Startup Helsinki NRW Trip for Startups from the High-tech and IT Sector Delegation Overview 28 November 2 December 2017 Helsinki, Finland
Content The Startup Scene in North Rhine-Westphalia 2 Delegation Overview b-interaktive GmbH 4 Davy GmbH 5 Germany Trade & Invest 6 Imprintec Material Testing Solutions 7 Initiativkreis Ruhr (IR) 8 Just Spices GmbH 9 Konato GmbH 10 Replex 11 Ticketrunner GmbH 12 Unternehmership 13 Dortmund Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK zu Dortmund) 14 Deutsch-Finnische Handelskammer (AHK Finnland) 15 NRW.International GmbH 16 Organisation/Sponsors 17
2 3 The Startup Scene in North Rhine-Westphalia Located in the heart of Europe, North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) is the most populous state of Germany with 17.7 million inhabitants. Roughly 160 million people live within a radius of 500 kilo meters around Düsseldorf, the state capital. With a GDP totaling 769 billion USD (2016) North Rhine-Westphalia exceeds the economic performance of countries like Switzerland, Saudi Arabia or Poland. NRW has one of the most dynamic startup scenes in Germany. Many startups from the ICT, biotechnology, pharmaceutical, cleantech and energy sectors are among the best and most innovative companies in the world. NRW offers a perfect combination of highly efficient and creative startups on the one hand, and a strong industrial base with well-established corporates on the other hand, being possible customers, partners or investors for startups. 70 universities in NRW ensure that many excellent skilled employees are available. Currently there are more than 768,000 students in NRW. In addition, more than 60 technology centers and incubators help building bridges to universities, serve as incubators for young startups and thus ensure the optimal development and implementation of new ideas. NRW has a broad network of 16 chambers of industry and commerce that advise startups during their business forma tion phase. In cooperation with NRW.International, the state s agency in charge of the export promotion, the chambers support enterprises also in doing international business. This delegation of German startups visiting Finland gives an insight into the wide variety and high quality of the startup scene in NRW.
4 5 Eugen Barteska Managing Director/CEO Bartosz Andraczek Studio Director/CTO Simon Gorski Co-Founder/CEO Since 2011, b-interaktive has been turning classic tabletop games into social experiences for smartphones and tablets. The Germany based company with a branch office in Poland has raised the bar in the international mobile business. Working with renowned brands and global partners allowed b-interaktive to create innovative products and connect people around the world via all popular mobile platforms. b-interaktive: designs mobile games in cooperation with renowned brands and partners focuses on real-time social games that connect players all over the world publishes their mobile games across all platforms and app-stores worldwide DAVY is a maritime e-mobility startup. We have invented the first zero-emission high-performance powertrain for boats/yachts. Based on a hybrid fuelcell-battery-system, the powertrain has a redundant operating mode and is scalable due to the specific application scenario. It is our mission to initiate the world s transition towards a sustainable mobility on water without compromising in the areas of acceleration or driving pleasure. We present our powertrain in a 28ft-daycruiser-boat under the brand name Purity. DAVY: first zero-emission high-performance powertrain for boats or yachts no-noise operation access to protected water areas b-interaktive GmbH Eugen Barteska Bartosz Andraczek Lohbachstr. 12 58239 Schwerte, Germany Phone: +49 2304 33823-91 -92 ebarteska@binteraktive.com bandraczek@binteraktive.com www.b-interaktive.com twitter.com/binteraktive Davy GmbH Simon Gorski Fleher Str. 32 40223 Düsseldorf, Germany Phone: +49 160 96742834 sg@purity-yachts.com www.purity-yachts.com twitter.com/simongorskide
6 7 Josefina Nungesser Director Trend and Innovationscouting Dr. Benjamin Schmaling Owner Peter Zok Sales Engineer Germany Trade & Invest (GTAI) is the economic development agency of the Federal Republic of Germany. With more than 50 offices in Germany and abroad, and its network of partners throughout the world, GTAI supports German companies setting up in foreign markets, promotes Germany as a business location and assists foreign companies setting up in Germany. Millions of mechanical quality assurance tests are carried out daily in various industries like e.g. the automotive or aerospace industry. Imprintec has developed a unique new testing technology, which is faster, easier and more cost-effective than conventional tests. The patented technology is suitable for recent trends like Industry 4.0 and its automation in manufacturing technologies. The newly developed products are not only beneficial to standard quality assurance, but also in testing very small volumes, e. g. for additively manufactured products ( 3d-printing ). The technique is non-destructive for many applications. Imprintec offers testing equipment and related services. Our vision is to reach a considerable market share of existing material testing industry. Germany Trade & Invest Josefina Nungesser Villemombler Str. 76 53123 Bonn, Germany Phone: +49 151 17150064 josefina.nungesser@gtai.com www.gtai.com Imprintec Material Testing Solutions Dr. Benjamin Schmaling Peter Zok Universitätsstr. 142 44799 Bochum, Germany Phone: +49 234 970414-01 -02 schmaling@imprintec.de zok@imprintec.de www.imprintec.de
