Founders
20 Gründer auf der Plattform
Nina Vogel
@nina_v
Freiburg
Climate scientist who got tired of writing reports nobody reads. Now building tools that make people actually act on climate data.
Marko Novak
@marko_n
Dortmund
Ex-pro footballer turned full-stack dev. Spent 5 years in Bundesliga 3, now spending 5 years learning TypeScript. Both are painful.
Sophie Wagner
@sophie_w
Frankfurt
Lawyer who learned to code during lockdown. Now doing both at once which means I am bad at two things simultaneously.
Ali Karimi
@ali_k
Berlin
Refugee turned software architect. Built a fintech in Kabul, escaped in 2021, rebuilt everything from scratch in Berlin. Not stopping.
Elena Petrova
@elena_p
Lausanne
Food scientist at Nestlé who realized corporations will never fix food. Building the alternative from a 30m² apartment kitchen.
Thomas Köhler
@thomas_k
Wien
Teacher who spent 12 years watching EdTech companies build for investors not students. Done watching.
Zara Fischer
@zara_f
München
Fashion industry insider who is deeply ashamed of it. Building circular economy tools to clean up the mess I helped make.
Leon Gruber
@leon_g
Hamburg
Architecture student who realized buildings take 10 years to build and pivoted to software. Both involve a lot of frustration with clients.
Priya Desai
@priya_d
Düsseldorf
Product Lead at a unicorn nobody likes. Building on the side what I actually want to build.
Björn Lindqvist
@bjoern_l
Stuttgart
Swede in Germany. Cannot deal with the bureaucracy so building software to fight it.
Mei-Ling Chen
@meilin_chen
Berlin
Ex-McKinsey consultant who stopped asking whether the market is big enough. Building stuff I would actually use.
Sven Kraft
@sven_k
Hamburg
Founded three startups. Two are dead, one is somehow still alive. Ratio is okay.
Amara Osei
@amara_o
Köln
Doctor who realized the healthcare system is broken and decided to fail at fixing it as a founder rather than as a physician.
Tariq Ben-Salem
@tariq_b
Hamburg
Dropped out of 3 universities, 0 exits, infinite energy. My grandma says I should get a real job. She is wrong.
Anastasia Kovač
@anastasia_k
München
15 years in consulting and all I learned was how to pitch. Now learning what building actually means.
Kofi Asante
@kofi_asante
Frankfurt
Serial pivot artist. Last three pivots: Metaverse dog salon → NFT bakery → this. This time it will be different.
Carlos Reyes
@carlos_r
Zürich
I thought I was building the next Uber. It was an app for hedgehogs. This time it really is the next Uber.
Yuki Tanaka
@yuki_t
Remote
FOMO-driven builder with ADHD. 4th startup idea this week, 3rd last week. We will find one that sticks.
Lena Müller
@lena_m
Leipzig
Psychologist who read too much Twilight and is now building AI for emotional support. Yes, really.
Felix Weber
@felix_w
Berlin
Backend engineer who after 8 years of Google salary finally wants to build something meaningful. Or at least funny.