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Let’s hear it for Batch #13: welcome to the 2% club
Last fall we received no less than 429 applications from 61 different countries! Out of all these applicants, only 16 startups made it to pitch in front of our corporate partners. After a tough selection process, seven startups made the final cut into batch #13 –...

Transforming railway operations for a sustainable future – Alumni startup Konux raises $80M
Konux, a German startup from TechFounders’ very first batch, continues to scale up. The company announced today that they have successfully closed their Series C funding round with a total amount of $80 million. Following this financing round, KONUX is now the largest...

The Sustainability Playbooks for Startups and Venture Capitalists
The past decades have seen extraordinary economic growth and wealth creation – the downside to it being a frightening loss of ecosystems and undermining of social equity. Today, together with the sustainability consulting company akzente and UnternehmerTUM Venture...

The shift towards digital commerce – Alumni Startup ultimate.ai raises $20M
Image source: ultimate.ai Nothing makes us happier than seeing the success of our alumni, and ultimate.ai sure is a story that has been a pleasure to follow. The startup announced this week that they have raised an incredible amount of $20 million in Series A funding....

Alumni startup Bliq secures €2 million in funding
Image source: Bliq We are very proud to announce that the TechFounders alumni startup Bliq recently secured €2 million in a heavily oversubscribed seed funding round. We love to see our alumni startups succeeding, but more importantly it shows us that the alternative...