures and Descapes!

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With elopay, friends can make and share payments. By simply connecting credit card information, the user can deposit money to the elopay wallet and send it in real time to friends. Features such as requesting money, commenting, liking and sharing creates a fun and social experience around payments. One to two days are needed for a cash out. Having secured BA-Funding from private investors, elopay plans to roll out its Android app and conclude first business partnerships as of August 2015. It also plans to roll out internationally in 2016. In addition, elopay works on B2B solutions based on the same technology platform that will target freelancers and private sellers. Headquartered in Berlin, elopay plans to grow to 20 employees this year. The vision is to create enduring online and offline payment experiences by adding value beyond transactions. elopay was founded in 2013 by Özkan Akkilic. In 2014, Yildiray Bastürk, Reza Fazeli and Tolga Önal joined elopay as co-founders. WWW.ELOPAY.COM

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Restaurant Faustus sends you on a culinary city trip by offering typical regional delicacies from all over Germany in a rustic, comfortable atmosphere. The self-proclaimed â&#x20AC;&#x153;noble pubâ&#x20AC;? emulates a homely living room feeling combined with a modern atmosphere. www.faustusrestaurant.de

CA RE ER FO UN DR Y THE ONLINE BOOTCAMP FOR DIGITAL LEADERS AND TECH TALENT

CareerFoundry trains the next generation of tech talent, digital leaders, managers and entrepreneurs through high quality, immersive online bootcamps. If you want a formal, structured training to modernize your know-how or build a new career, CareerFoundry is your destination. It offers training in the most in-demand fields in the digital economy, such as Web Development, User Experience (UX) Design, Digital Executive Training. CareerFoundry’s state-of-the-art training pairs you with an experienced, professional mentor who will polish your work, motivate and push you forward – until you finish the course with solid, job-ready skills that are exactly focused on what today‘s employers are looking for. All training happens solely online. CareerFoundry has trained students from 50 countries worldwide. Founded by Raffaela Rein and Martin Ramsin in 2013, it has received investments of € 1.2 million to date. WWW.CAREERFOUNDRY.COM 100

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Factory, the technology campus is situated in the heart of Berlin, next to the former Berlin Wall. It provides a work environment for a flourishing community of entrepreneurs and innovators with space for coworking, training, accelerator classes and events. www.factoryberlin.com

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The royal and imperial city palace was built in the 15th century and enlarged during the Baroque era. Heavily damaged during World War II, it was demolished in 1950. Its reconstruction to become Humboldtforum designed by Frank Stella is in progress. www.berliner-schloss.de

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Contorion aims to disrupt the B2B industrial supplies market with a lean and digitallyminded multichannel approach. Their current assortment of over 350,000 SKUs covers a wide range of product categories, from screws to power and hand tools all the way to workwear, including the industry's most renowned manufacturers. High user-friendliness, fair prices and professional customer service make them be the one-stop shop for trade customers, especially craftsmen and manufacturing SMEs. The company was founded by Dr. Frederick Roehder, Dr. Richard Schwenke and Tobias Tschötsch in Berlin in spring 2014. Since Contorion’s launch in August 2014, the team has grown to over 60 people, now serves more than 50,000 customers and is one of Berlin’s fastest growing startups. WWW.CONTORION.DE

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RETAIL ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS – INTELLIGENCE THROUGH INTEGRATION

With 60.000m² of selling space and 50.000 visitors each day, KaDeWe is the largest department store of continental Europe. Its eight floors are dedicated to the retail sale of luxury merchandise but floors 6 and 7 are entirely devoted. The 6th floor is world-famous for its gourmet delicacies. www.kadewe.de

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Minodes is a comprehensive big data analytics solution for stationary retail. By integrating and analyzing data from a network of technology sources, including Wi-Fi sensors, beacons and camera systems, Minodes provides retailers insights into the offline customer journey. Retailers are enabled to optimize shop floor and marketing and to create personalized location-based mobile marketing for consumer-oriented shopping experiences. Further, Minodes is among the first to generate linkages between online and offline customer journeys, thereby offering true Omni-channel solutions. Minodes was founded by Tim Wegner and Alexander KĂśth in July 2013. The company has over 5000 sensors deployed across more than 50 major international and national retail chains. Additionally, the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s top management consultancies utilize Minodes services to optimally advise their retail clients. Minodes is currently pursuing further international expansion of its client portfolio and technology partner network. WWW.MINODES.COM

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SHAPING THE BANK OF TOMORROW TOGETHER IN DEUTSCHE BANK‘S CUSTOMER LAB, JULIANE HÄNTSCH, HEAD OF THE BUSINESS CLIENTS TEAM IN Q110 AND LUCAS VON CRANACH, FOUNDER OF ONEFOOTBALL, DISCUSSED HOW BEST TO IDENTIFY AND RESPOND TO CLIENT NEEDS. Lucas von Cranach was rather surprised when he entered Q110 in Friedrichstrasse. Even though the founder of Onefootball goes into his branch on a fairly regular basis, this was the first time he had seen the Customer Lab, which opened to Q110 visitors in May. „I think it‘s great that there‘s always something new to discover here,“ he said. „It‘s really refreshing and it also encourages clients to explore the bank‘s products and services.“ Indeed, the 38-year entrepreneur had already touched upon the topic that Business Client Advisor Juliane Häntsch wanted to discuss with him that day: market research and client needs. For Deutsche Bank, the Customer Lab has an important role to play here. Juliane Häntsch: The aim of the Customer Lab is to help us discover how our clients imagine the bank of the future so that we can align our portfolio accordingly. With this in mind, everyone who comes into Q110 is approached by a member of staff, who shows them around the branch and introduces them to the newest products. All feedback, whether it is praise, criticism or suggestions for new services, is then passed on internally, allowing us to continuously improve our products and services. We also invite clients to different workshops and use their input to help develop new approaches in banking. Lucas von Cranach: As I see it, the Customer Lab concept is not just innovative, it is also really important. It is time for banks to start focusing on the needs of their customers. Any business that just concentrates on its existing customer base will fail to attract the customers of tomorrow. That is why it is important that the

bank ask itself, „How do we actually want to shape our business in the future?“ Häntsch: That is exactly what Deutsche Bank is doing, and not just since the Customer Lab was created. Innovation has long had a priority place in our client business, especially here in Q110, where we have been experimenting and testing different models for a number of years. Some of these find their way into other branches while others are abandoned. We do a lot of testing, which allows us to continuously develop our products and services. The Customer Lab gives us the opportunity to engage in a more in-depth exchange with our clients. Von Cranach: The key to any good user experience is, above all, to make it self-explanatory and ensure it provides added value to the user. Obviously, you have to know your customers and their needs. At Onefootball, we analyze the usage data of our app very closely. When does the customer access which service and how much time does he spend on it? We call this data-informed product development. You have to be informed about user behavior, to analyze it and then make decisions. New features are the result of a combination of strategy and vision. Our new features are tested on 10,000 users. If they prove successful, they are introduced across the board for all users, but it we do not see the desired effect, we discard the feature. Startups need a strong partner to lighten their load so that they can focus on their product. The Startups@Berlin Team, to which

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ONEFOOTBALL „We‘re crazy about football“ – with this in mind, Lucas von Cranach created the Onefootball app (originally called iLiga) in 2008 for football fans all over the world. Among the first 1,000 apps ever launched in the App Store, Onefootball is now available in 16 languages and is the leading mobile football platform. It has 21 million users worldwide. The app offers live tickers, news, videos and statistics from more than 140 football leagues and competitions – from the German Bundesliga and the Brazilian Liga to regional leagues and divisions. The company currently employs a staff of 60 football fans from 25 countries and is backed by venture capitalists Earlybird and Union Square Ventures. Available for Android, iOS, Windows and as a web app w w w.onefootball.com

Juliane Häntsch belongs, was set up by Deutsche Bank precisely for this purpose. How does the team approach this task? Häntsch: We aim to make the processes as simple as possible for startups. Time is a key issue. Our experience has taught us that rapidly growing businesses need swift assistance when they approach us. Startups need to be able to work right away with the solutions we provide. Therefore, we try to make solutions available smoothly and in a non-bureaucratic manner. Von Cranach: Obviously as a startup, I have a range of different needs. I might have a question about property one day, and then a question about overseas accounts the next. It is good if you do not have to start from scratch every time, if you are already in touch with your next contact. Thanks to the Startup Team, that works really well at Deutsche Bank. However, it also means that the startup has to be transparent for its bank. For example, we have several US investors and the bank advised us to set up a dollar account

to reduce our costs. You can only achieve these types of things in a timely manner when you see the bank as your partner and get them involved in the process. Häntsch: Both sides need to be on the same wavelength. The challenges of working with startups are very different from those of the old economy. That is what is so exciting about the Startup Team: it is about finding solutions to accompany startups in the best possible way as they move into the future, even if it means departing from tried and trusted paths. Von Cranach: That has certainly been my experience. If something is not functioning at a certain level, then it is taken up a level or two so that a decision can be reached. Häntsch: If there is one thing we have learned from working with startups, it is that nothing is impossible.

CUSTOMER LAB Deutsche Bank learns from its customers: since May, when it opened its Customer Lab in Q110 in Berlin, the bank has been setting a new tone in market research. Here, in close liaison with its clients, Deutsche Bank is developing the branch and advisory service of the future. Clients are invited to try out a selection of digital services in the Customer Lab when they come into the branch. Their feedback, complemented by traditional market research formats, such as focus group surveys, helps the bank to optimize its portfolio of products and services. Startup services Startups are invited to use the rooms in the Customer Lab for meetings and presentations. For more confidential meetings, Deutsche Bank offers separate conference rooms. Contact: Juliane Häntsch, juliane.haentsch@db.com, tel: +49 30 460611-48 Stephan Dietzel, stephan.dietzel@db.com, tel: +49 30 460611-29 Q110 – Deutsche Bank of the future Friedrichstrasse 181, 10117 Berlin w w w.q110.de w w w.deutsche-bank.de/startups

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Waldemar and Philip founded einhorn, challenging the status quo of an everyday product that nobody loves but everybody needs! On their quest to give love back to condoms (yes, they make condoms) they thrive to produce a fair and sustainable design condom which is vegan. “Well, if this isn’t something”, they say, “we don’t know what is!” Check them out on Facebook or their crazy website. They are called “einhorn” which translates into unicorn, nothing else was expected of this magical condom! WWW.EINHORN.MY

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Germanyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest zoo is also one of the most biodiverse zoos in the world with over 1500 different species. The zoo conducts various programs concerning endangered species, breeding programs etc. A large playground, restaurants and a new night tour guarantee a whole day of fun. www.zoo-berlin.de

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The company DeineHelfer24 was founded to help people at home in their everyday life with small technical works like installing a lamp, mounting a curtain rod, hanging pictures on the wall or helping them to build up their furniture. Security is an important issue, this is why DeineHelfer24 only sends employed and insured allround craftsmen who work only for them. The company is also offering their clients the all-in-one package for renovations. Whether painting, tiling or laying new parquet flooring, DeineHelfer24 will help you with that! The startup was founded in June 2014 in Berlin by Robert Boer and has already reached out to many clients in and around Berlin. DeineHelfer24´s goals are to expand to other cities in Germany and provide their services to more people. WWW.DEINEHELFER24.DE

Designed by Stephan Braunfels, the Paul-Löbe-Haus was opened along with the Chancellery in 2001. A bridge named „Leap over the Spree“ unites the Paul-Löbe-Haus with the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus. Together with the Chancellery, they build an ensemble, integrating the Spree into their architecture.

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An old freight yard in Moabit was converted into temporary artist and research residencies by the artist collective Kunstrepublik. ZK/U provides living and work spaces for 2-8 months, including studio appartments, common room and large outdoor space including a 15000mÂ˛ communal garden. www.zku-berlin.org

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Who is not familiar with this problem â&#x20AC;&#x201C; sooner or later the battery runs dry unexpectedly. For Andreas Guba and Dr. Oliver Lang, this raised the question of how to generate energy on the go. Independently from one another, they developed the same idea: a concept of mobile solar modules. In 2012, they founded the Sonnenrepublik GmbH. Ever since, the company produces the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smallest solar panel and charger system, Clicc, which has been on sale from June 2013 and is manufactured in Berlin. Clicc products are significantly more powerful than competing solar products and they fit in any pocket. Through the innovative modularity, they are more versatile than other products on the market. Clicc products are constantly evolving. The new solar charger Wing6 Wood consists of sustainable cork material and produces 6 watt, recharging smart phones in 2 to 4 hours just like from the socket. Everybody gets the chance to produce electricity in a friendly and autonomous environment. WWW.CLICC.DE

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Headquartered in Berlin, datapine was founded in 2012 by Martin Blumenau and Jakob Rehermann. Its mission is to bring the power of enterprise business intelligence suites to small and mediumsized companies. This may be achieved by reducing complexity and making advanced data analysis available even to non-technical users. datapine combines all advantages of a powerful SaaS infrastructure with the security and privacy of German data protection laws. In terms of user experience and ease of use, datapine has introduced a new generation of user interface that empowers everyone in the company to analyze and visualize data, with no technical skills required. Sales numbers bear witness to the strong demand for this solution. Within 16 months, datapine has acquired more than 120 customers around the world, from young tech companies to renowned stock listed firms. This solid customer base combined with a strong growth momentum in Europe and the USA make datapine one of the leading European players in the SME market for data analysis. WWW.DATAPINE.COM

Located in one of Berlin‘s most popular areas, the „Kaffee am Meer“ brings a mediterranean flair to Bergmannstraße. It is especially renowned for its coffee, cakes and breakfast menu. www.kaffeeammeer.de

