“30 under 30”: Forbes honors Munich founders

The German-language edition of the US business magazine Forbes has selected the most important innovators under the age of 30. Several Munich startup giants are among the honorees.

Fabian Beringer, Andreas Bruckschlögl, Maximilian Gerer, Felix Kiefl, Xaver Lehmann, and Akilnathan Logeswaran: Six Munich-based entrepreneurs are among Germany's most important young innovators—at least according to the German-language edition of Forbes. The business magazine selects the most influential young personalities as "30 under 30."

Chatbot, Bits & Pretzels and solar storage

Fabian Beringer, Maximilian Gerer and Xaver Lehmann have together E-bot7 The Munich startup is based at Wayra is developing a chatbot for corporate customer service. The system analyzes incoming messages and forwards them to the appropriate department. This should reduce processing times by up to 801 TP1452 t. E-bot7's customers now include several DAX-listed companies. Maximilian Gerer says:

"The chatbot learns as you go along, so there are no high costs involved. Even if the bot is only 30 percent automated at first, this rate increases the more you use it."

With Andreas Bruckschlögl A prominent representative of the Munich startup scene is among the award winners. In 2012, Bruckschlögl founded his startup Onpage.org, which is now in Ryte In addition, he is one of the three organizers of the Founder Festival Bits & Pretzels.

Felix Kiefl founded together with Michael Peither and Jakob Bitner VoltstorageThe startup builds energy storage systems for private households with solar systems. This allows solar energy to be used by the producers themselves around the clock.

Forbes honors European activists

Akilnathan Logeswaran is co-founder of the Munich chapter of the citizens' movement Stand Up For Europe. The 29-year-old advocates for a federal and united Europe. Logeswaran is also an Advisory Council Member of the Global Shapers Community at the World Economic Forum.

The American edition of Forbes also selects the "30 under 30 Europe." A total of 300 innovators make the list of the most influential young Europeans. Akilnathan Logeswaran's name also appears here, in the "Law & Policy" section.

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