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Buah makes healthy snacks practical for everyday life: the Munich company sells freeze-dried and dried fruits as well as other natural snacks through its own online shop and retail stores. Jessica Krauter founded Buah in 2015 together with her brother Daniel. In the interview, the entrepreneur discusses why leadership needs to be learned, why boredom brings the best ideas – and how Buah found its way to profitability after an existential crisis.

Seven billion male chicks are killed worldwide every year immediately after hatching. Omegga is working against this with AI and spectroscopy. The Munich deeptech company’s technology determines the sex of incubation eggs before the seventh day of incubation. Katharina Hesseler founded Omegga in 2022 together with Till Nöllgen and Paul Günther. She explains to us why founding is a marathon, why resilience is crucial in the founding process, and how technological innovation can drive social change.

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.

Friday evenings are when many Germans enjoy an end-of-work beer. And from now on, it will be arriving at your home or supermarket in a more environmentally friendly way. The world’s oldest brewery is switching to Delta Charge and electrification.

Photovoltaics, battery storage, and intelligent power procurement can turn commercial real estate into active participants in the energy transition. Moverloop develops integrated energy concepts for multi-tenant properties. Co-founder Valerie Laubsch explains in an interview why energy will become part of a property’s infrastructure in the future and how owners can directly benefit from the energy transition.

Myriameat develops a platform for producing real animal muscle tissue from stem cells – without animal farming and slaughter. The biotech startup has already integrated cultivated pork muscle into food products and recently achieved another scientific milestone: successful development of deer muscle cells. In the interview, co-founder Florian Hüttner explains why the future of meat production could lie in automated biological processes.

Battery storage is considered key to the energy transition, but without intelligent control, much potential remains unused. Munich startup Furo develops a platform for planning, monitoring, and marketing of storage in the commercial and industrial sector. Co-founder Lena Sophia Voß explains in an interview why software is becoming critical infrastructure.

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Single-use cardboard boxes cause costs, waste, and CO2 emissions – and are no longer appropriate for e-commerce. The Ocean Package relies on a closed-loop reusable packaging system for shipping boxes. Founder Joshua Linn explains why the system is radically different and why speed is crucial.

In June 2016, Jonas Helma-Smets writes an email. Politely worded, almost hesitant. He introduces himself, explains his idea, and asks for support. No funding, no infrastructure, no guarantee that anyone will be interested at all. Ten years later, this very idea becomes one of Europe’s biggest biotech exits: U.S. pharmaceutical company Gilead acquires Munich-based biotech startup Tubulis for up to five billion US dollars. Munich Startup spoke with people who accompanied the journey.

Articly builds tailored AI-based solutions that transform articles, newsletters, or blog posts into professional audio products – whether podcast or audio briefing. In the interview, Lukas Paetzmann and Wolf Weimer explain how media companies reach new audiences, why the pivot to a B2B model was decisive, and where AI audio is headed.

Wingmaite secures the knowledge that would otherwise be lost: The Munich startup makes implicit experiential knowledge usable for employees and AI. Founder Oliver Diekmann knows the problem from personal experience and relies on AI to prevent corporate dementia in mid-market businesses.