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In the age of short videos and snack content, we decided to step back and take the time to talk to experienced founders from our ecosystem, focusing on the specific stage when they had to make important decisions to take their start-ups to the international scaling phase.
In this video, Benjamin Tillier tells us about his ambitious development plan for Fiveoffices. Launched in early 2022, the start-up is already active in Luxembourg and Paris and will soon be present in several other major European cities.
He speaks about the importance of having a vision and a clear roadmap, two key elements that he believes should guide every entrepreneur setting up a start-up. Finally, he describes the best conditions in which a start-up should be when talking to investors.
Christophe Bianco shares with us all key insights into his entrepreneurial journey, but also what you need to pay attention to when you want to successfully combine your career and your personal life.
The relationship with his cofounder, his team and his investors is also discussed in depth in this interview. Christophe founded cybersecurity start-up Excellium Services in 2012 and exited this year, after being acquired by Thales.
Genna Elwin comes from "a little country in the middle of nowhere, but that gave her solid roots and big wings": New Zealand. She arrived in Europe 13 years ago and chose Luxembourg to create Tadaweb.
The start-up developed a technology that analyses big data like humans would. She grew her start-up in a bootstrapping spirit with a positive cash flow, before recently deciding to bring in private investors to accelerate growth. Today, Tadaweb employs over 100 people.
Joost van Oorschot is Dutch but he has lived in 12 countries around the world before he chose to come to Luxembourg. The company he created 4 years ago, Maana Electric, is a deeptech startup that has developed a mobile factory made up of 7 shipping containers which can produce solar panels from desert sand and electricity.
Today, Maana Electric has offices in Luxembourg, The Netherlands and United Arab Emirates. It just raised its first equity investment round a few months ago in order to commercialise its solution.
Jessica tells us about growing a family business. She started as a translator and commercial assistant in a small healthtech provider based in Germany and became co-founder & CEO of an international company that is today headquartered in Luxembourg.
The company’s software platform mobee® 360 is successfully targeting preventative healthcare providers not only in Europe, but also in Asia. And its expansion is still in its first stages. Relocating a start-up with its core team, welcoming VCs in a late stage and expanding in parallel in Europe and Asia are some of the topics that she covers.