Beam is a Berlin-based startup company builder backed by BEUMER Group, a family-owned global intralogistics company with over 85 years of history. We offer pre-seed funding, access to real B2B customers, hands-on launch support, and pre-validated business opportunities.

We are looking for a technical co-founder to join one of our pre-seed ventures, fixing how used industrial equipment is bought and sold in Europe. Today pricing and sourcing often happen through phone calls, gut feel, or Excel. Machines worth six figures get valued by whoever knows someone. The plan: aggregate sourcing and valuation signals from multiple data sources, and test demand through step-by-step experiments before building the full platform.

Be aware of the stage. This venture is in validation. There is no company yet. You join Beam, and we found the company together once validation holds. If that makes you nervous, this is not the right role.

What we look for

• You have shipped B2B products from zero to one and built scrappy things real users have touched

• You will help win the first paying customers, not just listen in on the calls

• You can build something credible from thin data

• You are fine throwing code away when it is not moving us forward

• You say "I don't know" out loud

• Founding experience or a network in industrial machinery or supply chain is a plus

• Fluent English required, German a strong plus

What you'll work on

• Build the technical side from zero: data platform, AI-native scalable architecture, and the first product customers pay for

• Run fast experiments with your co-founder and talk to stakeholders across the used equipment market

• Once validation holds: co-found the company, own technical direction, hire your team

• Access to BEUMER Group's industrial customers and live equipment projects

What Beam offers

• 4,000 EUR/month gross during validation

• If the startup reaches go-to-market, Beam's funding committee secures minimum 18 months runway after every round

• Network of experts, advisors, and mentors across intralogistics, industrial tech, and marketplace building

• Home base at our Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg office alongside other founders

Why Beam might not be for you

• Berlin-based, roughly half your week in the office.

• This starts as a validation engagement, not a founding. Our bar is high: over 80% of candidates don't make it to launch.