Tech Unicorn Builders

Hands-on Growth Studio for Scaleups: automations, AI MVPs, product analytics, and insights, CPTO coaching. Short-term high-impact projects that help you grow your revenues and minimize chaos. Build faster, automate smarter, and grow with data. We help you scale product, team, and market with AI, analytics, and hands-on execution.

Co-Founder

EffizienzAgent

Automation specialist helping German SMEs eliminate manual processes. GDPR-compliant solutions delivering ROI within 1-2 months. Remote-first approach for cost-effective implementation across DACH region.

Automating what annoys you. 🤖

Founder, CEO, Consultant

Diving Nomads

Bridging the gap between deep focus and deep dives. I’m co-building a community for certified divers who work remotely — curating remote-work friendly dive spots, organizing colivings and pop-up divecations, and creating spaces for meaningful connection both online and in real life.

We're building a platform where freedom meets flow — for freelancers, founders, and creatives who live and dive differently.

🌍 divingnomads.club

unblocked.engineering by INOCEA Consulting Ltd.

Technical Leadership, Technical Advisory, and Lean Software Development for SaaS Startups from Seed to Series B.

Founder, Fractional / Interim Tech Lead, Tech Advisor, Trainer & Mentor

Seed-Stage Startup

Introducing Product Discovery and Sync processes, enabling the team to work on the most important things. Running product strategy workshops with the team to enable better decision-making on all levels. Product management for a mobile app. Technical coaching for dev teams, introduction and facilitation of retrospectives and continuous improvement of ways of working. Introducing infrastructure as code and increasing automation of the deploy process.

Interim/Fractional Senior Product Manager & Technical Agile Coach

The Mentoring Club

Helping young software professionals from around the world with their next step. Mentoring on topics like leadership, software engineering and architecture, agile & lean, remote work, SaaS/Cloud, developer experience and organizational design and culture.

https://www.mentoring-club.com/the-mentors/tobias-mende

Mentor

Stealth Startup

Technical Advisor and Technical Agile Coach

Supporting the founding team in technical and cultural questions and decisions to ensure quality, scalability and development speed. Coaching and mentoring the team in development (technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, Node, Vue, Go, GCP, Mongo, Elastic). Architecture and code reviews and recommendations for action. Coaching of junior developers. Development of prototypes and proofs of concept. Increasing testability and reducing the complexity of architecture and code. Development of tech vision and strategy.

Fractional CTO and Technical Advisor

BRYTER

Founded and led a cross-functional platform team to improve developer experience and productivity, implementing continuous delivery, reducing the development lead time by 75%, and driving cultural and technical changes toward engineering excellence.

Developer Experience Engineer and Technical Lead

PAYONE

Development of payment connectors and fraud prevention systems. Refactoring of monolithic applications into independent services. Reduction of development lead time by 50%.

Senior Software Developer / Architect

Dräger

Application development for distributed gas detection systems. Teaching Git, Git workflows and TDD. Promoting awareness of software craft and introducing Continuous Integration in multiple teams and projects.

Software Engineer, Technical Lead, Coach and Trainer

I help SaaS companies with up to 250 employees build a high-performing engineering organization by utilizing my expertise in (technical) leadership and developer productivity.

🚀 Helping Founders Build Businesses That Run Smoothly — Without Becoming the Bottleneck

You started your business with passion and vision. But as it grows, new challenges emerge:

⚡ More and more decisions demand your input.
⚡ Your team hesitates to take full ownership.
⚡ Delegation feels impossible — things still land back on your plate.
⚡ The quality isn’t where you want it to be, and stepping away seems risky.

This is a natural stage of growth, but it doesn’t have to stay this way.

I help founders break free from being the bottleneck by building self-sustaining businesses — where teams take ownership, make smart decisions, and keep things running smoothly without constant oversight. The goal? A business that thrives, even when you step away.

👥 What I Do

I work as a sparring partner, advisor, and trainer for founders of growing startups and SMBs, helping them:

🔍 Uncover blind spots – Identify what’s slowing down decision-making and execution.
🛠 Enable smart leadership – Build structures that empower your team to take real responsibility.
📈 Streamline operations – Reduce complexity, eliminate bottlenecks, and free up your time for what truly matters.

The result? Less stress, fewer roadblocks, and a company that works — with or without you.

🌍 Who I Am

I’m Tobi — entrepreneur, leadership advisor, and sparring partner for founders who want high-performing businesses without unnecessary stress.

As a digital nomad, I’ve worked with founders worldwide and seen firsthand how different cultures approach leadership, decision-making, and collaboration. I know that “right and wrong” are often contextual, that true resilience comes from adaptability, and that great companies are built on trust and autonomy.

🌊 Home is wherever the ocean is. As a rebreather diver, I know that true freedom comes when you trust your system, stay calm under pressure, and let things run smoothly — just like in a well-functioning business.

Tobias Mende

Audrey Camp Consulting

Most challenges—at their core—are communication challenges. That’s why I put communication at the heart of everything I provide, from executive coaching to culture-building workshops to communication training to keynote messages and beyond.

Learn more: audreycamp.com

Executive Coach & Advisor | Organizational Development & Communication Specialist

ANYbotics

Driving company growth and organizational health by putting communication first. I oversee high-level internal communications and support leaders in making communication a foundational element of company initiatives, processes, and changes. This includes developing internal narratives, coordinating programming for company events, providing communication support to special projects (e.g. Communications Training, OKR Coaching).

