🚀 we love pitching and sharing our xounds mission … winning prizes along the way makes it even more fun! ☀️ Thanks to the whole team behind building xounds, volunteering time, skills, advice, network and so much more! 🏆 Cornelia, Gabor, Alaa, Mousami, Davinia, ishak, Veronika, Maria, Maria, and formerly Madhushree, Carolina, Julieta, Selma 💕🌈
Co-founder xounds, Coach & Speaker DEI & Pleasure | Political scientist | Advocate for inclusive systemic change and better intimate data safety.
🚀✨ What a week to remember! ✨🚀 Last Friday, the xounds team had the honour of pitching at the Female Founders Night at Enpal, organised by the incredible Project ada @Enpal. Competing against 8 inspiring teams with brilliant ideas, we were thrilled to share our mission — and absolutely overjoyed to be named the pitch competition winners! 🏆🎉 This milestone was the perfect way to close out an intense week of pitching — three pitches in total! 1️⃣ Gabor and I kicked it off with the final Berlin Startup Scholarship pitch at Startup Incubator Berlin, wrapping up the program and reflecting on how far we’ve come. Thanks to our #bss coaches Nora, Ayham and mentor Sven Ripsas and the whole SIB team Katrin Marvin Sandra Julian etc. 2️⃣ Next, we participated in a pitch for feedback at IHK Berlin and Businessplan-Wettbewerb Berlin-Brandenburg (BPW), where xounds was one of 4 chosen teams. The valuable feedback from this session boosted our confidence and fine-tuned our delivery. Thank you Madlen Dietrich, Susann Schmelzer, Sophie G., Christina Lüdtke, Josephine U., Janine Korbaniak, Nuria Rocabert Aragones. 3️⃣ Finally, the grand finale of the week: the Female Founders Pitch Night — our only competition of the week, where we brought everything together! The jury — featuring Prof. Dr. Heike Marita Hölzner, Viktor Wingert, Nadja Carina Reischel, and Alexandra Kammer — provided insightful feedback and recognized the urgency of xounds' mission. ☀️ Our vision? To create a digital safer space that dismantles stereotypes and shame around the diversity of pleasure, empowers people to unlearn harmful behaviours, embrace consent, and maintain full control of their representation and data. Being chosen as the winners fuels our passion as we continue iterating on app development. 💡 Exciting next steps ahead: The coaching opportunity we’ve won is an invaluable gift. We’re eager to learn, grow, and refine our impact with the guidance of more experienced mentors. 🦄 A massive shoutout to the Project ada team for organising such an energising event. The atmosphere was electric — from the cheering and applause among teams to the finest diva music selection hyping us up as we stepped on stage. 🎶 Despite being the last team to pitch after such a packed week, this energy carried us through! 👏 Alina Bart, Helen Rinckens and the Project Ada and Enpal teams! Here’s to a week of resilience, growth, and support from an amazing founder community. Let’s keep breaking barriers together! 🌟 Thanks to all the other inspiring teams we met Christine Pinto Raina Sun Niharika Rakheja 🇩🇪🇮🇹🇮🇳 Jil Berning Caroline Baltrusch Marjorie Simon Aljosha Fischl Jovana Lazarević Alexander Emmerich Manya Agarwal Dr. Julian Kruse Katharina Hess Frida Lüth #Gratitude #Teamxounds #FemaleFounders #PitchNight #Empowerment #BreakingStereotypes #StartupJourney