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Start-ups: Together for Innovation
These start-ups are fast, innovative and solution-driven. In the upcoming weeks we will present start-ups out
of these hubs that provide innovative solutions in times of Corona.
Twelve Digital Hubs spread all over Germany build a strong network under the roof of the Digital Hub Initiative. In
each hub, start-ups, corporates and academia come together in order to find answers to the latest economic chances
and challenges.
How Start-ups Can Help Germany’s Mittelstand Beat the Crisis
Growth in Times of Crisis
Digital Hub Dortmund
Digital Hub Berlin
Digital Hub Köln
Digital Hub Nürnberg / Erlangen
Digital Hub Potsdam
Digital Hub Mannheim / Ludwigshafen
Digital Hub Karlsruhe
Digital Hub Hamburg
Digital Hub Leipzig
How Start-ups Can Help Germany’s Mittelstand Beat the Crisis
How has Germany's SME sector reacted to the Corona crisis? Which SMEs have found good answers? What po
tential is untapped and why is cooperation with start-ups so promising?
Germany's world-renowned "Mittelstand" of small and medium-sized enterprises constitutes
more than 93 percent of all German
Coronavirus leading to new business models
Digitalization in SMEs
Innovative SME landscape
Start-ups – What do they offer the SME sector?
SMEs – What do they offer the start-up sector?
Covid-19 pandemic accelerating cooperation
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companies, employing over 60 percent of the workforce.
Coronavirus leading to new business models
Corona has led to companies worldwide having to adapt their business models within a short time. Small and medium-
sized enterprise demand for digitalization in particular has developed a new dynamic. The best example here has been
the relocation of many workplaces to the home office. Many companies have recognized the opportunities of working
from home as a result of the crisis.
The problem that has existed for years among SMEs of recruiting suitable skilled workers from urban centers for their
locations in the provinces has been partly solved by the creation of virtual jobs. Homeworking as a normal case, to
gether with the necessary technical equipment, will allow SMEs to attract qualified specialists from the big cities in
the future.
The supposed locational disadvantage of the provinces thereby becomes a locational advan-
tage.
In manufacturing, the shift to the home office only works to a limited extent. Nevertheless, individual steps in value-
added chains can be digitalized and release new potential of employees who can be deployed in other areas.
Digitalization in SMEs
However, a KfW study shows that there are sometimes considerable differences in the funding of digitalization in
SMEs: The smaller the company, the higher the level of internal funding for service projects. Uncertainty about suc
cess, difficulties in evaluating such projects and lack of collateral unusually stand in the way of external financing
through bank loans. A rethinking within the financial sector, as well as government support programs, is also con
tributing to an acceleration of the digitalization transformation process in the Mittelstand sector.
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Innovative SME landscape
The Coronavirus crisis also shows that innovations in particular provide a good basis for medium-sized companies to
cope with the new demands. The innovation potential of German SMEs has also revealed a lot in this respect. Accord
ing to KfW, 43 percent of SMEs have made adjustments to their range of products and services, with the heavily af
fected trade sector being the trailblazer in this respect.
KfW also emphasizes that coronavirus-related adjustments have particularly been made by those companies who
have already produced innovations in the past. The ability to develop and successfully implement innovations allows
companies to respond to crisis situations at short notice, thereby increasing their resilience in times of crisis. Here too,
German SMES are structurally well positioned. The smaller the structures, the faster the ability to react on the one
hand, and the structural orientation of business models on the other.
This means that SMEs have small structures and process flows that allow new tasks, sales channels
and products to be correspondingly adapted quickly.
SME business models typically pursue long-term goals, whereas listed companies normally have a short-term business
orientation with the goal of scaling up new ventures as quickly as possible. Germany’s Mittelstand acts in terms of
generations and can also contribute significantly to the sustainable development of the economy and Germany as a
business location.
Start-ups – What do they offer the SME sector?
What role can start-ups play in this process of transformation within the German SME sector? And just how do the
strengths of start-ups and SMEs complement each other? And what challenges need to be overcome here? Start-ups
have much of what many companies have had to work hard to achieve during the crisis. For example, many start-up
Digital Hub Initiative
In Germany, the Digital Hub Initiative, with its 12 hub locations, provides start-ups with a network made up
of co-working offers, accelerator programs, and support for internationalization projects. It’s not just the
workplace, but the digital business models of start-ups offer significant innovation potential for German
SMEs in particular. Start-ups are typically solution oriented and develop customer-friendly digital applica
tions. Small and medium-sized enterprises can, for example, use these offers to optimize work processes or
digitalize parts of the value chain. They can therefore integrate innovations into their companies without
having to provide internal resources for this development.
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employees have worked regularly from home prior to the Covid-19 pandemic. Co-working spaces are part of the lived,
everyday routine.
SMEs – What do they offer the start-up sector?
What can SMEs offer start-ups? On the one hand, this is usually long-term business relationships and customers at
home and abroad. Germany is the export world champion, with many SMEs playing a vital part. This means that, even
in the process of internationalizing start-up business models, SMEs can usually offer many years of export experience
and access to existing networks and sales structures. Many start-ups, in turn, have an international workforce - this is
of benefit to SMEs in their internationalization process.
Covid-19 pandemic accelerating cooperation
The process of cooperation between SMEs and start-ups has been significantly accelerated and, at the same time con
firmed, by the Coronavirus crisis.
