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Vice President Prof. Gerhard Kramer presents the TUM Presidential Entrepreneurship Award to Flora Geske, founder of the start-up SUMM AI.
6/27/2025
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Entrepreneurship Day brings together Munich ecosystem

Presidential Award goes to AI start-up

For the development of an AI tool that translates complex texts into plain language, the start-up SUMM AI has received the TUM Presidential Entrepreneurship Award. The other finalists for this year’s award were KEWAZO, with a robot for the construction industry, and Phlair, with a new technology for CO2 capture.

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6/26/2025
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TUM spin-off worth over a billion dollars

Isar Aerospace becomes a unicorn

Isar Aerospace, a space company spun off from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has achieved a company valuation of over a billion dollars and thus unicorn status. This brings the number of TUM unicorns to 22. Isar Aerospace has developed and built its own commercial rocket technology and will transport small and medium-sized satellites into space in the future. The start-up, founded by three graduates, received intensive support from TUM.

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Start-up-founders in the TUM Venture Lab Food / Agro / Biotech
6/26/2025
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Study on Germany, Austria and Switzerland

TUM produces the most start-up founders

Where did most start-up founders study and research? A study by the Technical University of Munich (TUM), ETH Zurich and the University of Innsbruck shows a complete picture for Germany, Austria and Switzerland for the first time. In the past decade, most start-ups were founded by students, employees and alumni of TUM, ETH and the University of St. Gallen. If one looks at the number of start-ups in relation to the number of students, German private universities are the most successful. The sectors with the most start-ups are shaped by only a few universities.

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TUM in Rankings Research Entrepreneurship
6/24/2025
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Podcast "We Are TUM"

What makes our innovation ecosystem so successful?

Entrepreneurial success stories begin at TUM. Over 20 start-ups that emerged from our university have developed into unicorns, reaching a market value of over one billion U.S. dollars. In the run-up to our Entrepreneurship Day on June 26, we explore the innovation ecosystem at our university. This episode of "We Are TUM" features Vice President Helmut Schönenberger, SUMM AI co-founder Flora Geske, Nicola Breugst, Professor of Entrepreneurial Behavior, and start-up consultant Florian Jäger.

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Teaching Studies Entrepreneurship Community
6/18/2025
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Times Higher Education's 2025 University Impact Ranking

TUM remains global leader in innovation

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) continues to rank first in the "THE University Impact Ranking" category of industry, innovation, and infrastructure. The ranking shows how strongly universities contribute to sustainable innovations - through research, spin-offs, and corporate collaborations.

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6/4/2025
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Top rankings for teaching

TUM ranked 7th for the training of digital leaders

TUM is one of the universities whose graduates have the greatest impact on the digital economy worldwide. This is the result of the latest Digital Leaders in Higher Education rankings, in which TUM placed number 7. In the fields of Computer Science and Digital Entrepreneurship, it is again ranked 4th.

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6/4/2025
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Start-up Fusix Biotech explores new paths in immunotherapy

A therapeutic virus against cancer

Even tumor cells can be infected by pathogens. In fact, they are especially vulnerable – a side effect of their ability to hide from the immune system. Dr. Jennifer Altomonte and her team at Fusix Biotech are making use of exactly that. The spin-off from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is developing virus-based cancer therapies that mobilize the body’s own immune defenses in the fight against the disease.

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Eine Frau und drei Männer stehen auf einem Acker. Die Frau zeigt den Männern ein Gerät in ihrer Hand. Es handelt sich um das Gerät, dass das NutriSen-Team zur smarten Düngung entwickelt hat.
5/27/2025
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Start-up NutriSen gets the laboratory on the field

Smart fertilization with biosensor strips

Precise fertilization using data from the field and from satellites - that is the idea behind NutriSen, a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich (TUM). The start-up has developed a measuring device and an application that farmers can use to generate highly precise and specific fertilization recommendations for their crops. The aim is to reduce nitrogen input and protect the environment.

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Entrepreneurship Sustainability
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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