Munich Startup

Startups & Ecosystem

Discover the most innovative startups in Munich and immerse yourself in the vibrant ecosystem. From early-stage to scaleup – here you'll find the doers, visionaries, and game-changers of Munich's startup scene.

1,535 total
SCALAN

SCALAN

AI agents can take over entire workflows and relieve teams of time-consuming routines. Yet companies face a dual challenge: creating them must be simple enough for anyone to contribute their domain expertise. At the same time, it requires clear control over what agents are allowed to do, which data they access, and what costs are incurred. Without ease of use, the potential remains untapped. Without governance, the trust and security needed for widespread adoption are missing. SCALAN brings both together. On our platform, users create customized AI agents in natural language entirely without coding skills. They describe tasks, incorporate knowledge, and define business rules. IT centrally controls permissions, system access, and AI models. Executions and costs remain transparent, while humans can review, intervene, and stop agents. In doing so, we empower SMEs to shape automation themselves: driven by the knowledge of their own teams, backed by clear control, and on a shared platform for all departments. Developed in Munich, with data processing in Germany.

B2BIT/Technology

2025Founded
1-10Team size
Later Stage
Fedcan

Fedcan

FEDCAN develops, implements, and operates the energy infrastructure of the future. As an exclusive implementation partner for leading energy utilities and project developers, the company takes on full project responsibility for commercial and grid-connected large-scale battery storage systems. We cover the entire lifecycle from site development and feasibility analysis through engineering, procurement, and construction to commissioning and long-term technical operations management. FEDCAN integrates battery storage, photovoltaics, charging infrastructure, energy management, and energy trading into economically optimized complete systems in the C&I sector. With a project pipeline in the tens of millions, standardized EPC processes, and the development of a scalable, AI-supported O&M platform, FEDCAN is positioning itself as a leading end-to-end partner for battery storage. Our goal: We support battery storage systems throughout their entire lifecycle and secure our clients’ individual business cases through our technical operations management. In this way, we ensure that planned availability, performance values, and revenue potentials do not just exist on paper, but are achieved sustainably in ongoing operations.

B2BEnergy

2024Founded
1-10Team size
Startup stage
Evorimo

Evorimo

Evorimo is the platform for property owners looking to sell or rent out their property without an agent. Instead of paying several percent in commission, they get the tools normally used by professionals at a fixed price. The listing is created once and, depending on the package, published simultaneously on Germany’s major real estate portals and across a partner network. All inquiries from all portals converge in the seller dashboard. Prospective buyers or tenants book viewing appointments themselves, a traffic light system indicates who is a good fit for the property based on voluntary financing and budget details, and documents are shared securely via link. In addition, the platform offers automated price estimates, AI-generated listing copy, a step-by-step sales guide leading up to the notary appointment, and the AI assistant Alex, who is available around the clock to answer questions. Our clients are private property owners throughout Germany, and as of September 2026, private landlords as well.

B2CPropTech / Real Estate

2026Founded
-Team size
Startup stage
Kriyanta AI

Kriyanta AI

Kriyanta.ai is an agentic AI platform built for industrial value creation. We help PE-backed industrial companies and DACH manufacturers deploy autonomous AI agents/ Agentic AI that delivers financial value across the entire value chain: optimizing production, creating top line revenue, cutting waste, and accelerating transformation programs in real time. Kriyanta deploys a growing number of ready-to-deploy AI applications with a transformation core, as well as custom AI applications for specific value creation purposes. Founded by Dr. Kiran Mahajan, drawing on deep transformation experience at several firms (consulting as well as industrials), Kriyanta brings true transformation expertise that moves financials. Dr. Mahajan led the transformation of Everllence / MAN energy solutions with double digit improvements in EBIT, Cash and revenue.

B2BIT/Technology

2026Founded
1-10Team size
Seed stage
SmartFoodAdvisor

SmartFoodAdvisor

SmartFoodAdvisor is an AI-powered web app from Munich that acts as a personal food coach, connecting recipe ideas, weekly meal planning, pantry supplies, and grocery shopping. The application creates customized recipe suggestions and weekly meal plans based on personal preferences, current food cravings, and logged pantry inventory. Recipes can be customized and scaled to the desired number of portions. Missing ingredients can be transferred directly to an editable shopping list. Price estimates support shopping planning and serve as a guide. Our target audience includes individuals, couples, and families looking to cook varied meals and simplify their daily routine around food. The focus is on a seamless end-to-end process: from “What do I want to eat today?” to checking available ingredients and doing targeted shopping. SmartFoodAdvisor is already available. In addition, we are establishing partnerships with recipe creators, nutritionists, and other partners to connect personalized meal planning with relevant content and practical everyday support.

B2CFood

2026Founded
-Team size
Startup stage
FirmDesk

FirmDesk

FirmDesk is the booking platform for shared office resources: workstations, meeting rooms, parking spaces, and fleet vehicles in a single application. Instead of Excel spreadsheets, isolated standalone solutions, and manual coordination via email, employees book intuitively via an interactive floor plan or directly from Outlook and Microsoft Teams – booking confirmations appear automatically in the calendar, and unused reservations are released again after a customizable grace period. For IT teams, what matters is the native integration into Microsoft 365 as well as automated user management via SCIM, without any additional administrative overhead. Facility managers gain reliable data on actual space utilization via an analytics dashboard with Excel export, instead of having to make decisions based on guesswork. More than 3,000+ customers already use FirmDesk and FirmParking in their everyday work to utilize office space more efficiently and noticeably reduce meeting room no-shows. FirmDesk is a product of FirmParking GmbH.

