Recently, we have all felt the hot reality of the climate crisis.
The seven days from July 3 to 9, 2023, etched a somber record into history – the hottest week on record with global surface temperatures soaring up to a staggering 17 degrees. This scorching truth is not just a statistic; it’s a wakeup call echoing across the world.
Climate change isn’t waiting, and neither are we. PHINEO Startups presents a rallying cry for visionaries, innovators, and change-makers ready to alter the course of our planet’s future.
Do you have an idea for a solution?
This is your chance to be the driving force behind transformation. Are you creating a technology to combat rising sea levels that threaten coastal communities? Perhaps your innovation helps farmers adapt to erratic weather patterns, securing our food sources. Or maybe you’re developing the next breakthrough in renewable energy, reshaping the way we power our world. Whatever your focus, if you’re forging a path towards climate resilience and sustainability, we want you.
We can help you with our incubator and accelerator program
In our accelerator program, we will guide you for 5 months to turn your idea into reality.
We offer you access to funding, coaching from experienced mentors, access to our network. We will work side by side at bUm. A co-working space for social entrepreneurs, nonprofit organizations and activists.
Phineo has 10 years experience
with impact investing
PHINEO is one of the pioneers of impact investing, measurement and management in Germany. We combine impact and financial know-how in one team. Therefore, we can help you finance your project and provide access to a network of impact investors. In addition, we support you with our communication to our broad network of different sector partners and one of the largest Impact Investing and Social Entrepreneurship networks in Germany.
Coaching
A dedicated PHINEO Startups coach guides impact founders through the incubator program and designs it together with them.
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Mentoring
A dedicated and experienced mentor supports and advises each impact startup team individually throughout the incubator program – in addition, topic-specific mentors can be consulted.
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Your mentors and experts
Here you can connect with a selection of our mentors and experts.
Nancy Birkhölzer
she/her
Julia Dreyer
Johanna von Herman-Kim
Sébastien Martin
Maren Lesche
Julia Roblick
Mario Steinbuch
Sebastian Schramm
Pieter van Midwoud
Nataliia Fiebrig
Erdinç Koç
he/him
Matthias Oetken
Jasmine Borhan
Asal Rustamova
Sascha Erben
Christoph Rohde
Christa Cocciole
Masiar Emanuel Nashat
Katrin Häuser
Oleksandr Snidalov
Fabian Hoehne
Dr. Christian Humborg
Kiana Mardi
Felix Krause
Mina Kolagar
Christian Boettcher
Thomas Kalunge
René Wienholtz
Sabrina Konzok
Christian Kroll
Kai Malkwitz
Dr. Thomas Warnke
Mamuteane Mmutle
Tobias Ahrens
Sébastien Martin
Philipp Schmidt
Maike Striffler
Igor Elbert
André Nikolski
Julia Majer
Laura Kohler
Lyudmyla Kovalenko
Sophie Dienberg
Dr. Thomas Gnefkow
Carolin Kröger
Nora Azzaoui
Peter Brock
Masterclasses
There will be a weekly training offer with workshops aimed at addressing your needs and gaps and intended to support the acceleration of your development.
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Co-Working
You get a seat at bUm. A place to work, meet, learn and improve the world together. It’s a community space for inspiring encounters between social entrepreneurs and homeless people, politics and the neighborhood, socially committed companies and activists, non-profit organizations and volunteers.
Co-Working at bUm,
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bUm community space
Hybrid Setup
With our hybrid setup, we support both in-person attendees and virtual attendees from Kyiv, Paris, London or anywhere else.
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Events
Diverse types of events are offered as part of the incubator program, e.g., community events, pitch events, networking opportunities & an impact summit.
Impact Summit: Ukraine Response Program #2
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Our Impact Summit is joint Demo Day and Kick-Off Event
We say goodbye to the participants of one program and welcome the participants of the next program with a big joint event. This way, the new participants see what to expect right on their first day. And they can connect with our entire impact community at this event.
Peer-to-Peer Coaching and Community Building
PHINEO Startups encourages and facilitates learning and community-building opportunities among founders.
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Network
PHINEO Startups provides access to different sector partners and one of the largest impact investing and social entrepreneurship networks in Germany.
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It’s a match?
We support startups in all stages. Do you have an almost finished prototype that you can test or an existing startup that you want to bring to a new level?
Your team consists of at least two founders. Non-profit as well as for-profit organizations can apply.
Ask us anything
Do you have any questions?
We can chat here.
If you encounter any technical or other difficulties while submitting your online application, please feel free to reach out to us.
Need a 1:1 call?
Want feedback on your documents before you apply? Lets make an appointment for a video call as soon as possible. Someone from the PHINEO Startups team will give feedback on your pitch deck. After that, you have until the end of the submission period to integrate our feedback into your application.
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