Boosting Hotel Success: AI-Driven Automation for MICE Excellence

Leading the Transformation in MICE Hotel Management

MICE DESK leverages cutting-edge AI technology and deep industry expertise to automate complex processes in the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions) industry. From inquiries to bookings, contracts, and planning, MICE DESK’s solution boosts efficiency while solving the sector’s workforce shortage.

Our vision is to resolve the workforce shortage in the MICE hotel sector by automating processes, allowing hotels to focus on their core business – delivering exceptional guest experiences.

Bernd Fritzges
CEO, Founder
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Our mission

MICE DESK’s mission is to address the chronic labor shortages in the MICE hotel sector by automating nearly all operational processes, from booking to event management. By combining AI-powered solutions with experienced personnel, MICE DESK ensures that hotels can deliver seamless service while optimizing efficiency.

AI-Driven Automation for MICE Hotels

MICE DESK integrates Large Language Models (LLMs), RPA, and other AI technologies to fully automate the complex booking, contracting, and planning processes. This allows hotels to handle more inquiries with greater speed and precision.

Expert Personnel Combined with Automation

Alongside advanced AI technology, MICE DESK provides hotels with experienced personnel to manage and optimize convention and group sales processes. This unique combination allows for increased productivity and customer satisfaction.

Cloud-Based Solutions for Seamless Integration

MICE DESK’s solutions are entirely cloud-based, ensuring that they can be seamlessly integrated into existing hotel management systems while offering scalability and flexibility for future growth.

Sebastian Pyzalski 
Investment Manager

Investment Focus Areas

  • IT Infrastructure
  • Sales Intelligence
  • eCommerce
  • Security

More than a Category Management Software

Empower Your Procurement Teams with akirolabs

akirolabs, founded in 2021 by Michael Pleuger, Detlef Schultz, Christoph Flöthmann, and Tim Ergenzinger, develops and provides an AI-powered SaaS platform for collaborative strategic procurement. Akirolabs is built upon a world-class, industry-proven strategic procurement process, methodology, and toolkit, embedded in an intuitive cross-functional collaboration workflow and enriched with all relevant internal and external business insights. Akirolabs’ unique approach delivers “Procurement Strategies with Value & Purpose”, offering a significantly broader and 4-5 times higher value contribution than traditional sourcing solutions.

We believe in the imperative of advanced strategic procurement software in today’s economic environment. In these challenging times, akirolabs does not just facilitate savings on price. Much more, our solution delivers tangible improvements in total cost and supply chain resilience, sustainability and agility, strengthening the competitiveness of our customers.

Michael Pleuger
CEO
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Our mission

We strive to become the platform that connects people from different backgrounds, cultures, and languages, driving lasting positive change in businesses through procurement strategies with purpose and sustainable value. In our labs from akirolabs, we are developing the future of ProcureTech.

Jan Ludwig
Senior Investment Manager

Senior Investment Manager

  • Industrial Tech
  • Supply-Chain Management

Trained employees at the touch of a button

Streamlined Training for Your Deskless Workforce

doinstruct is developing a mobile, multilingual and user-friendly training solution for frontline workers that enables location-independent training on a smartphone that can be easily implemented.

Our aim is to ensure that all employees are actually reached during mobile training sessions.

Charlotte Rothert, Thorsten Groß, Daniel Marinkovic
CEO, COO, CTO
Sebastian Pyzalski 
Investment Manager

Investment Focus Areas

  • IT Infrastructure
  • Sales Intelligence
  • eCommerce
  • Security

The simple solution for complex transport planning

Optimization for greener logistics

S2data develops software for more efficient supply chain planning that reduces logistics costs and emissions and increases efficiency.

With the logistics of the future, we create added value for society and industry.

Dr. Stefan Kremsner, Dr. Stefan Lendl
MD Sales, MD Development

Our mission

At S2data, our mission is to enhance societal and industrial value by harnessing the power of applied mathematics. We are committed to delivering superior algorithms, deep tech, and software expertise through innovative, state-of-the-art cloud or on-premise solutions. Our goal is to transform logistics processes with realistic, holistic optimization, utilizing cutting-edge models to unlock maximum potential and ensure precise operational planning for our key users, while meticulously considering all related constraints.

