Founders in Germany

Hanno Renner

Co-Founder & CEO of Personio | Europe's HR Tech Titan

Hanno Renner is a German tech entrepreneur who co-founded Personio in 2015 to digitize HR, payroll, and talent recruitment for European SMEs...

Bastian Nominacher

Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Celonis | Pioneer of Enterprise Process Mining

Bastian Nominacher is a German software technologist who co-founded Celonis in 2011, pioneering AI-powered process mining to optimize multi-...

Valentin Stalf

Co-Founder & CEO of N26 | Europe's Mobile Banking Pioneer

Valentin Stalf is an Austrian-German financial innovator who co-founded N26 in Berlin, building Europe’s premier 100% digital retail mobile ...

Christian Reber

Founder & CEO of Pitch & Wunderlist | Serial Consumer Product Visionary

Christian Reber is a legendary German software designer and entrepreneur who created Wunderlist (acquired by Microsoft) and presentation sof...

Jonas Andrulis

Founder & CEO of Aleph Alpha | Pioneer of Sovereign European Frontier AI

Jonas Andrulis is a former Apple AI R&D leader who founded Aleph Alpha in Heidelberg to engineer independent, multi-modal sovereign artifici...

Jochen Engert

Co-Founder & CEO of Flix (FlixBus & FlixTrain) | Global Intercity Mobility Titan

Jochen Engert co-founded Flix in Munich in 2013, creating the world's largest long-distance bus and green train network across 40+ countries...

Robert Gentz

Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Zalando | Europe's Online Fashion Titan

Robert Gentz co-founded Zalando in Berlin in 2008, scaling it from an apartment shoe startup into Europe’s largest digital fashion and lifes...