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Tackle the challenges of tomorrow. Today.

Your Venture Client Partner

Seamless collaboration: Providing end to end support

We guide corporations through their journey of connecting with promising start- and scale-ups, providing continuous and hands-on support throughout the pilot project to ensure a successful collaboration.

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Pilot Project Accelerator

3-month accelerator program

Access the cutting-edge technologies in your industry field before your competitors and test solution fit in a low-risk environment via pilot projects

Learn about our POC projects with start-ups

Innovation Challenges

Fast solutions for specific needs

We will find the best innovators worldwide in the desired technology field and support you conducting your own innovation projects

How to start your own innovation challenge with us

Intrapreneurship Program

Innovate from within

Our dedicated services support you to leverage the potential inside your company and promote innovation through your own employees

Start to take full advantage of your team's potential

Read our latest Guide!

Together with the UnternehmerTUM Business Creators, we have collected insights from our 10+ years of experience with Corporate-Start-up collaboration projects in "Future-Proofing SMEs: Strategic Start-up Partnerships for Industry Resilience".

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✅ Contemporary data on Corporate-Start-up collaborations
✅ Common collaboration formats, their benefits, and challenges
✅ Real-world success stories
✅ Step-by-step guide to getting started and maximizing these partnerships.

Key Corporate Partner Benefits

Early view on developments in the start-up ecosystem and to innovative technology
Access to the most promising tech start-ups in your innovation fields
Fast-tracked co-development and testing of specific innovative solutions
Branding & Public Relations

Access novel technologies in your industry field

Our Corporate Partners

Profiles of some of our corporate partners. See the relevant partners and pilot project focus fields for our upcoming batch on our Apply -page.

DATEV is a software developer and IT service provider for tax consultants, auditors, and attorneys, as well as their clients. In addition to our members, our clients include companies, municipalities and institutions. The cooperative’s range of products and services encompasses the fields of accounting, personnel management, business consulting, taxes, enterprise resource planning (ERP), IT services, IT security, and training and consultancy.

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Festo SE & Co. KG is a worldwide leader in automation and a world market leader in technical training and development. Regarding automation, Festo offers products, systems and services surrounding pneumatic and electrical control and drive technology – whether in the factory or process automation sector. Festo Didactic equips technical training institutes and offers training and consultancy to processing industrial companies.

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As HP’s corporate venture arm, HP Tech Ventures is helping to foster an ecosystem of innovation and reinvention that will define tomorrow’s world and experiences, through strategic partnerships and investments in disruptive technology areas. HP Tech Ventures offers more than 75 years of experience in innovation and technology, backed by more than 18,000 global patents, to entrepreneurs around the globe.

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WACKER is a globally active company with state-of-the-art specialty chemical products found in countless everyday items, ranging from cosmetic powders to solar cells. WACKER’s portfolio includes over 3,200 products supplied in over 100 countries. Our customers come from virtually every major sector, with demand for our products being particularly strong in the construction and automotive industries.

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More Program Partners & Supporters

TechFounders also supports SAP.iO programs

At CLAAS, we believe that working with start-ups is the key to expand our position as a technology leader in the agricultural machinery industry. Agriculture is undergoing a fundamental shift towards a more digitalized and sustainable direction. This requires new ideas and innovative approaches, for example for the operation and monitoring of agricultural machinery, which is becoming increasingly more complex and intelligent.

At Miele, we combine groundbreaking innovation with classical values such as quality and performance. TechFounders helps us to find creative startups to accompany us on our way. To all start-ups out there: Let us join forces to shape the future and grow together – to our mutual benefit!

As a technology and innovation leader, we want to open up new horizons for ourselves and our customers. That’s why we are excited to collaborate with TechFounders and innovative start-ups on sustainable, digital solutions for the mobility of the future.

Innovation, inspiration and enthusiasm – this is what Festo is known for, as a technology leader and constantly learning and developing company. This is why we work together with TechFounders, to invest in the future and to create space for start-ups to develop innovative ideas and business models.

We are partnering with TechFounders in order to explore opportunities in new technologies and applications. The interaction and engagement with innovative technology start-ups will help us realize our ambitions in establishing new circular business models.

We are excited to be working with TechFounders to discover and support innovative start-ups and founders tackling crucial issues facing the copper and, more broadly, metals industries.

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