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Partners

MCEI is only as good as our partners. Here you can find all our partners sorted according to the services they can offer to you.

Advisory & Support

Advisory & Support

Angel Investors & VCs

Angel Investors & VCs

Competitions

Competitions

Design and Development

Design and Development

Legal Advisors

Legal Advisors

Startup Centers

Startup Centers

Student Initiatives

Student Initiatives

The German Startup Cup is coming up! Startups from the different sectors will be running in competition. All of them have proven their innovative capacity in previous digital competitions. After the foreseen live pitches a renowned jury will pick the winners of the German Startup Trophy 22/23.

Beside these pitches there will be numerous key notes and discussion about the topic AI software and cybersecurity in the industry sector.

The event is hold in Mannheim on 13 June 2023 at PHOENIX group, Pfingstweidstraße 10-12, 68199 Mannheim.

For more info visit https://www.united-innovations.eu/startup-pokal/

Agenda

8 – 9 am Registration, Coffee & Networking

9 – 9.10 am Opening

9.10 – 9.30 am Keynote, Daniel Hofmann, Chief Information Security Officer, PHOENIX Group

9.30 – 10.30 am Startup Pitches “Cybersecurity”

11 – 12 am Use Case Presentations “Cybersecurity”
Armin Simon – Regional Sales Director Germany, Thales Group
Ramon Weil – Founder & CEO, SECUINFRA GmbHmore finalists tba

12 – 1 pm Lunch break

1 – 2 pm Discussion “Germany as IT-innovation country”
inter alia. with Prof. Dr. Udo Kebschull –IRI Chair Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
Dr. Markus Miettinen – Section IT, TU Darmstadt
Prof. Dr. Sachar Paulus – Head of Studies Cyber Security, Hochschule Mannheim
Barbora Seigertschmid – Head of Corporate Data Protection, Phoenix group
Julia Stumpenhagen – SVA System Vertrieb Alexander GmbH
Simon Pentzien – CPO, secjur GmbH, Winner Cybersecurity Cup 21/22

2 – 3 pm Startup Pitches „AI Software“

3.30 – 4.30 pm Use Case Presentations “AI Software”

4.30 – 5 pm Award Ceremony

5 – 5.30 pm Networking & Ending

Whether you are part of an early-stage start-up or are further along your entrepreneurship journey, EIT Health has an acceleration programme for you. This is your chance to receive mentoring, business training, access to markets, visibility to investors, funding, and much more.

Opportunities for early-stage start-ups: Start-ups access these programmes to test and validate their innovation, navigate healthcare regulations, and develop a solid business plan -- so they can be ready to go to market.

EIT Health Bootcamps connect early-stage start-ups with a network of innovators across Europe to prepare them to go to market. EIT Health offers four Bootcamps this year: Women Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Patient Innovation Bootcamp, MedTech Bootcamp, and Regulatory Pathways to Market Bootcamp.

User Validation Labs (ULabs) allows early-stage start-ups find a living lab, accelerator, hospital or innovation centre in Europe to co-design and execute a user validation study for their solution. By getting access to patients, clinicians, and medical staff in Europe, start-ups gather the feedback that they need to launch to market.

Wild Card calls on early-stage start-ups to take on the challenge to develop and validate a healthcare solution specifically designed to improve children's health.


Opportunities for mature start-ups or scale-up ventures: EIT Health provides start-ups with the resources, visibility and connections they need to scale up and scale out their business as quickly as possible.

EIT Health Catapult: This European competition and training programme gives start-ups a chance to receive bespoke business training from experts, as they prepare to pitch their solutions to world-leading healthcare companies and investors on an international stage.

Bridgehead Europe: This expansion programme matches scale-up ventures with Europe's top incubators and accelerators in the EIT Health network, which have the expertise and resources to help them take their business to a new market.


Discover EIT Health opportunities: https://bit.ly/eith-ourprogrammes-clc

The Thincubator is the number 1 student-run startup incubator in the Rhine-Neckar-region, offering a 2-week incubation program to support promising student founders.

Every single participant gets a 1-on-1 mentor, there are (almost) daily workshops by leading experts & the network.

Either you’re fascinated by the startup world and thinking about funding your own startup OR you already have started your founder journey and want to take it to the next level. Plus, you get the opportunity to pitch in front of investors.

Where & When?

25.03 - 08.04.2023
MAFINEX Mannheim
Application Deadline: 22.02.2023

Learn more on: https://www.thinc.de/thincubator

 

 

The funding program ”Young Innovators” supports young researchers from universities, non-academic research institutions and academies in developing and selling innovative products and business models. Fundable is the preparation for setting up a start-up that deals with innovative products, procedures or services, e.g. inventions, software or other technological know-how.

The program includes consulting and other support as well as a constant funding and income comparable with a permanent post-doc position. That is about to offer an alternative to a regular uni contract to enable researchers starting over with their ideas. As a long-term target the program tries to ease knowledge and technology transfer from academic and research institutions into business. Therefor it particularly aims at potential founders who were benefitting from other funding before that is about to end.

The next funding is open for application until 27 March for the 39th round and until 25 September for the 40th round. For more info follow the link.

 

The ASAP BW Finale is coming up, a university competition in which the best teams from Baden-Württemberg pitch their startup ideas in 90 seconds. The teams have the opportunity to present their ideas on a virtual stage and thereby the chance to win prizes of up to €1,000 as well as places in subsequent funding programs. Register as a viewer on https://asapbw.gruendermotor.io/en/final/

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Sponsors

  • University of Mannheim
  • Institut für Mittelstandsforschung
  • Gründerverbund
  • ESF
  • Europäische Union
  • Baden-Württemberg - Ministerium für Finanzen und Wirtschaft
  • Absolventum