After almost two months of intesive coachings, the startups get closer and closer to be ready to pitch in front of investors. One key element is the presentation itself. The Matibabu team reflects on the last coaching about the perfect presentation in our latest Founder's...
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Earlier this month, Merck participated in the 7th annual Health 2.0 Europe event. This year’s conference, hosted in Barcelona, brought together over 400 pharmaceutical entrepreneurs and investors, medical practitioners, insurers, and patients. The event featured prestigious speakers, innovative workshops, and live demonstrations. Munya Chivasa, Innovation Manager...
"Create the Future!" - This was the message on the colorful signs that welcomed dozens of bright, young students from Israel's best academic institutes to the Merck Hackathon in Israel. Engineers, scientists, programmers and communications students, from undergraduate to post-doctorate, all arrived at the Tel...
One month has gone by at the Nairobi Garage and our startups are well on track. In this video the team of Totohealth is giving a little wrap-up of the past weeks and their experiences. Obviously the team highly appreciates the collaborative spirit at the...
Design Thinking as a topic is on top the agenda when it comes to current trends in corporate culture. It is a method for practical creation of solutions, with the intent of an improved future result. In this regard it is a form of solution-based,...
In the second round of our Accelerator Program in Darmstadt we are happy to have teams from around the world. With Matibabu we welcome a startup from Uganda. The company, led by Josiah Kavuma and Shafik Sekitto, provides an app that is able to diagnose...
The startups have finally arrived in Darmstadt and Nairobi, to start their journey at the Merck Accelerator.Because experience has shown that the team behind an idea is just as important, if not more, than the idea itself, we have introduced the startup teams here in...
With more than 200 applications from 47 countries, our accelerator programs in Darmstadt and Nairobi attracted the interest of passionate startup teams from around the globe. On March 14th, the ten most promising applicants for the Darmstadt Merck accelerator program were invited to Pitch Day, an...
When it comes to startups in Europe, everyone is looking at Berlin or London, but one thing is for sure: digital change is not only taking place in big cities, it is a phenomenon throughout Germany and beyond. All over Germany, startups are popping up and...
After three months of intensive training, coaching and project work, the first three startups from the Merck accelerator got the opportunity to pitch in front of investors during the Demo Day. For this final event of the accelerator program investors from all over Europe made...