Senior Executive Manager R&D - Innovation & Development, Dr. Oetker Nahrungsmittel KG

Responsible for all product development (pizza, cakes, desserts) and a relatively new “Open Innovation” division.

Principal at UVC Partners

Invests in early-stage deep tech and AI startups in Europe, with a background as a co-founder of VISN and a degree in industrial engineering from RWTH Aachen University.

VP @ DWS Private Credit

Structuring growth debt for deep tech and first-of-a-kind assets; previously J.P. Morgan, Silicon Valley Bank and BNP Paribas.

Partner & Head of Munich @ HTGF

Helps ambitious startup teams build the European deep tech and climate tech champions of tomorrow.

Startup Partnerships EMEA, Google Cloud

Felix is running startup partnerships for Google Cloud in Central Europe. Before joining Google, he gathered more than 15 years of experience within the SaaS-space to bring SMBs online and help them grow their digital visibility.

Managing Partner @ seed + speed Ventures

Which, with its third fund, invests primarily in enterprise and B2B solutions; prior to that, he built and led two other venture capital firms.

Co-founder and Managing Partner of PT1

Anja Rath is a co-founder and managing partner of PT1, a European venture capital fund family focused on investing in startups that aim to upgrade the physical world, and has been active for over 15 years as an entrepreneur, advisor, business angel, and corporate finance expert.

Angel Investor

Special interest in early stage companies and high tech investments. He works closely with the company teams to help create and grow category leading companies that provide superior customer value. He is the Head of the NavVis Advisory Board and a Board Member of several other companies and entrepreneurial Institutions, including BayStartUP in Bavaria, were he initiated and organized the today institutionalized Business Plan Competition in 1996. 

Partner @ Senovo

Frederick co-founded the VC firm Senovo in 2011 and is fascinated by the power of innovation and how fresh ideas can turn entire markets upside down.

Venture Partner @ noa 

Energy and industrial tech investor with a background spanning renewable energy M&A, early-stage VC at AENU, and product ownership at an energy tech startup.

Principal at Burda Principal Investments (BPI)

He backs scalable, globally minded businesses. He joined BPI in 2020 and focuses on growth-stage companies across industries with a particular focus on the DACH region.

European and German Patent Attorney; Partner, Maiwald GmbH

.European and German Patent Attorney and Partner in the Life Science Team at the IP law firm Maiwald, with 15 years’ experience advising biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies on building valuable patent portfolios, drawing on her in-depth understanding of biotech innovation from her doctoral fellowship at EMBL Heidelberg, industry roles at Roche and Zeiss, a secondment managing the IP department of a biotechnology company, and her co-authorship of a handbook on pharmaceutical, biological and chemical patents.