Day: EXIST

The monitoring report on the EXIST start-up grant shows that 63 percent of start-ups would not have been possible without funding. Bavaria is among the most important locations:…

Saskia Müller April 9, 2026

EXIST-Women, a federal program, supports women interested in starting their own businesses during the pre-launch phase. This program is running again this year. Applications are still being accepted…

Deadline: February 15, 2026

Less bureaucracy, more speed: The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) is making the EXIST start-up funding simpler, more digital and more transparent.

Saskia Müller December 2, 2025

The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Protection has revised and adapted the EXIST Research Transfer and EXIST Start-up Grant funding guidelines. These also include…

Maximilian Feigl May 25, 2023

Despite the coronavirus pandemic, the EXIST program is recording a record number of applications and approvals for its start-up grant. Most…

Simon Tischer February 26, 2021

The Muc Summit has been awarded the contract by the three leading Munich universities, the Munich University of Applied Sciences (HM), the…

Regina Bruckschlögl February 3, 2021

Successful program: Since the program's launch in 2007, around 1,800 founders have been supported in their first steps toward establishing their own startup with an EXIST start-up grant from the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy…

Regina Bruckschlögl March 30, 2018

The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy has improved the funding conditions for the EXIST Start-up Grant and Research Transfer programs. These changes are intended to…

Florian Deglmann October 11, 2016

A lighting engineer, a computer scientist, and a business graduate are founding a company. What do you think they're doing? Exactly, a completely new lighting system. Seven…

Helen Duran June 17, 2016

Whether at Mobile World Congress, CeBIT, or SXSW: The Internet of Things (IoT) is currently one of the hottest digital topics. As one…

Simon Tischer March 22, 2016

VerbaVoice is the name of the technology company located in a circular office building in eastern Munich. Founded in Munich in 2009, it developed…

Helen Duran February 17, 2016

Find the right hotel in seconds The Munich startup nekst from the GründerRegio M network has recently started offering a…

Florian Deglmann November 5, 2015