Ramin Niroumand - Founder & CEO Finleap
"While we find ourselves in an unprecedented situation with a lot of uncertainty on how things will turn out, I believe that many companies will come out of the crisis stronger. As hard as it may be, it’s essential to innovate, adapt, and push forward. Now is the time to focus on what has been and continues to be possible in Germany, and be ready to make decisions."

Farina Schurzfeld - Founder & CMO Selfapy
"A crisis often is a lever for triggering change, as difficult situations and emotions help us to reflect on our automatisms and thus reveal alternative behavior/options."

Victoria Wagner, Founder & CEO BeyondGenderAgenda
"The world can change overnight and you should be able to react rapidly and adapt your business strategy in real-time."

Jeremy Henrichs, Co-Founder & CEO Nala.care
"Remote teams are an asset. I’m quite convinced that “remote-first” will become a more prevalent company/startup set-up in the years to come."

Christian Umbach, Co-Founder & CEO Xapix, Inc.
"We put our core strength to work - the ability to combine datasets quickly and effortlessly - to enable transparency for Covid-19. (...) The launch of Covid19api and the resulting development of further puzzle pieces such as local risk scores attracted the interest of more than 400 developers."

Tim Koschella, Founder & CEO Kayzen
"After we had digested the first weeks of "Corona craze" we came together as a team over a zoom call to think how we can contribute positively - outside of our normal course of business - to help fight the spreading of the pandemic. As a result, a charity initiative was born that we are spearheading, #AppsFightCovid."

Dr. med. Shari Langemak, CEO Relearnlabs GmbH
"Due to COVID-19, we saw therapists and patients alike struggling with the new normal. While patients were missing out on crucially needed therapy, speech therapists, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists started looking for other options to keep their business running."

Thomas Heiserowski, Co-CEO Europace AG
“And because a crisis is difficult to predict, we developed an early warning system for our market within just a few days together with our partners. Its goal is to show us possible effects on our business before the consumer is even on our platform."

Adrien Nussenbaum, Co-Founder & CEO MIRAKL 
"StopCOVID19.fr endorsed by the French Minister of Economy and Finance was a pure innovative and disruptive initiative to find a way to solve the shortage of critical protective equipment in healthcare facilities, public administrations, and large companies."

Eva-Maria Meijnen, Managing Director PlusDental
"We have brilliant brains in our companies and we have outstanding technologies. Instead of sending everyone home and watching the development inactively, search for possibilities to use your resources to support overcoming this crisis."

Helmut Fabry, CEO Klosterfrau Healthcare Group
"We need to learn to live with the Corona-Virus. It is even more important than under normal circumstances to reinforce trust and transparency at all levels of the organization."

Dr. Eitan Eliram, Co-Founder Scout Innovation
"Think fast, but listen to the creative voices of your employees, they too are in a dire situation, and sometimes dire situations will elicit immense creativity from them. It could lead to a great new solution or even a new life-saving device like the AmboVent."

Oliver Oster – Founder & COO, Optiopay
" ...a friend showed me his bank account with 400.00€ left on his bank account and said: 'I have to pay the rent for my restaurant in 3 days.' – This has been the moment of truth for me and also the moment how we came up with the idea of HilfeLokal.de."

Christoph Schönfelder, Co-Founder KOALA
"Act quickly and act with a clear focus on your customers. I have witnessed how entrepreneurs from my environment set up new services within 24 hours and got traction from minute one."

Lina Ries, Co-Founder atodo & doctodo
“We have learned to take decisions faster and to reject and rethink them even faster.”

Cristian Pascual, Co-Founder Mediktor
"There is a huge increase in the use of telemedicine and this will continue after the crisis."

Lucas Pulkert, CEO von Jungfeld
"Don’t bury your head in the sand, listen to your intuition, search and find creative solutions for your business."