Philipp M. Roth

OPTIMUSE is an AI platform that shows builders, developers, and engineers early on which technical solutions for heating, cooling, ventilation, and building envelopes deliver the best results in terms of costs and emissions – in both new construction and renovation projects. OPTIMUSE uses existing plans and documents to create a realistic digital building model, compares thousands of variants, and recommends the most economical, climate-friendly solution – including clear recommendations for action. Early design decisions shape the costs and emissions of buildings for decades. With OPTIMUSE, these decisions are data-driven – with measurable results: - 70% faster in preliminary engineering - 10% lower construction costs - 20% operational emission savings These effects are evident across all projects – from residential to commercial to industrial.

Baobab Insurance protects small and medium businesses from cyber attacks through insurance and individual prevention measures. Baobab Insurance assesses, prices and insures the individual cyber risk exposure of SMEs and mitigates the likelihood of cyber breaches through client-specific prevention measures, based on research into machine learning-based risk evaluation. The research project is co-financed by Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

MYNE Homes – Your dream holiday home, made accessible through Managed Co-Ownership At MYNE Homes, we make owning a dream holiday home affordable and effortless through our innovative Managed Co-Ownership model – offering true real estate ownership, not timeshare. Most holiday homes are only used 6–10 weeks per year, yet buyers are still expected to cover 100% of the purchase price and running costs. That simply doesn’t make sense. With MYNE, 2 to 8 co-owners with complementary usage preferences share ownership of a carefully selected premium property. Each MYNE co-owner holds real equity in the home – starting from 1/8 up to 4/8 ownership shares. You only pay for what you actually use – without compromising on comfort, flexibility, or the holiday experience. All MYNE homes are beautifully furnished by professional interior designers and managed with care by our expert team. Owners enjoy hassle-free stays with access to local concierge services and seamless digital management. We believe in delivering both emotional and financial return. By combining smart technology, high-end service, and a unique ownership structure, MYNE is redefining what it means to own a holiday home.

CLARK is one of the largest global InsurTechs. To protect the world of our customers, we built an insurance expert that fits in their pockets to make sure they are fully covered throughout the different stages of their lives. We offer a mobile app where customers can manage their insurance needs in the most convenient way. International investors like Allianz X, Portage, White Star Capital and Yabeo and Tencent support us. Roughly 30 brands are bundled under the umbrella of CLARK, providing a great insurance experience to more than 2 million customers. Our team is composed of more than 700 employees across offices in Frankfurt (headquarter), Berlin, Saarbrücken, Bristol, Amsterdam, Vienna, Paris and Zurich.

Mimi tailors audio for everyone to enjoy richer and more immersive sound adapted to their unique hearing, and is a global leader for sound personalization technology for consumer audio devices. Mimi provides the #1 digital Hearing Test App on the market and has developed the world’s largest database of digital hearing profiles.

Anvajo GmbH, a spin-off diagnostic company from Dresden University of Technology, is a developer and manufacturer of point-of-care solutions for the diagnostic testing of liquids. After six years of research, the anvajo team has developed a portable device for point-of-care fluid analysis that has the potential to be used in a wide variety of industries. The anvajo "fluidlab"​ combines two central laboratory technologies: 1. Spectroscopy and 2. Microscopy in one portable diagnostic device. The performance of each test is supported by a customly designed sample carrier system that functions in processing and delivering the fluid to the analyzer. The fluidlab system is highly applicable in all fields of science and has many uses in human and veterinary medicine, food and feed analysis and environmental and water analysis. In veterinary and human medicine, for example, the device can be used to carry out quick diagnostic testing of blood, urine and/or sperm instantly at the point-of-need.

The Volders Group is one of the leading Legal Tech companies in Germany, Switzerland, and Austria. Through the brands Volders, Aboalarm, FINE, and glueckzurueck, consumers are able to understand and manage everyday administrative tasks and legal situations—simply, effectively, quickly, and transparently. The company was founded in 2014 by Jan Hendrik Ansink in Berlin, and the Volders brand was launched in November 2015. Since 2024, Fine Legal GmbH (https://www.fine.so) and since 2022, Aboalarm GmbH, the operator of the cancellation service aboalarm, have been part of volders GmbH. Today, Volders employs over 40 staff members across six countries and has already helped more than 8,000,000 customers. The service is available via web browser, as well as through Apple iOS and Google Android apps.

