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The pre-Incubation program
we make you[r] startup ready!

Kick-off your Startup Idea

Do you have a founding idea? Your idea is technology-based? You haven't founded yet, but want to take up the challenge? Apply to XPLORE!

XPLORE is the pre-incubation program of UnternehmerTUM. Together with you we develop:

a valid business model
test the market chances of your idea
develop a successful team and
prepare the first financing

The program is open to technology-based start-up ideas. In addition, we offer boot camps with a focus on Clean Tech and Med Tech technologies.

Target Group

Entrepreneurial talents and already existing teams
Early stage technology business ideas. Highly welcome are ideas in the smart city context.
No prototype and business plan needed

We enable you...

...to apply top notch startup tools with focus on business and team creation
...with individual coaching sessions to deepen your customer understanding
... to get your first funding
...to team up with the right co-founders

Your Benefits

...explore your business idea through a systematic learning process
...understand the customer need and define your value proposition
...develop a viable business concept in key topics (prototyping, customer, market opportunity)
...team up and build a strong team with a common purpose, vision and culture

Hard Facts

8 weeks programme (onsite and remote)
Garching (Munich) and remote coaching
Gateway to prototyping grants of the Initiative for Industrial Innovators
Free of charge

XPLORE is open for every technology based idea:

Application for XPLORE. Next batch starts on 15 October 2018

Apply now!

Application for tracks:

Application for ClimateLaunchpad

May 2019!

Application for MedTech Bootcamp

June 2019!

Timeline

BOOTCAMP (week 1): 2,5 days Bootcamp

VALIDATION PHASE (week 2- 7): 7 weeks coaching

PITCH EVENT AND MAKETANK (week 8): Pitches at expert session
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Tracks

ClimateLaunchpad
ClimateLaunchpad is the world’s largest green business idea competition with participation from more than 45 countries. The mission? Unlock the world’s green business potential and accelerate innovations that tackle climate change. To do that, we need to find the best sustainability ideas. This can be anything from innovation in:
- Renewable energy
- A sustainable transition in the food chain
- A mind shift in urban mobility or any other way to tackle climate change
MedTech Bootcamp
Professionalize your project and team of medical scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs in the MedTech Bootcamp. You should bring strong interest in technology and be ready to develop your business idea into a startup.
MedTech Bootcamp is looking for ideas in the fields of:
- Big Data and clinical imaging (e.g. apps and visualization tools for diagnostics)
- Cyber physical systems and solutions (e.g. minimal invasive surgery and surgical robots)
- Sports and prevention (e.g. services for corporate health programmes)
- Personalized medicine and devices (e.g. dosage services or 3D-printed prostheses)