At the award ceremony of the annual “Spark – The German Digital Award” Barbara Kux presented the “Female Founder Special Award” to Anna Iarotska and gave the laudation. Iarotska is the CEO and a co-founder of Robo Wunderkind. Her start-up helps inspire more children for science and technology and to take up professions in this field. Handelsblatt and McKinsey have awarded this special prize for the first time to encourage female talent to become founders of start-ups and to make successful female role models more prominent.
Berlin, 21 November 2019
Sven Afhüppe, editor in chief Handelsblatt, Anna Iarotska, CEO and co-founder of Robo Wunderkind, Barbara Kux and Cornelius Baur, Managing Director Germany of McKinsey & Company