André Rieck

At Octorank, we help established organisations to discover and work with startups. As the only developer I have responsibility for the whole stack from server administration, system architecture, and back- and front-end development. I grew it from a prototype for P2P photo review, to a platform for startup challenges and CRM and served customers like BASF, Telekom, Vattenfall. Octorank received several awards and recognitions and public and private funding.

I had the pleasure to work with an inspiring young team, that fought together to give as many people as possible access to open online learning. Our slogan: Bring education into the 21st century! iversity taught me a lot about the ups and downs of a startup and the do's and dont's in venture capital. iversity was finally sold to Springer Nature.