Startup Support

Prof. Dr Christian Klusmann is Professor of Entrepreneurship & Digital Business Models at Munich University of Applied Sciences and has been at the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship since September 2024. He is currently Head of SCE Startup Support.

Prior to this, Christian Klusmann spent nearly five years at digitalHUB Aachen, where he was responsible for startup coaching and consulting. As part of the "Excellence Startup Center" project, he worked closely with colleagues from RWTH Aachen University and supported digital and deep tech startups throughout their entrepreneurial journey, offering guidance across a wide range of challenges, from the pre-seed phase to Series A.

Christian Klusmann's academic journey began as a research assistant at the Strascheg Institute of EBS Business School, where he worked on externally funded projects and taught entrepreneurship courses. Later, he followed his second supervisor to the Department of Technology, Innovation Management, and Entrepreneurship at the University of Kassel, where he took on teaching responsibilities and successfully completed his PhD in 2018. His dissertation focused on entrepreneurship and business models, adding to his expertise in the field.

With a strong foundation in Business Administration and Engineering from RWTH Aachen University and Delft University of Technology, Christian Klusmann also gained firsthand entrepreneurial experience. Alongside his brother and a programmer friend, he co-founded an e-learning company, and later built a second team in Delft, Netherlands— an exciting and invaluable chapter in his career, which still can be seen as the initial spark for this passion for entrepreneurship.

Driven by this passion, he is dedicated to sharing his knowledge with his students, having mentored successful entrepreneurs such as the founders of Emma Matratze, 2trde, and bobbie. He continues to inspire the next generation of entrepreneurs through his teaching and personal commitment to innovation and business development.

Dr. Camila Londoño moved to Germany in early 2023 to join the SCE.

Camila holds a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Since 2015, she has worked to support the commercialization of research and innovation at organizations including CCRM (formerly the Centre for Commercialization of Regenerative Medicine) and the University of Toronto’s Hatchery. Starting in 2018, she led the Science Discovery Zone, one of ten incubators at Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University), which has the largest academic entrepreneurship program in the world . There, she supported over 150 startups to pursue evidence-based innovation and entrepreneurship, and developed two courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels to help science students explore entrepreneurial ventures. She is passionate about supporting early-stage and diverse entrepreneurs.

Saskia Schmidl joined the team at the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship in summer 2017. As part of the SCE Startup Support, she advises founders and supports our teams of the start-up-league in the incubator.

Saskia received her degree as a graduate in Social Sciences from the University of Göttingen (focus on business administration, economic and social psychology, civilian media law and sociology).

She has come to know the founding scene from various perspectives and gained valuable experience: as part of start-ups, on the investor‘s side of a venture capital company or in a supraregional third party project to promote and support start-ups of scientists from non-university research institutions (Max Planck Society and Helmholtz Association).

My mission in life is to enable people to shape the future in a sustainable way.

After graduating in Business Administration (Marketing, Sales Management, Organizational Development) at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg with co-creation brand project as a personal highlight, I spent more than 20 years building and developing FMCG brands internationally in an American corporation.

With the change from a large company to a company founder in the food sector in 2015, I have gone through and experienced all facets of founding, building and liquidating.

Until joining SCE in early December 2022, I was consulting various start ups/SMEs on strategy, business model, product development and co-developing a concept for a sustainable e-commerce platform. In parallel, I have been working on sustainable topics such as circular economy, transformation to sustainable business models and stewardship ownership.

Martin Laarmann is project manager of the Precelerator Project, the "fitness studio" for innovation and entrepreneurship, prototyping and new technologies for all members of the Munich University of Applied Sciences.

The graduate engineer of architecture (TU Darmstadt) is an expert for innovation communities, innovation spaces and coworking and was, among other things, significantly responsible for the planning, development and operation of the startup center "Werk1 München". He also advised numerous state institutions, municipalities and companies such as Murnau a. Staffelsee (Murnau Innovation Quarter) and Audi AG (Audi X-LAB in Ingolstadt).

Martin is also managing director of Make Germany GmbH, a social enterprise for the promotion and networking of the Maker-Movement, which organizes Southern Germany's largest Maker Festival "MAKE MUNICH".

His focus is the promotion of the "Just-make-it" mindset, "bottom-up" entrepreneurship and creative communities.

Julia Zipf joined the SCE team in November 2022. As start-up consultant and incubator manager she accompanies students and startup teams from ideation till go-to-market strategy.

After her studies in Business Administration at EBS (European Business School) in Oestrich-Winkel and diverse stays abroad, she established marketing and sales department for several startups. Next to start up consulting in the marketing field she founded her own start up in the adventure park segment. In the SCE Startup Support she now supports students and start ups in starting their own business from ideation till going-to-market strategy. Besides she organizes ideation workshops as well as soft skill trainings and manages the incubator.

Marko joined the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship in September 2024 as a SCE Startup Support intern. In addition to working with the Start-Up Coaches, his responsibilities include participating in and co-organizing the SCE InnovationsCafé. After his internship he rejoined the SCE as a Working Student.

He studies Management of Social Innovations at the HM Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences and is currently in his 5th semester.