My name is Florion Swyter, I'm a member of the upper house in Berlin, and I am the speaker
for Economy policies for FDP.
This advertisement is not quite serious.
But it has a serious core.
The serious core is there are opportunities for start-ups, for example
start-ups which have the business mainly in EU, within the EU.
And the other message with our campaign was to the government of Berlin to improve the
environment and the framework for start-ups in Berlin.
Frankly there is too much bureaucracy all over the world and Berlin is no exemption.
But what we already did is to bring the hurdles down.
Less bureaucracy, tailor made programmes which support the start-up community.
I'm Cornelia Yzer, Senator for Economic Research and Technology in the state of Berlin.
We offer support to the companies that think about relocation after the Brexit decision.
And frankly as a passionate European I am still mourning that this decision was made
but I have to respect it, and as a politician in the state of Berlin I want to take advantage
of this situation.
We opened the office in London.
There is a person familiar with the London start-up community but also with the start-up
hub Berlin and he'll navigate the entrepreneurs so that they get the right person to talk to.
Whether it's in the Senate department for economics where we offer lots of support programs
for the start-up community or our Business Development Agency Berlin partner, or the
Berlin investment bank IBP which offers various programs and venture funds so that each company
can be, can rely on support and they will not be alone.
My name is Stefan Franzke and I am the CEO at Berlin Partner, Berlin Partner is the Development
Agency on the behalf of the state of Berlin we help companies to come to Berlin.
My name is Tony Horne and I'm the co-founder and COO of MBJ LONDON.
We basically do WaaS which is website as a service; it is the end to end design and management
of websites for small and medium sized businesses.
We have been based in the UK for about three years now and we decided to move to Berlin
actually quite recently after the Brexit referendum because of the uncertainty that it brings
with it in terms of employment and talent and also because originally I am from Berlin
so it seems like a natural choice.
We have different services; one service is our business immigration service a lot of
companies from abroad when they want to come to Berlin have international staff not only
German people and sometimes it's not really easy to get to working and living permissions,
so the visa issues we help them and we guarantee that after five working days we have the end
of the process.
Then we have the financial service.
In the last year some two point three billion euros we see was raised by Berlin start-ups.
So it was 25 percent more than the London did.
There are various programs which offer tailor made solutions for this community.
We even offer venture capital funds, publicly funded, which is very much appreciated by
the start-up community because these venture capital funds give leverage to public money.
But even more important they make sure that right from the beginning the private investors
are coming in to support the start-ups and that is very much appreciated.
The move to Berlin was actually quite a lot more difficult than I expected even though
I am and my business partner from Germany so Berlin Partner have been a tremendous help
and actually facilitating the process of cooperation and that is a lot more difficult in Germany
than it is here in London, and other things from subsidies to just making the introductions
there have been really helpful.
We are here in Soho with our pop up lab, because a normally marketing campaign is boring nowadays.
We want to show how vibrant the ecosystem in Berlin is.
You can have a passion about cooking in a new way from street food to the haute cuisine.
The smallest disco of the world we have bring it here to London, it's a telephone cell it's
really amazing.
And that's what we want to show, the Londoners.