Opening show of Slush 2025

Needs Review

Slush 2025: A once-in-a-century moment for startups

Europe is taking off – and Slush 2025 proves it. In Helsinki, the tech scene is staging its moment of the century: 13,000 visitors…

Inplanet

7 Questions

Inplanet: CO2 removal through rock weathering

Munich-based Climatetech Inplanet uses the natural weathering of silicate rock to quickly and permanently bind CO2. With an innovative MRV system…

Futurail

7 Questions

Futurail: Autonomous trains for the rails of the future

The Munich-based startup Futurail is developing an autonomous system for driverless trains that aims to make public transport more efficient and sustainable.…

SmartAIs

7 Questions

SmartAIs: AI assistant for blind people

SmartAIs is the first startup to bring an AI assistance system to smartphones, enabling blind people to move more easily in everyday life. The app…

Simone Sabbione

Women in Tech

Women in Tech: Simone Sabbione from Meliodays Medical

"If men menstruated, there would have been a solution long ago." This sentence stuck with Simone Sabbione and became...

BauGPT Anna Hocker

Interviews

Women in Tech: Anna Hocker from BauGPT

Anna Hocker, together with Patrick Christ and Jonas Stamm, founded the AI startup BauGPT in 2022 to address the skilled worker shortage and the…

Needs Review

Hunger is not fate, but a question of innovation.

Hunger is not an abstract problem. It currently affects around 800 million people worldwide. And yet it is solvable. This is evident…

Christmas gifts

Needs Review

Gift ideas from the Munich startup scene 2025

Discover unique gift ideas from Munich startups we featured in 2025. Innovative, local, and suitable for all ages. From…

Cyberdesk

Inside Stories

Cyberdesk: Transparency for data access

Cyberdesk is developing an identity-centric data security platform that reveals who is accessing which data – down to the file level. The Munich-based startup…

Deals

PITCH & PEOPLE at Slush – Inga Grieger, Ronja Stoffregen and Eva Spannagl in an interview

We at Munich Startup met with three female investors at Slush 2025 in Helsinki. In the interview, Inga…

Maximilian Schäfer, founder of Cargomotion

Deals

Insolvency and Jan Marsalek: Maximilian Schäfer on the InstaFreight bankruptcy and why he met the fugitive ex-Wirecard manager

InstaFreight was considered one of the most promising logistics startups – until a failed termsheet and a collapsing market triggered its downfall in 2023.

Hydro Lion

Inside Stories

Hydro Lion: Regeneration for every moment

Hydro Lion is launching a functional electrolyte drink designed to facilitate recovery anywhere – after sports, during parties…