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Manufacturers, confronted with rising costs and global competition, must monitor and control their productivity and rationalize their resource consumption. Factor-E supports them with a cloud-based SaaS hardware-software platform. The young TU Berlin spin-off digitizes and networks equipment of all types and age and automates data collection and analysis. Plug & work hardware, installed within hours, safely communicates data to an analytics platform where productivity and resource efficiency information is extracted in real time simply by analyzing electricity usage. Role-specific, user-configurable dashboards are then generated on the fly. With the first roll-out of the platform at the site of a large industrial partner underway, the newly founded GmbH is already developing and testing the next set of innovative features that focus on intelligent condition monitoring and equipment idling reduction, both rising, high impact topics in the industry. WWW.FACTOR-E.EU

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The institute for production systems and design technology researches and develops in various fields such as developing and manufacturing products, microproduction and quality control. It also transfers production technology solutions to areas outside the industry (medicine, security). www.ipk.fraunhofer.de

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TIDY THE HOUSE UP EXPERTS SEE GOOD OPPORTUNITIES FOR INTERNATIONAL VCS WHAT IS YOUR VIEW ON THE BERLIN MARKET? On the sale side, we see good opportunities in the early stage and some very interesting maturing companies. On the investor side, international venture capitalists increase their activities in Berlin down to early stage investments. On the side of buyers, there is growing pressure on corporates to tackle digitalization, which leads to acquisitions of digital businesses. Finally, well-financed international startups do look at Berlin for strategic fits. WHAT ARE THE STEPS IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION TO BE READY FOR AN ACQUISITION? Sellers should get their house in order as soon as possible. That is easier said than done, in particular for startups with their limited resources and notoriously empty pockets. On the other hand, a few simple steps and the application of common sense serve a low budget alternative: How do I organize our contract management? Where do I save which documents? Where do I keep original documents? Have all intellectual property (IP) and information technology (IT) related documents, which I have signed and sent, been returned to me? Do I have all notarized documents electronically and as certified copies at hand? Do agreements which are material to my business contain clauses relating to an acquisition or,

in particular, do they negatively affect such an acquisition? When was the last time I looked at our terms of service? SINCE THE MAIN FOCUS OF A BUYER IN A DIGITAL ACQUISITION SEEMS TO BE ON THE IP AND IT OF THE SELLER, WHAT ARE YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS IN THAT RESPECT? As far as IP or software have been developed in-house, the seller must ensure at all times that the company is entitled to all such relevant rights. The IP/software status should be established at regular intervals: Did all individuals participating in the development transfer their respective rights to the seller? Did the founders transfer all their respective rights when the company was established? In the case of external development and other forms of outsourcing, written agreements with such providers of services or with freelancers are required. Open source software adds some complexity: Do I have a detailed documentation of relevant open source components? Do I utilize such components in accordance with the relevant license terms? May I be forced to publish our entire source code, if we are in breach of the relevant open source license term?

Tim Maiorino and Christian Musfeldt, both with Osborne Clarke in Cologne and Berlin, Germany, had a chat with us on investments in the digital sector. They see an increasing activity both from national and international buyers and told us, how sellers do things right.

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PaulCamper is a private carsharing for motor homes and campervans. Increasing amounts of people want to travel independently with a motor home but find commercial motor home rentals expensive, non-transparent and impersonal. They are also fully booked during the summer. On the other hand, there are many privately-owned motor homes which often remain unused. PaulCamper solves these problems by connecting users and owners, offering a tailored infrastructure which includes insurance, community relations and advice. Their profession excels by offering a personal, secure and transparent service. The company was founded in 2013 by passionate and CEO Dirk Fehse. He started the platform out of nothing by renting out his very own campervan. Since then PaulCamper has become the market leader with a sizable customer base generating real revenues. As the demand for campervans outweighs supply by far, the company is now looking for investors to support further growth.

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Tiergarten is Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s largest inner-city park with diverse landscapes to discover as one wanders its avenues, meadows, ponds, flower beds and landscaped gardens. Its distinctiveness is enhanced by various cultural events, several cafĂŠs, boat rentals and much more.

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More and more strategy consultants and industry experts choose to work as freelancers, on their own terms. However, there is not much transparency in this top class freelancer market and companies do not know how to find the perfect match for their projects. Comatch helps: The platform is a marketplace to find a top consultant or an entire team. Currently there are about 400 consultants in the Comatch pool, covering various fields of expertise. Most of them worked for the big top tier consultancies, all were individually interviewed to pick only the best ones. The founders Jan SchĂ¤chtele and Christoph Hardt are former consultants themselves and know the business. Consultants benefit from a comfortable, cost-free way to acquire new projects, companies quickly find support â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the lean startup structures guarantee financial advantage for both sides. The idea works: The consultant pool grows faster than expected, the clients are numerous and happy. The Dutch and Swedish markets will be the next to explore. WWW.COMATCH.COM

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In 1990 Hackescher Markt, former solely a traffic junction, was partially turned into a pedestrian area. Soon, various restaurants and bars opened at the square and in the viaduct arches of the S-Bahn station and transformed it into a popular hotspot. Additionally, it houses various weekly markets.

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Box at Work helps people in urban areas create space in their homes or offices without having to deal with annoying broken handles or ripped bottoms from cardboard boxes. The company delivers packing or storage boxes to any address or floor, at any time and for free. After moving, empty boxes get picked up and storage boxes or items are brought to the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s safe warehouses. In an online account, the client can keep an overview of his storage while being able to get items redelivered within 24 hours. With its efficient routes and full cradle-to-cradle recycling system, Box at Work sees itself as a solution for urban challenges and future living. Founded in 2014 by Gerrit Jan Reiders, former auditor at Deloitte for 5 years, the company started its operations in Berlin in January 2015 and plans to roll out to the next big cities in the coming months. WWW.BOXATWORK.COM

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The urban Victoriapark is located on the Kreuzberg hill. The Liberation Wars monument on top of the hill provides a marvelous view over the city and in summer, an artificial waterfall originates at its foot. 600 bottles of wine are pressed each year from its old vineyard!

UNU ENRICHING URBAN LIFE BY CONNECTING PEOPLE AND PLACES IN THEIR CITY

The name giver of this Kreuzberg subway station is the historic Hallesches Tor, which was formerly a gate of Berlin’s city wall in the 18th century. The subway platform on a viaduct opened in 1902, making it one of the first subway stations in Berlin.

unu designed an electric scooter with portable batteries. It is the fastest way from A to B in the city. One battery charge gives you a reach of over 50km – more than enough to explore your city. It starts at a base price of 1.699 €. unu scooters are ordered online, with customizable colors and engines power. It is shipped to your doorstep with insurance, helmet, and license plate. The startup was founded in Munich in 2013 by Elias Atahi and Pascal Blum. Both urbanites at heart, they lived in Asian megacities like Beijing and Singapore. They experienced how being mobile can change the way they experienced cities. Currently, there are almost 1,000 unu owners on city streets in Germany and it is sold in major Austrian cities since June 2015. Beginning in 2015, unu decided to relocate their HQ to accelerate growth and moved to Berlin to build an international team and be closer to the vibrant startup scene of tech Berlin. WWW.UNUMOTORS.COM 126

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Maybachufer is a street along the Landwehrkanal and renowned for its markets. Back in the 19th century when it was laid out, weekly markets were already held between the mainly industrial and appartment buildings. The most popular market today is the turkish market BiOriental every Tuesday and Friday.

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ShareTheMeal enables people to „share their meals“ with children in need. Each donation of 40 cents makes it possible to feed 1 child for 1 full day. The meals are distributed by the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). Sebastian Stricker and Bernhard Kowatsch founded ShareTheMeal as a startup. A number of voluntary supporters were essential to the further development of ShareTheMeal. The starting point for ShareTheMeal is that it is actually very „cheap“ to feed 1 child (who would otherwise not have enough to eat) for 1 full day. The founders believe even more people would be willing to help and donate if there were a simple and straightforward way of doing so. ShareTheMeal is now an innovation project within WFP. The team is located in Berlin. Their plea: „We would love to hear from you – drop us an email at support@sharethemeal.org“. WWW.SHARETHEMEAL.ORG

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FERNSEHTURM CONTEST Find all TV Towers and win cool prizes One of Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s trademarks, the TV tower (Fernsehturm), can be seen from almost anywhere in the city. Therefore it was inevitable that the tower will show up on several of our photos. But just how often did it get the chance to sneak in there?

Count the TV towers in our magazine (including every page, from front to back) and get the chance to win exclusive prizes from some of the Startups featured in this issue. Send your answer to info@the-hundert.com until the 15.10.2015 and be one of ten lucky winners.

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Walk along the Flutgraben at the Spree, down a small flight of stairs and you will find Freischwimmer – a great restaurant directly at the water with a landing stage, boat house, fireplace lounge and a conservatory. Perfect for delicious meals or cool drinks in the summer. www.freischwimmer-berlin.com

During their studies, the two Studydrive founders Philipp Mackeprang and Sven Gasper experienced how time consuming it was to find helpful study materials and to prepare effectively for their exams. This spurred them to build great tech-products that could solve these problems for all students. After just two years, the Studydrive team is running three platforms. Each solves a particular problem of a typical student. Studydrive already gives over 100,000 students access to a library of more than 60,000 documents shared by fellow students. Studycrowd is becoming the “Stack Overflow” for students, where users can answer each other’s academic questions. Their latest product, Studytutors, takes personal tutoring online and enables students to have private lessons with top tutors in a virtual online classroom. Following a strictly student-centric approach, the startup’s goal is to become the daily companion for millions of students around the world. WWW.STUDYDRIVE.NET 133

Thousands of video clips are being produced daily. Most of these clips are soon forgotten. It would be exciting to give them a new purpose – a new dimension. For this reason, Fabian Wolfart, Axel Braun and Semir Chouaibi founded ClipDuell in the end 2014. ClipDuell combines video content with the mechanic of a quiz game, which transforms a passive medium into an active channel. The first product is a free app based on the idea of guessing commercials. Two players compete against each other and whoever guesses the clip first, wins the round. ClipDuell is particularly interesting for advertisers because through the game advertising is not perceived as a nuisance and can be played at a defined target group. Extensive analysis data provide information on the advert’s efficiency, regardless of the completion rates. In addition, new forms of advertising, such as branded video can be embedded and different versions of clips can be tested on their suitability for the market, before releasing. WWW.CLIPDUELL.DE

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Tränenpalast is a Berlin colloquialism for the terminal building at the former border crossing on Friedrichstraße. Here, East Germans would shed tears when bidding goodbye to their West German visitors. It now houses a permanent exhibition on the German partition. www.hdg.de/berlin/traenenpalast/

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The Altes Museum was opened on the Spree island in 1830. In 1841, the area was officially dedicated to art and science. The Museum Island now houses some of Berlin’s most beautiful buildings such as the Pergamon and Bode museums. In 1999, UNESCO declared it a World Heritage Site. www.museumsinsel-berlin.de

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ascribe lets creators sell their valuable digital works with simple licensing and transfer. Creators, marketplaces and consumers can confirm authorship, track digital editions and view ownership history of digital works. By knowing the provenance of digital works, digital property can be re-sold as if it were physical property by anyone, opening up new possibilities for consumers and marketplaces to trade authentic, limited edition digital art, photography, designs, books and virtual goods anywhere on earth. Founded in August 2014 by Masha McConaghy, Trent McConaghy and Bruce Pon, ascribe helps creators to manage their valuable digital creation using revolutionary blockchain, artificial intelligence and web crawl technologies. WWW.ASCRIBE.IO

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THE HUNDERT // MOBILE DATA The Arminius Market Hall opened in 1891 after only one year of construction. The indoor market was revitalized in 2010 in an attempt to involve locals and to create a

marketplace for regional products, arts and culture. Attend a winetasting event or just browse through the many different stands. www.arminiusmarkthalle.com

Mobile apps represent an amazing opportunity for companies to reach, scale and engage their customers. More than 500k companies globally are trying to seize this opportunity but the sad reality is that most fail miserably â&#x20AC;&#x201C; largely due to the fact that it is incredibly difficult to obtain useful information on what goes on in the app stores. Priori has set out to democratize app store data. Its SaaS offering, Priori Data Pro, provides competitive benchmarking and market sizing capabilities to app publishers, advertisers and investors looking to better understand the app economy. The platform is free to contributing data partners or available through a low cost subscription to those who do not have data to share. Priori was founded in 2013 in Berlin and works with leading international companies such as AllState, National Geographic, Ralph Lauren, Rosetta Stone and Yandex as well as homegrown Berlin champions Soundcloud, Onefootball, Home24 and many others. WWW.PRIORIDATA.COM

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BUILDING BERLIN’S FUTURE Berlin is one of Europe’s most successful and well-known cities for startups. The city boasts big names such as Zalando, Rocket Internet, Soundcloud, Researchgate, EyeEm and Delivery Hero. It is a hive buzzing with the entrepreneurial spirit of an entire generation, while the affordable cost of living, the city’s young atmosphere, and the free-thinking mindset attract countless entrepreneurs and founders from both Germany and abroad. They are driving progress and giving Berlin remarkable social and economic momentum.

