European Bootstrapping Champions

Vlad Gozman is the CEO and Co-founder of involve.me, a next-generation user engagement & customer experience platform with a focus on digital marketers & e-commerce. Vlad builds B2B SaaS products at the intersection of AI & no-code.Involve.me is an AI-powered interactive form builder used by 3K+ businesses worldwide, including Salesforce, Boston Consulting Group, and Universal Studios. The tool lets you easily design embeddable forms, surveys, quizzes, and custom calculators. You ...

Michael Kamleitner is the CEO & Founder of walls.io, an all-in-one social wall solution that allows you to collect, curate, and display content in an easy-to-customize feed. Passionate about SaaS, tech and social media, Michael developed an easy-to-use social media tool which allows you to collect content from multiple social media platforms or let your audience post content directly on your wall. You can embed it as a social wall on your website or display it on a screen at events, ...

Zoltan Vardy is a startup mentor and speaker who helps B2B tech founders sell and market to enterprise clients by applying his sales and marketing blueprint called The Launch Code.The Launch Code is built on the principles, tools, and techniques Zoltan used to close $2 billion in sales over his 30-year global career as an executive, entrepreneur, and investor.Zoltan has helped 200+ startups in 25 countries by teaching how to apply The Launch Code via a personal mentoring program, group worksh...

PETER ĎURIŠ is the CEO and co-founder of Kickresume. Although his main focus nowadays is business development and product design, he used to do everything from customer support and revising resume samples, to working with HR experts and hiring. Peter is the original mind behind Kickresume and has been working with resumes for more than 7 years. Together with Tomáš Ondrejka, transformed Kickresume from a small student start-up to a successfully running tech company with over 1M subscriber...

BrokerChooser was founded in 2016 by Gergely Korpos and Tibor Bedő, quickly becoming the leading European broker comparison site.BrokerChooser is the go-to site for uncomplicated and trustworthy online comparison of brokers. It helps independent investors and traders to find an online broker fitting to their needs.They compare online brokers, be it a local one or a large international platform. Browse their tests and compare brokers along more than 50 dimensions. Their tutorial videos show yo...

Bjoern Wolff (Björn Wolff) is the Founder & Managing Director of mymoria GmbH, the pioneer of tech-enabled digital funeral services with a nationwide network of quality driven funeral homes. Björn is a digitalist, entrepreneur, mentor, Chief Undertaking Officer, founder and winemaker. His professional career includes Westerwelle Foundation (as mentor), HRS - The Hotel Portal (Director Customer Acquisition and Director Mobile & New Media), YOC Mobile Advertising GmbH (Head of Co...

Mattia Franco is the founder and CEO of Xceed, a venture-backed startup that is taking over the information business by linking the B2B and B2C side of the nightlife industry, providing real-time analytics, and addressing the untapped Big Data space in the market.Mattia was one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2019, while its company has been classified by Apple amongst the Best 100 Apps in the World in 2016 and the fastest-growing Start-up of Spain by Tech5 in 2018.Xceed is on a mission to creat...

Simon Vestner grew up with elevators. He is the grandson of Wilhelm Vestner, who founded the elevator manufacturer of the same name in 1930. For several years, Simon ran the successful family business together with his father. Then he decided to build something of his own and reinterpret the role of the elevator in the building. He founded VESTNER.DIGITAL - now Digital Spine - with the brand Aufzughelden in Berlin in 2015. The team consists of over 30 people: IoT and AI professionals, enginee...

Johannes Stuhler is a Co-Founder of ListNRide, a digital company that provides booking platforms for bike rentals, test rides, and activities.Johannes is also the Managing Director of ListNRide. His previous experience includes HAWE Hydraulik SE (Head of Management Accounting and Head of IT) and Edmund Lutz Textil KG (assistant to the CEO). Johannes Stuhler is a Co-Founder at LR Mobility. He attended Erasmus University Rotterdam (M.Sc. Economics & Business, Entrepreneurship and New V...

Balazs Sandorfi is the CEO and founder of Bankmonitor Ltd., the market leader in banking products comparison in Hungary. Balazs is an enthusiastic start-up guy in the field of online financial services. His ultimate goal is to achieve everlasting #1 market position by applying very new business models. He is a passionate fan of finance. The word of the new times, the Internet, quickly took hold of the banking sector, so he mostly carried out innovative activities in his own companie...

Bogdan Badea is the CEO of eJobs Romania, the first recruitment platform launched in Romania. He is an experienced business leader with +16 years of working in the HR business services environment. Bogdan is proficient in Business Development, Strategy, Marketing, HR Software, Job Classifieds, HR Outsourcing and Recruitment. Throughout the years he held positions of Business Development Director, Managing Director, Associate Director, Business Development & Strategic Alliances Direct...

