Podcast Launch: Rhinepreneurs
08.04.2025
Emma Schmitt
News
With Rhinepreneurs, a new format is starting on Tomorrow's Founders that focuses on founding in the tri-border area of Germany, France and Switzerland. Host Sandra talks to founders, experts and innovators about personal experiences, challenges and opportunities related to entrepreneurship and innovation.
Rhinepreneurs – the new podcast
What makes Rhinepreneurs special? The talks are held in German and there is also a summary in French after each section.
This is what the first episode is about
It starts with a question that is on many people’s minds: Is a startup only possible with a network – and how important is networking for founders?
Sandra Schöttelndreier from KIT-Gründerschmiede talks about this with Rick Lindner. He is a founder himself, a former accelerator employee and a community builder in many startup networks. Together they discuss why networks are so crucial for startup success, how to build them – and what startup ecosystems can learn from each other.
Rick talks about his platform Pitchload, which aims to create more transparency and better access to startup communities. They also discuss how even introverts can get into networking, why pitches shouldn’t be an end in themselves, and what role events and LinkedIn really play today.
Finally, there are practical tips: start early, approach others openly, and build real relationships – because it’s not the number of contacts that counts, but their quality.
You can find the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcasts here.
You can download the English transcript of the podcast here.
We look forward to many more exciting conversations – and to making the founding spirit in the Upper Rhine region audible together with you!
What is KTUR?
The podcast is part of the KTUR project, a network of 15 main partners, including the EUCOR universities, and 40 associated partners along the Upper Rhine. The aim of KTUR is to strengthen cooperation and innovation across national borders – and thus to create new impulses for the startup landscape in the region
In the first phase of the project, which ran until September 2022, KTUR created a common identity for knowledge and technology transfer in the Upper Rhine region and launched the first trinational offers. The follow-up project KTUR², in which the KIT is participating and which is coordinated by the KIT Founders Forge, now envisages, among other things, a stronger development of entrepreneurship in the network. The funding of cross-border start-ups and their access to innovation funding programs and financing opportunities in the Upper Rhine region is a priority of the program and is supported by numerous offers.
