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With the B2B startup Connect Hub AI, a platform is emerging that approaches recruiting and internal talent management in a data-driven, transparent, and human-centered way. Personality tests, matching logic, and a team-balance dashboard help companies fill roles with precision and make talent potential visible. Gabriela Galic, one of the two co-founders of the startup founded in 2025, in an interview.

Sebastian Borek joins the management team of High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) as of October 2025 and takes over the digitaltech division. Together with Romy Schnelle and Achim Plum, he leads the early-stage investor in a new configuration.

The Munich drone startup Quantum Systems will now be led by a dual leadership structure. The new leadership structure is intended to further strengthen growth ambitions and technological excellence.

As of January 1, 2025, Achim Plum takes over the management of the High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF) together with Romy Schnelle and Alex von Frankenberg. The doctorate geneticist was appointed by HTGF’s investor advisory board. He succeeds Guido Schlitzer, who is leaving the fund at the end of the year.

The cleantech company Orcan Energy, which converts waste heat into clean electricity, is strengthening its Kiel location. The three managing directors Hinrich Krey, Christian Pätzold, and Jens Damian are now taking on the growing demand there.

The Munich startup Penzilla develops software for the automated management of occupational pension provisions. For its solution, the startup successfully closed a pre-seed funding round in the millions in spring 2023. An interview with the founding team.

After the crisis year 2022, German startups are now thinking about growth again and want to expand their workforce. A survey of 203 tech startups commissioned by the digital association Bitkom shows this.