Aspiring Founders Meetup #11
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. Nina Schoger, Founder @ Midori Sweets | UX Researcher
Talk Title: Starting a Vegan Matcha Chocolate Brand in Berlin
Nina Schoger is the founder of Midori Sweets, a vegan matcha chocolate brand. Building on her background in UX research, she turned insights into action and sold over 2.500 bars within just a few months through social media and community events.
2. Laura Soto, Co-Founder SpeechyLift | EXIST Startup Grant holder
Talk Title: Navigating as a Founder in Berlin, Grants, Challenges, Process of getting EXIST startup grants.
3. Maria Ida Palmieri, Director of Growth & Operations @ Zukunft.Gruenden
Talking on: Grants for Social Entrepreneurs
🗓️ 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 – 18:00 – Check-in, Grab a drink and navigate to the event venue (Check Venture Cafe Agenda for our Aspiring founders event/session room name/location)
18:00 – 18:30 – Intros, Knowing the Aspiring Founders in the room
18:30 - 19:30 – Talks
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 [email protected] 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