On October 14th weXelerate welcomed executives from various Austrian companies to the first Executive Bash. More than 60 people followed the invitation. After a warm welcome by Awi Lifshitz, managing director at weXelerate, participants listened to two interesting keynotes held by Bruce Horn and Alex Wright. Alex Wright, UX Research…
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We are happy and proud to present to you our next Xray magazine issue! Come in and pick up a copy or read the news comfortably online! What are the topics? As in the previous two issues the magazine focuses on startups, innovation and modern technology.
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If you want to work on innovative projects, taking part in an innovation challenge can be quite a door-opener. Our tenants Wien Energie/Smart Inspection went down this road. We have met with Michael Elias, co-founder of Smart Inspection, and Patrick Enzinger, project manager at Smart Inspection, to learn about their…
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Why not host your next event at weXelerate, the Home of Innovation in Vienna’s city center? Apart from being a very central location, the hub offers on its almost 9.000m² rooms as well as open areas for events of all kinds. Depending on your event, you can welcome as few…
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In this month interview of the Meet the Mieters series get to know Palfinger better, a company that specialises in reliable and cost-effective lifting solutions for the use on commercial vehicles. I met with Stefan Kreppel, Head of Open Innovation PALFINGER 21st, to ask him a few questions about life…
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“CNS drug discovery is amongst the most challenging endeavours in the pharmaceutical industry, however, our disruptive technology using human brain organoids for drug design has the potential to herald a new era in the development of novel medicines for the treatment of brain diseases.” says Oliver Szolar, founding partner and…
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Every year most parents are wrecking their brains for weeks before the summer holidays start: What to do for 9 whole weeks with their offspring? Summer camps are a great way to keep them busy and get them interested in various topics at the same time. weXelerate is proud to…
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Come visit weXelerate, Vienna’s Home of Innovation! Join us for interesting and informative events in August and September! DaVinciLab summer camps for kids In July children taking part in the DaVinciLab summer camps experienced two successful weeks of learning, having fun and finding new friends. Wanna join in? There are…
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For the interview series Meet the Mieters I was warmly welcomed by Herwig, Henry and Patrick in the office of i5invest. Read on to find out what these three gentlemen have revealed about their work at i5invest, innovation and ongoing projects. weX: Nice to meet you…
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Working in our hub means working with national as well as with international startups. One startup came all the way from America. I met with Luke and Andy from our Batch 3 alumni peruse.io/NOAM to find out what made them come all the way to Austria.
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Today weXelerate open its doors to investors and the public. And a great number of people followed our invitation. Investor’s Day For the Investor’s Day we opened our doors in the morning and started the day off with a breakfast for the investors and the startups. The rest of the…
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This is a dream of many people: to have someone else taking care of their tasks . Now this dream has come true! A…
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Have you ever wondered what live in a beehive is like? Pretty busy I would like to think. If you happen to be in the hub, go see HYVE Innovation Austria, “Europe’s first one-stop-shop for innovation” as managing director Michael Maier puts it. The Austrian affiliate…
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An interesting question for any industry, I would say. In order to find possible answers to the question, weXelerate managing director Awi Lifshitz and team were proud to welcome the German Engineering Association (VDMA) on June 5th to the biggest hub in CEE. VDMA in a nutshell Together with weXelerate…
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The basis of a startup company are usually new and innovative ideas. In order to bring such ideas to live, investment is needed. The startup Txture specialises in a game-changing software platform for the analyses and cloud transformation of global IT landscapes. Today the startup announced…
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We are happy to announce that we are getting bigger! The innovation and startup hub “weXelerate am Lindengrund” will open its doors in autumn 2019, exactly 2 years after the opening of the hub in Vienna. Why the west? This location in the west will open…
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Life is full of changes. However, it is quite difficult to bring forward changes, especially when it comes to changes in the workplace. Learn to make changes Once a year the Innovation Day sponsored by Österreichische Lotterien takes place. This year part…
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Over the course of the last two years almost 180 startups and scaleups participated in one of the four weXelerate batches. They all have one thing in common: a tempting offer for the weXelerate ecosystem – most notably our corporate partners – that makes them stand out from the masses…
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Most people would answer this question with a yes. And to tell the truth, I myself would probably say yes, I feel fit and confident in the usage of the internet. But how fit are we really with websites, social media and search engines? Since autumn 2018 our hub has…
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What really struck me when I started working at weXelerate a few months ago was the job title of one of my colleagues: Chief Happiness Officer, short CHO. What does it mean for a company and its workforce to have a CHO in the team? Can one person make a…
