Entrepreneurial Realities
Entrepreneurial Realities
TUM Venture Labs
# 100 - Five Years of Building - Special episode with Three Amazing Founders,
40 minutes Posted Jun 22, 2026 at 3:02 am.
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This is our 100th episode — and we are not celebrating with a retrospective. We are celebrating with three founders who came back to tell us what actually happened.

Flora Geske co-founded SUMM-AI, a GovTech company using AI to make public administration more accessible and efficient, and winner of the TUM Presidential Award. Pablo Palafox co-founded HappyRobot, a Y Combinator-backed agentic AI platform for logistics that has raised $44 million and counts the world's biggest freight brokers among its customers. Kevin Berghoff co-founded Quantum Diamonds, a TUM spin-out that has just raised €152 million and deployed its quantum sensing systems in the US, with nine of the world's top ten chipmakers already engaged.

Three very different sectors. One starting point: Munich, TUM, five years ago.

Join us as we look back at five years of building — and forward at what comes next.