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The world is being hit by sev­er­al crises simul­ta­ne­ous­ly, which are mutu­al­ly depen­dent.

The World Eco­nom­ic Forum refers to them as the poly­cri­sis.

Our Mis­sion:
Empow­er­ing impact star­tups in
cre­at­ing col­lec­tive impact
for the poly­cri­sis.

We sup­port star­tups to become impact star­tups and cre­ate con­nec­tions with diverse stake­hold­ers, from var­i­ous indus­tries, to address the poly­cri­sis in a more holis­tic way.

It involves coor­di­nat­ed action, shared mea­sure­ment sys­tems, and con­tin­u­ous com­mu­ni­ca­tion to achieve impact­ful and sus­tain­able change.

Our Ser­vices

To sup­port promis­ing star­tups work­ing on tack­ling the poly­cri­sis and to turn them into impact cat­a­lysts, we have devel­oped two main ser­vices:

Impact
Accel­er­a­tor
Pro­gram

In our 6‑month accel­er­a­tor pro­gram, we sup­port par­tic­i­pants in impact busi­ness mod­el­ling, impact man­age­ment and impact report­ing. We offer coach­ing, men­tor­ing, group train­ing and ses­sions with 100+ experts from our com­mu­ni­ty.

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Impact
Col­lec­tives

Impact col­lec­tives are our net­works of star­tups and estab­lished orga­ni­za­tions unit­ed by shared goals, span­ning across var­i­ous sec­tors. We meet to grow and learn togeth­er on user group inputs, research insights, reg­u­la­to­ry changes and coop­er­a­tion expe­ri­ences.

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Impact Gallery

Over the past 30 years, Berg­wald­pro­jekt e.V. has plant­ed

5,5 mil­lion

endem­ic trees and rewet­ted of more than 250 hectares of peat­land.
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Enzo Cen­ci

he/him Free­lance Inde­pen­dent Fundrais­ing Con­sul­tant
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Inspi­ra­tion
The Gen­er­a­tion For­est is refor­est­ing 270 hectares in Filo del Tal­lo, Pana­ma
Blog
Meet our impact com­mu­ni­ty: Alex Youse­fi­an, Co-Founder of per­si­um

4 out of 5 trees

are con­sid­ered “sick” by the Ger­man “Waldzu­s­tand­ser­he­bung”.
Vis­it Web­site

Stephanie von Behr

she/her Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Founder­land
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Inspi­ra­tion
Bolt Threads cre­at­ed a veg­an leather made out of myceli­um
Blog
Founder Sto­ry: Ali Al-Hakim and Hamed Beheshti, Founders Bore­al Light
Agro­forestry in Ger­many can bind

40 mil­lion

tons of CO2 annu­al­ly, sig­nif­i­cant­ly improv­ing bio­di­ver­si­ty, regen­er­at­ing agri­cul­tur­al soils, cool­ing the envi­ron­ment dur­ing heat peaks and more.
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Ali­cia Com­baz

she/her founder & ceo of MAKE​.ORG
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Inspi­ra­tion
Water­proof durable mate­r­i­al derived from sus­tain­ably grown banana plant fibers
Blog
Founder Sto­ry: Nas­rat Khalid, Founder of Aseel

49%

of glob­al bio­di­ver­si­ty is host­ed by soils. But 40% of soils are degrad­ed, main­ly because of intense agri­cul­tur­al activ­i­ty.
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Pro­tegg

Pro­tegg spe­cial­izes in repur­pos­ing eggshell and eggshell mem­brane resid­u­als from the egg pro­cess­ing indus­try into high-qual­i­ty, stan­dard­ized raw mate­ri­als.

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Eber­hard Ruess

he/him For­mer glob­al Head of IT for Sup­ply Chain, Pro­cure­ment & M&A; For­mer­ly Nestlé
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Inspi­ra­tion
Tex­tile-grade fibre made from waste pineap­ple leaves
Blog
How to devel­op val­ue and prof­it through upcy­cling!
More than

70%

of stands in cen­tral Europe already have reduced vital­i­ty due to extreme weath­er and pathogens.
Vis­it Web­site
mexb​.ai

mexb​.ai is devel­op­ing a con­ver­sa­tion­al AI chat­bot for ini­tial men­tal health sup­port and to bridge time until pro­fes­sion­al treat­ments start.

