Berlin startup directory
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TIER Mobility
TIER Mobility is a Berlin-based micro-mobility company founded in 2018 by Lawrence Leuschner, Matthias Laug, and Julian Blessin. The company operates shared e-scooters, e-bikes, and e-mopeds across over 250 cities in Europe and the Middle East. TIER has raised more than $600 million in equity and debt and acquired competitors Nextbike and Spin to consolidate its market position. The company distinguishes itself through a focus on sustainability, using swappable batteries and carbon-neutral operations. TIER is one of Europe's largest micro-mobility operators and a key player in the continent's urban transport transition.
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Tourlane
Tourlane is a Berlin-based travel tech company that combines technology with personal travel advisors to create customized multi-day trips. The platform uses data and algorithms to match travelers with personalized itineraries for long-haul destinations, then pairs them with expert advisors for booking. Tourlane has raised over $100 million and serves customers primarily in Germany and the US, bridging the gap between OTA convenience and traditional travel agency expertise.
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Trade Republic
Trade Republic is Europe's largest savings platform and a commission-free neobroker offering stocks, ETFs, derivatives, and crypto trading via a mobile-first app. Founded in Berlin, the company holds a German banking license and serves over 4 million customers across 17 European countries. Trade Republic has been valued at over $5 billion and is a leading force in the democratization of retail investing across Europe.
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TRANSFORM (formerly hub.berlin) 2026
Bitkom's flagship business-tech festival in Berlin connecting digital industry leaders, policymakers, and startups with 10,000+ attendees. The event covers AI, cloud, cybersecurity, sustainability tech, and digital transformation across keynotes, deep-dive tracks, and a startup expo.
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TRANSFORM 2027 (formerly hub.berlin)
TRANSFORM, the Bitkom-backed digital transformation event, runs 17-18 March 2027 at Station Berlin. It focuses on the digital transformation of businesses, showcasing technologies and solutions for digitalising processes and business models. Executives, CDOs, CIOs and digital experts from across industries attend the two-day event.
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Tushar Ahluwalia
Tushar Ahluwalia is Co-founder & CEO of the e-commerce roll-up Razor Group. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Tushar leads the e-commerce roll-up Razor Group.
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Upvest
API-first investment infrastructure provider (brokerage, settlement, custody) for banks, brokers and fintechs like Revolut and N26. Regulated by BaFin and the FCA. Founded 2017.
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Valentin Stalf
Valentin Stalf is Co-founder & CEO of the German mobile bank N26. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Valentin leads the German mobile bank N26.
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Vay
Vay is a Berlin-based mobility company founded in 2018 that develops teledriving technology, where trained human drivers remotely operate road vehicles from a station using a live video and control link. It offers a driverless door-to-door car service without an in-car driver and runs commercial operations in Las Vegas as well as testing in Europe.
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Verena Pausder
Verena Pausder is a prominent German entrepreneur, angel investor, and advocate for digital education. She founded Fox & Sheep and the HABA Digitalwerkstatt, which teach coding and digital skills to children. Pausder has invested in numerous early-stage startups across edtech, consumer tech, and impact-driven ventures. She serves as President of the German Startups Association (Startup-Verband) and authored the bestselling book 'Das Neue Land,' which calls for a more innovative and digitally literate Germany. Her angel investments typically focus on founders building products that combine technology with social impact, and she is one of the most influential voices shaping Germany's startup policy landscape.
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Vladimir Danila
Romanian-born founder and CEO of Linearity, the Berlin-based design-software company formerly known as Vectornator. He started the product after winning Germany's Jugend Forscht science competition in 2017 and has grown it into a vector and marketing-design tool used by a large global base of creators and teams.
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Voize
Berlin-based AI companion for nurses and care workers that listens as staff speak care notes aloud and instantly converts speech into structured EHR records, giving clinicians back up to 30% of their shift. Deployed at 1,500+ care facilities across Germany serving 100,000+ nurses. Raised €43M Series A led by Balderton Capital.
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WeAreDevelopers
Organizer of WeAreDevelopers World Congress, one of Europe's largest software engineering and developer conferences held annually in Berlin. Attracting over 15,000 developers, CTOs, and tech recruiters, the event features 500+ speakers, hands-on workshops, and a career expo connecting engineering talent with leading tech employers.
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WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026
Europe's largest developer conference at Messe Berlin, with software engineering, architecture, and platform scaling tracks. High-leverage venue for DevTools and API startups and for founder-led engineering recruitment.
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WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2027
WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2027 runs 14-16 July in Berlin, billed as the world's largest event for developers, AI builders and tech leaders with 15,000+ attendees, 8,000+ companies and 500+ speakers expected. The programme spans coding agents in production, agentic systems, platform engineering, cloud reliability, security and engineering leadership in the AI era.
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Wefox
Wefox is a Berlin-based insurtech company that digitizes insurance distribution and management for both brokers and end consumers. The platform enables insurance agents to manage policies digitally while also offering direct-to-consumer products. Wefox was valued at $4.5 billion at its 2022 peak and operates across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and Poland. The company represents one of Europe's most ambitious attempts to modernize the insurance value chain through technology.
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World Health Summit 2026 (October 2026)
The World Health Summit is one of the world's leading strategic forums for global health, held annually in Berlin under the patronage of the German government. The event convenes senior leaders from politics, science, the private sector and civil society. For founders it is a high-level networking and policy stage relevant to digital health, medtech and life sciences ventures.
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World Health Summit Foundation
Foundation under Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin that organizes the annual World Health Summit, one of the world's leading strategic forums for global health. Held in Berlin under the patronage of the German government, it convenes leaders from politics, science, the private sector and civil society.
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World Retail Congress 2026
Executive-level forum for global retail leadership in Berlin, attracting 1,000+ C-suite executives from major retail brands and technology providers. Registration costs about GBP 2500+. Features keynotes on retail transformation, AI-driven commerce, and sustainability. Valuable for retail-tech scaleups seeking strategic partnerships with global retail decision-makers.
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Zalando
Zalando is a Berlin-based online fashion and lifestyle platform founded in 2008 by Robert Gentz and David Schneider. It grew from a Rocket Internet-backed shoe retailer into Europe's largest online fashion marketplace, listing on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2014. Zalando operates across 25 European markets, connecting over 50 million active customers with thousands of brands. The company transitioned from a pure retailer to a platform model, enabling brands to sell directly through its Partner Program while offering logistics, marketing, and fulfillment services via its Zalando Fulfillment Solutions infrastructure.
