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Weekly Wrap-up 15/2025

The most important articles of the week in a photo gallery. So you can start the new week well-informed.

April 20, 2025 2 min reading time

Simone Sabbione
Women in Tech: "If men menstruated, there would have been a solution long ago." This sentence stuck with Simone Sabbione and became the initial spark for her first company. The health tech startup Meliodays Medical was founded in 2022. Together with her team, consisting of her husband Martin Sabbione and her brother and gynecologist Dr. Benjamin Wolf, the business graduate is developing MelioOne: a hormone-free, locally acting therapy for menstrual pain. In an interview, the CEO of Meliodays MedicalWhat she knows today about starting a business, when the right time is – and what she would ask Elon Musk. (Photo: Simone Sabbione)
Foodji
Healthy food at every workplace: Foodji delivers fresh, healthy, and affordable food to companies across Germany. The team, led by founders Nicolas Luig, Oliver Friedmann, Moritz Munte, Felix Munte, and Daniel von Canal, relies on smart food vending machines. AI-powered meals are tailored to employees' preferences. The platform behind the Munich-based company collects and analyzes user behavior and adapts the menu accordingly. Felix Munte explains more about this, co-founder and CEO of Foodji, in an interview. (Photo: Foodji Marketplace GmbH)
BayBG
BayBG invests 45 million euros in Bavarian companies: In the financial year 2023/24, BayBG around 45 million euros in medium-sized companies and startups in Bavaria. Despite challenging conditions, a significant increase in annual profit was achieved. (Photo: BayBG)
Startups
SMEs seek proximity to startups: A new Bitkom study showsOne in three companies in Germany cooperates with tech startups. A representative survey of 603 companies reveals the reasons for collaboration and existing hurdles. (Photo: Valerii Apetroaiei / stock.adobe.com)
Karevo
AI for potatoes: The Munich-based startup Karevo wants to make what large agricultural companies have long been using available to small and medium-sized farms: a compact, retrofittable sorting machine that automatically sorts out defective tubers thanks to computer vision and artificial intelligence – without any laborious manual labor. How it all began with a master's thesis and a potato farm in Donauwörth, explain the founders Felix Beck, Benedikt Keßler and Johannes von Wittke in an interview. (Photo: Karevo)

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