Every year, tens of thousands of patent attorneys use millions of hours for defining inventions in natural language documents. At the same time, thousands of patent examiners spend millions of hours looking for novelty factors within those documents. …

By Jennifer Diamant Foulon, Organizational Development Coach — Hiring a Chief Operating Officer is a recurring focus as startups lay the groundwork for scale. …

An interview with Marco Witzmann of Valispace — Founded in 2016, Valispace is enabling agile hardware development by offering a digital productivity tool for hardware engineers. As category creators in Engineering Information Management (EIM), the company is educating a new generation of hardware engineers about digitizing their day-to-day toolkits. …

The last few years have taught us all some important lessons. #1: Gathering in person and connecting with each other face-to-face is never something to take for granted. #2: Planning can only take you so far. When it comes to dealing with unexpected turbulence, agility is far more important. When…

We are excited to announce our investment in Berlin-based Digital Spine. Alongside two successful German Mittelstand companies, Phoenix Contact and Goldbeck, we have co-led this €6.7m Series A round. Digital Spine provides a predictive maintenance and management platform for the elevator service industry, and this marks our fourth investment in…

In June, Join Partner Jan Borgstädt participated in a panel at Berlin’s SuperVenture conference for VCs and LPs. Alongside Moderator Adam Thatcher (Associate, Goodwin) and panelists Saloni Bhojwani (Co-Founder & Partner, Pink Salt Ventures), Adam Niewiński (Co-Founder & General Partner, OTB) and Mark Sherman (Managing Partner, Telstra Ventures), Jan touched…

Sean Mitchell has spent 33 years in the semiconductor industry with four successful startup businesses. In 2005, he co-founded Movidius as CEO. While bringing to the market the industry’s leading Edge Compute platform for Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence, the Movidius team raised over $100 m in venture capital. …

We’re announcing our backing of How.fm, the Cologne-based company that has created a warehouse worker training platform to help onsite managers quickly enable and retain workers. This marks a €5m Seed round, led by us and joined by Kindred Capital, Capnamic and business angels Here’s why we invested in How.fm to help solve global workforce staffing challenges. — The warehousing market has seen the greatest increase in workforce staffing to date, and this trend shows no signs of slowing in the coming years. …

Big topics, made bite-sized. — By Sebastian von Ribbentrop, Join Capital. Joined by Jennifer Diamant Foulon, Performance Acceleration and Krystall Fierens-Lee, Proxyclick How do startups and scaleups decide how they want to compensate their team members? It’s a tricky question, that’s for sure. The compensation roadmap for young and growing teams seems to either be…