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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St. Oberholz
St. Oberholz is a Berlin coworking and flexible-office operator whose site offers offices, conference rooms and event locations to rent alongside coworking desks. It grew out of the Rosenthaler Platz cafe that became one of the city's best-known early laptop-working spots.
StarterKitchen
StarterKitchen is the primary coworking and founder community venue operated by the non-profit Campus Business Box e.V. under the opencampus.sh umbrella, located at Kuhnkestraße 6 in Kiel's Wissenschaftspark district. The space spans 400 square metres and has been awarded best coworking space in Kiel, attracting interdisciplinary founders across tech, social enterprise, and creative sectors. The floor plan combines a large bright open-plan coworking area (referred to internally as the Sauna) with dedicated fixed desks, enclosed team offices, a Zoom-equipped call room, and a podcast studio — the latter two included in all membership tiers. Flex-desk memberships range from €20 per month for students and Schleswig-Holstein scholarship holders through €70–90 for growth-stage teams; fixed desk slots run €90–120 per month for established ventures. Pricing is deliberately below-market to remain accessible to early-stage founders. StarterKitchen serves as the first point of contact in Kiel for the regional Gründungsstipendium SH founding grant and hosts recurring formats including the Female Founders Stammtisch, open founder breakfasts, and the Prototypingweek innovation sprint. The space is closely integrated with the Waterkant Festival, opencampus.sh's annual futures-thinking event that draws several thousand attendees to Kiel. Pricing tier: €.
Startup Network Europe
Organizer of founder-focused meetups and AI events including The Munich AI Conference. Startup Network Europe is an event organiser based in Munich, Germany. Organising events in the Events, Startup Ecosystem, Artificial Intelligence space.
Stefan Sagmeister
Austrian-born, New York-based graphic designer and typographer, co-founder of the studio Sagmeister & Walsh, known for album covers, identity work and data-driven art projects on happiness and beauty. A headline speaker at the 2026 Forward Festival Berlin.
Stelovo
Stelovo is a small consumer app for planning nights out with friends — you propose a few time slots, everyone votes, and the app picks the moment that works for the group. Positioned against heavier event-management tools, it's a quiet, design-led take on group scheduling for existing friend circles rather than a public events product. The project ships as a lightweight web app under a single-founder or small-team indie model.
Successful R&I in Europe 2026
Partnering conference focused on Horizon Europe collaboration. Price: about EUR 150 (VAT included). Structured around pitches and 1:1 meetings across health, energy, mobility, and digital tech.
SuperReturn International 2026
Europe's premier private equity and venture capital conference, gathering 5,000+ LPs, GPs, and fund managers at the Intercontinental Berlin. Essential for founders seeking growth equity and fund managers exploring European tech opportunities.
SuperReturn International 2027
SuperReturn International 2027 runs 7-11 June at the InterContinental Hotel Berlin, billed as the leading gathering for private capital with 7,000+ attendees from 80+ countries and 2,500+ LPs managing $50 trillion in AUM. The main conference is preceded by two days of specialist summits including Private Debt, AI & Technology Innovation and Secondaries.
Synthflow AI
Synthflow AI is a Berlin-based no-code platform for building and deploying AI voice agents that automate phone conversations. It lets non-technical business users create customisable voice agents without engineering resources, applying a no-code approach to conversational phone AI. The agents handle inbound and outbound calls for use cases such as customer service, appointment scheduling, and lead qualification, and connect to external systems through integrations with calendars, CRMs, and telephony platforms. The company also operates in-house telephony infrastructure and targets enterprise and BPO/contact-center customers.
Taktile
Taktile is a Berlin-based provider of an agentic decision platform for financial institutions, combining AI automation with human oversight for regulated environments. Its platform lets banks and insurers build and deploy automated decision flows and AI agents across onboarding and KYC, credit decisions, fraud detection, AML and compliance, and insurance underwriting. The company emphasises transparency and control, positioning around traceable decisions. Founded by Maik Taro Wehmeyer and Maximilian Eber, who met at Harvard and previously worked together at QuantCo, Taktile raised a 51.5 million euro Series B in February 2025 led by Balderton Capital.
