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Hamburg is building something. These are the people doing it. Every month, Hugo and Kyrylo sit down with the founders, operators, and investors shaping Hamburg's startup scene. Honest conversations. Real stories. The stuff that doesn't make it into the press release.
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Hamburg-based Uplift Ventures, backed by intralogistics group Jungheinrich, launched a few weeks ago its inaugural €100M fund for European deep tech. It will back up to 20 late-Seed and Series A startups across Physical AI, energy, enterprise AI and logistics, plus selected deep tech funds, mainly in Europe with a slice in the US.
Founding GP Christian Noske joins us to explain why so many breakthrough technologies stall at Series A...
Felix Leonhardt is Managing Partner at Oyster Bay Venture Capital, a Hamburg-based fund investing exclusively across the food and agriculture value chain.
Oyster Bay closed its second fund above €100 million with the European Investment Fund and KfW on board — one of the largest dedicated food-tech funds in Europe. Fund I ranked in the top 10% of European VC funds by performance, with a landmark early bet on Oatly, which IPO'd...
Florian Birner is the co-founder and managing director of Planeteers, a Hamburg-based climate tech startup developing a scalable, end-to-end CO2 capture and storage solution based on accelerated natural limestone weathering — essentially speeding up a 1,000-year natural process into seconds, and releasing the result safely into rivers and oceans.
Before Planeteers, Florian trained as an electrical engineer at Bosch, moved into...
Alina Klarner is the founding partner and GP of Impact Shakers Ventures, a €20M early-stage fund backing diverse founders tackling climate, social inclusion, and impact infrastructure across Europe.
Impact Shakers has invested in 25 startups across eight countries and catalysed nearly five times the capital it deployed through co-investors including General Catalyst, World Fund, and European family offices — all built on a fly...
Fenja Vespermann is the co-founder and CEO of mimikry AI — a Hamburg-based studio building custom AI pipelines for enterprise creative production. In less than a year, she's worked with Audi, Adidas, and Otto Group. Without raising a single euro.
Before mimikry, Fenja ran her own 3D animation agency. Then Corona hit, the studio closed, and she borrowed 15K from a friend to start over.
In this conversation we discuss:
🔹 How she ...
Iskender Dirik is a German entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and tech executive with 20 years of experience in the digital world.
He founded his first company at the age of 21 and built and exited a couple of tech startups afterwards. He is a prolific angel investor with dozens of investments, including in German AI unicorn Parloa. He led a €100M CVC Fund at Bauer Venture Partners and is currently a venture partner at leading Europe...
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