Join our community

People from all over the world study and work at our universities. The spin-offs or startups from our universities, are mostly knowledge and research-based and address international markets very quickly. We support these „Born Globals“ and give their topics a forum with a community event, the yearly Born Global Startup Festival and a community of like-minded entrepreneurs. 

Join the community as

1. Startup or founding team

You are a startup or a team that is on its way to build a company? Benefit from our experienced support team with diverse backgrounds in our startup support and knowledge and technology transfer offices.

Your advantages:

• Benefit from the access to qualification offers, office space to further develop your business in our startup center (for founding teams) or in co-working spaces and technology centers nearby (for startups).
• Identify potential customers and investors in our region or our international networks. Our universities serve as door openers and platforms to connect. 
• Get access to more than 50 mentors, trainers, coaches, investors and networking partners. Our digital platforms and events promote your founding team or startup internationally.
   

2. Student or researcher

As a student or researcher you can access the community to talk to like-minded people, identify role models and get personal support:

• idea check and get feedback from other founding teams
• ask experts how they deal with IP issues
• identify qualification offers for starting a business
• find co-founders
   

3. Startup supporter

Are you an investor, corporate or institution that supports founding teams?

• Get an introduction to the local startup and innovation ecosystem reflecting the different research strengths of the universities.
• You can benefit from trans-regional access to mainly deep tech startups that are spin-outs from universities or local tech companies. 
• University startups are often research and thus patent-based and are show a higher survival rate.
• Your professional experience and passion to support founding teams and startups is highly welcome. Just contact one of our local offices.