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Enes Savas and Linda Walczak, Nearay © WISTA Management GmbH
12.11.2024

Building bridges across cultures

The start-up Nearay from the Adlershof Founder’s Lab wants to better connect cultural communities:

“People with multicultural backgrounds and newcomers often struggle to find communities from their own cultural circles,” says Enes Savas. “The information is scattered everywhere. Searching for it can be…

Entrepreneur and mentor Munay Zamorano © Aurelio Schrey
04.11.2024

From the lecture hall to the executive chair

Munay Zamorano took over the cosmetics company New Natural in her early 20s:

Based at the CHIC Charlottenburg Innovation Centre, New Natural sells over 1,000 certified products from ten natural cosmetics brands to perfumeries, drugstores, and online stores in more than 30 countries. Their…

Maria Strauß and Emily Boybay © LehrCraft
04.11.2024

Substitution, not cancellation

The start-up LehrCraft wants to use its placement platform to help alleviate staff shortages in schools and reduce class cancellations:

“What do teachers and clouds have in common? The day improves when they go away.” Everybody knows these types of jokes. But what if teachers really go away and regular classes cannot be guaranteed? The reasons for the…

Agriculture system of Lite&Fog © Lite&Fog
30.08.2024

The future of agriculture is being grown in a cupboard

Lite&Fog aim at making plant cultivation more sustainable and efficient. Their method allows for the on-demand production of foodstuffs, as well as active ingredients for medicine and cosmetics:

Seen from afar, it looks like a green column behind glass. Moving closer, it turns out to be lettuce plants that grow in all directions along the entire length of a thick, round textile tube. Rather than reaching for…

Artistic visualisation of cells © Henrik5000/iStock
30.08.2024

Racing towards new drugs thanks to cell-free protein synthesis

Based in Berlin-Dahlem, the science-oriented start-up PharmaTech is unleashing new opportunities for personalised medicine:

Without proteins, life would be impossible. The macromolecules are made up of amino acids and are a key component of every living cell. Our muscles, heart, brain, skin, and hair consist predominantly of proteins.…

BAM headquarters on Berlin’s Unter den Eichen © BAM
01.07.2024

In step with the times

The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing also helps with making innovation ready for the market:

The brick building at the address Unter den Eichen 87 radiates history. Set in massive stone in Berlin-Lichterfelde, it demonstrates its status as a renowned government institution. “Federal Institute for Materials…

Plances-Team Christopher Liebau (left) and Tim Schröder © WISTA Management GmbH
13.05.2024

The rainmakers – Flourishing balconies for a greener city

A start-up team in Adlershof is developing a smart watering system for balconies:

With great precision, the start-up Plances—funded by the Adlershof Founder’s Lab (AFL)—will deliver valuable moisture to the balconies of renters across the city. Their mission: Greener, more liveable cities in which…

Dirk Griesinger, Gründer und CEO SimpliOffice
06.05.2024

A place for working—and more

FUHUB is the newest addition to the WISTA Innovation Campus FUBIC and to Berlin’s growing, innovative Southwest. One of the first tenants is SimpliOffice, a young company operating co-working spaces and event venues. :

Cycle to the office. Take a shower before hitting the desk. Grab a quick coffee before the meeting. Go to a sports course later, take a power nap, or a play a round of foosball with the guys from the next-door office.…

Lea Leibold and Jonas Minkler, KURO © WISTA Management GmbH
14.03.2024

KURO – A new start-up is breathing life into the construction industry

At the Adlershof Founder’s Lab, the team is developing software designed to make calculations much easier:

A start-up based at Adlershof Technology Park is working to bring about a revolution in the construction industry. Utilising artificial intelligence, the audacious founders are looking to fundamentally change the way…

Fleet of ships at sea © Kalyakan/AdobeStock
06.03.2024

AI for trade and transport of commodities

The software company Calypso Commodities develops optimisation solutions for logistics:

