As a journalist and media representative you will find current press information and material on all services and offers of UnternehmerTUM here.
Your contact
With us, you’ll find qualified contact persons and experts on current technology topics as well as on everything relating to business entrepreneurship – from Germany as a location for founders to start-up support and the securing of start-up seed money. We’ll also be happy to link you up with other start-ups and with our portfolio companies, too.
Company Profile
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UnternehmerTUM identifies innovative technologies and initiates new business through the networking of talent, technology, capital and clients.
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UnternehmerTUM offers full service to start-ups – from the initial idea to the moment they go public. A 240-member strong team supports the development, market entry, and financing of companies – along with venture capital.
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For established companies, UnternehmerTUM is a central place for setting up collaborations between start-ups and supporting the expansion of their internal innovation strength and culture.
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Established in 2002 by entrepreneur Susanne Klatten, UnternehmerTUM has founded over 50 fast-growing tech companies each year – including Celonis, Konux, und Lilium – and is thus Europe’s foremost center of innovation and entrepreneurship.
Topics
Start-ups: Incubation and Acceleration
- The XPRENEURS incubator supports early phase high-tech start-ups to develop their business model.
- The Tech Founders accelerator prepares start-ups for their first round of risk capital and helps them to establish strategic collaborations with established companies.
Applied Artificial Intelligence
The not-for-profit initiative appliedAI drives forward AI applications. It promotes an open exchange between research, business and founders, qualifies employees and managers in its in-house AI lab while also providing business consultancy to companies. appliedAI regularly publishes an update of its “landscape map,” initially published in 2018. The map contains the most important AI start-ups in Germany, with the objective of documenting relevant developments in the AI field.
Established Companies: Corporate Innovation
- UnternehmerTUM Business Creators develops innovation strategies and business models for established companies and implements them together with customers and start-ups.
- The Digital Product School offers students, graduates and employees from established companies the opportunity to develop digital products and interdisciplinary teams. The Digital Business Lab, primarily geared toward medium-sized businesses from Bavaria, provides hands-on support to help them bring about digital transformation.
- The three-day TECHFEST Munich hackathon brings together established companies and young talent from all over Europe. The 300 participants from a wide range of tech disciplines develop solutions for the companies’ challenges and establish these as prototypes.
- Through the TechFounders accelerator, companies can get in touch with growth-oriented start-ups with the potential to provide fresh impulses to the industry partners. The young companies in turn benefit from the large companies’ resources, networks and knowhow.
Smart City
- Starting in 2021 at the Munich Urban Colab, start-ups, corporates and talent will get to work together on sustainable solutions for the urban challenges of the future.
- BE5, as a central innovation and digitalization platform, designs the future of construction and buildings as well as infrastructure operation.
- In the Digital Hub Mobility, large automotive companies and mobility service providers, suppliers, tech start-ups and partners from research, public authorities and the digital industry collaborate to develop mobility concepts and solutions for the future.
Diversity
Die Initiative Women.start.up! begeistert und qualifiziert Frauen für die Gründung eines Tech-Start-ups.
Prototyping and Small Series Production
The MakerSpace is a publicly accessible high-tech workshop. This is a 1,500 square meters space where companies, start-ups and creative thinkers can make prototypes and small series using cutting-edge machinery such as 3D printers.
Venture Capital
UnternehmerTUM Venture Capital Partners (UVC Partners) is an early-stage venture capital corporation that makes targeted investments in technology-based start-ups from the German-speaking regions.
Events
Forum UnternehmerTUM
With over 850 guests from the world of politics, science and business, Forum UnternehmerTUM is one of the largest and most notable events for Germany’s startup scene. The Forum traditionally provides a platform for discussions around current topics on entrepreneurship and innovation.
TechFounders Demo Day
TechFounders is an accelerator that prepares start-ups for their first venture capital phase and helps them to establish strategic collaborations. The Demo Day comes at the end of a 20-week program and is when the start-ups present their business idea to over 100 corporates, investors, business angels and media representatives.
TECHFEST Munich
The three-day TECHFEST Munich hackathon brings together established companies and young talent from all over Europe. The 300 participants work on solutions for the companies’ challenges and implement them through prototypes.
Press Kit
Press Releases
July 29, 2020
Living safely with the coronavirus in town
Garching near Munich, 29 July 2020. Empty stores and offices, busy streets: More and more people are resorting to the use of their car or bike again, as they are afraid of contracting the virus on public transport. At the same time, gatherings in public spaces are on the rise. The COVID-19 pandemic is changing human behaviour and it’s becoming particularly evident in urban conglomerations. How can cities ensure safe urban mobility, take people’s needs into account and create livable spaces? The SPECIAL: COVID-19 EIT Urban Mobility Accelerator programme supports startups in finding solutions for such challenges. The programme was created by EIT Urban Mobility with international partners Futurebox, PoliHub, Technion and UnternehmerTUM.
