Startuprad.io™ – Europe’s Voice on Startups, VC, Innovation & Growth

Startuprad.io sits down with Annelise Osborne to explore where blockchain, fintech, and financial innovation are heading. The conversation looks past the hype at how tokenisation and digital assets are reshaping the plumbing of finance. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Blockchain's real impact is arriving quietly, inside finan...

Vivascope is building digital solutions for rapid cancer diagnosis — bringing faster, more accessible pathology and diagnostic imaging closer to the point of care. Full article, links, and transcript: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Speed in cancer diagnosis saves lives and money. Digital diagnostics that compress the timeline have direct clinical impact. In...

A shoutout to 'Startups from Science' and host Bartosz Kajdas, recorded at Curios — highlighting a fellow voice covering the science-startup and deep-tech ecosystem. Full article, links, and transcript: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Ecosystems grow when their storytellers support each other. Science-startup coverage helps surface the deep-tech founders who...

At Curious 2024, host Jörn "Joe" Menninger interviews Harvard astrophysicist Professor Avi Loeb on dark matter, dark energy, and the growing role of AI in scientific research. Loeb makes the case for bold innovation — and for the role startups play in pushing science forward. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Some of the bigges...

Host Jörn "Joe" Menninger interviews Ish Dhand, CEO and co-founder of QC Design, named Newcomer of the Year at the German Startup Awards 2024. Dhand explains how QC Design is tackling one of quantum computing's hardest problems: designing the architectures that make fault-tolerant machines possible. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode mat...

LIZ Smart Office is innovating hybrid workspaces — giving companies the incentives and tools to manage flexible offices as work splits between home and the workplace. Full article, links, and transcript: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Hybrid work is now permanent, and the office has to earn its use. Tools that make flexible workspaces work are a durable cate...

Host Jörn "Joe" Menninger interviews Danko Nikolic, CEO and founder of Robots go Mental, an early-stage AI startup whose machine-learning algorithms are inspired by brain research — and which has already worked with NASA. Nikolic explains how neuroscience shapes a fundamentally different approach to machine learning. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Wh...

In under 30 minutes, Startuprad.io wraps up June 2024 across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland — the funding rounds, launches, and trends moving the GSA startup and tech-entrepreneurship scene. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: A tight monthly wrap-up is the fastest way to keep a pulse on the DACH ecosystem: what got funded, wh...

Metaloop turns scrap metal into gold — building a digital marketplace that makes metal recycling more transparent, efficient, and circular for industrial players. Full article, links, and transcript: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Recycling is a massive, inefficient, offline market. Digitizing metal trading is both a business and a sustainability opportunity...

Blue Forest Ventures focuses on transforming scientific research into marketable solutions — backing the hard, science-heavy startups that turn lab breakthroughs into products. Full article, links, and transcript: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Science commercialization is where Europe's research strength could become economic strength. Specialist investors...

Host Jörn "Joe" Menninger sits down with Yvette Kanouff, Partner at JC2 Ventures, on the path to US venture funding. Drawing on a career spanning mathematics and technology, Kanouff shares how founders can sharpen a VC pitch that resonates with American investors. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: US capital operates by differe...

Chris in New York and Joe in Frankfurt team up for the May 2024 GSA news cut, running the latest updates from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland — recorded early around the Whit Monday holiday, with anything missed rolling into the next wrap-up. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: The transatlantic vantage point — one host in the...

Host Jörn Menninger sits down with Alireza Siadat, Head of Digital Assets at law firm Annerton, to decode the EU's MiCA regulation. They unpack what its requirements mean for stablecoins and crypto-asset service providers operating in Europe. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: MiCA sets the rules of the road for crypto across th...

Host Jörn "Joe" Menninger talks with Maximilian Hahnenkamp, co-founder of Scavenger.ai, about bringing AI to enterprise data analysis. Max shares an unusual founder path — from professional field hockey to building AI that turns messy enterprise data into decisions. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Enterprises sit on data they...

In this Entrepreneur Tools episode, Startuprad.io looks at how transparent leadership shapes workplace culture — and why openness from the top changes how teams perform, trust one another, and choose to stay. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Culture is built or broken by how leaders communicate. Transparent leadership is one o...

Host Jörn "Joe" Menninger explores the logistics industry with Boris Bösch, co-founder and co-CEO of Everstox. Everstox uses AI and modular software to reshape how companies run fulfilment and logistics, and Bösch shares the journey from inception to ambitious expansion. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Logistics is a massive,...

Startuprad.io explores digital logistics in Austria with Robert Großekathöfer, Country Manager Austria at Schüttflix, and Jan Bruckner, Director Germany at ABA – Invest in Austria. They discuss how Schüttflix is digitising the construction and logistics supply chain — and what makes Austria a market worth entering. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why...

In Entrepreneur Tools #9, Startuprad.io digs into decision-making — the founder's most-used and least-trained skill. The episode lays out practical strategies for making sharper calls under uncertainty. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Startups are decision factories, and poor decision hygiene compounds fast. Better frameworks...

Startuprad.io's April 2024 wrap-up runs the month's startup and tech news across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland — the funding rounds, launches, and shifts moving the GSA ecosystem. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Monthly wrap-ups keep founders and investors current on where DACH capital and attention are flowing — without...

Host Jörn "Joe" Menninger talks with Frederik Fahning, co-founder of Zenjob, about the future of work. Zenjob uses an automated approach to temporary staffing — matching workers to shifts through software and rethinking how flexible labour gets organised. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Temporary staffing is a massive, manual...

Startuprad.io talks with Fabien Chalas, co-founder of Twinsity, about safeguarding critical infrastructure with AI and drones. Twinsity turns drone imagery into digital twins that make infrastructure inspection faster, safer, and more precise. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Ageing infrastructure needs constant inspection tha...

Startuprad.io speaks with Max Scherer of Monta about building the software layer for electric-vehicle charging. Monta connects drivers, charge-point operators, and hardware into one platform — tackling the messy back-end that decides whether EV charging actually works. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: EV adoption depends less...

Startuprad.io's March 2024 wrap-up delivers the essential startup and tech news from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland — the funding rounds, launches, and shifts moving the GSA scene. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: A fast monthly read keeps founders and investors current on where DACH capital and momentum are heading. In thi...

Host Joe Menninger interviews Guido Baechler, CEO of Mainz BioMed, on the company's path from startup to a NASDAQ listing. Baechler discusses their at-home colorectal cancer test kit built to improve early detection — and the reality of navigating US and European biotech regulation. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Mainz BioMe...

Host Jörn "Joe" Menninger sits down with Domenico Cipolla, CEO of Xentral, to trace how the ERP startup grew into a company backed by Sequoia and Tiger Global. Cipolla argues that execution — not just product — is what separates the startups that scale. Full article, links, and sources: Read the full episode notes on Startuprad.io Why this episode matters: Backing from Sequoia and Tiger Global put...