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What is at the heart of EWOR? 🫂 Ecosystem and Education. The EWOR ecosystem is a collection of like-minded individuals, from investors through to operators through to founders, actively helping one another to change the world. Education (and cross-mentorship) is what fuels the EWOR ecosystem. 🚀 With that in mind, we are excited to share our revamped Founder’s Resources which have been created by our leadership team, a group of former unicorn founders. Why share these resources with everyone? We are not about gatekeeping. We believe that it is immensely useful for all early founders to receive free, foundational support. 📄 Our resources include templates for financial modelling, legal contracts and pitching. 📈 More actively, we have compiled search matrixes for co-founders and grant opportunities, as well as personal development quizzes and a productivity bible. We will be giving in depth overviews of some of our resources soon, but for now, check out the selection here: https://lnkd.in/dy46z_6H ❓Which one of our resources do you find most valuable as a founder? Are there any which you think are missing? Let us know in the comments! #EWOR #entrepreneur #founder #resources #templates

Excited to partner with START Berlin 🚀 🗣️Apply to their community with the link below - only 1 day left before the deadline! https://lnkd.in/ezj7FcPd

We had an absolute 𝐁𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐓 at Bits & Pretzels over the weekend! 🚀 For the first time ever, we hosted a LIVE version of our Grand Pitch. 14 fellows pitched their ventures to a packed audience, including 2 fellows who flew over from the US. There were no seats left and the Soonicorns stage has never been fuller. 🫂 Full of pride ourselves, we capped off the weekend with a family dinner! -- 🗣️ A big shoutout to our incredible fellows: Stefan Balg, Ricky Knox, Nick Perrett, Rihab L., Alex Tatarinov, Denis Widler, Andrew Nutter, Tim Seithe, Alexander Dakhovnik, Arseniy Seroka, Lukas Koestler, Dr Sigourney Waibel, PhD, Piers MacNaughton, John M., Faris F. And a huge THANK YOU to Bits & Pretzels for hosting us! -- #bitsandpretzels #EWOR #investors #entrepreneur

🗣️ 𝐁𝐈𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓 : Applications for our next fellowships open today! -- 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐢𝐬 𝐄𝐖𝐎𝐑 𝐟𝐨𝐫? EWOR gives rebels, nerds, and visionaries an unfair advantage in building companies that matter on a global scale. EWOR is for founders by founders. EWOR's founders have built companies collectively worth over €12BN, including Adjust, ProGlove, felyx and more. Our latest cohorts include: 🤖 Konstantinos (Kostas) Fetfatsidis: A former aerostructures engineer who founded a 3D printing company that was acquired by Desktop Metal. 🔬 Natalie Pace: A Los Alamos National Laboratory fellow who developed a first-in-class rapid diagnostic test for bacterial pneumonia. 📈 Kyle Collier: A former professional snowboarder who went on to become a 4x founder (with 3 acquisitions) and a United Nations speaker. -- 𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐨 𝐄𝐖𝐎𝐑 𝐟𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐩 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫? 💡 Our Ideation fellowship supports entrepreneurs as early as pre-idea. If you're ready to launch your venture, this one's for you. 📈 Our Traction Fellowship supports entrepreneurs who have up to €1M ARR. If you're ready to scale your venture, this one’s for you. Both programmes offer: - Up to €150,000 in immediate funding. - Access to the top 0.1% of founders, peers and investors. - Support in securing a multi-million euro funding round within 12 months. -- 𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐃𝐘 𝐓𝐎 𝐉𝐎𝐈𝐍? 𝐀𝐏𝐏𝐋𝐘 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄: https://lnkd.in/edE5HZt8 #entrepreneur #EWOR #founder #launch #applications

The definition of "ecosystem": 🫂 This morning, our Chief Investment Officer, Florian Huber, became patient #1 of our fellow Tim Seithe's health-tech startup, aeon, at its Munich practice. Let's go Tim Seithe! 🚀

Professor of Engineering, exited founder, plays 5 instruments, college athlete. Meet our fellow, Konstantinos (Kostas) Fetfatsidis. 🛩️ After finishing his PhD, Kosta spent 6 years leading manufacturing R&D at Aurora Flight Sciences. Simultaneously, he served as an Adjunct Professor in Mechanical Engineering at University of Massachusetts Lowell. 🚀 When Kosta recognised that the technologies which he was developing at Aurora to enhance the efficiency of aerostructure manufacturing could be applied to 3D printing, he left Aurora and founded Make Composites, Inc. Within 2 years of launch, Make Composites, Inc. was acquired by Desktop Metal. This was their first and only ever acquisition (at that time). 📈 Kosta then served as VP of Composite Products at Desktop Metal. In 2 years, he helped to take the company to IPO at a $2.5bn valuation, raising $550m and acquiring 12 more companies in the space of 12 months. 🔃 Looking for a new challenge, Kosta left Desktop Metal to help a Series A Swiss startup, 9T Labs, expand to the U.S. In his first year, while also completing an Executive MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, over 1/3 of the company's revenue came from U.S customers. 🌔 When we asked him Kosta why he keeps going back to building, he (quite sincerely) paraphrased JFK: “𝑾𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒈𝒐 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒎𝒐𝒐𝒏, 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒚, 𝒃𝒖𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒅”. (Ironically, in the same year he founded Make Composites, Inc., Kosta led a 13-month NASA-funded program. This post could be double the length. We’ve skipped a lot.) ⚡️ Kosta is now looking to build more software that drives hardware, perhaps in the energy transition space. 🎤 If he wasn’t a founder, he may have been a music artist. (Only 2 years ago, he proudly played on stage with the Greek superstar, Melina Aslanidou.) We’re lucky that didn’t happen. And we’re even luckier that we can call him an EWOR fellow. #EWOR #startup #entrepreneur #engineering #IPO

