SPRIND × Deutsche Börse
FROM BREAKTHROUGH TO IPO
Date: October 21, 2025 Location: Börsenplatz 4, 60313 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Time: 12:00–22:00 (Doors open 11:30) Lunch: 12:00–13:00 Content start: 13:30
13:30 – 14:15 FOAK Financing: How to fund breakthrough tech before public markets 30 min talk and 15 min Q&A
14:15 – 15:00 IPO 101 – Legal and Audit Essentials 30 min talk and 15 min Q&A
15:00 – 15:45 Why a European IPO Matters: Investor access, index inclusion, retail participation and analyst coverage 30 min talk and 15 min Q&A
15:45 – 16:15 Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:00 Strategic IPO Considerations for VC-backed Companies 30 min talk and 15 min Q&A
17:00 – 17:45 From Startup to Stock Exchange: A Founder’s Perspective 30 min talk and 15 min Q&A
17:45 – 18:30 Private guided tour of the Deutsche Börse Visitors Center & Trading Floor
19:00 – 22:00 Networking Dinner at Kleinmarkthalle Frankfurt (tbc) with founders, investors and capital market experts
A curated group of 20-30 participants, including: CEOs & CFOs of SPRIND’s most IPO-ready portfolio companies:
- Craig Kelly, CFO, Transmutex
- Heike Freund, COO, Marvel Fusion (or Moritz von Linden, CEO or Nicolas Burghardt, CFO)
- Francesco Sciortino, CEO, Proxima Fusion
- Lennart Bock, CFO, Proxima Fusion
- Haik Mehmke, CFO, Carbon One
- Thomas Forner, CEO, Focused Energy
- Felix Fischer, COO, Reverion and potentially new CFO, if already onboarded
SPRIND Olav Carlsen, Innovationmanager Till Moldenhauer, Chief of Staff Lorenz Höppl, Partnership Management (Christian Bogatu, Innovationmanager) (Antonia Schmalz, Innovationmanager)
Deutsche Börse Carsten Huth Caroline von Linsingen Daniel Kaefer +1 (Stefan Maassen) Experts from leading growth-stage VCs, Investment Banks: TBD