8 9 Dr. Britta Julia Dombrowe Referent of the Management Florian Falk CEO & Founder The Initiativkreis Ruhr is a strategic partnership of more than 70 leading companies and institutions. In total, they employ around 2.25 million people worldwide with a global revenue of more than 630 billion euros. The aim of the Initiativkreis Ruhr is to promote the economic and professional development of the Ruhr area and to further strengthen its competitiveness. We have to get prepared for the challenges of future and this is why we support startups. We set up a Venture Capital Fonds of over 30 million euros, we established initiatives like Smart am Start where we offer startups the chance to pitch directly in front of the CEOs and we support our local startup ecosystem with strategic and financial partnerships. We bring the strongest partners together: the big companies, sports clubs, universities and clinics. We have thus become the strongest regional economic alliance in Germany. For further information please visit: www-i-r.de Just Spices is the most innovative and appealing spice brand in Germany. Our vision is to emotionalise the spice market and take the customer on an exciting trip around the world of flavour. With exceptional spice blends and high quality pure spices we reinvent an old-fashioned market. For us, it is essential that our spices don t contain any flavour enhancers or chemical additives. A large number of our spice blends was developed on our trip around the world. During this trip we cooked with locals and developed authentic spice blends. The faces of these people now decorate our cans and give our product a soul. We offer our spices through our online shop www.justspices.de. Additionally, we are available in almost all large retail chains in Germany. End of last year, we started to expand to the US market where we noticed a high potential for our product. With our unique love brand, our comprehensive communication strategy across various social media channels and our strong growth, we want to bring colour to all European spice markets. Initiativkreis Ruhr (IR) Dr. Britta Julia Dombrowe Brunnenstr. 8 45128 Essen, Germany Phone: +49 201 8966-663 dombrowe@i-r.de www.i-r.de Just Spices GmbH Florian Falk Glockenstr. 16 40476 Düsseldorf, Germany Phone: +49 178 5151513 florian@justspices.de www.justspices.de
10 11 Nicole Werhausen Executive Partner Patrick Gruhn Co-Founder/SVP Costantino Lattarulo Co-Founder/CTO Konato was founded to create digital knowledge solutions. We help enterprises digitize various business domains and enable them to reach to their full digital potential. The team of Konato consists of a total of 4-resident employees with different competences such as strategy development, sales, design und programming. Therefore, a wide range of services from consulting to technical development can be offered to the customers as well as direct and immediate communication. Our first product, that is already delivered to the market and sold to various clients, is a sales & consulting platform the next product will be a digitized accounting & controlling system. Digitization affects all enterprises and all business sectors. The Konato GmbH serves as a partner, analyses business divisions, consults, and develops various, tailor-made knowledge solutions. Conceptional design, consulting and development go hand in hand. This is the only way our products and services can represent a real digital support for our customers. Replex is your organisation s central source of truth for all your IT infrastructure assets. Our enterprise solution collects all mission critical data about any type of IT infrastructure and creates valuable insights into the cost, resource and team efficiencies. Replex, on average, saves our customers up to 30 % on infrastructure costs by connecting directly to most infrastructure layers including physical servers, cloud, vms, containers and orchestrators and allows you to regain full control over your infrastructure layers. Do you want to know how much an app costs on your infrastructure? How efficient your developers use the cloud infrastructure? Or how you can efficiently transfer your physical infrastructure to the cloud? These and many more questions can be answered with one, central solution. Replex. Konato GmbH Nicole Werhausen Europaplatz 2 44269 Dortmund, Germany Phone: +49 231 4966390 nw@konato.de www.konato.de www.konato-germany.com Replex Patrick Gruhn Costantino Lattarulo Erftstr. 11 47051 Duisburg, Germany Phone: +49 151 11836470 +49 173 7196507 p.gruhn@replex.io tino@replex.io https://replex.io twitter.com/gruhnp
