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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
Blockchain Germany is Startuprad.io™’s podcast on Web3 startups, crypto innovation, tokenization, DeFi, blockchain infrastructure, and venture capital in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, and the broader European startup ecosystem. Hosted by Joe Menninger, the show provides regular analysis and founder interviews on how blockchain, digital assets, smart contracts, tokenized real-world assets, stablecoins, crypto regulation, and decentralized infrastructure are reshaping European startups, fintech…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™EU Inc and Capital Markets: Europe’s Scale-Up Test | E785
Europe is adding growth capital faster than it is removing the barriers to scaling. In Part 8 of The European Scale-Up Question, Jörn “Joe” Menninger asks…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™E 784 — Startup News Oct 2026: The Physical AI Bargain
No crypto deal led the month in Germany, Austria and Switzerland; capital went to physical AI. €4.5B in Q3, NVIDIA stakes in four German startups. A note on…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™E 781 — European Venture Capital and the Hub Gap
European venture capital is spread across strong hubs that do not connect well. Jörn "Joe" Menninger reads three EU datasets on regions, national startup…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Q3 2026 DACH Review: Capital, Custody & the Ownership Test
The Q3 2026 DACH review — ecosystem-wide, with the threads that matter for blockchain builders: regulated infrastructure as the fintech lane that prices, BaFin…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™E 778 — Sovereign AI, Ownership and Europe's Money
E 778 — Sovereign AI, Ownership and Europe's Money No blockchain round made our verified September list — this feed gets our monthly news because the…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Delaware vs EU Inc: The Domicile Question in 2026
MiCA gave digital-asset companies a European passport for their licence. Company law never followed. Jörn "Joe" Menninger examines what the European Investment…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
E 773 — Startup News August 2026: BaFin MiCAR Authorization, Stripe/OpenRouter, and the Concentration Economy
BaFin calls a MiCAR crypto-authorization license a "seal of quality." Germany positions itself as Europe's crypto-services hub. Stripe acquired OpenRouter for…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
Startup News Germany, Austria, Switzerland July 2026: The Structural Rotation
July 2026 was the month Germany's venture capital market completed its structural rotation from software to hardware. Helsing raised $1.8 billion at an $18…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™E 769 — Talent Without Recycling: The European Scale-Up Question, Part 5
E 769 · Part 5 of The European Scale-Up Question, recorded solo by Joe Menninger in Frankfurt am Main. The standard story about why Europe does not produce…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™E 767 — Unicorn Atlas #1: Helsing — Europe's $18 Billion Defence AI Bet
Hello and welcome everybody. This is E 767 of Startuprad.io, recorded solo by Joe Menninger from Frankfurt am Main. This is the first entry in a new series —…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Germany's New Startup Strategy Is Really a Scaleup Strategy
Germany's new Startup and Scaleup Strategy: 152 measures, DefenceTech, procurement reform, DeepTech financing. Why this is really about the European scaleup…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Europe's Startup Recovery Never Came: H1 2026 Rotation
Europe's startup ecosystem isn't in a traditional recovery. In this special H1 2026 review, Jörn “Joe” Menninger analyzes why venture capital has undergone a…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™The Defence Capital Supercycle: €1.7B in a Month
More than €1.7 billion of defence-linked capital moved through Europe in a single month. Host Jörn “Joe” Menninger makes the case that defence technology has…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™DACH News May 2026: $3.67B Funding & Helsing's $1.2B
Germany raised $3.67B across 166 equity rounds through May 2026, up 11.61% year-over-year, while Helsing's $1.2B raise at an $18B valuation made it the…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
DACH News April 2026: VC Leaves SaaS for Deep Tech
DACH venture capital is rotating out of generic SaaS toward defense, space, industrial AI, procurement, tokenized finance, and physical infrastructure. In this…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Q1 2026 Review: Germany's Startup Selection Event
This Q1 2026 quarterly review reads Germany's startup market as a selection event: capital concentrating into fewer, more defensible companies. Jörn “Joe”…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™DACH News March 2026: Robotics, Defence & Bavaria
Robotics, defence, and a state-backed fusion commitment defined March 2026 — including the largest single robotics round in German venture history. Jörn “Joe”…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Ventech's Stephan Wirries on AI Agents vs SaaS
AI agents may force a structural reset in software — weakening seat-based SaaS and shifting value toward outcomes, infrastructure, and regulated workflows…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
