Weekly Wrap-up 30/2025

Regina Bruckschlögl

The week’s most important articles in a photo gallery. Start your new week best informed.

August 3, 2025

2 min. read time

#Weekly Wrap-up

**Sustainable travel pods instead of single-use plastic**: Dabei develops reusable travel containers for cosmetic products – hygienic, durable and cleverly stackable. Founder and CEO Teresa Born explains how frustration with poor drugstore bottles led to an innovative product and why Munich is the perfect location for her startup. (Photo: Dabei)

**Frienton secures fresh capital:** The Munich fintech Frienton raises new capital to expand its digital financial platform for SMEs. The investments will flow into product development and business development.(Photo: stock.adobe.com / Mongkol)

Magdalena Ohel in interview with Munich Startup about skilled labor shortage in the startup scene — **Shortage of skilled workers hampers startups:** Germany’s startup scene faces a standstill – not due to lack of ideas, but due to lack of skilled workers. While scaleups are already recruiting internationally, Germany continues to struggle with outdated visa processes and bureaucratic hurdles. In an interview, Magdalena Oehl, vice chair of the Startup Association, warns: If Germany doesn’t make it easier for international talent, the growth of entire industries is at stake. (Photo: Munich Startup)

**Arx Robotics increases Series A to 42 million euros**: The Munich startup Arx Robotics extends its Series A by eleven million euros. With the current investment, the total volume of Series A rises to 42 million euros. (Photo: ARX Robotics)

**Chilled ready-to-bake cookies for retail and gastronomy:** The Bitery specializes in ready-to-bake premium cookies and wants to bring fresh momentum to gastronomy, retail, and corporate catering. With a focus on quality, design and emotional product experience, the Munich startup aims to redefine the cookie – as a brand and as a relevant offering for B2B customers. In an interview, co-founder Bastian Fisser talks about challenges in food retail, the company’s founding journey, and the vision to conquer the European market. (Photo: The Bitery)

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