Tobias Lippek, Founder and CEO of 32bit Mobile Medizin GmbH    

1. Please describe your company in a few sentences.

32bit Mobile Medizin GmbH brings dental care to the people who need it — in care facilities, companies, rural regions, and to individuals who can no longer visit a practice. To do this, we develop and operate fully equipped mobile treatment units. Our hub‑and‑spoke model expands the reach of the dental practices we collaborate with.  

2. Why are you engaged as a Berlin-Partner? 

Berlin is our founding location and a place where healthcare, technology, and social entrepreneurship intersect. As a Berlin Partner, we want to actively help shape this environment while benefiting from exchange within the network. With our “Café Dental” concept, we offer real added value to Berlin Partners: low-threshold preventive dental services directly in the workplace as part of corporate health management.

3. Which topics drive you in relation to your industry? 

Equal access to healthcare. In Germany, only about one in six people in need of care receives regular dental treatment. In rural areas, practices close every year without successors. We work to close these gaps through mobile, outreach dental care that strengthens the long‑term viability of rural practices. We are also driven by questions such as: How do we attract skilled workers in rural areas? And how do we promote oral health in workplace prevention — for example through on-site preventive services?

4. What makes Berlin special to you?

Berlin approaches health across disciplines. The proximity to Charité, TU Berlin, the health network, health policy institutions, and a strong start-up ecosystem creates an environment where new care models can not only be discussed but implemented. And Berlin has a drive to shape change — an attitude that fits our approach: not waiting, but doing.

5. Why is Berlin attractive for your company? 

Our dental team, vehicle development, and strategic management are all based in Berlin. Here we find the people needed to bring together medical technology, software development, and healthcare research. Access to federal and state funding programs, as well as the network of health companies and research institutions, makes the location indispensable for us.

6.  What does Berlin stand for, in your view?

For the courage to do things differently — and for the belief that economic success and social benefit are not contradictions. Berlin is the place where you’re allowed to ask questions, including about the healthcare system.

7.  How does your company implement sustainability? 

For us, sustainability primarily means ensuring access and maintaining essential services. We deliver dental care to people who would otherwise not receive it — that is social sustainability. Our mobile units also reduce patient transport needs. Economically, we follow a reinvestment principle: surplus funds flow back into the company rather than into short‑term returns. This is part of our corporate philosophy.