We at KPMG are proud to take part in this process in Berlin and are excited by its incredible potential. This is what makes us exactly the right partner to put all these great ideas into action. Our Smart Start team has been supporting startups through every stage of their company for years –the foundation, rounds of funding and right up to a possible IPO. We have been active in this scene for a long time and consider ourselves a vital part of the startup ecosystem. A strategic cooperation with the hy! platform for founders and business networking ensures that we stay abreast of the latest trends and are able to seize opportunities for innovation as they present themselves, working both for and with our customers. CONNECT WITH OUR STARTUP EXPERT Frank Wiethoff Regional Head East KPMG AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft Klingelhöferstrasse 18 10785 Berlin Direct +49 30 2068-4800 Fax +49 30 2068-4619 Mobile +49 173 5764848 fwiethoff@kpmg.com

The Berlin startup scene has an impressive track record. Industry analysts at Dow Jones VentureSource recently carried out a study for ‘Die Welt’ which revealed that venture capitalists invested a total of $US 2.2 bn in Berlin in 2014. According to this study, Berlin has now overtaken London, which itself saw $US 1.5 bn of investments in 2014. The question now is how do we go about systematically ensuring the city’s continued success in the future? We believe three things are needed: 1. SET AMBITIOUS GOALS Where does Berlin want to be in 2020? There needs to be broad cooperation between the various players in the city. Startups, political actors, associations, traditional companies, investors, universities and research institutes must work together much more closely to create a unified whole – a fertile environment for innovation and success. 2. STRONG LINKS MUST BE FORMED BETWEEN BERLIN’S GROWTH CLUSTERS AND LEADING EXPERTS We need to promote cross-sector synergies. We must create the structures to connect innovators in growth areas such as fintechand e-health to specialized experts and collaboration partners that will help them succeed. 3. WE MUST CONFIDENTLY SHARE THE CITY’S SUCCESS STORIES We must beat the drums louder. We must find followers. We need more real entrepreneurs who are committed to the future of our city, because we know it is so very deserving. Berlin already has all the ingredients it needs to cook up one outstanding future.

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The Lockbox idea took shape in 2013 in Berlin, when Thomas had rushed home once again in order to receive a delivery in person. Waiting for the delivery guy to show up, he thought of a better way: Why not simply lock deliveries to the doorstep? With this idea in mind and a basic concept, he and Daniel started developing the Lockbox system. The company was founded in May 2013, the first test deliveries took place in April 2014. The logistics startup received seed funding in November 2014 from the High-Tech-GrĂźnderfonds. The system is now patented, Lockbox has made more than 2500 deliveries and the company is operational in 5 cities in Germany. Looking ahead, Lockbox is planning to expand its service Germany-wide to all major cities in 2016. In order to do so, the startup is currently working on closing a seriesA funding round.

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Roq.ad is a Berlin-based startup founded in 2014 by Carsten Frien (CEO), Richy Ugwu (CCO), Bartosz Bogacki (CTO), Daniel Kramer (Business Development Manager) and Katarzyna Zalewska (Operations Manager). The company already counts 21 employees in two offices, Berlin and Poznan. Roq.ad makes digital marketing more effective and leverages the advertising power of any kind of consumer device – smartphones, tablets, laptops and IoT devices. Roq.ad‘s Cross-Device Technology enables advertisers to tailor their communication by targeting users across all of their devices and adapting all advertising efforts to everyone’s unique user journey. Roq.ad was recently awarded as one of the „Top 3 companies to watch in 2015“ by Online Marketing Rockstars. They work with brands such as Axel Springer, Condé Nast and Immo-Scout24. The company‘s objective is to roll out the technology also in the UK, France, the Nordic countries and Spain. Their goal is to become the leading European player for Cross-Device Consumer Identity. WWW.ROQ.AD

East Side Gallery is a memorial at the former Berlin Wall which is used as a permanent open-air-gallery for street art. In 1990,118 artists from 21 countries created about 100 paintings. Today, it is only partly preserved and most of the paintings are badly damaged. www.eastsidegallery-berlin.de

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Somuchmore was founded in 2015 by Johannes Klose and Alexander Argyros. A company steeped in helping people reach their full potential in life, Somuchmore was born so that people could discover more about themselves and more around their city. The company has already partnerships with over 1,500 boutique studios in Europe offering over 100,000 classes. They run in 8 cities and 4 countries, certifying them as the largest well-being membership platform in Europe. Somuchmore are expanding into other international cities, taking hold of more in Europe first. WWW.SOMUCHMORE.CO.UK

The beautiful New Synagogue was consecrated in 1866, becoming the largest Jewish house of worship in Germany at the time. During World War II, it was severely damaged with only the parts of the building closest to the street remaining intact. In 1995, it was reopened with a permanent exhibition. www.centrumjudaicum.de

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KLAUS SIEGERS CEO AT WEBERBANK, A BERLIN-BASED PRIVATE BANK OFFERING A BROAD RANGE OF FINANCIAL SERVICES FOR SUCCESSFUL ENTREPRENEURS. As a Berlin-based private bank, Weberbank has a basic interest in the prosperity of the city. It has always seen itself as a partner to entrepreneurs in the German capital. Weberbank specializes in asset management and investment consulting and has a particular focus on the individual needs and requirements of entrepreneurs. This is a crucial point since the circumstances which result from owning a company or being a partner in a company must be considered when allocating and managing assets. The bank is primarily focused on the financial objectives of entrepreneurs in their private sphere. Only those who have made robust private plans and obtained the corresponding level of security can act freely in the world of business, equipped to face all possible risks. It is necessary to consider many individual facts, from the amount of available resources to general stage of life, family background, career plans and so on. After all, those who dare do not always win. There are varying factors that connect the private and professional spheres. Therefore, tailored solutions are important and will always provide the best results for clients. Keywords in this context include, for example, the legal form of the company, a testament or will and powers of attorney to exercise ownership rights in case of illness. Weberbank offers

support and advice in a wide range of these and many other important fields. In addition, the individual relationship between Weberbank client advisers and entrepreneurs is essential because the necessary level of trust can only exist between people who understand each other. As a result, banking relationships take on a special significance for professional cooperation: On the one hand, there is greater willingness of entrepreneurs to engage in various investment instruments in principle, which often entails a deeper pool of experience. On the other hand, entrepreneurs are accustomed to making their own decisions and are careful to select relationships only with people they can trust. The team at Weberbank acknowledges this and always considers the personal preferences of clients to achieve an optimal fit when selecting a client adviser.

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ONE MIN Aviation briefings provide pilots with mission-critical information and data – all in one place and easy to understand. Inspired by this, the OneMinute team has developed a cloud-based productivity app to help business professionals receive relevant and precise information from customers, partners or colleagues. The app empowers users to request or create business briefings with intelligent forms and templates based on a proven method. The company was founded in Berlin by a team that has over 20 years of experience in condensing and organizing information. WWW.ONEMINUTE.ONE

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Berlin from a birdâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s perspective: the beautiful and diverse city offers many spectacular opportunities to discover it from above. Fly in a plane, enjoy a balloon ride, get a guided tour to Teufelsberg or go up the TV tower. See it from the top!

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EDM Einfach, Direkt Media GmbH was founded in December 2011 by a group of former Bertelsmann managers headed by Mirko Dieseler. The founders are very enthusiastic about lottery products and possess expertise in German lottery business. They developed the website Einfachlotto.de and in July 2013, after EDM obtained a licence for commercial lottery ticket procurement, the website went online. Quickly, the company became the second biggest player in the German online lottery business. Further development of the technical platform and improvement of customersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; activity rate are the next big work steps ahead.

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Treptower Park offers meadows, playgrounds and a 4 km long path along the Spree. Home to the popular beer garden “Haus Zenner”, the “Insel der Jugend” or Isle of Youth and the Archenhold observatory with the largest refracting telescope in the world.

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Hotel Zoo Berlin is once again the pride of Berlin’s Ku’Damm following extensive renovations in 2014 by American designer Dayna Lee. With 145 rooms and suites, a light-flooded Living Room, a winter garden, the Grace Bar and Grace Restaurant, an iconic piece of Berlin history has made a grand comeback. www.hotelzoo.de

The modern traveler relies on their smartphone for everything: to check in for flights, pay for taxis and to seek out the next culinary delight. But as soon as they enter a hotel, this futuristic way of life abruptly ends. Suddenly you’re confronted with queues and paperwork when all you want to do is conveniently head up to your room. This is why Frederic Haitz and Maximilian Waldmann founded conichi in 2014. conichi helps hotels offer memorable service experiences for the digital traveler. The key: their own software and beacon technology. conichi senses when a guest enters the hotel and instantaneously delivers all relevant information to the concierge so they can personally greet and tailor the stay while letting guests check in & out and pay via the app. Hotels treat every guest like a VIP and travelers get digital convenience they’re used to from other apps. Renowned brands, such as Hotel Zoo, are relying on conichi to digitalize their check in experience. WWW.CONICHI.COM

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Built around 1845 parallel to the Spree as a transport path, the 11km long Landwehrkanal now meanders as a green band through a populous urban space, constituting one of Berlin’s most precious local recreational areas. The historyfilled waterway flows under many bridges, including the Dovebrücke.

fairr.de offers innovative retirement savings solutions for the modern customer. Fed up with the high cost, the outdated investment philosophy and the lack of transparency associated with their own retirement products, the founders of fairr.de, Jens Jennissen, Dr. Alexander Kihm and Ambros Gleissner, decided to structure and offer their own pension products. They founded fairr.de at the end of 2013 and launched it in July 2014. The first product, called fairriester, is a fully licensed “Riester” product, which uses all available tax incentives. Its costs are one-third of the cost of comparable products and it is based on state-of-the-art asset management. The product is available online and through independent financial advisers. The product has been extensively tested, featured and recommended by the press and pension experts. 2015 will see the expansion of the product range to other retirement savings solutions, making fairr.de the one-stop-shop for modern retirement saving. WWW.FAIRR.DE

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bookingkit digitalizes the leisure business and local activities â&#x20AC;&#x201C; the third enormous market in the tourism sector (besides flights and hotels). The B2B software-as-aservice solution is an all-in-one management solution for small businesses. It enables and handles online bookings for providers. It also works as a middleware between providers, platforms and marketplaces (like TripAdvisor) in order to match availabilities across various channels and to optimize sales. Simply: It is an ERP and GDS system for leisure and pleasure providers. Founded in mid-2014 by Christoph Kruse and Lukas C. C. Hempel, the startup has grown strongly in the last months and obtained multiple awards. Hundreds of B2B customers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland use the software to digitalize their business and increase sales. The company also partners with major industry players. In addition to the large German-speaking market, the Berlin startup will go international in 2016.

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On the site of a 19th-century former Brewery is now the varied event space, Kulturbrauerei, with beautiful industrial architecture. In six courtyards with over 20 buildings you can find a cinema, theater, clubs (Frannz, Soda), art and dance classes as well as various other cultural facilites and spaces. www.kulturbrauerei.de

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The extensive Rehberge park landscape offers its visitors many places of interest besides beautiful meadows: an open air cinema, animal enclosures, gastronomy, sports field and a stadium. There are three lakes within the park and Rehberge also adjoins Plรถtzensee, a popular bathing lake.

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Every woman in the world wants to look attractive, and in a saturated market of hairstylists and make-up artists it is extremely difficult to find a trustworthy professional. “We launched Savvie in mid-2014 to give women access to a curated roster of proven beauty professionals who are already in demand for fashion shows, TV and high-class clients.“ A prospective client is faced with a wedding, gala or rendezvous, goes to our website, chooses a look and hairstyle and books it. Savvie instantly connects the professional and the client to set up a meeting at home or in a hotel. Currently, Savvie can be booked in Berlin and Munich and will fully serve clients in five major German cities in late 2015. In 2016, Savvie will be bookable in every major German city. The same year, a website dedicated to Savvie‘s corporate clients will be launched followed by an expansion into major European cities. Savvie Corporate will also serve trade shows, press conferences, live TV events and board meetings. WWW.SAVVIE.DE 165

Early last year, Philipp GĂśtting had the vision of bringing community spirit back to neighborhoods. Consequently, he and AndrĂŠ Dieling founded WirNachbarn. com last summer. Neighbors and neighborhood communities use WirNachbarn to interact and to support each other. More precisely, they ask for recommendations (good plumber? trustworthy babysitter?), share observations (playground demolished: have you seen something?), support each other (who can lend me a drill?) and give away the things they no longer need. In addition, neighbors can utilize platform functions like groups and event creation to organize street feasts or share announcements. Most important and unique: users have to validate their identity. This feature allows WirNachbarn a rightful claim to having "real neighbors, with real names" and not only face accounts. WWW.WIRNACHBARN.COM

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Landsberger Allee crosses through five districts and with a length of 11 km, it is one of the longest streets in Berlin. Throughout history, the name and course of the street was changed several times. Already in the Middle Ages, it was an important long distance road to Brandenburg.

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PubNative is a technology platform enabling mobile publishers to easily earn revenue by implementing native advertising into their apps and mobile websites. The company was founded in July 2014 by Ionut Ciobotaru and Eddie de Guia. Strengthened by their experience in the mobile ad-tech space, the founders realized that advertising on mobile devices was often detrimental to the user experience and harmful to retention. PubNative was therefore founded with the mission to make mobile advertising blend with the mobile experience, which only native advertising can offer. PubNative has now grown to become a multinational company strong of 30 people, with additional offices in San Francisco, Seoul and Beijing. The company currently works with more than 120 publishers globally across all app verticals, helping them to make money efficiently from their products. PubNative plans to keep on working to further improve its technology and make mobile monetization even easier, more pleasant and more efficient.

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The unusual 25hours Hotel Bikini located next to the Zoo combines modern design, culture and jungle feeling. Of the 149 rooms, half of them are jungle-themed. The top floor Monkey Bar and its sundowner terrace offer a panoramic view of the Zoo and the city. www.25hours-hotels.com

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Well-known from the movie Run Lola Run, the beautiful neo-gothic vault brigde Oberbaumbrücke connects Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg. Since the two districts were formerly divided by the Berlin Wall, the bridge has become a significant symbol of Berlin‘s unity.

