Impact-orientated companies, for instance, Viva Con Aqua and Lemonaid, that strive to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined by the United Nations, through their business id…
More and more Hamburg founders are starting with a sustainable business idea. In loose succession, Hamburg News presents particularly promising concepts
An idea can gain momentum when someone like Greta Thunberg is behind it. Just a year after beginning her school strike for clim…
Start-up in Winsen converts lorries to hydrogen hybrid backed by German Ministry of Transport
Clean Logistics has received a grant of EUR 3.3 million from the German Ministry of Transport to convert heavy diesel trucks to run on hydrogen hybrid drive in future…
Hamburg-based Terrorists of Beauty seeks social rethink with natural ingredients as tools
Violence is not their thing. Natalie Richter and Mar Navajas Garcia, the founders of Terrorists of Beauty, see their provocative company name as a kind of communication strategy: “We do…
Proptech puts price tag on properties - Big Data and AI making market more transparent
The property technology company, Scoperty, hopes to make the property market more transparent with a price platform based on big data and algorithms. Around 1 million estimated r…
Five Hamburg-based entrepreneurs faced investors in den - new episodes next spring
VOX TV’s “Die Höhle der Löwen” (The Lion’s Den) show for founders has secured its prime time, leading market position on Tuesday evenings with an average 14.2 per cent of 14 to 59-ye…
Over 2,000 representatives of fintechs, banks and digital industries mulled future of finance
More than 2,000 delegates attended around 30 events during the German Fintech Week 2019, which ended Saturday (November 9, 2019) in Hamburg. The who’s who of the financial sect…
From "League of Legends" to new "City Masters" - thousands coming together for games
“League of Legends” is one of the world’s hit computer games with an estimated several million players in Germany alone. Five gamers compete against five opponents to conquer their territory and …
Four start-ups to pitch at Mojo Club for ticket to SXSW Festival 2020
A jury of experts with Hamburg Startups has chosen the start-ups femtasy based in Cologne, Hyconnect and Localyze from Hamburg and Modularity Grid, which hails from …
Summit to focus on key future issues in city and global trends
The annual meeting of Hamburg’s ten external representatives gets underway Wednesday through September 12, 2019. This year, the focus will be on mobility of the future as Hamburg gears up to host the ITS Wor…
Female entrepreneurs wanted - university career centre encouraging entrepreneurship
Women are behind just 15 per cent of all start-ups in Germany, according to the “Deutsche Startup Monitor 2018”, which analysed 1,550 start-ups and found a rise in the number of female entrepreneu…
Five European start-ups in music industry get backing
Five international start-ups focusing on blockchain, augmented reality and gamification entered Monday (August 26th) the three-month Music WorX Accelerator 2019. The support programme, run by the Minis…
Latest season features seven-strong, biggest ever den - and Nils Glagau
The sixth season of VOX TV’s “The Lion’s Den” (DHDL) goes on air Tuesday (September 3, 2019) featuring eleven episodes. This comes after a record 3.04 million viewers tuned into the final …
Food start-up better known after appearance on "The Lion's Den" show
The Hanover-based cable and satellite-shopping network Channel 21 has bought Hamburg’s Veluvia start-up for an undisclosed sum. Veluvia sells dietary supplements based on superfoods and made headlines through it…
Intelligent apps for first-level support grow - Xing and Dräger opt for knowhere chatbots
Automated customer communication is spreading amid rising demand for intelligent chatbots such as that of knowhere GmbH. The Hamburg-based start-up now counts well-known companies …
Dekra Award 2019 honours innovations in four categories- apply now
Applicants for the 2019 DEKRA Award now have until September 13, 2019 to submit their entries for the best security solutions. The expert organisation DEKRA and the German magazine Wi…
