Benno Flotzinger

Founder and Playing Captain bei Now-Labs GmbH

Munich, Bavaria, Germany

About

now.labs are a unique business organism - you may call it venture design network - founded 2020 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. We help European companies, open to change, to successfully ideate, design, build and transform their existing businesses from scratch. As an independent, multidisciplinary team of creatives, consultants, scientists, artists and entrepreneurs of all sectors, we serve our clients (from startups to corporates) to define their unique Why?How?What?, to detect their future business potentials, ideate and design their most promising ventures, build a sustainable innovation infrastructure, leverage their brands and to establish all needed communication interfaces to run their future businesses successfully. Our network develops integrated digitalization processes, disrupts existing business models, designs 360° customer experiences, fresh marketing and sales processes and builds and manages innovation teams to deliver unique new products, services and digital processes.

Experience

  • New Business Coordinator at N+P Strategic Design Solutions
    Apr 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 3 mos

    N+P is a leading strategic design studio based in Munich, Germany. For over 50 years, we have been designing high-tech products for public transportation, professional electronics and high-end consumer products, medical equipment and rehabilitation, as well as graphic and interaction. We accompany our clients from all over the world from the initial idea up to the product’s market launch and further. We design products that surpass the user’s expectations and perfectly meet the manufacturing and distribution requirements – developing new concepts and shaping visions.

  • IMM Project Coordinator, Bavaria at IMM Industry Meets Makers
    May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

    IMM, INDUSTRY MEETS MAKERS is an open innovation community building format that aims to initiate new collaboration formats between top industry and the creative maker scene in order to make the resulting innovation and business potential fruitful for the benefit of both sides. Industrial companies advertise so-called "briefings" (= challenges) in future technology areas, such as IoT, robotics, 3D printing, AI, automation, big data, VR, security, blockchain, etc., and invite innovative makers – freelance developers, students, pupils, hobbyists, start-ups and SMEs – to solve them together in an multidisziplinary team within a prototyping period of approximately six months.

  • Founder and Playing Captain at Now-Labs GmbH
    Jan 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 6 mos

    now.labs are a unique business organism - you may call it venture design network - founded 2020 and headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. As an open, independent, multi-disciplinary team of entrepreneurs, scientists, artists and creatives of all sectors, we inspire, unleash and pilot our clients (from startups to corporates) to successfully ideate, design, build and transform their existing businesses from scratch.

  • Co-Founder & CEO at ideaWallet, the first online service of now-labs
    Mar 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 4 mos

  • Co-Founder & CEO at sevenSkies smart mobile spaces
    Jul 2016 - Present · 10 yrs