Read Full ReleaseJuly 23, 2020
Dr. Andreas Liebl in weltweite KI-Expertengruppe berufen
Garching bei München, 23. Juli 2020. Dr. Andreas Liebl, Leiter der appliedAI Initiative, einer führenden Initiative für die Anwendung von Künstlicher Intelligenz in Europa und ein Geschäftsführer von UnternehmerTUM in Garching bei München, wird Teil der Expertengruppe für Innovation und Kommerzialisierung im Rahmen der Global Partnership on AI (GPAI), einer weltweit agierenden Initiative zur Förderung einer verantwortungsvollen und menschenzentrierten Entwicklung und Nutzung Künstlicher Intelligenz.
Read Full ReleaseJuly 13, 2020
The TechFounders Accelerator Program Starts with its 12th Batch
Munich, July 13, 2020. Today is the kick-off of the 12th batch of the start-up accelerator program TechFounders. The Munich-based accelerator program of UnternehmerTUM, Europe's leading center for innovation and business creation, will host ten innovative technology start-ups over the next 20 weeks. Due to the current situation and regulations, the program’s first phase will be held virtually.
Read Full ReleaseJune 26, 2020
Wirtschaft im 21. Jahrhundert neu denken
Garching bei München, 24. Juni 2020. Das derzeitige Wirtschaftssystem ist auf lineares Wachstum ausgerichtet und belastet die Umwelt durch übermäßige Ressourcenvergeudung. Hinzu kommen drängende, globale Herausforderungen wie Klimawandel, soziale Ungleichheit, Ressourcenknappheit oder rasantes Bevölkerungswachstum.
Wie können wir unser Wirtschaftssystem umstellen, um die drängenden, globalen Herausforderungen unserer Zeit zu lösen? Wie kann dieser Paradigmenwechsel gelingen? Darüber spricht Miki Yokoyama, Managing Partner von TechFounders bei der UnternehmerTUM, mit Prof. Dr. Martin Stuchtey, Experte für nachhaltige Ressourcennutzung und Geschäftsführer von SYSTEMIQ, einer Organisation, die sich vollständig dem Systemwandel verschrieben hat. Das Gespräch findet als Livestream im Rahmen der digitalen Event-Reihe U Talk des Innovations- und Gründerzentrums UnternehmerTUM statt.
Read Full ReleaseJune 16, 2020
COVID-19-Challenge: appliedAI unterstützt Gemeinschaftsprojekt zur KI-gestützten Bekämpfung von Corona
Garching bei München, 16.06.2020 – Ärztliches Fachpersonal und Spezialisten für Künstliche Intelligenz arbeiten bei der COVID-19-Challenge Hand in Hand, um gemeinsam mit einer breiten Community an Entwicklern mehr Wissen rund um den COVID-19-Virus aufzubauen. appliedAI wird die Initiative mit Know-How und wertvollen Kontakten zur KI-Szene unterstützen. Aktuell sammeln die Initiatoren, bestehend aus Vertretern der Münchner Universitäten und namhaften Tech-Firmen, Daten von Kliniken, um diese sinnvoll für künftige Forschungsprojekte aufzubereiten. Ärzte entwickeln parallel die Aufgabenstellungen für eine Crowd-Challenge, während Data Scientists prüfen, welche davon mit lernenden Bilderkennungs- und Daten-Systemen gelöst werden könnten. Ziel ist es, im Juni vier konkrete Aufgaben gemeinsam mit Teilnehmern aus aller Welt zu bearbeiten und die Ergebnisse im Anschlussmit der Öffentlichkeit zu teilen. Das Projekt wird vom European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) der EU gefördert.
Read Full ReleaseMedia Coverage
June 29, 2020
Business Insider kürt UVC Partners zu einem der besten Venture-Capital-Unternehmen in Deutschland
Neue Studie: Das sind die besten Venture-Capital-Unternehmen in Deutschland
Business InsiderMay 12, 2020
Ideengeber für etablierte Unternehmen
Start-ups gelten als Innovationstreiber und sind auch im Bereich der Kreislaufwirtschaft wegweisend. Das ist das Ergebnis einer Untersuchung von UnternehmerTUM Business Creators (UBC), dem Beratungszweig des Innovations- und Gründerzentrums UnternehmerTUM.
VDI NachrichtenMay 7, 2020
Wie Mittelständler gemeinsam die Start-up-Welt erobern
Handelsblatt über die Studie "Corporate Start-up Activities" von UVC Partners.
HandelsblattMay 7, 2020
Abendschau
Die Abendschau des Bayerischen Rundfunks über die Initiative MiaGehnOnline zur Förderung des Bayerischen Einzelhandels.
Bayerischer RundfunkMarch 3, 2020
Zu wenig Künstliche Intelligenz: Was Deutschlands Gründern fehlt
Handelsblatt über die neuesten Erkenntnisse der Start-up-Landkarte 2020 von appliedAI
Handelsblatt