Hugo Paquin and Kyrylo Korsun

the found podcast

Business EN ↓ 3 episodes

Hamburg is building something. These are the people doing it. Every month, Hugo and Kyrylo sit down with the founders, operators, and investors shaping Hamburg's startup scene. Honest conversations. Real stories. The stuff that doesn't make it into the press release.

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Hugo Paquin and Kyrylo Korsun

Episodes

Alina Klarner — Building Impact Startups, Rethinking VC & Avoiding *ssholes 22.06.2026 47:24

Alina Klarner is the founding partner and GP of Impact Shakers Ventures, a €20M early-stage fund backing diverse founders tackling climate, social inclusion, and impact infrastructure across Europe. Impact Shakers has invested in 25 startups across eight countries and catalysed nearly five times the capital it deployed through co-investors including General Catalyst, World Fund, and European famil...

Fenja Vespermann — Why enterprise AI fails, working with Audi & Adidas, the cringe rule 27.05.2026 44:23

Fenja Vespermann is the co-founder and CEO of mimikry AI — a Hamburg-based studio building custom AI pipelines for enterprise creative production. In less than a year, she's worked with Audi, Adidas, and Otto Group. Without raising a single euro. Before mimikry, Fenja ran her own 3D animation agency. Then Corona hit, the studio closed, and she borrowed 15K from a friend to start over. In this conv...

Iskender Dirik — Storymaxxxing, investing in Parloa, Hamburg tech scene 26.04.2026 59:49

Iskender Dirik is a German entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and tech executive with 20 years of experience in the digital world. He founded his first company at the age of 21 and built and exited a couple of tech startups afterwards. He is a prolific angel investor with dozens of investments, including in German AI unicorn Parloa. He led a €100M CVC Fund at Bauer Venture Partners and is currently...