Ioana Dragomir co-founded together with Larisa Burca a B2B marketplace for event management named TULIPR. Ioana leads global digital transformation projects in the corporate environment, while Larisa is familiar with the events industry where she works as an Event Planner.Ioana talks about automation, event services, customer experience, tools and technologies, and digital transformation. She previously founded The Inside (www.theinside.ro), being also its Corporate Well-being Advocate. ...

Eva (Micheva) Vucheva has worked during her professional career in 12 companies, founding and co-founding some of them. In present time she is the Co-Founder and GM of CONTENTO.tech (7 yrs 5 mos) and Founder of Impakt_ID (2 yrs 5 mos).Her educational background includes Harvard Business School Online (other; CORe and Sustainable Business Strategies), SPD (Visual Communication), Universitet za nacionalno i svetovno stopanstvo with a Bachelor Degree in Marketing and Pforzheim University with an...

Chalid El Ashker is the Founder and CEO of Spacewise, a pioneering all-in-one solution for leasing of flexible spaces. He is also the founder of Ashker Ventures. He founded two other companies and has worked amongst others as lawyer and Head of Digital Unit for several companies. Spacewise is a digital platform that offers digital end-to-end solutions, which cover all aspects of the (flexible) leasing process - tools to optimize revenue & occupancy, and attract exciting new ten...

Bogdan Bocse has been working as an IT professional for 12 years, in organizations of varied size and industry, in roles such as solution architect, project manager and technology consultant. He is the managing partner of Knosis.ai, a marketplace for quality-controlled machine learning data sets, and Envisage.ai, a end-to-end solution for computer vision and face recognition. He is also leading the open source, non-profit DeepVISS initiative, aimed at bridging the gap between industry and aca...

Co-Founder & CEO of Busuu, one of the world's leading mobile apps for language learning with more than 100m+ users. Their vision is to inspire the world to learn together!Bernhard is frequently invited to speak at international conferences about Edtech and entrepreneurship, such as DLD, Webit Congress, Noah Conference, SIME, SXSW Edtech, BETT, GET Beijing etc.Originally from Vienna, he traveled around the world during his studies, spending 5 years in Madrid and now living in London where ...

CEO & Founder Expertwired.com. Reinier Huisman is a disruptive tech enthusiast & experienced (+15 yrs) strategy consultant and entrepreneur. In-depth marketplaces experience (ex-eBay corpdev). Reinier Huisman studied Econometrics and Business Economics at the University of Amsterdam. Reinier Huisman said: “Strategy is making choices today which will significantly impact the company’s future performance. No entrepreneur or investor wants to make blind sighted choices and this is e...

Andreas Millonig is the Chief Operating Officer of IMMOunited GmbH. Born in Carinthia, he successfully completed his studies in applied business administration at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt in 2009 and started his professional career as a key account manager in the Immounited sales team. In June 2012 he took over the business development agenda and at the beginning of 2018 he was promoted to Chief Innovation Officer and was responsible for innovation management and the innovation ...

Sander Van de Rijdt is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of construction documentation and task management platform PlanRadar, being responsible for the corporate and growth strategy at PlanRadar, but the Finance, HR, Legal and Administration departments also report to him. Sander studied at the Vienna University of Technology and Vienna University of Economics. Prior to PlanRadar, he founded five other IT companies with operations in Europe, the U.S., the Middle East and Central Asia and ...

New podcast out! Today’s interviewee is Kristofs Blaus, Co-founder of Nutrameg and Science22.com, an e-health startup that employs nutritionists & data scientists to develop AI/ML technology to personalize diet plans. Kristofs won “The Best Business Idea”, twice, in 2007, and appeared in Forbes Latvia with his app. Listen to his podcast here:Check out our website for more information.

A new entrepreneur has joined our #EuropeanBootstrappingChampions podcast: Till Schmid. He is the founder of Consultport, an online consulting platform that takes on board top-tier, highly experienced consultants and digital experts to advance successful projects. Their portfolio includes companies of all sizes, from multinational large companies to start-ups, in more than 53 countries.Till Schimd is passionate about digitalization and entrepreneurship, always eager to connect with peop...

Stefano Pavignano is the Chief Executive Officer of Bakeca.it, one of the main classifieds sites in Italy. Bakeca.it users can not only publish their ads for free, but they can also find jobs, accommodation, courses, pets and other products and services. The ads are divided into 110 cities (all Italian provincial capitals) and 87 categories. To continue a growth path, the company management is strengthened and renewed with appointing Stefano Pavignano as CEO. In this episode Eugen B. Rus...

