Fireside Chat "Cloud"
Thursday October 24, 2024 14:15 - 14:35 CEST Stage ONE
Speaker: Elias Schneider
Host: Insa Schniedermeier
Category: Fireside Chat
Lecturers
Elias Schneider Speaker
CEO
Codesphere
Elias studied Computer Science at 15, eventually joining Google full-time at 19. Having seen the tooling used for development, he decided to quit and build a high-quality developer experience in the cloud for anybody else.
In Codesphere's cloud, developers can collaboratively write code and directly deploy it as a software application. "We are to development what Figma is to design or Google Docs is to documents," says CEO Elias Schneider.
The Karlsruhe start-up Codesphere has received €16.6 million in a funding round in May 2024. Among the investors are key backers such as the Swedish venture capital firm Creandum and OpenAI investor Firestreak. Creandum has invested in companies like the streaming service Spotify and fintechs Klarna and Trade Republic, and Codesphere is the only investment they made yet in Baden-Württemberg.
Overall, the Codesphere team, which consists of former Google developers, has raised $ 27.4 million to date.
Insa Schniedermeier Host
Journalist & MC
Insa Schniedermeier is a German freelance journalist and content strategist based in Paris. She is also the founder of the newsletter Impact F. Before becoming a freelancer, Insa spent several years as a full-time business journalist for t3n magazine and Business Punk. For her work, Insa was named "Top Tech Journalist 2023" by Piabo and Deutsche Startups.