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Weekly Wrap-up 8/2025

The most important articles of the week in a photo gallery. So you can start the new week well-informed.

March 2, 2025 2 min reading time

Company support
How Munich company support helps with problems at the location: The Munich Economic Development Agency operates a central contact, advice, and service center for companies with location-related problems: Company Support. The biggest challenge for Munich companies? Finding offices and space for production, laboratories, or workshops. Company Support also helps companies with other challenges. For example, when cooperation with the administration in cases involving labor and residence law isn't as smooth as the company should be. Interview partner Stefan Murner, Head of Corporate Services at the Munich Economic Development Agency, has been advising companies and answering our questions since the Department of Labor and Economic Development was founded in the early 1990s. (Photo: City of Munich)
Verena Pausder
Women in Tech: Verena Pausder has been Chairwoman of the German Startup Association since December 2023 and is a driving force in the German startup landscape. As an entrepreneur, activist, and thought leader, she advocates for greater diversity, international talent, and sustainable deeptech startups, among other things. She is also committed to digital education, not least through her own startups. In the interview we learn about herWhat trends she sees in digital education, and what measures she considers necessary to make startups in Germany successful and competitive in the long term. (Photo: Patrycia Lukas)
Vivatech
Join Munich Startup at Vivatech 2025 – apply now! From June 11 to 14, 2025, Europe's tech and startup elite will meet in Paris for Viva Technology. Munich Startup and Munich Business, the economic development agency of the City of Munich, are once again sending a delegation of five Munich startups. Applications are due by 24 March 2025 possible. (Photo: Vivatech 2023)
SmartAIs
SmartAIs secures pre-seed financing: The Munich startup SmartAIs has successfully completed a pre-seed financingWith funding from Bayern Kapital and business angels, the company plans to further develop its AI-supported navigation app for blind people. (Photo: SmartAIs)
Fratch
How Fratch wants to revolutionize freelance sourcingFratch improves freelance and interim sourcing with an AI-powered platform that automates the entire procurement process. The smart procurement assistant Fratch GPT quickly finds the best external experts and reduces sourcing fees, thus offering a transparent, efficient alternative to traditional placement platforms and recruiters. How exactly the platform works, we learn in an interview with Fratch founder & CEO Philipp Thomaschewski. (Photo: Fratch / Screenshot)

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