[Automatic translation follows] Applied research for 75 years. Technology, innovation, added value. The Fraunhofer Society, based in Germany, is the world's leading organization for application-oriented research. With its focus on key technologies relevant to the future and on the utilization of the results in business and industry, it plays a central role in the innovation process. As a guide and source of inspiration for innovative developments and scientific excellence, it helps shape our society and our future. The organization, founded in 1949, currently operates 75 institutes and research facilities in Germany. Around 29,000 employees, mostly with a background in natural …

Sectors: Research

Help increase the GDP of the internet. Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Headquartered in San Francisco and Dublin, the company aims to increase the GDP of the internet.

Sectors: IT services

A 100%-no-strings-attached startup accelerator. Mission-driven & always supporting courageous entrepreneurs. Join us! Start it @KBC supports and promotes innovative and scalable entrepreneurship and, with over 1000 startups, is Belgium's largest startup community. To achieve this, the community concludes partnerships with organizations and companies that adopt the same pay-it-forward mentality. This way, Start it @KBC is building an ecosystem and a dynamic network of startups, scale-ups, incubators, accelerators, mentors, VCs, supporting partners and strategic partners. Start it @KBC is constantly reshaping, expanding and improving its offering in co-creation with the startups. The community has hubs in Antwerp, Ghent, Hasselt, Leuven, Kortrijk, …

Invest. Build. Connect. neosfer is shaping the digital and sustainable future in financial services. Invest. Build. Connect. We are neosfer - early-stage investor and innovation unit of the Commerzbank Group. Under the vision "Driving transformation by connecting people, technology and capital", we offer financial service providers and their customers access to digital and sustainable innovations - on the one hand through investments in early-stage start-ups (invest) and on the other hand through our own developments (build). We believe in the added value of collaborating with our network partners to identify and offer the best possible solutions (connect). For us, technology …

Supporting site selection & foreign direct investments in Bavaria: We help you finding the ideal location – contact us! Digitalization & Bavaria – two closely interlinked terms. Profit from Bavaria’s boundless opportunities – we help companies from abroad during all processes: From location search to getting access to relevant partners and networks for your business! Who we are & what we offer: Invest in Bavaria has been in existence since 1999. We are the globally working business promotion agency of the State of Bavaria. We focus on a wealth of services regarding your company’s settlement in Bavaria: From the planning …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

Europe’s leading founders festival. Join us on 29 September – 1 October 2025. Taking place annually in Munich, Bits & Pretzels is a 3-day festival for 7,500 founders, investors, and startup enthusiasts. Our vision is to enable founders to shape a better future through innovative ideas and technology. startups, entrepreneurship, events, founders, pitch, networking, investors, and innovation

Esri technology helps people solve some of the world’s most difficult problems. Esri is the global market leader in geographic information system (GIS) software, location intelligence, and mapping. Since 1969, we have supported customers with geographic science and geospatial analytics, what we call The Science of Where. We take a geographic approach to problem-solving, brought to life by modern GIS technology. GIS, geographic information systems, software, geospatial analysis, geography, web mapping, place, location analytics, demographics, 3D, site selection, government, IoT, training, location intelligence, smart cities, geodesign, and Mapping

Sectors: GIS

Join our global network of 120+ Impact Hubs accelerating inclusive and sustainable innovation at scale. What we do Our world is facing complex challenges. Challenges that will only be tackled through collaboration. At Impact Hub, we make collaboration happen by designing impactful solutions, building business for good and (re)imagining the future. Who we are We are a global network made up of 120+ Impact Hubs worldwide with 25,000+ people driving change in 60+ countries across 5 continents. Our community is a colourful bunch of impact-driven entrepreneurs, creators, innovators and intrapreneurs who are all taking action to create a better tomorrow …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

Let's build stuff that truly matters! We back European game-changing companies to achieve impact at scale 🇩🇪 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 Ananda Impact Ventures is the leading impact venture capital fund with a pan-European investment remit, managing ca. €200 million in four Core Impact Funds, with backing from notable institutional and private investors. Ananda backs technology businesses committed to having a positive impact that answers the most pressing social and ecological challenges of our time, in a way that is both scalable and sustainable. The active portfolio includes NatureMetrics(biodiversity monitoring & assessment), Close Loop Medicine (personalised medicine), OroraTech (wildfire detection & monitoring …

Leading Venture Client in the automotive industry. The BMW Startup Garage is the Venture Client unit of the BMW Group. Our goal is to foster innovation speed and quality - through the help from startups - at all BMW Group Divisions. As a Venture Client, the BMW Group becomes the early adopter client of a startup, even if its product, service or technology is still on a prototype stage. The BMW Startup Garage program is a great opportunity for startups to gain the BMW Group as its client by conducting a paid proof of concept project directly with the business …

Sectors: Startup accelerator & VC

Seed Investor. We invest in People. Venture Capital for High-Tech Founders. Made in Germany. HTGF is one of the leading and most active early-stage investors in Germany and Europe, financing start-ups in the fields of Deep Tech, Industrial Tech, Climate Tech, Digital Tech, Life Sciences and Chemistry. With its experienced investment team, HTGF supports start-ups in all phases of their development into international market leaders. HTGF invests in pre-seed and seed phases and can participate significantly in later-stage financing rounds. Across its funds, HTGF has over 2 billion euros under management. Since its inception in 2005, HTGF has financed more …