Mainstage Incubator helps to build World-Changing Startups right in the heart of Europe
05/06/20 • 34 min
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We called our initial offering “Sales as a Service.”
Swen Wegner, CEO and Founder Mainstage Incubator
Mainstage Incubator helps startups to conquer EuropeWhether your startup is from India, Bangladesh, Brazil, the United States, Argentina, Korea, South Africa, or even New Zealand, you can start exploring the German and European Market with the digital program of Mainstage Incubator.
The FounderIn this interview, we are talking to Swen Wegner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/swenwegner/), Founder and CEO of Mainstage Incubator (https://www.mainstage-incubator.com/), which is a relatively new incubator headquartered in Frankfurt, in the heart of Europe. Swen is half Indian, half German, and spent parts of his life in both countries. He spent his time in India for example in Kerala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala).
The interview was remotely recorded during a time of partial lockdown in Germany, due to Covid19.
In the past, he has worked for large multinational corporations, as well as small startups. He refers to a “founder you may know” to Emboled.io (we interviewed the founder Vishal Ray, at this time they were still called Acellere). You find both interviews, dating back to March 2019 below:
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The Incubator As a pilot we positioned some Indian startups to German corporates.
Swen Wegner, CEO and Founder Mainstage Incubator
Mainstage Incubator is a distributed company. They have offices in Frankfurt, Germany, and India. They stared out, presenting Indian startups to German corporate customers. Now they help startups from all over the world to present themselves to German customers, to bridge the cultural gap.
Their goals are
To find clients in Germany, and from here in EuropeThe ultimate goal is to bring international startups physically to Germany, so they can expand all over Europe.Bring startup from Germany to IndiaThe Mainstage Incubator already signed partnership agreements with Argentina, Columbia, Japan Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and now the United States.
Apply here for the Mainstage IncubatorYou can apply to the Mainstage Incubator right here https://bit.ly/ApplyMainstage
The Video Interview is set to go live on May 5th, 19.00 Frankfurt Local time (18.00 London, 1 pm New York, 10 am San Francisco)
We are still experimenting with time zones. Let us know which publication time you like best in the feedback link at the bottom end of this post.
We give the Indian startups hints on how to wrap up a meeting with a German corporate in 30 minutes with a sale.
Swen Wegner, CEO and Founder Mainstage Incubator
Here you find the audio-only podcast of our interview - Subscribe so you won't miss another episodeThe interview will be published across our podcasts during the early morning of May 7th, so you have your episode on your device for your commute or morning coffee the next morning.
You can subscribe to Startuprad.io here:
YouTube http://bit.ly/2LK14oWiTunes http://apple.co/2xsHdaESpotify http://spoti.fi/2DfIt1OThe interview ill be published in our Sub-Podcasts below:
💢 Fintech Germany by Startuprad.ioiTunes: http://apple.co/2lLRlpGSpotify: http://spoti.fi/2m8HWsb💢 Security Sutra by Startuprad.ioiTunes: https://apple.co/2K0qLlHSpotify: https://spoti.fi/33rrlAD💢 Deeptech GermanyiTunes: https://apple.co/2oWO3SlSpotify https://spoti.fi/2qucve8Further ListeningInterviews with Swen's former boss, he refers to Vishal during the interview. At the time of posting this interview, the startup has still been called Acellere, now it is known as embold.io
Part 1
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zRYH6BiIpt11q1VMmZijc
Part 2https://open.spotify.com/epis...
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We called our initial offering “Sales as a Service.”
Swen Wegner, CEO and Founder Mainstage Incubator
Mainstage Incubator helps startups to conquer EuropeWhether your startup is from India, Bangladesh, Brazil, the United States, Argentina, Korea, South Africa, or even New Zealand, you can start exploring the German and European Market with the digital program of Mainstage Incubator.
The FounderIn this interview, we are talking to Swen Wegner (https://www.linkedin.com/in/swenwegner/), Founder and CEO of Mainstage Incubator (https://www.mainstage-incubator.com/), which is a relatively new incubator headquartered in Frankfurt, in the heart of Europe. Swen is half Indian, half German, and spent parts of his life in both countries. He spent his time in India for example in Kerala (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala).
The interview was remotely recorded during a time of partial lockdown in Germany, due to Covid19.
In the past, he has worked for large multinational corporations, as well as small startups. He refers to a “founder you may know” to Emboled.io (we interviewed the founder Vishal Ray, at this time they were still called Acellere). You find both interviews, dating back to March 2019 below:
Affiliate LinksIs your startup in need of a bank account in Germany? Try our partner affiliate Penta http://bit.ly/3bdHX3d
Looking to open a bank account to shift between crypto and fiat? Try our partner Bitwala with this affiliate link here http://bit.ly/2w01Zye
The Incubator As a pilot we positioned some Indian startups to German corporates.
Swen Wegner, CEO and Founder Mainstage Incubator
Mainstage Incubator is a distributed company. They have offices in Frankfurt, Germany, and India. They stared out, presenting Indian startups to German corporate customers. Now they help startups from all over the world to present themselves to German customers, to bridge the cultural gap.
