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What an amazing and eventful year 2024 has been! 👏The TechQuartier team is beyond happy for everything we achieved together with the best community there is. For now, we are taking a well deserved break and will be back on here after the holidays in January. Enjoy your holidays and see you in 2025! 🤗 Photo: Maximilian Kafanke

After an event is before an event! And that's why this team has organised 300 great events this year at our event locations. 🙌 The TQ Space & Events Team starring Melanie, Sophia and Yesim. #eventplanning #coworkingspace #teamwork

🌟 Meet Founder Rukayyat Modupe Kolawole, CFA. EMBA of PACEUPinvest® GmbH - After facing personal challenges in the financial industry—including being denied a mortgage and labeled "high risk" due to her gender and race—Rukayyat Kolawole was inspired to create a platform that champions inclusivity and financial empowerment. Meet PaceUP Invest, which ... - Provides a comprehensive platform for financial education, planning, and wealth building. - Offers B2B solutions that enhance financial well-being and operational efficiency. - Leverages cutting-edge AI to simplify complex financial insights and deliver personalized advice. Through these efforts, PaceUP Invest is helping underrepresented communities and institutions build wealth and reduce financial stress. We’re proud to have them as part of our community, where they’re breaking barriers and driving change in #FinTech. 🔗 Exciting updates: PaceUP Invest is now integrating embedded finance solutions into corporate and payment platforms, enabling businesses to empower their employees and end customers. Join us in celebrating this impactful journey! 🚀 Learn more about our community and read other founders' stories: https://lnkd.in/eFCsXKt3 #TQCommunity #Fintech #FinancialInclusion #AI #Innovation

The Frankfurt Digital Finance Conference is back on 12-13 February 2025, bringing together the European digital finance ecosystem for its sixth edition! ✨ Over two days, #FDF2025 will explore key topics shaping the industry, including European Capital Markets Union, crypto, ESG, AI, and FinTech investment strategies. Day 2 is dedicated to the European FinTech Day, featuring startup exhibitions, master classes, fireside chats, and a pitch competition showcasing innovative startups in RegTech, Open Finance, Green Finance, and Deep/Quantum Tech. 🤝 TechQuartier is proud to be a partner of the conference and support meaningful connections in the FinTech ecosystem. 👉 We are hosting the official pre-event for participating hubs and startups on 11 February at TechQuartier! Save your spot here: https://lnkd.in/ekZyRUZF 🎟 Enjoy 20% off tickets for #FDF25 as part of our community with the code: TQ@FDF2025 Learn more and get your ticket here: https://lnkd.in/dBVrj3r

On Thursday, we hosted The Finale, part of the TQ Accelerator: Green Transformation, and the turnout was incredible! Over 110 attendees from diverse industries and roles came together to network, learn, and share ideas about innovation and sustainability. The night was about networking and connecting the Green Transformation ecosystem with corporate innovators and emerging founders. It was also a big celebration and conclusion of a successful 6-week Accelerator that took us from Frankfurt to Berlin. We introduced 14 startups (in comments) and gave the stage to the following leaders: 🟢 Christopher Schmitz and Hubertus Väth - Unlocking the ESG Potential of Frankfurt – Insights from Frankfurt Main Finance, EY and TechQuartier 🟢 Marco Schoneveld, Managing Director, Vepa the furniture factory Germany - Building a Business Based on a Circular Economy Digital Sustainable Finance Panel with Discussion Leader Patrick Hypscher, Circularity.fm, featuring: 🟢 Matthias Hübner, Managing Director, Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster Germany e.V. 🟢 Sandra C. Bauer, Partner, Deloitte 🟢 Lennert Van Mens, Co-Lead of ESG & Sustainable Finance Team, Commerzbank AG 🟢 Nils Wetterich, Head of Sustainable Business CPBS, BNP Paribas 🟢 Samuel Speicher, Strategic Partnership Manager, neosfer Our partners for the Accelerator were Baker McKenzie Deutschland, Deloitte, ING Deutschland, Commerzbank AG, Helaba. Publicly Co-Funded by Land Hessen. Our Program Board: Dr. Thomas Gilles // Lennert Van Mens // Jessica Reichard // David Lais // Martin Baart // Sandra C. Bauer // Benjamin Bürkner // Inna Amesheva, PhD // Isabel Heeckt // Orla Nolan // Joshua Jung Thank you to all the amazing speakers, startups, and attendees who made this event such a success. The energy, creativity, and collaboration in the room were inspiring as we worked together to advance sustainable innovation. 🌱 ---------------------------------------------- 👏 Are you a founder with a startup developing solutions for #DigitalFinance? Our next Accelerator is open for applications for the spring edition. >> Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dcPybexE

Today, we are featuring the last of the startups that participated in our TQ Accelerator: Green Transformation. Check out these game-changers! 🟢 CircularPlace - France  https://lnkd.in/eqVTP28w CircularPlace is a SaaS platform promoting reuse and circular economy for underexploited assets empowering companies to cut costs and carbon emissions. Founding Team: Vincent RIGAL, CEO Maxime Scholz, CTO Giulia Ziino, CMO  —————————————— 🟢 Thermosphr EO Solutions GmbH – Germany  thermosphr.com  Autopilot for intelligent energy optimization in commercial real estate. Thermosphr offers a cutting-edge energy management system that integrates model predictive control with advanced thermal modelling. Nicolas Le Borgne, CEO Dr. Ing. Mark Aaron Chan, CTO Laura Baeumchen, Head of Business Development, DACH  —————————————— 🟢 Wavelr - Germany wavelr.com  Wavelr empowers property owners to unlock new revenue streams and sustainability gains with AI-driven tenant electricity solutions. Philipp Maier, CEO & CO-Founder Roman Rittmann, Co-Founder & COO ——————————— For more about the Accelerator, visit - https://lnkd.in/exVVba4R