Solaris is Europe’s leading embedded finance platform empowering the future of financial services. We enable businesses to easily offer trusted and innovative financial services to their customers. Through simple APIs that can integrate our banking services directly into any product or service, we combine the best of the worlds of technology and banking.

Recare is a web-based, digital platform that facilitates an effective patient transfer from hospital to care providers. Our smart search tool sends targeted requests to potential providers and enables real-time, secure communication between both sides. The process is faster and more transparent for all - hospital staff, care providers, and patients.

In a world of stuffy, faceless hotels, we’re leading the industry into a new era. We’re replacing the unnecessary hassle with simplicity and delight. Mixing technology and taste together in the world’s greatest neighbourhoods, we create stays that are unashamedly original and unforgettably authentic. With the comforts of home and the quality of a boutique hotel, we make sure our guests have everything they need to live like a local, escape for a weekend, or unwind during a business trip. If they want to stay for longer, we’ve got that covered as well. We’ve designed our properties with our guests’ joy in mind, whether they stay for a night, a week, or a season. Numa does away with complicated check-ins, long queues, and unpredictable accommodations. Instead, we take the best parts of travel—the carefully designed spaces, the thrill of a new city, fluffy towels, a comfy bed—and blend them with state-of-the-art technology. For our guests, it’s a one-of-a-kind mix of ease and experience, a super-simple guest journey in Europe’s most exciting neighborhoods. Our world-class guest experience is just the tip of the iceberg. With our proprietary full-stack software suite, we’ve digitalised over 80% of our internal processes, from booking and room allocation to housekeeping, accounting, and more. This keeps us scalable and cost-efficient, and helps us to weather even the most volatile of market fluctuations. By using intelligent yield management, distribution and our in-house operating systems, we can significantly reduce our administrative workload operating costs. We’re always able to keep things agile and efficient, which frees us up to focus on what’s most important: the satisfaction of our visitors.

babelforce is the composable voice platform uniting agents and automation. Our platform gives you the power to create the customer experiences you’ve always wanted, with tools anyone can use. If you can draw it on a whiteboard, you can build it with babelforce. • Automate 90% of routine tasks • Achieve €1 million in savings per 50 agent seats • Deploy VoiceBots in 70+ languages • Create self-service and workflow automations • Add enterprise-grade CCaaS to Zendesk and other solutions

Nuventura develops environmentally-friendly medium voltage (MV) gas insulated switchgear (GIS) – key hardware components found throughout electrical grids and energy infrastructure. Our patented technology replaces Sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) – the world’s strongest greenhouse gas – with dry air, whilst maintaining GIS traditional strengths i.e. compact physical dimensions. Such alternatives are urgently needed because, in the coming years, regulators are expected to phase out SF6’s use in switchgear due to its high environmental impact. Nuventura works with both switchgear end-users (utilities, EPCs, industry, project developers etc.) and manufacturers (OEMs, panel builders) with the aim of accelerating and facilitating the energy industry’s transition away from SF6. In so doing, nuventura helps companies reduce their carbon footprint and become compliant with imminent international regulation focused on the use of SF6 in switchgear.

Das Centre for Entrepreneurship bündelt die Kompetenzen der TU Berlin im Bereich Entrepreneurship aus Forschung, Lehre und Gründungsförderung. Neben Forschung und Lehre unterstützt das CfE mit einem Team von ca. 20 Mitarbeiter*innen Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler, Studierende sowie Beschäftigte der TU Berlin dabei, aus Ideen, Innovationen und Techniken disruptive Geschäftsmodelle zu entwickeln.

Websitebutler – We ❤ Websites We are a Berlin-based Website-as-a-Service start-up, that enables thousands of companies worldwide to have a website with full service based on AI. In sum the Butler who creates the perfect Website. Established in 2013 by 4 passionate and motivated entrepreneurs, we work on a daily basis to beautify the world wide web. We create professional websites for our customers, with a lot of creativity and a love for every little detail. Being the leading Full-Service-Website-Provider on the market, thats our vision. If you want to get a better idea of our skills and what we do, go convince yourself on our website: https://www.websitebutler.de Any questions?! You are welcome to contact us : +49 (0) 231 / 28 66 20 0 Websitebutler-Team ❤ We are always looking for employees, who will add their expertise and individual personality and have the enthusiasm to improve what we do at Websitebutler. Do you want to be part of our growing company? Then join our team! We are looking forward to your application. You can find our current vacancies: https://dogado.recruitee.com/ ------- Websitebutler powered by dogado GmbH Antonio-Segni-Straße 11 D-44263 Dortmund Telefon: +49 (0) 231 / 28 66 20 0 Telefax: +49 (0) 231 / 28 66 20 20 Web: www.websitebutler.de E-Mail: service@websitebutler.de legal notice: https://www.websitebutler.de/de/impressum