3D Load optimization

The load space optimization solution enhances transport efficiency by using algorithms to maximize loading space, which reduces the number of required transports and ensures compliance with legal and logistical standards. It integrates with existing systems and offers benefits like cost savings, lower emissions, and improved load security.

Route and tariff optimization

The route and tariff optimization solution employs algorithms to select the most efficient routes and cost-effective tariffs, dynamically adjusting to changes in The route and tariff optimization solution employs algorithms to select the most efficient routes and cost-effective tariffs, dynamically adjusting to changes in production, storage, and transport needs. This approach not only reduces transport costs and lowers CO2 emissions but also improves overall supply chain visibility. It integrates seamlessly with existing systems through a cloud-based platform.

Tour planning

The tour planning solution optimizes multi-stop routes to minimize driving time and reduce costs, taking into account factors such as loading sequences, time slots, and legal requirements. It dynamically adjusts to operational changes, ensuring efficient resource use, lowering CO2 emissions, and enhancing overall supply chain transparency.

Success Stories

With our algorithms, we are already shaping the green logistics of the future. Get insights into success stories from a wide range of industries.

Jan Ludwig
Senior Investment Manager

Senior Investment Manager

  • Industrial Tech
  • Supply-Chain Management

Sovereignty in the AI era

Responsibility in a new era

Aleph Alpha‘s technology is driving business transformation for enterprises and governments through proprietary AI innovation. Founded in 2019 in Heidelberg, the AI R&D company has a mission to achieve technological sovereignty. Since its inception, it has published several category-defining innovations to make modern AI trustworthy. In 2023, Aleph Alpha formed a strong partnership with IPAI in Heilbronn to ensure ongoing open research contributions to the ecosystem and uphold its responsibility to the community.

Only with technological sovereignty can we ensure our values determine the world in which the next generations will grow up, and that we have the ability and resources to meet the cultural, political and social challenges of this transformation.

Jonas Andrulis
Founder & CEO

Our mission

This new generation of AI has the potential to drive one of history’s most impactful developments: the transformation of society’s very fabric. Our responsibility is to shape a future that upholds our values and principles, where the foundations of liberal democracy and aligned institutions ensure prosperity and fairness for all.

Tom Villinger
CEO
 

Resilient water management with zero emissions.

Pluvion will skyrocket the digitization of the water industry with Artificial Intelligence.

Using state-of-the-art technologies and advanced artificial intelligence methods, Pluvion enhances the supply security and resilience of municipalities, water utilities, and industrial companies, empowering them to tackle the challenges posed by climate change, the energy transition, and demographic shifts. Our B2B2B & SaaS business model allows us to scale our solutions seamlessly, providing continuous innovation and support to our partners and their clients. This approach fosters a collaborative ecosystem, enabling entire networks to benefit from our tools while ensuring cost-effectiveness and flexibility.

At Pluvion, we believe in highly scalable solutions that are easy to use and affordable. We like to think about ourselves as the app store for the water industry.

Phillip Grimm
CEO & Co-Founder
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Our mission

At Pluvion, our mission is to democratize access to intelligent software solutions. We believe that cutting-edge technology should be accessible to all – whether small municipalities, large industrial companies, or water utilities. By making AI-powered solutions affordable and understandable, we empower organizations to optimize water management, enhance sustainability, and drive innovation, regardless of size or budget. Our commitment is to ensure that everyone benefits from the power of technology to build a more resilient, efficient, and environmentally conscious future.

WATER+ locates extraneous water

WATER+ by Pluvion is an AI-powered solution designed to support sewer network operators in detecting, locating, and predicting extraneous water in sewer networks. Based on existing level data, WATER+ offers live monitoring and predictive maintenance, while being more cost-effective than traditional measurement methods. The software enables a detailed visualization of the sewer network, efficient identification of potential impacts and strategic planning of targeted actions. Key features include optimal sensor placement and a heat map for identifying critical areas and incorrect connections.

