On this episode of Investor Connect, Hall welcomes Max Schuster, entrepreneur, startup investor, and marketing lead at Capacura, a German venture capital firm focused on impact investing. Capacura specializes in education technology, health technology, and climate technology, backing companies where scalable business models directly correlate with scalable social and environmental impact; the firm first vets economic viability, then applies an impact filter, narrowing thousands of annual applications down to roughly 10 investments. Max shares his path from early stock market investing into entrepreneurship and venture capital, and outlines Capacura’s early-stage evaluation criteria—team, timing, business plan, idea, and investor synergy—along with common investor misconceptions around betting on “the next Facebook” versus diversification and evidence-based selection. He explains how Capacura uses AI and data to screen pitch decks, aggregate internet signals, and assess trends, discusses healthcare tailwinds from demographic shifts and innovations like automation, robotics, and precision diagnostics, and mentions Capacura’s investment in TimeTeller in chronomedicine. He also covers why Capacura is making startup investing more accessible to individual investors and how founders can benefit from that network effect. Visit Capacura at http://www.capacura.de/ Reach out to at http://www.linkedin.com/in/startupmax/ , and on max.schuster@capacura.de ________________________________________________________________________ For more episodes from Investor Connect, please visit the site at: http://investorconnect.org Check out our other podcasts here: https://investorconnect.org/ For Investors check out: https://tencapital.group/investor-landing/ For Startups check out: https://tencapital.group/company-landing/ For eGuides check out: https:/_/tencapital.group/education/ For upcoming Events, check out https://tencapital.group/events/ For Feedback please contact info@tencapital.group Please follow, share, and leave a review. Music courtesy of Bensound.

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