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5/12/2025
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The start-up ecosystem at TUM is growing

Extended partnership between TUM Venture Labs and Rohde & Schwarz

The ecosystem for start-ups in the field of security, defense, and resilience technologies at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) continues to grow. TUM Venture Labs and the technology group Rohde & Schwarz are expanding their long-standing partnership to include this field. The aim is to jointly identify and promote promising start-ups. Rohde & Schwarz will support the technology hub as an industry and technology partner with expertise and know-how.

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Health Minister Judith Gerlach and TUM President Thomas F. Hofmann visit the TUM Venture Lab Healthcare.
5/9/2025
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Support for innovation and start-ups

Health Minister Gerlach visits TUM Venture Lab Healthcare

The Bavarian Minister of Health, Judith Gerlach, has visited the new laboratory facilities at the TUM Venture Lab Healthcare. The Minister handed over a funding grant of 500,000 euros for the SMART HEALTH program, which promotes technology transfer. The TUM Venture Lab Healthcare supports start-ups that put cutting-edge research findings in the fields of digital health, medical technology and life sciences into practice.

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Blick über den Campus Heilbronn.
4/14/2025
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Podcast "We Are TUM"

A visit to the Campus Heilbronn

In this episode we report from the TUM Campus Heilbronn, which has developed rapidly over the past six years: More than 1,000 students from all over the world, close ties to companies, and exciting topics related to AI, management, and digitalization.We talk to those who are helping to shape the location-from the students' perspective to strategic visions for the coming years.

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Launch of the Isar Aerospace rocket at the Norwegian spaceport Andøya.
3/30/2025
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Success for innovation ecosystem in aerospace

TUM spin-off launches first rocket

Isar Aerospace, a spin-off of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has conducted the first test flight of its rocket - and thus also the first launch of a carrier rocket designed to transport loads into orbit from Western Europe. In future, the system will be used to launch small and medium-sized satellites into space, which are crucial for numerous emerging technologies. The founding of the start-up by three graduates was intensively supported at TUM.

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Participants of a hackathon at TUM
3/28/2025
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TUM sets new record for spin-offs

More than 100 new start-ups in one year

At the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the number of newly founded start-ups exceeded 100 for the first time in 2024. The innovation ecosystem centered around TUM is regarded as one of the most successful deeptech hubs in Europe. The Financial Times recently selected UnternehmerTUM as Europe’s leading start-up hub for the second time.

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Start-up team at the Venture Lab Food Agro Biotech
2/27/2025
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Financial Times rankings

UnternehmerTUM again ranked as Europe’s best start-up hub

For the second consecutive year, the British business paper Financial Times has named UnternehmerTUM as the leading start-up hub in Europe. A decisive factor behind this success is the powerful network available to tech start-ups.

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1/16/2025
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Investment in Germany's technological sovereignty

Battery start-up incubator launches at TUM

To strengthen Germany's technological sovereignty in the field of battery technologies, the Battery Start-up Incubator (BaStI) is being established at TUM. Funded with 3.3 million euros by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), BaStl, as an integral part of the TUM Venture Labs, will support and advise start-up applicants from all over Germany in the first phase. The aim is to accelerate the market entry of new battery technologies from research and thus reduce dependence on imports.

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Entrepreneurship Sustainability Energy
12/12/2024
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TUM Venture Lab Food / Agro / Biotech

Breeding ground for biotech start-ups

The TUM Venture Labs are an important element of our university’s outstanding start-up ecosystem. We paid a visit to the Venture Lab Food / Agro / Biotech in Weihenstephan.

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The winners of the TUM IDEAward at the award ceremony
11/28/2024
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Teams from informatics, environmental engineering and medicine

IDEAward for researchers’ start-up ideas

An AI-controlled construction robot, a CO2 conversion process and a test to detect head and neck tumors: These three promising start-up ideas from researchers are the latest winners of the TUM IDEAward.

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Prof. Jennifer Rupp
11/8/2024
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Qkera selected as one of the 25 best start-ups at Falling Walls

New technology for solid state batteries

The start-up Qkera has developed new electrolyte components for solid state batteries. With high energy density, great stability and low production costs, the goal of the TUM spin-off is to achieve a breakthrough of this battery technology in electromobility and other areas. At the Falling Walls Science Summit, Qkera was selected as one of the 25 best science start-ups worldwide.

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