Florin-Catalin Chici
Operations Director
Operations Director
Platform Manager
Events & Social Media
Investor Relations
Project Manager
Marketing & Communications Lead
Marketing & Partnerships
Finance Advisor
Explainable AI Engineer
Co-Founder and Director
Co-Founder of Silicon Allee
We have consulted companies moving to Berlin, developed incredible partnerships, and produced internationally renowned events in the city. We like to think of ourselves as the unofficial welcoming committee for Berlin’s newest entrepreneurs and tech employees.
Silicon Allee was started in 2011 by entrepreneurs Schuyler Deerman, David Knight and Travis Todd. Inspired by their upbringing in the US and time spent in San Francisco, they set out to build a startup community in Berlin with meetups, events and an English-language blog.
In 2016, Silicon Allee joined Factory to build a working, living, and event space for our vibrant startup community in the center of Berlin. We opened the campus in January of 2017, with a stellar group of international and local technology companies in residence.
At the end of 2019 we launched the Berlin Founders Fund, an equity-free fund for early-stage founders. We invest money, time, and our network into founders with great ideas, but we don’t charge for it. The goal is to extend each startup’s runway and help founders raise their first real investment round.
Now, we’ve embarked on an exciting new chapter. Silicon Allee has partnered with Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute to supercharge our support for early-stage startups in deep tech and AI.
Our startup program for deep tech and AI founders offers funding, office space, personalized mentorship and more. It combines our vibrant network and startup expertise with one of Germany’s leading deep tech research institutions.
Check out our founders page for details on our program in partnership with Fraunhofer HHI to supercharge our support for deep tech & AI startups.
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