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

Head of Product Partner Acquisition, Management & Enablement

Responsible for digital and online service, including chatbot Billie, account pages, customer service pages and all proactive service communication, including artifical intelligence development. Leading a top team of 35 people including product owners, business and data analysts, content specialists, product designers and software, data and machine learning engineers. Member of MT Customer & Partner Experience.

Head of Product - Online Service

Manager Online Service

Service experience, service proposition, service policies, service improvement, people development

Manager Service Experience

Altuïtion

Collaborating on building customer-centric data-driven empowered teams at customers of Altuition. Bringing in specific knowledge and expertise on how to build teams and organizations that truly drive customer and business value.

Associate Partner

Land van Ons

Contributing knowledge and expertise on customer journeys, customer experience, customer loyalty, data analysis. Land van Ons is a citizen cooperation that buys farm land and then leases it to farmers who employ nature inclusive farming practices to bring back biodiversity. Want to contribute? http://www.landvanons.nl

Volunteer

Ziggo

I have held a variety of customer strategy roles within Ziggo, a nation-wide Dutch cable company that serves over 4 million households. Ziggo is part of the Liberty Global group, the world's largest international cable company. Projects included development of a customer loyalty vision and strategy based on emotional connectedness, development and rollout of a customer service strategy to drive customer intimacy and brand positioning, development and overseeing implementation of digitization strategies to drive customer experience and cost effectiveness.

Customer Strategy Manager

Capgemini Consulting

I worked for well-known clients such as Philips, Rabobank and Interpolis and participated in and managed both national and international projects. Projects ranged from developing a mobile strategy, to market introduction of a new product, to strategy development sessions, to sales and product management process improvements, to outsourcing and divesting global servicedesk and datacenter operations.

Senior Management Consultant Marketing & Customer Strategy

ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

Advising customers on financial products, as well as developing and executing local marketing initiatives. But mostly several years of learning to listen to a wide variety of people and their financial needs in order to assess how financial products help them further.

Sales Executive

Driving customer value by digital and data innovation. Passionate about transformation, creating stuff that doesn't exist yet, challenging the status quo and delivering on a vision in order to make a difference for customers and people. A tech optimist and occasional nerd, I firmly believe technology and automation will have a huge positive impact on our daily lives.

I have worked in sales, in management consulting and customer and marketing strategy, as well as side trips to HR, law, finance and IT. I have a strong academic foundation with master degrees in both international economics & business as well as corporate law, and post academic education in innovation and customer centricity. 

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