EU-Startups Podcast

For episode 18 of the EU-Startups Podcast we interviewed serial entrepreneur and investor Lukasz Gadowski. Lukasz is kind of a living legend of the German and European startup ecosystem and co-founded big success stories like Delivery Hero and helped building many other European tech companies. Delivery Hero, today is a publicly traded company and has a market cap of around €30 billion. As angel investor and through holding companies like Team Global (formerly Team Europe), Lukasz also invested in many of Europe's most exciting startups of today, like Volocopter, Choco and Enpal. By the way: Lukasz also co-founded the German startup magazine Gruenderszene many years ago, which inspired me to eventually create EU-Startups back in 2010.

For episode 17 of the EU-Startups Podcast we interviewed Christian Kroll, the founder and CEO of Ecosia. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Berlin, Ecosia is a truly social enterprise - a 'search engine for good' which uses big parts of its ad revenues to plant trees all over the world. Already more than 130 million trees have been planted with Ecosia's help. Christian Kroll and his team bootstrapped Ecosia to become the leading search engine with its headquarters in Europe. A truly inspiring story!

Founded in 2012, Tech Open Air (TOA) is one of the coolest tech events in Europe. Their 2019 edition gathered around 20K attendees. When the pandemic started in 2020, TOA had to re-imagine itself and to do a major pivot in order to survive and thrive. Niko Woischnik and his team eventually decided to pivot the business away from technology conferences to an edtech product called TOA Klub. In today's podcast episode we talked about TOA, the company's recent pivot, the impact and future events, and several other topics.

Today we talked to two top EU-based founders in the sextech space to find out how they have been managing during the pandemic, and where they think the industry will lead in the future. Andrea Oliver Garcia is the co-founder and CEO of Emjoy (founded in 2019), a Barcelona-based startup that offers an audio guide for intimate well being. Phil Steinveber is co-founder and CEO of Beducated (founded in 2015) a Munich-based startup which can be described as the ‘Netflix’ of sexual education.

Founded in 2018 and headquartered in Munich, the hospitality startup LimeHome turns commercial spaces into stylish apart-hotels and lists them on the Limehome tech platform. Limehome already secured about €36 million in funding and was recently featured by us as one of 10 exceptionally promising German startups to watch in 2021. In this podcast episode we talked with Josef about his entrepreneurial journey with Limehome and about the future of the hospitality sector.

Founded in 2015, Streetbees lets real people record the real-time emotion and context behind their purchasing decisions, to bring rich insights for companies. There is already a community of over 4 million 'bees' recording insights via video, photo and chat, with companies like PepsiCo, Unilever, and Procter and Gamble relying on Streetbees to provide intelligence they cannot find elsewhere. Streetbees landed a funding round of €34 million Series B funding in October 2020, and €5.5 million of investment in December 2020, setting them on a course of even faster growth in 2021.

For the 12th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we invited European startup accelerators to come on air and to pitch their firm and its beneftis to startups. For further information, the links to those accelerators can be found in the show notes.

For the 12th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we invited European startup accelerators to come on air and to pitch their firm and its beneftis to startups. For further information, the links to those accelerators can be found in the show notes.

Aside of the travel, hospitality, and events industry, also other sectors like office and coworking spaces have been impacted quite heavily by the ongoing pandemic. To learn more about the status quo and future of coworking we had a conversation with two leaders and pioneers of the coworking scene/business in Europe. For epsidoe 10 of the EU-Startups Podcast we talked with Madeleine Gummer v. Mohl, the Co-founder and CEO of Betahaus, and with Davide Dattoli, the Co-founder and CEO of Talentgarden.

For the 9th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we interviewed Anthony Rose, the founder and CEO of SeedLegals - the one-stop platform for the legals you need to get funded and grow your business. Founded in 2016 in London, Seedlegals today counts 60 employees who are working on a great legaltech product that mainly serves startups in the UK, Ireland and France, as well as inverstors from across the globe.

Ida is a Danish entrepreneur and her company, Clue, is building the world’s fastest growing female health app! Founded in 2013, Clue today has more 15 million users from over 190 countries, and is one of the most popular apps in the “Health & Fitness” category in the United States, Germany, the UK, Brazil, France, Mexico and many others. Also, Ida and her team were able to raise €30 million in venture capital from some of the world's most renown investors.

For the 7th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we invited European venture capital investors to come on air and to pitch their VC firm and investment focus. For further information, the links to those firms can be found in the show notes below.

For the 6th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we set-up a phone interview with Daniel Gebler, the CTO of the Dutch unicorn Picnic, which is operating Europe’s fastest growing online supermarket.

For the 5th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast Charlotte, our Head of Content, invited ThirdEyeMedia founder Clara Armand-Delille to discuss Startup PR. If you're a founder looking to land some press coverage, listen closely. Further below, we also summarised some of the tips that were mentioned within the podcast.

For the 4th episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we set-up a phone interview with Frédéric Mazzella, the founder and President of BlaBlaCar. The French entrepreneur and his team grew BlaBlaCar to become the world's leading long-distance carpooling platform – a global, trusted community of 90 million drivers and passengers in 22 countries. In total, BlaBlaCar raised about €390 million in funding and today is one of the few European scale-ups that reached unicorn status. But even more exciting than financial success, BlaBlaCar was able to achieve a massive social and environmental impact and continues to do so.

For the 2nd episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we set-up a phone interview with Riccardo Zacconi, the founder and former CEO of the Candy Crush creator King.com. The Italian entrepreneur started King with his co-founders in 2003 and grew the company from a tiny team to a 2,000+ employee corporation.

In the first episode of the EU-Startups Podcast we put the spotlight on 30 of Europe's most promising startups that deserve the spotlight after the depressing lockdown period of the current pandemic. For this very first episode, we received applications in the form of 1-minute audio pitches from over 150 promising startups. Today we're presenting you the 30 best pitches.