grievy GmbH
What is your idea about?
Every year, around 5 million people in Germany are affected by grief. Most of them feel alone and overwhelmed. Existing support services are often difficult to access, have long waiting times or are stigmatised. Our digital service enables low-threshold, immediate access to professional grief counselling. Through personalised self-help programmes and expert support, we help people to better cope with their individual grief and develop new perspectives.
Year of foundation: 2021
University at which you study/work: University of Cologne, RWTH Aachen, FH Aachen, University of Koblenz-Landau, University of Bielefeld
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How did you get together as a team?
The founding team consists of Nele Stadtbäumer (CEO), Daniel Bachmann (CTO) and Aenis Chebil (COO).
The three founders are united by the vision, the ability and the goal to create trustworthy, low-barrier and instant digital solutions to support mourners.
Nele Stadtbäumer is a psychologist with many years of theoretical and practical experience in computational life sciences and mental e-health. Daniel Bachmann complements the team with his extensive skills in app development, software development and IT strategy. Aenis Chebil rounds out the team perfectly with his theoretical and practical skills in strategy and business development.
The founding team got to know each other in a project seminar at the University of Applied Sciences Aachen, led by Prof. Christian Drumm and Prof. Matthias Eggert. There, the first prototype of the grievy app was developed.
Since then, everyone has been working determinedly and ambitiously on the implementation of grievy.
How did you come up with your idea?
There is a personal story behind the idea of grievy.
When Nele Stadtbäumer (CEO) was suddenly confronted with the death of her father in 2019, she not only experienced strong grief from her and her family, but was also confronted with a conservative, non-digital industry that could no longer meet the demands of current generations.
As a psychologist and researcher, she explored the question, "What do people in grief need and where are gaps in care?"
Through nearly 150 structured interviews with mourners, bereavement counselors and funeral directors, the idea for grievy grew out of the need for support for mourners that current services do not address.
From the idea arose a value-adding business model, behind which the team stands with full heart, knowledge and verve.
What are you studying/working or what have you studied?
Nele Stadtbäumer completed her master's degree in psychology at RWTH Aachen University in 2018. She is expected to complete her PhD in January 2023. In her doctoral thesis, she developed prediction models for quality of life of cancer patients, as well as mobile applications to support them.
Daniel Bachmann completed his bachelor's degree in Business Information Systems at FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences in October 2022.
Aenis Chebil graduated from FH Aachen University of Applied Sciences with a bachelor's degree in Business Information Systems in August 2021. Aenis is in the penultimate semester of his Masters in Information Systems at the University of Cologne and has paused it for the time being when the team starts full-time in September 2022.