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OptioPay is an online payment platform which processes payments from companies to customers, employees or partners. Such payments include everything from payroll, returns, cancellations, refunds and many more.Recipients can combine bank transfer with higher-value gift cards to increase the value of their payment. For instance, a 100 € payment can be split into a 50 € bank transfer and a 60 € gift card, hereby increasing the value by 10 %. Giftcard partners include Zalando, Amazon, Westwing and many more. Companies increase customer and employee satisfaction and lowers costs. Individuals enjoy more value and increased flexibility. Advertisers win new customers and convert all kinds of payments into their revenue. OptioPay founder Marcus Börner encountered the potentials related to B2C payments in his former company reBuy.com. OptioPay is backed with venture capital from Germany’s top investors like KfW Bankengruppe and Commerzbank. WWW.OPTIOPAY.COM

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The Jewish Museum is one of the largest Jewish museums in Europe with two milennia of German-Jewish history on permanent display as well as in temporary exhibitions. It consists of two buildings: an old baroque building and a newer addition in deconstructivism style built by architect Daniel Libeskind. www.jmberlin.de 174

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TAILOR & TALES Their goal is simple, eliminate standard sizes by creating individual sizes for consumers. Personal sizes can now be seamlessly integrated into the production of well-known brands. In this new world, consumers can have their own size created using a simple online app. Tailor & Tales crunches the numbers using their algorithm and millions of data points to produce an individual size. Production has been optimized to an impressive degree, enabling retail prices in line with those of ready-to-wear. The consumer receives his personally made garment and is confident of the fit. Their smart service is clean and convenient, protecting both the consumer and retailer from unnecessary waste. The idea was conceived two years ago by founder Bobby Ă&#x2013;stberg, ex McKinsey NY and former Swedish athlete. Today he is realizing his vision, Tailor & Tales currently hold over 5000 individual sizes. With this number increasing, they are able to produce together with numerous significant brands and reach Germany, Sweden and beyond.

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Zionskirche was built in 1872 in the neo-romantic style and bombed and plundered during World War II. Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was involved in resistance movements during the war, worked here throughout the 1930s. Now, the church is not only a place of worship, but also of great historical interest. 176

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Founded in July 2014, Sixtyone Minutes is the first mobile assistant service in Germany. A mobile app connects users to personal assistants. These can take care of tasks such as booking flights or hotels while users can focu s on the important things in life. Applying knowledge from a B2C execution, they deve loped Sixtyone Business Solutions. The soft ware can be adapted to B2B clientâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s needs and gives companies an opportunity to amaze their clients and employees by providing personal assistant services executed by Sixtyone. Ther e is a skilled, dynamic and efficient team beh ind the brand: Monique, experienced in ope rations and process management, is responsible for the product and support team. Alex take s care of project management, controlling and finan ce after working in PwC advisory for 5 year s. The former founder of jobad-partner, Mich ael is now the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s sales and marketing person.

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room.me is a company with offices in Berlin and San Francisco. Just like online dating platforms, room.me connects the perfect roommates by using personality matching. room.meâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s mission and desire is to help people live together, especially in large urban areas. It makes it a lot easier to find like-minded people to create that feeling of home and takes the hassle out of the roommate search process. It allows to get in touch with prospective roommates safely. There are many roommate finders and room booking services but none of them applies a personal dimension which is essential when it comes to looking for new roommates or rooms. room.me launched in the San Francisco Bay Area in July 2015 and is currently expanding to whole of California.

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Parties, concerts, exhibits and much more can be enjoyed in Fluxbau right at the Spree in Kreuzberg. With its terrace over the water and its diverse program, it is a popular hangout, especially for Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s creative scene. That is not all: you can rent boats and obtain a boating license here. www.fluxbau.de

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Tandemploy makes job-sharing easy and fun. At the heart of the idea is the world‘s first job-sharing platform Tandemploy.com, where people find the perfect tandem partner to share a job with – and meet companies open towards job-sharing. A matching algorithm brings together the perfect tandems. The idea came up in the last job held by Anna Kaiser and Jana Tepe as recruitment consultants. Increasingly, applicants asked them for „cool part-time jobs“ which hardly existed on the job market. A „tandem application“ with two candidates applying for one full-time job together totally changed their perspective. Anna and Jana founded Tandemploy in 2013 and soon got support from Tandemploy‘s CTO Rico Nuguid. Today, well-known companies from small to large use Tandemploy to find and keep talent. Many new job-sharers are registering every day. Behind Tandemploy, there is the vision of a world in which people achieve more with less – but more clever! – work. Anna and Jana share the position as CEO. WWW.TANDEMPLOY.COM

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The beautiful Körnerpark in Neukölln resembles a palace garden and has a cascade with fountains in the east. The greenhouse or orangery in the west of the park includes a gallery for temporary exhibitions and a café. In summer, you can enjoy free concerts and performances in the court yard of the orangery. www.körnerpark.de

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Wunderflats offers furnished apartments for stays of 1 month or longer. Launched in January 2015, they are today already in 8 cities with thousands of apartments. These are verified by Wunderflats photographers who take accurate pictures. This way expats, freelancers and job starters can book their home as seen on the Wunderflats website. We all know how hard it is to find a temporary apartment in a foreign city. The team behind Wunderflats wants to change this. Their vision is to enable everyone to live and work anywhere. The founders behind Wunderflats are Jan Hase (CEO) and Arkadi Jampolski (Managing Director). They started in August 2014 in the Microsoft Accelerator, secured 100,000â&#x201A;Ź from Hasso Plattner Ventures as a grant and closed an early stage round this summer. In 2015, they focus on the German market and 2016 Wunderflats will expand to major cities in Europe. WWW.WUNDERFLATS.COM

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Central Kino exists at Hackescher Markt since 1996. It is an arthouse cinema showing unique premieres and movie program surprises. Due to its integration into “Haus Schwarzenberg”, a non-profit organization formed by the artist group “Dead Chickens”, the cinema is part of a unique artistic surrounding. www.kino-central.de

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Marley Spoon makes it easy to cook a delicious meal at home by delivering tasty recipes and fresh ingredients directly to your door. With Marley Spoon, leave behind the hassle of supermarkets, say goodbye to food waste and fall in love with cooking all over again. Launched in 2014, Marley Spoon has a reach of 217 million households worldwide. Operating in the US, UK, Germany, Australia and the Netherlands, founders Fabian Siegel and Till Neatby draw from deep experience in food and technology to guide their international team of over one hundred food-loving staff. Marley Spoon is a flexible subscription, enabling members to order as often or as little as they want. Conveniently delivered recipe boxes are packed full of seasonal produce and chef-designed recipes, which are broken down into six easy-to-follow steps. As the team at Marley Spoon likes to say: Cook, relax and enjoy! WWW.MARLEYSPOON.DE

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We do not build time machines, but… we do have exciting technologies and innovative ideas! Time Change is not your ordinary event shack, it has developed its own philosophy: jazzy, smart, new era. „New technologies, smart concepts and an amazing team – that is our winning formula!“, explains Franziska Müller, co-founder of this outstanding event shack from Berlin. The growing team of (presently) six members is specialized in project management, event industry, media and web design and IT development. Time Change plans, customizes and executes events that create WOW moments. Time Change was founded in March 2013 and operates since then within the Berlin market, in Germany, all of Europe and in the whole world. A-Z event management; DMC and event analyses; innovative presentation support such as augmented reality, video mapping or interactive voting; online registration and participant management: Time Change offers the all-round service package! WWW.TIME-CHANGE.DE

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Enjoy sunny days in Berlin while working in a cool rooftop terrace instead of working in a hot box. This new 280 m² co-working space offers moderate rates, extra services and an additional 100 m² outdoor space. Roof Up is also able to host various events such as workshops, meetings and more. www.roof-up.com

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Named after philosopher and author Walter Benjamin, this Charlottenburg city square lay waste since 1900 and was used as a parking lot. Redesigned in 2001 by the famous architect Hans Kollhoff, the square has now an elegant design, framed by colonnades and featuring a trick water fountain.

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InnovationLabs.Berlin is the link between startups and SMEs, for all players to benefit. Startups gain funding, customer access, solutions for problems as well as the space, framework and connections to develop successful businesses. SMEs gain access to untapped domain expertise and unique entrepreneurial talent. They also get many impulses to advance their innovation capabilities and culture. Last but not least, they obtain preferential access to cutting edge products, services, processes or business models needed to deliver growth aspirations or solve strategic challenges, like Industrie 4.0.

Established small and medium size enterprises (SME) do not have the resources to start innovation centers, startup accelerators or incubators. Nevertheless, they also aim at developing and establishing new products, services, processes or business models and search for value adding solutions, transformative processes and a sustainable innovation culture. Often, their goal is to position new products or services faster than anyone else into their global markets, enabling profitable growth built on strong existing supply positions. Today, their innovation success is mostly based on specific expertise, their ability to closely listen to and serve their customers, and on the manner in which they encourage the ideas of highly talented employees. Tomorrow, they will invest in promising new ideas provided by startups.

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InnovationLabs.Berlin offers startups as well as small and medium size businesses an independent springboard to win new markets. As full service provider for startup incubation, InnovationLabs.Berlin is the first to offer outsourcing solutions to enterprises who either lack the required resources or want flexible models. InnovationLabs.Berlin significantly improves the return on invest for established businesses and accelerates startup chances for success. The process helps to select highly promising ideas and turn them into valuable solutions while boosting validated business models and their integration into existing business processes. w w w.InnovationLabs.Berlin designed and operated by Cyoneer GmbH

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Named after painter Otto Modersohn, the Modersohn Bridge was built in its current form in 2002. There is very little traffic on the bridge which makes it easy to enjoy a beautiful view of the sunset over the city. It is built over railroad tracks, which makes the view to the west almost unobstructed.

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TestObject was founded in 2012 by the Berlin Business School graduates in Business Computing Hannes Lenke and Andreas L端deke, who wanted to make the life of app developers and testers easier. The company provides a SaaS platform with hundreds of real devices, accessible directly from any browser, where developers can upload their apps onto devices and see if and how they perform. Along with the devices, the company offers several testing tools to check the app functionality from all angles. The idea started to take hold after the founders began working for different companies like SAP, IBM and Lufthansa, noticing the lack of suitable mobile app testing tools. Then and there, they decided to join their technical superpowers and make a difference in the mobile app world. TestObject customers include startups like komoot and 6Wunderkinder, but the big leagues as well, like Bosch, Philips and Creditreform, trust this startup with their mobile app testing.

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Looplineâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s founders Nora Heer and Christian Kaller are no strangers to the challenges attached to building a performance management system. They combine more than ten years of HR experience with a background of working in both tech startups and leading corporations. Loopline was built from the internal need to improve people management and development back when they were in Project A Ventures. However, it soon became obvious: More companies are confronted with the same challenges and a company was born. Their vision is to create a healthy and vital feedback culture for companies â&#x20AC;&#x201C; enabling them to perform at their best with highly motivated and strongly developed employees as the basis for business success. Companies obtain easy and efficient guidance throughout the whole feedback process: setting objectives, collecting feedback, doing the appraisal interview and starting development. Loopline helps managers affirm their leadership and employees grow. WWW.LOOPLINE-SYSTEMS.COM

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Rivalfox helps marketers improve content marketing with actionable and data-driven insights. Marketers can use Rivalfox to automatically monitor competitors and the market on over 15 different digital marketing channels. Content from various channels like social media, newsletter, traffic sources, display ads and SEO among others, are analyzed by Rivalfox. This convenient solution makes it simple to identify engaging topics and tactics for each digital channel. Marketers can easily create benchmark reports of their own content marketing efforts and see how they perform against their market and competitors. By concentrating on the right content and not on more content, marketers will be able to focus and work more effectively and achieve better results. Rivalfox was founded 2013 by Anas Salem, Paul Chun and Oleksandr Ivanov. The multinational startup employs people and serves customers from all over the globe. The company is funded by various business angels, such as KIMA Ventures and BFB.

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With an area of 430.000â&#x20AC;&#x2030;mÂ˛, Westhafen is the largest harbor in Berlin. After many difficulties, construction began in 1914 but quickly came to a halt due to World War I. In 1923 BEHALA (Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s harbor and storage corporation) was founded as the operating company and the harbor was opened.

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The beautiful King’s Colonnades were completed in 1780 to be used as a roofed hall for the King’s Bridge. In 1910, the bridge was sacrificed for the construction of the Alexanderplatz station, and the colonnades were later moved to the Heinrich-von-Kleist Park, where they can still be seen today.

While some aspects of our daily life already live up to what was considered sci-fi only two decades ago, others disappointingly lag behind. When the two friends Rin and Angelo realized smart home was one of these unfulfilled promises, they decided to get to work. Combining their skills in hardware engineering and software development, they built their first prototypes in the back room of a Berlin hackerspace. With Dilan taking care of business and Nadine developing the UX, what started as a pet project soon became a fully-fledged successfully funded startup. swocket’s mission is to make the smart home fun – by providing a chat-based interface for smart devices. The idea came up during a trip to China where chatbased services are becoming increasingly popular. When ordering pizza can be as simple and fun as texting a friend, why not set up your smart home the same way? The idea not only appeals to smart home enthusiasts: swocket is one of four teams in the Deutsche Bahn accelerator.

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AdmiralbrĂźcke, constructed in 1882, is now the oldest iron bridge to span Landwehrkanal. It developed into a popular nightly meeting point which was even mentioned in city guides. Due to complaints from local residents, a curfew was established: From 10 p.m. onwards, party guests have to leave the bridge.