Target Global
Target Global is a Berlin-headquartered international venture capital firm founded in 2012 by Alexander Frolov, Mikhail Lobanov, Shmuel Chafets, and Yaron Valler, investing across all stages from seed to late stage in European and Israeli technology companies. With over USD 3 billion in assets under management across early-stage, growth, and fintech-focused funds, Target Global has become one of the most active cross-border European venture investors, running parallel investment themes across fintech, mobility, logistics, travel, PropTech, and enterprise software. The firm has backed category-defining businesses including Auto1 Group, Delivery Hero, Revolut, Rapyd, TravelPerk, WeFox, and Omnipresent, and operates offices in Berlin, London, Tel Aviv, and Barcelona. Target Global is a useful reference point for founders looking for a European-headquartered fund that can write initial checks at seed and follow them all the way into late-stage growth rounds from a single partnership.
Taxdoo
Taxdoo is a Hamburg-based tax automation platform founded in 2016 that specializes in VAT compliance, financial accounting, and tax reporting for e-commerce businesses selling across European borders. The platform automates the complex web of cross-border VAT obligations that arise when online sellers store and ship goods across multiple EU countries. Taxdoo integrates with major e-commerce platforms and marketplaces including Amazon, Shopify, and eBay, and handles VAT registration, filing, and reporting across jurisdictions. The company serves thousands of online merchants navigating Europe's fragmented tax landscape.
Taxfix
Taxfix is a mobile-first tax filing app that simplifies income tax returns for individuals in Germany and other European markets. The app guides users through their tax declaration using a conversational interface and automatically optimizes deductions. Taxfix has served millions of users and raised over $200 million in venture funding, making tax filing accessible to people who previously avoided the complexity of traditional tax software.
Tech Open Air (TOA)
Organizer of Tech Open Air, Berlin's signature interdisciplinary tech festival bridging technology, art, music, and science since 2012. TOA attracts over 20,000 participants across its main stage and satellite events, offering a unique blend of startup content, creative programming, and networking that reflects Berlin's innovative culture.
Tech Open Air (TOA) 2026
Large interdisciplinary tech festival at Funkhaus Berlin combining AI, synthetic biology, Web3, and health tech with music, art, and science programming. Includes startup visibility opportunities and a headline startup pitch competition.
Techtextil 2026
International trade fair for technical textiles and nonwovens in Frankfurt, bringing together 1,500+ exhibitors and 30,000+ visitors from across the advanced materials sector. Day tickets cost about EUR 30-60. Particularly valuable for smart fabrics, wearable tech, and advanced materials startups seeking industrial partnerships.
Techtextil 2028
Techtextil, the biennial trade fair for technical and high-tech textiles, returns to Messe Frankfurt 4-7 April 2028 alongside co-located event Texprocess. The fair showcases national and international exhibitors across twelve application areas of technical textiles. It is part of Messe Frankfurt's global Texpertise textile business network.
Texprocess 2026
International trade fair for textile and flexible material processing, co-located with Techtextil in Frankfurt and drawing 40,000+ combined visitors. Tickets EUR 30-60. Covers automated sewing, 3D body scanning, digital printing, and on-demand manufacturing. Prime venue for fashion-tech and textile startups demoing to global brand buyers.
Texprocess 2028
Texprocess returns to Frankfurt 4-7 April 2028, again co-located with Techtextil. The international trade fair for textile and flexible material processing covers automated sewing, 3D body scanning, digital printing, and on-demand manufacturing for fashion-tech and textile startups.
The Exploration Company
The Exploration Company is a Munich-based space startup founded in 2021 by Helene Huby, a former Airbus and ArianeGroup executive. The company is developing Nyx, a reusable orbital vehicle designed to carry cargo to the International Space Station and future commercial space stations. Nyx uses a green propulsion system and is designed for multiple missions, reducing cost per flight. The company has raised over EUR 150 million, including a major Series B, making it one of Europe's best-funded space startups. The Exploration Company represents Europe's push for independent orbital logistics capabilities beyond traditional government-led programs.
