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Weekly Wrap-up 51/2025

Weekly Wrap-up 51/2025

Kyrill Ring

Kyrill Ring

Ho ho ho! Only three more sleeps until gifts appear under the Christmas tree. If that’s too long for you, don’t miss our last wrap-up of the year. Because there was plenty to celebrate in the ecosystem. Read for yourself!

December 21, 2025

2 min. read time

#Weekly Wrap-up
Virtonomy
Virtonomy completes Series A: The Munich medtech startup raises more than five million euros. Companisto leads the Series A round, Bayern Kapital participates again. The company plans international growth and stronger regulatory integration. We also filmed a Pitch & People episode with Simon Sonntag, founder of Virtonomy. (Photo: Virtonomy)
Quantum Systems
Quantum Systems acquires Fernride: The defencetech Quantum Systems expands its portfolio through the acquisition of Fernride and simultaneously wins a major contract from the German armed forces. The combination of air and ground autonomy strengthens the Munich company’s position in the defense sector.
(Photo: Quantum Systems)
PITCH & PEOPLE Episode 14: Hunger is not an abstract problem. It currently affects around 800 million people worldwide. Yet it is solvable. Bernhard Kowatsch is convinced of this. The founder and head of the Innovation Accelerator of UN World Food Programme (WFP) has been working for ten years from Munich to make emergency aid more efficient and scale sustainable solutions to hunger. In the video podcast Pitch & People, he talks about technological leverage, global responsibility – and why innovation saves lives. (Photo: Munich Startup)
Munich 2025 year in review
Our year in review: 2025 was a year of both momentum and realism for Munich’s startup scene: strong funding rounds, new formats, vibrant events, and a growing focus on sustainable business models. Our year in review shows how resilient and dynamic the ecosystem has remained. (Photo: allessuper_1979 / stock.adobe.com)
BauGPT Anna Hocker
Women in Tech with Anna Hocker from BauGPT: In 2022, Anna Hocker founded the AI startup BauGPT together with Patrick Christ and Jonas Stamm to solve the skills shortage and productivity crisis in the construction industry. In the interview, the entrepreneur with a doctorate in Entrepreneurial Behavior discusses what she learned from her time at McKinsey and from previous startup experience about founding, and why AI makes entrepreneurship easier. (Photo: BauGPT)

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