DACH Startups Jan–Feb 2026: A Strategic Capital Review
January and February 2026 reveal a disciplined expansion across DACH — capital concentrating in enterprise AI, ESG/CSRD compliance, defense and dual-use tech…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™EU Scale and the Structural Reform of European Seed Funding
Tomasz Mazuryk, Co-Founder & CEO of FundingBox, explains why US-style SAFE instruments fail within Europe’s fragmented legal and public funding ecosystem. He…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™ADA AI's Oliver Dlugosch: AI Employees by Design
AI employees are neither chatbots nor fully autonomous agents. Dr. Oliver Dlugosch, Managing Director at ADA AI, frames deploying them as a design decision…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
ADA AI's Oliver Dlugosch on AI in the Back Office
Dr. Oliver Dlugosch, Managing Director at ADA AI, argues that 'AI employees' are viable now for bounded back-office workflows — executing defined work…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Metaco's Adrien Treccani: When Management Bottlenecks
Adrien Treccani — CEO of Supervised and founder of crypto-custody firm Metaco — argues that management fails not from a lack of intent or talent, but because…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
DACH Deep-Dive Dec 2025: Regulation & AI Credibility
A decision-grade map of DACH execution signals for 2026: where regulation creates demand, where AI credibility is earned, and which business models are being…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
DACH 2026 Outlook: AI Mega-Rounds & Defense Dual-Use
The DACH startup ecosystem closed 2025 with unusually clear signals for 2026: AI mega-rounds, defense-grade dual use, and a restructuring of Europe's venture…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Startuprad.io Is Back on Signal: A Quick Publishing Update
A short update on our publishing schedule: a technical issue caused a brief pause. All content is safe, and Startuprad.io is back to regular releases from…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
German Startups 2025: When AI Becomes Infrastructure
When AI stops being a feature and becomes infrastructure, the whole ecosystem reprices. This German Startup Ecosystem 2025 review with Jörn “Joe” Menninger…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™European Tech Sovereignty: The 2025 DACH Theme
Europe's startup narrative is shifting from apps and valuations to sovereignty, infrastructure, and resilience. This November 2025 DACH briefing with Jörn…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™October 2025 DACH Deep-Dive: AI, VC & Fintech
In this October 2025 deep dive, the DACH headline isn't who raised the biggest check — it's who's building the most defensible foundation. Hosts Jörn “Joe”…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
Europe's AI Supercluster: DeepL, Black Forest Labs & n8n
DeepL, Black Forest Labs, and n8n anchor what this October 2025 news episode calls Europe's AI Supercluster — the case that Germany, Austria, and Switzerland…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Xaver Lehmann (e-bot7) on Burnout After a $60M Exit
Xaver Lehmann, co-founder and former CEO of e-bot7, talks openly about burnout, loss, and recovery after one of Europe's larger AI exits — and what it means…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Flow-State Rituals for Founders: Deep Work & Focus
A flow-state playbook for founders — deep work, AI-assisted focus, and the rituals that protect it — in conversation with Jörn “Joe” Menninger. Full article…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Steven Puri (Sukha): Deep Work That Ships
Steven Puri, co-founder and CEO of Sukha, shares a deep-work playbook for founders: body doubling, the coffee-shop effect, chronotype time-blocking, demo-first…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™DACH News Sept 2025: Deep Tech, VC Surge & Fintech
A September 2025 deep dive for B2B operators: where capital is flowing, how deep tech is commercializing, and what shifting regulatory winds mean for product…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™DACH News Sept 2025: $2.3B AI Unicorn & N26 Crisis
A Berlin AI unicorn jumped from $350M to $2.3B in months, N26 faced its most severe governance crisis yet as its co-founder CEO stepped down, and Europe's…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Jennifer Grün (AWS) on Agentic AI for SaaS
Jennifer Grün, Senior Specialist for Generative AI & ML at AWS, argues that SaaS is moving from static dashboards to agents that reason, plan, and act —…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
Jennifer Grün (AWS) on AI Monetization Strategy
How do you take AI from proof-of-concept to proof-of-value? Jennifer Grün of AWS joins Jörn “Joe” Menninger to unpack AI monetization: hybrid pricing models…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™DACH News Sept 2025: Deep Tech, Fintech M&A & Green
September 2025's DACH deals, deep-tech breakthroughs, and green-innovation stories, mapped for founders, VCs, and ecosystem insiders across Germany, Austria…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
DACH News: Berlin AI Unicorn, N26 & Hydrogen Bet
A Berlin AI company jumped from a $350M to a $2.3B valuation, Switzerland locked in €825M of hydrogen funding, and N26 faced its toughest governance test yet —…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™AWS's Dennis Traub on Productionizing AI
