Offering

We Make Companies Future-Ready

As an innovation and transformation partner for established companies, we help you develop, test, and scale solutions quickly and collaboratively.

Offering Industry & Technology Fields

Trusted by industry leaders
  • 300+ Corporate Partnerships
  • 150+ Family Businesses & SMEs
  • 500+ Innovation Experts

IN A NUTSHELL

We are Europe’s leading center for innovation and business creation, founded in 2002 by Susanne Klatten. We secure the future viability of established companies. To do this, we combine our ecosystem of startups, talent, and research with deep industry and technology know-how. This creates solutions that we test and scale quickly together with you.

Our Offering
Methodology Meets Industry and Technology Expertise

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Products & Processes

Spot opportunities with foresighting and startup scouting, test solutions with venture clienting and design sprints, and build your own innovation structures with us.

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Leadership & Organization

Training in tech and AI, entrepreneurship, and leadership, tailored to your organization, plus structures that foster innovation, up to your own innovation unit.

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Ecosystem Access

Networks and peer exchange for decision-makers, startup matchmaking, flagship events like the Ultimate Demo Day, and coworking and event spaces at Munich Urban Colab.

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Taking On the Future
We support family businesses from transformation to succession

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Family Businesses

Access to startups, technologies, and innovation projects, connections with investment companies and family offices, and programs for NextGens and entrepreneurial families.

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Succession

We promote business acquisition as an alternative to founding a startup, with tailored training, knowledge transfer, and connections between talent, companies, and investors.

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Industry and Technology Fields

Because innovation happens where methodology meets expertise, we pool our know-how in these fields, with more than 500 in-house experts and our ecosystem of startups and research.

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What Companies Have Achieved With Us

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Bosch: A Cloud-Based Service for Building Analytics

In four months, a team from Manage and More developed use cases and two prototypes for a cloud-based building analytics service for Bosch.

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OroraTech: A New Business Area for a Proprietary Technology

In a Business Design Deep Dive, students identified 13 opportunity areas for OroraTech and developed a tested use case in carbon forestry.

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BSH: New Business Models for Fermentation at Home

In a five-day Innovation Sprint, twelve TUM students developed three business models around fermentation at home for BSH, including prototypes.

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JAEGGI: Circular Economy From Concept to Prototype

In three workshops and one week of prototyping, JAEGGI teams developed circular products and the business model to match: three strategies, four prototypes, and a four-year roadmap.

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HP Tech Ventures: A Biodegradable Shoe With Simplifyber

With UnternehmerTUM, HP Tech Ventures found the startup Simplifyber. Together, they developed a fully biodegradable shoe made from natural fibers in a pilot project.

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Wacker: AI-Powered Quality Control With ANTICIPATE

With UnternehmerTUM, Wacker found the startup ANTICIPATE. In the proof of concept, its AI solution achieved an error detection rate of at least 95%.

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ExxonMobil: Startup Scouting for Sustainable Innovation

Through systematic scouting, ExxonMobil gained access to European startups with sustainable technologies and more technology leads than planned.

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Truma: Building the Innovation Unit Next

UnternehmerTUM supported Truma in building its digital innovation unit Next, from vision to the incubation of its first use cases.

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SupplyOn: AI Prompting Challenge

In a workshop in startup mode, 25 employees, managers, and board members at SupplyOn learned to use generative AI effectively in their everyday work.

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Cremer: New Business Opportunities in Animal Nutrition

Through interviews and an open innovation workshop, UnternehmerTUM and Cremer developed two new business concepts in animal nutrition and carried out an initial validation.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How Can We Work With UnternehmerTUM?

We support you in three areas: Through ecosystem access, we connect you with startups, academia, and established companies. In products and processes, we develop new business models with you and improve existing workflows, for example with the Innovation Sprint or venture clienting. In leadership and organization, we strengthen the innovation capability of your leaders and employees, for example with a hackathon. We also offer dedicated programs for family businesses and business succession.

How Do We Find the Right Startups?

Through startup matchmaking, we connect you with curated startups that fit your strategic search fields. In venture clienting, we guide you through the entire process: from identifying your needs to global scouting and pilot projects. At events such as Ultimate Demo Day, you meet startups in person.

How Do Students Work on Our Challenges?

In the Innovation Sprint, students develop ideas, prototypes, and first business models for your challenge in five days. In the Business Design Deep Dive, an interdisciplinary student team gathers customer insights over 18 weeks, including more than 50 interviews. In hackathons, software and hardware teams quickly create first prototypes.

How Can We Strengthen Our Organization’s Innovation Capability?

We enable shareholders, leaders, and employees in technology know-how, entrepreneurial thinking, and future-oriented leadership. We tailor our programs to your organization. We also help you build structures in which innovation has a permanent place.

Do You Offer Programs Specifically for Family Businesses and SMEs?

Yes. FamilienUnternehmerTUM connects family businesses with startups, researchers, and investors, in an ecosystem of more than 1,000 family businesses and family offices and with more than 350 NextGens. For business succession, we support both paths: external acquisition through the ETA Hub and internal succession in the NextGen4Bavaria program.

How Do We Get Started?

Get in touch and tell us what you’re working on. In a first conversation, we clarify your challenge and show you which format fits. A partnership with UnternehmerTUM forms the basis of our collaboration.