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Till Augn­er

Founder | Exec­u­tive Coach | Men­tor at Uplift Founders | Part­ners in Clime
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Inspi­ra­tion
Bloom con­verts bio­mass to high-val­ue chem­i­cals
Blog
Renew­able ener­gies in the city: 6 inno­v­a­tive approach­es to ener­gy gen­er­a­tion from ger­man impact star­tups
Aktion Baum plant­ed

131595

trees all over Ger­many since their foun­da­tion in 2021 and ris­ing num­bers in every plant­i­ng sea­son
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Lets­da­ta

Devel­op­ing an ear­ly-warn­ing AI sys­tem to help orga­ni­za­tions under­stand and respond to the spread of dis­in­for­ma­tion and ill-intend­ed infor­ma­tion cam­paigns

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Antje Chris­tine Ven­jakob

she/her Self-employed, Ven­ture Build­ing | Start-Up Financ­ing & Growth
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Inspi­ra­tion
Decar­bonized mate­ri­als for a cir­cu­lar future
Blog
Cli­mate dam­age caused by Rus­si­a’s war in Ukraine and what can be done about it
More than

70%

of stands in cen­tral Europe already have reduced vital­i­ty due to extreme weath­er and pathogens.
Vis­it Web­site
Bore­al Light

Installing short-term (off-grid) solar-hybrid water treat­ment sys­tems to solve the prob­lem with drink­ing water in Myko­laiv

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Davide Marchi­sio

he/him Ven­ture Builder, Prod­uct Coach, Busi­ness Strate­gist
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Inspi­ra­tion
Keel Labs is cre­at­ing eco-con­scious, renew­able yarns derived from a sea­weed called kelp
Since 2023, PLAN B has organ­ised more than

50 events

in Berlin to help cit­i­zens apply for fund­ing for a bal­cony pow­er plant.
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Treep­ilya

Restor­ing, build­ing-up and improv­ing Ukrain­ian forests to sus­tain a healthy envi­ron­ment and accel­er­ate the net-zero future

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Pawel Poltorak

he/him CMO at Rag­nar­son
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Inspi­ra­tion
From waste to wardrobe: trans­form­ing food waste into biodegrad­able poly­ester
Of the par­tic­i­pants in our accel­er­a­tor pro­gram

100%

have an impact ori­en­tat­ed busi­ness mod­el
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Cen­tre for Alter­na­tive Con­flict Res­o­lu­tion

Har­ness­ing the poten­tial of AI/ML to dri­ve for­ward effec­tive and long-last­ing solu­tions to glob­al con­flicts

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Dash Marko­va

she/her Empow­er­ing Impact Entre­pre­neurs with train­ing and men­tor­ship, Dash Too Much
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Inspi­ra­tion
Toward a more inclu­sive and effec­tive par­tic­i­pa­to­ry bud­get in Por­to Ale­gre, Brazil
We sup­port­ed

43 impact star­tups

in our accel­er­a­tor pro­gram
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Volyn­s­ka Gaze­ta (ViL­Ni)

Pro­mot­ing free speech and shar­ing sto­ries of Ukraini­ans by trans­form­ing a tra­di­tion­al region­al news­pa­per “Volyn­s­ka Gaze­ta” into a mod­ern inde­pen­dent media out­let

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Den­nis Stahl

he/him Ser­i­al Founder, Investor, Impact & Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Expert at OnePur­pose Net­work
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Inspi­ra­tion
Is it pos­si­ble for banks to be ori­ent­ed towards the com­mon good?
Since 2022

3559008

peo­ple have been impact­ed by star­tups from our accel­er­a­tor pro­gramm
Vis­it Web­site
Ukrain­ian House Berlin

Fos­ter­ing inter­cul­tur­al dia­logue and col­lab­o­ra­tion by pro­vid­ing a space for Ukraini­ans and Ger­mans to engage and inter­act

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Wari­di Pab­st — Schrob­s­dorff

she/her Founder & CEO of Fash­ion Africa 254, Con­trib­u­tor for Africa at Vogue Ger­many
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Inspi­ra­tion
Mak­ing fash­ion cir­cu­lar by invent­ing the next gen­er­a­tion of bio­ma­te­ri­als made from agri­cul­tur­al waste.
Well-man­aged refor­esta­tion projects can achieve up to

80%

of the bio­di­ver­si­ty lev­els of native forests with­in 20 years.
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Re:Life Ukraine

Re:Life Ukraine unites stu­dents-archi­tects of Ukrain­ian and Euro­pean Uni­ver­si­ties to rebuild small cities and com­mu­ni­ties that were affect­ed by the war. All the projects will be designed accord­ing to Euro­pean Green Strat­e­gy of sus­tain­able urban devel­op­ment.

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Alexan­der Fahie

he/him Entre­pre­neur at TAISK
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Inspi­ra­tion
Bio­ma­te­ri­als and Emis­sion-Free Lime­stone from Eggshells
Scal­ing up glob­al refor­esta­tion efforts to meet cli­mate and bio­di­ver­si­ty goals would require

300

bil­lion USD annu­al­ly by 2030.
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PLAN B

We are build­ing the social, struc­tur­al and tech­ni­cal infra­struc­ture for effec­tive, decen­tral­ized imple­men­ta­tion of cli­mate pro­tec­tion mea­sures by civ­il soci­ety in order to make Berlin cli­mate-neu­tral.

