10 Jahre WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable
Der neue WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast
Der WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast ist live!
Am 22. Januar 2025 haben wir das 10-jährige Bestehen des WHU ER gefeiert.
Heute starten wir den WHU ER Podcast, moderiert von Sergio G. Chavez, Mitbegründer des WHU ER.
Staffel 1 wird aus 10 Episoden bestehen, die alle zwei Wochen veröffentlicht werden. In jeder Folge stellen wir einen MBA-Absolventen der WHU - Otto Beisheim School of Management vor, der ein schnell wachsendes Tech-Startup gegründet hat und einen positiven Einfluss in Deutschland und im Ausland hat.
Unser erster Gast ist Thomas Roth, Mitgründer und CEO von Inzipio, einem digitalen Gesundheits-Startup mit Sitz in Aachen, Deutschland.
#10 Tech Startups - Mapular - Peter Rose, Founder & CEO
Mapular helps modern consumer brands make smarter, data-driven decisions about marketing, growth, and expansion. Through its SaaS platform, Mapular provides location-based insights to D2C and retail brands, enabling them to optimize their marketing spend, track omnichannel customer journeys, and identify high-potential growth areas. By aggregating and analyzing online and offline data through a proprietary “digital twin” of the brand, Mapular empowers businesses to double their return on ad spend and better understand customer behavior across geographies.
During this conversation between Peter and Sergio G Chavez, Peter shares his journey from New Zealand to Germany and how his background in engineering, geospatial analytics, and construction led him to build two startups, first Orbica Europe and now Mapular. He also reflects on the impact of his WHU MBA experience, the value of the Berlin startup ecosystem, and key lessons for aspiring founders with technical backgrounds.
#09 Tech Startups - Bloon - Vuyiswa M'Cwabeni, CEO
Bloon is building an AI-powered, no-code development platform designed to help enterprises rapidly build and deploy mission-critical applications, starting with SAP environments, without sacrificing governance, security, or compliance. Founded as a spinout from Tangro, now XSuite, Bloon aims to solve the scalability and complexity challenges that legacy IT systems and lightweight no-code tools often fail to address.
During this conversation between Vuyiswa and Sergio G Chavez, Vuyiswa shares her journey from Africa to Canada and eventually to Germany, including tech leadership and entrepreneurial drive. She reflects on her time at WHU as a transformative soft landing into Germany, which helped catalyze her path from corporate executive to startup founder. She also shares powerful lessons on resilience, leadership, and building what truly matters.
#08 Tech Startups - Orbion - Aniruddh Goteti, Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Orbion is a predictive platform that transforms protein understanding, design, and validation into a precise science, starting with protein stability and structure determination. Orbion harness AI to unlock new possibilities in biotechnology and has the mission to empower scientists with cutting-edge tools that reduce time, cost, and uncertainty in structural biology.
During this conversation between Ani and Sergio G Chavez, Ani shares his journey across computer science, machine learning, AI, and now biotech. He also discusses the major transformation he went through during his MBA studies at WHU which led him to the foundation of Orbion.
#07 Tech Startups - Kontext21 - Claire Zhu, Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer
Kontext21 builds developer tools that unlock real-time user context from screen, voice, and operating system data, areas that are typically out of reach for most applications. With their unified SDK, developers can build AI-powered features that understand what users are doing in the moment, enabling smarter automation, personalized insights, and enhanced productivity. By bridging the gap between user behavior and application intelligence, Kontext21 is laying the foundation for the next generation of context-aware software.
During this conversation between Claire and Sergio G Chavez, Claire shares her journey across multiple countries and across multiple industries, including engineering, investment banking, venture capital, and startups. She also highlights her experience as a founder of businesses in travel, education, and now AI, and her lessons along the way.
#06 Tech Startups - ScrapBees - Florian Kriependorf & Thilo Hamm, Co-Founders & Co-CEOs
ScrapBees is revolutionizing the recycling industry by providing digital urban mining solutions that support the energy transition and address the skilled labour shortage. Their services streamline the collection, sorting, and recycling of scrap materials for craftsmen and large-scale installers. With a focus on efficiency and sustainability, Scrapbees transform waste into valuable resources, contributing to producing "Green Steel" and other eco-friendly products. By integrating advanced digital tools, Scrapbees ensures transparency and traceability in the recycling process, setting new industry standards and significantly reducing environmental impact.
During this conversation between Florian, Thilo, and Sergio G Chavez, Florian and Thilo share how ScrapBees is addressing the growing scarcity of skilled labor and the inefficiencies in waste recycling, as well as their commitment to sustainability. They also share how they met at WHU during their MBA, went through different career paths after graduation, and later reunited to start ScrapBees.
#05 Tech Startups - StrategyFrame - Christian Underwood, Co-Founder & CEO
StrategyFrame is an AI platform for strategy in medium-sized businesses. It provides owners and leaders a clear and comprehensive guidance on how to make their company thrive, from strategy development to strategy implementation. StrategyFrame is part of a wider portfolio of solutions that Christian has built for medium-sized businesses, including the StrategySummit, the book and podcast “Hope is not a Strategy”, and more.
During this conversation between Christian and Sergio G Chavez, Christian shares how the portfolio of solutions he has built to empower owners and leaders of mid-size businesses to get strategy back in their hands has evolved and expanded across time and became scalable thanks to technology. An incredible story for everyone interested in strategy, mid-sized businesses, and building a strong portfolio of products and services.
