‘SSUP! Team 53°N interviewed Jörg Rheinboldt, former business angel and Managing Director of Berlin-based APX – a joint venture between Axel Springer and Porsche. We met Jörg in an almost empty APX office in Berlin, that houses several of their participating start-ups. “Normally there are a lot more people here, but you come here in... Continue Reading →
‘SSUP!’s team 53°N interviewed CEO and co-founder Christian Strobl, and Head of Demand Roman Rittmann of Hackerbay, a software and services company from Berlin We got an hour with Christian and Roman, both self-taught hackers with backgrounds in law and communication respectively, about starting up a tech services company in a tech booming era. Hackerbay... Continue Reading →
‘SSUP!’s team 53°N interviewed Philipp von Falkenhausen (right), Associate Director Marketing EU, and Konrad Schade (left), Associate Director Category Management at Wayfair EU – a hyper fast growing American e-commerce platform for furniture. “This is not a start-up anymore!”, was our first thought when we entered Wayfair’s Germany headquarters in Berlin… naive as we were... Continue Reading →
53 Degrees North interviewed Roman Sick, CEO of Holoplot, in his office in a warehouse building in Berlin, and got a demo of this brilliant new sound technology in their own showroom. It’s not the first time Roman has been participating in innovative projects as an entrepreneur, but this one is definitely one of his... Continue Reading →
‘SSUP! Team 53°N interviewed Copenhagen-based CTO and co-founder Mikkel Boje (left on picture) of Capdesk – a story about finding the right business idea and the right business partners. We met Mikkel in his office in a building that was previously a stronghold for Danish photographers. Although some photographers still have their studios there, recently... Continue Reading →
An interview by 53°N with Jeffry Broek and Mark Zaal from De Energiebespaarders (The Energy Savers) – your (digital) partner in making your home sustainable, as easy as online shopping. It is another great day for solar power in Amsterdam when we meet the two founders of De Energiebespaarders, two old study friends from Delft... Continue Reading →
An interview by 53°N with Kristoffer Borg Petersen, brand-new CEO of Copenhagen-based Hufsy – a story about a young start-up that tries to disrupt business banking for Small and Mid-sized Enterprises (SMEs) With a background in digital media business, Kristoffer is the perfect candidate to scale-up Hufsy, a B2B FinTech company that was founded in... Continue Reading →
An interview by 53°N with Copenhagen-based Plant Jammer’s founder and CEO, Michael Haase. A story about reducing food waste and meat consumption, AND becoming a more playful and creative cook. We met Michael at his office in Copenhagen, a building with a hippie feel to it, like a home that houses multiple start-ups. “A nice... Continue Reading →
53 Degrees North interviewed Marlies de Kock and Pieter Vogels, co-founders of mOOvement, a corporate venture of the Dutch bank Rabobank, in a café in Utrecht. Track & Trace of beef cows over long distances? Who thought that tracking the location of cows would become a business one day? Marlies de Kock and Pieter Vogels... Continue Reading →
An interview by 53°N with Marieke Wassing and Alain Kummer from NLC – The Healthtech Venture Builder We already knew about VCs, incubators, accelerators, but lately a new species was created by humankind: the venture builder. With increasing volatility in markets, the acceleration of innovation and growing competitiveness in tech, the start-up model is in... Continue Reading →
INSEAD SUMMER STARTUP TOUR 