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 serious, 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
Michaela Liu-Lücker
Senior R&D Consultant
Dr. Claudia Green
R&D Consultant
Sahil Dave
Product Engineer
Yekaterina Kadubinskaya
Werkstudentin R&D Consulting
Tobias Beckmann
Junior R&D Consultant
Tobias Glahe
Junior R&D Consultant
