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Welcome to the Hinterland of Things Startup Exhibition, where visionaries, trailblazers, and doers gather to shape the future. Discover emerging technologies, connect with like-minded innovators, and experience the cutting-edge solutions transforming our world—right here in the heart of the hinterland. Join us, and be part of a movement driving meaningful change from the inside out.
Personio is the intelligent HR platform that helps small and mid-sized businesses unlock their employees’ full potential. Trusted by over 14,000 organizations managing more than one million employees, Personio automates workflows, adapts to HR teams’ unique needs, and provides valuable insights. Say goodbye to manual processes, rigid tools, and guesswork—Personio is the clear choice for businesses, now and in the future.
Talent2Go is the leading HR software for companies with apprentices and trainees. Our all-in-one SaaS platform streamlines recruiting, management, e-learning, and talent development—fully digital, GDPR-compliant, and ISO 27001-certified. Seamlessly integrate Talent2Go into your HR system and turn young talent into future professionals.
hoorai creates transparency across your internal talent pool and brings scientifically sound approaches and data-driven decision-making to your internal processes. This helps you find the right colleagues.
Thinking in terms of team dynamics creates a structure that regularly brings people together to create more. After all, teams whose personalities complement each other are demonstrably more successful.
Empion is the first AI-driven headhunting system that matches candidates and companies based on values, skills, and personality. Founded in early 2022 by Dr. Annika von Mutius and Dr. Larissa Leitner, Empion collaborates with leading clients like Procter & Gamble and Volksbanken. The startup has raised $9 million in two funding rounds and recently acquired competitor Zalvus to accelerate its growth.
Scale Unit delivers a steady stream of qualified candidates through its proprietary AI-powered recruiting software. Candidates apply easily via WhatsApp, where our AI chatbot conducts a dynamic conversation to assess fit for the role. Matching profiles are seamlessly transferred into the client’s applicant tracking system. With over 150 clients served, Scale Unit helps companies fill hard-to-staff roles faster, cut headhunter costs, and reduce time-to-hire significantly.
Great2know offers a smart, AI-powered solution to one of the biggest challenges in modern organizations: knowledge loss. By combining artificial intelligence with team expertise and human validation, great2know captures and secures valuable know.
Founded in 2018, clockin has become a leading platform for digitizing HR and workforce processes for small businesses. With an intuitive app for time tracking, documentation, and workflow organization, clockin simplifies operations for SMEs. Recognized as one of the Top 3 most popular tools in DACH by OMR Reviews, clockin continues its rapid growth. In early 2024, it was selected for the prestigious Scale-Up NRW program, further cementing its role in shaping the future of digital work.
Stackgini streamlines IT decision processes for governance, enterprise architecture, and procurement. Our AI-powered SaaS solution ensures full control over IT portfolios, promotes reuse, and integrates seamlessly with EAM, ITSM, and procurement tools. Data-driven, automated, and compliance-focused—Stackgini empowers smarter technology decisions.
heyData simplifies regulatory compliance for businesses, covering GDPR, NIS2, ISO 27001, the Whistleblower Protection Act, and more. Combining cutting-edge technology with legal expertise, heyData streamlines compliance through intuitive software, industry-specific solutions, digital audits, and expert support. More than just a compliance tool, heyData helps companies mitigate risks, strengthen trust, and turn compliance into a competitive advantage.
Studit provides tailored and cost-efficient IT services in infrastructure and support with mixed teams of IT-students and IT-support-experts. From remote and on-site IT support to rollout management and full-scale IT infrastructure management, studit assists clients with customized solutions or ready-made IT support packag
Cloud Rebels is revolutionizing the IT industry as the only true full-service IT provider. Businesses gain the freedom and flexibility of IT as a Service, with complete IT administration from a single source. A user-based fixed monthly pricing model ensures predictability and cost-efficiency. State-of-the-art technology, tailored solutions, and comprehensive support create real value. We deliver all-in-one IT support, 100% remote and cloud-based, for a truly modern IT experience.
