Europe's startup narrative is changing fast — from apps and valuations to sovereignty, infrastructure and resilience. In this month's DACH Startup News, we unpack the moves that made European tech sovereignty the defining theme of 2025.

– Why sovereign cloud is becoming foundational for startups and enterprise buyers
– How AI, robotics, defense, and climate infrastructure shape Europe’s industrial strategy
– Why deep tech is rising while fintech normalizes
– The funding signals behind pre-seed to late-stage capital flows
– How DACH is becoming Europe’s proving ground for strategic innovation
– What European tech sovereignty actually means for your business

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• Jörn “Joe” Menninger, Founder & Editor-in-Chief of Startuprad.io (Frankfurt)

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Together, they track the most important startup stories in the DACH ecosystem — AI, deep tech, fintech, and scale-up growth.

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What if you could build a startup that survives downturns, grows profitably, and never depends on constant fundraising?
That’s the core of the camel startup strategy — and in this episode, STS Ventures investor Stephan Schubert breaks it down with 25+ years of operator-investor experience. From founding OnVista in the early internet era to backing some of Germany’s most successful exits, Stephan has refined a model built on capital efficiency, high-margin niches, and KPI-driven execution.

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In this episode, you’ll learn:

– Why camel startups outperform hype-driven growth
– How to use high-margin niches to scale from customer revenue
– The KPI playbook STS Ventures uses with every founder
– Why raise when you can, not when you must is a game-changer in DACH
– How to stay capital-efficient without limiting your growth potential
– Why Stephan avoids hype cycles like LLM infrastructure and focuses on AI as a tool for real industries like waste processing
– What founders can learn from exits like Audibene, Emma, JustWatch, and others

Whether you're building in Germany, Austria, or Switzerland, this episode offers one of the clearest explanations of capital-efficient growth, B2B startup scaling, and long-term founder wealth creation.

Guest Spotlight:
Stephan Schubert, Investor & Managing Director, STS Ventures
Founder of OnVista and Ligatus, early investor in Audibene, Emma, JustWatch, and other major DACH success cases.

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What if the biggest cyber risk inside your company wasn’t malware — but identity?

In this episode, I sit down with Santhosh Jayaprakash, founder & CEO of UnoSecur, to unpack one of the fastest-moving transformations in cybersecurity: the rise of identity as the new perimeter. Attackers don’t break in anymore — they log in. And with AI agents, LLM workflows, and machine-to-machine communication exploding, identity risk is growing faster than security teams can react.

UnoSecur is building an identity security platform that monitors identity behavior after login, detecting stolen credentials, risky machine identities, and AI agent misuse in real time. Think of it as the layer that finally answers the question: Who is actually doing what inside your systems — and should they be doing it?

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What you’ll learn in this episode:
– Why 80% of attacks now start with credential theft
– How AI agents bypass MFA and create 40× more identity surface
– Why agentless security is the only scalable model
– How machine identities become high-risk without teams noticing
– Real-world identity failures from fintech & healthcare
– Why identity sprawl is the silent crisis inside every enterprise
– How UnoSecur’s real-time identity detection works behind the scenes
– What identity security will look like by 2030

About the Guest:
Santhosh is a 3× founder with 18 years in cloud & security, previously scaling Anchor Cloud before building UnoSecur in Berlin. He’s one of the most compelling thinkers in the identity-first security movement.

If you’re building in SaaS, cloud, AI, DevOps, or cybersecurity, this conversation is a wake-up call.

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