Alumni
A batch is made up of the teams that participate in a HOLII run. In the third batch, HOLII supports a total of 10 founding teams in their impact spin-off. The teams and their ideas for driving holistic change are presented below.
MUT-Zentrum
The MUT Zentrum is founded by Raya Laade as a non-profit social enterprise. At the MUT Zentrum, young people who have experienced psychological, physical and sexual abuse are accompanied into the world of work in a healthy way, where they can shape their own lives with self-confidence, self-determination and courage. These people are offered a holistic program that focuses on personal development, health, empowerment and education.
The MUT Zentrum is founded by Raya Laade as a non-profit social enterprise. At the MUT Zentrum, young people who have experienced psychological, physical and sexual abuse are accompanied into the world of work in a healthy way, where they can shape their own lives with self-confidence, self-determination and courage. These people are offered a holistic program that focuses on personal development, health, empowerment and education.
Sustainia
Sustainia is a sustainability museum that serves as a cultural point of contact for communicating sustainability in an experience-oriented and low-threshold way. It aims to share information and inspire people to take responsibility for sustainable action.
Sustainia offers various formats such as exhibitions, congresses and workshops to encourage interaction and appeal to different target groups, thereby helping to raise awareness and empower society.
ovao
As a mobile app for digital and sustainable cultural development, ovao supports companies in a playful and innovative way to meet the changes in the world of work in a targeted manner. With the help of targeted micro-learning and gamification elements, ovao transforms the workplace into a space for personal development.
With evidence-based content and exercises for the specific promotion of inner skills based on the Inner Development Goals, ovao is positioning itself as a pioneer for the development of a sustainable New Work culture. ovao not only strengthens the well-being of individual employees, but also creates a positive working atmosphere in the team and a future-oriented and meaningful culture throughout the company.
True to the motto „New Work through Inner Work“, ovao makes the workplace part of the solution again.
PeaceVibes
„PeaceVibes – Your Pocket Therapist“ revolutionizes mental health support with accessible, 24/7 chat and call connections to qualified psychologists. Our mission is to break down barriers to seeking help, empowering individuals to prioritize their mental well-being anytime, anywhere. Join us in fostering resilience and promoting holistic well-being for a healthier, happier world.
4YBY - For You By You
Fostering sustainable, inclusive, and transparent fashion and beauty e-commerce through a community-driven platform. With 4YBY – 4 you By you the goal is avoid fashion waste, foster transparent supply chain fashion and provide inclusive fashion by meeting fashion needs of all consumers sustainably.
S.S.W.G.
Do you know that feeling? You have overcome your flight shame and jet off to the Caribbean to spend a few wonderful days there.
But when you finally reach the beach, instead of crystal-clear water and a white beach, it’s a brown sludge and the beach is full of brown algae.
This is Sargassum season in the Caribbean, which has been plagued by several million tonnes of Sargassum over the past few years.
We have set ourselves the mission of harnessing these millions of tonnes of Sargassum biomass, which have sequestered many tonnes of carbon through photosynthesis, for industrial use to produce EU ETS-compliant renewable biomass fuel to promote defossilisation (using renewable instead of fossil carbon).
Natural Family Planning
Natural family planning is a method used by many women to plan or prevent pregnancy by tracking their menstrual cycle and predicting the fertile window.
Mobile applications can effectively support women in employing this method, but available applications are designed and maintained with profit in mind, discriminating against those most in need while also raising concerns regarding privacy and data security.
To support women and families around the world in their family planning, we want to create a menstrual cycle tracking application built upon open source principles, ensuring universal and nondiscriminatory access to the natural family planning method for all.
DreamOn
Dreamon is an innovative platform designed to bridge the gap between promising startups and venture capitalists, revolutionizing the way entrepreneurs access funding and value added services. Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to turn their dreams into reality by providing them with the resources they need to succeed.
inmelody
Our social circumstances, which are characterized by complexity and volatility, leave traces of excessive demands and uncertainty, which in turn require a high degree of mindfulness and resilience. It is particularly important to reconnect with ourselves – with our intuition, as well as our individual mission and vision for a hopeful future.
It is precisely for this purpose that inmelody’s workshops and training courses, which can be put together individually from various modules, offer inspiring and effective solutions. The focus of the courses is on the acquisition and development of intrapersonal skills, which are based on the four pillars of self-management, self-development, self-awareness and purpose & self-drive.
