As usual, at the end of the week we're taking a look back at the most important news from the Munich ecosystem. Sit back and browse through our photo gallery.
320,000 euros for Eventpage AI: The Munich AI startup Eventpage AI receives the sum in a pre-seed funding round. With the capital, the founders plan to expand their platform for automated event planning and solidify their market leadership in German-speaking countries. (Photo: Eventpage AI)
Pitch & People Episode 10 with Johannes Kohl: Starting a business is exciting, but also complex. Between product development, finding investors, and market entry, many young companies have little time for topics like social security or employee management. This is precisely where Johannes Kohl from Techniker Krankenkasse (TK) comes in. In the Pitch & People video podcast He talks about the support that TK offers to founders and scaleups. (Photo: Munich Startup)
Women in Tech with Vera Meinert from DiafaniaVera Meinert spent many years working at the intersection of data and artificial intelligence in large corporations. Since 2025, she and co-founders Michael Brunzel and Johannes Peschko have been working with Diafania to unlock untapped potential and transform the real estate industry. In this Women in Tech interview, she speaks candidly about her early days as a founder, how financing is currently being handled, and what tools she considers essential. Click here to go to our interview(Photo: Benni Saretz)
Munich-based scaleup expertise for the startup association: Heike Freund from the Munich-based startup Marvel Fusion is joining the board of the German Startup Association. Together with Nils Aldag, she expands the leadership team around Verena Pausder and further develops the association's expertise in deep tech and scale-ups. (Photo: German Startup Association / Munich Startup)
Startup Champs 2025: For the sixth time, the German startup hubs of Munich, Cologne, Berlin and Hamburg awarded their Startup Champs The competition sought the best AI solution in a B2B context this year. Jessy Works emerged victorious in the Startup Champs pitch competition, claiming the Munich city title. Cloudsupplies from Hamburg took the overall victory. (Photo: Startup Champs)
Follow-up: How is Denpaflux actually doing? When we spoke with the Munich-based startup Mitai in 2022, the young team was just beginning its mission: to revolutionize the development of electronic devices through intelligent electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) software. Even then, the founders wanted to replace time-consuming and expensive laboratory tests with a solution that identifies EMC problems during the design process. Three and a half years later, a lot has happened: Mitai is now called Denpaflux, and the idea has become a market-ready product. CEO Reinhard Neureiter brings us up to date. (Photo: Denpaflux)