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 344 organisations across 39 cities.
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Upvest
API-first investment infrastructure provider (brokerage, settlement, custody) for banks, brokers and fintechs like Revolut and N26. Regulated by BaFin and the FCA. Founded 2017.
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Valentin Stalf
Valentin Stalf is Co-founder & CEO of the German mobile bank N26. A founder in the German startup ecosystem, Valentin leads the German mobile bank N26.
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Valérie Bures
Valérie Bures is Partner and Managing Director for DACH at XAnge, a French institutional venture capital firm backed by La Banque Postale that invests in early-stage technology and deep tech companies across Continental Europe. She leads the firm's expansion and investment activities in the German-speaking European markets, covering Germany, Austria, and Switzerland. Bures is a confirmed speaker at NORDEEP 2026, representing the Franco-German deep tech investment perspective.
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Vay
Vay is a Berlin-based mobility company founded in 2018 that develops teledriving technology, where trained human drivers remotely operate road vehicles from a station using a live video and control link. It offers a driverless door-to-door car service without an in-car driver and runs commercial operations in Las Vegas as well as testing in Europe.
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Venture Capital World Summit
Global summit organizer focused on investor-founder matchmaking and early-stage capital access. The Venture Capital World Summit hosts annual events in major European cities, bringing together hundreds of VCs, angel investors, and growth-stage founders for structured pitch sessions and networking to accelerate cross-border deal-flow.
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VentureVilla
Established 2016. 100-day accelerator for web and software startups with intensive coaching, mentoring, and free workspace. Focus on B2B software with SaaS and fintech alumni. Support: mentorship, coworking, investor connections. Scope: Regional (Northern Germany).
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Verena Pausder
Verena Pausder is a prominent German entrepreneur, angel investor, and advocate for digital education. She founded Fox & Sheep and the HABA Digitalwerkstatt, which teach coding and digital skills to children. Pausder has invested in numerous early-stage startups across edtech, consumer tech, and impact-driven ventures. She serves as President of the German Startups Association (Startup-Verband) and authored the bestselling book 'Das Neue Land,' which calls for a more innovative and digitally literate Germany. Her angel investments typically focus on founders building products that combine technology with social impact, and she is one of the most influential voices shaping Germany's startup policy landscape.
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VIVANESS 2026
Natural and organic personal care fair running alongside BIOFACH. Price: included with BIOFACH ticket (about EUR 32-74). The Breeze show spotlights newcomers and niche beauty brands.
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VIVANESS 2027
VIVANESS 2027 runs 16-19 February at the Nuremberg Exhibition Centre, integrated into BIOFACH as the trade fair for natural and organic cosmetics. It brings together natural-cosmetics brands and buyers alongside BIOFACH's organic food exhibitors over the same four days.
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Vlad Larichev
Vlad Larichev is Associate Vice President of Industrial AI at Siemens Advanta, the consulting and IoT-as-a-service division of Siemens AG, a global industrial and technology conglomerate headquartered in Munich. He leads initiatives focused on applying artificial intelligence to industrial settings including manufacturing, automation, and smart infrastructure, and speaks at major AI and industry 4.0 events.
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Vladimir Danila
Romanian-born founder and CEO of Linearity, the Berlin-based design-software company formerly known as Vectornator. He started the product after winning Germany's Jugend Forscht science competition in 2017 and has grown it into a vector and marketing-design tool used by a large global base of creators and teams.
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Voize
Berlin-based AI companion for nurses and care workers that listens as staff speak care notes aloud and instantly converts speech into structured EHR records, giving clinicians back up to 30% of their shift. Deployed at 1,500+ care facilities across Germany serving 100,000+ nurses. Raised €43M Series A led by Balderton Capital.
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Vytal
Vytal is a German reusable-packaging company providing a deposit-free reusable container system for the food and beverage industry, letting restaurants, cafes and retailers replace single-use packaging with trackable reusable containers returned via a network of partner locations. The system is designed to cut single-use plastic waste from takeaway and delivery food.
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Wandelbots
Wandelbots is a Dresden-based robotics company founded in 2017, spun out of TU Dresden, that makes industrial robots easier to program. Its software abstracts away vendor-specific robot languages so that a single interface can control robots from different manufacturers, and it has moved toward AI-driven ('Physical AI') robot control for manufacturing.
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WeAreDevelopers
Organizer of WeAreDevelopers World Congress, one of Europe's largest software engineering and developer conferences held annually in Berlin. Attracting over 15,000 developers, CTOs, and tech recruiters, the event features 500+ speakers, hands-on workshops, and a career expo connecting engineering talent with leading tech employers.
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WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026
Europe's largest developer conference at Messe Berlin, with software engineering, architecture, and platform scaling tracks. High-leverage venue for DevTools and API startups and for founder-led engineering recruitment.
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WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2027
WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2027 runs 14-16 July in Berlin, billed as the world's largest event for developers, AI builders and tech leaders with 15,000+ attendees, 8,000+ companies and 500+ speakers expected. The programme spans coding agents in production, agentic systems, platform engineering, cloud reliability, security and engineering leadership in the AI era.
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Wefox
Wefox is a Berlin-based insurtech company that digitizes insurance distribution and management for both brokers and end consumers. The platform enables insurance agents to manage policies digitally while also offering direct-to-consumer products. Wefox was valued at $4.5 billion at its 2022 peak and operates across Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, and Poland. The company represents one of Europe's most ambitious attempts to modernize the insurance value chain through technology.
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Wire 2026
Partner trade fair to Tube in Dusseldorf covering wire, cable, and fibre optic manufacturing with 1,300+ exhibitors and 36,000+ visitors. Day tickets cost about EUR 45-70. Covers smart cabling, energy transmission, and connectivity infrastructure. Relevant for startups in energy tech, telecommunications hardware, and industrial automation.
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Wissenschaftspark Kiel
Wissenschaftspark Kiel is the primary knowledge and innovation campus of the Kiel metropolitan area, developed as a joint initiative of the City of Kiel, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU), and the Kiel Innovation and Technology Foundation (KIWI). The park occupies a sizeable campus in the Schreventeich district on the western side of central Kiel and hosts over 70 companies, research bodies, and public institutions. Tenants span information technology (north.io, ARIVA.DE, emma technologies), engineering services, life-sciences consulting, auditing firms, and public innovation intermediaries. The CAU maintains several administrative and technology-transfer units on-site, creating direct academic-to-industry pipeline. The KIWI economic development agency is resident, giving early-stage founders immediate access to public startup support. The park offers modern office rentals from small units to large floor plates, alongside shared infrastructure and a daycare facility for working parents. Gastronomic and hotel options — including a B&B Hotel — support extended work sessions and visiting delegations. The campus is closely associated with opencampus.sh, whose StarterKitchen coworking sub-brand and learning programmes have an on-site presence. With the park's ongoing einsteineins building extension and further construction underway, the campus continues to expand its footprint. Pricing tier: €€.