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You can meet robots in our hub! An innovation hub is per definition a modern, innovative place. Is there a way to make it even more fashionable and part of the new world of work? There is. Since September 2018 IBM Austria has two seats in…
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The weXelerate hub is constantly changing. Tenants come and go. In some cases, tenants love the atmosphere, the networking as well as the whole character of the office building so much that they decide to bring in even more colleagues and therefore need to expand their work space. A similar…
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There are many innovative and new ideas around. In times of the internet and social media they spread really fast. But what happens if you summon all the people who have such ideas? A great festival, full of inspiring ideas and stimulating talks. For three days – April 9-11 –…
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The wish of every company whether it is big or small is to constantly grow and be successful. But how to make your business larger is not always easy. That’s where growth hacking companies become part of the pictures. Such companies are per definition companies that help other companies to…
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The new batch 4 startups are getting to know their way around the Accelerator hub. Located in their own space during the monthly block weeks, there have been a number of events in their first week at weXelerate. On the third day of their first week the startups presented themselves…
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Welcome to the weXelerate Accelerator Hub! We are very happy to say “hallo” to 25 new batch 4 startups. In the next four months these ladies and gentlemen will engage in our accelerator program. In this batch the startups again come from all over the world: They are from Austria,…
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Not very much. At least not at first sight. But if you are digging deeper you will see that both fields are relying heavily on numbers and data. Taking this into account it is not surprising that the two startups DAGOPT and…
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What does being a woman mean nowadays? Even as a woman it is not easy to answer this question. In celebration of womanhood and the international women’s day the organisation female founders organised a huge event in less than 6 weeks. The motto of the event…
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Since today each one of you can take home a piece of weXelerate! Our new quarterly magazine Xray was launched this morning. What can you read in Xray? You will find interviews, background stories and news on the startup hub, its ecosystem as well as its tenants and startups. A…
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Modern times have turned homo sapiens into “homo computicus”. All of us work every day with computers, laptops and other hardware devices. Of course, we want to be fashionable in this area as well. Humankind is striving for faster, better and more modern devices. New hardware is put on the…
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All of us interact online on a daily basis. Whether it is for work or private use, there are many online touchpoints with or as a customer. Almost everyone buys books, clothing, toys and many other products or services online. Unfortunately, customers are not always happy when they open the…
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Last weekend the weXelerate hub was buzzing again. The reason was the second …
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The weXerlate hub offers startups and our corporate partners room for getting together and networking. The idea is that together they come up with a joined project. But sometimes two startups find ways of cooperating on cool projects. That was the case for…
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Before the weXelerate Accelerator Program ended last week for batch 3, we were happy to welcome Wolfgang Dreyer from Oracle as well as Andreas Rath from the startup Ondewo for a Tech Breakfast on January 16…
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And the winner is … After 4 interesting months batch 3 of the weXelerate Accelerator Program ended today. In these past few months the startups have made quite a journey. On today’s Investor’s Day and Pitch Night 36 startups have impressed the investors and the public alike with their innovative…
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All of us are spending more time than ever in school, at university or in other educational programs. Thus acquiring a massive amount of information and knowledge, which is later used for work within companies. But how do you manage this knowledge and…
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When Thomas Watson announced that “… there is a world market for maybe five computers.” he had clearly underestimated the power of computers as well as the technology that came with it. This was many years ago and we have come a long way since then. Formerly computers were huge…
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When Gregor Jarisch, one of the founders of Labs.ai came up with his chatbot idea E.D.D.I. more than 10 years ago, no one seemed to be interested in this topic within Austria. But as so much energy, passion and money had been put into realizing this idea,…
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Innovation and startups are buzzwords nowadays. Many companies use them, but only a few live them. Spar, a big Austrian supermarket chain, and their affiliate Hervis, the biggest sportswear and sports equipment retailer in Austria, are setting an example of how cooperation between…
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Who does not sometimes dream of being their own boss or of running their own business? The business world has changed over the past years as every year more companies are entering the market. Their ideas are big, their companies usually small and quite agile with flat hierarchies and the…
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