Female Founders Monitor

Interviews

Female Founders Monitor 2022: More female founders, but existing structural hurdles

According to the Female Founders Monitor 2022, the proportion of women among German startup founders has increased for the second year in a row. But…

Start-ups Women Makers Scholarship

Inside Stories

Hardly any startups are founded by women teams

A study by the Technical University of Munich and the Roland Berger Foundation examined the proportion of women among startup founders in Germany and France.…

LaMonachia

Needs Review

LaMonachia Awards Ceremony: Making Women Visible in Munich as a Business Location

The 2021 LaMonachia Prize was awarded. A total of four female entrepreneurs from Munich were honored with the prize.

Darboven Prize

Competition

Darboven Prize seeks sustainable startups

Every two years, the Darboven Prize seeks innovative business ideas from female founders. Prize money totaling €65,000 is available. Applications…

Twostay Engagement Award

interview

“Keeping an eye on the big picture” – the Twostay founders

Twostay enables anyone to open their own coworking space and grow their own coworking community. Founded in 2019, the company…

Irene Kilubi, Unicorn Pitch, #25to25

Competition

Unicorn Pitch is looking for Female Founders

The next Unicorn Pitch aims to bring female startup founders more into the public eye. Therefore, it will take place at the end of June as a special edition…

Jutta Merschen

Women in Tech

Jutta Merschen: Leaps of thought for good ideas

Jutta Merschen received her doctorate in economics and law, then worked for a large consulting firm for over twelve years, and founded her own company in 2020.

Susanne Haspinger

Women in Tech

Susanne Haspinger: “Shaping from the very beginning”

Susanne Haspinger is co-founder of the AR startup Holo-Light. The physicist is COO of the startup, founded in 2015, which offers immersive technologies to corporate clients…

Melissa Raupach plantura

Interview with the founder

Plantura founder Melissa Raupach: “I have great confidence in us”

Melissa Raupach founded the startup Plantura in 2017 together with Felix Lill and Dominik Cadmus. The VC-backed greentech company brings gardeners,…

Kewazo founders

Women in Tech

Kewazo: “We need more diversity”

The Munich-based startup Kewazo was founded in 2018. Computer scientist Eirini Psallida and economist Ekaterina Grib founded the company together with…

Alexandra Alex Matchmanao

Women in Tech

Alexandra Alex: Bringing the right people together

Matchmanao uses algorithms to help companies find the optimal team composition. Originally founded in Fürth in 2018, the company, funded by business angels, is…

SFAN founders

Women in Tech

SFAN: Consumers are hungry for new things

Space for a name (SFAN) was founded by Alexa Philipp and Nadja Lechner at the end of 2020. The two founders have…