🇩🇪 Accelerators, incubators and startup programs in Germany

Accelerators, incubators and startup programs in Germany

• EXIST

  Program · Nationwide

  Federal grant programme funding university founders and research spin-offs with stipends and costs.

  Offers: funding, mentoring

• High-Tech Gründerfonds (HTGF)

  Program · Bonn

  Public-private seed fund and one of Europe's most active seed investors in tech startups.

  Offers: investment

• INVEST (BAFA)

  Program · Nationwide

  Federal grant that reimburses part of an angel's investment in a young startup, making angel cheques cheaper.

  Offers: funding

• KfW Capital

  Program · Frankfurt

  KfW's fund-of-funds investing in German and European VC funds.

  Offers: investment

• German Accelerator

  Program · Munich

  Government-funded programme helping German startups expand to the US and Asia.

  Offers: mentoring

• IBB Ventures

  Program · Berlin

  Venture arm of Berlin's state investment bank, backing Berlin startups.

  Offers: investment

• BayStartUP

  Program · Munich

  Bavarian network for founders and investors, running business-plan competitions and investor matching.

  Offers: mentoring, investment

• SPRIND

  Program · Leipzig

  Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation, funding ambitious deep-tech projects.

  Offers: funding

• German Startups Association (Startup-Verband)

  Community · Berlin

  National association representing startups in policy and publishing the German Startup Monitor.

  Offers: info, community

• UnternehmerTUM

  Accelerator · Munich

  Technical University of Munich's entrepreneurship centre, among Europe's largest startup hubs.

  Offers: space, mentoring, community

• APX

  Accelerator · Berlin

  Pre-seed investor and programme from Porsche and Axel Springer, backing founders very early.

  Offers: funding, mentoring

• Antler Germany

  Accelerator · Berlin

  Antler's Berlin residency, investing at the pre-team stage.

  Offers: funding, community

• Factory Berlin

  Accelerator · Berlin

  Startup campus and community in Berlin.

  Offers: space, community

• Merantix

  Accelerator · Berlin

  AI venture studio and campus building and backing AI companies.

  Offers: funding, mentoring

• Gründungszuschuss

  Program · Nationwide

  Start-up grant from the Federal Employment Agency for people moving from unemployment into self-employment.

  Offers: funding

• Berlin Startup Scholarship

  Program · Berlin

  Berlin programme giving scholarships to early founding teams from Berlin universities.

  Offers: funding

• IFB Innovationsstarter

  Program · Hamburg

  Hamburg's innovation funding and seed investment arm.

  Offers: funding, investment

• NRW.BANK

  Program · Düsseldorf

  North Rhine-Westphalia's development bank, with startup funding and venture investments.

  Offers: funding, investment

• Bayern Kapital

  Program · Landshut

  Bavaria's state venture investor, 200+ investments at seed and Series A.

  Offers: investment

• Zukunftsfonds

  Program · Berlin

  Federal future fund investing in VC funds and later-stage startups.

  Offers: investment

• GTAI (Germany Trade & Invest)

  Program · Berlin · Free access

  Federal agency helping foreign founders and companies set up in Germany.

  Offers: info

• de:hub (Digital Hub Initiative)

  Program · Berlin

  Network of national digital hubs connecting startups and corporates by sector.

  Offers: mentoring, community

• XPRENEURS (UnternehmerTUM)

  Accelerator · Munich

  UnternehmerTUM's incubator for early tech startups.

  Offers: funding, mentoring

• Founders Foundation

  Accelerator · Bielefeld

  Startup programmes backed by the Bertelsmann Foundation.

  Offers: funding, mentoring

• TechQuartier

  Accelerator · Frankfurt

  Frankfurt's fintech and tech startup hub.

  Offers: space, mentoring

• WERK1

  Accelerator · Munich

  Munich startup centre with programmes and space.

  Offers: space, mentoring

• Start2 Group

  Accelerator · Munich

  Startup programmes connecting German startups with international markets.

  Offers: mentoring

• Rocket Internet

  Accelerator · Berlin

  Company builder that created many German internet companies.

  Offers: funding, investment

• Antler Munich

  Accelerator · Munich

  Antler's Munich pre-seed programme.

  Offers: funding, community