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Mark Young

Pres­i­dent at Ratio­nal Games, Inc.
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Inspi­ra­tion
HELIO sphere trans­forms sea­wa­ter into pure drink­ing water using only solar ener­gy
In 2021, wild­fires burned

4200000

hectares of for­est glob­al­ly, caus­ing sig­nif­i­cant envi­ron­men­tal and eco­nom­ic dam­age
Vis­it Web­site
Aseel

E‑commerce plat­form that empow­ers arti­sans from under­de­vel­oped nations to reach a glob­al con­sumer base and lever­ages the same tech­nol­o­gy for trans­par­ent aid pro­vi­sion, fos­ter­ing both eco­nom­ic growth and human­i­tar­i­an impact.

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Ola­do­su Adenike

she/her Exec­u­tive Direc­tor, I Lead Cli­mate Action Ini­tia­tive
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Inspi­ra­tion
Liq­uid Nat­ur­al Clay (LNC) upgrades sandy soil’s capac­i­ty to retain water and nutri­ents, enable drought-resilient farm­ing and pre­serve water.
Refor­est­ed areas show a

30%

increase in bio­di­ver­si­ty com­pared to non-refor­est­ed degrad­ed land
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Welob­by

Pro­vides a lob­by for every­one with­out a lob­by. They give access to pol­i­tics and deci­sion mak­ers to every inter­est group, inde­pen­dent from the finan­cial back­ground

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Annelie Graf

she/her Senior Con­sul­tant Busi­ness Strat­e­gy & Inno­va­tion, diff­fer­ent GmbH
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Inspi­ra­tion
Sky­seed com­bines drones, pel­letized seeds and knowl­edge about for­est-ecol­o­gy to analyse trees &soils to deliv­er smart and sus­tain­able refor­esta­tion
The glob­al eco­nom­ic impact of fake news is esti­mat­ed at

78 bil­lion USD

annu­al­ly, due to the costs of mis­in­for­ma­tion cor­rec­tion, rep­u­ta­tion­al dam­age, and decreased trust in media and insti­tu­tion
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yamakoe

Wild­fire Detec­tion Plat­form, which can detect even small fires with the help of a mesh net­work of solar-pow­ered air sen­sors

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Mar­tin Quach

he/him Cli­mate Impact Advi­sor at Ter­rafor­ma­tion
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Inspi­ra­tion
Organ­ic Solid­Flow bat­ter­ies use car­bon-based mate­ri­als use instead of met­al ions
As of 2023, the glob­al aver­age lev­el of pub­lic trust in gov­ern­ment was only

35%

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tilt

Soft­ware that auto­mat­i­cal­ly assess­es the CO2 emis­sions and cli­mate change risk of SMEs and makes this data open source avail­able for use in cred­it deci­sions.

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Abdul Khaleq Al-Qasai­ly

he/him Ser­i­al Entre­pre­neur, Busi­ness Glob­al Men­tor, GeoAI Con­sul­tant at QR Glob­al LT
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Inspi­ra­tion
Pas­sive Solar Green­house can run all year round with almost no addi­tion­al ener­gy input
In 2023, the glob­al aver­age press free­dom score was

50.9

out of 100, with many democ­ra­cies expe­ri­enc­ing increas­ing restric­tions on media free­dom
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KLEA

Builds a reli­able sup­port struc­ture for law clin­ics at uni­ver­si­ties in Ger­many to bring change in the legal edu­ca­tion sys­tem and change the access to the jus­tice sys­tem

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Niall Bellabar­ba

he/him Senior Cloud Archi­tect at DWS
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Inspi­ra­tion
Hydropan­els turn air into drink­ing water by extract­ing mois­ture out of the air. even in the desert
Finan­cial insti­tu­tions are respon­si­ble for financ­ing activ­i­ties that pro­duce

700000000

tons of CO2 annu­al­ly
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We4everyone

We4everyone offers wind ener­gy from local wind gusts to busi­ness­es and pri­vate house­holds with a wind sail pow­er plant.

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Lau­ra Schmid­hu­ber

she/her Head of Dig­i­tal Inno­va­tion Lab at Miele & Cie. KG
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Inspi­ra­tion
Giant, glow­ing car­bon blocks bring zero-car­bon indus­tri­al heat and pow­er to fac­to­ries
Only

10%

of the total assets under man­age­ment in the finan­cial sec­tor are direct­ed towards sus­tain­able invest­ments
Vis­it Web­site

Alice Hohen­lo­he

she/her Impact Man­ag­er at Trill Impact
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Inspi­ra­tion
Aze­lio com­bines Stir­ling engines with ther­mal ener­gy stor­age pro­vid­ing dis­patch­able elec­tric­i­ty and usable heat for all hours of the day – with zero emis­sion
Cor­rup­tion in the finan­cial sec­tor costs the glob­al econ­o­my an esti­mat­ed

2.6

tril­lion USD annu­al­ly
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beabee

beabee is an open­source soft­ware plat­form for peo­ple-pow­ered media or peo­ple owned media.

