THE >SMART> GREEN TEAM
After 10 years of scientific project work in materials chemistry & energy conversion to patent maturity, Anna expanded her expertise building corporate collaborations in an IT startup for decentralized energy systems. In the Accelerator team, Anna’s drive, experience and conceptual talent now benefits many startups as she expands our network towards industry, research and sustainability initiatives and drives the program portfolio holistically and iteratively.
Johannes is our youngest team member and strengthens us with his energy and fresh ideas straight from university. With his major in business development, he brings an eye for strategic and entrepreneurial analysis to startup consulting. In the preparation of events and consulting appointments, his motivation to create individual and valuable moments comes to the fore.
Konrad brings a business background and 12 years of industry experience to the Accelerator. Today, he is part of the Grünhof management team. As an experienced product manager and executive in an international corporation, he has developed and successfully implemented strategies for a variety of products. Konrad has a talent for sales and pricing. His professional approach to companies and partners makes him the go-to person for the network.
Through the founding of two startups in the area of media/digital and through his time in the startup office at the University of Freiburg, Philipp can competently advise startups. He knows the work of large accelerators from the startups’ point of view and thus brings in essential impulses for the program design. Philipp knows funding issues in detail and is our pre-seed professional. He is at his best in front of an audience on stage!
Before joining the Accelerator, Julia worked in organizational development as a consultant for projects in design thinking and agile project management. She is a full-blooded implementer true to the motto “said, done”! She juggles pre-seed applications and is the point of contact for all kinds of questions on this topic. Therefore, she is in constant exchange with our startups. As a Scrum Master, she manages the team workflow and the optimization of our internal processes.
Before joining >SMART> GREEN, Lionel founded a startup in the field of HR tech and profitably built it up into a 50-person international team via various VC financing rounds. This means that he can not only provide you with the best support in financing matters, but also give our startups lots of practical tips on the everyday small and big challenges of startup life.
Jürgen is an absolute business model professional and our startups benefit from his experience and different perspectives: He was responsible for promoting innovation at a business association of industrial enterprises, had his own lecture on digital business models at Furtwangen University and founded two startups in the media/digital sector together with Philipp. He also is responsible for social media in our team, develops great visuals and screws on cool videos.
Leonard works with companies to develop innovative business models and minimize their risks through appropriate experimentation – “evidence determines the progress of innovation projects”. As a studied industrial engineer with a focus on product innovation, Leonard burns for complex projects with technical and economic challenges. In his previous ventures, he has proven his doer qualities with a large portion of hands-on!
Anna-Maria is convinced that collaboration between startups and corporate companies is the key to success. Through her bachelor’s thesis in our GrüNetz project, she knows the do’s and don’ts of such collaborations inside out. With her trilingual degree in International Business, she is the ideal contact person for international and culturally diverse teams. Anna-Maria works part-time in social media, has an eye for detail and likes to spruce up our workshop documents with a few finishing touches.
Jonathan co-founded Grünhof and is now one of the owners and managing directors. In recent years, he has supported over 50 startups and established organisations in the areas of business model development and innovation. His expertise lies particularly in the field of the green economy and social business. His approach is resource-oriented and lean. Jonathan aims for quick market feedback and short learning cycles through critical consulting. He sees the early involvement of other experts with specific industry knowledge as essential.
KREATIVPARK LOKHALLE: Our container village
On June 1, 2018, we opened another Grünhof location: The startup and innovation center Kreativpark Lokhalle. In the future, the new location will be the center for companies, startups and creative minds in the Freiburg area. With the community idea behind this project, a place is to be created where knowledge, know-how and ideas are shared and advanced. In addition, the >SMART> GREEN Startups get a new home here: Here you work in an indoor container village on 1.600m² in teamspaces and coworking desks or have a creative session in our popup teamspace.
If that’s not startup enough for you, you can also just lie down in the hammock with your MacBook or chat with the developer or graphic designer next door in our café bar. After all, we want the Kreativpark Lokhalle to be a lively and colorful community where people can exchange ideas and work together. Our community manager will make sure that you become part of our network as quickly as possible!
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CAFÉ POW: We also have a beer garden
Café POW is the place where you can get together with other founders and co-workers, studies, ecos, project makers, hipsters and normal people to let your heads dangle in a relaxed atmosphere.
In addition to a beautiful beer garden and a very relaxed atmosphere, our Café POW offers really good coffee, cakes, sandwiches, salads and much more.
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