Germany startup ecosystem
Germany is Europe's largest economy and home to a maturing startup ecosystem anchored by Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg. Berlin's international talent pool and creative culture attract early-stage founders, while Munich draws deep-tech and enterprise ventures thanks to proximity to major corporates and research institutions. Government-backed programs and a dense VC landscape provide capital across all stages. The directory currently lists 356 organisations across 38 cities.
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Matthias Mende
Founder and CEO of Bonuz, a Web3 social and identity platform, and a confirmed speaker at Web3 Warsaw 2026. Builds decentralized social and reputation infrastructure for the Web3 ecosystem.
Max Niederhofer
Partner at Heartcore Capital, based in Berlin, who joined from Accel in 2013. He invests in consumer and software companies across Europe and is a well-known writer and commentator on early-stage venture capital.
Maximilian Tayenthal
Maximilian Tayenthal is Co-founder of the German mobile bank N26. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Maximilian leads the German mobile bank N26.
Messe Berlin
One of the world's leading trade-fair organizers, operating the Berlin ExpoCenter and running international events including InnoTrans, ITB Berlin, IFA and Fruit Logistica. It hosts hundreds of thousands of exhibitors and visitors annually across mobility, travel, technology and consumer sectors.
Messe Düsseldorf
Messe Düsseldorf GmbH operates the Düsseldorf exhibition grounds and is one of the largest trade-fair organisers in Germany, running world-leading shows in retail technology, plastics, printing, medicine and wine. Its portfolio includes EuroShop and EuroCIS for retail and retail technology, ProWein for the wine and spirits trade, and the paired wire and Tube fairs for wire, cable and tube processing, alongside MEDICA, drupa and interpack.
Messe Essen
MESSE ESSEN GmbH operates the Essen exhibition grounds in the Ruhr region and organises trade fairs and congresses across energy, security, horticulture and leisure. Its best-known technology event is E-world energy & water, the European trade fair for the energy industry, which brings utilities, grid operators, energy traders and energy-software vendors to Essen each February.
Messe Frankfurt
Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH operates the Frankfurt exhibition grounds and is among the largest trade-fair organisers in the world, running events across textiles, mobility, consumer goods and building technology. Techtextil, for technical textiles and nonwovens, and Texprocess, for garment and textile processing technology, run together at the Frankfurt site, alongside Ambiente, Light + Building and Automechanika.
Messe München
Messe München GmbH operates the Munich exhibition centre and runs some of the world's leading capital-goods and technology fairs, among them bauma for construction machinery, electronica and productronica for electronics, IFAT for environmental technology and ISPO for sports business. INHORGENTA MUNICH, its jewellery and watch fair, opens the Munich calendar each February.
Michael Cassau
Michael Cassau is Founder & CEO of the tech-rental subscription company Grover. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Michael leads the tech-rental subscription company Grover.
Michael Fritz
Michael Fritz is the Co-Founder of Viva con Agua, one of Germany's best-known social enterprises, headquartered in Hamburg. Viva con Agua operates a 'for-good' business model that channels revenue from commercial activities — including water, energy, and music events — into clean water and sanitation projects across Africa and Asia. Fritz is active in the German social entrepreneurship ecosystem and is a confirmed keynote speaker at Future Tech Fest 2026 in Düsseldorf.
Michael Wax
Michael Wax is Co-founder & CEO of the digital freight-forwarding company Forto. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Michael leads the digital freight-forwarding company Forto.
MicroHarvest
MicroHarvest produces microbial protein using agricultural side streams and a rapid fermentation process designed to deliver sustainable protein ingredients in around 24 hours. The company reported over USD 10.2M in venture funding from investors such as Astanor, Happiness Capital, Simon Capital, and FoodLabs, and received a EUR 5.5M German government grant in February 2026 for an industrial-scale Leuna plant expected to produce about 15,000 tonnes of protein annually.
Microsoft Accelerator Berlin
Ran 2013-2016 as part of Microsoft for Startups. Four-month cohort with expert mentorship, Azure credits, and investor connections. Support: coaching, cloud infrastructure, partner network. Scope: Global.
Midas
Midas (Midas Software GmbH) is a Berlin-based fintech building infrastructure for tokenised real-world assets and composable on-chain investment products. It lets strategy managers turn institutional investment strategies into compliant, blockchain-based tokens (mTokens) that aim to give investors transparency, instant redemptions, and composability across DeFi protocols. Its first product, mTBILL, tokenises US Treasury bills as an ERC-20 token so holders can earn yield on-chain. The company describes itself as a German, BaFin-regulated and MiCA-compliant entity.
Mirko Novakovic
Founder and CEO of Dash0, an AI-native observability platform. He previously co-founded and led Instana to a roughly 500 million dollar acquisition by IBM in 2020, and earlier co-founded German software-engineering firm codecentric. A serial founder and prolific B2B angel investor across cloud, DevOps and AI.
Mister Spex
Mister Spex is Europe's leading digitally native omnichannel optician, founded in Berlin in 2007 and listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange (ticker: MRX) since 2021. The company sells prescription glasses, sunglasses, and contact lenses online across five European countries and operates 65 physical stores in Germany alongside a network of over 300 partner opticians. Mister Spex serves over 8 million customers and employs around 1,000 people. It pioneered the online-to-offline model in European eyewear retail.
mRNA-Based Therapeutics Summit Europe 2026
Dedicated summit in Berlin for mRNA-based therapeutics, bringing together pharma executives, biotech researchers, and clinical development leaders. Covers R&D breakthroughs, manufacturing scale-up, and regulatory pathways for mRNA technologies in Europe. Relevant for biotech startups working on next-generation mRNA platforms and delivery systems.
Munich Venture Capital World Summit 2026
Munich stop of the global Venture Capital World Summit series at Nymphenburger Hoefe, bringing together seed and Series A investors, angels, and growth-focused startups. High-priority event for founders actively fundraising in Q2/Q3 2026 and seeking cross-border capital access.
N26
N26 is a Berlin-based digital bank with a mobile-first current account and financial products for consumers across Europe. In May 2024, BaFin lifted the growth restrictions previously imposed on the bank, clearing the way for renewed customer expansion. In 2025 N26 rolled out free stock and ETF trading for all eligible customers, adding investing to its core banking offering. The company positions itself as a full-stack European challenger bank with a focus on product breadth and operational discipline.
n8n
Berlin-based open-source workflow automation platform with 350+ integrations that lets technical teams build complex automations combining AI, APIs, and databases without vendor lock-in. Reached a $5.9B valuation in 2026 after SAP's strategic investment.
