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RWTH Incubation Program

Building Europe’s Leading Tech Incubator

The RWTH Incubation Program was designed to give start-ups the professional support they need to make their business model sustainable and ready for investment. Among others, the program supports start-ups to: Gain market access, work on product-market fit and close their next funding round.

The RWTH Incubation Program is an early-stage start-up program, with a focus on deep-tech. With the vast research landscape that RWTH Aachen University has to offer as well as the broad corporate and investor networks, this publicly funded, no-equity stake program was established to support tech entrepreneurs to grow successful start-up ventures.

Intake: Batch

Duration: 12-14 weeks

Operated by: university

Time spent

Access to

Primarily provides

Coaching

Mentors

Network

Community

Also provides

Perks

Events

Corporate Matching

friendly Intros

About the startup

team

seed

mid-stage

scaleup

pre-seed

early-stage

growth

Founded: No

Financial Support: Zuschüsse/

Financial support size: 5-20k

Innovation strategy: pull external

After graduation: larger network/ Investment-Readiness/

We are looking for motivated start-up teams with a clear technology-focused business plan and initial pre-seed investment (e.g. EXIST, bootstrapped) or a remaining runway at least for program duration.

Keywords

Life Sciences, Resources, Digitized Hardware, Digital Start-ups

Technology

Deep-tech solutions.

Use cases

Logistics, Energy, Healthcare and more

TEAM

Jonas Harbach

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