UnternehmerTUM Funding for Innovators Prototyping Grants

As UnternehmerTUM Funding, we support exceptional founding teams with deep tech solutions in B2B (business to business). You're part of a UnternehmerTUM program, the Technical University of Munich, or the TUM Venture Labs? Then secure your customized pre-seed funding that lifts you off the ground!

This is how portfolio companies benefit:

• grants for early-stage prototyping projects
• pragmatic and quick funding decisions based on founder-friendly standardized contracts

Our funding focus:

• Scalable B2B hardware and software solutions from the fields of IoT/robotics, artificial intelligence/virtual reality, synthetic biology/medical technology and other deep tech.

Prototyping Grants

Our mission is to make prototyping easy and affordable for teams that have not yet secured financial backing. These grants give you the freedom to refine your entrepreneurial idea and prepare to form your company, including these steps:

• build your first prototype or develop your product further
• create or refine your business model
• form your company and secure intellectual property (IP)

You can use the funding for:

• prototyping material
• hardware development
• registering your patent

You cannot use the funding for:

• marketing and PR
• outsourcing product development
• consultancy services

We support you with EUR 1,000 to 3,000 per grant. If that sounds like the opportunity you've been waiting for, head over to the application!