It just won’t get colder — according to the weather report, it’s much too warm everywhere in Germany. We’ll probably have a green Christmas (again) this year. Recently, we at etventure had at least a small taste of snow and winter scenery, albeit at...
Philipp Depiereux, founder and managing director of etventure and Rüdiger Maroldt, member of the Board of Management of Wüstenrot Bank, met in early December and talked with dpa, Germany’s largest news agency. The subject was the digitization strategy of W&W and the joint venture...
Last week, the Board of Directors of Vontobel Holding AG decided to nominate Björn Wettergren, et al., as a new member of the board. The fourth generation of the owner family is thus entering the board of directors of the private Swiss bank.
The digital consultant and company builder etventure and the management and human resources consultant Kienbaum are deepening their cooperation. To express the spirit of their work together, they have chosen the tagline, “become a digital champion.” The partnership combines the companies’ expertise in digital...
From now on, we want to use our blog to periodically introduce new startups that are part of the EU accelerator program EuropeanPioneers. Managed by etventure, the program provides financial and other business-related assistance to innovative newcomers. A total of 13 different startups were...
The most important topics: etventure celebrates its 5th anniversary +++ growth: from 3 to over 150 team members +++ international offices in New York, London, Paris and Zurich +++ founding of joint venture with financial service provider Wüstenrot & Württembergische +++ cooperation with Kienbaum...
Birte Gall, CEO of the Berlin School of Digital Business spend a week in Silicon Valley, on the hunt for the newest trends. On her way to discover, she made stops at the large digital players such as Apple, Google, SAP as well as...
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Federal Minister of Economics Sigmar Gabriel both are guest speakers at this year’s Day of German Industry (second and third of November). British minister of finance, Osborne, also visited the event as a foreign guest of honor. In total...
The second round of the etventure managed Accelerator Program of the EuropeanPioneers launched in August with an exciting startup lineup. This week the topic of the Tel Aviv Traning Days is “Growth Hacking and Community Building”, Accompanied by expert keynote speakers and pitches from...
“Just a decade ago, the world was perfectly fine for traditional banks”, according to Manager Magazin. Since the financial crisis and bailouts through taxpayers and governments, banks have struggled to rebuild their customers lost trust. As Manager Magazin puts it: Digitalisation is a chance...
“Recruitment agencies for cashiers or crane operators” – under this headline the renowned German business magazine WirtschaftsWoche presented mobileJob as the ‘Startup of the Week’. Why another employment agency? “There are numerous online job markets for academics. However, industrial employees are often left behind”,...
“Death of banks by a thousand stitches: FinTechs focus on small sectors of the banks and attack there”, with this, André M. Bajorat, host of the Paymentandbanking.com blog, together with Boris Janek from Finance ZweiNull opened the first FinTech conference of the FintechStars. This years...
One of the focus topics of this years Bits & Pretzels (27. – 29. September 2015) was the Digitization of SMEs. The IHK-Panel “SMEs digital” at founder-festival Bits & Pretzels offered established businesses wide-ranged insights and contacts into the digital world. Speakers such as...