Introduction of the Siinda for Startups project

An overview of the new Siinda for Startups project, what it entails and how it will help start-ups succeed

Kimberli J. Lewis

Investing in local - a fireside chat

In this fireseide chat discussion, Louise Lachmann, Florian Hübner and Thuy Ngan Trinh tackle what is needed for investment in local, how the local ecosystem fits in the start-up scene and what key expectations are.

Thuy Ngan Trinh

Florian Hübner

Louise Lachmann

Crowdfunding and equity investment - a view from WeFunder

In this session, we'll present more about community round fundraising for startups and investors. Wefunder is the leading platform for community rounds in the US, having raised over $611M for over 2,700 companies. Following recent law changes, Wefunder launched in Europe and enables anyone to invest in private startups starting at €100. Learn more about Wefunder here

Katie Powers

VC and investors expectations , by APX accelerator

Mor leads the business development and corporate partnerships team at APX, the earliest-stage VC in Berlin backed by Axel Springer and Porsche. In her role, she creates strategic synergies at the intersection between corporates, SME’s and innovative companies, connecting them with APX's portfolio companies. In addition, she is the major driving force behind the APX event series "VCs for female founders. Mor previously led the European startups program of the EU, built the mobility start-up community in Israel at EcoMotion, and scouted German start-ups to Israel at hub:raum by Deutsche Telekom and served at the Israeli Defense Force as an officer and managed all aspects of human resources of more than 800 soldiers and commanders in a field unit.

Mor holds a Double Bachelors Degree in International Relations and the Middle East and Islamic Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Mor Eini

Universities involvement : The Berlin Startupservice at Humboldt University

Katja has been working as a startup consultant for startups that want to start their own business out of the university since 2012. She is the deputy head of the Startupservice at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and her focus is mainly on the topic of Female Founder. From 2016 to 2020, she introduced the Berliner Startup Stipendium for the Startup-Incubaotors of the Berlin University Alliance "Science & Startups". She works together with politics, business and science to bring more knowledge from the university to the market, always keeping in mind to increase the rate of Female Founders in particular and with a focus on teams that impact the world positively with their ideas.

Katja Brunner

From Hackathon to Startup, how you can use the innovation in hackathons to build new companies and products

Fireside chat with Nicholas Gregg from pdm solutions and Kimberli Lewis from Siinda on the hackaton organised by PDM on innovations-for-online-directories and how it can elevrage new ideas and new start-up business

Nicholas Gregg

Siinda & Start-upScience platform: an overview of what you need to do to succeed

With a unique presentation of the Siinda1 Startupscience platform, what it can do for founders and accelerators and how it helps succeed.

Tereza Komarkova

Kimberli J. Lewis

Concluding remarks and farewell sandwich lunch