Startup Support
MCEI has several support schemes that can help you and your business grow - no matter whether you are a student, alumnus/alumna of the University of Mannheim or not. Depending on your goals and objectives, we will help you accelerate your venture from scratch to growth stage with a variety of MCEI support schemes. What is more, we have a strong partner network to rely on which perfectly matches our support with even more opportunities and industry expertise. Find more information in our MCEI Support and Partner Support categories below and have a look at how we can help you advance!
The Mannheim student start-up SponsoRun now gives a chance to private investors to participate in the company's success. You can now invest in SponsoRun via the Crowd Funding platform Companisto. Business students at the University of Mannheim have started a swarm round of financing for their start-up "SponsoRun". With SponsoRun, smartphone users earn exclusive coupons via exercising (running, spending…
We still remember the first interviews with the founders as part of our support and consulting services at the ifm (now MCEI) well. Now, the mobile start-up Stocard has raised a higher six-figure sum of capital via the High-Tech Gründerfonds, Klaas Kersting (also known via Daily Deal and Supercell) , CD-Venture and another investor. We are very pleased about this…
Christoph Lange and Steffen Wicker, the two remaining founders of the German Spotify competitor simfy will leave the company and want to build a new start-up. The move had been expected for some time. For most founders of start-ups, there comes a point where they will want to say goodbye to their project and focus on new ideas. Very few…
An Idea for an innovative system and related apps for indoor navigation and tracking of objects wins EXIST scholarship. The founding team consists of students from Mannheim University: Johannes, Christoph, Niklas and Stephan. They commented on the success as follows: "Our efforts have paid off - we received an EXIST scholarship for our business project. This means that we are…
