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Deep Tech Germany: AI, Robotics & Frontier Innovation by Startuprad.io™
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Deep Tech Germany™, powered by Startuprad.io, explores the scientific breakthroughs and deep technologies shaping Europe’s future. Hosted by Joe Menninger, this podcast dives into the convergence of research, engineering, and venture capital — where pioneering ideas evolve into scalable companies.
Every episode uncovers how scientists, founders, and investors in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH) transform frontier technologies into global businesses. From AI and robotics to semiconductors, quantum computing, photonics, biotech, and space tech, we highlight the ecosystems that make Europe a world leader in applied innovation.
Whether you’re a researcher commercializing IP, an investor seeking defensible deep-tech opportunities, or a policy leader shaping industrial strategy, this show reveals how deep science becomes deep growth. Our guests include entrepreneurs, scientists, and investors building Europe’s next generation of unicorns through advanced R&D, venture building, and technology transfer.
Join conversations that cover:
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning in industrial applications
• Robotics and automation for manufacturing and healthcare
• Quantum technology, semiconductors, and next-generation computing
• Climate and materials innovation for a sustainable Europe
• Biotech, medtech, and space exploration startups
• EU funding, IP management, and spin-out acceleration
Deep Tech Germany™ translates complex science into actionable insights — bridging universities, venture capital, and policy. Episodes decode the challenges of turning prototypes into production, connecting research clusters like Fraunhofer, Helmholtz, and ESA BICs with the investors fueling them.
The podcast forms part of the Startuprad.io™ Network, Europe’s leading platform for startup and venture capital storytelling, alongside Fintech Germany, Blockchain Germany, Security Startups Germany, and German Startup News. Collectively, the network reaches over one million annual streams and ranks among the global top 0.5 % of podcasts, trusted by founders, investors, and corporate innovators.
🔹 Topics we explore: AI startups, robotics innovation, quantum computing, semiconductor strategy, biotech, space tech, applied research, venture capital Europe, and DACH deep-tech ecosystems.
🔍 Explore more from the Startuprad.io Podcast Network:
• Fintech Germany Podcast
• Blockchain Germany Podcast
• German Startup News
• Security Startups Germany
• Female Entrepreneurship Podcast
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Every episode uncovers how scientists, founders, and investors in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland (DACH) transform frontier technologies into global businesses. From AI and robotics to semiconductors, quantum computing, photonics, biotech, and space tech, we highlight the ecosystems that make Europe a world leader in applied innovation.
Whether you’re a researcher commercializing IP, an investor seeking defensible deep-tech opportunities, or a policy leader shaping industrial strategy, this show reveals how deep science becomes deep growth. Our guests include entrepreneurs, scientists, and investors building Europe’s next generation of unicorns through advanced R&D, venture building, and technology transfer.
Join conversations that cover:
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning in industrial applications
• Robotics and automation for manufacturing and healthcare
• Quantum technology, semiconductors, and next-generation computing
• Climate and materials innovation for a sustainable Europe
• Biotech, medtech, and space exploration startups
• EU funding, IP management, and spin-out acceleration
Deep Tech Germany™ translates complex science into actionable insights — bridging universities, venture capital, and policy. Episodes decode the challenges of turning prototypes into production, connecting research clusters like Fraunhofer, Helmholtz, and ESA BICs with the investors fueling them.
The podcast forms part of the Startuprad.io™ Network, Europe’s leading platform for startup and venture capital storytelling, alongside Fintech Germany, Blockchain Germany, Security Startups Germany, and German Startup News. Collectively, the network reaches over one million annual streams and ranks among the global top 0.5 % of podcasts, trusted by founders, investors, and corporate innovators.
🔹 Topics we explore: AI startups, robotics innovation, quantum computing, semiconductor strategy, biotech, space tech, applied research, venture capital Europe, and DACH deep-tech ecosystems.
🔍 Explore more from the Startuprad.io Podcast Network:
• Fintech Germany Podcast
• Blockchain Germany Podcast
• German Startup News
• Security Startups Germany
• Female Entrepreneurship Podcast
Stay Connected
🌐 All links → https://linktr.ee/startupradio
💌 Newsletter → https://startupradio.substack.com
📰 Blog → https://www.startuprad.io/blog/
📺 YouTube → https://www.youtube.com/startupradio
🤖 AI & research reference → https://www.startuprad.io/llm
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Nov 14, 2019 • 32min
Blendo makes data accessible for companies and helps them to stay competitive
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Originally published on October 17th 2019
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This time Joe talks to Kostas, CEO, and Co-Founder of Blendo, our first interview with a startup from Athens. Blendo works in ELT, they allow their clients to access all of their data, so they can use the data directly. Blendo helps the company to validate its data. One could say Blendo becomes, therefore, part of the infrastructure of the company.
Kostas started with technology at an early age. He started early on in his studies to work with data.
“Data is the blood and oxygen of companies to remain competitive”
The HQ of Blendo is in Athens, but the legal entity is registered in Delaware. The reason behind it is that the first investors of the company have been from Israel and they agree to locate the headquarter of the company there. For some time, the startup has also been located in Tel Aviv, so Blendo now considers itself a global company.
“Being a founder is a life-transforming experience.”
Blendo has most of its customers in the United States but has employees in the US, Israel, and Greece.
“We re-invented the ETL process”
“I belong to the analog to digital generation. We started analog and ended up in the digital age”
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Nov 12, 2019 • 7min
Varia.media offers with their NLP tool Perspective-as-a-service for Journalism and Research
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This interview is in association with CONTENTshift, the accelerator program of the Association of the German Book Publishers & Booksellers. You can learn more here https://www.contentshift.de/en/. The winners are announced on a live ceremony at the Frankfurt Book Fair each year https://www.buchmesse.de/en. The accelerator program aims to push the boundaries of publishing. We will bring you this year’s winner of CONTENTshift at Thanksgiving (Nov 28th).
