This is the video of our podcast , with special greetings to our Japanese and Chinese audiences.
Here are the short bios of our speakers :
Christian Schmitz :
After a corporate career in large multinationals such as Bayer, BASF, Henkel and the German SME hulsta furniture, he established his boutique consulting firm Aventa to bridge Japan and Europe. Various experiences in the startup world, investing in startups as well as running a global organization. Finally, he founded the PDIE to build his own global network of purpose driven entrepreneurs.
Oliver Gottfried is a postdoctoral researcher at MIT Sloan’s Sustainability Initiative, specializing in research aimed at optimizing fundraising, go-to-market strategies, internationalization, and exit strategies for climate / deep tech startups and venture capital firms in the US, Europe and China.
