European Spinoff Summit 2025

30th of June 2025, ESO Supernova Garching / Munich

Supporting scientists on their journey from lab to successful spinoff ventures.

Josef Fleischmann

CTO & Co-Founder of Isar Aerospace

Josef is building rockets at Isar Aerospace to lower the entry barriers to space. The company has raised more than €400m in funding since its foundation in 2018.

Hubertus Bessau

Co-Founder of Project Eaden & mymuesli

After bootstrapping mymuesli into one of Europe’s most iconic DTC food brands, Hubertus is tackling an even bigger challenge with Project Eaden: reinventing meat.

Barbara Diehl

Chief Partnership Officer at SPRIND

Before SPRIN-D, Barbara worked as Director of Transfer and Innovation at the Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft and the University of Oxford's Entrepreneurship Centre.

Maxmilian Ochs

Investment Manager at First Momentum Ventures

Max entered the VC world after finishing his PhD in Physics. At First Momentum, he’s backing Europe's most ambitious deep tech founder, especially in computing, techbio, and space tech.

Lukas Werling

Co-Founder and CEO of ISP Tech

Lukas worked for more than 14 years in the field of non-toxic rocket propulsion as a group lead at German Aerospace Center DLR, from where he spun out ISP successfully in 2023.

Robin Wauters

Founder of tech.eu

After stints at The Next Web and TechCrunch, Robin founded Tech.eu and turned it into one of Europe’s leading tech outlets. Tech.eu was acquired by Webrazzi in 2021.

Marek Checinski

Co-Founder and CTO of C1 Green Chemicals

At C1, Marek is developing an ultra-efficient catalysis to mass-produce green methanol for the shipping and chemical industry, saving CO2. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the Leibniz Institute.

Benedikt Stolz

Co-Founder of Turn2X

With a background in physics, Benedikt and Turn2X are solving Europe’s gas crisis by mass production of hydrogen carriers. Their first commercial plant in Spain is already running.

Philipp Engelkamp

CEO of Telura & Co-Founder of INERATEC

After studying Industrial Engineering at KIT, Philipp co-founded INERATEC, a pioneer in defossilization. Together with First Momentum, he’s building Telura to rethink geothermal energy.

Andreas Fischer

Founding Partner at First Momentum Ventures

Trained as a Mechanical Engineer at KIT and ETH, Andreas wants to nurture the next generation of scientists in the startup ecosystem, supporting them from the first check.

Christopher Lüscher

Senior Executive Officer DeepTech at DTU

As a serial inventor and board member with a PhD in Engineering Physics, Christopher uses his experiences to support DeepTech spinoffs from the Technical University of Denmark.

Christian Bogatu

Investment Director at SPRIND

Christian is a Serial Entrepreneur, Advisor and Investor who holds a PhD in Engineering from TU Berlin. At SPRIND, he identifies and supports radical innovators.

“Events like the Spinoff Summit play a really important role within the European ecosystem.”

Tom Nugent

Managing Editor @Sifted

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