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Weekly Wrap-up 01/2026

Weekly Wrap-up 01/2026

Kyrill Ring

Kyrill Ring

Happy New Year from Munich Startup! We’ve already gotten off to a busy start in the new year and have gathered exciting news from the Munich ecosystem. Among other things, we’ve established the Munich Startup Advisory Board. Check out our photo gallery.

January 11, 2026

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#Weekly Wrap-up
Mercura
Mercura raises 1.8 million euros: The Munich AI startup Mercura is raising fresh capital in a highly sought-after seed round. With the financing, the team is advancing the automation of quotation and sales processes in industrial wholesale. (Photo: Mercura)
Der Munich Startup Beirat
Expert advisory board for Munich Startup: Munich Startup has established an advisory board. The new body will guide the strategic development of the official startup portal for Munich and the region and provide momentum for the local startup ecosystem. The advisory board works in an advisory capacity and has been appointed for the 2026 to 2028 term. Find out who is on the board here. (Photo: Munich Startup)
Philipp Baaske, Vizepräsident für Entrepreneurship der LMU und Mitgründer von Nanotemper, zu Gast im Munich Startup Podcast Pitch & People.
PITCH & PEOPLE Episode 15: Dr. Philipp Baaske, vice president for entrepreneurship at LMU since October 2025 and co-founder of Nanotemper Technologies, talks in the Munich Startup Podcast Pitch & People about passion for technology, leadership mistakes, and the courage to take entrepreneurial risks. (Photo: Munich Startup)
Certhub
Certhub receives 6.2 million euros: With the fresh capital, Certhub is pursuing the goal of solving a central bottleneck in the medtech industry: complex and time-consuming approval procedures. Today, manufacturers need an average of five years to bring a medical device to market. The high documentation and compliance effort slows innovation across the entire sector. (Photo: Certhub)
Medtech 4C Accelerator
Medtech startups wanted: The 4C Accelerator is launching in Batch 11. Startups in medical devices, software as a medical device, and in vitro diagnostics can apply until 10 February 2026 for the free online program and become investor-ready faster. The program imparts practical knowledge in the four core subject areas of Commercialization, Certification, Clinical Studies, and Copyright – the so-called 4Cs – and systematically links them in the business model. (Photo: peopleimages.com / stock.adobe.com)

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