Impact & Outreach – Prof. Dr. Hannes Rothe

Roles in Startup Support

2023: Head of Place Beyond Bytes at University of Duisburg-Essen, funded by Startup Excellence Center Program by State of NRW (MWIKE)
2021: Head of scouting and pre-incubation of Artificial Intelligence Ventures at Freie Universität Berlin as part of Digital Entrepreneurship Hub and co-initiator of K.I.E.Z (K.I. Entrepreneurship Zentrum) funded by BMWK and EXIST
since 2021: Member of the Board of NFUSION – Entrepreneurs Network of FU Berlin
since 2018: Co-Founder and member of Digital Entrepreneurship Hub
since 2017: Member of Postdocs-to-Innovators network
2013-2021: Coordinator Entrepreneurship Education at Freie Universität Berlin (2013-2021)

Idealab (www.idealab.rocks), Mentor Berlin Startup Scholarship and EXIST Startup Grant since 2020
Mage (www.getmage.io), Mentor EXIST Startup Grant since 2019
Inspirient (www.inspirient.com), academic mentor
Levity (www.levity.com), Mentor Berlin Startup Scholarship since 2018
Warehousing1 (www.warehousing1.com), Mentor Berlin Startup Scholarship since 2018
Aivy (www.aivy.com), Mentor Berlin Startup Scholarship & EXIST Startup Grant since 2018
Construyo (www.construyo.de), Mentor Berlin Startup Scholarship
MindR (www.mind-r.com), Mentor Berlin Startup Scholarship & EXIST Startup Grant since 2018
Stackfuel (www.stackfuel.com), academic mentor since 2018
Crimpr, mentor Berlin Startup Scholarship since 2018
FrogoAD (www.frogo-ad.com), Mentor EXIST Startup Grant since 2017
Makeapoint (Pinio), co-mentoring EXIST Startup Grant

Lisbon, Portugal. Innovation and entrepreneurship in deep science. invited by ASTP, 2022.
Montreal, Canada. Venturing with Digital Data Objects: Stairways to future-proof data. invited by Concordia University, 2022.
Manchester, UK. Trapped in the frame problem? Organizing Machine Learning for venture growth. invited by University of Manchester, 2021.
Bratislava, Slovakia. Role of universities in entrepreneurial ecosystems, video, 2020.
Berlin, Germany. Supporting the Entrepreneurial Scientist: We need to do better! (inv. by Bayer AG), 2020.
Cambridge, UK. Leveraging Infrastructures: How entrepreneurs capture value from bio data (inv. by ELIXIR and Sanger Institute), video, 2019.
Frankfurt, Germany, Digital Entrepreneurship in Ecosystems (inv. by Techweek Frankfurt), 2019
Basel, Swiss, Europe’s Start-up Ecosystems for Biodata Entrepreneurship, (inv. by BioData World Congress), 2019
London, UK, How biodata infrastructures enable digital entrepreneurs (inv. by ELIXIR), 2019.
Brussels, Swiss & Frankfurt, Germany, Digital Entrepreneurship on Biodata (inv. by DENBI & ELIXIR), 2018
Berlin, Germany. Digital Startup Ecosystem Berlin (moderation), video, 2017.
Stanford, USA, From Free Online Education to Professional Development – Ecosystem Change in the MOOC Market. Stanford University (inv. by MediaX) video, 2017
Berlin, Germany, Startup initiatives for sustainable chemistry (inv. by United Nations Environment & ISC3), link to report, 2017
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Joint course on science entrepreneurship with Falling Walls Foundation
Providing the online course Postdocs Venture to scientists and research across the globe
(~100 participants in 2020)

Founder and general manager of innovate 255 UG (haftungsbeschränkt), a company that provides an online education platform and consulting on digital transformation.
DB Startup Safari with Deutsche Bahn (Concept and Training)
Online Course “Digital Entrepreneurship” with Deutsche Bahn

Design of an alumni platform for Ernst-Reuter Gesellschaft, the alumni organization of FU Berlin
Organizer for a Health Data event at Berlin Science Week
Organizer for events at Long Night of the Sciences at FU Berlin

Organizer of the Digital Startup Ecosystem Event with Deutsche Bahn at Berlin Science Week,

Organizer for events at Long Nights of the Sciences,
Organizer of the Innovation Marathon for Sustainable Chemistry (with German chemical industry and UN Environment)