Silicon Valley's Big Bet on Europe's Hip New Startup Scene
On a recent Tuesday evening in Berlin, Mohamed Jimale stood onstage in a cavernous blue-lit event space before a crowd of hundreds. Projected on a screen behind him was the headshot of a mellow-looking goat.
“You become the owner of the goats’ babies,” Jimale explained during his pitch for Ari.Farm, his livestock-investment startup based in Stockholm. The crowd murmured approval. “We’re planning to expand to camels,” he added.
Jimale was among a spate of founders who participated in a startup-idea marathon, billed as “Pitch Don’t Kill My Vibe”—after the —as part of the housewarming festivities for Berlin’s newest startup campus. The evening gave entrepreneurs and investors, among others, a peek at the 75,000-square-foot workspace, dubbed Silicon Allee in a nod to California’s tech mecca. What had begun in 2011 as a monthly meet up for tech entrepreneurs