B2BIT/Technology

2022Founded
1-10Team size
Seed stage
Poise and Privée

Poise and Privée

Poise and Privée is an international matchmaking and personal partner search boutique based in Munich, specializing in ambitious and successful women who want a long-term partnership on equal footing. The clients of Poise & Privée lead self-determined lives, pursue their professional and personal goals, and are looking for a partner who matches their values, lifestyle, and relationship vision. In a dating world increasingly shaped by apps, algorithms, and an overwhelming number of contacts, Poise & Privée takes a deliberately different approach: personal, discreet, and with a clear focus on quality over quantity. At the core is an individualized partner search that goes far beyond matching within an existing database. Every search is tailored to the individual client’s personality, values, lifestyle, and relationship goals. Based on this, potentially compatible men are specifically researched, identified through personal and professional networks, and directly approached. Every introduction is intentional and occurs only after careful selection. Beyond individual matchmaking, Poise & Privée is building a curated international network. With The Circle, the Gentlemen’s Network, and select private events, an environment is created that brings together personal matchmaking, high-caliber connections, and real-life encounters – discreetly, personally, and intentionally outside traditional dating platforms. The Poise & Privée concept combines years of executive search experience with a modern, highly personal matchmaking approach. Principles such as precise needs analysis, targeted research, direct personal outreach, discretion, and meticulous selection are applied to partner search. Operating from Munich, Poise & Privée works internationally with a particular focus on Europe. Searches can deliberately extend beyond the client’s place of residence, reflecting the international living and working reality of its clientele. Poise and Privée views itself as a contemporary answer to the challenges of modern dating. The goal is not to generate as many matches or dates as possible, but rather a few, carefully chosen encounters with individuals whose values, life plans, personality, and long-term vision align. Poise and Privée represents a modern form of personal matchmaking: individualized, discreet, international, and thoroughly aligned with the realities of ambitious women.

B2CLifestyle

2026Founded
-Team size
Startup stage
Nestbalm

Nestbalm

At Nestbalm, we use edge technologies to design, produce, and deploy software products that deliver value. We use AI agentic solutions to automate workflows that matter for personal or business productivity. We created an app that helps people plan expenses, track them with visual tools, and avoid unpleasant surprises from unexpected (forgotten) spending. Families can use it to educate their kids on what money is and how to use it. Nestbalm turns your messy bank exports into clear charts in 2 minutes, so you finally know where your money goes. No spreadsheets, no accountant. Why is Nestbalm unique? Nestbalm lets you invite your partner (spouse) to sign up for the same account and review the family budget together. A gamification feature to help families teach kids what money is and how to use it is planned. Budget operations and workflows are automated.

B2CFinTech

2026Founded
1-10Team size
Startup stage
Sovaro

Sovaro

Sovaro is the operations control layer for small and mid-sized companies. It connects employees, devices, software licenses and costs in a single graph, so IT, HR and finance work from the same data instead of three separate spreadsheets. Most companies below 300 employees track hardware in one file, subscriptions in another, and onboarding in an email thread. Nobody can reliably answer which tools the company pays for, who still has access after leaving, and what all of it costs. The result is money spent on unused licenses, devices that disappear, and accounts that stay open long after someone has left. Sovaro brings this together in one place. It includes its own mobile device management, so devices are enrolled, configured and secured directly in the platform, and it connects to existing systems such as Apple Business Manager or Microsoft Intune where companies already use them. A lightweight endpoint agent recognises which software is actually in use, including tools nobody ever registered. Onboarding, role changes and offboarding become automated workflows rather than manual checklists. Sovaro serves companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, in particular startups, agencies and digitally driven organisations. The platform is hosted in the EU and built around GDPR requirements from the ground up. Founded in Munich in February 2026 by Milutin Jokic and Kai Döhler, Sovaro has been live since September 2026 and operates remote-first.

B2BIT/Technology

2026Founded
1-10Team size
Startup stage
pixx.io

pixx.io

pixx.io is the leading cloud-based digital asset management (DAM) platform that helps marketing and communications teams centrally organize, approve, and distribute their digital media. Images, videos, and PDFs are consolidated in one secure location and can be found in seconds thanks to AI-powered search, smart tagging, and facial recognition. This easily saves marketing teams over three weeks of working time each year. Numerous integrations such as Adobe Creative Cloud, Microsoft Office 365, Canva, WordPress, and a REST API seamlessly embed pixx.io into existing workflows. The platform is available as a cloud SaaS solution as well as an enterprise on-premise variant, is fully GDPR-compliant, ISO/IEC 27001-certified, and stores all data on servers in Germany. More than 1,600 customers across retail, the public sector, industry, and many other sectors in the DACH region already rely on pixx.io.

B2BIT/Technology

2015Founded
11-50Team size
Later Stage

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11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
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Online: Tutorial: Financials – How to Generate Liquidity in a Startup

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01:30 PM – 02:30 PM
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BioM x BayStartUP Pitch Day 2026 – Bavaria’s Life Science Startups on Stage
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01:30 PM – 02:30 PM
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