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Flo­ri­an Foder­mey­er

he/him Con­sult­ing Part­ner at Dynamo Part­ners
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Inspi­ra­tion
Aze­lio Pitch­es TES.POD at Drag­on­fly­’s Den
African small­hold­er farm­ers are throw­ing away

30%

of their crops’ val­ue every har­vest sea­son as agri­cul­tur­al waste
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BeeChar­i­ta­ble

Plat­form to gen­er­ate out­reach and dona­tions in eSport tour­na­ments for NGOs.

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Lucas von Fürsten­berg

he/him Sus­tain­able forestry, real estate, busi­ness angel at Frei­herr von Fürsten­berg’sche Ver­wal­tung
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Inspi­ra­tion
Ron­do Heat Bat­ter­ies con­vert inter­mit­tent wind and solar pow­er into heat and stores it in a high tem­per­a­ture ther­mal ener­gy stor­age, made of bricks
every day 1,200,000,000 eggs are processed lead­ing

12000+ tons

unused resid­ual mate­r­i­al per day
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SIRPLUS

SIRPLUS reduces food waste by res­cu­ing high-qual­i­ty food offered through an online store — as a cook­ing box or indi­vid­ual order

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Cielo Sanabria

Senior LCA Expert and Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Ana­lyst at SAP
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Inspi­ra­tion
How To Design A Cli­mate Bat­tery for a Green­house
Bore­al Light pro­duces clean water for

2500000+ peo­ple

every day
Vis­it Web­site

Natalia Mejia Par­do

she/her Project Asso­ciate at The Data Tank
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Inspi­ra­tion
NaturTech Com­post­ing Sys­tem by Renew­able Car­bon Man­age­ment

Canelle Men­gual

she/her Senior Pro­gram Man­ag­er
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Inspi­ra­tion
Com­post heats green­hous­es
Car­bon­Cloud released the cli­mate foot­prints of

10000 food prod­ucts

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Kary­na Shulgi­na

she/her Project man­ag­er at Skin Open Source
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Inspi­ra­tion
AeroMINE’s motion­less wind tur­bines have no vis­i­ble mov­ing parts, make no noise, and gen­er­ate 50% more pow­er than stan­dard solar PV pan­els
Deli­cious Data used their Food Waste Mon­i­tor­ing Sys­tem to save

691357 Meals

Vis­it Web­site

Niklas Fröjd­holm

he/him Strat­e­gy Intern at CIN­Soil
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Inspi­ra­tion
Aeromine Rooftop Wind. Sta­t­ic. Silent. 50% more pow­er than Solar PV
Wild­plas­tic col­lect­ed

391900 kg of plas­tic

from roads, ille­gal dumps, and from the nature.
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Nameer Alkhayy­at

he/him CTO at naera
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Inspi­ra­tion
Ridge-mount­ed wind tur­bines are using the exist­ing sur­face area of a pitched roof har­ness­ing the Aeo­lian wind focus effect.

Louis Schwab

he/him CEO / Co-founder at naera
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Inspi­ra­tion
In-pipe hydropow­er har­ness­es the pow­er from gal­lons of high pres­sured water that flows through a city’s water sys­tem every day
The Ecosia com­mu­ni­ty plant­ed

182139039 trees

in 35 coun­tries
Vis­it Web­site

Ulrich Kat­ter­bach

he/him Inno­va­tion Con­sul­tant and Men­tor: Bridg­ing Ideas to Sus­tain­able Suc­cess, Self Employed
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Inspi­ra­tion
Farm­Pod devel­ops ful­ly auto­mat­ed ver­ti­cal aquapon­ic sys­tems in ship­ping con­tain­ers
The Too Good To Go app is opened dai­ly by

2000000 Users

to save food
Vis­it Web­site

Olga Almqvist

she/her Senior Man­ag­er, Soci­etal Impact Financ­ing Ini­tia­tive (Sci­Fi), ESMT
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Inspi­ra­tion
An Amaz­ing Ver­ti­cal Gar­den Pow­ered by Worms
Car­bon­fu­ture con­tract­ed the remov­el of over

1000000 tonnes of CO2

Vis­it Web­site

Kirsten Nie­mann

she/her Online Mar­ket­ing Man­ag­er, Self employed
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Inspi­ra­tion
Wood robot buries itself to sow seeds

Emmanuel Oko­r­woit

Co-founder and CEO at Treety
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Inspi­ra­tion
Grow­ing trees and food in the desert while pre­serv­ing water
car­bon­plan ana­lyzed

