Mybzz vs Xing: a career network or a founder network?

Xing is the LinkedIn of the DACH region: a professional network for Germany, Austria and Switzerland that has leaned ever harder into jobs and recruiting. For employees and recruiters that focus makes sense. For founders it leaves the same gap LinkedIn does — a network optimized for careers, not for finding co-founders, investors or business partners. Mybzz fills exactly that gap: entrepreneur-only, goal-based AI matching, international by default — with German-speaking founders very much included.

Xing, operated by New Work SE, has been the professional network of the DACH region for two decades: profiles, contacts, company pages and — increasingly — jobs. In recent years the product has focused squarely on recruiting and career management, positioning itself as the place where German-speaking professionals manage their working life.

That career focus is precisely its limitation for entrepreneurs. Discovery revolves around job titles and employers, outreach works like a colder LinkedIn, and the people you most need as a founder — other founders, angels, first customers — are a minority drowned in a recruiting-shaped experience.

Mybzz gives that minority its own room: every member is an entrepreneur, profiles state goals rather than employment history, AI matching runs on what you're building, and networking events add the face-to-face layer. International by default — with a German-language home page for the DACH audience.