We believe innovation has the potential to make the world a better place.
That's why we give startups more freedom to innovate.
By providing the easiest and most enjoyable way to secure R&D funding.
How Coup came to be
In 2021, we asked ourselves why so few startups benefit from public funding opportunities? Our hypothesis: because of bureaucratic hurdles.
Our professional backgrounds made us care about this issue: Arne used to work in startups (ImmobilienScout24, Contorion) and Erik in industrial research (IBM Research).
We thus founded Coup with the idea of giving innovative startups easy access to R&D funding - and thus providing them the freedom to innovate. With this approach, we collectively secured over 50 million Euro in funding for over 125 customers.
We are driven by curiosity and our belief in progress in this effort. With every new customer.
Our values
Customer-focus
Our customer's success is our success
Proactivity
We take initiative and embrace ownership
Open-mindedness
We welcome and benefit from other's perspectives
Curiosity
We learn long and prosper; we celebrate progress
Cheerfulness
We take our work seriously, ourselves not so much
Our team
Arne Wittern
Co-founder and CEO
Dr. Erik Wittern
Co-founder and CTO
Lisa Wolfrum
Marketing Lead
Alistair Quinn
Senior Full Stack Engineer
Dr. Claudia Green
Senior R&D Consultant
Michaela Liu-Lücker
Senior R&D Consultant
Dr. Isis Römer
R&D Consultant
Dr. Lucia Gharwalová
R&D Consultant
Maximilian Stachelbeck
Account Executive
Sahil Dave
Product Engineer
Antonia Lüdeke
Working Student Online Marketing
Tobias Glahe
Junior R&D Consultant
Yekaterina Kadubinskaya
Working Student R&D Consulting
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