Germany Startup Ecosystem Overview

ResearchGate is where you discover scientific knowledge and share your work. Get stats, ask questions, connect with researchers around the globe. Read more

Chrono24 is an online marketplace connecting buyers and sellers of luxury watches. Read more

Zeotap is a Customer Intelligence Platform that helps brands better understand their customers and predict behaviors Read more

Taxfix is an app that simplifies complex tax filing systems by offering a chat-like interface that only asks relevant questions to the user. Read more

tado° is the first smartphone based heating control that adjusts automatically to the user’s daily routine and also takes current weather data and building characteristics into account. In doing so, tado° cuts the heating energy use by an average of 27%. The combination of intuitive hard- and software works like a personal heating assistant that makes sure that it is always comfortably warm at home when needed. Read more

quantilope is an Agile Insights platform improving the speed, complexity, and quality that sets back traditional market research. Read more

Improving healthcare by making medical knowledge universally accessible. Read more

IONITY makes long-distance travel with electric vehicles an enjoyable experience. Read more

A platform for writing, sharing and reading online novels with a system that nurtures high quality stories. Read more

commercetools is an enterprise commerce company providing modern cloud-native API-lead offerings. Read more

Babbel gives you everything you need to speak, write, and understand a new language. Set your own pace – learn what you want, when you want. Take Babbel with you. It saves your completed lessons in the cloud so you can pick up right where you left off – on your computer, tablet or smartphone. Simply choose the course you’re interested in and start building your vocabulary. Learn grammar intuitively as you go. Start speaking right from the first lesson. Babbel’s integrated speech recognition helps improve your pronunciation. Read more

StudySmarter is an intelligent platform for lifelong learning. Read more

Clue is a beautifully designed mobile app that enables women to effectively track their cycle. Whether they want to get pregnant, be prepared for their next period or monitor their mood swings, Clue helps women understand their unique pattern and have autonomy over their reproductive system. Read more

Local Search Optimization meets Online Reputation Management. With uberall local businesses large and small can easily manage their local listings information throughout the web - one interface, many platforms. Local businesses give us their profile data and we sync it throughout our network of affiliated platforms. Name, address, opening hours, photos, descriptions...you name it. We also monitor all our customers' profile pages all the time and notify them of any customer feedback like reviews, ratings, comments, questions, etc almost in real-time. From the centralized uberall inbox our customers can respond directly without actually having to visit and log into the third party platform. Furthermore, our integrated marketing assistant will help our customers make smart choices how to improve their online reputation and - consequently - their business. Currently available in Germany only - expanding to EU and LatAm in 2014. Read more

Air Up is the first drinking bottle flavoring pure water just by scent. Read more

McMakler is the leading hybrid real estate transaction platform in Germany. Read more

Urban Sports offers a monthly flat rate for all kinds of sports activities in the city. Read more

2U partners with great colleges and universities to build what we believe is the world's best digital education. Our platform provides a comprehensive fusion of technology, services and data architecture to transform our clients, historically campus-based universities of the highest quality and rigor, into digital versions of themselves. Why should students need to pick up their lives, quit their jobs and move to attend a great university? With 2U's solutions, they don't have to anymore Read more

Cloud accounting for small business Read more

State-of-the-Art Technologie und modernste Trainingskonzepte motivieren und begeistern Deine Kunden. We make the gym work for everyone! Mit ganzheitlichen Studio-Konzepten und ergänzenden Services wird die eGym Gruppe zu Deinem nachhaltigen Erfolgsfaktor. Read more

reBuy is an online marketplace that allows its users to buy and sell used electronics and media. Read more

Freeletics is a digital fitness company that offers tools to help promote physical fitness and mental strength. Read more

CoachHub is the leading global talent development platform. Read more

Health and Insurance Read more

ottonova is Germany's newest and purely digital health insurance Read more

Affordable FullScale 3D Printing Read more

Exit Games develops the realtime, multiplayer, cross-platform product PHOTON. Photon is used by more than 330,000 game developers. Read more

Penta is a digital bank account for startups and SMEs in Germany. Read more

ZOLAR is an online provider of solar systems enables the entry into the private energy supply for private households. Read more

Homeday is an online resource for finding a new home and getting in touch with a local realtor. Read more

Elopage is a SaaS company that enables entrepreneurs to start and scale their digital business with digital products and automated sales. Read more

Zenjob is an automated staffing platform that connects large and medium-sized companies to student employees. Read more

HeyJobs is a talent platform matching the world's talent to opportunities. Read more

FRIDAY is the digital insurer in Germany to offer its own car fares. Read more

SimScale is a cloud-based engineering simulation platform for CFD, FEA and thermal analysis that is revolutionizing the way engineers, designers, scientists, and students design products. Read more

Highsnobiety is an online publication that covers trends and news in fashion, art, music, and culture. Read more

vivenu offers a unified platform to manage, market and analyze ticket sales. Read more

clickworker.com is a crowdsourcing platform providing on-demand, virtual workforce for projects or companies. Read more

Blinkist is a mobile reading app that enables you to easily access great knowledge during your daily routines. We craft and publish key lessons from outstanding non-fiction books into a format native to your mobile device. Our service is perfect for busy yet curious people that have trouble fitting serious reading into their schedule, and still want to find time to tap into the richness of books. Read more

Blacklane is a global chauffeur service that offers safety, sustainability, and stress-free travel. Read more

LeanIX is a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company that manages Enterprise Architecture and multi-cloud environments. Read more

Moonfare provides access to top-tier private equity funds through a technology-enabled platform. Read more

Razor is a new-age global consumer holding. We partner with e-commerce merchants to acquire and scale winning brands. Read more

Movinga is an online relocation service provider company. Read more

Helpling is an online booking and payment platform that provides on-demand home services outside the U.S. Read more

Ultracapacitors with * 4x higher power density * 2x higher energy density than any competitor. This means we lower the costs 50-80% by using less materials, while at the same time offering our customers 2-4x smaller and lighter devices. This will solve crucial energy storage problems by re-generating energy, that would otherwise be lost, or providing peak or backup power in transportation, renewable energy, power quality and industrial sectors. Technology based on patented materials. Read more

B2B smartphone and tablet rental provider to boost your employee productivity & happiness. Read more

Incorporated in February 2011 with its HQ in Berlin, Germany, EyeEm is a camera application for smartphones that let's you share & discover topics, places and events from the photos you take. The founding team around Florian Meissner, Lorenz Aschoff, Gen Sadakane, Ramzi Rizk and executive chairman Christophe Maire has received an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Passion Capital and Pan-European Venture Capital fund Wellington Partners. Read more