Enjoy our wonderful breakfast buffet and get to know the participants better.
Welcome to IdeaLab! 2022 - Create Tomorrow..
How to navigate the new normal in entrepreneurship and venture capital
Listen to an inspiring speech by Robin Godenrath (Founding Partner and MD at Picus Capital) and Raphael Mukomilov (Partner and Head of Growth at Picus Capital). Picus Capital is an early-stage technology investment firm with a long-term investment philosophy that works together with daring technology companies to build successful, global companies challenging the status quo and shaping tomorrow.
100x energy, decentralized agriculture & flying taxis - a vision of sustainable abundance
Lukasz Gadowski is founder and CEO of Team Global, a technology holding company that creates and invests in frontier technology companies in the sectors of mobility, aerospace, energy and robotics across Asia, Europe, and the USA. Furthermore he is one of the founders of Deliveryhero and Spreadshirt.
Get in touch with our sponsors in a speeddating session. It is time to connect with Europe's leading VCs and start-ups! Don´t miss this unique opportunity!
Why the worlds first trillionaire will be a green tech entrepreneur
Stay tuned for an incredible talk by Janna Ensthaler, founding partner of green generation fund, a sustainability fund that invests in early stage Food Tech, Health & Personal Care and Green Tech companies. In addition, she also founded Glossybox, EventInc and Kaiserwetter.
Microsoft founders hub for startups brings people, knowledge, and benefits together to help founders at every stage solve startup challenges. To find out more, visit Microsoft on our campus.
Challenges of building a no-code product
Low Code AI will be the topic of our first panel at this year's ideaLab!. Join us to learn everything about the challenges of building a low-code product and how they change the way we build.
Food trucks from Milano Vice and Frittenwerk will be waiting for you on our Burgplatz. Have a nice lunch and a great time networking.
Cherry Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm led by a team of entrepreneurs with experience building fast-scaling companies such as Zalando and Spotify. They have previously invested in the seed stage of over 90 companies across Europe, including FlixBus, Auto1 Group, Flaschenpost, Infarm, Forto, SellerX, Juni, and Flink. Furthermore Cherry ventures is a long term sponsor of ideaLab!
In this part, startups and leading Investors and Angels can meet in a speeddating session. Startups have the opportunity to pitch their innovations and ideas in 3 minutes. This session is going to continue on Saturday as a meet & raise, where you can meet up again to eventually make a deal.
Even though XATAR, with his civil name Giwar Hajabi began his career as a rapper, he became far more than that. With time going by, he now can call himself a rapper, producer, publisher/author and entrepreneur. Starting with establishing record labels, such as “Alles oder Nix” he continued his passion by succeeding in other business areas as well. Giwar Hajabi founded the “Goldmann Group”, a fabric made up of several business units with the motto “Move like a major – Create like an indie”, the Start-up G-ventures being one of them. G-ventures is an investment firm that invests in young, thriving companies and Ideas with potential. This includes “Bloomwell Group”, the biggest cannabis company in Germany. The potential of Bloomwell Group convinced Giwar Hajabi right away.
Atlantic Labs is a leading European pre-seed fund and a lead investor in 100+ early-stage companies in spaces such as digital health, ClimateTech, future of work, mobility, industrial automation, artificial intelligence, Fintech & Proptech. Building on a team of experienced venture developers and industry network, Atlantic Labs helps companies succeed and find strong international follow-on investors. Atlantic Labs has been an early investor in some of the most seminal fast-growing German tech companies including SoundCloud, GetYourGuide, Omio, Zenjob, Choco, Wandelbots, and Gorillas.
Raising the largest-ever funding round in European Elderly care 1 year after launch
Watch Julian von Eckartsberg, Managing Director in Europe at BPI, and Tim Wagner, CEO of Patronus, telling their story in an interview.
Manuel Müller is the founder and CEO of “Emma the sleep company”, Europe’s fastest-growing sleep innovation company with over 750 intercultural team members and offices around the world.
Navigating an interdisciplinary founding team
Join our educational panel discussion about navigating an interdisciplinary founding team to learn how to connect founders with a technical background with founders coming from an economic environment.
Microsoft founders hub for startups brings people, knowledge, and benefits together to help founders at every stage solve startup challenges. To find out more, visit Microsoft on our campus.
ESOP, VSOPs and growth shares – How to incentivize employees and late co-founders
An interesting workshop organized by the international law firm Orrick is waiting for you. Orrick is one of the biggest law firms in the world, differentiating itself by making an impact economically, environmentally and socially. Orrick won its first Legal Innovation Award in 2018 and was recognized for “Best Use of Technology” 2019 by “The American Lawyer”.
Get in touch with many of our sponsors in a speeddating session. It is time to connect with Europe's leading VCs and start-ups! Don´t miss this unique opportunity!
