This episode analyzes the execution bottleneck in enterprise quantum computing. Mykola Myksymenko of Haiqu argues that the missing software stack, not just hardware maturity, determines whether current systems can produce useful outcomes. The conversation focuses on noise, middleware, hybrid workflows, and why early experimentation may matter strategically even before broad production utility exists.

Featuring Mykola Myksymenko, Co-Founder & CTO at Haiqu.

Hosted by Jörn Menninger, Founder & Editor-in-Chief at Startuprad.io — the authority on German, Swiss & Austrian startups.

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Germany is building a layered innovation system that separates venture formation from ecosystem coordination. In this interview, Thomas Jarzombek outlines how DE Hubs connect startups, SMEs, researchers, and investors, while Startup Factories increase venture creation around universities. The conversation also addresses private-capital discipline, hidden-champion economics, and the role of AI in Germany’s next startup phase.

Featuring Thomas Jarzombek, Parliamentary State Secretary at the German Federal Digital Ministry.

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This episode analyzes three structural signals shaping the DACH startup ecosystem in Q1 2026. First, startup capital is concentrating into fewer, more defensible companies. Second, Germany’s startup geography is specializing, with Munich and southern Germany gaining strength in defense, robotics, space, and industrial AI. Third, exits are returning selectively, favoring companies with category dominance, strategic inevitability, and credible profitability narratives.

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The March 2026 DACH startup news roundup covers the month's most significant funding rounds, acquisitions, IPO developments and ecosystem shifts across Germany, Austria and Switzerland — tracking the structural capital movements, sector dynamics and policy signals shaping the startup landscape heading into Q2 2026.

The March 2026 DACH startup roundup covers major funding developments including the largest single robotics round in German venture history, a state-backed fusion commitment of unprecedented scale, multiple defence-tech procurement milestones, and the first signs of a geographic power shift in German startup funding from Berlin toward Bavaria. Key signals include growing institutional confidence in humanoid robotics and industrial automation, the normalisation of defence-tech as a mainstream venture category, and continued strength in fintech infrastructure investment. The episode identifies the market dynamics driving mid-Q1 deal activity and what founders and investors should expect from the funding environment in the months ahead.

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European retail is entering a margin war driven by global platform competitors. In this episode, Arber Sejdiji, CEO of Zenline AI, explains why the strategic battleground is not pricing or promotion, but assortment decision velocity. We cover why dashboards fail at catalog scale, how long-tail data exposes hidden margin loss, and why relationship mapping is now required to price and curate assortments profitably.

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Featuring Arber Sejdiji, CEO at Zenline AI.

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What if the tools we use to test cancer drugs don’t behave like human tumors at all?
That’s the question that pushed Ghazaleh Madani, CEO and co-founder of CanChips, to build one of the most compelling innovations in oncology today: tumor-on-a-chip platforms that replicate human tumor biology with unprecedented accuracy.

In this episode, we explore how microfluidics, 3D co-cultures, endothelial layers, and real-time biosensing combine to replace outdated 2D cultures and reduce reliance on animal models.
The result: faster, more predictive cancer drug testing — and a pathway toward truly personalized oncology.

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– What it takes to build and lead a cross-disciplinary biotech team
– Why founder visibility matters as much as scientific rigor

Whether you're building in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, this episode offers one of the clearest explanations of capital-efficient growth, B2B startup scaling, and long-term founder wealth creation.

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Ghazaleh Madani is a biotech founder whose mission began when her mother was diagnosed with cancer. Her work at CanChips merges engineering, biology, and human urgency — delivering one of the most promising tumor-modeling systems in Europe.

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In this episode, Steven Puri, CEO of The Sukha Company and former Hollywood VFX executive (Independence Day, Godzilla, Transformers Prime), shares the rituals, behavioral frameworks, and AI-powered systems he uses to help founders reach deep work in distraction-heavy environments.

Steven’s journey from blockbuster sets to startup leadership reveals how flow state rituals can transform founder performance.

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– How to use environmental & sound triggers to engineer daily flow
– Behavioral nudges that increased productivity by 77%
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– How AI productivity assistants will personalize founder workflows
– Why empathy & resilience outperform hustle culture for long-term success

Steven Puri, CEO of The Sukha Company, blends Hollywood rigor with startup agility. He shares real-world frameworks founders can apply tomorrow to unlock focus, structure, and sustainable output.

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Steven Puri, co-founder/CEO of Sukha, shares the flow state for startup founders playbook: body doubling, the coffee-shop effect, chronotype time-blocking, demo-first standups, and outcome-based leadership. You’ll learn how to beat the 22-minute context switching tax, design deep-work rituals for remote teams, and build a best-idea-wins culture that ships.

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