219 projects

for Car­bon Diox­ide Removal
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Abby Mbuthi

Co-founder and CPO at Treety
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Inspi­ra­tion
Ground­fridge Is A Sus­tain­able ‘Pop Up Cel­lar’ That Nat­u­ral­ly Cools Your Food | Future Blink
Plan A offers

1000+ solu­tions

for decar­bon­i­sa­tion on their plat­form
Vis­it Web­site

Charles Oyamo

Co-Founder at Rethread Africa
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Inspi­ra­tion
“Diver­si­ty Under­takes” | Award Win­ner 2023 Cat­e­go­ry B — Bore­al Light GmbH

Noreen Mwan­cha

Co-Founder at Rethread Africa
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Inspi­ra­tion
Mea­sur­ing Out­comes Explain­er: Car­bon Diox­ide Removal and Enhanced Rock Weath­er­ing
Con­cu­lar hat

300 zirkuläre Immo­bilien

gebaut, umge­baut oder rück­ge­baut
Vis­it Web­site

Vin­cent Momanyi

Lead Poly­mer Researcher at Rethread Africa
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Inspi­ra­tion
Dry Sep­a­ra­tor Toi­let
Klim arbeit­et mit mehr als

3590 Land­wirten

zusam­men, um deren Bodenge­sund­heit zu stärken und das Kli­ma zu schützen.
Vis­it Web­site

Alexan­der Kahlmann

he/him Co-Founder at I’M℗ACTING
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Inspi­ra­tion
Mush­room Coffins Turn Bod­ies Into Com­post And Make Death Less Tox­ic
Chahtech irri­ga­tion sys­tems pro­duce

3 to 5 times more yield

than drip irri­ga­tion, with their Buried Dif­fuser
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Marie-Kristin Wysk

Founder and CEO at I’M℗ACTING
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Inspi­ra­tion
How Mush­rooms Are Turned Into Bacon And Sty­ro­foam
Desert Con­trol reduces water con­sump­tion up to

50 Per­cent

or agri­cul­ture, forests, and green land­scapes
Vis­it Web­site

Alex Youse­fi­an

Co-Founder / COO at Per­si­um
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Inspi­ra­tion
Biohm har­ness­es the pow­er of myceli­um to cre­ate con­struc­tion mate­ri­als like insu­la­tion pan­els.
PHINEO Star­tups sup­port­ed

18 impact star­tups

from Ukraine
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Eden Tadesse

Founder and CEO at invic­ta
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Inspi­ra­tion
Learn How farm­hand® Makes Your Smart Farm Even Smarter
Since 2017 SIRPLUS saved more than

2500t of food

from land­fills.
Vis­it Web­site

Tavseef Mairaj Shah

COO at Cin­SOIL
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Inspi­ra­tion
Freight Farms: Cre­at­ing A More Secure Glob­al Food Sys­tem Through Hydro­pon­ic Farm­ing
Bore­al Light built 5 desali­na­tion plants to sup­ply

500,000 inhab­i­tans

of Myko­laiv with drink­ing water
Vis­it Web­site

Gior­gi Shu­radze

Man­ag­ing Direc­tor and CEO at Cin­SOIL
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Inspi­ra­tion
Inter­modal Con­tainer­ized Com­post Sys­tem

Antonel­la Suc­cur­ro

CTO at Cin­SOIL
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Inspi­ra­tion
Ship­ping Con­tain­er Farms

Eduard Martín-Bor­regón

Exec­u­tive Direc­tor at abri​mos​.info
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Inspi­ra­tion
How Biochar Removes CO2 from the Air

Clau­dia Ocaran­za Abas­cal

Jour­nal­ism and Trans­paren­cy Direc­tor at abri​mos​.info
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Inspi­ra­tion
Stenon’s Farm­Lab: Lab­o­ra­to­ry Inde­pen­dent Real-Time Soil Analy­sis

Fer­nan­do Matz­dorf

Direc­tor of Data at abri​mos​.info
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Inspi­ra­tion
Farm­Lab from Stenon

Darya Dant­se­va

Founder and Biotech­nol­o­gist at Skin Open Source
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Inspi­ra­tion
Soil car­bon: Putting car­bon back where it belongs

Anas­tasi­ia Toryanik

Ana­lyst, Sci­en­tist at Skin Open Source
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Inspi­ra­tion
From sand to soil in 7 hours 

Mau­rits Zev­er­ing

Man­ag­ing Direc­tor: Finance & Strat­e­gy at nex­tract ener­gy
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Inspi­ra­tion
Chongqing Sci­en­tists Con­vert Sand into Soil with New Method

Michelle Rudolph

she/her Pro­gram Man­ag­er
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Inspi­ra­tion
David John­son on Rapid Car­bon Seques­tra­tion

Lars Ofter­dinger

he/him Social Media Lead Europe, smart Europe GmbH
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Inspi­ra­tion
Home­volt smart bat­tery

Idan Tobias

he/him Organ­i­sa­tion­al devel­op­ment expert, Self-Employ­eed
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Inspi­ra­tion
Mega stor­age for the ener­gy tran­si­tion!

