Deep Tech Germany – AI, Robotics & Frontier Innovation by Startuprad.io™

Ruben Merre, CEO of NGRAVE, on building what he calls the world’s most secure end-to-end solution for managing digital assets. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Hardware-grade key security is deep tech where the threat model — no backdoors, unpredictable keys — is the entire product. In this episode, we cover: Ruben Merre...

Tom Plümmer, CEO of Wingcopter, on building delivery drones for UPS — bootstrapped, and pointedly civilian-only. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Long-range delivery drones are aerospace deep tech, bootstrapped by selling hardware while chasing humanitarian logistics. In this episode, we cover: Tom Plümmer (Co-Founder &a...

Karim Tarraf, CEO of Munich-based Hawa Dawa, on environmental-intelligence air-quality data — a company born from helping asthma patients. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Turning crowdsourced sensor data into environmental intelligence is green deep tech with a direct public-health payoff. In this episode, we cover: Kar...

Sebastian Baumann, Co-CEO of DATAbility, on digital twins of individual aircraft that help airlines cut fuel costs. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Per-asset digital twins are industrial-AI deep tech, converting operational data into measurable fuel and cost savings. In this episode, we cover: Sebastian Baumann (Founder...

Our founderA summer message from our founder Jörn “Joe” Menninger (LinkedIn, Twitter, Crunchbase) in times of Corona. https://www.instagram.com/p/CCGvgRhIKAw/ Hello and welcome, everybody, this is Joe – Founder and Host – of Startuprad.io. It is the beginning of July and I wanted to take the opportunity to reach out to you. First, I wanted to wish you a great summer – as great as it can be under t...

Ioannis Bizimis, co-founder of QuoScient, on analyzing, investigating, and responding to cyber-threats — including attacks on hospitals during the health crisis. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Threat intelligence and response is deep tech defending critical infrastructure against adversaries who plant persistent backdo...

German vaccine startups, the unfolding Wirecard fraud, and Konrad Zuse’s 110th birthday headline the June 2020 wrap-up. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Vaccine biotech beside the Wirecard scandal captured both the promise and the trust crisis in DACH deep tech and fintech. In this episode, we cover: German startups prod...

Dr. Dorian Scholz, CEO of Darmstadt-based Energy Robotics, on a full software stack that makes robots operate autonomously or by remote control. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Robotics-operating software spun out of TU Darmstadt is deep tech — the autonomy layer that turns hardware into a workforce. In this episode, we...

The May 2020 wrap-up rounds up the German-speaking startup scene’s funding and ecosystem news mid-pandemic. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Reading the monthly signal desk through the pandemic shows which DACH deep tech held up under pressure. In this episode, we cover: Top German-speaking startup news of May 2020 Fundi...

Innoplexus founder Gunjan Bhardwaj on raising €35M in Germany and applying AI and big data to accelerate drug and disease research. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: AI for life-science research is deep tech compressing the slowest, most expensive part of biotech: finding what to test. In this episode, we cover: Gunjan Bh...

Hamedo Ayadi, CEO of IDA – Intelligent Data Analytics, on surviving a pandemic gut-punch — losing his largest client in two hours — by diversifying. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Data-analytics deep tech plus a hard pivot story shows the operational resilience frontier startups need to survive shocks. In this episode,...

Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi, CEO of Quantgene, on deep-genomics AI that aims to detect early-stage cancer from a single blood draw. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Single-molecule cancer detection is frontier genomics deep tech — AI and big data applied where early detection saves lives. In this episode, we cover: Johannes Bha...

Swen Wegner, CEO of Frankfurt’s Mainstage Incubator, on a “Sales as a Service” model that helps startups worldwide enter the European market. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Market-entry infrastructure is the connective tissue of the ecosystem — how foreign deep tech gets a foothold in Europe. In this episode, we cover:...

The April 2020 wrap-up tracks how the German-speaking startup scene navigated the first full month of the pandemic. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Early-pandemic funding and survival signals are baseline context for the DACH deep-tech recovery that followed. In this episode, we cover: Top German-speaking startup news o...

Innoplexus founder Gunjan Bhardwaj on an AI platform built to fight all diseases — and its free COVID-19 research access during the pandemic. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: AI mining the entire life-science literature is deep tech aimed at compressing how fast humanity can respond to new diseases. In this episode, we c...

Janosch Maier, CPO of Munich-based Crashtest Security, on automatically scanning web applications for known vulnerabilities without disrupting developers. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Automated security testing baked into the dev workflow is deep tech that hardens software before attackers get a chance. In this episo...

The March 2020 wrap-up captures the German-speaking startup scene at the very start of the pandemic. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: A snapshot of DACH deep tech as COVID hit is essential context for everything that came after. In this episode, we cover: Top German-speaking startup news of March 2020 Funding and ecosyst...

Attorney Tim Wullbrandt on Germany’s emergency changes to insolvency law during the COVID-19 shutdown — and what they meant for founders. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Insolvency rules are deep-tech infrastructure in a crisis: the legal framework that decides which startups survive a shock. In this episode, we cover:...

A special Corona Flash from March 19, 2020, tracking COVID-19’s fast-developing impact on the German startup scene. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Real-time crisis reporting is the raw signal that later became the story of DACH deep tech’s pandemic resilience. In this episode, we cover: A special Corona Flash news form...

Johannes Noll, CEO of Darmstadt-based Codario.io (formerly App Guard), on making open-source security easy for development teams. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Automating open-source dependency security is deep tech that closes the fast-moving gaps attackers exploit within hours of a release. In this episode, we cover...

Frankfurt serial entrepreneur Peter Hart on Pythia, which forecasts the next trends in consumer products. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Data-driven trend forecasting is applied deep tech — turning signals into predictions brands can act on before the market moves. In this episode, we cover: Peter Hart, serial entrepre...

A deliberately short February 2020 wrap-up rounds up the German-speaking startup scene’s latest funding and ecosystem news. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: The monthly signal desk is the continuous record that makes DACH deep-tech trends legible over time. In this episode, we cover: Top German-speaking startup news of F...

Nico Höler, CEO of Darmstadt-based TEC4MED, on next-generation smart logistics — including the NelumBox for transporting temperature-sensitive medicines. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Cold-chain medical logistics is medtech deep tech where hardware and monitoring protect drugs that fail if the temperature slips. In th...

The January 2020 wrap-up opens the year with the top German-speaking startup funding rounds and ecosystem signals. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: The year-opening signal desk sets the baseline for reading DACH deep tech through the months ahead. In this episode, we cover: Top German-speaking startup news of January 202...

Alexander Lange of Darmstadt-based Xelera Technologies on FPGA-accelerated software that speeds up cloud computing and machine learning. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this matters for deep tech: Hardware-accelerated compute is deep tech at the silicon–software edge — the performance layer behind scalable AI. In this episode, we cover: Alexander...