Germany startup ecosystem
Germany is Europe's largest economy and home to a maturing startup ecosystem anchored by Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg. Berlin's international talent pool and creative culture attract early-stage founders, while Munich draws deep-tech and enterprise ventures thanks to proximity to major corporates and research institutions. Government-backed programs and a dense VC landscape provide capital across all stages. The directory currently lists 344 organisations across 39 cities.
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Simon Schmincke
General Partner at European venture capital firm Creandum, based in Berlin, where he leads the fintech vertical investing across Europe and the US. Before VC he co-founded Foodpanda and HelloFresh US, and began his investing career at Earlybird, leading its seed investment in N26. His portfolio includes Taxfix, Tide and Factorial.
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simpleclub
simpleclub is a German-language digital learning platform for secondary-school students, apprentices in vocational training, and individual fields of study. It originated from the founders' educational video projects on YouTube and was incorporated as a company in 2015. The platform provides curriculum-aligned learning content, including content aligned to IHK standards, video lessons, exam-preparation tools, and an AI-powered learning assistant. It operates several lines: a consumer offering for school students, a B2B offering for companies training apprentices and skilled workers, and an offering for education and retraining providers.
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Smart Country Convention 2026
Germany's main government-tech and smart-city conference organized by Bitkom at Messe Berlin, focusing on digital public services, AI in government, smart infrastructure, and cybersecurity for the public sector. Draws 15,000+ civil servants, govtech startups, and enterprise solution providers. Tickets from EUR 0 (expo) to EUR 300+ (conference).
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socia Social Innovation Accelerator 2026
Social innovation accelerator promoted in the Munich ecosystem for mission-driven startups and social impact business models. Application deadline: April 15, 2026. Program start: mid-2026. Program notes include zero-equity participation, no-fee access, and travel reimbursement support for selected teams.
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Solarisbank
Embedded banking platform providing regulated accounts, cards, and payments APIs. Solarisbank is a startup based in Berlin, Germany at the growth stage. The company operates in the Fintech, Banking space. Learn more at their website.
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SPEZI 2026 (Spezialradmesse)
Europe's leading special bike trade fair at Freiburg Messe with 15,000+ visitors and 250+ exhibitors covering cargo bikes, e-cargo, recumbents, and micro-logistics hardware. Day tickets about EUR 15-25. Valuable for urban logistics, last-mile delivery, and mobility-hardware startups seeking fleet buyers and European distributors.
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SPEZI 2027 (Spezialradmesse)
SPEZI, the International Special Bikes Show, returns to the Freiburg Exhibition Center 24-25 April 2027. The two-day trade fair and public event lets visitors try out special and recumbent bicycles, with lectures and an Innovation Lab connecting hobby engineers with professionals.
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SpielFabrique
Founded 2016. Accelerator for the video game industry connecting German and French hubs; provides workshops, industry mentoring, and investor access. Notable studios: Burning Glass Creative, HandyGames. Support: game-specific mentorship, networking, funding access. Scope: Regional.
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SpinLab - The HHL Accelerator
Founded 2014. Six-month program for entrepreneurial teams with coworking, mentoring, and technology partners; alumni include energy and healthcare startups. Support: mentorship, workspace, partner resources. Scope: Regional (East Germany).
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Spryker
Spryker is an enterprise commerce platform offering a composable, API-first architecture for B2B and B2C digital commerce. Based in Berlin and Hamburg, Spryker enables large enterprises to build custom transactional experiences across marketplaces, IoT commerce, and unified commerce scenarios. The company serves enterprise customers across manufacturing, retail, and wholesale, and has raised over $200 million from investors including TCV and One Peak.
