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

E.ON

Head of Marketing @lemonbeat, an E.ON One company. Communication and Marketing strategy in a scale-up.

Head of Marketing @lemonbeat

Agile Coach @lemonbeat an E.ON One Company, a scale up in the gridtech sector. Coaching and Mentoring leadership.

Agile Coach @lemonbeat

Agile Coach and consultant @ e.on digital technology

Agile Coach @EDT

KI Camp

Organiser of the first ever AI barcamp in the Ruhr area.

Co-Organiser

Berthold Barth - Agile Coach, Product Manager and Geek Dad

Coaching and transforming organisations, teams and individuals toward more effective, joyful work

Clients include innogy, netzkern, Vorwerk, move:elevator, Continentale, EON and Cariad

Agile Coach

AGILE.RUHR GbR

Sharing the ideas and values of Agile in the Ruhr Area. Events include the AGILE.RUHR Camp and Day, monthly scrumtisch Essen as well as the advanced Coach Reflection Day Format. Tickets & Information: www.agile.ruhr

Co Organiser

Unpaid Care Work

Geek Dad

barcamp.ruhr GbR

Organising Barcamp Ruhr at Unperfekthaus Essen to foster discourse on media, technology and society.   More information and tickets: www.barcamp.ruhr

Vorwerk Group

Coaching a Java software development team in R&D/e-commerce as well as coaching and advising different value streams within the larger organisation. Interim Product Owner.

Agile Master

flowedoo GmbH

Helping organisations achieve higher productivity through enabling rather than constraining structures and reintroducing purpose into the process.

WBS TRAINING AG

Trainer for Agile Project management and Change Management

Trainer

ista International GmbH

Coaching a SAP software development team in a complex, scaled environment. Working with senior staff to align priroities and shape the scope of the project as well as facilitate and support big room planning events. Work with HR, Product mgmt and different branches of the organisation to foster collaboration.

Senior Agile Master

First full time Scrum Master in Essen. 
Host to the Agile community of the Ruhr Area.
Committed to leaving every organisation better off than I found it.

I have failed. Often. Who I am and what I do today is built in large part on what I learned from each and every one of my failures. There is an immense and still too seldomly tapped force in looking back to get a better understanding of how to move forward. I help teams and organisations observe and evaluate their past to find better ways to their goal, be it a project or a product. I coach individuals to make the most of their skills and organisations to become more transparent, meaningful and successful. 

If it were easy, everybody would do it.

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