12 13 Florian Eckelmann Co Founder & CEO Gerrit Ellerwald Founder Ticketrunner helps event organizers sell more tickets by turning their fans into ticket sellers. Less than 5 % of all events are sold out due to inefficient marketing, which always costs regardless of its success. By letting their fans sell their tickets in exchange for rewards, event organizers not only strengthen the bond between their brand and customers but also increase sales by much higher conversion and retention rates. Ticketrunner integrates with major ticketing providers and lets them facilitate the sales. Consulting As entrepreneurs, we have gained a lot of entrepreneurial experiences. We are happy to advise startups in order to avoid mistakes that cost time and money. Fundraising We accompany startups in raising venture capital. In dealing with VC Investors we support you in three phases. Ticketrunner GmbH Florian Eckelmann Longericherstr. 12 50767 Köln, Germany Phone: +49 151 23051340 florian@ticketrunner.com www.ticketrunner.com Unternehmership Gerrit Ellerwald Mergelstr. 87 45478 Mülheim, Germany Phone: +49 152 24301465 ellerwald@unternehmership.de www.unternehmership.de
14 15 Dominik Stute Head of Unit Foreign Market Development Glenn Gassen Head of Global Networks & Innovation The IHK zu Dortmund is a part of the German Chamber of Commerce and Industry network and understands itself as an organization of businesses for businesses. By providing competent, relevant advice in all questions in the fields of business and education, it constantly aims at supporting its 55,000 member companies in all business related inquiries and over decades it has turned into a reliable partner when it comes to furthering commercial undertakings of all kinds. The IHK zu Dortmund understands itself as the voice of business and is located in the heart of the dynamic Ruhr region, an economic conurbation with some 1.2 million inhabitants. The IHK s international department offers various valuable services supporting its member companies to identify new business contacts abroad as well as to carry out the export and import orders with view to customs matters and current global trade regulations. By organizing IHK-business events, delegation trips around the globe and by participating in international trade fairs, the IHK offers substantial support to their member companies, hence enabling them to explore new markets and strengthen the economic success of the vibrant Ruhr region. The German-Finnish Chamber of Commerce supports startups from both countries in the market entry, business development and partnerships. Since 2015 the Chamber brings German startups, companies and investors to Slush. Through its wide network in whole Finland the Chamber offers German companies the right matching. Vice versa the Chamber connects Finnish players with German partners and supports in all practical questions of business development. Dortmund Chamber of Commerce and Industry (IHK zu Dortmund) Dominik Stute Märkische Str. 120 44141 Dortmund, Germany Phone: +49 231 5417 315 d.stute@dortmund.ihk.de www.dortmund.ihk24.de Deutsch-Finnische Handelskammer (AHK Finnland) Glenn Gassen Mikonkatu 25 00100 Helsinki, Finland Phone: +358 50 5727908 glenn.gassen@dfhk.fi www.dfhk.fi
16 17 Organisation/Sponsors A project of Stefanie Schönrath Senior Project Manager International Business Delegations NRW.International Partner for worldwide business NRW.International coordinates the promotion of foreign trade in North Rhine-Westphalia. In particular, it supports small and medium-sized enterprises in the development of important growth markets worldwide. In close coordination with its partners NRW.International provides a variety of measures tailored to the companies needs: It is responsible for the organisation of joint trade fair presentations abroad as well as the coordination and support of international trade delegations from North Rhine-Westphalia to foreign countries always enriched by an extensive specialized program, featuring brokerage events and symposia, for example. As member of the worldwide Enterprise Europe Network project NRW.International also organises B2B activities between visiting and regional companies. NRW.International coordinates these activities between intermediary organizations and the government of North Rhine-Westphalia in order to provide excellent services and political backing by the regional representatives to the business community. Sponsored by Ministry of Economic Affairs, Innovation, Digitalization and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia In cooperation with Organised by NRW.International GmbH Foreign trade promotion for North Rhine-Westphalia Stefanie Schönrath Völklinger Str. 4 40219 Düsseldorf, Germany Phone: +49 211 710671-0 info@nrw-international.de www.nrw-international.de
NRW.International GmbH Völklinger Str. 4 40219 Düsseldorf, Germany Phone: +49 211 710671-10 Fax: +49 211 710671-20 info@nrw-international.de www.nrw-international.de