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Munich medtech startup Bugsense Diagnostics receives 1.23 million euros from the EXIST Transfer of Research funding program of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE). With this funding, the 2023 m4 Award winner aims to further develop its paper-based point-of-care technology over the next two years through to clinical application for the rapid diagnosis of urinary tract infections and the detection of antimicrobial resistance.

The monitoring report on the EXIST Founding Stipend shows: 63 percent of startups would not have been created without funding. Bavaria ranks among the most important locations: software dominates, the share of women is rising.

With EXIST-Women, the federal government supports aspiring female founders in the phase before business formation. Again this year. Applications are still possible until 15 February.

Less bureaucracy, more speed: The Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWE) is making Exist startup funding simpler, more digital, and more transparent.

The Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz has reissued and substantively adapted the EXIST Research Transfer and EXIST Startup Grant funding guidelines. This also includes new objectives for the guidelines.