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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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TUM in Rankings Entrepreneurship Community
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
Reading time: 7 Min.

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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TUM Magazine Entrepreneurship
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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Research Entrepreneurship Sustainability Artificial Intelligence
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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Entrepreneurship Community Energy
Trainer in a gym using the EGYM app.
10/23/2024
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TUM spin-off achieves Unicorn status

Billion-dollar valuation for start-up EGYM

With a valuation of over 1 billion euros, the start-up EGYM is the latest unicorn launched at TUM. The company has achieved international success with digital fitness equipment that provides personalized training programs. TUM researchers and graduates have now established 21 unicorns in total.

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Entrepreneurship
10/1/2024

neuroTUM student club trains for international Cybathlon competition

Controlling computers directly with the brain

How can a connection be created between the human brain and a computer? This is the question studied by the neuroTUM student club, founded at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) a year and a half ago. The aim is to make neurotechnology more accessible to students and to help people with physical disabilities.

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Entrepreneurship Artificial Intelligence
TUM President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann (left) and NTU President Prof. Ho Teck Hua agree on the flagship partnership in Singapore.
7/24/2024
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Global network is growing

TUM and NTU Singapore sign flagship partnership

The Technical University of Munich (TUM) and Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) have set up a flagship partnership. The agreement strengthens TUM's cooperation with NTU and its global network in Southeast Asia.

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President Studies Research Entrepreneurship Quantum Technologies Community
Kinexon founder Dr. Oliver Trinchera and Dr. Alexander Hüttenbrink.
7/12/2024
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Start-up Kinexon enables more precise refereeing decisions

High-tech sensors for the European Championship ball

Kinexon, a spin-off from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), has equipped the European Championship soccer balls with high-precision sensors. The technology helps referees make difficult decisions. Kinexon specializes in the analysis and control of moving objects – whether in sport or in production. The technology is also used to analyze and automate the processes of entire factories.

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Entrepreneurship Artificial Intelligence
TUM Vice President Gerhard Kramer congratulates Reverion founder Stephan Herrmann.
6/28/2024
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TUM Entrepreneurship Day brings together Munich ecosystem

Presidential Award goes to energy start-up

For the development of its high-efficiency power plant, the start-up Reverion has received the TUM Presidential Entrepreneurship Award. In addition to generating electric power with biogas, the plant can also produce hydrogen from surplus energy. Finalists for the award included Planet A Foods, with a sustainable alternative to chocolate, and RobCo, with a robotics system for small and midsized enterprises. The TUM Entrepreneurship Day brought together attendees from the large and diverse Munich innovation ecosystem.

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President Entrepreneurship Sustainability Community Energy
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