Powered by cutting-edge graph technology, Tentris breaks data silos, delivering instant insights and seamless decision-making.
Our ultrafast tensor-based database is 1000x faster, reducing costs and CO₂ emissions. With native time-travel queries and AI-driven accuracy, we redefine knowledge access—no embeddings, no complexity, just answers.
Casablanca enhances video communication by creating natural eye contact using AI—without additional hardware. The software subtly adjusts gaze in real-time, making virtual interactions feel more personal and authentic. Seamlessly integrating with major video platforms, Casablanca strengthens engagement, trust, and connection in sales, consulting, recruitment, and team meetings.
Founded in 2023 in Hannover, BitKollegen specializes in socially responsible IT outsourcing. We provide tailored offshore development teams, custom solutions, and expert consulting—combining German precision with global expertise. Our ISO-certified processes ensure scalable, cost-efficient, and ethical IT solutions, with a strong commitment to fair working conditions and compliance with the German Supply Chain Act.
AI COMPL1ZEN is a leading provider of tailored AI and automation solutions for businesses in the DACH region. We support organizations in implementing impactful, human-centered AI strategies — from consulting and AI maturity checks to custom machine learning models, AI agents, and scalable automation.
Our offerings include cloud, hybrid, and on-premise solutions, as well as hands-on training like the “Elements of AI for Business®” course. Whether you’re just starting or scaling your AI journey — we’re your reliable partner for innovation, efficiency, and transformation.
We empower industrial sites to stay competitive by eliminating resource waste through AI-driven planning optimization. OMMM brings real-time, automated, and intelligent planning to the factory floor – turning complexity into clarity. Our solution boosts productivity, strengthens supply chain resilience, and enables confident decision-making across teams. The result: maximum output, minimal input – and a true strategic edge.
Indicium is an AI-driven platform for fast, reliable, and fully GDPR-compliant background checks. Unlike traditional screenings—slow, costly, and incomplete—Indicium delivers real-time risk analysis, detecting hidden threats, fake credentials, and compliance violations early.Designed for financial institutions, insurers, and critical infrastructure, Indicium meets rising regulatory demands from NIS2 and the KRITIS-Dach-Gesetz.
Kertos is the modern backbone for data privacy and information security, automating your compliance operations. Our platform navigates all the processes required to meet regulations and achieve certifications such as GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIS 2, and the EU AI Act. Through seamless integration into existing IT systems, experts on demand, and a state-of-the-art AI agent, Kertos saves up to 80% of the manual work required using other methods. Kertos – maximum compliance, minimal effort.
Codoflow is a centralized platform for Data Architecture Management that enables transparent, collaborative, and governed data model design and change management, ensuring seamless integration and minimizing data risks.
ARC Intelligence is an AI-driven software solution designed for modern CFOs, particularly within small and medium-sized enterprises. It integrates data from ERP, CRM, and MES systems into a unified platform, automating tasks in financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and controlling. ARC’s advanced analytics provide actionable insights, from descriptive to prescriptive analytics, enabling smarter decision-making and business growth.
Emlen empowers B2B sales teams to streamline complex buying processes by creating personalized, interactive spaces for every buyer. Instead of email chaos and scattered files, emlen delivers one central hub for content, collaboration, and communication—driving faster decisions and building trust. With deep CRM integrations and intuitive design, emlen turns sales enablement into true buyer enablement.
Circula is a digital platform that simplifies all types of employee expenses—from travel and per diems to corporate cards and benefits. Its mission is to streamline finance and payroll processes through smart automation while ensuring full legal compliance, so employees can focus on their work instead of admin tasks. A leading expense management solution trusted by mid-sized European companies like About You, DATEV, Deutsche Fußball Liga, Noerr, McMakler, and Securitas.
