Thursday Gathering #77 — From Molecules to Market: Connecting Scientists & Business

Venture Café's weekly Berlin gathering, this edition built around deep-tech founders coming out of chemistry and materials labs. The structured networking block from 17:00 to 18:00 puts six startups in the room for booked one-to-one slots: Clean Ocean Coatings, COFion, PeelBack, Waste2Watt, MANA.energy and SCORE. Founders taking part include Barbora Balcarova (CEO, MANA.energy), Hiba Bensalah (Waste2Watt), Anna Maria Dominic (PeelBack) and Christina Linke (Clean Ocean Coatings). Running alongside: Startup Incubator Berlin's UX testing, demo tables with 20 Korean startups via GMEP 2026 with betahausX and Vertical, and open networking until 20:00. Free, registration required. The one-to-one slots book separately through a calendar link, and the demo tables are already full for this date. Why go: the science-founder end of Berlin's ecosystem rarely gets a room of its own, and the one-to-one format means you talk to the six teams instead of watching them pitch. Best for deep-tech founders hunting a commercial cofounder, and for anyone sourcing materials or climate hardware.