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Invitation to the "IE Entrepreneurs meet Venture Builders in DACH" Webinar Series

Lin Dong - Wednesday, June 23, 2021
 Events   Jobs & Career 
Dear [FIRST_NAME],

IE Entrepreneurs meet Venture Builders in DACH

The IE Alumni Germany Club is inviting you to join a webinar series named "IE Entrepreneurs meet Venture Builders in DACH". The idea is to introduce active venture builders/studios in the region to wanna-be or established entrepreneurs in IE network, with a focus on the upcoming graduation cohorts and entrepreneurs who'd like to move to the DACH region. For the first two sessions of this series, we'll meet with BEAM and Antler, two venture builders that are actively seeking founders to cooperate and launch new businesses.

Join us on June 30th at 18:00 for the kick-off session where Homer Lin Dong | LinkedIn, the chapter leader of IE Alumni Germany Club in Berlin, will make a brief introduction on the tech start-up scene in the DACH region and explain the concepts of and differences between venture builder, accelerator, incubator, VC and at which stage an entrepreneur would usually be engaged with these parties.

Then we will meet BEAM, a logistics startup company builder based in Berlin. Backed by BEUMER Group, a family-owned intralogistics company, BEAM aims at disrupting the logistics industry that's worth €1,000 Billion in Europe alone. Marc Mühlenbach | LinkedIn and Kristi Ruusna | LinkedIn from BEAM will introduce BEAM's company background, venture portfolio and cooperation model.

On July 7th at 18:00 we'll meet Antler, a global early-stage venture capital firm investing in the defining companies of the future. To date, Antler has invested in and helped build over 250 companies across 14 locations. Sarah Finegan | LinkedIn, an IE alumna and Antler's Director based in Berlin, will make a brief introduction to the Antler Berlin / DACH region (invest in the future / early-stage venture capital) and how interested entrepreneurs could engage.

Antler Berlin's mission is to invest in a further 160 start-ups in 4 years.

Registration links can be found below: 

IE Entrepreneurs Meet BEAM — The Logistics Startup Company Builder

IE Entrepreneurs Meet Antler — A Global Early-stage VC

Hope to see you there!

Kindly regards,

IE Alumni Germany Club
Marc Mühlenbach

Speaker bio:

Marc Mühlenbach holds an MBA with a digital marketing focus from the IE Business School as well as an MSc from the London School of Economics in Political Science and an MA in Philosophy from the New School in New York.

Marc serves as a Senior Researcher and Venture Analyst at BEAM. Prior to joining Beam, Marc was the co-founder of a startup in the B2B social media marketing space and the founder of a content marketing service that helped deliver content and research projects for industry leaders, including SAP, Facebook, and PwC. In a previous life, Marc spent six years working as a senior analyst for IHS Markit where he helped lead the European Wind Energy division delivering industry standard-setting research and narratives.
Sarah Finegan

Speaker bio:

An IE IMBA alumna, Sarah Finegan brings a depth of experience working across finance, early stage technology companies and venture capital including with Goldman Sachs, MiddleGame Ventures and Outlier Ventures. Sarah has spent the past 2 years helping build and invest in early-stage companies with a focus across energy, fintech and blockchain.

At Antler, Sarah's focus is to build operations across the region of Central Europe within entrepreneurial hotspots such as Berlin, Zurich, Milan, Warsaw, Vienna, Baltics (and many more). Antler Berlin's mission is to invest in a further 160 start-ups in 4 years.
Homer Dong

Moderator bio:

Homer Dong holds an Executive MBA from the IE Business School and an Master of Software Engineering from the East China Normal University. He is a well-versed tech executive who has extensive experience in building and scaling high-performance digital team. Over 2 decades he has worked across industries from aviation, tourism to e-commerce and retail.

Shortly after moving to Berlin in 2013, Homer had a spell as an entrepreneur and has witnessed the exponential growth of the startup eco-system in the region.