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Johan­na von Her­man-Kim

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Expe­ri­enced start­up advi­sor, busi­ness angel, investor, and ded­i­cat­ed moth­er of three girls. Pos­sess­ing a strong foun­da­tion in lead­er­ship, fundrais­ing and M&A advi­so­ry, as well as strat­e­gy and project man­age­ment, Johan­na exhibits a ver­sa­tile skill set that enables her to excel in a wide range of busi­ness envi­ron­ments. Pas­sion for empow­er­ing star­tups: Her heart beats for … Con­tin­ued

Sébas­tien Mar­tin

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Sébastien Mar­tin is an expert in impact invest­ing and in sup­port­ing the entre­pre­neur­ial devel­op­ment of impact-dri­ven star­tups. He brings +25 years of busi­ness expe­ri­ences (incl. IPO of a start­up) in areas that are crit­i­cal for start­up suc­cess, e.g. busi­ness mod­el­ling, fundrais­ing, stake­hold­er and impact man­age­ment, lead­er­ship of com­plex cross-func­­tion­al projects. As a cer­ti­fied Sys­temic Busi­ness … Con­tin­ued

Edson Niwa­manya

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Edson is a social entre­pre­neur, Start­up con­sul­tant, an Erick­son Inter­na­tion­al cer­ti­fied coach and a stu­dent of Busi­ness strat­e­gy and Invest­ment at the African Lead­er­ship Uni­ver­si­ty. He is founder of Expo­sium, a start-up that offers busi­ness coach­ing. He has four years expe­ri­ence in men­tor­ing social enter­pris­es to build sus­tain­able and scal­able sys­tems. Edson has con­sult­ed with … Con­tin­ued

Maren Lesche

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As the Founder and CEO of Start­up Col­ors, I have over 5 years of expe­ri­ence in lead­ing an inno­va­tion agency that offers a range of ser­vices to star­tups and cor­po­rates, such as inno­va­tion strat­e­gy, intrapre­neur­ship pro­gram devel­op­ment, tech screen­ing and scout­ing, start­up con­sult­ing, event man­age­ment and match­mak­ing, and PR ser­vices. I spe­cial­ize in the fields … Con­tin­ued

Jan Chris­t­ian Sahl

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Back­ground in law and pol­i­tics (Bun­desregierung, Bun­destag, Bun­desver­be­nand der Deutschen Indus­trie, HateAid…); cur­rent­ly work­ing as pro­fes­sor of law at Fed­er­al Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences for Pub­lic Admin­is­tra­tion

Julia Hilde­brand

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My back­ground is in com­mu­ni­ty build­ing and prod­uct man­age­ment. Three major phas­es in my career have brought me to this project: 1. My ori­gins in local jour­nal­ism, hav­ing worked for a hyper­local branch of Rheinis­che Post in Duis­burg Rhein­hausen for sev­er­al years (which has been closed for many years). 2. My years at Deutsche Welle, … Con­tin­ued

Tilman Tromp­ke

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For the past two and a half years, I worked at Theia Finance Labs, pre­vi­ous­ly known as the 2 Degrees Invest­ing Ini­tia­tive (2DII). Ini­tial­ly, I served as an ana­lyst and, since 2023, I have under­tak­en the role of project man­ag­er for ’tilt’. I can offer exper­tise in eco­nom­ics and finance, par­tic­u­lar­ly in shap­ing the con­cep­tu­al … Con­tin­ued

Anne Schö­nauer

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For the last three years, I’ve been with Theia Finance Labs (for­mer­ly 2° Invest­ing Ini­tia­tive). Ini­tial­ly, I played a key role as the Deputy Research Head of 1in1000, a new pro­gramme we intro­duced. This was my first dive into launch­ing a pro­gramme, cov­er­ing strat­e­gy, mar­ket­ing, and man­ag­ing peo­ple. After its suc­cess­ful start, I chose to … Con­tin­ued

Jesus Bueno Alvarez

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My edu­ca­tion­al back­ground includes a degree in Struc­tur­al Engi­neer­ing, a PhD in Com­pu­ta­tion­al Mechan­ics, and a PhD focused on devel­op­ing diag­nos­tic devices. I’ve also accu­mu­lat­ed valu­able expe­ri­ence in the start­up sphere, suc­cess­ful­ly bring­ing detec­tion devices to mar­ket. Through­out my career, I have led and man­aged mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary teams, resources in both aca­d­e­m­ic and indus­tri­al set­tings, ensur­ing … Con­tin­ued