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Trees can’t say when they’re thirsty. The Munich startup Treesense wants to change that. With sensors directly inside the tree, the team makes water stress measurable – helping cities water their trees more purposefully. This saves water, working hours and, in the best case, thousands of trees. Semir Babajic, co-founder of Treesense, in conversation on Pitch & People.

What began as a side project between two agency managers developed into one of Germany’s best-known supplement brands within a few years. In the Pitch & People live talk at the Kinoliebe Festival, Marlena Hien explains why Bears with Benefits was never reliant on investor funding, why profitability was underestimated for a long time – and why the exit was still the right step in the end.

Declining reach, shrinking advertising revenues, and AI fundamentally changing internet search. Many publishers are under pressure. Munich startup Articly wants to tackle this precisely: Using AI, the team transforms articles into audio briefings and podcasts within minutes. In the videocast Pitch & People, co-founder Lukas Paetzmann explains why audio could be a major opportunity for journalism.

Declining reach, shrinking advertising revenues, and AI fundamentally changing internet search. Many publishers are under pressure. Munich-based startup Articly wants to address this precisely: using AI, the team transforms articles into audio briefings and podcasts within minutes. In the videocast Pitch & People, co-founder Lukas Paetzmann explains why audio could be a major opportunity for journalism.

The Munich startup Sinalis automates patient communication by phone – multilingual, empathetic, and around the clock. In the videocast Pitch & People, co-founder Paul Sachse explains how a hackathon idea became a healthtech startup that wants to relieve medical staff and give patients more attention.

We from Munich Startup met with three investors at Slush 2025 in Helsinki. In the interview, Inga Grieger from BMW iVentures, Ronja Stoffregen from Rehau New Ventures and Eva Spannagl from OpenAI talk about what they look for in founders, why it’s a good time for new ideas, and what added value they can provide to startups.

One minute of full concentration, one minute to convince your next investor. Pitch & People, the new video podcast from Munich Startup, was out and about at the Bits & Pretzels with StartupMatch, the platform that brings together startups and investors through 60-second pitches, and let founders pitch their ideas. All pitches are in the video.

Digital education begins in the children’s room: the Munich startup Edurino combines play, learning, and technology into a unique concept for children between four and eight years old. Co-founder Irene Klemm explains in the video podcast Pitch & People how an idea that emerged in the middle of the pandemic became an internationally growing EdTech company with 17 million euros in Series B funding – and why mistakes, child feedback, and burping monsters are part of the journey.

By age 24, Darius Göttert has already founded more startups than most people do in a lifetime. From student ventures via Spreadly to the hacker house FORA: Göttert builds ecosystems for young founders and wants to shape the next generation of entrepreneurs in Germany with his network. That and more on Pitch & People.

The Munich Startup Podcast is getting a fresh face: with Pitch & People, a new format launches that puts the people behind the startups at the center. From now on, Helen Duran and Kyrill Ring from the Munich Startup editorial team guide listeners through pitches and inspiring conversations, offering a behind-the-scenes look – for the first time also in video format.