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From digital comics and more support for female founders to robots in clinics: it was another busy week in the Munich startup scene. Plus, exciting insights into employee stock ownership, sustainable packaging, and an investment with world-record power. Enjoy!

From profitable office lunches and innovative electric motors to intergenerational flat shares: Munich’s startup scene shows its diversity. Also in the weekly review: ten years of Startup Meets Craft, AI in insurance, and tips on choosing a legal form.

What’s moving Munich’s startup scene right now? From new tech to personal insights: our photo gallery shows the topics and people everyone was talking about this week.

What’s moving the Munich startup scene right now? From new technologies and big plans to personal insights and upcoming events: Our photo gallery highlights the topics, minds, and developments that got people talking this week.

What’s moving the Munich startup scene right now? From new tech and big plans to personal insights and upcoming events: Our photo gallery showcases the topics, people, and developments making waves this week.

Our weekly review: Even before Leonie Neisinger presented her flexible hair clip on “Die Höhle der Löwen”, you were able to discover Ivyclip with us. Proxima Fusion won the Deutscher Gründerpreis 2026, while David Cañadas Link introduced his invention Coby to us in the new episode of Pitch & People. Yet we didn’t just cover topics here on Earth this week: The Exploration Company won an ESA contract worth up to 760 million euros. Alongside space, there was also news from the water, as Quantum Systems presented two unmanned maritime systems this week. And there was a small leap through time as well. At the SFT Festival, the impact scene came together to discuss the entrepreneurship of tomorrow. What an eventful week it was once again. Your team at Munich Startup wishes you a great start to the new week.

This week was all about our spacetech startups. On September 5, Isar Aerospace achieved the first successful launch of a private European launch vehicle into Earth orbit. Corks were popping a day later at The Exploration Company as well. Helene Huby’s startup set global standards with record funding of 450 million US dollars and a 760-million-euro contract from ESA for the Nyx space capsule. Yet not every major contract is necessarily the right step for a startup, as Martin Luible from Epique tells us on PITCH & PEOPLE. We also interviewed Lena Sophie Voß from Furo and Krafthub and look forward to your registration for the tenth edition of “Startup trifft Handwerk”. Munich Startup wishes you a wonderful week!

This week, we featured the startups Mojitofilms and The Ocean Package, but there was also general news from the Munich ecosystem: Nnexoro closed its first angel round and HTGF is planning 150 investments with its new seed fund. On top of that, our videocast Pitch & People is back from its summer break with a new episode featuring guest Ilya Ballier, and our Munich Startup Expert Robert Richarz explains what founders should know about scout checks. Enjoy our varied weekly wrap-up!

Vacation season is slowly drawing to a close. Time to pack away the sun hat and air mattress and read our weekly review. This week, we asked Silvernova 7 questions, spoke with the Media Lab Bayern and UnternehmerTUM’s Women Startup Initiative about the issue of too few female founders, and recapped Munich’s role in New Space. In addition, startup investments are up in 2026 according to the EY Startup Barometer, and Aily Labs is partnering with Google Cloud. Enjoy browsing!

Did you spend last week in a deck chair and miss out on what happened in the ecosystem? Then catch up with our review and click through the news of the week.

Summer slump? Think again! There was plenty going on in the ecosystem this week as well. Click through funding news, insolvencies, and important funding opportunities for tech startups.

New look, fresh capital, and innovative solutions: This week we present the new look of Munich Startup, which is more than just a new design. What else has happened in the ecosystem? While 5U AI and Celsio report successful financing rounds, Treesense makes the water requirements of urban trees measurable, and Knowmanity preserves valuable experiential knowledge in companies. In addition, Helsing takes the top spot in the German unicorn ranking. Find these and other topics in our weekly review. Enjoy!