Bavaria – an Ideal Location for Start-Ups, Digital Entrepreneurs and Investors
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Bavaria – an ideal location for Start-Ups, Digital Entrepreneurs and Investors
Bavaria offers a perfect ecosystem for start-ups:
In addition to global players like Adidas, Allianz, Audi, BMW, Airbus, MAN and Siemens, there is a strong “Mittelstand“ in the areas of manufac- turing, crafts and services. Founders encounter a broad spectrum of competitive potential customers and cooperation-partners. Another asset is the net- work of almost 90 universities and non-university research institutions covering all areas.
Our business incubator for digital industries and media “WERK1.Bayern“ and more than 20 other technology oriented incubators all over Bavaria offer not only working space but also guidance, coaching and an excellent network of start-ups and other entrepreneurs.
To complete the supporting measures, BayStartUP organizes the famous businessplan-competitions (with additional coachings), and the universities offer Entrepreneurship Centers, the Program Tech- Founders, and they establish contacts to the best universities worldwide.
As one of Germany‘s innovation heartlands and Europe‘s top ICT location, Bavaria is a driver of in- novation in digitalization. With over 1/4 of Bavaria‘s total GDP being generated by manufacturing, this industrial base is hungry for your digital solutions.
“Digital entrepreneurs“ will find a strong market here.
Bayern Kapital offers as experienced financer ven- ture capital for Bavarian-located seed- and start- up-companies mostly in cooperation with private investors. Therefore Bavaria is also interesting for investors to find promising high-tech start-ups and co-financing partners for bringing them to interna- tional success.
We invite you to come to Bavaria and explore our programs – please contact us!
Contact us and meet us in Bavaria if you are a Start-Up interested in:
Access to the Bavarian Start-Up Community, including S Networking with start-ups in all industry areas
S Access to capital and contacts to venture capital investors S Industry contacts to corporates and “Mittelstand” as well as
to clusters and other entrepreneurial networks to find custom- ers, suppliers and cooperation partners
S Market and start-up experience
S Service (business plans, legal and tax information, residence permits, internationalization, advice on public funding, support programmes, crowdfunding etc.)
BayStartUp
BayStartUP is the Bavarian institution for the acceleration of tech start-ups, supported by the Bavarian Ministry of Economics.
They navigate start-ups from founding to financing.
www.baystartup.de
Contact: Carsten Rudolph | rudolph@baystartup.de Tel. +49 89 388 38 38-25 | OR +49 911 59724-8000 www.facebook.com/baystartup
UnternehmerTUM
UnternehmerTUM focusses on high-technology start-ups, in particular in the areas of information and communication, medi- cal engineering and cleantech
www.unternehmertum.de/vc
Contact: vc@unternehmertum.de | Tel. +49 89 324 624 375 Chamber of Industry and Commerce
for Munich and Upper Bavaria
The chamber provides full service to start-ups and informs and advises its member companies and founders on topics such as education and training, law and taxes, innovation, export and business succession.
www.muenchen.ihk.de/startup
Contact: Start-up Unit | Tel. +49 89 5116-1150
Munich founder office (MEB):
The MEB is a joint institution of the city of Munich and the Chamber of Industry and Commerce for Munich and Upper Bavaria. The MEB provides information and advice on all aspects of starting a business.
Contact: meb@muenchen.ihk.de | Tel. +49 89/5116-1759
Start-up Accelerator Programs TechFounders
TechFounders is a 3-month start-up accelerator program based in Munich. Accepted tech start-ups get a project budget of 25,000 Euro as well as access to world class mentors, coaches and a high-tech prototyping infrastructure. During the program venture teams will get in close contact with leading venture cap- ital companies and corporate partners like BMW, Bosch and Festo.
www.techfounders.com
Contact: admission@techfounders.com Tel. +49 89 324 624 325
Incubator for Digital Entrepreneurship WERK1.Bayern
WERK1.Bayern is an incubator for digital entrepreneurship in Munich. The campus provides facilities and an environment that supports founders. Residents benefit from valuable events, flex- ible contracts – starting with coworking up to single open-plan office – and an outstanding community of entrepreneurs.