Jan Ludwig
Senior Investment Manager

Senior Investment Manager

  • Industrial Tech
  • Supply-Chain Management

Your personal AI maths tutor

Your personal AI maths tutor

Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Rocket Tutor is an AI-driven educational platform that focuses on personalized learning for students, offering is a smart tutoring system that tailors learning experiences to individual students’ needs, helping them identify knowledge gaps and providing targeted exercises and explanations.

Our goal is an individualized and complete exam preparation for every student.

Yue Wu, Lionel Rühlemann, Komaldeep Chahal

Our mission

Our mission is to revolutionize education by providing personalized, AI-driven learning experiences for students. We empower learners to close knowledge gaps with tailored learning plans, helping them excel. By leveraging advanced AI technology, we aim to make high-quality, individualized education accessible to all, thereby creating a world where personalized education is available to everyone, enabling students to reach their full potential.

Jan Ludwig
Senior Investment Manager

Senior Investment Manager

  • Industrial Tech
  • Supply-Chain Management

Targeting the right audiences online

inkeepr

Targeting the right audiences online

Inkeepr is an audience-optimization platform that helps optimize Ad spends by identifying the right customers that are likely to buy and manifest high future value.

We help you to find the right audiences online.

Willi Linke, Karoline Grießbach
CEO, CTO
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Our mission

Building audience analytics infrastructure for a post-cookie world economy: We empower businesses to enhance their digital marketing efforts by introducing more profitable and relevant audiences to their channels. By focusing retargeting on customers with a high likelihood of conversion and future value, we ensure more efficient, results-driven campaigns.

Sebastian Pyzalski 
Investment Manager

Investment Focus Areas

  • IT Infrastructure
  • Sales Intelligence
  • eCommerce
  • Security

Enabling circular textiles

The fashion industry loses $100 billion in materials annually

Most garments are destroyed or downcycled after disposal, with less than 1% being recycled into high-quality materials. eeden is harnessing the vast potential of textile waste by scaling its patented recycling technology to recover the high-quality materials of tomorrow.

The material value chains of the future will be circular – there’s no way around it. This shift unlocks enormous ecological and economic potential, giving us independence from finite raw materials. At eeden, we’re enabling this transformation, driving circularity in both the textile and raw material industries.

Steffen Gerlach
Founder & CEO

Our mission

We are committed to transforming textile waste into reusable materials, driving the industry towards circularity, and reducing the need for virgin resources.

Solving the poly-cotton challenge in textile recycling

More and more textiles are made from cotton and polyester blends – partly to increase durability and partly to reduce costs. However, these blended textiles pose a significant challenge for traditional recycling processes, which typically focus on either cotton or polyester. eeden’s process efficiently recovers both fiber components, minimizing waste and maximizing the yield from each garment.

Turning textile waste into a valuable resource

eeden’s technology recovers cellulose from cotton and breaks polyester down into its basic components. These materials are then transformed into new, high-quality textile fibers. Compared to producing new materials, our chemical recycling process uses significantly less water, requires no arable land, avoids pesticides, and leverages textile waste as a resource.

Tom Villinger
CEO
 

Towards a carbon neutral future

Mitigating CO2 emissions in industrial processes

SpinDrive provides tailored active magnetic bearing (AMB) systems for original equipment manufacturers with a competitive price.

We increase process efficiency by at least 15%.

Janne Heikkinen, Alexander Smirnov, Nikita Uzhegov
CEO, CTO, COO
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Our mission

Our mission is centered on mitigating CO2 emissions by offering innovative, cost-effective solutions that eliminate the need for lubricants, reduce friction, and improve overall system performance.

Our goal is to cut 500 million tons of CO2 emissions annually by 2050. By improving the energy efficiency of industrial equipment such as turbo-compressors and blowers, we hope to play a vital role in pushing the industry toward a more carbon-neutral future​.

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Magma® magnetic bearing controller

The core of the SpinDrive’s active magnetic bearing system is the Magma® magnetic bearing controller.

SpinDrive product

Active Magnetic Bearing System

The AMB system includes the controller Magma as well as customer specific actuators and position sensors.

Jan Ludwig
Senior Investment Manager

Senior Investment Manager

  • Industrial Tech
  • Supply-Chain Management