11 EWOR fellows. 270 investors. 1 Grand Pitch. 🚀 On Wednesday, we hosted a Grand Pitch featuring multi-unicorn-picking angels like Oskar Hartmann and investors from VCs such as Sequoia Capital. Thank you to all who attended - and a big shout out to our fellows who pitched their ventures ➡️ John M. | Ellipsus The GitHub for writers 🖋️ Lukas Koestler | SE3 Labs Developing human-level spatial AI 👨🚀 Rihab L. | FAANG A Conversational AI recruiter 🤝 Alexander Dakhovnik | SYDRA Longevity biotech, utilising proprietary AI 🧪 Stefan Balg | INSRD Adaptive business insurance using unique, data-driven risk intelligence 📈 Denis Widler | Flappie AI-powered cat flap with integrated prey detection 🐱 Alex Tatarinov | VOL AI Personalising sales content using internal company data 📊 Andrew Nutter | Gama Space Sails for spacecraft 🚀 Arseniy Seroka | Blooper AI Streamlining video preproduction with AI 🎥 Ricky Knox & Nick Perrett | Prosper The AI powered wealth platform for HNWs 💰 Tim Seithe | aeon The world’s first predictive AI solution for preventive health 🩺 #EWOR #entrepreneur #investment

At EWOR, we are constantly iterating our processes. As we are growing fast, this is sometimes hard to do alone. 🎯 Recently - and following Philip Kessler's glowing feedback - we teamed up with Revenue Navigator Collective to streamline our organically grown processes into an organized funnel and channel framework. They also gave our team bespoke coaching, enabling them to navigate conversations effectively and negotiate confidently. 🫂 This post serves as a BIG thank you note to Matthias Erhart and the Revenue Navigator Collective team - David Schiller, Monja Hentschke, Daniel Zürcher, and Louisa Muschal - for their exceptional support and hands-on approach. 𝐖𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡. 🚀 Looking ahead, we are excited to deepen our collaboration with Revenue Navigator Collective by offering their sales sparring sessions to EWOR fellows on our internal platform!

One more exciting announcement! 🗣️ For the first time ever, we’re hosting a LIVE Grand Pitch at Bits & Pretzels on September 29th in Munich. Due to international demand, Bits & Pretzels is expanding from 5,000 to 7,500 attendees - its largest turnout in its 11-year history. 🤝 While the remaining available tickets will be released in weekly drops, we’re excited to offer you unrestricted access to the ticket shop, allowing you to skip the waitlist entirely. (LINK IN COMMENTS!) Availability is 𝐞𝐱𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐲 limited. Act fast to avoid disappointment! 🫂 We hope to see you there! Let us know in the comments if you are planning to attend so that we can say hi :) #bitsandpretzels #EWOR #entrepreneur #startup

Another day... 𝐀𝐍𝐎𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐄𝐗𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐎𝐔𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐍𝐓!  🗣️ Introducing our new cohort of Traction Fellows, a group of rebels, nerds and visionaries who are 𝘢𝘭𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘺 tackling some of the world’s biggest challenges.   How did we put together this cohort? 📌 From academic researchers with thousands of citations to entrepreneurs who have scaled multi-million dollar companies, each fellow in this cohort is an outlier of their field - and the cohort has been put together on that basis. 𝐈𝐧 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐫𝐭, 𝐰𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬. 👀 We can’t wait to tell you more. (And we are very tempted to tell you more now). Stay tuned. (We promise - again - that it will be worth the wait). 🫂 Welcome to the EWOR community: Aliosha Milsztein, Allegro Sprute, Arseniy Seroka, Badis Zormati, Christian Lenz, Christoph Siemer, Denis Widler, Elio Assaf, Finn Gaida, Ivan Markov, James Bolduc, Jan Löwer, Jean-Pascal Lutze, Jérôme Bau, Johann Rozario, John M., Mario Assaf, Michel Perez, Oliver Widler, Piers MacNaughton, ScD, R.J. Napolitano, Raphaël Ausilio, Rex Mizrach, Rihab L., Samuel Frey, Tim Host, Tyler Sellars. #EWOR #founder #startup #entrepreneur