The world is changing. Bit by bit, fossil fuels are being replaced. But this will not happen overnight. Until renewable hydrogen creates a green commodities industry and innovative storage concepts make sun and wind…

Tractor with laser system for weed control © Escarda
06.03.2024

Lasers on the field

Escarda Technologies GmbH is developing an herbicide-free alternative for weed control at CleanTech Marzahn:

Weed control using herbicides has many disadvantages: It costs worldwide agriculture a good 15 billion euros every year. This trend is increasing sharply, threatening biodiversity, and contaminating foodstuffs and…

Founder Manuel Dedio
06.03.2024

The alphabet of the universe

Manuel Dedio has developed an “app for non-enthusiastic mathematicians”:

Although most remember him as a philosopher, Plato was one of the most important promoters of mathematics in ancient Greece. Galileo Galilei, another famous philosopher and scientist, once waxed lyrically about…

MucosaTec-Team with SPRIND challenge officer Jano Costard © MucosaTec: Costard/Kutifa
12.01.2024

A new protective shield against viruses

A team at Freie Universität Berlin (FU) led by Professor Daniel Lauster is working on a nasal spray that wards off flu viruses:

The new FU research centre SupraFAB, short for Supramolecular Functional Architectures at Biological Interfaces, on Altensteinstrasse in Berlin Dahlem, has more to offer than its impressive architecture. On the…

Katharina Eissing, 1000 Kelvin GmbH © K. Eissing
11.01.2024

AI for additive manufacturing processes

1000 Kelvin GmbH from the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre is on a growth course with its software for selective laser sintering processes:

The company 1000 Kelvin GmbH from the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC) is on a growth course. It uses artificial intelligence (AI) in additive manufacturing to optimise the quality of metal components and to…

Carlotta Baumann, CEO © Finetech GmbH & Co.KG
01.11.2023

Precision in Marzahn

Carlotta Baumann runs Finetech – a specialist in high-precision placement and assembly systems:

“Hello, Carlotta here,” is what the author of this article first hears from the phone. A little excited maybe, but full of energy and presence. It is seldom that one starts talking with a CEO in this way. Normally,…

Lenka Ivantysynova © WISTA Management GmbH
01.11.2023

Eyes don’t lie

The start-up Amphiprion develops software for biometric identification:

Moving to the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC) is like a journey back in time for the team of the newly founded start-up Amphiprion. Almost ten years ago, they had already been here to help a newly found…

Janina Krassa © YouCan! gGmbH
01.11.2023

Everything is easier together

The start-up YouCan! supports children, teenagers, and young adults with cancer:

They tend to lie in hospital beds, pull the blankets over their heads, and retreat. Being diagnosed with cancer is a severe blow and a life-changing event, especially for young people. Using an app, the Berlin-based…

Maria Enge and Benjamin Pardowitz © Leo Seidel Fotodesign
04.09.2023

Like being held by one’s parents

Benjamin Pardowitz and Maria Enge have developed something reminiscent of training wheels for children — not to help them ride a bike, however, but to help them walk:

The mechanical engineer and the electrical engineer have been working together to realise their big dream since 2021. They want to enable children with physical challenges to be more active and enjoy moving and…

Olivia Budek and Tobias Kirschnick. Photo: Berlin Eventfotograf
30.06.2023

CHIC is starting up businesses in the heart of Berlin

The Charlottenburg Innovation Centre offers more than 60 young companies a home in Berlin’s City West:

Since it opened in early 2011, the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC) has been offering a home to start-ups in Berlin’s City West. More than 60 young companies with 708 employees are currently working here to…

CHIC location manager Olivia Budek. Foto: Berlin Eventfotograf
30.06.2023

Collaborative and well-connected

CHIC location manager Olivia Budek supports female founders and strengthens their networking in the capital region:

More than 80 percent of all start-ups in Germany are backed by male founders. Against this backdrop, Olivia Budek, the manager of the Charlottenburg Innovation Centre (CHIC), is paying special attention to female…