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A large portion of company knowledge isn’t written down in any manual, but is stored in employees’ heads. Founded in 2025 by Maximilian Resch and Marcus Maier, the startup Knowmanity is developing a platform that safeguards this experiential knowledge before it gets lost. In an interview, co-founder Maximilian Resch shares how a spontaneous idea turned into a company.

Blitzbee wants to shake up the market for functional beverages: Founded in 2024, the Munich startup develops wellness drinks specifically for women using natural ingredients and functional components such as collagen, protein, or dietary fiber. In an interview, co-founder Klaudia Saferna talks about how her experience in the automotive industry and her own daily life led to the founding of the company.

The BKA registered more than 1,000 suspicious drone flights last year. Founded in 2025 by Thomas Mühlberger, Anthony Zhou, and Thomas Höder, the defense tech startup SkyLanx is developing a modular platform designed to protect critical infrastructure from modern drone threats. In an interview, CEO Thomas Mühlberger explains why Europe needs its own technologies for this.

From Munich quantum research to personalized medicine: Qtas, a startup founded in 2025 by Robin Allert, Karl Briegel, and Nick von Grafenstein, develops technology that makes extremely rare tumor cells in blood samples visible and analyzable. In the interview, CEO Robin Allert explains how personal experiences and quantum sensing formed the foundation for the company.

Managing rental properties is often considered time-consuming and error-prone. The Munich proptech Ciro automates tasks from accounting to tenant communication using an AI-powered platform. Founder André Teich explains why property management is not an Excel problem and why the Ciro team makes the decisive difference.

Checking whether a new product infringes existing patents has long taken weeks and cost thousands of euros. Munich-based legaltech company Patalyze wants to fundamentally change this process: using AI, the platform analyzes patent and product data within minutes. In an interview, founder Daniel Stoll explains why the real bottleneck is not patent search, but mapping between product and patent.

Electric cars, wind turbines, and robots rely on powerful permanent magnets – mostly using rare earths so far. Munich deeptech Alqem wants to overcome this dependency: using an AI platform, the team is researching new high-performance materials without critical raw materials. Co-founder and CEO Hanh Nguyen explains why the crucial step isn’t prediction, but the production of new materials.

The procurement of medical devices in many hospitals is still characterized by Excel lists, fragmented data, and complex supply chains. Sanovio, founded in 2024, wants to automate the entire procurement process with an AI-powered procurement platform – from data harmonization to delivery. Co-founder and CEO Noel Nosswitz explains why bootstrapping was a decisive success factor for Sanovio and why scaling is now in focus.

What began in 2015 as a pioneer in post-purchase communication is today an internationally active platform with customers in Europe and the United States. Parcellab accompanies online shoppers from order to return and helps retailers improve service, customer loyalty, and efficiency. In the interview, co-founder Anton Eder discusses pivotal decisions, learnings after the funding round, and the path to sustainable growth.

Globally, around seven billion male chicks are killed immediately after hatching each year. The Munich-based deeptech startup Omegga wants to change that: using AI and spectroscopy, the technology determines the sex of fertile eggs before the seventh day of incubation. In this interview, co-founder Katharina Hesseler explains why the transition from the laboratory to industrial operation was the biggest challenge and how Omegga now wants to grow internationally.

Whether it’s the Bundeswehr, police or emergency services: in security-critical operations, enormous amounts of data must be analyzed in seconds. The Munich-based company Hat.tec develops Scale, a software that consolidates information from different sensors and platforms into a shared situational picture. Co-CEOs Yannick Brand and Fabian Schmitt explain in an interview how humans and machines will work together even better in the future and why their software now also supports Bavaria’s police new helicopter fleet.

Many consider matcha the natural alternative to coffee and energy drinks, yet high-quality products for on-the-go are still rare. With Prinzz Matcha, founder Sophie Prinz wants to change that. She talks with us about building a pure matcha brand, the upcoming national Edeka distribution, and the question of how a trend becomes a new beverage category.