Empowerment, optimism, creativity, empathy and lightness – these are the basic principles that are reflected in all my offers.
Alumni 2
A batch is made up of the teams that participate in a HOLII run. In the second batch, HOLII supported a total of 11 founding teams in their impact spin-off. The teams and their ideas for driving holistic change are presented below.
BonusBot
Could you imagine a chat bot that asks you simple questions about your current situation (number of household members, income, housing costs, etc.) and can then tell you exactly how much money you are entitled to from the state each month – if you would only apply for it?This is the idea behind BonusBot. The start-up uses OCR and speech recognition technology to make the German social system more accessible to the 20%-25% of citizens who have the right to apply for various subsidies.
The start-up BonusBot offers information, transparency, and application in minutes. Not just for one type of application (e.g. housing benefit), but for everything you are entitled to. BonusBot – Get what you are entitled to! BonusBot.de
Clama
CLAMA is a software for teachers and schools that can be used to objectively record social behavior, especially forms of verbal and physical violence. Based on the stored information, teachers receive pedagogical recommendations for action and systematic violence can be detected at an early stage. CLAMA is like a digital violence prevention trainer that understands registered incidents, analyzes their impact on student relationships and identifies possible solutions.
Community-supported transformation agency
To create a future-oriented and resilient local economy, the community-supported transformation agency aims to unlock existing capacities and emerging issues of local actors and creates a safe space for self-learning communities to work together towards a social-ecological transformation. By supporting and enabling change agents within organizations, the economy transforms itself and shifts outdated narratives towards diverse, cooperative, solidary and participative values. The community-supported transformation agency faciliates the process that small and medium enterprises as well as key actors become an active part of the social-ecological transformation of the economy.
Drain
Drain makes it easier than ever to keep plants alive and makes the world a little greener, starting from your living room! The reusable drainage inserts for potted plants, made out of recycled material, prevents your plants from drowning and saves you from overwatering them. It can be reused life long and is super simply to use with no repotting or extra drainage pots. Annoying root rotting, watering guessing, and moldy soil requires no longer a green thumb with Drain. The barrier of buying plants becomes minimized, the speculation around how much water a plant requires vanishes and more carbon dioxide gets absorbed by your healthy plants.
EValuate
EValuate by Hannes Piepenbrink is a simulation service designed to find the best battery electric vehicles (BEVs) for companies‘ individual use cases. The idea of EValuate is to equip existing combustion vehicles with GPS devices and monitor all trips, speeds and stops. In this way, an individual mobility profile can be created for each car, representing the needs of the user. Based on these mobility profiles, EValuate simulates all BEVs available on the European market in terms of energy consumption/range and more. The goal is to enable companies to select the most suitable BEV and switch to environmentally friendly transport.
Fazzo.letto
Fazzo.letto wants to make paper tissues obsolete by reviving the somewhat forgotten handkerchief – but in a trendy and sustainable way! So, the team is developing a C2C-handkerchief that contains no plastic, making it completely compostable. You may think that people will not accept the idea of reusable handkerchiefs for hygienic reasons? Don’t worry, the team has taken care of that: it will develop a washable pouch that will allow consumers to always have a fresh and clean handkerchief in their pocket.
FriendsFair
FriendsFair is a marketplace for all the skills that cannot be offered on online freelance platforms: from home cooking to nannying, from flower arranging workshops to professional dog walking. The team has developed a system that uses the same „product“ algorithm for goods, services, and workshops, and ranks them geographically by price, language, and skill level. FriendsFair targets micro-entrepreneurs, allowing them to offer workshops, goods and services in different categories at the same time. Since day one, they have been targeting the entire international community, offering each seller the opportunity to work in different languages.
Impact 3D
Impact3D is a innovatives startup based in Germany, creatively combating the pressing global plastic waste crisis by utilizing sustainable 3D printing technology. In a rapidly expanding market, our commitment lies in significantly reducing manufacturing costs and minimizing waste through the use of recycled PLA (Polylactic Acid), a renewable and biodegradable 3D-printing filament. Impact3D’s mission is to encourage sustainable manufacturing and facilitate a transition towards a circular economy, serving a diverse range of small and medium-sized enterprises (B2B) across various sectors within Germany. With a keen eye on global expansion, Impact3D is dedicated to providing environmentally friendly solutions to businesses worldwide, striving to create a sustainable future through their innovative approach.