Their goals are
To find clients in Germany, and from here in EuropeThe ultimate goal is to bring international startups physically to Germany, so they can expand all over Europe.Bring startup from Germany to IndiaThe Mainstage Incubator already signed partnership agreements with Argentina, Columbia, Japan Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and now the United States.
Apply here for the Mainstage IncubatorYou can apply to the Mainstage Incubator right here https://bit.ly/ApplyMainstage
The Video Interview is set to go live on May 5th, 19.00 Frankfurt Local time (18.00 London, 1 pm New York, 10 am San Francisco)
We are still experimenting with time zones. Let us know which publication time you like best in the feedback link at the bottom end of this post.
We give the Indian startups hints on how to wrap up a meeting with a German corporate in 30 minutes with a sale.
Swen Wegner, CEO and Founder Mainstage Incubator
Here you find the audio-only podcast of our interview - Subscribe so you won't miss another episodeThe interview will be published across our podcasts during the early morning of May 7th, so you have your episode on your device for your commute or morning coffee the next morning.
You can subscribe to Startuprad.io here:
YouTube http://bit.ly/2LK14oWiTunes http://apple.co/2xsHdaESpotify http://spoti.fi/2DfIt1OThe interview ill be published in our Sub-Podcasts below:
💢 Fintech Germany by Startuprad.ioiTunes: http://apple.co/2lLRlpGSpotify: http://spoti.fi/2m8HWsb💢 Security Sutra by Startuprad.ioiTunes: https://apple.co/2K0qLlHSpotify: https://spoti.fi/33rrlAD💢 Deeptech GermanyiTunes: https://apple.co/2oWO3SlSpotify https://spoti.fi/2qucve8Further ListeningInterviews with Swen's former boss, he refers to Vishal during the interview. At the time of posting this interview, the startup has still been called Acellere, now it is known as embold.io
Part 1
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1zRYH6BiIpt11q1VMmZijc
Part 2https://open.spotify.com/epis...
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This Month in German Startups - April 2020
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Quantgene can detect early-stage cancer in a single draw of blood
Quantgene can detect early-stage cancer in a single draw of bloodWhat we are doing is a potential game-changer in medicine. ... it makes the detection [of dead cells form tumors] single-molecule precise.
Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi – CEO and Co-Founder of Quantgene
The FounderIn this interview, we talk to Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/jo-bhakdi-5048811/), originally born and raised in the Rhine-Main Area in Germany, but now founder of the AI and Big Data Startup Quantgene (https://www.quantgene.com/, https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quantgene) in Santa Monica, CA. Quantgene describes itself as a deep genomics startup. They also have an office in Berlin and they hire for both locations.
By training Jo is an economist, who graduated from the University of Tübingen (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_T%C3%BCbingen), a research-heavy university known for its 11 Nobel Laureates in Medicine, Chemistry, and Physics.
Jo started out in advertising and marketing (marketing strategy). He went from there in corporate development, especially mergers and acquisitions. This brought to the USA, first to New York with a stop in venture capital. He was working with his first startup in quantitative seed-stage investments.
What we developed is blood test, that guides physicians in detection of early stage cancer.
Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi – CEO and Co-Founder of Quantgene
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The Startup
To give you an idea of what we are doing: It is a few megabytes – a simple sequencing of your genome. What we are doing generates files of 200+ Gigabytes
Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi – CEO and Co-Founder of Quantgene
Quantgene is a deep tech startup, working with ai, machine learning, and big data to fight cancer. They describe themselves as a deep genome startup. Quantgene is working on unlocking specific hints about cancer in the human genome since cancer is “encoding” itself into the human genome. Quantgene developed a very specific new capability to unlock the human genome of a very deep level. Startups like 23andme generate averages in genome sequencing, a kind of simplification. Quantgene’s approach, on the other hand, is much more specific, but also very complex. They are looking for dead cancer cells – so-called cell-free DNA – in your blood sample. This only works if they are not working with averages but analyze a single copy of DNA in a sample. They had to develop a vast software infrastructure and their own chemistry to make their idea work.
Quantgene also has an office in Berlin, from which Jo joined the Startuprad.io interview. They call it the “Mustererkennungs Einheit” which means the pattern recognition unit.
Quantgene launches in 2020 (as planned before Corona) first in the USA and within some time they want to launch in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
When you have very early cancer, no one can see, and no one can find – with the current methods. The cancer cells die, and they shed the dead cells into your blood. So they are in your blood as cell free DNA.
Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi – CEO and Co-Founder of Quantgene
The Video Interview is set to go live on May 7th 19.00 CET(1 pm Eastern, 18.00 London )https://youtu.be/UxghpnCVGSw
What Quantgene develop here in the last five years is a very specific capability. We call it the deep human genome.
Johannes “Jo” Bhakdi – CEO and Co-Founder of Quantgene
Venture Capital
At the time of the interview, Quantgene was raising a note. They are also looking to raise a Series B (all as planned before Corona). https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/quantgene
We are roughly 5 years ahead of our peers.
Johannes “Jo”...
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