Projects
What I'm building, mostly around one question: how do companies and startups find each other faster?
Ambivation
Open innovation partner · Managing Director

Ambivation connects established companies, SMEs and public organisations with startups and innovation partners. The work runs in five steps: needs assessment, market research and scouting, shortlisting and matching, proof-of-concept management, and scaling and rollout.
Formats include startup scouting, innovation challenges and matchmaking events.
Coopsaas
Scouting workflow software for innovation teams

Coopsaas is a do-it-yourself platform for partner search. Innovation managers in open innovation, venture clienting and startup cooperation describe their challenge, scout and shortlist companies, evaluate them together and move the best fit to partnership, all in one workflow.
Startup-Challenges
Platform for open innovation calls

Startup-Challenges.com brings together companies that run innovation calls and startup challenges with the startups that can solve them. Startups find active challenges in one place; companies publish their calls and reach the right applicants.
Open Innovators
Newsroom and network for open innovation managers
Open Innovators shows what other innovation teams are already doing: a weekly brief with open innovation news, real corporate–startup collaborations, open startup challenges and events, for innovation managers in corporates, SMEs and the public sector.
IoTusecase
Industrial IoT in practice · Advisor and initial co-founder

IoTusecase makes the value of (industrial) IoT tangible through real-world projects and use cases from its partner network. Companies get inspired for their own projects, find partners and evaluate technologies.
Former projects
Earlier ventures, student initiatives and experiments, some successful, some not.
gebrauchte-pc-spiele.de

At gebrauchte-pc-spiele.de gamers can find again rare computer games, which are not available in retail stores anymore. The offer includes some classics, very rare used computer games and game collections. For instance you can buy the game Airline Tycoon Deluxe or buy the game Gehirntraining mit Dr. Kawashima. At the moment the website ships to several countries, but is only available in German.
Founderio

Founderio is the cooperation platform for entrepreneurs, start-ups and partners to innovate. Entrepreneurs can find their co-founding team and get feedback from other entrepreneurs. Start-ups can find business partners and present their innovation to the market. Start you entrepreneurial project!
Mapegy
Mapegy GmbH. In complex technology worlds it gets more and more challenging to stay informed about new trends, new technologies or new actors in global markets. Mapegy prepares and conditions technology data from multiple sources (Big Data) to assist decision makers in their technology management. Mapegy uses multiple sources (patents, press, web, social media, science etc.) to generate reliable and resilient information and provides them through a web-based product visualization or customized in consulting projects.
START Berlin e.V

START Berlin e.V. is a student club which fosters entrepreneurship in the environment of the universities and applied universities in Berlin. For example students interested in founding can get to know exiting startups and startup spirit in the events where startup founders present their business or business ideas. On the other hand, within START Berlin, students with heterogenous background get to know each other and start brainstorming about business ideas together, maybe founding one of them together.
WINFO

WINFO addresses the problem of unpredictable winds offshore. The mission is to make offshore wind more predictable and offshore wind energy more reliable. Contributing to renewable energies as a more reliable energy source and a stable energy grid. Please use the opportunity to get in touch with us, we are looking for feedback. The project has been developed within a team at the Climate KIC summer school organized by the EIT.