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WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast#10 Tech Startups - Mapular - Peter Rose, Founder & CEOPeter Rose is Founder & CEO of Mapular, a location intelligence SaaS startup focused on consumer analytics based in Berlin, Germany.Mapular helps modern consumer brands make smarter, data-driven decisions about marketing, growth, and expansion. Through its SaaS platform, Mapular provides location-based insights to D2C and retail brands, enabling them to optimize their marketing spend, track omnichannel customer journeys, and identify high-potential growth areas. By aggregating and analyzing online and offline data through a proprietary “digital twin” of the brand, Mapular empowers businesses to double their return on ad spend and better understand customer behavior across geographies.2025-07-1622 min
WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast#09 Tech Startups - Bloon - Vuyiswa M'Cwabeni, CEOVuyiswa M'Cwabeni is CEO of Bloon, an Enterprise software startup based in Heidelberg, Germany.Bloon is building an AI-powered, no-code development platform designed to help enterprises rapidly build and deploy mission-critical applications, starting with SAP environments, without sacrificing governance, security, or compliance. Founded as a spinout from Tangro, now XSuite, Bloon aims to solve the scalability and complexity challenges that legacy IT systems and lightweight no-code tools often fail to address.Prior to Bloon, Vuyiswa was Co-Founder & CxO of Infinicash, a FinTech startup based in Frankfurt, Germany. Infinicash was a treasury management platform built for...2025-07-0936 min
WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast#08 Tech Startups - Orbion - Aniruddh Goteti, Co-Founder & Co-CEOAniruddh Goteti is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Orbion, a BioTech startup based in Berlin, Germany. Orbion is a predictive platform that transforms protein understanding, design, and validation into a precise science, starting with protein stability and structure determination. Orbion harness AI to unlock new possibilities in biotechnology and has the mission to empower scientists with cutting-edge tools that reduce time, cost, and uncertainty in structural biology.Ani is an alumnus of the WHU Full-Time MBA 2024 Fall batch and holds a Masters in Computer Science from the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Sweden.During his studies at...2025-06-1836 min
WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast#07 Tech Startups - Kontext21 - Claire Zhu, Co-Founder & Chief Revenue OfficerClaire Zhu is Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer of Kontext21, an AI startup based in Berlin, Germany. Kontext21 builds developer tools that unlock real-time user context from screen, voice, and operating system data, areas that are typically out of reach for most applications. With their unified SDK, developers can build AI-powered features that understand what users are doing in the moment, enabling smarter automation, personalized insights, and enhanced productivity. By bridging the gap between user behavior and application intelligence, Kontext21 is laying the foundation for the next generation of context-aware software.Claire is an alumna of the WHU...2025-06-0426 min
WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast#06 Tech Startups - ScrapBees - Florian Kriependorf & Thilo Hamm, Co-Founders & Co-CEOsFlorian Kriependorf and Thilo Hamm are Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of ScrapBees, a scrap metal recycling startup based in Neuss, Germany.ScrapBees is revolutionizing the recycling industry by providing digital urban mining solutions that support the energy transition and address the skilled labour shortage. Their services streamline the collection, sorting, and recycling of scrap materials for craftsmen and large-scale installers. With a focus on efficiency and sustainability, Scrapbees transform waste into valuable resources, contributing to producing "Green Steel" and other eco-friendly products. By integrating advanced digital tools, Scrapbees ensures transparency and traceability in the recycling process, setting new...2025-05-2131 min
WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast#05 Tech Startups - StrategyFrame - Christian Underwood, Co-Founder & CEOChristian Underwood is Co-Founder & CEO of StrategyFrame, a strategy SaaS startup based in Düsseldorf, Germany.StrategyFrame is an AI platform for strategy in medium-sized businesses. It provides owners and leaders a clear and comprehensive guidance on how to make their company thrive, from strategy development to strategy implementation. StrategyFrame is part of a wider portfolio of solutions that Christian has built for medium-sized businesses, including the StrategySummit, the book and podcast “Hope is not a Strategy”, and more.Christian is an alumnus of the WHU Part-Time MBA 2012 batch and also holds a Magister Degree in Po...2025-05-0729 min
WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast#04 Tech Startups - CUREosity - Caesar van Heyningen, Co-Founder & CEOCaesar van Heyningen is Co-Founder & CEO of CUREosity, a MedTech startup based in Düsseldorf, Germany. CUREosity focuses on virtual reality therapy through gamification. With its vision to revolutionize traditional rehabilitation, CUREosity develops VR-based therapy applications for clinics and practices, including its flagship product, CUREO. CUREO’s delivers evidence-based therapeutic success, sustainable relief of personnel, increased patient motivation, a wide range of applications, and an easy and intuitive usability. CUREO is the result of a collaborative approach between CUREosity’s developers and in-house medical experts with scientists, doctors, and therapists from major clinics and partner practices.Caes...2025-04-2329 min
WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast#03 Tech Startups - Famville - Alena Giwojna, Founder & CEOAlena Giwojna is Founder & CEO of Famville, a family tech and parent tech startup based in Düsseldorf, Germany. Famville is the AI-powered family concierge redefining parenting. Designed for busy parents, it saves time and mental overload by instantly finding the best educational and entertaining activities, matching like-minded families, and intelligently scheduling meetups—all in a few clicks.Alena is an alumna of the WHU Part-Time MBA 2021 batch and also holds a PhD in Biosciences from the Heidelberg University.She is originally from Grodno, Belarus, has lived in Germany since 2014, and is currently base...2025-04-0934 min
WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast#02 Tech Startups - SECJUR - Niklas Hanitsch, Founder & CEONiklas Hanitsch is Founder & CEO of SECJUR, a compliance and security automation startup based in Hamburg, Germany.SECJUR’s vision is effortless compliance and universal digital trust for a safer world. Therefore, SECJUR developed the Digital Compliance Office or DCO, an all-in-one solution for businesses for all things compliance. Thanks to SECJUR, businesses can implement compliance standards such as GDPR, ISO 27001, NIS2, DORA, and TISAX reliably and save hundreds of hours worth of effort.Niklas is an alumnus of the WHU Part-Time MBA 2019 batch.He is originally from Düsseldorf, Germany, and is cur...2025-03-2628 min
WHU Entrepreneurship Roundtable Podcast#01 Tech Startups - Inzipio - Thomas Roth, Co-Founder & CEOThomas Roth is Co-Founder & CEO of @Inzipio, a digital health startup based in Aachen, Germany.Inzipio has developed an AI powered medical software designed to automate and enhance surgical planning. The startup is transforming the field with its innovative approach, providing patient specific planning for surgical procedures within a unified digital platform. By leveraging advanced artificial intelligence, Inzipio delivers a seamless planning experience that integrates all essential steps from medical imaging and virtual planning to the creation of 3D printed surgical guides.Thomas is an alumnus of the WHU Full-Time MBA 2018 Fall (II) batch. During...2025-03-1228 min
Warum Innenstadt?#30 Prof. Dr. Christian Schlereth – Einzelhandels-Booster Marketingevents (WHU)Im stationären Einzelhandel läuft mit dem Weihnachtsgeschäft aktuell die wichtigste Zeit des Jahres. Durchschnittlich knapp 19 Prozent des Jahresumsatzes wird in den Monaten November und Dezember erwirtschaftet. Trotz wirtschaftsbedingter anhaltender gedämpfter Konsumlaune der deutschen Verbraucherinnen und Verbraucher sind viele Innenstädte und Weihnachtsmärkte in diesem Jahr so voll wie lange nicht, das bestätigen auch die Passantenfrequenzmessungen von hystreet.com. Macht das Hoffnung für den stationären Einzelhandel, dass die Umsatzerwartungen des HDEs für den stationären Einzelhandel von 1,3 Prozent mehr im Vergleich zu 2023 übertroffen werden? Die Zeichen stehen gut, denn „Marketingevents steigern sowohl...2024-12-1938 min
Legmon PodcastWHU Master? International Business vs. ManagementIn dieser Folge unseres Podcasts wollen wir dir das Masterstudium an der WHU vorstellen.
Wie kann ich mir das Masterstudium an der WHU vorstellen?
Im Rahmen unserer Kooperation mit der @visitWHU sind wir dieser spannenden Frage auf den Grund gegangen und haben sie in unserem neuesten @LegmonLifestyle-Podcast gemeinsam mit Jackie und Sam beantwortet.
