Enabling Cross-Border Expansion: Scaler8’s Holistic Impact For Startup Growth

Lost In Transformation

How can we enable cross-border startup expansion and bridge ecosystems on a global scale? Claus Karthe is the Co-Founder & CEO at German Entrepreneurship Asia, connecting the innovation ecosystems of Asia and Europe to promote synergies between startups, investors and corporates. He shares his entrepreneurial journey that led him to launching the market expansion program Scaler8, and explains challenges and learnings in creating impact as a startup accelerator for cross-border growth.

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1. Enabling Cross-Border Expansion: Scaler8’s Holistic Impact For Startup Growth (00:00:00)

2. About Claus background, Nokia experience and the Asia journey (00:01:45)

3. Sail to Brasil and a new business idea (00:06:46)

4. How the German Accelerator Southeast Asia was born? (00:08:23)

5. What was the reason behind creating Scaler8? (00:11:03)

6. Encouraging people to envision clear outcomes and wider goals of their work at Scaler8 (00:12:56)

7. Helping Singaporean startups to be visible in Germany, and German startups to be visible in Asia (00:14:04)

8. Bringing people together through technology (00:17:17)

9. Adapting to the Covid situation and moving the market discovery curriculum online (00:19:30)

10. Entrepreneurship as a constant process of iteration and transformation (00:24:41)

11. How does the unique Scaler8's personalized proposal for each startup work? (00:26:35)

12. How to get companies to adopt technology faster - Claus plans for the coming years (00:28:08)