Ale­na Hilbig

she/her Start­up Men­tor | Oper­a­tional & Strate­gic Excel­lence | Ven­ture Cap­i­tal
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Inspi­ra­tion
Ecoflow Pow­er

Torsten Mueller

Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Com­merzbank
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Inspi­ra­tion
This device reduces elec­tric­i­ty costs by 55

Lukas Marzi

he/him CEO at On Pur­pose and Founder at Marzi­plan
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Inspi­ra­tion
Biore­ac­tor Build­ings

David Schmidt

he/him CPO & ser­i­al founder, Apothera
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Inspi­ra­tion
Basics of Agro­forestry

Kai Mar­tin

he/him Indus­tri­al Cli­mate Tech Investor at Shell Ven­tures
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Inspi­ra­tion
Solar Pan­els Plus Farm­ing? Agri­v­oltaics Explained

Juliana Zgryzek

she/her PR at BeeChar­i­ta­ble
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Could Plants Help Solve Our Addic­tion to Min­ing?

Ben­jamin Guelk­er

he/him Adver­tis­ing & Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Man­ag­er at welob­by
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Car­bon removal by bury­ing bio­mass from algae farm­ing, where it remains sta­ble for thou­sands of years 

Anvi­ta Mud­kani

she/her Senior Invest­ment Man­ag­er at IBB Ven­tures
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Cement made from recy­cled indus­tri­al waste brine (from desali­na­tion plants)

Joshua Bobzin

he/him Project & Fundrais­ing Man­ag­er at Plan B
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Lab­o­ra­to­ry Inde­pen­dent Real-Time Soil Analy­sis

Yan­nick Frank

he/him Start­up Men­tor & Investor at Part­ners in Clime
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Sea­wa­ter Con­cen­trat­ing Solar Pow­er Desali­na­tion

Lukas Har­lan

he/him Pro­grame Direc­tor at Schöpflin Foun­da­tion
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Rooftop Agri­v­oltaics

Nadine Michalske

she/her Co-Founder Klima.Metrix
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Com­post Aer­a­tion With Heat Recov­ery,

Inga Skowranek

she/her Con­sul­tant sys­temic orga­ni­za­tion­al devel­op­ment & sus­tain­abil­i­ty man­age­ment & Agile Coach, Free­lancer and collectiv:a mem­ber
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Lignin as an alter­na­tive to Bitu­men

Sebas­t­ian Schramm

Ven­ture Archi­tect at Enpulse Ven­tures GmbH
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A Sand Bat­tery can store ther­mal ener­gy for months

Nan­cy Birkhölz­er

she/her Founder, Investor, Advi­so­ry Board Mem­ber at NB Ven­tures
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Fog-col­lec­tor Nets har­vest drink­ing water from fog

Chris­t­ian Wal­ter

he/him Found­ing Part­ner at SDGx
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Design­ing liv­ing build­ings with trees

Julia Drey­er

she/her Co-Founder & Board Mem­ber at collectiv:a eG | Expert on Inno­va­tion & Agile Meth­ods
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smart solar blinds gen­er­ate elec­tric­i­ty while keep­ing your apart­ment or office cool

Johan­na von Her­man-Kim

COO & Investor at Cat­a­lyst Impact Invest­ment Club
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3D print­ed urban bio­di­ver­si­ty habi­tat

Sébas­tien Mar­tin

Founder and Man­ag­ing Part­ner at Impact Asso­ciates
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Agro-min­ing with plants that absorb met­als from the ground.

Maren Lesche

Founder & CEO at Start­up Col­or
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Myceli­um Insu­la­tion

Friedrich Lin­den­berg

Founder, lead engi­neer at Open­Sanc­tions
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Liq­uid clay turns deserts green­er

Bian Sukrow

they/them Head of KLEA
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mobile pyrol­y­sis oven for biochar

Maike Strif­fler

Fundrais­ing & Strat­e­gy Lead at Rel­e­vant Ven­tures
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Water har­vest­ing tow­er

Edson Niwa­manya

Port­fo­lio Lead at Rel­e­vant Ven­tures
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Sharon Namu­jjuzi

she/her Finance Lead at Rel­e­vant Ven­tures
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Silke Som­mer

Prod­uct Own­er, Mar­ket­ing & Finance at comu­neo
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Katha­ri­na von Stauf­fen­berg

she/her Co-Founder at comu­neo (Busi­ness Devel­op­ment & Sales)
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Math­ias John

