We asked VCs how to get your deep tech startup funded (without selling your soul) All insights from this article were taken from our event, ‘Let’s Get Deep! An In-Depth Conversation With Deep Tech VCs’. Meet our VCs: Natalia Ahmadian – Investor at Earlybird-X Ferdinand Vermersch – Associate at Vsquared Ventures Benjamin Wolba, PhD – Associate at Lunar Ventures But first, WTF is deep tech? deep tech? so what’s shallow tech? If you already know, kudos, you can skip this part. But if ‘deep tech’ sounds like a buzzword from a sci-fi movie, we get it, read on. Deep tech is basically companies u ..read more

January 30th, 2024. From reforestation to direct air capture, BlueLayer’s end-to-end software streamlines the processes of carbon removal projects. Under the Climate Action Programme 2030, the German government made a binding undertaking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 55% by 2030. Large companies are under pressure to achieve net-zero commitments. In their pursuit of net-zero goals, companies buy carbon credits from the market to neutralize and balance their environmental impact. Carbon credits are created and sold by companies who are developing carbon avoidance or removal projects. Bl ..read more

This article is published as part of Skytrain – a transatlantic investor community bridging the gap between investors and VC funds in the US and Berlin. Join the network or learn more about what we do here. 5 Essential Decisions You Need to Make Before Setting up Your Venture Capital Fund We already discussed 5 things you need to know before setting up a venture capital fund in Germany in another article. But there are some fundamentals that will apply no matter where you set up your VC fund. Before you commit to setting up a VC fund, you’ll need at least two things: A track-record as an inve ..read more

This post was written by Code Labs Academy. They are an international coding school that provide accessible education and training for anyone looking to break into high demand, highly skilled tech-based industries! Find out more on their website! Code Labs Academy is helping train aspiring cyber security specialists in Germany, for free! Breaking into the cyber security field requires a mix of practical skills, foundational knowledge, and often a fresh perspective.  In this article, we’ll delve into the challenges faced when breaking into cyber security, the current cyber security skill ..read more

This article is published as part of Skytrain – a transatlantic investor community bridging the gap between investors and VC funds in the US and Berlin. Join the network or learn more about what we do here. Thanks to a long history of innovation and strong export market in high-selling sectors – like automotive, medtech, mechanical and chemical engineering – Germany has become the largest economy in the EU and the 4th largest in the world (after the US, China, and Japan). One of the results of Germany’s economic success is a high level of personal wealth. Forbes’s 2021 list of billionaires put ..read more

This article was written by Andrew Fitz Gibbon at Temporal.ai. Find out more via their website. System design patterns exist to make applications easier to write. Think MVC for user-facing applications, circuit breakers for traffic routing, CQRS for data management, or “12-factor apps” for, well, everything. Most of these patterns are “technology first” in that they’re meant to alleviate and mitigate shortcomings in our infrastructure: no single server can handle an infinite number of requests, so we need design patterns like load balancing and circuit breaking and models like client-server or ..read more

This article is published as part of Skytrain – a transatlantic investor community bridging the gap between investors and VC funds in the US and Berlin. Join the network or learn more about what we do here. Welcome to the crash course in German Venture Capital investment, where we’ll discuss the potential for the perfect storm of opportunity, and why, contrary to popular belief, why it might not be such a bad idea to invest in the German VC ecosystem. According to a recent report, since 2018, Deutschland’s venture capital market has notably improved, creating a fertile landscape for innovativ ..read more

This article is published as part of Skytrain – a transatlantic investor community bridging the gap between investors and VC funds in the US and Berlin. Join the network or learn more about what we do here. If you want to invest in some high-risk, high-reward startups but have no idea which will be the next Unicorn and which will be sent to the glue factory, that’s where funds of funds (FoF) might just come in to save the day! These fund of funds are pretty special – they give limited partners (that’s LPs for short) access to a variety of top-notch VC funds. Plus, by spreading the love around ..read more

In a world where women’s health is often overlooked or underfunded, two women have been on a mission to change the game. Meet Dana and Luise, two of our Berlin Founders Fund founders of FemXX, a health tech startup dedicated to empowering women with Endometriosis. Endometriosis is an often very painful chronic disease where tissue similar to the linen of the uterus grows somewhere else and creates pain and tension there. The most typical symptoms are really painful cramps during your menstruation, but also, bladder problems, digestion problems, and most of all, infertility. Endometriosis is in ..read more

This article is published as part of Skytrain – a transatlantic investor community bridging the gap between investors and VC funds in the US and Berlin. Join the network or learn more about what we do here. 5 Essential Decisions You Need to Make Before Setting up Your Venture Capital Fund We already discussed 5 things you need to know before setting up a venture capital fund in Germany in another article. But there are some fundamentals that will apply no matter where you set up your VC fund. Before you commit to setting up a VC fund, you’ll need at least two things: A track-record as an inve ..read more