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10/25/2019 | Campus-Meldung

Two teams from Science Park Kassel in the German Accelerator in Silicon Valley

The start-up teams Vencortex and smarTransfer, founded by graduates of the University of Kassel, will participate in the German Accelerator Program "JumpStart" in Silicon Valley for one month from the end of October to the end of November. There, they can expect an intensive support program, from mentoring to individual workshops.

The German Accelerator Program "JumpStart" is an intensive, month-long program that introduces early-stage German startups to the Silicon Valley ecosystem and its best practices. Experienced mentors help startups make critical early decisions about product, market and business models that will fundamentally improve their growth trajectories to become future global players. The program is tailored to the requirements and goals of each participant. Supported by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi), the program is free of charge and without obligation for participating companies.

The founders of Vencortex, Dominik Dellermann and Adrian Calma, both earned their doctorates at the University of Kassel: Calma in Computer Science with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Sick and Dellermann earned his doctorate in Business Informatics at the chair of Prof. Dr. Jan Marco Leimeister. The founding team got to know each other during their doctoral studies and developed their joint business idea. As a start-up, they wanted to use a software platform to launch solutions for other founders. The platform uses artificial intelligence and crowd-based expertise to provide support to projects from the startup context for various decisions and challenges. Vencortex has had office space at Science Park Kassel since September 2018.

The founders of the second Kassel-based company smarTransfer, René Wegener and Philipp Bitzer, also graduated from the Department of Information Systems at the University of Kassel. At the same time, they began offering consulting services for companies. In 2014, the two founded the consulting company smarTransfer and moved to the Science Park a short time later. The StartUp is participating in the German Accelerator with the freelancer hub Lynchronize, a platform for IT freelancers that allows them to have their skills analyzed and apply for projects from several dozen providers and platforms.

Previously, three other Science Park-based companies, enercast, Fino and HydroNeo, participated in the German Accelerator program, which sends startups not only to Silicon Valley but also to Boston, New York and Asia.

Info on the program at www.germanaccelerator.com

Contact:

Gabriele Hennemuth

Incubator Startup Consulting, Communications

Tel.: 0561 804-1859

E-mail: hennemuth@uni-kassel.de