Our customers in interview

YogaEasy is Germany's largest online yoga studio. With YogaEasy you can practise yoga comfortably at home with yoga videos. Beginners and advanced practitioners have more than 700 professional yoga videos at their disposal, filmed with Germany's best-known yoga teachers. We talk to Henrike Fröchling, founder and CEO of Yogaeasy, about finance and cash flow planning.

Alexander Naumann is a busy businessman and, among other things, Managing Director of Pro.Tec Solutions – a legal tech platform for enforcing accident pension claims. Alex uses COMMITLY in combination with lexoffice to monitor and plan the cash flow of his company. In the interview he tells us about his experience after connecting the two tools.

wukonig.com is an internet agency focused on search engine optimisation (SEO) and search engine advertising as well as online marketing in Graz, Austria. For more than 20 years Jörg Wukonig and his team have been offering far more than web design from their Graz location, namely consulting, concept work and marketing of online projects at the highest technical level. We talked to Jörg about the challenges of SEO and about finance and cash flow.

newcubator is a dynamic team of UX designers, project managers and web, backend and frontend developers. Always looking for a challenge, the team at the Dortmund and Hanover locations develops individual software solutions for their customers' most varied product ideas. We talk to Jörg Herbst, CEO of newcubator, about cash flow planning.

We talked to Lukas Lovrek, CFO of Basenbox, about the challenges of being CFO in a fast-growing company. A key point in this case is managing cash flow. Lukas of course also reveals his favourite COMMITLY feature to us. – A lot has happened since our interview: Basenbox appeared on “2 Minuten 2 Millionen”, closed its first financing round and was listed at SPAR!

It really is impressive which companies operate successfully below the radar of the wider public. They are not called hidden champions for nothing. Commend, based in Salzburg, is one such company. Spaceports, prisons and museums such as the Louvre in Abu Dhabi rely on Commend's intercom technology. We talked to Christian Schmid, Managing Director of Commend Austria, about the company, the challenges in the finance department and the importance of cash flow in general.

Founder Sascha Bayu Handojo was born in Germany, but his cultural roots are in Indonesia. As the offspring of an Indonesian family of entrepreneurs with a long tradition, he combines characteristics typical of that culture with classic German virtues into an entrepreneurial personality. In the interview he talks about long goods cycles, cash flow challenges and growth in Germany.

EVK DI Kershhaggl GmbH, based in Raaba near Graz, is a classic hidden champion – active internationally, on the market for decades and specialised in high technology. We were able to talk to Alexander Fetz and Jasmin Haas of EVK about their business model and the challenges of being CFO. Of course, that also gave us an insight into how and why EVK uses COMMITLY.

Over the past 2 years the Viennese start-up campus weXelerate has become the focal point of the Central and Eastern European start-up scene. In one of the coolest locations in Vienna an ecosystem has been created that helps start-ups from all over the world take their next steps. As an alumnus and service partner, COMMITLY is part of the weXelerate ecosystem. We talked to Andreas Herrele, Head of Finance at weXelerate.

The first prototype arrived in 2014. After that came learning, growing, developing. In 2016 the seed investment followed, and since 2017 the company has been the no. 1 WordPress hosting specialist in the DACH region. At the end of 2018 / beginning of 2019 came the next financing round. We talked to Johannes Benz, one of the founders of RAIDBOXES and CFO of the company, about cash flow and the challenges of being CFO.