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Manuel Opitz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
129 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

And we also have some pre-seed financing from ourselves because we have a six-man founders team who all worked before, were professionals, several of them serial entrepreneurs.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

We've founded seven startups in total among all of us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

So we brought in some money ourselves.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

We also got

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Yeah, exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Sorry.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

We put in a five-digit number.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Per person.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

We also received some pre-seed government grants.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

In total, we will invest $1 million end of 2017 with all the money combined.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Including the seed round, yeah.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Yeah, it was pretty interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

Most of them were quite experienced, to be honest.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

So they were serial entrepreneurs and they weren't involved in the operative stuff in the beginning, most of them at least.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

So one of them, he's a physician and

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

he's heading currently the emergency ward at here at the university clinic of munich and so he cannot be involved directly but he also started two other companies before so he's quite experienced and to the two others they also had several startups before

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

And I think we built the team around the problem, which is really unique.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

We first, the physician identified the problem.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

He needed a solution.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 556: They 3D Printed Baby Sophia's New Foot Faster and Cheaper than Alternatives with Mecuris CEO Manuel Opitz

He tried 3D printing, thought, well, that looks well enough.