Jackie kommt aus China und befindet sich nun - nach ihrem Bachelor an der Tongji University - im Masterstudium an der WHU und studiert International Business in Kombination mit einem Double Degree an der Catolica Lisbon.
Sam auf der anderen Seite hat im Bachelor...2024-08-1923 min
The Startup Journey Podcast#11 Nurturing Unicorns: How WHU Business School prepared the road for their six alumni-founded companies with $1bn+ valuationsA while back, WHU Business School earned recognition as one of Europe’s top "unicorn universities," a title that reflects its track record of producing successful entrepreneurs.
With campuses in Vallendar and Düsseldorf, Germany, WHU boasts an impressive list of alumni, including founders of high-growth companies like Forto, FlixBus, and SumUp. In addition to six alumni-founded companies with $1 billion+ valuations, nine other startups led by WHU graduates are on track for future unicorn status.
In this episode, we sit down with Dr. Dries Faems, Chair of Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Technological Transformation at WHU Business Scho...2024-08-1428 min
CLOSE THE DEAL - M&A & Private Equity Podcast#61 🎓 Nachfolge trifft Wissenschaft mit Prof. Dr. Nadine Kammerlander (WHU)Nachfolge trifft Wissenschaft mit Prof. Dr. Nadine Kammerlander von der WHUEin Weg, den wir hier bisher noch gar nicht beleuchtet haben, ist die Wissenschaft und Forschung hinter Unternehmensnachfolgen. Ein Vorreiter auf diesem Gebiet ist das Institut für Familienunternehmen und Mittelstand der WHU. Prof. Dr. Nadine Kammerlander leitet das Institut und den Lehrstuhl für Familienunternehmen und befasst sich seit mehr als 10 Jahren täglich mit dem Thema Nachfolge in deutschen Familienunternehmen und KMU. Wo stehen wir also aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht aktuell? Welche Treiber und Stellschrauben könnte...2024-05-241h 03CLOSE THE DEAL - M&A & Private Equity Podcast#61 🎓 Nachfolge trifft Wissenschaft mit Prof. Dr. Nadine Kammerlander (WHU)Nachfolge trifft Wissenschaft mit Prof. Dr. Nadine Kammerlander von der WHUEin Weg, den wir hier bisher noch gar nicht beleuchtet haben, ist die Wissenschaft und Forschung hinter Unternehmensnachfolgen. Ein Vorreiter auf diesem Gebiet ist das Institut für Familienunternehmen und Mittelstand der WHU. Prof. Dr. Nadine Kammerlander leitet das Institut und den Lehrstuhl für Familienunternehmen und befasst sich seit mehr als 10 Jahren täglich mit dem Thema Nachfolge in deutschen Familienunternehmen und KMU. Wo stehen wir also aus wissenschaftlicher Sicht aktuell? Welche Treiber und Stellschrauben könnte...2024-05-241h 03
The Most Awesome Founder PodcastEP 90 - Fueling fast-growth companies with Karel DörnerEpisode 90 of the Most Awesome Founder podcast and we are pleased to welcome Karel Dörner! Karel is one of the earliest role models of the WHU entrepreneurship spirit; from the dorm rooms of WHU to co-founding eBay competitor Alando, it took him only a few months. Moreover, leaving McKinsey to found a startup with buddies from university when founding was yet to be considered an outstanding career option takes guts and a strong-minded person willing to take a risk. With a blend of personal anecdotes and professional insights, Karel unveils the highs and lows of startup l...2024-04-0350 min
Behind The Athletes#33: Sind Profisportler die perfekten Unternehmer? – Interview mit WHU-Professor Sascha SchmidtIm heutigen Behind the Athletes-Interview spricht Mark mit Prof. Dr. Sascha L. Schmidt, dem Lehrstuhlinhaber für Sports & Management an der WHU.Zudem ist Sascha akademischer Direktor des European Sports Business Program, Dozent am Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for Sports Entrepreneurship Bootcamps und Mitglied der "Digital Initiative" an der Harvard Business School in Boston.Im Interview erzählt Sascha, was Persönlichkeitseigenschaften von Spitzensportlern und Unternehmertum gemeinsam haben. Seiner Meinung nach können Executives viel von Athleten lernen.Darüber hinaus sprechen wir darüber, wie sich Sport als Entertainment-Produkt entwickelt und was ma...2024-03-1342 min