
A frustrating product job in Hamburg sent Malte Scholz into business with two co-founders. After airfocus joined Lucid, he returned to the same stubborn question: what should a team build next?

Before DARVIS, Jan-Philipp Mohr worked on software deals and wine recommendations. His next venture took him from virtual worlds to a stubbornly physical question: where, exactly, is everything?

He joined an open-source survey project to translate it. Two decades later, Carsten Schmitz is still working on the questions - as LimeSurvey’s co-founder and CTO.

He grew up on a Demeter farm, helped sell electric cars and home batteries, then built 1KOMMA5° around a stubborn idea: the energy transition has to work at the front door.
A local newsroom became a club, a food-industry meeting place and a stage for women founders. Hamburg Startups has spent more than a decade turning attention into introductions - while learning what those introductions should cost.
DARVIS is a health-tech company that uses AI-powered computer vision to give hospitals real-time visibility into their supply rooms. Its flagship product, Digital Shelves, uses smart PTZ cameras to continuously monitor inventory fill-levels and scan barcodes automatically, replacing manual counting with live consumption data, predictive demand planning, and automated reordering. Born in the gaming industry in 2015, the company pivoted to healthcare supply chain and now serves systems such as MD Anderson Cancer Center while operating from Cambridge, Massachusetts, with a hub in Hamburg, Germany, and a presence in Houston, Texas.