The Founder's Story
Donnerstag, 24. Oktober 2024 16:45 - 17:25 CEST Stage ONE
DiskussionsteilnehmerInnen: Ceyhun Derinbogaz, Larissa Leitner, Lea Frank, Martin Ruth
Host: sara ekinci
Kategorie: Panel
Stay tuned - further panelists to be announced
RednerInnen
Ceyhun Derinbogaz DiskussionsteilnehmerIn
CoFounder
TextCortex AI
Ceyhun Derinbogaz is a visionary engineer and AI innovator. He co-founded TextCortex AI, a platform with millions of users that helps companies and individuals create their second AI brains, after successful ventures in spatial aware computing and energy storage.
Larissa Leitner DiskussionsteilnehmerIn
Co-Founder & Co-CEO
Empion
Dr. Larissa Leitner is Co-Founder & Co-CEO of the HR Tech Startup Empion. She studied at WHU, holds a PhD in cultural analytics and worked in several start-ups before founding her own company. Her achievements have been recognized by TechCrunch, Forbes Magazine, Capital Magazine, and Manager Magazin, and she has received several awards, including Innovator of the Year and the HR Startup Award.
Empion is developing the first AI-based automated headhunting system that matches applicants and companies based on values, skills and personality traits. The startup was founded in early 2022 by Dr. Annika von Mutius and Dr. Larissa Leitner, today works with well-known clients such as Procter & Gamble, Volksbanken or Personio and has raised 9 million USD in two founding rounds from Cavalry Ventures, Redstone VC, Basinghall Partners and renowned angels from the HR tech industry.
Recently, they published their study with 400 medium-sized enterprises in the Harvard Business Manager. The result: Cultural Match increases goal achievement and EBIT margin by up to 17%. The study also demonstrates, that person-organization fit and goal achievement strongly correlate. A cultural match can bring down Time to Hires to 9 days and cost reductions of up to 61%.
Lea Frank DiskussionsteilnehmerIn
Co-Founder
anybill
Lea Frank (* May 16, 1995) co-founded anybill with Tobias Gubo in December 2019. Frank is the idea creator of the digital receipt. Until the summer of 2021, she has completed a Master of Science in Business Informatics at the University of Regensburg in addition to running her company.
In her role as State Spokesperson for Bavaria of the German Startup Association e.V., she is the contact person for the Bavarian innovation scene and promotes Bavaria as a startup location in close cooperation with Florian Gottschaller.
Furthermore, the Würzburg native is a member of the Digital Finance Forum of the Federal Ministry of Finance of the Federal Republic Germany to foster the cooperation of politics with financial technology innovations.
Lea is a passionate runner, road biker and Yogi and lives in Munich.
Martin Ruth DiskussionsteilnehmerIn
CFO
Marktpilot
Background in Finance & Management
Extensive consulting experience @ BCG & KPMG
Early employee of MARKT-PILOT, currently CFO & MD
sara ekinci Host
Account Manager Digital Natives
Google
Startup enthusiast at Google Cloud, where we help startups and scaleups to take things to the next level. As a co-host of "The Founder's Story" we are bringing together inspirational leaders from the startup ecosystem to share their firsthand experiences.