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VNR Verlag für die Deutsche Wirtschaft AG is a family-owned specialist publishing group based in Bonn, Germany, and one of the largest special-interest publishers in the country. To drive its digital transformation, VNR operates Platform X GmbH & Co. KG, which provides end-to-end marketing, fulfillment, and technology solutions including user & license management, ePaper and content apps, paywalls, and e-learning / LMS products for internal brands and external partners.
A hospitality operator managing 20+ Airbnb units faced significant operational friction due to the lack of a Property Management System (PMS) and Airbnb’s restricted API ecosystem. Without official APIs, all reservation updates — from new bookings to guest changes — had to be manually processed. Staff spent hours daily extracting booking details, creating door codes, and sending messages to guests via Airbnb’s interface. To solve this, we built an end-to-end AI automation workflow that handles the entire process automatically.
An AI-powered automation agent that converts Apaleo reservation and booking comments into structured operational traces. It eliminates manual review, ensures consistent task creation, and integrates seamlessly with Sweeply to streamline hotel operations. The system processes thousands of monthly comments with high accuracy, reducing workload and improving service reliability across departments.
mk | hotels is a growing European hotel group operated by the Lindner family, with a portfolio of modern city hotels across Germany and Europe. Known for their straightforward and contemporary service concept, mk | hotels focuses on digital-first operations that deliver a consistent and efficient guest experience across all properties — including their hotel in Tirana, Albania, which brings additional regulatory and operational complexities.
Voltaro is a Munich-based startup that simplifies commercial rooftop solar for real-estate owners, tenants, and facility managers. Its digital platform helps users assess feasibility, procure installers, and operate solar systems for building portfolios. By partnering with 140+ vetted installers and running a competitive bidding model, Voltaro aims to lower energy costs, reduce CO₂ emissions, and make solar adoption easy for commercial properties.
Uptodate Ventures is a consulting and technology company helping SMEs implement sustainable business practices. It offers status-quo analyses, strategy development, and sustainability reporting aligned with EU standards, supported by proprietary software and AI to make sustainability easier, more affordable, and more engaging. As part of Versicherungskammer Bayern, it operates under high IT security and GDPR standards and leverages subsidized consulting to make services accessible.
TOPIXS is a content curation and management platform that helps organizations and professional curators aggregate, score, and distribute high-quality content across topics. It centralizes feeds from RSS, APIs, and manual submissions, offers topic and list management, and exposes curated content via secure APIs to third-party applications.
Software Defined Automation is an Industrial DevOps platform for automation engineers, managing the software that runs on PLCs (programmable logic controllers). SDA offers automated backups, code version control, secure remote access, browser-based engineering, and AI-generated code documentation for heterogeneous industrial environments, enabling unified cloud management of factory control systems.
Resycure is a BASF-backed impact startup that connects recyclers and brand owners to enable long-term procurement of post-consumer recycled (PCR) plastics such as rPET, rPP, and rHDPE. The platform digitizes matching between buyers and recyclers, supports forecasting, traceability, and price transparency, and helps brands scale circular packaging across industries.
Realcube is a cloud-based, API-first real-estate management platform that unifies data across property, facility, community, finance, and ESG domains. It integrates information from property management, ERP, CRM, and IoT systems into a single analytics cockpit, giving asset owners and property managers real-time insights, portfolio KPIs, and ESG reporting capabilities.
Payone GmbH is a German payment service provider (PSP) and e-money institution headquartered in Frankfurt. It offers comprehensive cashless payment solutions—online, in-store, and mobile—for merchants across the DACH region and beyond. Payone processes billions of transactions annually for more than 260,000 customers, including brands like Deutsche Bahn, Rossmann, Puma, home24, and Sansibar. Key offerings include a payment gateway, reporting & analytics, and omnichannel payment solutions.
NEKOD is a SaaS governance platform for citizen development in large institutions. It centralizes LowCode/NoCode (LCNC) solutions—especially Microsoft Power Platform apps—into one place, giving organizations visibility into risk, compliance, and ROI while still promoting productivity.
MatchBased is a next-generation hiring platform that goes beyond resumes by combining AI-driven skill assessments with psychologist-designed soft-skill evaluations. It helps employers quickly shortlist candidates based on validated skills and team fit, leading to faster hiring decisions, stronger team alignment, and fewer mismatches.
Loyee.ai is an AI-powered B2B sales intelligence platform that helps teams identify, prioritize, and engage their best-fit leads. It analyzes large datasets to detect buying signals, enriches and segments leads, and automates personalized outreach. Customers report 300%+ email response rate increases, higher engagement, and more effective outbound campaigns.
Bookingkit is a SaaS platform that helps experience providers (tours, attractions, activities) manage online bookings, ticketing, and distribution. For this engagement, Bookingkit aimed to add a “Chat with Your Data” Agent so internal teams could access operational and financial insights via natural language conversation instead of dashboards and spreadsheets.
Apaleo is an API-first property management system (PMS) and open hospitality platform for hotels, serviced apartments, and hospitality tech startups. Its modular architecture and open ecosystem let operators assemble their own tech stack, integrate third-party apps, and build highly automated digital guest experiences across regions.
Aniva is a German healthtech platform that turns traditional healthcare into proactive, personalized self-care. It offers a deep diagnostic blood test covering 140+ biomarkers and delivers a tailored 4-month plan with supplements, nutrition, and lifestyle guidance — all managed within a single app that tracks biological age and evolving health insights.
Ailoys is an industrial AI company that builds and deploys Digital Twin solutions for manufacturing lines, helping factories optimize material compositions, balance process speed with product quality, and maximize return on manufacturing assets.
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