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StarterKitchen
StarterKitchen is the primary coworking and founder community venue operated by the non-profit Campus Business Box e.V. under the opencampus.sh umbrella, located at Kuhnkestraße 6 in Kiel's Wissenschaftspark district. The space spans 400 square metres and has been awarded best coworking space in Kiel, attracting interdisciplinary founders across tech, social enterprise, and creative sectors. The floor plan combines a large bright open-plan coworking area (referred to internally as the Sauna) with dedicated fixed desks, enclosed team offices, a Zoom-equipped call room, and a podcast studio — the latter two included in all membership tiers. Flex-desk memberships range from €20 per month for students and Schleswig-Holstein scholarship holders through €70–90 for growth-stage teams; fixed desk slots run €90–120 per month for established ventures. Pricing is deliberately below-market to remain accessible to early-stage founders. StarterKitchen serves as the first point of contact in Kiel for the regional Gründungsstipendium SH founding grant and hosts recurring formats including the Female Founders Stammtisch, open founder breakfasts, and the Prototypingweek innovation sprint. The space is closely integrated with the Waterkant Festival, opencampus.sh's annual futures-thinking event that draws several thousand attendees to Kiel. Pricing tier: €.
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Startup Network Europe
Organizer of founder-focused meetups and AI events including The Munich AI Conference. Startup Network Europe is an event organiser based in Munich, Germany. Organising events in the Events, Startup Ecosystem, Artificial Intelligence space.
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Stefan Sagmeister
Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer and typographer, co-founder of the studio Sagmeister & Walsh, known for album covers, identity work and data-driven art projects on happiness and beauty. A headline speaker at the 2026 Forward Festival Berlin.
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Stelovo
Stelovo is a small consumer app for planning nights out with friends — you propose a few time slots, everyone votes, and the app picks the moment that works for the group. Positioned against heavier event-management tools, it's a quiet, design-led take on group scheduling for existing friend circles rather than a public events product. The project ships as a lightweight web app under a single-founder or small-team indie model.
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Successful R&I in Europe 2026
Partnering conference focused on Horizon Europe collaboration. Price: about EUR 150 (VAT included). Structured around pitches and 1:1 meetings across health, energy, mobility, and digital tech.
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SuperReturn International 2026
Europe's premier private equity and venture capital conference, gathering 5,000+ LPs, GPs, and fund managers at the Intercontinental Berlin. Essential for founders seeking growth equity and fund managers exploring European tech opportunities.
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SuperReturn International 2027
SuperReturn International 2027 runs 7-11 June at the InterContinental Hotel Berlin, billed as the leading gathering for private capital with 7,000+ attendees from 80+ countries and 2,500+ LPs managing $50 trillion in AUM. The main conference is preceded by two days of specialist summits including Private Debt, AI & Technology Innovation and Secondaries.
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Synthflow AI
Synthflow AI is a Berlin-based no-code platform for building and deploying AI voice agents that automate phone conversations. It lets non-technical business users create customisable voice agents without engineering resources, applying a no-code approach to conversational phone AI. The agents handle inbound and outbound calls for use cases such as customer service, appointment scheduling, and lead qualification, and connect to external systems through integrations with calendars, CRMs, and telephony platforms. The company also operates in-house telephony infrastructure and targets enterprise and BPO/contact-center customers.
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Taktile
Taktile is a Berlin-based provider of an agentic decision platform for financial institutions, combining AI automation with human oversight for regulated environments. Its platform lets banks and insurers build and deploy automated decision flows and AI agents across onboarding and KYC, credit decisions, fraud detection, AML and compliance, and insurance underwriting. The company emphasises transparency and control, positioning around traceable decisions. Founded by Maik Taro Wehmeyer and Maximilian Eber, who met at Harvard and previously worked together at QuantCo, Taktile raised a 51.5 million euro Series B in February 2025 led by Balderton Capital.
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Target Global
Target Global is a Berlin-headquartered international venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Alexander Frolov, Mikhail Lobanov, Shmuel Chafets, and Yaron Valler, investing across all stages from seed to late stage in European and Israeli technology companies. With over USD 3 billion in assets under management across early-stage, growth, and fintech-focused funds, Target Global has become one of the most active cross-border European venture investors, running parallel investment themes across fintech, mobility, logistics, travel, PropTech, and enterprise software. The firm has backed category-defining businesses including Auto1 Group, Delivery Hero, Revolut, Rapyd, TravelPerk, WeFox, and Omnipresent, and operates offices in Berlin, London, Tel Aviv, and Barcelona. Target Global is a useful reference point for founders looking for a European-headquartered fund that can write initial checks at seed and follow them all the way into late-stage growth rounds from a single partnership.
