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

Danske Bank

Leading a team of 9 coaches, specializing in engendering agile maturity and self organisation in teams across all teams of the development organisation (~3500 people). 

My role is focused on being a servant leader, setting the direction and focus for my team of coaches, and ensuring we have an effective and efficient way of working to reach our goals, as well as demonstrating and reporting our results across the organisation. 

I also have a wider focus of leadership across the teams in our Agile Center of Excellence, ensuring that our cross team collaboration is smooth and united in our approach when collaborating with all the departments ("tribes") in the development organisation.

Specialty agile coach leader

Agile coaching in the the Better Bank transformation initiative, to realise "Better ways of working", i.e. implementing an Agile setup in Danske Bank.

I am the leading coach (tribe coach) for a tribe/department of 60 people. Tribe leadership is shared between tribe lead and tribe coach, dividing the responsibility between what is delivered (lead) and how we work (coach). 

The work entails coaching of leaders in the tribe and squads; designing, implementing and running all tribe wide agile events and processes; as well as leading the tribe chapter of agile coaches, in both their work as well as growth as coaches. 

I also coach teams directly on how they work, their mindset, their inclusiveness and respect for each other's talents and differences, as well as all leadership roles in the tribe on embracing this approach.

One of the greatest achievements in this role is showing people they need to go beyond frameworks and processes to develop business agility: Don't wait for a process or a quarterly planning meeting to do something about problems that pop up - act now!

Agile Tribe Coach

EY Denmark

Manager, working with strategic internal and external partnerships in the private and public sector, focusing on how to build true win-win relationships between partners.

Manager

New Stories

Business coach and project manager on storytelling, leadership coaching and personal development training for Danish clients.

Project Manager

Alchemical Arts Consulting

Strategy consultant on conceptualisation and go to market strategy for relaunch of consultancy. 

After launch: Training consultant on development courses applying dramatic techniques for leadership training, sales training and personal development.

Strategy & Business Development Consultant

Travelling in China & New Zealand, relocating to London, UK

DONG Energy

Project management and planning, conflict solution between business line and project goals.

Project manager

Novo Nordisk

Project Consultant on it project in pharmaceutical industry

Project consultant

Deloitte Business Consulting

Management Consultant

Company Analysis, Investment Analysis, Stock Market Monitoring, Trading

Portfolio Manager

Student supporter for portfolio managers in equities department.

Modelling, reporting, development, management of student team.

Supporter

Den Kongelige Livgarde

Infantry Soldier

I have worked for 20+ years in a variety of industries, going deeper and deeper into project management, management consulting and coaching and mentoring, in latter years focused on an agile context.

All of my career I have pursued a singular driving thought: "There must be a better way".

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