WERK1 Blog

Do you want to stay up to date on WERK1 Startups & Alumni as well as what’s going on in the startup ecosystem? On our blog, we regularly report on success stories, provide helpful tips for founders and conduct exciting interviews with people from the startup environment.

Federico Acosta

1. September 2026

Msc Biomedical Computing @ TUM. Clinical Specialist. Rapid prototyping – Optics

Johann Stiessberger

13. August 2026

Seasoned executive leader with 25 years of experience in management consulting and the healthcare and private equity industries. I have served as a Managing Director

Eugen Richter

30. July 2026

Experienced developer (15+ years full-time) with a broad range of expertise and interests, including mobile development, cloud, web development, and DevSecOps. Built multiple teams from

Aaron Hayos (A)

29. July 2026

Father, Founder, Operator, Investor. Former Silicon Valley CFO; immigrated to Germany for family. Launched agentic payroll automation platform, financed by Lakestar, First Momentum, Sequoia Scout,

David Smith

8. July 2026

David is a Corporate and M&A partner specialising in international Venture Capital and M&A transactions in the consumer, industrials and TMT industries. David works closely

Dominik Kowalski

24. June 2026

Ich bin Projektleiter in Forschung und Entwicklung mit starkem Hintergrund in Regulatory Affairs-Experte und praktischer Erfahrung in der Umsetzung regulatorischer Anforderungen. Meine Stärke liegt in

Franz Pfister

1. June 2026

Franz holds a doctorate in medicine (LMU, Harvard), business administration (MBA, MBS) and data science (M.Sc., LMU), he is regarded as a leading expert at

Julia Moosbauer

1. June 2026

Julia is a mathematician (B.Sc., TUM) and data scientist (M.Sc., LMU).

Michael Meyerhoff

1. June 2026

Michael is a MedTech executive with 20+ years of senior professional experience.

Simon Sonntag

1. June 2026

Virtonomy has created v-patients.com, the first web platform for use by medical device developers that utilizes virtual patients for data-driven clinical trials, thereby shortening the