Press Release
1 Jul 2025
An example of the innovative power of German entrepreneurs in the international and European environment: The young German visionary is moving to Barcelona in 2021 to realize his vision of a flying-driving drone.
Jakob Saalfrank: I grew up in Berlin in the early 2000s, as a child in the east, as a teenager in the west, and later in high school I spent a year in Dallas, Texas. After graduating from high school, I studied International Business at the HWR Berlin and worked at various startups during that time. I also studied in Cambridge for a year and did an internship in Barcelona for a year.
After completing my bachelor’s degree, I worked in Graz as an IT logistics consultant for SSI Schäfer, a company that builds fully and semi-automated warehouses in Europe and around the world. During my time there, I accompanied and managed projects in the Czech Republic, Sweden, Austria and Switzerland.
During the pandemic, I earned a master’s degree in digital product management. At the end of 2021, I decided to follow my vision, quit my permanent job and start my own startup.
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