Start?Zuschuss! is aimed at technology-oriented startups in the digitalization sector whose founding dates back a maximum of two years. The goal of the funding program is to help young and innovative companies from Bavaria establish themselves on the market. Winners receive a financial grant of up to 36,000 euros to cover their startup costs. In the current competition round, 127 startups submitted their applications.
Bavaria’s economics minister Hubert Aiwanger highlights the importance of the competition for Bavaria as a startup region:
“Young companies with digital business ideas are like a shot in the arm for our economy. That’s why we support these startups with our Gründerland Bayern initiative in building their business models. Because entrepreneurial courage should be rewarded. The ‘Start?Zuschuss’ funding program is part of our promise to make Bavaria the most startup-friendly federal state.”
The Start?Zuschuss! winning teams from Munich
For the 15th competition round, more than 100 startups from across Bavaria applied – 9 are from the Munich ecosystem. While most, but not all, are based directly in the city. The Munich award winners are:
- Twinu: A blockchain-based data and automation platform for digital twins
- The digital debt collection company Paywise
- Sqior Medical develops a smartphone-based assistance system that provides information to clinic physicians, simplifies clinical tasks, and automates administrative processes
- Noxon combines nano-based ink with mass printing processes to manufacture a new generation of medical and industrially applicable sensors
- Data Q Company offers tools for working with data in companies
- Scanned Reality develops software for capturing, processing, and integrating volumetric videos
- Skailark offers a digital twin of the global aviation industry, enabling competitive insights and dynamic modeling capabilities
- Deep Piction develops a technology that enables fast and straightforward analysis of the entire organism at the individual level in 3D
- As a hybrid appraiser, Einwert streamlines the entire real estate valuation process by combining technology and the human expertise of appraisers under one roof
Applications for the next round have opened
Starting May 24, 2023, founders from Bavaria will have another chance to apply for the funding program, when the 16th competition begins. Funding would then start on October 1, 2023. Any startup with its headquarters in Bavaria that operates in the digitalization sector and was founded a maximum of two years ago can participate in Start?Zuschuss!.
