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4 April 2025
Germany Startup Grants: A Guide to Free Money and Funding Options

Kristina Savina

In the early stages of launching a startup, securing funding can be one of the biggest challenges. While many entrepreneurs turn to investors, business angels, or private capital, there’s a better, often overlooked option: grants.
14 March 2025
LANDO: A Frankfurt Health-Tech Startup on a Mission to Redefine Patient Safety
Tom Godbersen
We didn’t start with a big vision—we found a massive problem in a niche we couldn’t ignore. By working closely with clinicians and our Medical Advisory Board, we uncovered a major issue: critical medical knowledge was scattered, outdated, buried in complexity and hard to access when it mattered most.
Launching your startup without a clear Go-to-Market strategy is like setting out on a journey without a map. A GTM ensures you not only reach your target audience but also stay aligned with their needs and solve their problems. 
12 February 2025
The Essential Guide to Crafting a Winning Go-to-Market Strategy
Franz Deubner
1 November 2024
Frankfurt School is brewing a Gigacorn
Gowtham Athem
In 2023, global CO₂ emissions reached 37.4 Gt. To meet our climate goals, we need to reduce emissions to close to zero AND remove 7–9 Gt of CO₂ annually from the atmosphere. Current novel Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) methods removed a meagre 1.3 million tons (0.0013 Gt) in 2023. 
You may have heard of the difference between an invention and an innovation; an innovation’s sole purpose is to be a solution to particular problems, while an invention is a solution that doesn’t necessarily solve a problem.
20 September 2024
How to find the right business solutions to problems
Francesca Isabella Palomo-Picache
12 August 2024
Making Germany Home: The Inspiration Behind Newbee

Hande Turan Limon

Newbee is an all-in-one mobile app designed to simplify integration for newcomers to a country. When people move to another country to start a new life, they face similar challenges regardless of their educational or professional background.
2 August 2024
MEDICEO: The Digital Swiss Army Knife Transforming Daily Hospital Life

Tom Godbersen

The idea for MEDICEO was born from direct insights into the daily challenges faced by clinical staff, which they gained through family connections in the healthcare sector. These personal stories about the struggles and needs of doctors and nurses became the starting point for our mission to develop accessible solutions that sustainably improve daily clinical operations.
5 June 2024
MVPs 101: Getting from Idea to Product
Francesca Isabella Palomo-Picache
A startup can take up to a couple of years to launch… sometimes even longer! These delays are usually caused by long and tedious development periods, difficulty with understanding the market’s wants and needs (especially when potential customers give conflicting feedback), and founders’ anxiousness about releasing an imperfect product. 
There's something magical about early-stage startups that reminds me of the Flammarion engraving. I’ll tell a short tale of just one such project: Ceres FieldCheck – to answer a single question: how & when does an idea turn into a startup?
6 May 2024
Turning Ideas into Impact: The Case of Ceres FieldCheck
Svyatoslav Gusev
2 April 2024
What makes a good business problem?
Francesca Palomo-Picache
Many startups fail because they focus too much on creating a product that seems profitable instead of first identifying whether a real problem exists. We’ve seen this happen a lot: founders build an app, promote it with fancy keywords like “AI-powered” and “revolutionary”, and then ultimately fail because people don’t need the app in the first place.
Yumoso embarked on a mission to create the world's first pre-assembled solar carport, addressing the growing need for large solar surfaces in the ongoing energy transition. Recognising untapped potential, our team identified parking areas, rooftops and open spaces as valuable sources of photovoltaic (PV) energy to pursue a greener future.
4 March 2024
The story behind the first pre-assembled solar carport in the world
Ole Möller
14 February 2024
Balancing work and study as a Master in Applied Data Science student

Christian Nikolov

Embarking on a Master's in Applied Data Science at Frankfurt School has been a transformative journey, intertwining rigorous academic work with real-world professional experience. It has been a journey of growth, learning and self-discovery. It’s a challenging yet rewarding path that has taught me the importance of resilience, time management and strategic planning.
19 December 2023
Sustain Challenge 2023: Invest goes Green

Jakob Zapke

Over the past month we had the honour to participate in the “Sustain Challenge of Talents of Tomorrow”, organised by EintrachtTech and the Tomorrow University of Applied Sciences. Our team was asked to develop a “Green Rewards Programme” for the Deutsche Bank App that motivates users to adopt sustainable banking practices.
29 August 2023
Cap tables and why many early-stage startups mess them up
Ram Shoham
A cap table, or capitalisation table, is a spreadsheet that details the equity ownership in a startup. Understanding a startup’s cap table is not just essential for startup founders but also very important for investors, employees and other stakeholders. Despite its significance, it is surprising how many early-stage startups tend to mess this up, leading to potential complications.
Early-stage startups need to keep a close eye on key growth metrics to navigate the "valley of death". These growth metrics are also crucial because they help navigate uncertainties, track progress and make informed business decisions. Learn about the most important growth metrics and how to use them to your benefit during your startup journey.
30 January 2023
Growth metrics for early-stage start-ups
Ram Shoham
Germany Startup Grants: A Guide to Free Money and Funding Options
4 April 2025
Kristina Savina
LANDO: A Frankfurt Health-Tech Startup on a Mission to Redefine Patient Safety
14 March 2025
Tom Godbersen
The Essential Guide to Crafting a Winning Go-to-Market Strategy
12 February 2025
Franz Deubner
Frankfurt School is brewing a Gigacorn
1 November 2024
Gowtham Athem
How to find the right business solutions to problems
20 September 2024
Francesca Isabella Palomo-Picache
Making Germany Home: The Inspiration Behind Newbee
12 August 2024
Hande Turan Limon
MEDICEO: The Digital Swiss Army Knife Transforming Daily Hospital Life
2 August 2024
Tom Godbersen
MVPs 101: Getting from Idea to Product
5 June 2024
Francesca Isabella Palomo-Picache
Turning Ideas into Impact: The Case of Ceres FieldCheck
6 May 2024
Svyatoslav Gusev
What makes a good business problem?
2 April 2024
Francesca Palomo-Picache