Founder and CEO at we4everyone
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Maria Pozder

Co-Founder and COO at we4everyone
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Markus Johan­ning

Co-Founder and man­ag­ing direc­tor at Pro­tegg
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Fabi­an Hüt­ter

Co-Founder and Head of R&D at Pro­tegg
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Kai Aslan

CEO at BeeChar­i­ta­ble
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Isabel Arens

Founder at World for Cli­mate
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Reshad Zazai

Back­end Devel­op­er at Aseel
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Jesus Bueno Alvarez

Co-Founder at Yamakoe
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Anne Schö­nauer

Project Lead at tilt
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Tilman Tromp­ke

Project Man­ag­er at tilt
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Julia Hilde­brand

Project Lead at beabee
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Jan Chris­t­ian Sahl

Founder and CEO at welob­by
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Nas­rat Khalid

Foud­er & CEO at Aseel
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Fran­cis Dos­sou Sognon

Chief Exec­u­tive Offi­cer
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Sask­ia Howe

Orga­ni­za­tion­al devel­op­ment, orga­ni­za­tion­al cul­ture
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Tim Gauss

Fundrais­ing / Busi­ness Mod­el Devel­op­ment
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Lu Yen Roloff

Founder/Initiatorin
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Julia Rob­lick

she/her Impact Invest­ing, bet­ter ven­tures
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Mario Stein­buch

Co-Founder & Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, 36 Cham­bers Stu­dio
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Pieter van Mid­woud

Chief Tree Plant­i­ng Offi­cer, Ecosia
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Jacob Künz­er

he/him Pro­gram sup­port
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Natali­ia Fiebrig

Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at WeAid, For­eign Cor­re­spon­dant at Stu­dio 1+1
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Nor­man Hiob

he/him Co-Founder & Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Plan­ty Foods & Hiob Ven­tures
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Tay­la Shel­drake

she/her Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at Motion​Lab​.Ven​tures
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Erdinç Koç

he/him Fundrais­ing Expert & Ven­ture Part­ner at Heart­felt Cap­i­tal and Head of the Medi­aT­e­ch Hub Accel­er­a­tor at the HPI
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Robert Hite

he/him Direc­tor of Busi­ness Devel­op­ment, Aptar Dig­i­tal Health
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Net­sai Ndaza

she/her Pro­gramm Man­ag­er
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Matthias Oetken

CEO & Founder, Exec­u­tive coach, for­mer CFO/ CRO at N26
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Jas­mine Borhan

Founder, Jas­mine Borhan Strate­gic Com­mu­ni­ca­tions
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Alex Kovbasko

she/her Accel­er­a­tor Devel­op­er at Myko­laiv Water Hub
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Yuli­ia Malet­s­ka

she/her Prod­uct Man­ag­er, Lets­Da­ta
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Petra H. Holthusen

she/her Senior Project Man­ag­er, Be an Angel e.V.
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Lea Jacob­sen

she/her Project Admin­is­tra­tor, Be an Angel e.V.
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Asal Rus­ta­mo­va

Spon­sor­ship and Media Part­ner­ship Man­ag­er
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Sascha Erben

Man­ag­ing Direc­tor, Ohana Group Ham­burg (Fam­i­ly Office) / 105 VIERTEL Ham­burg (Social Impact Incu­ba­tor and Accel­er­a­tor)
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Christoph Rohde

Trans­ac­tion Man­ag­er at FASE
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Christa Coc­ci­ole

Body Ori­ent­ed Sys­tems Ther­a­pist and Con­sul­tant for Embod­ied Lead­er­ship, Free­lance
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Katrin Häuser

CEO and co-founder, The­Green­Spring
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Olek­san­dr Snidalov

Direc­tor of Plat­form and Ser­vices, Babbel
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Fabi­an Hoehne

Entre­pre­neur, Impact Investor, Founder of Vito­lus, Clever­ack­ern & Fly​la​.com
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Dr. Chris­t­ian Hum­borg

CEO Wiki­me­dia Deutsch­land, Founder RUMS, Board mem­ber CORRECTIV
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Kiana Mar­di

Found­ing Part­ner, Lucy Cap­i­tal / Com­pa­ny Build­ing, fraud0
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Felix Krause

Man­ag­ing Part­ner, Vireo Ven­tures Man­age­ment
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Mina Kola­gar

Co-Founder & Co-CEO, PAN­TO­health
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Chris­t­ian Boettch­er

Entre­pre­neur in Web3 | Inde­pen­dent Plat­form Strat­e­gy Advi­sor, NUW Ven­tures
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Thomas Kalunge

Human-Cen­tered Inno­va­tion Strate­gist and Entre­pre­neur­ial Busi­ness Leader
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René Wien­holtz

Founder, LOOM Impact
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Sab­ri­na Kon­zok

