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The Germany Founder Institute, the local chapter of the world's largest pre-seed startup accelerator, is proud to announce the newest Alumni from the Germany Spring 2025 program.

After meticulous selection process and intense four months of aggressive business-building sprints, constant evaluation, and feedback from investors and mentors, just 9 companies were able to make it through. 

Each of these Founders have demonstrated a high level of perseverance and creativity, and their businesses have been thoroughly vetted and supported by a panel of Germany's top startup experts and investors.  

And now, without further ado, we present the Alumni of the Germany program: 

  • Liv Longevity Labs -  Helping working age adults live longer and healthier lives through advanced at-home epigenetic testing and personalized preventative health plans.
  • ArtPass - Enabling busy professionals to easily explore creative classes nearby and unlock their creativity through personalized learning paths.
  • BLOCKTRACTS LLC - A  digital estate planning platform that helps EU-based individuals securely organize and automate their inheritance across borders.
  • Togethina - An app that helps couples find and book personalized activities by actively organizing real-life experiences based on shared interests.
  • BridgeLatam - Helping European startups enter Latin America by combining AI-driven market insights with warm intros from trusted local experts.
  • Qlyros - Helping B2B sales teams identify and prioritize companies ready to buy by analyzing contextual signals and market news by mapping  key stakeholders and generating role-specific, compliant outreach.
  • ContextML UG (haftungsbeschränkt) - Offering tailored, actionable guidance for children with type 1 diabetes and their parents, empowering them to better manage their condition with less reliance on medication.
  • Re:YVE - Offering a product life-extension platform that enables clothing-to-clothing production at scale, helping fashion brands revive zero value stock into profits.
  • ImmunoEdge UG (haftungsbeschränkt - Helping oncologists find where a tumor is most vulnerable so they can create more precise, personalized cancer treatments, using a new biochemical target-capture technology developed to analyze small tumor biopsies.

The Germany Spring 2025 program would not have been possible without help, because it truly takes a city to raise a startup.

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Germany Local Directors 

We would first like to thank the Local Directors of the Germany Founder Institute: Amanda Fornal (Founder, Founder Buddies), Berlin Admin (., ex-Googler, ex-IBMer), Eva Dimitrova (Inventor, Go-To-Market Canvas), Ferdinand Muehlhaeuser (Lead Director Berlin, Founder Institute Berlin), Kai Malkwitz (Impact Director, Founder Institute Berlin / Germany), Mohammad Hossein Tavangar (Director, Founder Institute), Nathan Evans (Fintech Founder, Stealth Startup), Rikke Klitskov (CMO, YellowX OU), Sara Maki (Director, Barclays). Our Local Leaders play an incredibly important role in building the local Founder Institute program, and creating an environment and network in Germany that is conducive to building to great companies.

In addition, the Germany Spring 2025 program was supported by some of Germany's top technology organizations, including:

Some of Germany’s top startup mentors helped our founders in the program, including:

* Alexander Schabel * Andy Goldstein * Ben Wilkening * Björn Fedder * Carolin Sandfort * Chris Payne * Cristian Munteanu * Csaba Tamas * Daan Loening * Darrena Mamm * Eleftheria (Ella) Egel * Fabian Kofler * Firas Khalifeh * Heiko Rauch * Jörg Siemes * Kai Buehler * Katrin Dr. Hinzdorf * Kostas Karolemeas * Martin Giese * Mike Ries * Neil Baptista * Nelson Farfan Espada * Olga Padulosi * Parul Madan * Phil Libin * Rob Johnson * Robert Sünderhauf * Rüdiger Süss * Sören Eversmeier * Veronica Kirin

In the Founder Institute's pre-seed accelerator program, early-stage entrepreneurs and teams build their business alongside a critical support network of local startup experts that share equity in their success, and through a structured and challenging business-building process that has helped alumni raise over $1.85BN. 

After Graduation, the new Germany Founder Institute Portfolio Companies now have a fast-growing company that has been fully validated by experienced startup founders, with access to the Founder Institute's global network and post-graduate support programs to continue building their business. 

Leaders of the world’s fastest-growing startups have used the Founder Institute to raise funding, building a co-founding team, get into seed-accelerators, generate traction, recruit a team, build a product, transition from employee to entrepreneur, and more. Based in Silicon Valley and with chapters across 200+ cities and 100+ countries, the Founder Institute’s mission is to Globalize Silicon Valley and empower talented and motivated entrepreneurs to build companies that will create one million new jobs.

The next Germany Founder Institute program is being planned now. If you are interested in being notified when applications open, visit FI.co/apply/germany.

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Alumni of the Founder Institute are creating some of the world's fastest growing startups, having raised over $1.85BN in funding, and building products people love across over 200 cities worldwide.

See the most recent news from our Grads at FI.co/news, or learn more about their stories at FI.co/graduates


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