Aspiring Founders Meetup #12
Are you an aspiring founder in Berlin who sometimes feels overwhelmed by the journey of launching a startup or becoming self-employed or starting up? You’re not alone.
Employed.World is here to create a safe, supportive space for people—especially those affected by layoffs—who want to pursue their entrepreneurial dreams. Whether you’re exploring a self-employment initiative or building your next big thing, we’re building a community that offers know-how, networks, and access to help you go further, together.
Important: Our meetup is within the amazing Venture Café Berlin Thursday Gatherings, please ask or look for the session event room on the reception/check-in and navigate to the room quickly after grabbing your drink :) Then we come back after our event to the network with the beautiful Venture Café community!
🌟 Our Inspiring Founders/Speakers:
1. Mozamel Aman
Founder & CEO at StartSteps
A pioneer in Coding bootcamps in Germany and currently working with all major bootcamps in Berlin with the largest network in arbeitsamt, Mozamel is innovating the space to support people find jobs faster.
Talk Title: To be announced
2. Yashvir Chawla
Founder @ Employed.world
Interactive Activity: How to make your first sale and start getting comfortable with selling / sales (B2C & B2B).
3. You
Yes exactly, we would love to invite inspiring or aspiring founders from the community to hold a lighting 5 minute talk to share the problem they are trying to solve and who are they solving it for. It doesn't matter where are you in the journey, we would love to share this platform with you and offers you an opportunity to share & get visibility I feedbacks / resources from the audience.
🗓️ Agenda
Venture Café Berlin allows you to start check-in at 17:00 , go around and see amazing startups and join our session soon then (Arrive at our Session room by 18:00)
17:00 – 17:15 – Check-in, Grab a drink and navigate to the event venue (Check Venture Cafe Agenda for our Aspiring founders event/session room name/location)
17:15 – 18:00 – Co-Founder Dating - a facilitated networking designed to build the foundation for a potential co-founder relationship. Led by Irina Alexandra, Founder of Brightroom.
18:00 - 18:30 – Talks
19:00 - 19:30 – Open Stage for Lighting Pitches for 5 aspiring founders, Show/offer your project/service, Get feedback/signups/sale
19:30 – Closing & Aspiring Founders toolkit, Moving downstairs to grab drinks & Networking with speakers.
💼 Support for People Affected by Layoffs & Pursuing Self-Employment
Employed.World is here to help with:
Business coaching (funded by the Agentur für Arbeit for people on ALG1 & ALG2)
Registering as self-employed or founding a business
Navigating German taxes (with expert tax advisors)
Visa challenges for international aspiring founders
Applying for the Gründungszuschuss or other startup subsidies
Connecting you to founder-friendly coworking spaces, VCs, and communities
Discount to Co-working space like CIC Berlin
Deals on Tech softwares/tools
📸 Photos & Videos:
We’ll be capturing moments from the event. If you’d prefer not to be photographed or filmed, just let one of our team members know on-site.
🍊 Aspiring founders Starter Kit:
Co-working: CIC offers a special 20% discount to aspiring founders community, instead of 250 euros a month you can join and pay only 200 euros saving you 600 euros a year. You can email yashvir@employed.world or ask in the whatsapp community to get access to the deal.
Bank account: Looking for a business bank account, with Finom we are currently offering a 250 euro cash reward to aspiring founders community, contact Yashvir on email or ask in the community whatsapp group for the discount :)
Gründungszuschuss and business coaching: You can book a coffee chat with Yashvir to get to about the business coaching program (funded by the arbeitsamt) to get support with navigating into self-employment or status. Book a call