Frank Westermann (mySugr)

Vienna
June 25, 2015 / 6:30 PM

About this event

Please register via Eventbrite - Link (we have 150 free tickets available until two days to the event - where we charge a little something for the extra hassle we have): In the next session Startup Grind Vienna hosts Frank Westermann. He co-founded „MySugr“ which is currently Europe's leading diabetes application and recently announced a 4.8 M Round, one of the biggest rounds of the austrian start-up scene. Frank studied Business Administration in Germany and France and started his career as a Product Manager at Telekom Austria. His second career station was in Berlin, where he worked for the IPTV Start-Up iTV solutions. From 2008-2011 he worked for the media consultancy thebrainbehind in Munich. During traveling, which he did a lot, he had an innovative idea on how to deal with his illness of diabetes and how it can help others. There are 600.000 people in Austria alone who suffer from diabetes. If you live with this illness, you have to reorganise your whole life and your nutrition to make the best out of it. In 2011 Frank founded founded mySugr with his Co-founders Gerald Stangl, Fredrik Debong and Michael Forisch. MySugr helps you with that. It is a Diabetes Manager App which provides a simple , intuitive operation and helps diabetic patients to document their lives with the disease and thus easier to cope with everyday life. He will tell us the story of his „grind“ to success and discuss about the life in a startup and how to deal coming to vienna and living in a dislocated relationship.

Speaker

Frank Westermann (mySugr)

Frank Westermann

mySugr

Please register via Eventbrite - Link (we have 150 free tickets available until two days to the event - where we charge a little something for the extra hassle we have): In the next session Startup Grind Vienna hosts Frank Westermann. He co-founded „MySugr“ which is currently Europe's leading diabetes application and recently announced a 4.8 M Round, one of the biggest rounds of the austrian start-up scene. Frank studied Business Administration in Germany and France and started his career as a Product Manager at Telekom Austria. His second career station was in Berlin, where he worked for the IPTV Start-Up iTV solutions. From 2008-2011 he worked for the media consultancy thebrainbehind in Munich. During traveling, which he did a lot, he had an innovative idea on how to deal with his illness of diabetes and how it can help others. There are 600.000 people in Austria alone who suffer from diabetes. If you live with this illness, you have to reorganise your whole life and your nutrition to make the best out of it. In 2011 Frank founded founded mySugr with his Co-founders Gerald Stangl, Fredrik Debong and Michael Forisch. MySugr helps you with that. It is a Diabetes Manager App which provides a simple , intuitive operation and helps diabetic patients to document their lives with the disease and thus easier to cope with everyday life. He will tell us the story of his „grind“ to success and discuss about the life in a startup and how to deal coming to vienna and living in a dislocated relationship.

Date and Time
June 25, 2015
6:30 PM - 9:30 PM
 
Address

Sektor 5
Siebenbrunnengasse 44
1050 Wien

 
Agenda
06:30 PM Networking and Food
07:30 PM Fireside Chat
08:30 PM Networking
 

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Steve Glange

Regional Director Europe - Central

Steve Glange launched the FirstTuesday network in the Greater Region and became board member of the global network. He is also a founding board member of Luxembourg Business Angels Network where he served as board member of EBAN. He was ambassador for XING in Luxembourg. He assisted launching and developing emerging companies and holds various advisory board seats. He is also a UN conference speaker and lecturer at Georgia Tech Institute. He uses his analytical and innovative skills around a good robusto cigar. Steve is an experienced networked solution broker.

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