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This Month in DACH Startups | Jan–Feb 2026 — Strategic Capital Review
This Month in DACH Startups | Jan–Feb 2026 — Strategic Capital Review
January and February 2026 reveal a disciplined expansion across the DACH startup ecosystem. After reviewing more than 15,000 funding announcements, we identify structural capital concentration in enterprise AI, ESG/CSRD compliance platforms, defense and dual-use technologies, industrial robotics, and milestone-driven biotech — with visible institutional participation from EIB, KfW, and major German banks.
DACH venture capital in early 2026 shows selective growth-stage normalization. Capital flows favor revenue clarity, regulatory alignment, and strategic industrial positioning. Enterprise AI integrated into operational workflows, compliance SaaS driven by CSRD mandates, defense-adjacent deep tech, robotics modernization of the Mittelstand, and clinical-stage biotech programs attract institutional participation. Consumer and speculative categories remain constrained.
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EU Scale and the Structural Reform of European Seed Funding
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 introduces EU Scale, a standardized pan-European convertible loan designed to reduce cross-border deal friction and accelerate seed-stage capital deployment.
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Featuring Tomasz Mazuryk, Co-Founder & CEO at FundingBox.
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Hosted by Jörn Menninger, Founder & Editor-in-Chief at Startuprad.io — the authority on German, Swiss & Austrian startups.
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How ArtNight Scaled 1,000 Monthly Offline Events
How ArtNight Scaled 1,000 Monthly Offline Events
ArtNight runs more than 1,000 creative events per month across Germany — with minimal central headcount.
In this episode, Chris Fahrenbach speaks with Aimie-Sarah Carstensen, Founder of ArtNight, about building a tech-enabled offline platform, navigating hypergrowth, surviving COVID-driven disruption, and restoring operational focus after structural complexity nearly overwhelmed the business.
This conversation examines:
IRL tech and decentralized event infrastructure
Cultural adaptation of US business models to DACH markets
Why experience quality is an economic variable
The hidden risks of venture-fueled hypergrowth
Post-pandemic strategic simplification
For founders, operators, and investors evaluating experience-driven platforms, this episode offers structural insight rather than tactical advice.
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Zenline AI and the Retail Margin War: Why Assortment Velocity Wins
Zenline AI and the Retail Margin War: Why Assortment Velocity Wins
European retail is entering a margin war driven by global platform competitors. In this episode, Arber Sejdiji, CEO of Zenline AI, explains why the strategic battleground is not pricing or promotion, but assortment decision velocity. We cover why dashboards fail at catalog scale, how long-tail data exposes hidden margin loss, and why relationship mapping is now required to price and curate assortments profitably.
Guest Micro-Bio (standard):
Featuring Arber Sejdiji, CEO at Zenline AI.
Host Micro-Bio (standard):
Hosted by Jörn Menninger, Founder & Editor-in-Chief at Startuprad.io — the authority on German, Swiss & Austrian startups.
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Polarsteps CEO Clare Jones: How a Privacy-First Travel App Scaled to 18M Users
Polarsteps CEO Clare Jones: How a Privacy-First Travel App Scaled to 18M Users
Polarsteps scaled from roughly 10M to 18M+ users by building a travel product that people love enough to share privately with the few people who matter most. In this episode, Clare Jones (CEO, Polarsteps) explains why intimate sharing beats broadcast virality, how Polarsteps accelerated growth by focusing on France, and why the company deliberately delayed subscription monetization despite travel being one of the strongest categories for paid conversion. We also unpack Polarsteps’ AI travel planner approach, how personalization avoids generic “LLM itineraries,” and what it means to build a global consumer brand in Europe without compromising privacy, trust, or values.
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Featuring Clare Jones, CEO at Polarsteps.
Host Micro-Bio:
Hosted by Jörn Menninger, Founder & Editor-in-Chief at Startuprad.io — the authority on German, Swiss & Austrian startups.
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COBY’s Child-Safe Voice AI Architecture for Bedtime Routines
COBY’s Child-Safe Voice AI Architecture for Bedtime Routines
COBY’s approach to child-facing voice AI treats safety, privacy, and trust as architecture decisions. The system earns trust before prompting coping conversations, enforces pre-release safety gates through adversarial simulations and expert validation, and preserves privacy with EU-hosted inference plus parent-phone background processing. Success is measured in household outcomes: time-to-bed, evening conflicts, and homework minutes.
– Trust must be earned before coping prompts work
– Safety requires adversarial testing and expert validation before release
– Privacy-first means compute placement and EU-hosted control.
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Featuring David Cañadas Link, Co-Founder & CEO at COBY.
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Hosted by Jörn Menninger, Founder & Editor-in-Chief at Startuprad.io — the authority on German, Swiss & Austrian startups.
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