Rhine-Main Valley

29 Oct Rhine-Main Valley

2013

In November 2013 Ryan Hoover created an e-mail listing in San Francisco that included the newest gadgets and products from Silicon Valley and sent it to selected recipients from the start-up scene in the bay-area. This simple mailing process was the foundation of Product Hunt, the world leading indicator for new tech trends. Well known investors such as Y-Combinator and Andreessen Horowitz have invested in Product Hunt since then. Successful products like Periscope and the Tesla Powerwall have been discovered due to this platform.

2015

In September we moved into the Merck Accelerator. From that point on we were part of the start-up scene in the Rhine-Main area. Although we are thousands of miles away from the Silicon Valley we possess the start-up spirit, when we got an invite a couple weeks ago from Kirill Bauer (startup-radio.de). He invited us to the next big event from Product Hunt Frankfurt. The valley is coming to the Rhine-Main region and this time for real. We accepted this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity without hesitation.

Finally, on October the 15^th our team went to Frankfurt, to the holy halls of the university. More than 80 people with a total of 16 start-ups presented their idea. At the same time, there was the opportunity to talk to many founders, students and investors, in front of the hall. The keynote was held by John Bruggemann, CEO of Traxpay, one of the most successful FinTech start-ups from San Francisco. And again, another wisp from the valley spirit, with the mandatory dose of inspiration. The second presentation was from the Flinc founder Michael Hübl, who told us his story about the founding process and the ups and downs of his career.

1. Vibygo is a wearable, that guides ist user through traffic by vibrations. Old-school-navigation as we know it gets more intuitive and less complex.

2. Flug-verspaetet.de cares about compensations for customers of airlines in cases of delay or cancellation.

3. Mylockscreen.de uses the lock screen of a smartphone as advertising space. Users can allow ads on their lock screens and get paid fort hat.

4. Getbezi.de. As a personal assistant bezi takes care of your calendar and organizes meetings. The app works as a messanger which makes the coordination of meetings as easy as smalltalk.

5. Savedroid is the digital moneybox. In every payment process the app rounds up the amount of money and saves the difference on a seperate bank account.

6. Bookarize The startup aggregates information from books about a certain topics. Therefore it bundles views from different sources to make information more balanced.