The idea for NetzBeweis was born in June 2020. Katharina attended the LegalTech Hackathon, which was organized by the Institute for Innovation and Digitalization in Law at the University of Vienna and the FH Campus Wien in a cooperation. As Katharina often had to suffer from bad screenshots and tedious evidence preservation, the idea that evidence preservation could be easier in cases of online hate was born during the hackathon after some online meetings. The resulting prototype was chosen as the winning project.

Because it was a matter of the heart for Katharina, she was already thinking about the future of this project at the time and eventually took the idea forward together with LegalTech programmer Thomas Schreiber, who participated in the hackathon as a mentor. Cybercrime lawyer Michael and Philipp as the second software developer, made the NetzBeweis team complete. After many extensions and adjustments, NetzBeweis was finally created and the web form went live in February 2021. We as the NetzBeweis team are very proud of what has come out of that idea at that time so far and are happy to be able to improve the preservation of evidence online and to contribute to the fight against hate on the web.

Soon after the go-live, we went on a secret mission to Cologne. There, we were even able to convince two lions on “Die Höhle der Löwen“, and are pleased to have Carsten Maschmeyer and Nils Glagau on board as investors. Now that our appearance on the May 2022 show has aired, we’re taking off together even faster!