Getting generative AI from prototype to production is where most startups stall. AWS AI Engineering Specialist Dennis Traub breaks down what it takes to scale…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™AWS's Dennis Traub on GenAI Without Breaking GDPR
Dennis Traub, AI Engineering Specialist at AWS, lays out how startups can adopt generative AI without leaking customer data, breaking GDPR, or eroding user…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Why Startup Exec Hires Fail — the €250K Mistake
Every second leadership hire in a startup fails — costing up to €250,000. This episode with Jörn “Joe” Menninger digs into why executive hires flop and how…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Voltfang's €15M for Second-Life EV Batteries
Voltfang gives retired EV batteries a second life as grid-scale storage — infrastructure that can stabilize power grids and displace coal across Europe, backed…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Moss CEO Ante Spittler on SME Finance Automation
Moss CEO Ante Spittler explains how his Berlin fintech turns finance from a bottleneck into a growth weapon for SMEs — scaling a regulated fintech that now…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Emotional Branding: The Startup Superpower
A startup often fails not on tech or funding but because people don't feel its brand. This episode with Jörn “Joe” Menninger makes the case for emotional…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Helsing Tops German Startups as the EU Commits €10B
Helsing becomes Germany's most valuable startup and the EU commits €10B to scale founders in this red-hot 2025 DACH funding roundup spanning deep tech…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Ehud Dror on Startup Storytelling That Wins Pitches
Storytelling strategist Ehud Dror, founder of Tailoring Your Story, shows how the best founders turn a pitch from information into belief. A conversation with…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™DACH News May 2025: The Month's Biggest Raises
The May 2025 DACH startup roundup with Jörn “Joe” Menninger covers the month's biggest raises and moves across Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Full article…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Negotiate Like the FBI: Matthias Bullmahn for Founders
Crisis negotiation expert Matthias Bullmahn — a former Accenture executive and storytelling coach — brings FBI-trained sales psychology into the startup world…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Andy Goldstein: Europe's VC Needs a Mindset Reboot
Andy Goldstein — Managing Director Europe at VU Venture Partners and a German Accelerator co-founder — argues Europe's venture capital scene needs a mindset…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Christian Conrad on Trust-Based Leadership
Leadership coach Christian Conrad makes the case for trust-based leadership as the foundation of a startup culture that scales. A conversation with Jörn “Joe”…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Christian Conrad: Culture Is ROI (Part 1)
Leadership coach Christian Conrad argues that company culture is a measurable growth engine, not a soft nice-to-have. Part one of a two-part conversation with…
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DACH News April 2025: €1.3B Raised, a Fintech Crashes
DACH startups raised over €1.3B in April 2025 even as one of Europe's top fintechs spiraled into crisis. This investor-grade briefing pairs the region's…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
Imre Marton Remenyi on Preventing Founder Burnout
Psychotherapist Imre Marton Remenyi joins Jörn “Joe” Menninger for a masterclass on preventing founder and team burnout — going past surface-level work-life…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
DACH Unicorn Tracker Spring 2025: Billion-Euro Startups
The Spring 2025 DACH Unicorn Tracker maps Germany, Austria, and Switzerland's billion-euro startups across deep tech, logistics, mobility, and biotech — built…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
Stablecoins Surge $226B: March 2025 DACH News
A $226B stablecoin surge, fintech M&A, and a €1.8B European VC fund define this March 2025 DACH roundup on AI, VC, and fintech. Recorded with Chris Fahrenbach…
- Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™
DACH News Feb 2025: Finn's €1B & Cherry's €500M Fund
Finn's €1B raise for car subscriptions and Cherry Ventures' new €500M AI fund headline a blockbuster February 2025 — paired with Lilium's second insolvency and…
Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™DACH News Jan 2025: An Acquisition Wave
An acquisition wave across hardware, cybersecurity, and life science drives this January 2025 GSA roundup on Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Host Jörn “Joe”…
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Dec 2024 News: Black Forest Labs & Upvest's Fintech Round
Karlsruhe's Black Forest Labs joins the billion-dollar club and Upvest lands Germany's largest 2024 fintech round in this December roundup closing out the…
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Blockchain Germany – Web3 Startups, Crypto Innovation & Venture Capital by Startuprad.io™Bitpanda Eyes a Frankfurt IPO: Nov 2024 DACH News
Crypto exchange Bitpanda's Frankfurt IPO plans and Atomico's data on 35,000+ European early-stage startups frame this November 2024 GSA roundup, connecting…