Berlin startup directory
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Christian Reber
Christian Reber is a German entrepreneur and prolific angel investor best known as the founder of Wunderlist (acquired by Microsoft in 2015) and Pitch, a collaborative presentation platform. With deep experience building productivity and design tools, Reber actively invests in early-stage SaaS, design, and developer tooling startups across Europe. His operator background gives him credibility with technical founders, and he frequently provides hands-on product and go-to-market mentorship to his portfolio companies. Reber is part of Berlin's influential network of founder-angels who reinvest their exits back into the ecosystem.
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CIMIx 2026 - The Transformation of Creative Industries
Berlin-based conference exploring how creative industries are being transformed by digital technology, AI, and new business models. Brings together designers, media innovators, and creative entrepreneurs from across the Nordics and Europe. Strong for startups at the intersection of creative tech, content platforms, and digital media.
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co-matter
co-matter is a Berlin-based research-driven creative studio that develops strategies, media, and publications at the intersection of technology and culture. It co-founded Techfestival Copenhagen in 2017 alongside Thomas Madsen-Mygdal and a team of designers and entrepreneurs, and produced the Copenhagen Letter — a manifesto for humane technology signed by over 5,000 tech leaders. The studio works with clients including Mozilla Foundation, WeTransfer, IKEA/SPACE10, and Samsung on cultural intelligence, community strategy, and editorial projects.
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Contentful
Contentful is a headless content management system (CMS) that enables enterprises to manage and deliver digital content across websites, apps, and devices via API. Founded in Berlin, the company serves over 4,000 customers including Spotify, Chanel, and Urban Outfitters. Contentful was valued at $3 billion after its 2021 Series F and is one of Europe's most successful developer-tools companies, bridging content management with modern composable architecture.
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Daniel Khachab
Daniel Khachab is Co-founder & CEO of the AI food-supply-chain platform Choco. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Daniel leads the AI food-supply-chain platform Choco.
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Daniela Brönstrup
Vice President of the Bundesnetzagentur (Federal Network Agency), Germany's regulator for electricity, gas, telecommunications, post and railways, with a focus on digital infrastructure and AI governance. She is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI, Data & Quantum Summit (AIDAQ) in Berlin.
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David Nothacker
David Nothacker is Co-founder & CEO of the digital road-freight platform Sennder. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, David leads the digital road-freight platform Sennder.
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David Schneider
David Schneider is Co-founder of the fashion e-commerce giant Zalando. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, David leads the fashion e-commerce giant Zalando.
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Deep Tech Momentum
Organizer of Deep Tech Momentum, a Berlin-based marketplace event pairing deep-tech founders with specialist investors and corporate innovation teams. The curated format focuses on sectors like quantum computing, advanced materials, and AI, offering structured matchmaking sessions to accelerate fundraising for science-driven startups.
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Deep Tech Momentum 2026
Deep-tech marketplace event at Wilhelm Studios Berlin covering AI, Web3, photonics, and advanced manufacturing, culminating in Berlin's Deep Tech Award ceremony. Especially relevant for R&D-heavy startups seeking patient capital and strategic industrial backers.
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deepset
deepset is a Berlin-based AI company founded in 2018 that helps enterprises build custom natural-language and LLM applications. It created Haystack, a widely used open-source framework for retrieval-augmented generation and LLM pipelines, and offers a commercial enterprise platform on top of it for building production AI agents and search systems.
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Delivery Hero
Delivery Hero is a Berlin-based global online food ordering and quick-commerce company founded in 2011 and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange since 2017. The company operates food delivery platforms in more than 70 countries under local brand names and employs over 40,000 people globally. As of May 2026, Delivery Hero has a market capitalisation of approximately €13.7 billion and Uber has increased its stake to 19.5%, though no completed takeover has occurred. Delivery Hero is one of Europe's largest publicly listed tech companies.
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DMEA
Organizer of DMEA, Europe's leading digital health and healthcare IT trade fair held annually in Berlin. Drawing over 16,000 attendees and 700 exhibitors, DMEA showcases innovations in electronic health records, telemedicine, AI diagnostics, and hospital IT infrastructure, serving as a key meeting point for healthtech startups and health system leaders.
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DMEA 2026
Europe's largest digital health trade fair at Messe Berlin, spanning healthcare IT, procurement, interoperability, and compliant medical software rollout. Includes the 'DMEA fuer Health Startups' program, the DMEA nova Award startup finals, and DMEA Sparks pitch visibility for early-stage health-tech companies.
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Dorothee Bär
German politician serving as Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space, and previously Minister of State for Digitalisation. A long-standing advocate for Germany's digital and deep-tech agenda, she is an announced speaker at the 2026 AI, Data & Quantum Summit in Berlin.
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E-commerce Berlin Expo 2026
Pure B2B expo for e-commerce service providers. Price: free with B2B registration and approval. High ROI for startups selling logistics, payments, marketing automation, or retention tools.
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E-commerce Berlin Expo 2027
E-commerce Berlin Expo returns for its 11th edition 17-18 February 2027 at Messe Berlin. Billed as Europe's leading e-commerce event, the 2026 edition drew over 14,000 visitors and 320 exhibitors, connecting online retailers, service providers and merchants around emerging e-commerce trends.
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Earlybird
Earlybird Venture Capital is one of Europe's longest-standing and most active venture firms, founded in Berlin in 1997 by Hendrik Brandis and Christian Nagel. It manages roughly €2.5bn across two active platforms — the flagship Earlybird technology fund (Fund VIII closed at €360M in 2026, its largest to date) and Earlybird Health (€173M second fund, 2024) — from offices in Berlin, Munich and London. Earlybird writes initial tickets up to €12M, concentrated at pre-seed and seed with follow-on into Series A and beyond. The firm targets Western Europe — Germany, the UK, France, Italy, the Nordics, Austria and Switzerland — with CEE coverage via a dedicated venture partner. Its focus has shifted toward AI and foundation models, software infrastructure and deep tech (space, fusion, photonics, quantum), alongside its independent health platform. LPs include the European Investment Fund, sovereign wealth funds, global pension funds and British Patient Capital. Across 29 years Earlybird has produced landmark outcomes including Peak Games (sold to Zynga for ~$1.85bn, 2020), UiPath (NYSE IPO 2021, from the Digital East franchise that later spun out as Bek Ventures), Trendyol (Alibaba, 2018) and ImCheck Therapeutics (up to €1bn, 2025), and counts N26, Aleph Alpha, Isar Aerospace, Aiven, Payhawk and Wefox among its portfolio. In 2026 it introduced a perpetual active-ownership governance model keeping ownership with active partners.
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Ecosummit
Organizer of Ecosummit Berlin, a climate-tech investor and founder matchmaking event focused on decarbonization and deep tech. Active since 2010, Ecosummit brings together 500+ climate-tech founders, VCs, and corporate sustainability officers for curated deal-flow sessions, making it one of Europe's longest-running green innovation conferences.
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Ecosummit Berlin 2026
Climate-tech and green economy matchmaking event at Flussbad Campus (Reethaus), focused on AI-accelerated decarbonization across energy, sustainable buildings, green mobility, and deep tech. Startup Pitch tickets are typically around EUR 600 + VAT and include a guaranteed short on-stage founder pitch in front of active climate investors.