In this epidode of the European Bootstrapping Champions Eugen B Russ invited Mathias Mathias Ockenfels from Speedinvest to talk about the differences in the investment approach in a VC and a private equity firm, what advice he has in entrepreneurs looking for funding, but also about the Marketplace Conference 2021.Mathias Ockenfels is a partner at Speedinvest, one of Europe’s leading Venture Capital funds, with its headquarters in Vienna, Austria. Investment professional working in Star...

Rado Daradan is one of the 2 founders of Hooray Studios, a company that creates personalized children’s books. He played a crucial role in growing the company from a team of four people to 120 team members and establishing it as a market leader in 6 countries around the world. In 2018 alone, the company sold almost half a million unique books and achieved a turnover of 12 million euros. And Khloe Kardiashian knows them…In this episode Nicola Szekely, RMEP managing director will be talking to ...

Marius Donhauser is the founder and CEO of hotelkit GmbH, an All-in-One Hotel Operations Platform as the ultimate solution for hotels.In this episode Eugen B. Russ is talking to Marius about what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur during a pandemic and what it takes to build a tech company from scratch.hotelkit´s solution for collaboration & service optimization makes handovers smoother, communication simpler, and guests happier. With hotelkit housekeeping, hotels benefit from digit...

Reinhold Baudisch is the founder and managing director of Austria's largest independent tariff comparison portal, Durchblicker.at, since 2009. The company is Austria's largest comparison platformDurchblicker currently offers 28 tariff comparisons for insurance, telecommunications, electricity and gas, as well as traditional financial products such as loans, current accounts and savings interest. With the user-friendly comparison calculators, consumers can find top offers in these areas withou...

Karriere.at is Austria's largest career portal. The opportunities of the market leader in online recruiting connect suitable candidates with the best employers. Since the company was founded in 2004, two things have driven us above all: service and innovation. Klaus Hofbauer is co-founder and co-managing director of karriere.at. Due to his orientation in the company, he has his very special opinions on the subject of HR and technology, online marketing, SEO and many more. His comments ar...

Eugen B. Russ, Managing Director of Russmedia Equity Partners, welcomes you to the European Bootstrapping Champions podcast. A show with and for bootstrappers to discuss ideas, opportunities, and to learn from tech entrepreneurs about what drives them and what is their key to success. In this episode we'll learn from Martin Lenz, Jobiqo CEO about his journey as an "entrepreneurial executive".: how he left a well paying job in a large corporation to join a 5 employee startup, but th...

In this webinar Bergfex CEO Alexander Katzmaier talks about his experience building a cost-efficient data analytics setup from scratch. During the one hour conversation, Alexander gives you practical insights into building an automated reporting solution with a limited budget that is easy to manage and will share the main learnings for entrepreneurs from this experience.Dos and don’ts, tips and an insightful Q&A session. This session is dedicated to all entrepreneurs and CTOs that are int...

Russmedia Equity Partners (RMEP) invites you to join this talk where you can learn from the speakers‘ experience about what it means to sell a company.Dos and don’ts, tips and an insightful Q&A session. Who are the speakers?Markus Kümmel is managing director and co-founder of Bergfex, the leading online company for outdoor enthusiasts in Europe. In 1999 Markus co-founded Bergfex as a passionate skier and snowboarder. He is jointly responsible for the strategic development and growth ...

Acquire your competitors to accelerate growthRussmedia Equity Partners (RMEP) invites you to listen to the webinar on how you can consolidate your market share with M&A activities. This is the recording of the online webinar that took place on zoom on March 25th and is dedicated to all tech companies that are interested in learning the ins and outs of buying a competitor in the online marketplaces and SaaS industry.Check out our website for more information.

Martin Lenz, CEO at Jobiqo describes the cooperation with Russmedia Equity Partners At the end of 2019, Russmedia Equity Partners (RMEP) acquired a majority stake from Jobiqo founder Klaus Furtmüller, who is still on board as minority shareholder and director. Martin Lenz, shareholder and CEO at Jobiqo also stayed to continue and support the growth of the company. A year after joining the RMEP portfolio Martin is still convinced it was the right move to do and believes that this is a cooperat...

Peter Weiler is the managing director and founder of Dating Central Europe, Hungary’s leading online dating company.He started his career as a graphic and web designer in 1995 and was involved in launching Hungary’s leading news portal Origo for Hungarian Telekom in 1998. He started his own company Habostorta with a group of co-investors in the year 2000. Habostorta was the first entertainment and dating portal in Hungary that merged into the newly founded Dating Central Europe in 2014. Peter...