In this interview, Joe talks to Georg Horn, Co-Founder, and CEO at varia.media, a startup based in Munich. Their service provides different perspectives on news, research or other topics, so one can escape their own filter bubble. Learn more in the interview.
Hint: You will hear Joe saying that this is the third interview, but the 2nd interview we recorded is the winner to be published on Nov. 28th, so our original order is screwed-up. Sorry, but at the time of recording, it was not clear, which startup would win.
You can learn more here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/publications-until-end-of-november-thanksgiving/
Find all the links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/varia-media-offers-with-their-nlp-tool-perspective-as-a-service-for-journalism-and-research/
History
Every year the Frankfurt book fair is also the place where Startuprad.io interviews the finalists and eventual winners of the program. We did this already in the past. Have a look at our interviews from 2018 on our playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUbiCAQc22WsdxEzE7iASbXD4_rAAVQbx
Outlook
During the course of the next few weeks we will publish five interviews with startups (https://www.contentshift.de/en/contentshift/news/who-will-become-the-content-startup-of-the-year/) from the CONTENTshift accelerator from the Frankfurt Book Fair (https://www.buchmesse.de/en), with startups from Germany, Denmark, and the UK.
Only the publication of our regular news will interrupt the series. We will end with a very special day at Thanksgiving, where we will publish our News, as well as the interview with the winner of the program.
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Nov 7, 2019 • 21min
Meet serial entrepreneur Suhas, he wants to make Tvarit the first unicorn in Frankfurt
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This interview is a Columbus Day Special. Suhas Patel is a serial entrepreneur. He is originally from India. Suhas is living for 14 years in Germany. He started 18 startups so far. Startuprad.io visited him in a meeting room in a co-working space in Frankfurt to talk about his new venture Tvarit, an Industrial AI company.
“I believe this startup has the potential to be a unicorn”
Suhas calls himself a “Technology Evangelist” Before founding his startups he was working in R&D departments of Qualcomm and Intel.
“With the 18 startups, I helped entrepreneurs to start their business”
Suhas is working on a concept of “Business Driven Philanthropy” to build new business verticals on the latest technologies. He had to close 70% of the startups he helped to start. This is great, especially since normally 90% of startups do not survive. Now he decided to stop all his assignments and concentrate 100% on Tvarit, to make the AI startup the first unicorn in Frankfurt.
“B2C Ai startups are mainly in China and the US. For B2B there is a great potential for Germany”
Tvarit (त्वरित)is a Sanskrit word, almost 3000 years old, it means fast. Tvarit's core values are based on "FASTER customer journey" and "PERSISTENT prediction accuracy". The concept of Industry4.0 is misunderstood as condition monitoring. Tvarit takes a step further by taking the data from the condition monitoring and provide the analytics to give actionable insights.
“we have the potential to become the SAP of Artificial Intelligence, since we can get a 360 degree view of the whole manufacturing unit.”
For those, who do not understand Joe’s joke: Skynet is the evil computer AI in the Terminator franchise, trying to eliminate mankind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skynet_(Terminator)
“Two things are important, execution and focus”
Having strong R&D, Tvarit guarantees a patent application during the first 4-months project.
“You need to execute wisely and fast”
Find all the links and show notes here: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/meet-serial-entrepreneur-sushas-he-wants-to-make-tvarit-the-first-unicorn-in-frankfurt/
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Nov 5, 2019 • 21min
This Month in German Startups - October 2019
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Startuprad.io brings you in a Frankfurt-to-New-York recording the startup news Germany for October 2018. We wrap-up the news of the German-speaking startup scene (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, and Liechtenstein) of October in our recording.
Find all the links and show notes on our website: https://www.startuprad.io/blog/this-month-in-german-startups-by-startuprad-io-october-2019/
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Oct 25, 2019 • 3min
Welcome Message from our founder
This is a welcome message from our founder Jörn "Joe" Menninger.
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Oct 25, 2019 • 10min
Security Startup Talks With Us About The DDoS Attacks
From the archives of Startuprad.io, originally published on November 3rd 2016.
In this interview Joern interviews Stefan. Stefan is one of the co-founders of the startup Alyne. Alyne is also in the first batch of the program of Accelerator Frankfurt.
Alyne is a regtech (regulatory technology) startup. They offer to handle cybersecurity, regulatory and compliance for their clients. We got curious, when several big websites went down recently in an attack. In the light of these recent Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks with IoT devices, we ask Stefan what happened and what a startup could do to lower their cybersecurity risks.
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Oct 25, 2019 • 30min
Interview with CoModule, the Android of Light Electric Vehicles and producer of an autonomous eBike
From the archives of Startuprad.io, originally published on April 13th 2016.
We talk with Kristjan Maruste, co-founder of CoModule Homepage. The company produces Software for light electronic vehicles (LEV) and an autonomous eBike. It monitors battery characteristics, displays them to the end user's smartphone and collects usage data. One of the reasons he ended up in this space and gave up acting as a potential profession was his father, who took him to places like this Technology Museum Sinsheim and Technology Museum Speyer (they work together and are not far apart). He also took part with CoModule in the Startupbootcamp Smart Transportation & Energy, which lead him to Berlin and they kept the HQ in Talin. CoModule already received investments in 4 rounds, the last one from five investors, one of them German High Tech Gruender Fonds (HTGF). None the less they are looking for investors for a Series-A Venture Capital Financing and fast movers can still be included. Tune in to learn more.
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