Hey, dear reader!
For a very long time, this newsletter has been the only place for me to share everything happening in Hamburg's startup scene with you.
Over the last 50+ issues, we've explored so many things and they simply had no other place to live but in the newsletter. One major problem with that has been limited searchability.
I'm sure this has happened to you at least once. You saw an event, a new startup program, or a fresh insight but rushed back to your tasks to revisit it later. When you'd go back, you'd go through your inbox, open that email, and look for that one piece you need. And it sucks.
This changes now.
Together with a very good friend of mine, Roman, we've reworked the found website to become a real home for everything we cover in the newsletter: from events and jobs, to our podcast episodes and other topics. Always available when you need it.
Besides overall aesthetics (❤ gradients), there are a couple of other things we've added — with more on the way.
The job board now lives on the website instead of Notion. With smarter filters, you can scan through and find jobs much faster. Plus, our database is getting bigger, with 80+ new jobs.
If you're hiring, let's talk! We've got a new offer to put your job in front of the community.
When you go to Events, you will discover handpicked events from our luma calendar and the ones we host through found. All in one place.
The newsletter remains unchanged. It's your weekly curated digest of everything you need to know about the local ecosystem. A 5 min read as a part of Monday morning routine.
Go check out the new website and let me know what you think of it!
Save the Date 🗓
The events I'm most excited about in the weeks ahead.
Tuesday, June 16
AI.WOMEN Circle #3 – Summer Edition (German/English) — Reconnect with women in AI to swap practical tips, ask questions, and lift each other up over a summer evening.
Impossible Founders: Legal Foundations Workshop (English) — Master the legal essentials of founding — governance, IP, financing, and corporate hygiene — through real cases with a top German law firm.
Thursday-Friday, June 18-19
Waterkant Festival (Kiel) (German/English) — Experience two days of innovation, hands-on futures thinking, and networking at northern Germany's liveliest startup festival.
Monday, June 22
Food Innovation Camp (German/English) — Explore the future of food and foodtech with founders, corporates, and investors shaping the industry.
found Co-working Day (English) — Spend the day working alongside Hamburg's founders, operators, and techies — no membership, no application, just drop in.
Weekly Picks📍
All the events on my radar for this week.
This Issue’s Gem 💎
Tuesday, June 9
Agentic Coding Meetup #5 (English) — Dive into agentic coding with fellow builders and see how AI agents are reshaping the way software gets written. (Note: currently waiting list.)
AI Everywhere 🤖
Thursday, June 11
Guided Tour of the ARIC AI Showroom (English) — Explore how AI actually works through hands-on, easy-to-grasp demos across machine learning and real-world applications.
Mind and Artificial Intelligence (German) — Explore what AI means for the human mind and democratic society with researchers at the new IfKI institute.
Tech Bite 🧑💻
Tuesday-Wednesday, June 9-10
Helmholtz Tech & Industry Day (English) — Connect deep-tech research with industry across two days of talks and project matchmaking at the DESY campus.
Thursday, June 11
Wunder Mobility Meetup: The Future of Bikesharing (English) — Get an inside look at where shared mobility is heading from the Wunder Mobility team and fellow mobility builders.
Startup 101 🔨
Wednesday, June 10
Next level digital health: insights for founders (German) — Gain practical insights for building a digital health startup, from regulation to go-to-market, tailored to founders.
Female Founders Breakfast (English) — Build your network over breakfast with fellow female founders and trade honest talk on the founding journey.
Friday, June 12
build fridays (English) — Ship products alongside other builders, demo your progress, and get feedback from fellow founders.
Get Inspired ✨
Wednesday, June 10
Hamburg Global Innovators Circle Meetup (English) — Connect with international founders and innovators building in Hamburg over an evening of cross-border conversation.
Finance Collective (German) — Trade perspectives with leaders from finance, banking, and fintech on where the sector is heading, from AI to regulation.
Thursday, June 11
Butter bei die Fintechs (German/English) — Bring fintech startups together with banks and financial players to trade notes on where the sector is heading.
Female StartAperitivo semi-final (German/English) — Watch strong female founders pitch live and get matched with investors at the Hamburg semi-final.
12min.me IGNITE #119 (English/German) — Soak up rapid-fire 12-minute talks from founders and doers, then network with Hamburg's most energetic startup crowd.
Saturday, June 13
Founders Running Club (English) — Energize your Saturday with founders and tech folks for an easy 5K — coffee and conversation after.
Open Calls 📣
Grants, programs, and opportunities waiting for your application.
Zebra Investment Night #3 — For Germany-based pre-seed and seed impact startups with an MVP, solving social or ecological problems. Pitch in front of ~70 invited investors, family offices, and VCs at St. Pauli's stadium on August 27, with a networking dinner and service prize packages — and the chance to land investment on the night. Deadline: June 28.
Entrepreneur First — For ambitious individuals who want to find a co-founder and build a company from zero. EF backs you before you even have an idea: an equity-free grant while you're still ideating, then up to $250K once you incorporate, plus up to $5M in follow-on funding. Rolling applications.
Web Summit PITCH — For early-stage startups with under €5M raised. Web Summit's flagship competition selects the top 105 founders to battle onstage in front of influential investors and global partners at Web Summit in Lisbon. Rolling applications.
Job Picks 💼
3 open roles worth a look this week.
Product Engineer – AI & Innovation at RABOT CHARGE, a dynamic electricity-pricing startup for homeowners (Series A, €22M).
Senior Customer Success Manager at Wunder Mobility, a shared-mobility operating system (Series C, $71.9M).
Forward Deployed Engineer at Soji AI, an AI startup building automation for aviation operations (early-stage).
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That’s a wrap!
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See you next week,
Kyrylo from found Hamburg