Mannheim Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation

MCEI – Mannheim Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Abbreviation MCEI
Formation 2012
Type NGO
Purpose Research
Business incubator
Location
Region served
Europe, Germany
Directors
 Michael Woywode
Robert Allen Isaak
Affiliations University of Mannheim
Staff
10
Website mcei.de

The Mannheim Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (MCEI) in Mannheim, Germany is a distinguished interdisciplinary and interdepartmental center for entrepreneurship and innovation at the University of Mannheim, Germany.[1] The institute is supported by the IfM – Small and Medium Sized Companies and Entrepreneurship and the Chair of SME Research & Entrepreneurship at the University of Mannheim. Under the leadership of the directors Michael Woywode and Robert Allen Isaak,[2] MCEI currently employs a staff of about 10 researchers and Ph.D students. The MCEI was established in Mannheim in 2012 by Jessica Di Bella, former Head of Mannheim Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation. MCEI provides a platform for students, young entrepreneurs, sponsors and investors, supports start-ups, and acts as an accelerator/incubator. The institute's mission is to foster networking, enhance knowledge exchange and entrepreneurship research.[3]

Research and teaching

Besides research the MCEI manages both bachelor and master thesis and offers several university courses such as "MAN 450: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Business Model Design", "MAN 630 Introduction to Entrepreneurship", "MAN 631 Creativity and Entrepreneurship in Practice", "MAN 632 Advanced Entrepreneurship", "MAN 635 Social Entrepreneurship: Targeting Social Capital through Ecopreneurship", "MAN 636 International Entrepreneurship and Managing Change" or "MAN 770 Research Seminar".

Entrepreneurship activities

Several successful startups have already been launched at the University of Mannheim or been initiated by former students, for instance, Payback (€500m exit to American Express), Delivery Hero (raised $1.4b funding),[4] AUTO1 Group (raised $200m funding),[5] StudiVZ (€85m exit to Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group), Simfy (raised €30m funding),[6] Goodgame Studios (initiating IPO),[7] SavingGlobal (raised $32m funding),[8] Synchronite (sold to LivePerson),[9] movilitas (sold to Peak-Ryzex),[10] Amorelie (sold to ProSiebenSat.1 Media),[11][12] AngelPad, TestHub (merged with uTest to form Applause),[13] Lendico (raised >20m funding),[14] PayMill (raised $18m funding),[15] esome (raised €14m funding),[16] Spreadshirt (raised $12.7m funding), number26 (raised €10m funding),[17] TripDa (raised $11m funding),[18] Stocard (raised €2.2m funding),[19] MCube Incubator,[20] Compass (raised $4.4m funding),[21] Stocard (raised €2.2m funding),[22] Trecker.com (raised $2.6m funding),[23] Coffee Circle (raised €2.1m funding),[24] Eating with the Chefs (raised undisclosed 6-figured sum from Peter Thiel and Holtzbrinck),[25] Livecoding.tv (Y-Combinator class of 2015),[26] CaterWings,[27] 52masterworks,[28] massagio,[29] CreditShelf,[30] Brickgate[31] or Appinio.[32]

Although its recent foundation the MCEI participated in the building of startups like CloudRail (raised €0.5m funding) or Von Jungfeld.[33][34]

Selected events

The MCEI hosts weekly events that center on entrepreneurship, startups and digitalization.[35]

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ "MCEI in Mannheim". founder2be.com. Retrieved 14 November 2015.
  2. ↑ "MCEI – Mannheim Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation: Board of Directors". instit-fuer-mittelstandsforschung.de. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "MCEI: Profile". mcei.de. Retrieved 11 November 2015.
  4. ↑ "Delivery Hero: Team". Delivery Hero. Retrieved 6 August 2015..
  5. ↑ "Das unbekannte Berliner Milliarden-Startup, das 500 Millionen Dollar will". Gruenderszene.de. Retrieved 8 July 2015..
  6. ↑ "Simfy konzentriert sich aufs Deutschland-Geschäft". Berliner Morgenpost. Retrieved 16 July 2014..
  7. ↑ "Goodgame Said to Prepare IPO to Ride Candy Crush Wave". Bloomberg. Retrieved 7 March 2015..
  8. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: SavingGlobal". Crunchbase. Retrieved 6 August 2015..
  9. ↑ "LivePerson übernimmt Co-Browsing Technologie des führenden Collaborative Web Service Unternehmens Synchronite". mashup-communications.de. Retrieved 16 July 2014..
  10. ↑ "Mehrwert durch Track & Trace". wirtschaftsforum.de. Retrieved 16 June 2014..
  11. ↑ "Paua und Otto verlieren Herz an Amorelie". Gruenderszene.de. Retrieved 17 May 2014..
  12. ↑ "ProSiebenSat.1 will Erotik-Startup Amorelie übernehmen". Gruenderszene.de. Retrieved 5 March 2015..
  13. ↑ "Crunchbase: TestHub". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 16 September 2016..
  14. ↑ "Lendico holt über 20 Millionen Euro von Rocket Internet und anderen Investoren". lendico.com. Retrieved 11 November 2015..
  15. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: PayMill". Crunchbase. Retrieved 15 November 2015.
  16. ↑ "14 Millionen Euro für Hamburger Marketing-Startup Esome". Gruenderszene.de. Retrieved 17 April 2015..
  17. ↑ "number26 - Profile". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 17 April 2015..
  18. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: TripDa". Crunchbase. Retrieved 8 August 2015.
  19. ↑ "Crunchbase: Stocard". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 17 May 2014..
  20. ↑ "M Cube neuer Inkubator der Check24-Gründer". Gruenderszene.de. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  21. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: Compass". Crunchbase. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
  22. ↑ "Crunchbase: Stocard". crunchbase.com. Retrieved 17 May 2014..
  23. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: Trecker.com". Crunchbase. Retrieved 6 August 2015..
  24. ↑ "Coffee Circle". venturevillage.eu. Retrieved 17 May 2014..
  25. ↑ "Peter Thiels Founders Fund investiert in neues Berliner Food-Startup". gruenderszene. Retrieved 16 November 2015..
  26. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: LiveCoding". Crunchbase. Retrieved 11 October 2015..
  27. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: CaterWings". Crunchbase. Retrieved 14 November 2015..
  28. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: 52masterworks". Crunchbase. Retrieved 14 November 2015..
  29. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: Massagio". Crunchbase. Retrieved 15 November 2015..
  30. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: CreditShelf". Crunchbase. Retrieved 29 November 2015..
  31. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: Brickgate". Crunchbase. Retrieved 6 August 2015..
  32. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: Appinio". Crunchbase. Retrieved 6 August 2015..
  33. ↑ "Crunchbase Profile: CloudRail". Crunchbase. Retrieved 6 August 2015..
  34. ↑ "Talentschmiede Mannheim: Was die Quadratestadt neben Xavier Naidoo noch zu bieten hat". metropoljournal.com. Retrieved 11 November 2015..
  35. ↑ "MCEI: Events". mcei.de. Retrieved 11 November 2015..

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