If you only think of Berlin when it comes to startups, you’re wrong. Numerous valuable young German companies come from Munich. Whether Trade Republic, Tier Mobility, Egym, Forto or Foodora – the founders and CEOs of all of these successful startups have one thing in common: they are alumni of the Munich universities and attended Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM).
9 CDTM Alumni Unicorns
So is the CDTM Germany’s secret unicorn factory? Chris Pisarski, co-founder of the startup Crustdata, found that almost 20 percent of German unicorns were set up by CDTM alumni: He counts nine unicorns with CDTM alumni as founders or co-founders. These include:
- Jonas Templestein (Monzo banktoday Iterate.com)
- Thomas Pischke (Trade Republic)
- Julian Blessin (Animal mobilitytoday: AllRide)
- Hanno Renner, Arseniy Vershinin, Roman Schumacher, Ignaz Forstmeier (Personio)
- Erik Muttersbach, Michael Wax (Fortotoday: Zauber, VC)
- Jonas Diezun (Razor Grouptoday: Beam AI)
- Fabian Gerlinghaus (Cellars)
- Florian Sauter, Philipp Roesch-Schlanderer (Egym)
- Stefan Rothlehner, Konstantin Mehl, Manuel Thurner, Sergei Krauze (Foodoratoday: Angel Investor, Kaia Health, Simplinic)