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The Munich Startup Festival 2026: View the Highlights Now

The Munich Startup Festival 2026: View the Highlights Now

Bernd Heppel

Bernd Heppel

No bubble, just real contacts – under this motto, the Munich Startup Festival 2026 brought together around 1,300 guests on July 22 at Backstage Munich. Founders, investors, academia, corporations and politicians discussed Europe’s innovative strength, the future of entrepreneurship and key technologies such as defence tech, biotech and space tech. Inspiring keynotes, high-caliber panel discussions, workshops, speed networking and numerous encounters made the festival a day full of ideas, exchange and new connections.

July 23, 2026

1 min. read time

A special highlight of the Munich Startup Festival this year was once again the final of the Munich Startup Awards: 8pm Social prevailed in the live pitch against Pulsetrain and Jessyworks and secured the award and a prize money of €10,000. Following its victory in the pitch contest of the Kinoliebe Festival the week before, the startup continued its impressive winning streak and was able to celebrate its second pitch success within just a few days.

Our aftermovie shows the highlights of a festival that has once again proven: The best innovations emerge where people come together.

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