About
Hi, I'm Marcus 👋🏼
I started e-laborat in 2000 as a small Berlin web agency. It has since delivered more than 100 projects, for clients including Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the AMEDES Group and the German Federal Association of Detectives. Today the focus is custom software in Django and React, and getting companies ready to use AI.
From 2010 to 2016 I was co-founder and CTO of einfach machen lassen, which won the German e-commerce association's “Rising Star” award in 2014.
The agency also handed me the problem that turned into finban. Project work means paying out before you get paid: instalments, salaries, freelancers, subscriptions. So I built myself a spreadsheet — one sheet per year, months running left to right, income below, expenses below that, the total at the bottom. It grew, it got slow, and nothing on the market combined its strengths with the ones a SaaS product has. So in 2022 we built a prototype.
Three companies, one city
finban
2022
Founder & CEO
Cash-flow planning for small and mid-sized companies. Connect the bank accounts, play through the scenarios, and see tomorrow's balance instead of yesterday's.finban.io
e-laborat
2000
Owner
Owner-run Berlin agency for software development and AI transformation. Django on the back end, React on the front, and a developer rather than a salesperson in the first meeting.e-laborat.de
einfach machen lassen
2010
Co-founder & CTO, until 2016
Berlin startup for household technology services. I ran the engineering side.
- Studied at
- University of Potsdam
- Award
- “Rising Star”, bvh, 2014
- Writing
- At work on a thriller, “Die Mine”
- Sailing
- SKS licence, German Sailing Association, 2023
I consult on software and AI: when you want to know where AI would actually pay off in your business, need a second opinion on a software project, or need engineering leadership for a while. Out of 25 years of building software, not out of a playbook.
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