DWIH Founders Summit 2025

Imene Abid

Women in Entrepreneurship 2024 Cohort

 

I am Imene, the founder of Goodlead, and I am on a mission to democratize skill-based volunteering in Germany.

Since I was young, I was actively involved in the nonprofit sector. After graduating from university, I spent a few years working as an IT and Data Science Consultant at a fintech company in Germany. I soon realized that I wanted to apply my skills to support nonprofits.This led me back to the nonprofit world, where I now split my time between building Goodlead and working part-time with Greenpeace on data-related projects.

When I first moved to Germany, I was surprised by how limited the opportunities were for professionals to volunteer their expertise, whether in IT, HR, or finance.. to help nonprofits tackle operational challenges. At the same time, companies are under growing pressure from both employees and stakeholders to take a more active role in social responsibility.

That’s why I’m building Goodlead: to bridge this gap by enabling companies to empower their employees to volunteer their skills for a bigger social footprint.

Liwah Wong

CITRIS Climate Innovation Intensive 2024

I'm currently leading a research collaboration between Technical University Berlin and the National University of Singapore, focused on biomass waste innovation in metropolitan contexts. My work explores a niche yet highly nuanced concept: developing novel soil systems tailored for urban agriculture and landscaping. The aim is to establish a unique and scalable pathway to address food and nutrient security, framed within the principles of the circular bioeconomy.

Dana Pietralla

Women in Entrepreneurship 2024 Hi, I’m Dana, Founder of paged, a Social-Tech company fostering inclusion in the digital space for neurodiverse people. During my studies, I have been involved in various research projects investigating the human visual system e.g. at University of California, Berkeley and New York University. In addition to my research in Cognitive Science, I completed extension curricula in Science and Technology Studies as well as Computer Science. With my science background, I now devote all my passion to paged, where we develop different IT and AI accessibility solutions as well as coachings for companies and website operators to improve inclusion of neurodiverse people to their digital content. Together with my Co-founder Deniz Tuzsus and our team, paged empowers web users all over the world and offers them the accessibility they need.

Aurel Hampl

CITRIS Health 2024 Aurel studied Business Administration (B.Sc) at the University of Cologne, graduation in 2024. His product, pooldown, aims to overcome the existing challenges of comfort, accessibility, and ease of use associated with traditional cold therapy systems. By combining advanced technology with thoughtful design, his team offers a solution that seamlessly integrates into daily life – quick to set up, easy to use, and optimized for the modern lifestyle. The application is not limited to athletes or biohackers, but targets anyone looking to enhance their recovery and performance.

Marius Rosenberg

Marius Rosenberg is a passionate entrepreneur, business angel and Deeptech expert with 12 years of international startup experience.  His ventures have raised > $ 150 million in venture capital globally and Marius was involved in multiple successful exits. He is a sought-after expert in Life Science as well as Deeptech, helping science-based startups to raise capital and become commercially successful. As CPO of Start2Group, a global non-profit powerhouse supporting  on the startup journey, he is responsible for the design & execution  of the company’s startup programs globally. Prior to that, Marius was the Managing Director of the “Excellence Start-up Center” at RWTH Aachen University, leading a team of 60+ startup coaches and tech-transfer professionals to support RWTH tech and deeptech spin-offs.

Berenike Schröder

Berenike Schröder is Head of Section for International Research Marketing at the German Centres for Research and Innovation, DAAD.