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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.

Local energy concepts for commercial properties: Valerie Laubsch co-founded the startup Moverloop in 2024 with Jonas Nöhl. The company combines solar power, battery storage, and grid electricity into an economical energy supply that benefits both property owners and businesses. In the interview, the former Microsoft employee discusses why you shouldn’t wait for the perfect moment to found a company, why a functioning business model is more important than fast fundraising, and why the energy sector offers enormous potential.

Marie-Elisabeth Makohl founded Seal Robotics together with Daniel Leidner in 2025. The company develops modular robotic systems that automate safety-critical, manually executed processes in terminal logistics, particularly tasks related to handling twistlocks and bolts for securing freight containers on ships and trains. The technology aims to improve reliability, efficiency, and workplace safety by taking over repetitive, dangerous work steps that are traditionally performed under time pressure.

Luisa Buinhas is co-founder and Chief Program Officer of Vyoma. Founded in 2020, the startup places satellite-based telescopes in Earth orbit to enable object monitoring of the near-Earth space environment. In this interview, the Ph.D. aerospace engineer discusses her path from science to entrepreneurship, why communication is critical in deeptech, and what role spacetech plays in security and sovereignty.

From inefficient compliance processes to AI startup: Fabiola Munguia is co-founder of Secfix, a platform for security and compliance conformity. In this interview, she discusses why real problems provide the best business ideas, why growth takes time, and why the focus when pitching should always be on the problem.

In our interview series “Women in Tech”, we portray founders from the Munich startup scene. We talk with them about what they wish they had known before their first founding, how they financed their companies, and what motivated them to found. For International Women’s Day, we present five of these female founders once again. You can find many more female founders and investors in our “Women in Tech” category.

Maria Laparidou is a PhD veterinarian, CSO, and co-founder of Orbem. In 2019, she founded the Munich-based company together with Pedro Gómez and Miguel Molina Romero. In the interview, she talks about her path from science to industrial scaling, why resilience matters more than the perfect timing, and how Orbem wants to create real impact through hardtech and sustainability.

With We Carry, founder Nelly Mathias and her co-founder Mischa Wendel want to drastically reduce packaging waste in the food trade. The smart, circular solution helps bakeries and supermarkets save costs and operate more sustainably. In the interview, the trained health economist describes how an everyday observation became a founding idea, why focus is everything when founding, and where she finds her best ideas.

“If men menstruated, there would already be a solution.” This sentence wouldn’t let Simone Sabbione go and became the spark for her first founding. In 2022, the healthtech startup Meliodays Medical was created. Together with her team, consisting of her husband Martin Sabbione and her brother and gynecologist Dr. Benjamin Wolf, the business graduate developed MelioOne: a hormone-free, locally effective therapy for menstrual pain. In an interview, the CEO of Meliodays Medical talks about what she knows today about founding and when the right time is to do it—and what she would ask Elon Musk. First published on: April 14, 2025

Anna Hocker founded the AI startup BauGPT in 2022 together with Patrick Christ and Jonas Stamm to solve the shortage of skilled workers and the productivity crisis in the construction industry. In this interview, the entrepreneur, who holds a doctorate in Entrepreneurial Behavior, talks about what she learned from her time at McKinsey and previous startup ventures, and why AI is making it easier to start companies.

Law me is an all-in-one app for civil law conflict resolution. Founder Katrin Stopp von Falkenstein brings her experience from out-of-court proceedings and mediation. In the Women in Tech interview, she talks about motivation, her mindset, and provides further insights.