Sastrify is the leading software management platform to safeguard your digital supply chain. Our AI-powered product suite eliminates Shadow IT, automatically assesses vendor risk, and provides required documentation and monitoring along compliance frameworks like NIS2, DORA, and the AI Act. We also support CIOs and IT leaders in measuring and managing secure AI adoption within their organisations. Procurement and IT teams around the world rely on our powerful vendor insights and benchmark data.
Launched in 2020 and backed by leading venture capital investors, we serve hundreds of clients globally.
Your customers are telling you how to improve your products and marketing. The question is: Are you really listening?
Thousands of customers around the world are reviewing your products every day. But this valuable feedback is scattered across countless marketplaces and multiple languages. Each review holds the potential to significantly boost your product development and marketing strategy.
ProductLens brings this global feedback together on one central platform. Our purpose-built AI agent, PIA, analyzes every customer review and turns them into actionable insights on product performance, feature requests, and competitive advantages.
Karlsson + Kahle transforms corporate identity into art. Drawing on a company’s history, values and products, the studio develops tailor-made art concepts for offices, lobbies and communal areas. Every piece is one of a kind, bringing spaces to life and reminding employees and visitors each day what the brand stands for.
We are revolutionizing strategic purchasing and making industrial SMEs sustainably profitable with our AI-supported category intelligence.
The top 2 challenges in procurement in times of multi-crisis are cost pressure and supply chain problems.
The competitive disadvantages for SMEs in the EU now amount to an average of -40 percent of annual profits. 70 percent of purchasing departments are purely order processors. Strategic decisions are not made. Our category intelligence enables purchasing to make value-adding real-time decisions.
Investment highlights
Product: AI-supported category management software that reduces purchasing costs by at least 6% and up to 50% per category and makes the supply chain more robust.
Market Opportunity: EUR 7.5 billion addressable market in Europe, EUR 48 billion total market in Europe. The market for ProcureTech is growing by 9.92% annually.
Traction: Already 8 industry leaders from the industrial SME sector as paying customers, ARR 175,000 -200,000 euros.
Built for teams buried under long PDFs, sprawling Excel spreadsheets, ERPs, and email inboxes. Cloudsquid helps Finance Ops and Compliance teams transform messy documents into precision AI workflows.
Founded in 2023, we’re rethinking how document native Agents embed into companies that make and move real physical products. We believe AI should live in the tools you already use, tackle the dirty work you don’t want to do, and free you to focus on higher-value tasks, so that you can be more human.
Aifano developed an AI-platform which helps companies and enterprises of any industry to compose and run AI-Agents from any framework.
We help enable AI adoption through our GenIX platform which is designed to enable team it integrate AI by Design into existing business processes and workflows.
Wolf & Strauss Solutions GmbH builds hardware and software solutions with a focus on equipment management. Our ecosystem enables operators, service companies and manufacturers to digitize and accelerate their maintenance, service and management processes and to offer our Lizard platform as an extended service.
Consograph’s AI platform is the intelligent workbench for company data: it breaks down data silos by connecting documents, emails, applications and databases via semantic interfaces, orchestrating their modular processing – and thus enabling automated, traceable use for the first time – on-premise and without cloud constraints.
Tenderflow – The future of public procurement starts here.
Tenderflow is an AI-supported SaaS platform that enables companies to participate in public tenders easily, quickly and successfully – without a procurement department and without specialist legal knowledge. Our technology takes over what is still time-consuming and non-transparent today: finding relevant tenders, analyzing requirements and risks, prioritizing (go/no-go), and in the future even preparing bids.
Our vision: Tenderflow will become the European standard for digital tender management. Because we are convinced that Europe needs solutions from Europe – especially in geopolitically and economically challenging times. More competition, more innovation, better tenders – at the same or lower cost.