🚀 For our Hessen10 program, we have an amazing group of Entrepreneurs in Residence to support and coach the startups in the now ongoing Growth and Scaling phase. The ten selected startups get targeted support by the following mentors: Albrecht Wolfmeyer Dr. Gesine von der Groeben Christian Rebernik Annamaria Pino Daniel von Wedel Harald Kieffer Christian Läufer Idriss Brockmann-Serbis Marco-Michele Turrini Jack Schwarz Dr. Arndt Schwaiger Justin Gemeri Joachim Walk Patrick Utsch Rocky Khan Rolf Pfeiffer Thomas Gilles Peter Hart Ingo Franz Eldar Rakhmatullaev Andreas Walkenhorst Marc Schlegel Andreas Krisor 🇺🇦 Eduard Singer Andreas Fauler 🚀⭐️👨🎤 Dr. Andreas A. Bastian Dr. Sebastian Bartel Jonathan Bernwieser Stephanie Leue Katharina Funke-Braun 👋 Johannes Hötter Robert Zieringer Dr. Thomas Funke Sally Schulze Frank Kuhnecke David Smith Thomas Biermann Sebastian Klapper Prof. Dr. Dipl-Ing. Jörg von Hagen Want to learn more about Hessen10 and the participating startups? You find all infos and updates here: https://lnkd.in/ejmMcRyu

We are happy to be a media partner for the upcoming PEX - Payment Exchange by Payment & Banking! 🤝 #PEX25 takes place from 12-13 March 2025 in Berlin and dives deep into the evolving world of payments. From exploring new payment rails and the rise of A2A payments to the transformative potential of AI, each session unpacks key trends shaping the industry. With topics ranging from open banking to digital currencies, PEX offers a fresh perspective on the future of payments. And we have some good news: You get 20% off the tickets with our partner discount code - just use "TechQuartierLovesPEX!" during checkout. Find more infos and tickets here ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/esV_ixV

LAST CHANCE TO JOIN US for dinner, green transformation insights and holiday treats 🎄 THIS THURSDAY as we celebrate the TQ Accelerator: Green Transformation participants, our partners and our team. When: 12 December Doors open at 16:00 - The event starts at 16:30 Where: Nextview Consulting Design Thinking Center Frankfurt Westerbachstraße 47, 60489 Frankfurt am Main 🎉 REGISTER HERE - Limited tickets available: https://lnkd.in/ehBS-d3r Including: 🟢 Startup Fair - https://lnkd.in/eEFyiKZs 🟢 Keynote: Unlocking the ESG Potential of Frankfurt – Frankfurt Main Finance, EY & TechQuartier 🟢 Keynote: Building a Circular Economy – Vepa the furniture factory 🟢 Panel: Digital Sustainable Finance - Matthias Hübner, CEO, Green and Sustainable Finance Cluster - Mark Krause, Project Manager, neosfer - Sandra C. Bauer, Partner, Deloitte - Lennert Van Mens, Co-Lead of ESG & Sustainable Finance Team, Commerzbank -Nils Wetterich, Head of Sustainable Business CPBS, BNP Paribas   - Lead by: Patrick Hypscher, Host at Circularity.fm 🟢 The Party - Dinner & Networking Partners: Helaba // Helaba Digital // ING Deutschland // Deloitte // Baker McKenzie Deutschland // Commerzbank AG Partially publicly funded by Land Hessen

All right! We are featuring some more innovation startups participating in our TQ Accelerator: Green Transformation. These three can improve our lives and provide sustainable finance options. 🟢 re-green - Germany  re-green.tech  re-green offers Asset Managers an investment-free ESG renovation and certification of the office properties they own and manage. Nick Weickenmeier, COO & Co-Founder Max Meran, CEO & Co-Founder —————————————— 🟢 sustamize GmbH - Germany  sustamize.com  Sustamize provides data and logic to calculate Product Carbon Footprint. Thus, they are enabling their clients to measure, optimize, report and manage Scope 3 emissions. Michael Kochs, Managing Director Viola Hasani, Customer Success Lead Jonas Scheyrer, LCA & Data Research —————————————— 🟢 U Impact (impact4good GmbH) - Germany  uimpact.earth  U Impact provides an AI-powered SaaS solution that helps financial institutions attract inflows into sustainable funds by personalizing the investor journey with gamification and transparent ESG insights. Lesley Li, Founder & CEO Dr. Clemens Chaskel, Co-Founder & CTO 🎉 U Impact won the Morningstar Green Fintech Showcase contest at the Morningstar Sustainable Investing Summit in Amsterdam last month! —————————————— >> Want to meet all the startups in the Accelerator? Join us for The Finale on 12 December. Tickets are going fast! https://lnkd.in/eECCR38Z