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Access to Europe’s Leading Innovation Ecosystem

As a partner of UnternehmerTUM, you get curated access to startups, academia, and established companies.

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Future readiness grows through exchange. Knowing the right partners leads to better strategic decisions. As Europe’s leading center for innovation and business creation, we open up our ecosystem to you and connect you with startups, academia, and established companies. This creates concrete opportunities for collaboration.

A partnership with UnternehmerTUM forms the basis for this.

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Network & Exchange

We connect you with the players who are relevant to your topics.

  • Exclusive formats for decision-makers from industry, startups, and research
  • C-level peer exchange: trusted exchange with like-minded peers
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Startup Access

We connect you with startups that match your strategic search fields, in a curated and structured way.

  • Startup Matchmaking: targeted search for and connections with suitable startups
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Events & Talent

At Ultimate Demo Day, Forum UnternehmerTUM, and Circular Republic Festival, you meet the community of startups, companies, and research.

Our programs for students connect you with the entrepreneurial minds of tomorrow. At Opportunity Hunters, our lecture series for students, executives present challenges from their industries in talks. Through Lecture Sponsoring, you give one of these talks yourself. With Manage and More, the entrepreneurship program for outstanding students in Munich, you work directly with particularly entrepreneurial students.

  • Direct contacts with startups, investors, and researchers
  • Visibility as a partner, for example at our events, in our communications, and among students
Interested? Let’s talk
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Munich Urban Colab
A Place for Collaboration in Munich’s Creative Quarter

The Munich Urban Colab in Munich’s creative quarter is a joint initiative of UnternehmerTUM and the City of Munich. Since 2021, startups, established companies, researchers, talent, creatives, and citizens have been working here together with the city administration on solutions to urban challenges.

  • Coworking and office space
  • Event spaces
  • MakerSpace
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UnternehmerTUM MakerSpace
The High-Tech Workshop for Your Prototypes

At UnternehmerTUM MakerSpace, concepts become tangible reality. With modern machines and experienced coaches, you build functioning prototypes, from the first mock-up to a ready-to-use model. MakerSpace also produces small series of up to 1,000 parts, for example for tests, pilots, and early market launches. You can find MakerSpace in Garching and at Munich Urban Colab.

  • Corporate memberships with access to workshops, machines, and software
  • Machine courses tailored to your team
  • Prototyping formats and small-series production
  • Foundational technical internship for dual students
  • Event spaces for workshops and corporate events

Learn more about MakerSpace corporate offerings

Industry and Technology Fields

In each of these fields, we know the relevant startups, researchers, and companies and connect you with them in a targeted way.

How a Collaboration Works

  • 1. Initial Conversation

    We get to know you and clarify which topics and partners matter to you.

  • 2. Shaping the Partnership

    We put the partnership together from building blocks, from joining the network to strategic input. During onboarding, we jointly define what you will focus on.

  • 3. Using the Network

    You take part in exclusive formats and events, exchange ideas with like-minded peers at C-level, and meet suitable startups through startup matchmaking.

  • 4. Developing Collaborations

    Contacts turn into projects, such as a pilot with a startup or a co-innovation project with other companies. The more actively you get involved, the more you get out of the ecosystem.

Results From Our Collaborations

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Airbus Defence and Space: Foundational Technical Internship at MakerSpace

For the sixth year now, dual students from Airbus Defence and Space have taken part in the foundational technical internship at MakerSpace. In three weeks, they build their own hardware project as a team.

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Lecture Sponsoring: SICK, MAN, and Bosch Building Technologies in the Lecture Hall

Executive board members from SICK, MAN, and Bosch Building Technologies gave their own talks in our lecture series for students and made their topics visible to the next generation.

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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.

Circular Republic Festival 2025

Circular Republic Festival: Circular Innovation as a Competitive Advantage

More than 1,000 participants and over 200 companies: Circular Republic Festival gives partners a stage, connections, and reach for their circular economy solutions.

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We celebrated a powerful start to CIRCULAR REPUBLIC festival, and what a vibrant beginning it was! So many guests, so many questions, ideas, and impulses on how we can build a circular economy not only in and around Munich but cross-functionally and cross-industry. The energy at Munich Urban Colab and throughout the day made it clear: change needs makers, and here is where it happens.

Isabel Richter, Head of Sustainability Communications, BMW

Let’s Talk About Your Network

Tell us which topics and partners matter to you. We’ll show you how to make targeted use of our ecosystem.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a partnership with UnternehmerTUM include?

That depends on the scope of the partnership. Typical building blocks include access to exclusive formats and events, startup matchmaking, exchange with like-minded peers at C-level, and visibility as a partner, for example at our events and in our communications.

How much does a partnership cost?

The cost depends on the scope of the partnership. Get in touch, and we’ll put together an individual offer for you.

Can we attend events without being a partner?

Yes. Many of our events are open and free of charge, such as numerous events at the Munich Urban Colab. For other events, you can buy tickets, and some formats are exclusive to partners.

How quickly can we find suitable startups?

A first suitable contact often takes just a few days. A structured scouting process with a longlist and the selection of a partner is part of a project and takes several weeks.