Accelerator – Corporate Accelerator, General Accelerator

TechFounders

Play Like a Founder, Scale Like a Corporate

As part of Europe’s leading innovation centre, TechFounders excels in facilitating strategic alliances between leading companies and startups across the globe, driven by their industry-agnostic pilot project program and a spectrum of venture clienting services.

Alongside our network of mentors and coaches, we assist each startup team in overcoming roadblocks and equip them with tools for sustainable growth. The key benefit for the selected startups is an opportunity to collaborate on a 5-month pilot project with one of our corporate partners with €25,000 equity-free budget. Additionally, the teams receive individual coaching by industry experts and successful entrepreneurs, a pitch spot on a UnternehmerTUM Demo Day, and access to TechFounders and UnternehmerTUM’s extensive network of industry representatives, business angels and VCs.

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Intake: Batch

Duration: 20 weeks

Format: Hybrid

Operated by: private company

Further hubs: Garching

Time spent

Access to

Primarily provides

Proof of Concepts

Coaching

Matchmaking

Project Budget

Also provides

Events

Investor Network

Network

Maker’s Space

About the startup

team

seed

mid-stage

scaleup

pre-seed

early-stage

growth

Founded: Yes

Location requirement: location independent

Financial Support: Zuschüsse/

Financial support size: 21-50k

Innovation strategy: pull external

After graduation: larger network/ better Product/ Investment-Readiness/

We actively seek promising startups from early to growth stages worldwide, with a working prototype and some traction or pilot customers. Please check our website for up-to-date information regarding our application phases

Keywords

Artificial intelligence, augmented reality, autonomous driving, circular economy, cloud control, cybersecurity, e-mobility, energy harvesting, cleantech, climate tech, metaverse, IoT, IIoT, industry 4.0, and robotics

Technology

- Continuous focus innovation focus fields: Industry 4.0, Net-Zero, Healthcare, and Cybersecurity.
- Additionally: technological fields that align with the current pilot project search criteria of our corporate partners.
- For an up-to-date list of our current focus fields and available pilot projects, please visit our website.

Use cases

Fields of application depends on the contemporary corporate partners, but the application fields typically include manufacturing, supply chain, retail, energy storage & management, circularity & sustainable transformation, logistics and digitalization.

TEAM

Jasmin Jurvakainen

Moritz Förster

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