Cito is revolutionizing B2B transport with a digital platform that seamlessly connects shippers and carriers—making logistics as simple as ordering an Uber. Trusted by 2,000+ shippers and 1,500+ carriers, Cito enables instant pricing, real-time tracking, and AI-powered dispatching to optimize efficiency and profitability. The future of transport starts here.
smart2i optimizes production efficiency with real-time transparency and intelligent analytics. Our solution delivers tailored insights for every role—from machine operators to executives—ensuring data-driven decisions. Seamlessly integrating MES, ERP, and SCADA systems, smart2i enhances OEE, reduces waste, and maximizes productivity.
akeno was founded in Hamburg in 2021 by Alexander Ebbrecht, Dmitrij Direktor and Steffen Ramm with the aim of rethinking production planning in the process industry. The AI-supported software solution enables companies to manage their production processes based on real data – flexibly, predictively and automatically. akeno analyzes ongoing production processes, detects deviations at an early stage and dynamically adapts production plans. For the first time, production plans can be optimized to meet multiple customer objectives simultaneously – from delivery reliability and inventory reduction to greater energy efficiency.
EVASIVE ROBOTICS enables true multi-robot collaboration with a software platform for real-time path planning and collision avoidance. Manufacturers can deploy flexible, scalable robotic systems—even for small-batch production—without custom fixtures or complex setup.
Key benefits:
– Up to 15% lower project costs
– 20% faster ramp-up
– 95% less system adaptation effort
– Up to 70% lower lifetime costs
– 40% less floor space required
SmartLoC is transforming global trade with a digital B2B payment solution that combines secure, automated transactions with real-time IoT freight monitoring. Founded in 2021 and based in Bad Oldesloe, Germany, SmartLoC connects every step of the “Order-to-Cash” process—eliminating manual errors, paper-based workflows, and uncertainty in international trade. By tracking location, temperature, and humidity in real time, and releasing payments only when agreed conditions are met, SmartLoC ensures maximum transparency, trust, and efficiency across global supply chains.
Delfa Systems is a German system provider specializing in real-time sensor monitoring. Their unique technology platform combines embedded electronics with electroactive polymers to deliver advanced multi-parameter sensing — including position, strain, force, and temperature. The result: highly robust, customizable systems with outstanding integration and design flexibility.
All products are developed and manufactured in-house in Germany, with a strong focus on quality and precision. Delfa offers both standardized solutions and fully customized developments — supporting clients from initial idea to series production.
EthonAI has developed the world’s first Manufacturing Analytics System (MAS), a groundbreaking solution already trusted by leading manufacturers such as Siemens, Bosch, and Lindt & Sprüngli. Their MAS helps companies optimize cost, speed, and quality by creating a unified context across disparate factory data sources, applying AI models specifically designed for manufacturing, and delivering actionable insights directly to the shop floor and process experts. With EthonAI’s MAS, customers have achieved significant results, including a reduction of more than 50% in production waste.
LastBIM simplifies the digital capture of building data in the planning phase and ensures that all information is available to project participants exactly when it is needed. This saves valuable time and creates a stable basis for digitalization and collaboration in the construction industry.
In modern construction planning, digital building models (BIM) are essential for automated processes like cost estimation, sustainability analysis, and facility management. However, for these processes to work, models must contain precise and structured data. This involves three key steps: defining data requirements, integrating them into the model, and ensuring quality control.
The problem: These tasks are handled by different people across different companies, making communication inefficient. As a result, requirements are unclear, data is inconsistent, and errors cause costly delays. Many teams still rely on manual processes, spreadsheets, and disconnected tools, leading to wasted time, rework, and budget overruns.
Tanso is an integrated sustainability software solution for carbon accounting and ESG data management. The platform enables structured collection, precise calculation, and targeted optimization of sustainability metrics – along with AI-powered data management and recommendation capabilities. It helps industrial companies comply with regulatory requirements such as CSRD, VSME, GHG, and ISO 14064, while supporting them in achieving their sustainability goals.
Planted helps companies measure, reduce, and report their carbon footprint with cutting-edge technology and science-backed solutions. Supporting brands like AXA, DHL, and TeamViewer, Planted drives net-zero goals while protecting biodiversity—one climate-resilient forest at a time.