When thinking about retargeting, do you have just display and social media in mind? Many companies invest in driving traffic to their website but everyday over 90% of visitors leave the site without being convinced. Whichever goal the company pursues (sales, signups, etc.) Remintrex identifies up to 20% of unknown website visitors and reaches them with the right message via e-mail. One single integration multiple enables other retargeting channels like web-to-print and sms retargeting, all tools to help convert lost visitors into new customers. Remintrex is a service of SmartUp Venture GmbH, started at the end of 2013 by Florian Werner and Rafael Razim. In one and a half year, the Berlin-based startup gained more than 400 clients spread over 30 countries. E-mail retargeting, Remintrex`s core product, is already used by hundreds of international advertisers to boost their conversions. 202

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Imagine there is the right space for every idea out there: a place to hold a test run for the latest food trend, to start an emerging fashion brand or to set up the next brilliant marketing coup. Finding these suitable vacant spaces and making them easily available for booking is the core business of Go-PopUp, a marketplace to find and rent short-term retail space for pop-up stores. Since its foundation by Sven Straubinger, Dennis Boehres and Patrick Burkert in 2013, brands and makers from all over the world can find flexible space with Go-PopUp. “It’s not just about any empty space, it’s about the right one.” The startup helps customers reach their target groups in the offline world, like Google does online. Beyond matchmaking, Go-PopUp supports businesses with its wide network of partners – from the location to the final opening. Go-PopUp connects a growing global community and supports creative exchange of pop-up ideas. The vision? Making offline retail accessible for everyone. WWW.GOPOPUP.COM

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Karakulowa is a young fashion label that wants to change consumption behavior in this throw-away society. Lilija Meier designs unisex shirts with various patterns made out of grandmother‘s old bedlinen. She sells the shirts in her shop in Gräfe Street together with other sustainably produced items. www.karakulowa.de

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Bitbond is the first global marketplace lender for small business loans. The platform leverages bitcoin as an open source technology and payment network. This way everyone who has access to the Internet can get an affordable loan and earn attractive interest rates through Bitbond. By connecting borrowers and lenders from around the world, one of Bitbondâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s primary goals is to help close an estimated funding gap of $â&#x20AC;&#x2030;2 trillion in the micro, small and medium-sized enterprises segment. Bitbond applies an innovative scoring mechanism to assess the creditworthiness of borrowers. Online sellers connect accounts like eBay, PayPal and others to signal their repayment ability. The data is evaluated through machine learning. Bitbond also calls itself the #unbank. Unlike many other Fintech startups, Bitbond uses bitcoin as its only financial infrastructure and is therefore entirely independent of banks or other third parties. WWW.BITBOND.COM Built in 1877, the water tower in Prenzlauer Berg is the oldest one in Berlin and has survived a dark past to become a popular picnic spot and vineyard today. It also houses several apartments.

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BuddyGuard believes that home security should be intelligent, easy and affordable. It should protect you and your home all by itself, without compromising your privacy. Most of all, security should be hassle-free: Gone are the days of endless cables, seven digit codes and unappealing hardware. Based on these convictions, BuddyGuard was founded in 2014. Herbert Hellemann, Wouter Verhoog and George Platon made it their mission to gap the bridge between old-school security solutions like Abus and lifestyle devices like Canary. According to Wouter, their COO with a background in Marketing and Business Development: "Security should not be complicated nor time-consuming. This is why we designed Flare to do all the surveillance, prevention and follow-up on its own. Flare is stacked with powerful hardware and advanced artificial intelligence." BuddyGuard recently raised â&#x201A;Ź160.000 in pre-orders on Kickstarter and are now talking with major partners and resellers in Europe and the United States. WWW.BUDDYGUARD.IO

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Located at Spree Island, Nikolaiviertel is the historical heart of Berlin. At its center, the Nikolai Church, Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest church. After vast destruction in World War II, the ruins were rebuilt in the 1980s attempting a replica of the beautiful historical models.

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In January 2015, five founders started Teamplace with the mission of making file sharing and collaboration among teams easier than ever before. From their headquarters in Berlin’s Moabit district comes a new and practical approach to the classic file sharing concept. In addition to permanent 10GB of personal storage, the solution provides boundless storage for short-term team projects to unlimited numbers of members. The clear separation of personal from shared storage and the fact that the shared content is later completely deleted from the cloud, are among the solution’s many highlights. With the founding of the spin-off in June 2015, the team behind Teamplace focused on the core business and launched apps (web, iOS, Android) for live operation aimed at end users and SMEs. Already with a five-digit user count, Teamplace is shaking up the cloud storage market by breaking new ground. WWW.TEAMPLACE.NET 213

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The last Spree bridge of old Berlin, Gotzkowskybrüc ke, connects the city districts Moabit and Charlottenburg. It was named after the 18th century Prussian merchant Johann Ernst Gotzkowsky, who bought and expanded the Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin from Frederick the Great.

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Make booking an intercity bus ticket as easy as booking a flight, this is the vision of the B2B travel tech startup Distribusion. Founded in November 2012 by Julian Hauck and Johannes Thunert, the company raised a seven-digit seed round in December 2014. Since then, Distribusion has brought more than 100 intercity bus operators on board throughout 25 European and Asian countries. Comparable to Global Distribution Systems such as Amadeus and Sabre, Distribusionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s technology enables intercity bus operators to partner with travel resellers, such as agencies, travel websites and mobility apps worldwide, without the effort of acquiring and managing them mutually. Based on its scalable technology and the keen interest of travel resellers and bus operators abroad, Distribusion aims to continue its rapid growth and enter the top 20 intercity bus markets outside of Europe in 2016. WWW.DISTRIBUSION.COM

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The Reichstag building in neo-renaissance style was built in the late 19th century. Heavily damaged by the Reichstag fire and during World War II, it was rebuilt after Berlin was again made into seat of government. The building gained international fame due to Christoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s art project Wrapped Reichstag.

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For companies, DecidR is mobile real-time market research based on DecidR’s social network. Their approach is fast, inexpensive and brings companies two more advantages: high quality answers and an additional advertising appeal. By asking the DecidR community, the user can solve everyday questions like: “Should I buy the blue or the red shirt?”, “Which movie should we see at the cinema?”. The community votes for one of the given options and the user gets the result back on his phone in two minutes. It is a new, fun and social way to communicate with friends and the rest of the world. The brothers Niklas and Tobias Kirschnick founded DecidR in May 2014 during a scholarship of the Beuth University. The app is ready and available in Google’s Play Store for free. Now, the focus is on user growth. In 2016, DecidR will start to conduct its market research in cooperation with selected pilot customers. In addition, DecidR is open to cooperation with strategic partners and investors. WWW.DECIDR-APP.COM

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The Spandau Citadel is one of the best preserved Renaissance military structures of Europe. The adjacent Juliusturm offers a panoramic view over Spandau right up to Tegel and City West. The former fortress now houses museums and art schools and is famous for its openair concerts. www.zitadelle-spandau.de

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Rosenthaler Platz is a traffic junction in Mitte It was in San Francisco 2008, and was one of the main showplaces in VonChurch Inc. opened its doors. The Döberlin’s “Berlin Alexanderplatz”. In goal was simple: Create the most respected the book, it is described as a shopinternational Digital Economy Staffing agency ping and nightlife center. Not in the world. Over the years they have created the much has changed and today world’s largest talent hub specialised in Digital Economy, it is a hub for popular supporting and connecting the industry they love. Having restaurants and cafés. grown the reputation in the US, it became clear international was the next step. In 2012 Jeremy del Guidici was hired to build out the European office. From the geographical, cultural and growth perspective it was an obvious choice, and due to the sheer number of startups, Berlin became home. They opened up European office in January 2013 and successfully brought the VonChurch brand to the most innovative and respected companies all over the continent. They are a quality driven recruiting firm, which delivers an efficient service tailored to their clients.Their mission is to revolutionize the way people think about recruiting within the Digital Economy in Europe. WWW.VONCHURCH.COM

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TRUFFLS Most companies perceive HR and recruiting as a cost factor. Truffls works toward making it a competitive advantage. The three founders Clemens, Matthes and Tobias have built a platform that makes things much easier for everyone involved in the recruiting process. For this, they make use of advanced natural language procession technology as well as sophisticated matching algorithms and recommendation engines. Using an intuitive web platform, companies can find the best talents with almost no effort. Candidates can also find the most exciting vacancies at the hottest companies with a mobile app that has come to be known as the Tinder for jobs. Just a year after its founding in 2014, Truffls GmbH is proud to serve hundreds of paying customers, among them large DAX companies as well as up-and-coming startups while looking forward to increase the already large number of job seekers using the app. WWW.TRUFFLS.DE

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In the 18th century, the Invalidenpark was conceived as a healing kitchen garden for war-wounded soldiers housed nearby. It was turned into a park in 1843. Destroyed in World War II, neglected during GDR times, it was redesigned in the mid-90s into a public space rich in history.

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With a rapidly growing global network of more than 25,000 approved photographers, PicsaStock allows clients to book the most suitable photographer for their project within their budget. Newspapers and magazines can find photographers globally to shoot exclusive photos in response to their brief. Advertising and marketing professionals, big corporations as well as small businesses are able to compare and hire photo-graphers for their project, product or event shoots. PicsaStock offers fantastic opportunities for professional and skilled non-professional photographers to earn money with freelance jobs on a daily basis and by selling authentic photos as stock imagery. PicsaStock takes care of all legal aspects and ensures easy and secure payment. With a vast growing number of shoots and photographers, PicsaStock's goal is to be the go-to place for photographers to earn money through their skills, and for anyone who needs photos for their business. Picsa-Stock was founded by AndrĂŠ Lutter.

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Kaffeebar in Kreuzberg is an agreeable cafĂŠ with a comfortab le atmosphere and good coffee. Th e interior is simple and cozy with some couches, pillows and tables. Besides the usual coffee house treats, Kaffeeb ar also offers an assortment of tas ty gluten-free and vegan breads and cakes. www.kaffeebar-berlin .com

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Klarensee is a small, rather isolated lake in the heart of „Alter Park“, behind the old village church in Tempelhof. The church itself was constructed in the 13th century. Due to its parks, idyllic landscapes and architecture, the area of Alt-Tempelhof is definitely worth a visit in summer.

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The team are expert curators and only collaborate with the most-loved restaurants in European cities. They know the best places to eat and share that knowledge with customers so they can also enjoy good food at home or at work. foodora was founded in October 2014 by Konstantin Mehl (CEO), Emanuel Pallua (COO), Manuel Thurner (CTO), Stefan Rothlehner (Head of Development), and Sergei Krauze (Head of Algorithm). Julian Dames (CMO) joined as Managing Director in 2015. After enjoying early success in Munich, the founders turned their attention to the rest of Germany, rolling out to Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Cologne and Düsseldorf. In the first half of 2015, they introduced foodora to the people of Amsterdam, Paris, Milan, Barcelona, Madrid, Stockholm, Vienna, Helsinki and Oslo and now feed thousands of Europeans each week. They are now looking to expand to other markets where there is a developing appetite for on-demand food delivery. WWW.FOODORA.DE

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“FOUND AS A TEAM AND LOVE WHAT YOU DO“ Ten years ago, Martin Brüggemann, Jan Christe and Andreas Lenz founded yeebase media and published the first edition of the t3n magazine for digital business. Ten years later, the company is still managed by the founders. 35 employees work for the publisher now. Which tips would these three provide for other founders? WHICH GROWTH HACKS WERE THE MOST VALUABLE IN THESE TEN YEARS AS ENTREPRENEURS, AND WHY? Andreas Lenz: In order to create an extended range for our brand and our first print edition, we started a blog and newsletter via t3n.de on May, 1st 2005, supplying our target group with news on a daily basis. The blog rapidly gained popularity via mailing lists and the then-popular „Google Alerts“ via specific keywords, and became our prime onboarding method. Today we would probably call the blog a growth hack, but the most effective hack took place around one month later. We used our established range together with press releases to give away around 1,000 free copies of the t3n magazine No. 1. The response was intense. Also thanks to articles such as those from our esteemed colleagues from Golem.de who, back then, headlined „T3N – TYPO3 gets a print magazine“. This all meant that our database was filled up very quickly. DID YOU RECEIVE A BUSINESS GRANT OR OTHER SUBSIDIES IN THE BEGINNING? Jan Christe: Yes, we did. We won a total of four start-up prizes, some of which were money and some contributions in kind such as cheap office spaces or coaching. But of course they weren‘t simply given to us – we had to make a pitch and present our business concept in detail. DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD HAVE FOUNDED THE BUSINESS OR CONTINUED WITHOUT A SUBSIDY? Jan Christe: Absolutely. We only got the subsidy after we had started and after the first edition of the t3n magazine was published. Besides that, only companies that are capable of surviving without any subsidies are supported. This kind of support basically just accelerates the start and makes it easier.

YOU‘RE NOT ONLY JOURNALISTS BUT ENTREPRENEURS. WHAT EXPERIENCES HAVE YOU GONE THROUGH IN THIS SECTOR? WHAT ADVICE CAN YOU GIVE TO FUTURE FOUNDERS? Andreas Lenz: 1. Do everything with a sense of passion and love what you do. 2. Create an environment that you enjoy every day – for example friendly colleagues, a cool office or flexible work times. 3. Always welcome feedback and keep a close eye on role models and mentors. 4. Perfection is a time killer – concentrate on what‘s important and also be satisfied with 90 %. 5. Create an authentic, friendly brand that people can easily relate to. Key terms: openness, community, transparency, likeability, love brand. 6. Found as a team and not on your own! Our founding team with various sets of skills consisting of Martin (CTO), Jan (Chief Editor) and myself (Sales and Marketing guy) is probably the most high-performance motor you could desire. 7. Face risks, have the courage to make mistakes and learn from them. 8. Create as much space as possible for your employees and a surrounding where mistakes are allowed. 9. Don‘t forget to celebrate success, respect your partners and compliment your colleagues as much as possible. 10. You make progress in the niches and in grey areas. Always keep your eyes open for innovations, new gaps and growth hacks. You can find the complete interview (in German) here: http://t3n.me/1gzbw1y

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Tilla-Durieux-Park, not far from Potsdamer Platz, consists of two upwardly sloping lawns that turn on their axes. The architects designed the park to „roll“ from east to west to remind of the city‘s eventful history. The park is equipped with five see-saws made of 20 metre long metal bars.

