Building a company takes time, so finding the right long-term co-founder is crucial and must be done consciously. So how do you do it? In the latest episode of The Early Stages Podcast by APX, host Søren talks to his guests about shared values and enthusiasm — and why founders can learn a thing or two from Love Island. — In the second episode of the season, Søren is joined by Jörg Rheinboldt, Managing Director at APX, as co-host. Their guests are Ivan Tan, co-founder of Humant Life, and Darren Murphy, Associate Director at Antler.

Meet Sven and Veronica. They’re the co-founders of Dana — an app that helps women with different tools to get through the exciting, but also challenging phase of becoming and being a mother. — When women become mothers, an incredibly exciting, but for some, frightening process begins in their bodies and psyches. 90 percent of women experience some kind of mood disorder during motherhood. 25 percent of women suffer from severe maternal mental health pathology. The reason they can’t be helped better is because…

Is now a good time to start the company you are thinking of? How do you know? In the latest episode of The Early Stages Podcast by APX host Søren is talking to his guest about that exact topic — and how they solved this problem. — In this first episode of the second season, Søren is talking to Jörg Rheinboldt, managing director at APX, and Teddy Kim, Head of Venture Development and Investor at APX. Other guests are the founders of Piggit, Sofia Bennis and Aida Chafik.

On each episode of season 2 of ‘The Early Stages Podcast by APX’, we bring together founders and experts to discuss one key topic for building a company from scratch. New episodes coming every second week this year. — As an earliest-stage VC with more than 130 companies in its portfolio, APX helps the founders we invest in by enabling and facilitating meaningful learning exchange between all the founders. We organize events and have custom-built our platform APX.network to make cross-portfolio exchange sharing simple. Each startup journey is unique…

Meet Sofia and Aida: Together with the rest of the founding team, they are developing the app Piggit, with which you can pay off your own mountain of debt in a playful and automated way. — When it comes to debt, Aida Chafik knows what she’s talking about. She herself pays a hefty chunk of money to her bank every month to pay off a mortgage loan. Of course, before taking out the loan, she thought carefully about whether she could afford it. But: “People underestimate…

Meet Sergey, Michael and Eduardo: The three friends and founders of GerneOhne established an online shopping platform, where people can buy groceries without plastic packaging. — Online shopping is booming, and not just since Covid-19. Clothes, shoes, wardrobes — we buy almost everything online, and the tools for doing so are getting better all the time. You can now even do your weekly shopping at the nearest supermarket online and have it delivered. So everything is…

Meet Marius and Hady: The founders have created an app that helps people get rid of their migraine and other pain issues through neurocentric training. — Almost 40 percent of adult Germans suffer from headaches several times a month, according to Statista. The severity can vary: Some feel only a slight pressing behind the eye, others suffer from severe migraine with aura. In both cases, the statistics vary greatly, because these people rarely make use of…

Meet the siblings Ivana, Nikola, and Jurica: These founders from Croatia developed a platform that helps people book their next appointment in the beauty salon stressless and easily. — Especially in times of the pandemic, we are increasingly encouraged to make an appointment before visiting the hairdresser, beauty salon or restaurant instead of dropping by spontaneously. So you have to call these service providers to set a date and time. “But I, for one, hate making phone calls,” says…

Meet Julia and Sophie. Together, they founded beatvest, an app-based investment platform that aims to increase financial literacy and helps people to start investing and building their portfolios. — “There are far too many people who have their money sitting in their savings accounts instead of investing it,” says Sophie Thurner, one of the CEOs from the startup beatvest. “ But most people simply don’t know how investing works. And that’s exactly what we want to change.”