About Us

Vision

“Envisioning a world where every company and startup discovers its ideal innovation partner, Ambivation leads the charge in shaping an interconnected business landscape driven by our matchmaking services and dedication to sustainable, impactful collaborations.”

Mission

To empower and connect the innovation leaders of today and tomorrow, Ambivation provides startup scouting, monitoring, and matchmaking services. We are committed to fostering open innovation, facilitating impactful partnerships, and nurturing a win-win ecosystem where businesses and startups thrive together.”

Our values

  • Value Creation Together: “At Ambivation, we believe in synergistic value creation, fostering open innovation partnerships that cultivate mutual growth and advancements.”

  • Win-Win: “Our ethos is anchored in cultivating win-win scenarios, ensuring that collaborations between companies, startups, and Ambivation yield substantial benefits for all parties involved.”

  • Impact Oriented: “We are resolutely impact-oriented, aligning our strategies and actions with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to contribute positively to global challenges and drive meaningful change.”

  • Entrepreneurial: “Ambivation embodies an entrepreneurial spirit, committed to developing individuals and organizations alike, fostering a culture of continuous learning and innovation.”

  • Serving as Partners: “We pride ourselves on serving as true partners, engaging in collaborative and trust-based relationships with all stakeholders to achieve shared objectives and success.”

  • Openness: “Embracing openness, Ambivation cultivates an environment where authentic communication, openness to opportunities, and the courage to embrace failure are fundamental to our approach to innovation.”

  • Professionalism: “Professionalism is defined by our unwavering commitment, meticulous attention to detail, quality service delivery, accountability, and effective delegation to ensure excellence in all we do.”

Team

Christoph Baier

Founder and CEO

Christoph is the co-founder and managing director of Ambivation and as a studied economic computer scientist (with focus on innovation management and entrepreneurship) and multiple founder an ideal bridge builder between entrepreneurs and employees from the start-up world as well as the business world and experienced civil servants. Already during his studies he founded the start-up initiative START Berlin and the start-up platform Founderio. Although he is at home in Berlin, he is characterized by his calm, reliable and very precise character.

Find him on Linkedin or save his contact on your mobile phone.

Teresa FrĂĽhhaber

Business Development & Marketing

Teresa is dedicated to intensive startup research. She is responsible for our scouting and the evaluation of new, relevant startups in order to represent the current startup market as realistically as possible at all times. She analyses the needs of our clients and their future challenges in order to identify the most suitable startups. Her feeling for trends, her sense of structure and her competences from her studies of fashion and design management pay off.

Anne Schwerin

Editorial Services

Anne supports us as a freelance copywriter and photographer with the interviews on our blog. She already found her way into self-employment during her studies in 2013. Since then, startups and innovation have been her main topics. Today Anne works for clients all over Germany. But she feels at home in Leipzig. Thanks to numerous interviews and photo shoots, but also her commitment to the Startup Weekend and the Fuckup Night, she is now considered a true expert for the startup scene.

Bodo Kaiser

Sales and Automatisation

Career

Working Student / Internship
Innovation Management &
Business Development

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Full-time / Part-time
Innovation management &
Startup Matchmaking

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Working Student, Internship,
Graduation Thesis or
Unsolicited Application

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Further positions:

Research

Bachelor/Master/Doctoral thesis

Ambivation supervises and supports academic theses (bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral theses and general research questions) that fall within our subject areas (e.g. innovation management, startup cooperation or B2B business development). It is possible to combine your academic topic with an internship or a part-time position.

These are some of the topics we find interesting:

  • Startup Collaboration (Business)

  • Improving on a „Collaboration Canvas“ (Business or Service Design)

  • Semantic Keyword Analysis (IT)

  • Storytelling Startup Collaboration (Media, Movie and Literature)

  • Content Marketing (Journalism, Communication Science)

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