Sensimply
Sensimply has developed a technology and a novel device design to reduce risk of stroke in patients with atrial fibrillation (the most common heart rhytm disorder). Stroke remains the second most common cause of death in our society. Smart Left Atrial Appendage Occluder (sLAAO) technology aims to solve problems of current treatments, i.e. blood thinners and existing occluder devices. Blood thinners can cause severe bleeding complications, whilst the available occlusion devices have limited implantation control, leading to suboptimal closure. Furthermore, due to biocompatibility issues, new clots might form on the device and cause subseqent strokes. The novel technology will resolve existing issues via novel design, increased control and monitoring, leading to safer implantation, improved fit, reduced leakage risk, and better biocompatibility, which in turn will result in better patients’ outcomes.
Solnocturno
The startup Sol Nocturno Coffee offers coffee from the farm Sol Nocturno in Mexico. It grows there on an agroforestry farm in harmony with the cloud forest ecosystem and is then being transported by sailing ship to the port of Hamburg. The company is characterized by a personal relationship with the farm and all those involved in the value chain, needs-oriented pricing and very high performance with transparency and traceability. The sustainable coffee is purchased collectively by the end consumer and the startup through a 100% pre-financing model. This enables the partner and the startup financial stability and planning security. By connecting coffee producers and consumers, the startup aims to transform anonymous value chains and enable people to reconnect with the coffee they drink and with each other.
Alumni 3
Find here our alumni. We’ve supported founders since 2021. Roughly each year there’s one batch of 8-12 teams. Enjoy browsing the goodness!
Boomerang
Boomerang wants to make e-commerce more sustainable by setting up a reusable system for shipping bags. By using reusable and recyclable packaging solutions, the company aims to actively contribute to the circular economy and conserve natural resources.
EnviChærry
EnviChærry enables small and medium-sized enterprises to make their contribution to climate neutrality, regardless of their personnel or financial strength. A crowd-based donation platform enables online retailers and their customers to make their products and purchases climate-neutral.
Hempy Period
Goodbye cotton, hello hemp!
The team of hempy period has the vision to produce sustainable period products from hemp. With their 100% plastic-free hempon, they want to make a positive impact not only on the environment but also on the body.
PLAN17.academy
PLAN17.academy aims to provide people in companies with a progress-oriented approach to the topic of sustainability. Through a digital video-based learning platform that is designed to be educational and entertaining, employees are to gain an understanding of sustainable transformation.
Paseo
Paseo is a nonprofit organization for transformative learning, research, and consulting.
Their project “Generation Futur – for a climate of change” encourages young people to socially shape their right to climate neutrality. They experience that they do not have to cope with the climate crisis alone, are strengthened in their self-efficacy, and develop mini- and maxitopias for transformation and sustainability.
Sam´s Biscuits
Sam`s Biscuits makes vegan dog treats with largely certified organic and regional ingredients.
As a local, family-owned small business, these are made by hand. The treats are intended to set a new standard by their quality and by their more social and sustainable contribution to the world.
Shaanty
Shaanty – guide for a positive life!
With the help of artificial intelligence, this app can identify negative deep beliefs and habits of users and dissolve them through special methods. This sustainably improves the quality of life, reduces susceptibility to stress, and strengthens positive thinking.
Tœrn
Tœrn reinvents returns management: Returns are not sent back to the sender, but with the help of tœrn directly to new potential buyers. And this as a discounted alternative to new goods. The result: short distances, lean processes, and a lot of saved CO2.
vollefarben
Vollefarben is an online store that empowers, makes visible, and unites people with an international history. The products offered represent a diverse and multifaceted society and are aimed at all people with an international history as well as all supporters of a diverse, cosmopolitan society.
ZUKUNFT PFLANZEN
ZUKUNFT PFLANZEN would like to promote the spread of agroforestry systems in agricultural practice. In this way, active impulses are to be given to safeguard our livelihoods and those of future generations.
ZUKUNFT PFLANZEN plans, plants and maintains both tried-and-tested agroforestry systems such as meadow orchards and wild fruit hedges/curbs, as well as novel systems such as edible landscapes, forest gardens, and modern agroforestry systems.
The knowledge required for this is to be further disseminated through advisory and educational services.