Headquartered in Berlin, we are the leading electric moped sharing company operating in four European cities. Our goal is to provide emission-free, easy to use and fun ride sharing for everyone. We operate more than 2,000 electric mopeds on the streets of Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Dusseldorf and Vienna. Since our founding in 2015 we have experienced rapid but steady growth that recently brought us third place of the Deloitte #Fast50 Tech-Company award.

OPTIMUSE is an AI platform that shows builders, developers, and engineers early on which technical solutions for heating, cooling, ventilation, and building envelopes deliver the best results in terms of costs and emissions – in both new construction and renovation projects. OPTIMUSE uses existing plans and documents to create a realistic digital building model, compares thousands of variants, and recommends the most economical, climate-friendly solution – including clear recommendations for action. Early design decisions shape the costs and emissions of buildings for decades. With OPTIMUSE, these decisions are data-driven – with measurable results: - 70% faster in preliminary engineering - 10% lower construction costs - 20% operational emission savings These effects are evident across all projects – from residential to commercial to industrial.

Furniture fittings for a better quality of living - that is our passion. Julius Blum GmbH is a family-owned company that operates worldwide, specialising in the manufacture and distribution of furniture fittings. Its main product groups are lift, hinge, pull-out and pocket systems for furniture, predominantly in kitchens. Blum fittings can be combined with mechanical and electrical motion technologies to deliver enhanced user convenience. A wide range of e-services support customers along the entire value-added chain. The company has eight plants in Vorarlberg, Austria, production sites in Poland, Brazil, China and the USA, and 33 subsidiaries and representative offices around the world. Blum’s customers come from more than 120 markets. We employ 9,300 people all over the world, 6,600 of whom are at our Head Office in Vorarlberg. What makes working for Blum so special? It’s the opportunity to experience open and easy collaboration, team up with colleagues across departments to move things forward and enjoy challenging tasks in a state-of-the-art environment. This is WORK ORANGE. WORK ORANGE means more than a corporate colour. It’s a feeling that unites Blum employees all over the world. It’s the passion to continuously want to optimise existing products, research into new ideas and develop new solutions that impress on an international scale. https://www.blum.com/imprint

We invest in scalable startups and build ventures. At Blum Ventures startup speed meets industrial precision. We invest in ambitious startups that create the future beyond modern living and industry tech. Together we challenge the status quo of smart living, green building solutions, industrial tech, motion tech and beyond.

Baobab Insurance protects small and medium businesses from cyber attacks through insurance and individual prevention measures. Baobab Insurance assesses, prices and insures the individual cyber risk exposure of SMEs and mitigates the likelihood of cyber breaches through client-specific prevention measures, based on research into machine learning-based risk evaluation. The research project is co-financed by Investitionsbank Berlin (IBB) and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).

MYNE Homes – Your dream holiday home, made accessible through Managed Co-Ownership At MYNE Homes, we make owning a dream holiday home affordable and effortless through our innovative Managed Co-Ownership model – offering true real estate ownership, not timeshare. Most holiday homes are only used 6–10 weeks per year, yet buyers are still expected to cover 100% of the purchase price and running costs. That simply doesn’t make sense. With MYNE, 2 to 8 co-owners with complementary usage preferences share ownership of a carefully selected premium property. Each MYNE co-owner holds real equity in the home – starting from 1/8 up to 4/8 ownership shares. You only pay for what you actually use – without compromising on comfort, flexibility, or the holiday experience. All MYNE homes are beautifully furnished by professional interior designers and managed with care by our expert team. Owners enjoy hassle-free stays with access to local concierge services and seamless digital management. We believe in delivering both emotional and financial return. By combining smart technology, high-end service, and a unique ownership structure, MYNE is redefining what it means to own a holiday home.