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Fitting is the key to success in fashion business. Phizzard’s touchscreens show customers in fitting rooms the sizes and colors in which selected articles are available. They are also useful when recommending clients additional items that may be combined with their choices. Without having to leave the fitting room, shop assistants bring the selected items. In addition, Phizzard tracks complete in-store customer journey and offers retailers data to improve their business. Peer, Stefan, Martin and Jan founded the company in April 2014. Two months later, they released the first prototype of their interactive touchscreen application for fitting rooms. Meanwhile, they also developed a successful solution for shoe retailers and agreed to cooperations with big companies like Arvato, DZ Bank and First Data. In May 2015, Phizzard’s innovative solution won the “Best in eCommerce Award”. After releasing a self-checkout, one of the next steps will be to join Phizzard with a CRM loyalty program for the point of sale. WWW.PHIZZARD.COM

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Lifestyle products – Handmade in Berlin. Not in 广东省. Small and reduced with fancy designs: Such is the new accessory collection of Paprcuts, Berlin. Made of tearproof paper – it is super thin, light as a feather, even waterproof and lasts forever! Do we surprise you by saying it is recycled and also 100% recyclable? Awesome stuff made by the Berliners! Made to add more color to your pants. Have a look at the nice wallets, super thin Smartphone covers, laundry bags, crazy tobacco pouches, slim credit card wallets, fine cosmetic bags... Furthermore: Everything is handmade in Berlin. Not in 广东省. Why? Because it is possible to produce regionally. Working conditions should be healthy, safe and fair. That is what Paprcuts stands for. Paprcuts are sold already in over 30 countries. Quite an achievement, don‘t you think? WWW.PAPRCUTS.DE

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The ‘Luisenstädtische’ Canal was partly filled-in in 1926, except for the central canal Angel’s basin (Engelbecken). Recently, the basin and the canal in the surrounding area have been reconstructed into a beautiful park, perfect for a Sunday stroll. Some nice cafés and restaurants round off the area.

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Young, business-savvy trio Lea Lange, Marc Pohl and Sebastian Hasebrink founded Junique to provide people with a destination to discover affordable art by empowering independent and talented artists to make a living doing what they love. Junique’s vision is to bring art into people’s everyday life. The brand’s top priorities include making carefully curated art accessible and affordable. The brand supports new and emerging artists and presents a constant stream of exciting collections to suit various tastes. Artworks are not only available on canvas or as posters, but can also be found printed on fashionable attire, tech and home accessories. Junique is growing its network of artists as it stimulates fresh talent: artists profit from each sale and can achieve a wider reach with the help of Junique’s engaging social media actions. WWW.JUNIQE.COM

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Green, artsy or industrial: Berlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2DC;s courtyards are as diverse as the city itself. As the population grew in the 19th century, more living space was needed. Thus, rear buildings were built for poorer population groups. Now the yards are popular and contribute to the attractiveness of the city.

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Lesara is the leading online retailer for amazing fashion and lifestyle merchandise at best prices. The company offers a wide selection of in-demand fast fashion, shoes and accessories, home and lifestyle products. By sourcing directly from some of the best manufacturers, Lesara can offer highly competitive price points while maintaining great quality levels. The opening of a sourcing, quality control and fulfillment office in China in 2015 enabled the company to respond even quicker to lifestyle and fashion trends and deliver highly sought-after products with minimal lead-times to its customers. Lesara was founded in 2013 by serial entrepreneur Roman Kirsch (CEO) and his co-founders Matthias Wilrich (COO) and Robin Müller (CTO) and has grown significantly over the past 2 years. With more than 100 employees, 2 offices, the expansion into 6 markets and more than 30,000 products on the site, the company has been named as one of the fastest and hottest startups in Europe. WWW.LESARA.DE

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HomeToGo is the world’s largest metasearch engine for vacation rentals. Partnering with over 150 vacation rental websites, HomeToGo displays millions of offers on rentals in over 200 countries. The company was founded in 2014 by Patrick Andrä, Wolfgang Heigl and Nils Regge, who are experts in the fields of travel technology, tourism and e-commerce. Wolfgang Heigl previously founded the leading German flight comparison website Swoodoo (acquired by Kayak). Nils Regge founded the vacation rental portal Casamundo, which he later sold to the Dutch @Leisure group. HomeToGo CEO Patrick Andrä previously led business development for leading German online furniture retailer Home24, a Rocket Internet company. HomeToGo makes it quick and easy to search and compare vacation rentals from around the world. The startup is currently focused on rapid international expansion, having already launched in major European markets and the USA. WWWW.HOMETOGO.DE

The Freie Internationale Tankstelle (gas station) has stood since 2003 for art communicating ideas of individual and societal concerns. The mission is to reclaim the abandoned architecture of gas stations and to explore the full spectrum of human and societal creativity. www.f-i-t.org

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On its mission to enable ambitious brands and retailers to become category leaders in e-commerce, Spryker Systems offers a powerful and truly agile commerce software. The technology company was founded in 2014 by serial entrepreneurs Alexander Graf and Nils Seebach as well as early-stage investor and company builder Project A Ventures. Spryker’s CTO Fabian Wesner had previously developed the commerce framework internally at Project A to drive growth and innovation for the investor’s in-house ventures. The modularized architecture provides a game-changing flexibility in this fast-paced market environment – so that Spryker’s clients can master data-based decision-making, high productivity, strong growth and internationalization. With a solid business model, the company was able to win a group of prestigious investors in a Series A financing round. Spryker has a team of 40 employees, located in Berlin and Hamburg. To learn more, visit www.spryker.com and follow @sprysys on twitter. WWW.SPRYKER.COM

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They were right at the center of Europe’s party capital: Berlin. A bunch of friends throwing the biggest parties in town. Quickly, they saw the value of using Facebook to spread the word about their events and decided to make it a business. Today, they help over a thousand clubs and festivals worldwide to promote their events to just the right people – all on Facebook. How? For every event, their Facebook promotion veterans create great ads and identify the right audiences. Afterwards, the learning magic begins: testing new audiences based on the best performing results, placement and fully-automated adjustments on bids and budgets for maximum performance. The result: more guests at the event, more tickets sold and more money with less work for their clients. WWW.ABEND.NET

Built on the remains of the former Brommy Bridge, the 100 m² big Spreebalkon (balcony) in Kreuzberg seems to float over the Spree. From this distinctive observation point, you have a broad view over the river and the Friedrichshain riverside. Starry nights can be enjoyed as well thanks to spotlights.

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Monoqi is the online destination for handpicked design. Founded in 2012 by Felix Schlegel (MD) and Simon Fabich (CEO), the Berlin-based company offers a curated selection of exceptional products by international interior, tech and accessory designers. Registered members have access to more than 100 new design products every day and benefit from exclusive prices. So far, Monoqi has introduced more than 7,500 designers to over 1 million members. It is expanding its activities to new European markets in addition to its existing base in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and the UK. Monoqi is aiming at EUR 30 million in revenue for 2015, with up to 40â&#x20AC;&#x2030;% of that amount coming from international markets. In 2014, Monoqi Business was launched as the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s first B2B marketplace for curated design. By connecting retailers and designers, the platform is reshaping the world of wholesale with one-click ordering designed to optimize global trade structures.

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Leinentausch (eng.: LeashSwap) is the online marketplace where dog owners can book peer-2-peer dog sitting services: dog walking, daycare and holiday accommodation. The problem often arises: Dog owners cannot provide adequate care 24/7 all year round. Neighborly help or nailing a note in a park tree used to provide solutions but it is becoming increasingly difficult with the changing times. Relocations, employment changes and family constellations create a new situation from one month to the next and the dog may not be brought along. The solution is to match dog loving households with the dog owners who need help via Internet, the ideal technology in this quest. The advantages: P2P accommodation is cheaper and a home environment is cozier than the standard dog hotel. The added value: the puppy gets a lot of individual attention. Leinentausch was founded in 2013 and has been part of Axel Springer Plug And Play since spring 2014. Leinentausch is the market leader in DACH and is looking forward to expand its services to other countries. WWW.LEINENTAUSCH.DE

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At the „Café der Kulturfa brik“, one may experie nce fine arts shows and politica l discuss ions and even indulge in weekly Tatort session s on a giant screen. All this, while enjoyin g drinks at modera te prices. www.ku lturfabr ik-moab it.de

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Cagebot designs modular robotics systems for industrial, educational and personal use. The product line includes a large variety of components such as sturdy bricks, powerful motors and precise sensors to support creativity and provide an educational tool for current and future generations. After working in the industrial automation business, Ringo and Kai developed Cagebot in late 2011 and founded the company in 2014. Later, the number of team members increased and the product was kickstarted to the final stage. The result was a comprehensive software framework for robotics with a manageable graphical user interface for all major mobile and desktop operating systems. Presently, Cagebot is used at workshops in schools to teach children about next generation technologies. At the same time, Cagebot started to develop industrial robots. Driven by the modular nature of their system, this technology can be exchanged between industrial, educational and personal products.

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Berlin’s flak towers were built during World War II in 1940. Three pairs of towers were erected in public parks, one of them built in Humboldthain with a connecting bunker in 1942. Since the Ringbahn closely passes by the location, not everything could be demolished and can still be visited.

Juice Dudes is a Berlin-based startup founded in October 2014 by Robert Rüter, Malte Gützlaff, and Dominik Lalla. Its mission is to provide an honest and fair product that contributes to your healthy lifestyle. The three dudes were exposed to cold pressed juice during their studies in the UK and upon their return they were surprised not to find them in German supermarkets. Aware of its various benefits, they decided to take it upon themselves to introduce the product to the German market. Cold-pressing is a technique which allows extracting liquid from leaves or roots not commonly known in juice. The result is distinct: unique flavors, maximized nutrition and a small basket of fruits and veggies in just a bottle. But – Don’t panic, it’s organic! You currently find their products in biomarkets such as Bio Company and Denns or in their online shop. In the near term, they will add selected cafes as distribution partners and will continue spreading that dudeishness among us all. WWW.JUICEDUDES.DE

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THE HUNDERT AT EVENTS THE HUNDERT WILL BE DISTRIBUTED FOR FREE, GERMANY WIDE, AND WILL BE AVAILABLE AT THE FOLLOWING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS:

From 16 to 18 September, the Software Architecture Summit will host two tracks in English and German, 12 half-day workshops, three keynotes and an exciting speaker panel. Topics include microservices, continuous design, architectural design, cloud-native architectures, enterprise integration patterns, event-driven architecture and much more!

The Industry of Things World team invites you to connect with over 500 peers from around the world. Join the event to challenge current thinking and unveil latest innovations at the only dedicated forum where all industrial Internet of Things stakeholders come together. Join expert speakers who will share best practices, talk about future developments, and discuss the potential for new and optimized business models.

www.software-architecture-summit.de www.industryofthingsworld.com

Berlin, 16.-18.09.2015

Berlin, 21.-22.09.2015

The two-day IT Conference focuses on the topic „Mail Server Management and Enterprise Messaging“, all around the solutions of Microsoft, Novell and GWAVA. Further technologies and services of GWAVACon partners will be exposed at the affiliated exhibition offering a wide selection of specialized lectures and discussions for administrators of messaging infrastructures, IT Managers, IT Consultants and Resellers.

The BPM and Integration Days will be presented by Business Technology Magazine in Berlin. Four of the best known German speaking BPM experts Torsten Winterberg, Danilo Schmiedel, Bernd Rücker and Dr. Marcus Winteroll put across how to develop process-driven IT solutions and how to apply current standards efficiently. Participants get to know the entire lifecycle of a project right up to Business Process Automation.

www.gwava.eu/gwavacon

www.bpm-integration-days.de

Berlin, 22.-23.09.2015

Berlin, 28.-29.09.2015

Join the TV ad (r)evolution Berlin – October 1st, 2015

In 2014, Gründerszene launched a new workshop day series targeted at entrepreneurs and startup employees. The aim is to offer a one-day platform for education and intense networking within one specific field of expertise. In 2015, Gründerszene offers the following workshop days: HR Day, E-Commerce Day and Legal Day. More diverse topics will follow in 2016.

Join the TV Ad (R)evolution! SCALE15 is the top conference on driving rapid growth with international TV campaigns. We strive to answer the question of how digital businesses can navigate the changing TV landscape and keep ahead of the trends. Digital commerce pioneers are invited to learn from visionaries in the field and connect with the right people to scale their business internationally.

www.gruenderszene.de/days

www.scale15.co

Berlin, 10.2015

Berlin, 1.10.2015

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This event gives makers an ideal forum where they can present their projects to the general public and get direct feedback. Many makers feel rewarded by the acknowledgement and the encouragement for their projects. Moreover, the event gives makers the opportunity to talk to other like-minded persons and interested visitors, some exhibitors’ presence has even been the beginning of a successful startup.

The training for AngularJS developers offers one track for beginners and one for advanced learners. Topics are AngularJS basics, E2E testing in AngularJS, directives in AngularJS, Ionic, AngularJS 2 and many more. AngularJS Days in combination with JavaScript Days and HTML5 Days offer 30 power workshops with 19 of the best national and international JavaScript, HTML5 and AngularJS experts.

makerfaire.berlin

www.angularjs-days.de

Berlin, 3.-4.10.2015

Berlin, 5.-7.10.2015

From 5 – 7 October Entwickler Magazin presents the JavaScript Days in Berlin. The training for developers and software architects conveys the most important JavaScript topics in a compact and intensive way. JavaScript Days in combination with HTML5 Days and AngularJS Days offer 30 power workshops with 19 of the best national and international JavaScript, HTML5 and AngularJS experts..

