Lena (Katharina) Bödeker

Mentor

Berlin, Germany

Experience

Jan 2022 - Present
2 years 6 months

Mentor

Fementor

Dec 2022 - Present
2 years 7 months

Startup Coach

DesignFarm (Accelerator Kunsthochschule Weissensee)

May 2022 - Present
3 years 2 months

Co-Founder

She eats

  • female founder network with 60+ active members
Jun 2021 - May 2022
1 year

Project Lead Business Building

hy - the Axel Springer Consulting Group

  • Set up of a circular economy venture including a D2C platform
  • Specification and validation of several D2C and platform ventures
  • Internal strategy implementation, bizdev, hiring and thought leadership
May 2020 - Oct 2020
6 months
Berlin, Germany

Partnership & M&A Manager

Heycar Holding (Mobility Trader GmbH)

  • Strategic business development & partnership management
  • Project implementation lead for strategic investors (VW, Daimler etc.)
  • Set up of the general investment thesis and management board meetings
Jul 2019 - Present
6 years

Speaker

IAA, IFA, SIBB, AsiaBerlin and more

Jun 2019 - Present
6 years 1 month

Mentor

Plug & Play Retail

Feb 2019 - May 2020
1 year 4 months
Berlin, Germany

Co-founder & COO

Simple Mobility GmbH

  • Project lead for € 500.000 project with Deutsche Telekom AG
  • Established the sales strategy and implemented Hubspot
  • Set up the business plan and investment and fundraising strategy
  • Communication and PR including >30 fair and event visits and >20 pitches
  • Hiring and management of logistics and operations employees
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
1 year

Delegate

Enpact & AsiaBerlin

  • Smart city trip to New Delhi & Bangalore, India
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
7 months
Berlin, Germany

Corporate Partnership and Program Manager

German Tech GmbH

  • Project lead for an intrapreneurship accelerator at Volkswagen AG
  • Set up and implementation of internal business development strategy and processes
  • Organization of (corporate) workshops and events (Leapfunder Investor Roundtable, ‘Proptech Innovation Award’ by Union Investment, weekly entrepreneurial lectures)
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
1 year

Co-Curator

Techstars Startup Digest Berlin

  • Newsletter and Calendar with 6.000+ subscribers
Sep 2017 - Dec 2017
4 months
Berlin, Germany

Business Associate

Techstars METRO Accelerator (Hospitality)

  • Interim management for selected startups (BizDev, Marketing, Sales)
  • Project implementation and coordination with METRO stakeholders
  • Program management and international community building
Jan 2016 - Dec 2020
3 years

Lead Organizer

Techstars Startup Weekend Berlin

  • Organization of 4 Startup Weekends with 20+ volunteers and 10+ sponsors per event
Nov 2016 - May 2017
7 months
Hamburg, Germany

Innovation Management Intern & Master Thesis

Airbus BizLab

  • Established and managed a C-level promoted intrapreneurship challenge
  • Organized the acceleration program for startups & intrapreneurs
  • Managed partnerships and events, startup scouting
Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
11 months
Copenhagen, Denmark

Expansion Manager Germany (part-time)

JUC Services

  • Market analysis
  • go-to-market strategy
  • lead management
Mar 2015 - Jun 2015
4 months
Düsseldorf, Germany

Consulting Intern

KMC Management Consultants

  • Market research
  • due diligence process
  • data processing
  • client interviews
Nov 2014 - Jan 2015
3 months
Geleen, Netherlands

Sales Analyst Intern

Royal DSM (Engineering Plastics)

  • Creation of a sales processes manual for audits and restructuring

Head of Accelerators

Angeldesk

  • 3 months

Interim COO

Clean Ocean Coatings

  • 3 months

Business Development & Strategy

Dearest

  • 3 months

Head of Corporate Innovation

Glassdollar

  • 5 months

Go-to-market strategy Germany

HeyMojo (Techstars ’18)

  • 2 months PT

Startup Scouting & Event Management

Startup Colors

  • 2 months PT

Strategy & Partnerships

Talenteco/ Smart & Green Tech Conference

  • 2 years PT

SME Consultant & Workshop Host

Talentlabor

  • 1-week seminar

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Danish
Elementary
Dutch
Elementary
French
Elementary
...and 1 more

Education

Oct 2015 - Jun 2017

Copenhagen Business School

Master of Science · Organisational Innovation & Entrepreneurship · Denmark

Oct 2011 - Jun 2014

Maastricht University

Bachelor of Science · Economics & Business Economics · Netherlands