Startup Safari
For businesses Startup visits · Workshops · Innovation dinners

See what’s changing in your market.

Meet founders and experienced practitioners, explore new business models, or work through a specific challenge in a workshop. We tailor the programme to your team’s goals.

Participants in conversation during a Startup Safari
Our formats

Choose your format.

Meet founders, explore new business models or work through a specific challenge with your team.

01.

The guided Startup Safari

Spend a day visiting three to five selected startups. Talk directly with founders and see how their teams work.

One day
Three to five startup visits
What you take away

Together, you make sense of which observations matter for your next steps.

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02.

Practical workshops

Try AI on real tasks, redesign a workflow or test an innovation idea. Experienced practitioners guide the work.

Practise, redesign or experiment
From prototype to implementation when it fits
What you take away

Depending on the goal, this could be a tested workflow, experiment plan or prototype, with the next step agreed together.

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03.

Innovation Dinner

A private, carefully curated conversation around a topic of your choice. No pitches, just time for an exchange between business leaders and founders.

Curated around a topic
Ten business leaders, five founders
What you take away

New perspectives, questions to explore and possible connections for further conversations.

Explore the dinner

For a focused view of market change, see the Market & Future Briefing. To assess a specific opportunity, explore the Opportunity Lab.

Start with your business question.

What are your customers asking for? Which new business models could affect your market? Based on that, we choose relevant startups and practitioners and prepare your team for the conversations.

Startup Safari Interaction
Real conversations.

You hear how teams develop new offers and ways of working. You can ask what works in practice and which questions may apply to your business.

Since 2011, we have brought companies into contact with startups. That has included visits with DAX executives to founders working in backstreet lofts.

What we agree in advance

Your question, who will take part, what your team hopes to take away, and the scope of the programme.

Tours, workshops and dinners can stand alone or be combined where useful.

Understanding

Understand change from
the people building it.

Founders and practitioners can explain the decisions behind new offers, what works in practice and where questions remain.

An example from a startup does not automatically fit your business. The conversation helps your team question assumptions and see its own options more clearly.

“Instead of reading about algorithms, we spoke to the 22-year-olds writing them. Suddenly the fear was gone. All that was left was curiosity.”

RM
Ralf Müller Head of Strategy

Insight starts with a conversation.

Honest conversation between founders and business leaders
No stage. Just dialogue.
A focused team working through a question in a workshop
Substance over show.
People connecting across the startup ecosystem
Rooted in the ecosystem.
Industry focus

Curated ecosystems

Every industry has its own pace. We take your team to the people and places shaping its future.

Voices from the ecosystem

What our clients say.

“Thanks to Startup SAFARI, I was able to meet several innovative startups in a single day. We were delighted to meet MyDaylivery and subsequently reach an agreement.”
Robert Janke R+V Versicherung / KRAVAG
“Startup SAFARI helped us find the right business partners during our session. It took less than three weeks to sign a contract with one of Germany’s largest insurers.”
Arndt Solms Co-founder and CEO, myDaylivery
“Connecting with potential customers and strategic partners is essential for a fast-growing fintech. We’re glad the organisers kept their promise and brought us together with established companies.”
Dr. Frank Freund Co-Founder & CFO Raisin
“Excellent organisation of the Guided Fintech SAFARI and the dinner afterwards. Every participant, myself included, enjoyed the tour and came away inspired.”
David Furtwängler CEO BNP Cardif
“The workshop was practical and tailored to our needs. The SAFARI team’s expertise and strong connections across startup ecosystems led to valuable, engaging discussions.”
Nicola Schehadat HR, Talent Development, Deutsche Börse
“Great event by the fantastic team which also organizes the PIRATE Summit.”
Tim Schumacher General Partner WorldFund
“The networking dinner after the Guided Fintech SAFARI was an excellent business development opportunity. Everyone around the table was looking for ways to work together.”
Fabian Wesemann Co-Founder & Group CFO Wefox

What should your team understand or work through?

Tell us what your team hopes to learn or work on and who will take part. We’ll discuss which format and programme fit your goals.

Discuss your plans