Small talk, big business – that is the idea of the successful networking event Spätschicht (Late Shift), hosted by Gründerszene. Spätschicht gives founders, investors and digital experts a chance for expanding their network and exchanging ideas within an exclusive environment as the guestlist is handpicked. The series started in 2011 as a local event and is now periodical in Berlin, Munich, Hamburg and Cologne.

www.javascript-days.de

spaetschicht-event.com

Berlin, 5.-7.10.2015

Berlin, 8.10.2015

The best known German-speaking HTML5 experts convey knowledge about the most important HTML5 topics like communication APIs, modernization of legacy applications to HTML5, Sass, CSS and many more. HTML5 Days in combination with JavaScript Days and AngularJS Days offer 30 power workshops with 19 of the best national and international JavaScript, HTML5 and AngularJS experts.

IdeaLab! – WHU Founders Conference is Europe’s premier student-led Start Up conference with over 400 selected participants every year and highly renowned entrepreneurs and visionaries as speakers. IdeaLab! offers a platform and an inspiring atmosphere for the exchange of ideas and opinions between students, academics, professionals and actual entrepreneurs.

www.html5-days.de

www.idealab.io

Berlin, 5.-7.10.2015

Vallendar, 9.-10.10.2015

“What comes, what stays and how you can implement the latest trends in online marketing in practice”, is the motto. With a large variety of captivating sessions and specialist discussions, participating at OMCap allows to gain new insights and to challenge already existing knowledge. Experts in their particular field give the latest best practices in online marketing.

startup.net Berlinbrandenburg invites 24 startups to a matching dinner with twelve leading investors. The dinner aims straightforwardly at arranging early stage financing for technology-oriented German startups. www.medianet-bb.de Potsdam, 10.10.2015

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Flink Forward 2015 is the first conference to bring together the Apache Flink* developer and user community. Apache Flink is an open source programming environment and distributed runtime that makes it easy for developers to build real-time data applications. Flink is a project of the Apache Software Foundation with an active community of developers around the globe.

The crowdbiz is a trade fair with two major topics: The first part is comprised of crowdfunding, crowdinvesting, crowdlending and crowdsourcing. The second part includes the rising area of FinTech and startups from the financial field. The crowdbiz as a trade fair offers a unique platform for the exchange of knowledge as well as the possibility to present projects and products to a wide range of visitors.

flink-forward.org

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Berlin, 12.-13.10.2015

Berlin, 24.10.2015

CEO Dinner is a highly exclusive and invitation-only event series which offers a selected round of international CEOs, entrepreneurs and key managing partners of the most renowned VCs. The key selection criteria are the relevance and performance of the invited participants. The series started in 2011 and organizes dinners in Berlin, Munich, New York and London.

Every year the EBSpreneurship Forum connects hundreds of entrepreneurship enthusiastic students, professionals and already-made entrepreneurs with interesting speakers and motivated investors.The key elements are speeches, panels and workshops, held by inspiring personalities and established startups, the Speed Networking event and the Idea Challenge – one of a kind event for Europe’s startup scene.

www.ceo-event.com

ebspreneurship.de

Berlin, 14.10.2015

Oestrich-Winkel near Frankfurt am Main, 23.-24.10.2015

Celebrating Innovation is the place where Germany’s hottest tech startups battle for a spot in the German Accelerator program! Get to know the hottest startups with the highest likelihood to reach global success!

Those starting a business are quite familiar with complicated processes: Whoever wants to learn more about the methods of creative startup culture, should visit the Entrepreneurship Summit. Roughly 150 speakers are scheduled to share their expertise in keynotes, groups, and workshops. Let successful entrepreneurs inspire you and join 1500 like-minded visitors in gaining valuable insights.

germanaccelerator.com/event/celebrating-innovation Dresden, 15.10.2015

www.entrepreneurship.de/summit Berlin, 24.-25.10.2015

The German Startup Association will be hosting the second German NYC Week, promoting economic relations and international networking. Selected entrepreneurs, politicians and representatives of the startup ecosystem will be given the opportunity to experience a week in the startup hub that never sleeps. In particular, networking within the tour group represents one of the greatest benefits of this trip.

Startup Safary Berlin is back with its 5th edition this October 28-30, 2015. During the three-day event, attendees will get to visit the offices of the most interesting startups in Berlin, meet the founders and team members and attend a variety of networking events. To get a first hand look into Berlin’s buzzing startup ecosystem, get your Early Bird tickets and reserve your spot now!

deutschestartups.org/reisen

www.berlin.startupsafary.com

New York City, 19.-23.10.2015

Berlin, 28.-30.10.2015

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Data Driven Business consists of six parallel conferences. Once again, you can dive deep into the art and science of conversion optimisation, digital and predictive analytics. You will leave with the latest in concrete, actionable strategies and tactics for driving more revenue from your website and understand your customer and business better than ever!

Project Networksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Strategy Summit B2B E-Commerce and Omnichannel presents case-studies from decision-makers, workshops and networking opportunities to share thoughts and insights from different industries. The purpose is to discover how to combine traditional and new technologies, channels and solutions for an effective and profitable marketing mix for companies in the B2B environment.

datadrivenbusiness.de project-networks.com/ecom

Berlin, 3.-4.11.2015

Berlin, 9.-10.11.2015

Twice a year, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg and media.net organize this exclusive business event. High-profile speakers and guests from politics, business, media and culture come together in an elegant atmosphere during the event. We look forward to an interesting conversation and inspiring evening with our guest Monika GrĂźtters, Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media.

The triad of innovative entrepreneurs, top executive managers of established companies and investors will share their views on innovations and challenges in particular industries. www.davidandgoliath.vc Berlin, 11.11.2015

www.medianet-bb.de Potsdam, 04.11.2015

The Global Social Business Summit is the worldwide leading forum for social business, non-loss, non-dividend companies with a social goal. It serves to spread awareness about social business, foster discussion and collaboration between practitioners and stakeholders, as well as present and conceive best practices.

The next Berlin Games Forum (BGF) presented by WebMagazin will put the heroes of a whole industry in the spotlight: Learn from the best in PC and console, mobile, social and online. Meet new people and reconnect with colleagues in speed-networking sessions. Finally: Pitch your ideas to the investor community and get the funds for the next blockbuster.

www.gsbs2015.com www.berlingamesforum.de

Berlin, 4.-6.11.2015

Berlin, 12.-13.11.2015

15.09. 2015

START-UP FORUM 16.+17. 09. 2015

START-UP VILLAGE

Once a year, the German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (BVK) regularly hosts the BVK-Dinner of the private equity industry in Germany with more than 250 guests. The event serves as a communication platform for BVK members and representatives from politics, media, science and social life.

The digital startup scene comes together for know-how transfer and networking at the BVDW Startup Forum. The main focus lies upon topics about the digital ecosystem in Germany and its position on an international level as well as the development in the coming years. Three topics: the startup ecosystem in Germany, the interaction between startups and corporate groups and the Internet of Things.

www.bvkap.de bvdw-start-up-forum.de

Berlin, 5.11.2015

KĂśln, 15.09.2015

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Following the footsteps of Sillicon Valley, Israel represents the second highest density of startup companies and the highest per capita number of startups around the world. Explore together with the German Startup Association the entrepreneurial ecosystem along the Rothschild Boulevard. We will meet some of the leading innovative companies and personalities that Israel has to offer.

Gründerwoche (Founders Week) Deutschland is an initiative and a platform where partners nationwide offer a range of events for pupils, students, potential founders and startups in order to promote and support entrepreneurial spirit and skills. Gründerwoche Deutschland is hosted by the Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy and coordinated by the RKW Competence Center. It is part of the Global Entrepreneurship Week.

deutschestartups.org/reisen www.gruenderwoche.de

Tel Aviv, 15.-19.11.2015

Germany, 16.-21.11.2015

DEUTSCHER HANDELSKONGRESS RETAIL WORLD 2015

18./19. November 2015 maritim Hotel berliN

In the course of „Gründerwoche Deutschland“, this event takes place for the Federal State of Hesse and addresses founders, startups and interested people in the fields of rapidly growing technologies and services. The goal is to boost the entrepreneurial spirit as well as to allow founders and startups to interexchange with experts and further main figures of the startup scene.

The German Retail Congress is the annual congress for the German retail industry and its partners. Meet more than 100 (inter-)national top speakers and discuss the future of retail. The congress will be accompanied by the Retail World Exhibition, with more than 50 exhibitors from the service sector and the consumer goods industry. Discover interactive program formats and various networking possibilities!

www.gruenden-foerdern-wachsen.de

www.handelskongress.de

Frankfurt am Main, 18.11.2015

Berlin, 18.-19.11.2015

Quadriga University Berlin and Helios Media are hosting the very first Marketing Management Summit exclusively for in-house marketing professionals from corporations and NGOs in Berlin. With more than 70 renowned speakers from organizations and NGOs such as Google, Sky, Greenpeace, The Walt Disney Company or WIRED the MMK offers a platform for learning, networking and discussing the future of marketing.

The Strategy Summit B2C Marketing and Digital Marketing offers decision-makers from major and medium sized companies the platform to discuss current questions and developments in the marketing field. The broad program with best-practice case studies, panel discussions and a variety of networking possibilities presents insights and new ideas from different companies for your own marketing strategy.

www.mmk-berlin.de

project-networks.com/MDM

Berlin, 19.-20.11.2015

Berlin, 24.-25.11.2015

Relaunch Conference is about successful concepts and best practices to optimize and develop professional websites. Marketing and communication professionals get proven strategies and guidance for content marketing, personalization, usability, user experience, conversion, optimization, web technologies and project management. This should help improve web projects and bring digital processes to success.

Everything at the hub conference revolves around disruptive trends and smart technologies: global players and startups, CEOs and CIOs, scientists and policy-makers connect and shape the digital future. In addition to top-class keynote speakers, participants can look forward to interactive workshops and the Innovator’s Pitch for startups. Startups can also apply for free tickets.

www.relaunch-konferenz.de

www.hub.berlin

Munich, 30.11.2015

Berlin, 10.12.2015

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EUROPEAN COWORKING PARTNERS THANKS TO OUR EUROPEAN COWORKING PARTNERS WE ARE ABLE TO SPREAD THE WORD AND LET THE HUNDERT TRAVEL ACROSS EUROPE.

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The premiere place for startups in Slovakia. We are home to more than 70 creative and ambitious people on 750 m2 of space in the heart of the city. And of course we offer good coffee! Very close to Vienna, Budapest and Prague, cheap to live.

Bratislava, Slovakia www.thespot.sk

Soho

Soho is an art coworking space, providing access to a fully equipped workplace: rented desks, mini-offices and rooms. Cultural enrichment and relaxation – all happening “at home”.

Sofia, Bulgaria www.soho.bg

Kubik

KUBIK coworking provides an inspiring atmosphere in the heart of Budapest. It offers: workstations, offices, meeting rooms, auditorium, shower for bikers, café and even more. Flexible services include legal and accounting assistance.

Budapest, Hungaria www.kubik.hu

MOB Barcelona, Spain www.mob-barcelona.com

SUP46

MOB is a collaborative community where professionals in the fields of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship share space to generate content. We promote real life practice of innovative ideas and new dynamics to implement them.

Hub for the Swedish startup community. A world-class ecosystem of investors, advisors and partners offers members competitive advantage. Home to 50+ digital startups and a natural meeting place.

Stockholm, Sweden www.sup46.com

CoWalski Poznan, Poland

Inspiration Avenue is a place for business and education but above all, a place created out of the desire to create relationships between people. On 170 sqm in two levels, our guests find 21 workplaces, conference room, private room and virtual office.

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Talent Garden Milano, Italy www.milano.talentgarden.org

Chasopys

Talent Garden is an international network of coworking spaces with a focus on digital. In our 12 campuses, we bring together tech and digital professionals in a creatively designed work environment with a curated community.

Founded in 2012, Chasopys is the intellectual, business and cultural space for work, meetings, events and development. Located in the heart of Kyiv, Ukraine.

Kyiv, Ukraine www.chasopys.ua

Loffice Vienna, Austria www.wien.lofficecoworking.com

Campus London, UK www.campus.co/london/en

Stockwerk Vienna, Austria www.stockwerk.co.at

Mindspace Israel, Tel Aviv www.mindspace.me

Rochuspark

Our new-generation office respects the unique needs of startups and entrepreneurs. With 1 location in Vienna and 4 in Budapest, we are providing workstations, offices and event spaces in a creative environment.

Campus is a space in London's Silicon Roundabout that connects the startup community. It offers early stage founders what they need to succeed, from a strong support network to coworking space, education, mentoring and more.

Stockwerk Coworking offers 55 desks on 3 floors, partially air conditioned, 2 kitchens, the finest event space in town, 3 meeting rooms and table tennis! Our location is a beautiful old building close to Westbahnhof railway station.

Mindspace provides beautiful and inspiring workspaces for teams of all sizes: entrepreneurs, freelancers, startups, investors and more. Coming soon â&#x20AC;&#x201C; our first location in Berlin Mitte.

In the 19th century, a blacksmith found his working space among these ancient factory walls in the heart of Vienna. Since 2007, it is again a place to forge â&#x20AC;&#x201C; ideas and entrepreneurship! 50 businesses and entrepreneurs share a 1000 working, learning and developing space.

Vienna, Austria www.rochuspark.at

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NETWORK PARTNERS

WE WANT TO THANK OUR PARTNERS AND SUPPORTERS FOR THE HELP WITH DISTRIBUTION, PROMOTION AND THE IMPLEMENTATION OF IDEAS THAT MAKE THE HUNDERT EVEN MORE ENGAGING.

The Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) of Berlin is an advocate for companies, actively promoting Berlin as a place to do business. As a critical partner of political institutions, it acts as a market promoter. As a service provider, the CCI Berlin supports its 274.300 members through its services and activities. Some 3500 voluntarily active businessmen and women assist the CCI‘s 250 employees. www.ihk-berlin.de

Software and Support Media is an international publishing house focused on the IT sector. The company’s information and service offer is tailored to IT-professionals of all important technology markets. The portfolio covers conferences, trainings, specialist magazines, online services and books. In Europe, it ranks as one of the most comprehensive portfolios of its kind. www.sandsmedia.com

Founded in 1879, the VBKI is the oldest and one of the most distinguished business associations in Germany. Thanks to the expert knowledge and varied backgrounds of its more than 1.800 members, the VBKI serves as an important crossroad between key stakeholders from Berlin and beyond. As a business network and debate platform, the VBKI connects everybody, thus shaping the bright future of Berlin. www.vbki.de

Get Started is the startup initiative within Bitkom aiming at connecting startups with established companies in the digital sector and at representing startups’ interests in politics. Overall, Bitkom represents more than 1,500 companies including 300 startups which can join the association at special startup terms. getstarted.de

The German Private Equity and Venture Capital Association (Bundesverband Deutscher Kapitalbeteiligungsgesellschaften – BVK) is the representative of the German private equity industry covering private equity firms, from venture capital through growth capital to buyouts, as well as institutional investors. BVK has almost 190 full and more than 100 associated members. www.bvkap.de

For almost 15 years, media.net berlinbrandenburg ranks among the biggest and most successful regional networks of the creative and digital industries in Germany. Cross-border and cross-sectoral, it represents more than 400 members including established companies but also more than 140 startups. The aim of the association is the cross-linking and representation of member interests at state and federal level. www.medianet-bb.de

The Medienboard is the first stop agency for creative professionals active in the film and media industries in Berlin and Brandenburg. Medienboard’s funding program for interactive and innovative content funds the development and production of games, apps, transmedia, virtual reality, and other innovative projects with an annual budg et of €1 million. www.medienboard.de

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The digital economy, technology and creativity are the engines empowering Berlin‘s growth. In collaboration with other partners, the Senate Chancellery paved the way for the Berlin Startup Unit in 2014, in order to create even better conditions for tech entrepreneurs in the startup capital. The cooperation with The Hundert, as well as the new platform www.techberlin.com are fine examples of what has emerged since then. www.berlin.de

The business associations BerlinBrandenburg (UVB) are the leading associations in economics and socio-politics in the capital region. As a parent organization of about 60 trade and employers‘ associations, the UVB is an ideal platform for the contact between established companies and startups from the B2B sector. www.uvb-online.de

As representative and voice of startups, the Federal Association of German Startups is very committed towards a „founder-friendly“ Germany. In dialogue with decision makers in politics, they develop proposals which encourage a culture of self-employment and minimize the obstacles of business formation. As a network, they connect founders, startups and their friends with each other. www.deutschestartups.org

Egon Zehnder qualifies as one of the leading Leadership Counsels with 420 consultants worldwide. Innovative medium sized companies, but also global corporations, long-standing family businesses and startups rely on us. In Germany, 50 consultants work at six different locations for Egon Zehnder, including Berlin. www.egonzehnder.com

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ANA SANTL Slovenia-born but Berlin-based photographer Ana Santl picked up her father’s old film camera at the age of 11 and started taking photos of her friends and everyday surroundings. Her passion for preserving her way of looking at things in form of a photograph kept growing until she decided to slowly turn it into a profession. After completing her photography and multimedia-art education at HTBLVA Ortwein in Graz, Austria, she moved to Berlin, where she currently lives and works as a freelance photographer. She is furthermore the photographer of Berlin-based online magazine iGNANT. Her main focus is on portrait and documentary while she adores great light and genuine emotions in both her commissioned and personal work. Ana Santl // Photographer www.iamnotana.com email: iamnotana@gmail.com mobil: +49 1573 1311231

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FRANZ GRÜNEWALD Franz Grünewald is a young photographer from Berlin. Born in 1993 in Plauen, he discovered his passion for photography at the age of 14 accidentally during a family vacation. It quickly became clear that his main interest is in the field of authentic portraiture. After having photographed all of his friends, Franz Grünewald had his first solo exhibition in 2012. In the same year, he began studying Communication Design and won the Deutscher Jugendfotopreis. Since 2013, Franz Grünewald lives in Berlin. He works intensively on assignments and free projects, such as the 2014 released photo book YOUNG MAN. Franz Grünewald // Photographer Berlin – Germany www.franzgruenewald.de email: info@franzgruenewald.de mobil: +49 176 55500905

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MARTIN WALTZ Martin Waltz is an award-winning photographer based in Berlin, Germany. He has exhibited and been featured in many countries around the world. His photographic work focuses on street photography and authentic portraiture. Martin is a keen observer of the fragility and transiency in urban life. In his street photography, Martin emphasizes the contrast between the soft, fluid human shape and the hard and static fabric of city infrastructures. His signature style is a dark, gritty, highly contrasted black and white. Martin’s view on urban life is analytical and yet compassionate. Martin does not believe in superficially beautified portraits. He aims to make the very essence of a person visible thus revealing their true innate beauty. Martin Waltz// Photographer Berlin – Germany www.streetberlin.net email: streetberlin@gmail.com mobil: +4916094673586

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Saskia was born in 1981 in Osnabrück, Germany, graduating from school in 2000. After a one-year traineeship at a film equipment rental shop in Cologne,she started to work as a second assistant camera,then a first assistant camera / focus puller and as a camera operator on over 50 German and international feature films and commercials for ten years. In 2011, Saskia decided to study photography at the ‘Neue Schule für Fotografie’ in Berlin and graduated in September 2014 as part of the exhibition ‘SOWIESO‘. Currently, Saskia is living and working in Berlin as a professional photographer specialized in portraits. Saskia Uppenkamp // Photographer Berlin – Germany www.saskia-uppenkamp.com email: photo@saskia-uppenkamp.com mobil: +49 177 2931309

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100 OFFICE TOURS AND VIDEO INTERVIEWS WITH ALL THE BERLIN STARTUPS FEATURED IN THE CURRENT ISSUE OF THE HUNDERT. TIME TO SAY HEY ; ) eywalk.com wants to become the platform and market place where people create and share authentic videos about locations from a selfie-perspective. The format provides a fun and cost-efficient alternative to text and photo-based location reviews as well as to traditional image and film advertising. Andreas Ebert and Dirk M端ller-Dornieden founded eywalk in March 2015 and are currently bootstrapping eywalk, working to produce videos for corporate clients, publishers, organizations and agencies. Simultaneously, eywalk is looking for seedfunding to launch eywalk.com and the eywalk app.

Our small publishing house is growing. The team photos appearing in the various editions of the Hundert are good indicators of that. While in the first issue two years ago you could see two people on the team photo, there are now 14 people in this sixth edition. Two years ago, there was only the Hundert. Meanwhile, Berlin Valley News, a monthly news magazine, and Berlin-Startup.Events, our website for events joined in. That is great! Yet, even greater is the fact that this team has found each other and is working dedicatedly on these projects day after day. For this, a big thank you to (from left to right): Jan Thomas, Carolina Menendez Trucco, Yaron Lewin, Miriam Banerjee, Claudia Lunscken, Daniel Andriani, Aleksandra Czekalska, Florian Stein, Magdalena Krygielska, Malgorzata Czubak, Massimo Pisati, Corinna Visser, Katarzyna Oldziejewska, Simona Luhova & Robert Hinsch, who is currently basking in the sun. 284

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THANK YOU! We really enjoyed producing this issue of the Hundert. Of course, to accomplish such a project, it is necessary to have a lot of support. Therefore, we do not forget to say thank you to the many people who helped us and stood by our side during the entire process: our incredible photographers Ana Santl, Saskia Uppenkamp, Franz Grünewald and Martin Waltz. They make us see Berlin and the Startups in Berlin through their eyes... and we love (or like) what we see. Our most sincere thanks also to Balázs Tarsoly and his team from Operation Butterfly for wonderful collaboration and the brilliant design they have once again offered us. It is always a pleasure to have the opportunity to work with you guys! Natascha, you have achieved the perfect connection between photos and content. The magazine is, most of all, your work of art. Thank you for your perseverance and patience. You did a great job! Thank you! Riccardo Volpato for the great cover, Lilian Eßer, Lena Zimpel, Dominik Pfaff, Bianca Rother and Afrodite Gaki for their design, Johnnie Clapper for his watchful eye and steady hand – it is (as always) a pleasure to work with you all. The same goes for Steffen Setzer, Manuela Wachs and Tobias Hesse from our printing partner Laserline for the reliable cooperation; Hilda Ortiz for the editing, translations and hours of overtime. Our big gratitude also goes to Dirk Müller-Dornieden from Eywalk. Dirk and his team, Stephan Kalinski and Isabelle Merillet, visited all the hundred startups to carry out video interviews or video office tours with them. The results may be seen in Hey-Startups.com. We also thank the experienced entrepreneurs for their contributions and for providing us with their “first we take Berlin” insight. Jens Begemann of Wooga, Anna Alex of Outfittery, Lucas von Cranach of Onefootball, Robert Gentz of Zalando, Johannes Reck of GetYourGuide, Alexander Kudlich of Rocket Internet, Ijad Madisch of Research Gate, Lea-Sophie Cramer of Amorelie, Eric Wahlforss of SoundCloud, Markus Witte of Babbel, Florian Heinemann of Project A Ventures, Florian Meissner of EyeEm, Jan Beckers of Hitfox Group, Gary Lin of glispa, Alexander Zacke of Auctionata, Niklas Östberg of Delivery Hero, Christian Reber of 6Wunderkinder: we are very excited about your perspectives! For the first time, this issue of the Hundert was produced in 100 locations. We therefore want to express our gratitude to the contact persons who facilitated our use of the premises: Rieke Edelhoff from Zoo, Nicole Hahl from Zitadelle Spandau, Tobias Graf from Hotel Zoo, Linda Schentke from Fluxbau, Alexander Golya from CWC Gallery, Peter Ullrich from Café Pförtner, Kerstin Bock from Tech Open Air. We also thank all those we could not personally meet but who helped us execute the 100 photo shootings. As always, we would most notably like to thank our media partners, sponsors and advertising partners without whom we would not have been able to realize the Hundert. For this issue, we would like especially to point out: Tim Dümichen, Marius Sternberg, Sabiha Chergui, Philipp Glock, Matthias Hiller from KPMG; Klaus Siegers, Luzi Teber and Maike Valentin from Weberbank; Christian Ramme, Andreas Thümmler, Daniel Schenk, Johannes H. Lucas from ACXIT Capital Partners; Olaf Nissler, Lena Dinter, Ignatz Schatz from SAP; Christian Herzog, Henning Ravn, Beatrice Vogel and Sebastian Holtgrewe from Berlin Partner. Special gratitude also goes to the Governing Mayor of Berlin, Michael Müller, Tim Brandt of IHK, Tilo Bonow of piabo, Andrea Peters of media.net, Julian Riedelbauer of GP Bullhound, Sabine Stengel of Cartogis, Thomas Letz for your anti-bureaucratic ways, Alice Romeril for the make-up by our team shooting, Konstantin Iwanow (you are the best), the team von Vertical Media, Alexander Hüsing of Deutsche Startups, Florian Blaschke of t3n, the two and only Candy Behunin and Robin Haak, Markus Kuehn of Flux FM, Volker Schütz of Horizont and, of course, the complete NKF Team for the sustained cooperation and support. Massimo Pisati for the event coordination, Florian Stein for his technical assistance, Carolina Menéndez Trucco for coordinating the video shootings and the content for the website, Aleksandra Czekalska for her assistance in most photo shootings. And not to forget Claudia, Corinna, Gosia, Robert, Daniel, Yaron and Magda. One can count on you! We do not forget the very many assistants and helpers from the startups for the relentless management of your founding teams (keyword: “a sack full of fleas”); and last but not least, we want to thank all the participating startup entrepreneurs who embarked on this crazy idea (and, almost without exception, were punctual for the shootings). Thanks for your great statements and for smiling for the camera. It has been a pleasure working with you all. With such entrepreneurs, Berlin can honestly succeed at something big. Most importantly, we would like to thank you, our readers. You have made the Hundert what it is today. Kata, Simona, Miriam and Jan

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IMPRINT / LEGAL EDITOR IN CHIEF (ACCOUNTABLE)

Jan Thomas, jt@the-hundert.com

HEAD OF THE HUNDERT

Katarzyna Ołdziejewska, ko@the-hundert.com

PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Simona Luhova, sl@the-hundert.com Miriam Banerjee, miriam@the-hundert.com

CREATIVE DIRECTION

Balázs Tarsoly, balazs.tarsoly@operationbutterfly.com

ART DIRECTION

Natascha Ungereit, natascha.ungereit@operationbutterfly.com

PHOTOGRAPHER

Ana Santl, iamnotana@gmail.com Saskia Uppenkamp, photo@saskia-uppenkamp.com Franz Grünewald, info@franzgruenewald.de Martin Waltz, streetberlin@gmail.com

COVER ARTWORK PRODUCTION MANAGER TRANSLATION AND PROOF READING

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Riccardo Volpato, riccardo.volpato@operationbutterfly.com Johnnie Clapper, johnnie.clapper@operationbutterfly.com Hilda Ortiz, hildaolunscken@gmail.com Rose Newell, rose@englishroseberlin.de Michael Müller, Jens Begemann, Anna Alex, Lucas von Cranach, Robert Gentz, Johannes Reck, Alexander Kudlich, Ijad Madisch, Lea-Sophie Cramer, Eric Wahlforss, Markus Witte, Florian Heinemann, Florian Meissner, Jan Beckers, Gary Lin, Alexander Zacke, Niklas Östberg, Christian Reber All articles were created by the participants themselves.

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