Pieter Van Midwoud is Chief Tree Planting Officer at Ecosia. After finishing his studies, Pieter developed a certification scheme for forest carbon projects and joined Ecosia as their first tree-planting officer, creating a varied portfolio of reforestation efforts. Ecosia, a search engine with millions of users, plants trees worldwide using its ad revenue. Over 150 … Continued
Through my academic background as an electrical and information technology engineer and my daily work at a venture builder, I understand and combine technical and business perspectives. I have founded startups myself, gained experience by participating in several incubators and accelerators and had the opportunity to do continuing studies in entrepreneurship and investment at Stanford … Continued
Sébastien Martin is an expert in impact investing and in supporting the entrepreneurial development of impact-driven startups. He brings +25 years of business experiences (incl. IPO of a startup) in areas that are critical for startup success, e.g. business modelling, fundraising, stakeholder and impact management, leadership of complex cross-functional projects. As a certified Systemic Business … Continued
Tobias Ahrens has headed Berliner Volksbank’s competence centre for start-up and succession financing since 2019. The experienced banker is thus responsible for strategic planning, implementation and further development of the business areas of start-up and succession financing as well as start-ups.
Based in Kampala, Uganda Maike is the Co-Founder of SINA Global. She has 4+ years experience in developing digital business models for german cooperates and 4+ years designing and setting up social entrepreneurship programs in East Africa. She holds a Bachelor Degree in International Business from Maastricht University, a certified Design Thinker from the HPI … Continued
Igor has three decades of experience in everything data: data warehousing, data and software engineering, data science: machine learning, AI, NLP, Chatbots, etc. He also led software engineering and data science teams, was an interim CEO of a fashion technology startup, and worked at US companies of different sizes, from early-stage startups to large corporations.
André is managing several strategic projects at Humboldt-Innovation and Science & Startups and is a startup coach helping founders in their first steps through creating business plans and shaping a joint vision and strategy. He is also involved in Web3 and several NFT startups to create a new way of creating communities and to turn … Continued
Laura is Director Startup Business and a member of the executive board at BRYCK. She brings a strong expertise in (impact) business modelling, customer validation, investor access, team building and vision & mission design. It is her passion and her purpose to contribute to building a livable future for the kids of our kids. According … Continued
Thomas is managing director (MD) and partner at saferay, MD and partner at Cleanbridge, business angel, founder and chair of the supervisory board of sanaleo, private lecturer at the university of Magdeburg and so much more. His expertise is very broad, incl. amongst other renewables/energy, trade, international project financing, etc. He is convinced that cheap, … Continued