#04 Tech Startups - CUREosity - Caesar van Heyningen, Co-Founder & CEO
CUREosity focuses on virtual reality therapy through gamification. With its vision to revolutionize traditional rehabilitation, CUREosity develops VR-based therapy applications for clinics and practices, including its flagship product, CUREO. CUREO’s delivers evidence-based therapeutic success, sustainable relief of personnel, increased patient motivation, a wide range of applications, and an easy and intuitive usability. CUREO is the result of a collaborative approach between CUREosity’s developers and in-house medical experts with scientists, doctors, and therapists from major clinics and partner practices.
During this conversation between Caesar and Sergio G Chavez, Caesar shares his founder journey and the multiple businesses he has created, including an orange juice stand at an early age, protein shakes during his Bachelor, and CUREosity during his MBA, all while also developing a career in corporate finance. Caesar also shares how CUREosity has evolved from a startup to a cashflow positive scaleup growing internationally, with the US market being next in line.
#03 Tech Startups - Famville - Alena Giwojna, Founder & CEO
Famville is the AI-powered family concierge redefining parenting. Designed for busy parents, it saves time and mental overload by instantly finding the best educational and entertaining activities, matching like-minded families, and intelligently scheduling meetups—all in a few clicks.
During this conversation between Alena and Sergio G Chavez, Alena shares with us her fascinating professional and personal journey, including arriving to Germany, working at a lab, joining the WHU MBA, becoming a mom, transitioning from a corporate career to a startup founder leveraging the challenges she experienced herself during parenthood, and more. An inspiring story for women considering entrepreneurship as a career path.
#02 Tech Startups - SECJUR - Niklas Hanitsch, Founder & CEO
SECJUR’s vision is effortless compliance and universal digital trust for a safer world. Therefore, SECJUR developed the Digital Compliance Office or DCO, an all-in-one solution for businesses for all things compliance. Thanks to SECJUR, businesses can implement compliance standards such as GDPR, ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, and TISAX reliably and save hundreds of hours worth of effort.
#01 Tech Startups - Inzipio - Thomas Roth, Co-Founder & CEO
Our first guest is Thomas Roth, Co-Founder & CEO of Inzipio, a digital health startup based in Aachen, Germany.
Inzipio has developed an AI powered medical software designed to automate and enhance surgical planning. The startup is transforming the field with its innovative approach, providing patient specific planning for surgical procedures within a unified digital platform. By leveraging advanced artificial intelligence, Inzipio delivers a seamless planning experience that integrates all essential steps from medical imaging and virtual planning to the creation of 3D printed surgical guides.
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Auszüge unserer vergangenen Events:
Mobile Banks and FinTech Startups: Transforming Financial Markets
Mittwoch, 10. April 2019 in Düsseldorf:
Nach dem Erfolg unserer Veranstaltung zur Zukunft der Mobilität im Dezember 2018 haben wir diese Konferenz über die Entwicklungen an den Finanzmärkten abgehalten.
Wieder einmal konnten wir ein interessantes Line-Up gewinnen, um unseren Teilnehmern die Perspektive von Startups, traditionellen Banken und Politikern zu bieten, die ihre Erkenntnisse weitergaben. Wir berichteten über kommende Trends und Technologien und deren Auswirkungen auf traditionelle Banken, Bankgründungen und InsureTech Startups.
Schauen Sie sich unsere Referenten an, um das erstaunliche Line-Up zu sehen, das an unserer Veranstaltung teilgenommen hat.
Die Zukunft der Mobilität gestalten – Wie wird die Zukunft der Mobilität aussehen?
Freitag, 7. Dezember 2018 in Düsseldorf:
Nach dem überwältigenden Erfolg unserer Veranstaltung im Sommer 2018 sind wir zurück und präsentieren einen tiefen Einblick in das Thema Mobilität.
Wir haben eine Reihe von international renommierten Rednern eingeladen, darunter Unternehmensführer, erfolgreiche Gründer und erfahrene Investoren. Unsere Redner stellten ihre Einblicke in die Zukunft der Mobilität vor. Wir haben uns auf die Themen Elektrifizierung, Konnektivität, autonomes Fahren und vertikale Mobilität konzentriert. Diskutiert wurden die kommenden Trends und wie Unternehmen diese Investitionsmöglichkeiten bewerten.
Corporate Venturing und innovation – Erfahrungen von Start-ups.
Donnerstag, 24. Mai 2018 in Düsseldorf:
Nach einem starken Fokus auf die USA und Israel in den letzten Jahren, haben wir uns 2018 mit dem deutschen Innovations-Ökosystem beschäftigt. Welche Erkenntnisse können wir aus Start-ups ziehen, um die Innovationskraft von Unternehmen zu fördern? Alternativ: Was können Startups von Unternehmen lernen?
Wir hatten eine Reihe von international renommierten Rednern eingeladen, darunter Unternehmensführer, erfolgreiche Gründer und erfahrene Investoren. Unsere Redner vermittelten ihre Einblicke in die Corporate Venturing und Innovationsszene, indem sie ihre Erfahrungen in den Bereichen Digitalisierung, B2B-Verhandlungen, Corporate Accelerators, Bewertung von Investitionsmöglichkeiten und vielem mehr einbrachten.
Im zweiten Teil der Veranstaltung hörten wir von erfolgreichen Unternehmern und Investoren, wie sie die Herausforderungen der Akquisition und Integration von Start-ups zur Förderung der Unternehmensinnovation meistern. Wir haben einen Blick auf Deal Flow Generation, Innovation Accounting geworfen und die kommenden Trends in der Lebensmittelindustrie diskutiert und wie Unternehmen diese Investitionsmöglichkeiten bewerten.
Schauen Sie sich das beeindruckende Line-Up der Redner an, die an unserer Veranstaltung teilgenommen haben.