Board Mem­ber and Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at SEND e.V. and Junge Tüftler gGmbH
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Chris­t­ian Kroll

he/him CEO of Ecosia
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Kai Malk­witz

Impact Direc­tor at Founders Insti­tute Berlin
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Dr. Thomas Warnke

Entre­pre­neur at Hum­boldt Inno­va­tion
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Mamuteane Mmut­le

Investor / Entrepreneur/ Oper­a­tions Spe­cial­ist
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Tobias Ahrens

Head of Start­up Hub at Com­merzbank AG
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Philipp Schmidt

Man­ag­ing Own­er at C4CS Europe — Cen­ter for Cor­po­rate Sus­tain­abil­i­ty
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Maike Strif­fler

Co-Founder & Social Enter­prise Lead at Social Inno­va­tion Acad­e­my Glob­al
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Igor Elbert

Prin­ci­pal at Com­mon Sen­sor
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Kse­nia Iliuk

she/her COO & Co-Founder, Lets­Da­ta
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Andriy Kusyy

he/him CEO & Co-founder at Lets­Da­ta
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Kim Welti

she/her Co-Founder of Re:build Ukraine
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Daniel Donath

he/him Co-founder of Ukrain­ian House Berlin
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Bog­dan Mif­takhov

he/him Co-founder of Ukrain­ian House Berlin
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Tetiana Poudel

she/her Co-founder & Man­ag­ing direc­tor at ViL­Ni
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Genya Moore

she/her Co-founder of Re:Life Ukraine
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Nataly Ulyano­va

she/her Co-founder of Treep­ilya
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Vik­to­ria Fialko

she/her Co-founder of Treep­ilya
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Anas­tasi­ia Aizen­sh­tat

she/her Founder and CEO at CACR
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Hamed Beheshti

he/him Co-Founder and CEO at Bore­al Light
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Anna She­p­e­lenko

she/her Chief Out­reach Offi­cer at Bore­al Light
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André Nikol­s­ki

Strate­gic Projects at Hum­boldt-Inno­va­tion, Start­up Coach & Start­up Con­sul­tant
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Julia Majer

she/her Inno­va­tion Con­sul­tant & Pro­gram Man­ag­er at SAP​.iO
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Lau­ra Kohler

Start­up Ecosys­tem & Cor­po­rate Inno­va­tion expert
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Lyud­my­la Kovalenko

CEO and Co-Founder at Doc­tor Kim­chi
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Sophie Dien­berg

Founder of inKlub
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Dr. Thomas Gne­fkow

Busi­ness angel, founder and pri­vate lec­tur­er
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Car­olin Kröger

Co-founder at beingfe​male​.de and con­sul­tant
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Nora Azza­oui

Part­ner at Kobold I Pur­pose Design & Inno­va­tion and co-founder of mimy­cri
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Peter Brock

Entre­pre­neur and impact investor, Fam­i­ly Office Ser­vices
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Lisa Götz

she/her Pro­gram Sup­port
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Ana Lichtwer

Co-founder at GUTE­mis­sion
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Ole­na Vorozheik­i­na

Founder at Bake for Ukraine
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Anna Believant­se­va

Esper Bion­ics
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Maria Kalen­s­ka

CEO at Bake for Ukraine
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Alex Kuvalli­ni

he/him CEO at Hand­stree
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Yuli­ia Kar­nas

Man­ag­ing Direc­tor at OneUkraine
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Han­na Kolesnichenko

Oper­a­tions Man­ag­er at OneUkraine
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Qian Qin

Co-founder at We do Solar
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Karoli­na Attspo­d­i­na

CEO at We Do Solar
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Niki­ta Over­chyk

Founder at UAtal­ents
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Alexan­dr Zubchenko

Mobile Appli­ca­tion Devel­op­er at Podiya (Vol­un­teer)
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Valeri­ia Biloshyt­s­ka

Lead Project Coor­di­na­tor at Podiya (Vol­un­teer)
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Mary­na Soro­ka

Co-founder at GUTE­mis­sion
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Natali­ia Kovalenko

Co-founder at GUTE­mis­sion
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Han­na Slo­bodyanyuk-Mon­tavon

CEO at Myko­laiv Water Hub
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Jonas Wegener

Jonas Wegen­er

he/him Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Strate­gist at PHINEO Star­tups
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Alex Biloshyt­s­ki

Co-Founder at Podiya
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Meri Khaz­aradze

(she / her) Co-Founder at mexb​.ai
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Kseni­ia Teslenko

(she / her) Co-Founder at mexb​.ai
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Sebas­t­ian Neu­mann

he/him Head of Phi­neo Star­tups
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Fran­ka Ismer

she/her Senior Pro­gram Man­ag­er
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Viviana Köhrbrück

she/her Pro­gram Man­ag­er
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