YOLO is over - How to do good investments again
Soheil Mirpour serves as a Member of the Management Board of the international Start-up pushing company Rocket Internet, which incubates and invests in well-known internet and technology companies globally. Soheil started his career after university as a Co-Founder with Rocket Internet, building businesses internationally. Having worked as an investment manager at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR) and being active in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, Mirpour gained additional experience as a professional investor. In 2017 Soheil Mirpour rejoined Rocket Internet as Partner of the Global Founders Capital division at Rocket Internet and rose to the Executive Board in 2020.
Future of Investing
Stay excited for another panel discussion round about future investments and how to democratize new asset classes for private investors.
Time for snacks and drinks at the Burgplatz together with 650+ like minded people and good music.
Enjoy our 3 course menu designed exclusively for you, while meeting your fellow members and our beloved sponsors.
Our buses will take you to the next event.
Our first party is hosted by our premium sponsor marta and will be held on a ship sailing across the Rhine. marta offers a marketplace for families, people in need of care and European caregivers. marta is of the opinion that everyone has the right to receive adequate care and to age in dignity, furthermore that caregivers should be able to do their work under fair conditions.
Let's start the day with a cup of coffee and a comforting breakfast to recover from the hangover of last night's boat party.
Founders and investors are going to have further conversation about future partnerships.
Get in touch with many of our sponsors in a speeddating session. It is time to connect with Europe's leading VCs and start-ups! Don´t miss this unique opportunity!
How to build & lead an A-team
Attend the speech of Moritz Weisbrodt, Founder and CEO of Alaiko, Europe's leading fulfillment-as-a-service platform.
How can politics influence the development of the German startup ecosystem
Experience an interesting panel discussion led by Verena Hubertz, Member of the German Bundestag and Tina Dreimann, who advises the BMWK as a member of the newly founded advisory board "Junge Digitale Wirtschaft". The main topic is the influence of politics on the development of the German startup ecosystem and which improvements help to support startups.
VC behind the curtains - how early-stage investment decisions into climate tech startups are being made in practice.
Get exclusive insights into the venture capital industry through our main sponsor Picus Capital. Picus Capital was founded by Alexander Samwer, Jeremias Heinrich & Robin Godenrath and since 2015 developed into one of the leading early stage investors following a holistic investment approach with offices in major startup hubs all across the globe.
Food trucks from Milano Vice and Frittenwerk will be waiting for you on our Burgplatz. Have a nice lunch and a great time networking.
Microsoft founders hub for startups brings people, knowledge, and benefits together to help founders at every stage solve startup challenges. To find out more, visit Microsoft on our campus.
Get in touch with many of our sponsors in a speed
dating session. It is time to connect with Europe's leading VCs and start-ups! Don´t miss this unique opportunity!
The ultimate workshop to build the tech side of your SaaS startup
ROQ is an allrounder for building web applications. They offer web applications out of the box, to save time developing commodities. Thus, they create an immediate stand out of web applications.
Differences in VC - from Angel to Growth
This Panel will be about the importance of business angels, led by Sabrina Stöckl. Learn why business angles have a major impact on a startup-ecosystem.
Microsoft founders hub for startups brings people, knowledge, and benefits together to help founders at every stage solve startup challenges. To find out more, visit Microsoft on our campus.
From Founder to VC - What I wish I had known about Venture Capital as a founder
The speech of Sebastian Pollok with the title “From founder to VC - what I wish I had known about Venture Capital as a founder” is going to take place on the main stage. He is a founding partner of Visionaries club, a Berlin-based VC fund backed by a group of leading digital founders and family business entrepreneurs. Prior to that he co-founded Amorelie, which he exited to ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in 2018.
Business opportunities for Tink to create a smart and climate-neutral home
Join the workshop of Tink, the first comparison and consulting platform for smart home products. Tink helps their customers with purchase decisions and if needed with the installation on site. They are partnering with over 80 brands and partners to date (including SONOS, Google, tado °, Bosch, Netatmo, Fitbit, Gardena). Well-known investors such as Cadence Growth Capital, Rocket Internet, Seven Ventures and Vattenfall support their mission. Tink is the leading smart home platform with over €60M revenue in Germany, Austria, Belgium, the USA and the Netherlands.
Pitch your startup in front of leading VCs and consultants. You have 3 minutes to pitch your idea to a jury of experts. The winner will win a 75k media budget and a McKinsey Workshop!
Join us on the Mainstage for some final words from our Team.
Join the Galadinner in the Townhall and meet other participants and our beloved sponsors.
Let's start the evening at our Burgplatz with music, drinks and food.
Our buses will take you to our after party.
Have fun at our legendary after party!
Let's celebrate and have fun at our legendary after party! Let's celebrate and most importantly: enjoy our SPIRIT. This year's party is sponsored by Flaschenpost.
Flaschenpost is Germany's first immediate delivery service for drinks, groceries and other products. Your order will be delivered directly to your home within 120 minutes. Importantly: enjoy our SPIRIT.