Senior Communication Specialist & Executive Coach

Corporate Spring

In partnership with Corporate Spring, a boutique consultancy specializing in culture, leadership and communication, I train leaders and teams on the Corporate Spring Model™, which offers a holistic perspective on human behavior, organizational psychology, and group dynamics.

The methodical, practical, and engaging process has lead to extraordinary business outcomes for Corporate Spring clients for more than 10 years.

Associate Partner: Communication & Culture Strategist

Cognite

Enabling effective evolution and expansion in a high-growth scale-up. Responsibilities and deliverables:

- Internal Communication Strategy, including messaging, channels, training, tooling (e.g. Slack, Confluence, Google Suite), executive coaching, speech writing, panel moderation, event hosting
- Culture Strategy, including employee health & well-being, diversity and inclusion, social connection, and company pride, and the delivery of our biannual Employee Engagement Survey
- Learning & Development Strategy, including design and deployment of our digital learning platform, hybrid orientation for all new employees, and classroom trainings (e.g. public speaking)
- Leadership Development Strategy, including the design and deployment of a framework including leadership expectations, group mentorship, and live training & social events for all people managers
- Performance Management Strategy, including organizational reviews, employee dialogues, peer reviews, and more via software solutions (e.g. Small Improvements, Culture Amp)
- Internal Events, including the production of company-wide offsites, socials, and our bi-weekly hybrid All-Hands event

The Organizational Development Team makes it possible for Cogniters to thrive by enabling Cognite to adapt, change, and achieve greater effectiveness in an open, inspiring way.

Vice President of Organizational Development

- Developed and executed on a communications and culture strategy for Cognite that includes Employer Branding, Leadership Development, and Social & Cultural resources for our teams. I led a small team in this work. Together with the rest of Cognite's People & Organization (HR) team, we attract and retain exceptional talent by fostering a challenging, rewarding, and fun employee experience. 

- Ownership of all primary comms tools (Google Suite, Atlassian Confluence, Slack) and channels (All Hands, team showcasing, company offsite programs)

- Designed and ran hybrid OKR Process, breaking strategy down into ambitious, short-term goals, and increasing collaboration across our fast-growing organization. In this capacity, I have been a trusted advisor to the Executive Management Team. 

- The Voice of Cognite. Internal Communications is a strategic differentiator, something that connects directly to ALL of our company values: Impact, Openness, Curiosity, Velocity, and (my favorite) Togetherness!

Director of Internal Communications & Culture

The first writer behind the voice of Cognite, the fastest-growing tech company in Scandinavia.

- Developed, edited, published all initial website and social media content (2018-2019)
- Developed brand strategy in collaboration with Design and Social Media specialists
- Published multiple white papers and conference papers on digital transformation-related topics, taking Cognite to stages around the world (OTC, ONS, etc.)
- Storytelling coach for all Cogniters, including executive leadership
- Developed initial Content Style Guide (Voice & Tone) and other resources to ensure consistent quality standards for outbound content
- Advised external companies (customers & partners) on brand choices for content development, recruitment materials, digital transformation program design and promotion

Marketing Writer & Content Manager

Democrats Abroad Norway

The goal of Democrats Abroad Norway (DAN) is to reach out to the 25,000+ Americans living in Norway and help them to vote in American elections. DAN works to support the aims and principles of the U.S. Democratic Party by encouraging participation in the American political process through the organization of local events and activities. The activities of Democrats Abroad Norway are funded solely by the voluntary contributions of its members.

Chairperson

Telenor

As a UX Writer for Telenor Digital, I worked with a team of engineers and designers to develop a compelling and consistent privacy narrative for Telenor users in the era of GDPR. This challenging project required attention to detail and the ability to communicate a complex, potentially dry topic in an engaging, user-friendly way. My work has been viewed by millions of Telenor customers around the world.

UX Writer

University of Oslo

Department of Literature, Area Studies and European Languages
British & American Literature seminars

Seminar Teacher

a/e ProNet

Using my background in professional liability insurance for architects and engineers, I curated and authored all content for the a/e ProNet website and The ProNet Blog (http://www.aepronet.org/blog/), and I handled ProNet's LinkedIn profile. I also curated and edited the newsletters published by a/e ProNet, including ProNetwork News, Guest Essays, and ProNet Practice Notes.

a/e ProNet on Twitter: https://twitter.com/aeProNet

Content Specialist & Web Consultant

The Postmasters Podcast

Each month, Audrey Camp and Lacy Mayberry, friends and fellow graduates of the Lesley University MFA program in Creative Writing (’12), publish monthly discussions about The Writing Life, often including interviews with authors at various levels of personal success. Website: http://writingpostmasters.com/

Podcast Host

Sweet Lemon Magazine

As a copy editor, I work on the bi-monthly issues of the magazine. I do first pass reads on all content, offering style edits and advice to the authors, as well as basic copy editing. As a blogger I write weekly blog posts for The Zesty Digest pertaining to Lifestyle, Culture and Travel, and promote the magazine via Facebook and Twitter.

Copywriter

Organizational development pro with a background in internal communication, learning & development, employee engagement, OKRs & DEI

⭐️ Experienced executive coach and advisor with a vibrant background in communication, organizational development, and event design, based in Oslo, Norway. Learn more: audreycamp.com

⭐️ My Purpose: To accelerate healthy, people-first growth in European companies by sparking bold leadership and igniting engagement.

⭐️ My Expertise: Executive coaching, communication, change management, leadership development, goal management and OKRs, public speaking & storytelling, diversity & inclusion ++

⭐️ My Personal Values: Curiosity // Collaboration // Compassion

⭐️ My Favorite Quote: “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate the beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded!” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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