About Us

Aga is our community manager in the Krakow office and responsible for building a diverse, supportive and vibrant community of experts and entrepreneurs. She also deals with processes and operations, trying to understand how the corporate and startup worlds collide. Additionally she supports the project management of programs and events organized by hub:raum.

Andreas is a Senior Relationship Manager based in Darmstadt. He stays in close contact with various business units of Deutsche Telekom to combine the innovation drive of hub:raum startups with the commercial strengths of the DT Group. He has many years of experience in business development, innovation management and corporate strategy at Deutsche Telekom, and a long background in management of customer care and customer care technology.

Anna joined hub:raum in Berlin in 2013 as the HR advisor to all startups in the portfolio. She has been recruiting talents for internet companies since 2000 and is passionate about HR Tech. Prior to joining the hub:raum team, Anna helped build two HR consultancies with a strong focus on digital companies and has worked in HR departments for small and corporate companies.

Located in Berlin, Axel Menneking is the Managing Director of Deutsche Telekom hub:raum Fund GmbH and leads the international activities of hub:raum in Germany, Israel and major innovation hubs of Western-Europe.
 
Together with the investment team he scouts and selects investment opportunities and helps portfolio companies to grow their business. In his international role, he has built up operations in Tel Aviv and developed an increasing network of international strategic partnerships for innovation sourcing and open innovation activities.

Cosmin heads our investment activities in CEE from the office in Krakow. He has over 15 years experience in various business fields - almost all related to new business and innovation. Cosmin is very passionate about tech startups, and is an active mentor to them, matching founders with corporate players and early-stage investors.

Daniel is in charge of all prototyping activities at hub:raum, including the NB-IoT prototyping hub, hackathons and tech related meetups. If you are interested in building next gen technology proof of concepts and prototypes on the shoulders of the Deutsche Telekom technology stack - he’s your guy.

Daniel has a track record in managing complex international projects with several cross-functional teams and multi million euro budgets. He is a certified scrum master and product owner, convinced practitioner of lean methodologies and an enthusiastic lifelong learner.

Elena is a Finance and Controlling Manager at hub:raum and responsible for the financial activities around investments, valuation, financial performance and reporting. In her position, Elena also oversees the administration of the hub:raum Investment Fund, budget and planning. She has more than 10 years experience in different fields of Controlling at Deutsche Telekom. Prior to joining hub:raum, Elena was an Innovation Controller at a Corporate Venture Fund of Deutsche Telekom and a Treasurer at its US subsidiary.

Florian is the Investment Director at hub:raum Berlin and responsible for the strategic venture investment activities of the Deutsche Telekom hub:raum Fund.

Florian combines hands-on knowledge from a startup and corporate innovation background. As CEO and co-founder of three companies, he has 10+ years of experience in building technology startups from scratch in the field of mobile communication, eHealth and cybersecurity. His latest company was a market leader with 80+ employees and achieved a successful trade sale exit. As a business angel, he was involved in the creation of several high-profile ventures and has worked together with numerous other VCs and private financiers. Florian has an academic background in technology as well as business management with professional certifications in Private Equity and Venture Capital.

As the Senior Key Relationship Manager, Holger is responsible for connecting the startup world with Deutsche Telekom’s business units. Based in Bonn, he loves to connect people and uses his vast internal and external networks to establish reliable working relationships. With a technical background as an electrical engineer and immense experience in innovation management and new business development, knowledge management, benchmarking and business process re-engineering, he is a highly sought-after counterpart, mentoring startups in business-related topics. In addition to his hub:raum tasks, Holger is active as a Design Thinking coach.

Jakub is the Innovation & Development Director for hub:raum in CEE. Prior to this, he headed the innovation unit at T-Mobile Poland for three years where he was tasked with finding new potential value streams that could be delivered to customers. He is enthusiastic about new technologies, innovation and new services. Jakub has extensive knowledge and experience in technical and business implementation of services. He has a positive attitude and is always eager to learn and explore new opportunities.

Lukasz is an innovation and lean startup enthusiast. He creates and runs acceleration and x-industry programs at hub:raum, co-initiated and coordinated WARP, the NB-IoT Prototyping Hub, ChallengeUp and WARP Future Communication Program.

Before joining hub:raum, Lukasz was the manager of the “Technological Incubator” in Krakow, working closely with more than 200 startups. He was also heavily involved in establishing the regional startup scene in Malopolska.

Marcin specialises in working methodology based on design thinking and value co-creation. He looks for and creates opportunities based on design research and collaboration. He enjoys problem solving and is a people’s person, who enjoys pop culture, is a fan of intelligence dance music and a rucola lover. Marcin is also a lecturer at AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow.

Miodrag is our connection with the Deutsche Telekom Group and its NatCos. His job is twofold – on one hand he connects startups with Deutsche Telekom, finding relevant business units and experts for them in order to create business partnerships. On the other hand, he also involves Deutsche Telekom Group in the work of hub:raum, ensuring that everything we do is aligned.

Previously, Miodrag worked for the Montenegrin Telekom, where he managed chosen projects for new business/strategic development, often beyond core telecommunications business and other complex corporate projects. He is a manager/economist with experience in telco/ICT, wine, hospitality/tourism and finance industry. He also has significant international experience – having studied and worked in 6 different countries (Montenegro, Austria, UK, France, Germany and Poland).

Mor is the Investment and Program Manager for hub:raum in the vibrant city of Tel Aviv. Mor provides early stage Israeli startups a gateway into Deutsche Telekom by leveraging DT’s extensive network of partners in Germany and the rest of Europe. Before her position at hub:raum she previously managed the EcoMotion community: a Global Community for Israeli Innovative Smart Transportation.

Oskar is an analyst and investment manager based in our Kraków office. He is responsible for the analysis of new potential investments and markets, proactive search for interesting startups and processing investment deals. Always keeping an eye on tech novelties Oskar loves usable, well designed technologies and products. Oskar’s academic background is in American Studies and Sociology, but he also developed a strong passion in technology some years ago.

Wojciech is Business Development Manager at hub:raum Krakow. He deals with commercial deployments and establishing cooperation between startups and T-Mobile branches. If you would like to test or validate your product in telecom environment with potential customers, Wojciech is available for support. His role is to make the most of your cooperation with T-Mobile and Deutsche Telekom. Wojciech is also interested in every aspects of IoT and Industry 4.0, and has more than 15 years of professional experience in the telco industry. He strongly believes that the key to success is diversity, open mind and collaboration. As a volunteer of non-profit organization Wojciech spends Saturday mornings teaching kids programming.