It takes a city/region
to raise a startup

The largest German campaign by and for startup scenes.

Startup scenes

“It takes a city/region”

Be visible

The campaign prints are everywhere. In startup offices, coworking spaces, at events and many other places. Together, we bring color to the scene and decorate it with ourselves.

Strengthen cooperations

The first step towards cooperation, exchange and investment is an overview. The campaigns provide a detailed insight into the local scene, both offline and online.

Go viral

We are coordinating a Linkedin takeover together with players and minds from the region. Attention for the scene far beyond the regional borders.

Find information

There has never been more on offer for start-ups: events, pitches, batches and webinars. Thanks to the campaigns, everything can be collected and then sorted and found.

Enter the Foundersphere

CAMPAIGN PARTICIPANTS

Campaigns

These scenes already have their own “It takes a city/region to raise a startup” campaigns

Choose your startup scene and be a part it!

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FAQ

Start-ups are companies that are less than 10 years old
and have planned employee and sales growth,
or are innovative in terms of technology, business model, service or product.

In general, we do not exclude anyone in principle, but decide on a case-by-case basis. Especially for entries from the areas of gastronomy, services, agencies and consultancies.

Key players are actors from the start-up scene whose actions are almost 100% oriented towards start-ups.
These are mainly: accelerator programmes, entrepreneurship centres, capital providers, events and start-up initiatives.

If start-ups are ‘just’ one of many target groups for you, you are probably not a key player. Please feel free to contact us to discuss this.

Ambassadors are the ambassadors of their local start-up scene. They are an important link. Typically, they are well connected and represent a community.

To be listed as an Ambassador, you should meet all the criteria:
  • You love startups and your local scene
  • You are already very well connected or are currently building intensively on it
  • You reach more than 1,000 people which are connected to the start-up world on LinkedIn
  • You want to be one of a few handpicked Ambassadors and be perceived as the face of your startup scene.
Every month we draw a startup that is already part of Foundersphere and put it in the spotlight. If you don’t want to miss out on the opportunity to become Startup of the month, then make sure that the data in your profile is always up to date.
The campaigns are published annually. Key players from our database are automatically placed in the corresponding categories.

The placed start-ups are drawn from the Foundersphere pool every year, whereby we also pay attention to who has already been placed in previous years and how long the start-up has been registered. Accordingly, all startups in our database have the chance to appear on the poster for their regional startup scene every year.

Every year there are official distribution points where you can simply drop by and pick up a poster. As soon as the new edition has been published and the posters have arrived at the distribution points, you will receive an information mail with the specific facilities and addresses. The distribution points will also be published on the website.