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Our start-up certificate alumni team djoon produces and sells high-quality date chocolates, offering people who focus their lifestyle on health and sustainability the opportunity not to have to choose between more enjoyment when snacking and a good conscience. Recently, the startup reached the milestone of now already over 100,000 handmade chocolates. In an interview with Munich Startup, the founding team talks about their plans.

In this episode, we talk about a research-inspired topic: "how to design better digital spaces?" with Talia Stroud (professor and director of the Center for Media Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin). As many founders today are the designers, makers, and builders of those spaces, we would like to share the results of what Talia Stroud and her team found in the course of a two-year research project. As this podcast tries to encourage equity, equality, diversity, and democracy for the sake of all, the findings are an important consideration for all founders to think of when building their algorithms, platforms, digital communities, or spaces. We hope you get inspired with new food for thought and actions to follow.

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For our Innovations-Café in March we invited Dr. Anne Graefer, the founder of GenderIQ, a Diversity and Inclusion consultancy based in Munich. On March 8th she will share her knowledge, insights, and best-practice to all founders on how to build diverse and inclusive businesses. So if you want to understand why diversity and inclusion is important to your start-up and how you can make your start-up (at any stage) more inclusive, you should register now! Join us on March 8th when we cover these topics.

FAZUA takes another step towards growth: With Porsche AG, a well-known automobile manufacturer secured 20 percent company shares in the SCE Alumni start-up FAZUA at the end of January. In addition, there is an option to purchase further shares, which will allow Porsche to take over FAZUA completely. "Porsche's investment ensures a further acceleration of FAZUA's positive corporate development. Together, we will put even more pressure on the pedals to drive our vision of 'Better Rides' forward," said FAZUA's management.

In this episode of fIVE, we talk with Molly Johnson-Jones, Co-Founder & CEO of flexa.careers and touch upon a variety of topics - From Molly's journey to becoming a co-founder, to her key learnings in the fundraising process, to gender stereotypes, personal bias, and how they define flexible working. This episode comes at just the right time, as the shift in the labor market is happening right now, as evidenced by a wealth of data and research. This requires employers to not only offer interesting jobs, but also to find their own position on what company culture, talent and work environment they want to offer. Molly recommends employers be authentic, transparent and honest.

fIVE is your monthly university podcast on female entrepreneurship offered by SCE and HM - Munich University of Applied Sciences. Learn more about our new podcast format and enjoy the episode here or on Spotify, Apple podcast or your favorite podcast app.

Have you ever thought about what you could improve on a walking stick? Not us! That's why we were all the more excited by the idea of"Always with you - instead of in front of the threshold". This walking stick promises greater stability and can be flexibly customized with various add-ons. But this is only one of the three winning teams that convinced the jury.

As one of six successful submissions, the joint project "Impact for Future" of the Munich partner consortium has received a million-dollar grant from the Bavarian Ministry of Science for "impact-oriented entrepreneurship education". The consortium of university partners consists of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences (HM) together with its Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) and the Landshut University of Applied Sciences, as well as Munich Business School (MBS), the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich (UniBW) and the Social Entrepreneurship Akademie (SEA). Over the next four years, the funding is intended to provide many thousands of students and academics with in-depth qualifications for impact orientation and to strongly anchor the topic of impact and social responsibility in the university landscape.

Dr. Aurelia Engelsberger, Olivier Jacquemoth, Ilia Marko and Dr. Ahmad Alaassar will be part of Batch #6 of the Start-up Certificate Program in 2021 with their start-up OMIND platform, a digital platform that establishes an OPEN INNOVATION mindset between employees and enables companies to share knowledge and collaborate across borders.If you have a great idea and are still looking for a start-up home , let the three interviewed convince you to come to HM SCE and apply for the Start-up Certificate with your idea.

Patrick Brienen-Lucius, Chief Revenue Officer and Co-Founder of orderbird AG, will share his biggest mistakes and what he has learned from them with you. Be curious about his keynote with many exciting points regarding the ideal market entry. Register now and start together with us on February 1st!

Aylin Goekdal and Rana Goekdal are part of Batch #6 of the Start-up Certificate Program since 2021 with ORATIS, the first spiritual dating app with a focus on inner values that finds the right partner:in through the stars using a special astrology and personality algorithm! Prior to the Start-up Certificate, the founders participated in the Open Incubator Program "eBridge - Let's get real" and were nominated for the Strascheg Award in 2021 in the category "Best Business Idea in the Student Period". With the help of the Start-up Certificate Program, they are currently expanding their idea. If you also have a great idea and are still looking for a start-up home , then let the two of them convince you in the following interview to come to HM SCE and apply with your idea for the Start-up Certificate.

HafTea is the first cannabis iced tea in a can with green tea, lemon and hemp flavor and was awarded gold in the category iced tea at the Beverages Award 2021. We say: Honor to whom honor is due and if even rapper Haftbefehl recommends it, you should not miss the first cannabis iced tea - Baba HafTea Lemon OG! HafTea comes from Canlife and Canlife is part of our Drink Innovation Campus (DICA).

E-mobility startup ChargeX has successfully closed its €4.5 million Series A financing round. The newly acquired investors are Munich-based high-impact investor BonVenture, Hamburg-based investor Hevella Capital and the Smart Energy Innovation Fund of Swiss utility Energie 360°.

"Real Time Innovation" is an innovation approach that illuminates implicit knowledge and success patterns for innovation processes in the social and entrepreneurial environment and makes them usable through a set of cards and a canvas. Today we present the next card: "Open to other ideas". Each card represents a success pattern for one dimension in the innovation process. More info here.

For the fourth time, the City of Munich is organizing an innovation competition in the field of smart cities. Students, founders and all players from the startup community are called upon to develop viable, innovative solutions for given municipal issues.

DICA Batch#06 startup Nix&Kix "Raspberry & Rhubarb" voted best adult soft drink by Snackfully for Dry January 2022!????

Florian Stark, Sebastian Lieder and Matthias Hamborg are part of Batch #6 of the Start-up Certificate since 2021 with their start-up AgraCheck, a smart comparison platform for agricultural technologies. The Strascheg Award winning team of 2021 (3rd place in category "Best Business Idea from Science and Practice") came into contact with the SCE early on as a student of the first year of the study program "Entrepreneurship & Digital Transformation" with Florian Stark. This contact was then deepened through participation in the Start-up Certificate. If you also have a great idea and are still looking for a start-up home , then let Florian, Sebastian and Matthias convince you in the following interview to come to HM SCE and apply with your idea for the Start-up Certificate.

In the first episode of the new year, we welcome Penny Schiffer. Penny is Co-Founder & CEO Raized.ai. Venture capital, bootstrapping or when is the best time to invest in a startup? In this informative episode, we dive into the world of venture capital and what matters to investor:s when investing in startups. Penny Schiffer, who co-founded Raized.ai with Thomas Schulz, was previously an investor herself and knows what matters in the screening process. Penny explains all the technical terms in an easy-to-understand way and shares with us exciting impressions from her own investor roadshow in Silicon Valley.Listen now!

Apply until January 10, 2022 with your innovative project and receive competent and individual support for the realization of your own start-up and also receive a university certificate free of charge. Apply now for our Start-up Certificate Program and become part of the Start-up League.