Start-ups and start-up consulting

The close cooperation enables the committed founders to receive comprehensive and confidential advice as well as a variety of opportunities to experiment, make mistakes and yet find a clarifying way.

For more than ten years, we have been cooperating with the Israeli Reichman University (opens in new tab) (formerly IDC Herzliya) in the context of our courses. Especially the Venture Creation Course shows how much we can learn from the start-up nation Israel!

Another important offering is bringing together start-ups and commercial enterprises of different sizes. In this way, we enable companies from business and science to collaborate with start-ups from research – for example, within the framework of pitch events, mentoring programs, accelerator programs or other start-up-related formats.

HIGHEST (opens in new tab) is the Innovation and Start-up Center of the Technical University Darmstadt. Its goal is to transfer innovations that make the world a better place into practice: In particular, it aims to create the best conditions for start-ups in the fields of high-tech and digitalization to lead them to success.

Prof. Buxmann headed HIGHEST for five years before joining the advisory board as chairman.

Frankfurt-based TechQuartier is a cross-industry innovation platform focused on FinTech that brings together startups, companies and new talent to meet, learn and collaborate.

»We create opportunities for disruptive technologies, new ideas and modern business models.«

Prof. Peter Buxmann is seating in the steering committee with Harald Holzer. Vice President Jens Schneider represents TU Darmstadt in the shareholders' meeting.

StartUpSecure (opens in new tab) is a startup incubator at the ATHENE Center, the National Research Center for Applied Cybersecurity in Darmstadt, supports startups around the topics of cybersecurity and privacy – from the idea phase to their elaboration and development of marketable products to the establishment of firms.

Prof. Peter Buxmann is the head of the startup incubator together with Prof. Michael Waidner, head of Fraunhofer SIT.

The Digital Hub for Cybersecurity (opens in new tab)is the national hub for cybersecurity startups, selected by the Federal Government and part of the Digital Hub Initiative of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWK). As a leading innovation community, ATHENE supports research teams in founding cybersecurity companies and assists startups with market entry and scaling. With the StartupSecure Incubator of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), ATHENE offers targeted support for the early start-up phase.

The StartUpSecure I ATHENE startup incubator works closely with the Digital Hub for Cybersecurity to join forces in supporting startup projects in the field of IT security.

With AI Startup Rising (opens in new tab), as part of the Hessian Center for AI, a platform for high- and deep-AI startups from academia is created.

The mission of hessian.AI is »Understanding the interplay of AI algorithms, AI systems, and synergies between artificial and natural intelligence provides the foundation for AI transformation.«

A special focus of the offers and measures is to transfer AI-based research potentials from the hessian.AI network into start-ups. The hessian.AI initiative is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWi).

hessian.AI is the cross-university center for AI in Hesse, headquartered at TU Darmstadt.

StartHUB Hessen (opens in new tab) is the central point of contact for the Hessian startup community and is dedicated to bringing the Hessian ecosystem together.

On behalf of the State of Hessen and as part of Hessen Trade & Invest GmbH, StartHub Hessen benefits from a grown network of companies, incubators, sponsors and mentors, and brings them together.