www.werk1muenchen.de
Contact: Franz Glatz | franz.glatz@werk1muenchen.de and Florian Bergmann | Florian.bergmann@werk1muenchen.de Tel. +49 89 99 52 99 25
LMU Entrepreneurship Center
The LMU Entrepreneurship Center is an institution dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs by running an incubator that has supported 120+ start-ups to date, by teaching 1000+ students every year at one of Germany’s leading universities, and by buil- ding a strong ecosystem for young founders.
www.entrepreneurship-center.lmu.de Contact: Andy Goldstein | Goldstein@lmu.de Tel. +49 89 2180-2231
Early-stage Venture Capital for High-Technology Start-Ups UnternehmerTUM
UnternehmerTUM Fund provides early-stage venture capital for high-technology start-ups and supports them with market expertise, start-up experience and an active network of business partners that encompasses industry experts and other venture capital investors. We invest in high-technology start-ups in infor- mation and communication, medical engineering and cleantech.
www.unternehmertum.de/vc
Contact: vc@unternehmertum.de | Tel. +49 89 324 624 375
Incubator for New Ideas in Digital Media media.lab, Munich
media.lab is an incubator for new ideas in digital media.
It offers co-working space, the necessary infrastructure and support to bring forward digital change in media in- dustry. media.lab understands itself as a space for crea- tive people who want to try out and work on ideas and pro- totypes. It is built for journalists, designers and coders and aims at building interdisciplinary teams that can use the open workspace to try out first ideas. Teams that are about to turn their idea into a business model can apply for a scholarship that helps becoming a media start-up. Having a wide range of Bavaria based media companies as partners, media.lab provides mentoring and workshops in digital media. Media producers can benefit from the pool of talents working in media.lab: they can bring in ideas and take out products.
www.medialab-bayern.de | www.blm.de
Contact: stefan.sutor@blm.de | lina.timm@blm.de Tel. +49 89 6 38 08-0
An (Industrial) Location for your Company in Bavaria Invest in Bavaria – The business promotion agency of the state of Bavaria, Munich
Get in touch with us, if you want to learn about how you can benefit from Bavaria as a business location and how to start your company successfully in Bavaria. Invest in Bavaria offers individual cost-free services. Our teams supports companies in Bavaria and abroad with 26 representative offices worldwide.
www.invest-in-bavaria.com Contact: Dr. Wolfgang Hübschle
welcome@invest-in-bavaria.de | Tel. + 49 89 24210-7500
Contact us and meet us in Bavaria if you are an Investor in Start-Ups interested in:
Pre-selected Investment Opportunities in all Stages S Access to pre-selected start-ups (from seed to growth
financing)
S Syndication with German investors
S Co-financing by public investors on state and federal level Bayern Kapital
Venture capital for seed, start-up, expansion in cooperation with private investors / coaches; amounts: 0,2 – 2 Mio. €;
Expansion 2 – 8 Mio. € www.bayernkapital.de
Bayern Kapital (BK) is the venture capital company of the state of Bavaria. During nearly 20 years its funds have done about 230 investments in young high-technology companies in Bavaria (mostly seed- and start-up phase). Today about
$ 280 Mio. are under management; additional $ 120 Mio. in I/2015 for for a new later stage VC-fund (Wachstumsfonds Bayern). BK always seeks to cooperate with private inves- tors, never works in competition to them. Only in the early seed phase BK invests alone in some cases. Therefore BK wants to meet private investors, which are interested in in- vestments in Bavarian high margin projects. Especially the new Wachstumsfonds Bayern will be able to coinvest up to $ 4 Mio, in some cases also more. Main branches are biotech, medtech, IT and SW Engineering. A prominent financed company is Voxeljet, a 3D printing company, which did an IPO at NYSE in October 2013.
Contact: info@bayernkapital.de | Tel. +49-871-923250 BayStartUp
Investors benefit from access to a broad range of start-ups in different technologies and qualified matching services.
www.baystartup.de
Contact: Carsten Rudolph | rudolph@baystartup.de Tel. +49 89 388 38 38-25 | OR +49 911 59724-8000
Contact us and meet us in Bavaria if you are a Company interested in:
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