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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.
• BEFIVE, 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.