The corporate cultures of SMEs and start-ups are different, so it is time for both sides to realize that they can only win together by overcoming these
"intercultural" differences.
Germany as a business location has every chance of successfully overcoming the current crisis and working towards a
sustainable future. The trend of trying new things and taking alternative paths has become a necessary virtue because
of the Covid-19 pandemic.
de:hub Journey
The de:hub journey [German only] of the Digital Hub Initiative shows how. “Innovation in Intral
ogistics: Tapping the Joint Potential of Digital Journeys, Processes and Business Models” is the theme of the
de:hub journey which will take place September 24-25, taking in the three hub locations of Dortmund,
Hamburg and Dresden. The de:hub journey is a journey for SME owners and decision makers to jointly iden
tify the potential of digital technologies, processes and business models and make them available for their
own companies. During the journey, participants gain invaluable insight into the work of digital hubs, visit
test labs and co-working spaces. They will also get to know start-ups and potential cooperation partners.
The de:hub journey is aimed at companies that derived part of their added value from efficient and innova
tive warehouse logistics.
Digital Hub Initiative de:hub journey [German only]
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Growth in Times of Crisis
Germany proves a reliable location for start-ups amidst the corona pandemic.
Corona crisis affecting Germany's start-ups
The coronavirus crisis has changed the German start-up landscape: Nine out of ten companies have been affected eco
nomically, and over 70 percent fear for their existence - these are the results of a study by the German Startups Asso
ciation. It found that the crisis is already impacting the entire breadth of the German start-up ecosystem, especially
the human resources and tourism segments.
The study also shows start-ups being affected no matter what phase they are in. Smaller companies suffer from the
lack of customer contact due to cancelled trade fairs and events, while large start-ups with many employees are pri
marily concerned about sales, liquidity and future financing. The global market has always filtered out weaker start-
ups - a process that will intensify because of the crisis. One result, however, will be less competition. Technology start-
ups able to complete financing rounds in this environment will have an advantage.
Governmental support measures: two pillar concept
The federal government is trying to ease the situation with a package of more than two billion euros aimed specifical
ly at German start-ups. The initiative was announced on April 1, 2020, and over the past few weeks, the German Min
istry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi) and the Ministry of Finance have worked out the details together with
the KfW Banking Group and KfW Capital. "Covid 19 must not be allowed to slow the growth of our highly innovative
companies," said Thomas Jarzombek, the BMWi’s point man on the digital economy and start-ups. “That is why we
have worked hard to ensure that the two-billion-euro package of measures is ready and can now be accessed by
start-ups and small and medium-sized companies. This is how we secure jobs and innovation in Germany."
The package of measures is based on two so-called pillars: In Pillar 1, called the “Corona Matching Facility,” the govern
ment provides additional monies to venture capital funds so that investors can finance highly innovative and future-
oriented start-ups despite the crisis. The idea is to protect young companies’ growth during their development phases.
The Corona Matching Facility uses existing cooperation with public partners such as KfW Capital and the European In
vestment Fund to quickly make public support available to start-ups via venture capital funds.
Pillar 2 is aimed at start-ups and small and medium-sized companies without access to the corona matching facility. It
opens up further ways of securing financing. To this end, there will be close cooperation with Germany’s 16 regional
states, particularly via their investment authorities.
Taking advantage of accelerator programs
The and its network have also adapted many existing structures. Enabling start-ups, for example,
to participate in accelerator programs like the top-ranked - the HHL Accelerator in Leipzig. Within six
weeks, the accelerator team went over to a digital format. That allows eight innovative teams to continue to work on
energy, smart infrastructure and e-health topics in the coming semester. During the six-months program, startups re
ceive help from a broad network of partners, investors, mentors and coaches in order to set up successful cooperation
projects. The aim is to promote entrepreneurship and innovation in start-up funding in Leipzig and beyond.
Corona crisis affecting Germany's start-ups
Governmental support measures: two pillar concept
Taking advantage of accelerator programs
Stability in start-up location Germany
SpinLab
Digital Hub Initiative
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Stability in start-up location Germany
These various measures illustrate Germany’s reliability as an international start-up location. Conversely, start-ups rep
resent a core strength of Germany’s future-oriented and competitive economy.
The Corona crisis has had differing impacts on various parts of Germany’s start-up landscape: Whereas travel and mo
bility start-ups have suffered sharp drops in sales, business software developers have thus far only experienced slow
er growth. Other segments such as collaboration tools or e-health even have good prospects of emerging from the cri
sis stronger. During the crisis, digital business models have proven remarkably robust.
The German start-up ecosystem will not disappear – that much is already evident. Compared with other actors in the
economy, entrepreneurs and investors will be empowered and emerge from the crisis more quickly. The hope is that
young tech companies will become even more central to the overall economy because they are more engaged in inno
vation and change and more adaptable than other sectors of the economy.
Digital Hub Dortmund
The accompanies and advices companies and start-ups on their journey of digital transformation. The locally based logistics industry in particular is making use of the opportunities cre
ated by the intelligent networking of industry, trade, and production. It supports special digital teams within
established companies that explore innovations outside of the company’s day-to-day business. Founders,
companies, and the scientific community work together from the idea to the scale-up. In this way, innova
tions are formed outside of the typical product development processes, yet still remain close to the company.
Find out more about one of our associated start-up MotionMiners.
Digital Hub Dortmund
MotionMiners
The Motion-Mining® Tracing Solution offers active infection prevention (e.g. by identifying measures) and contact
tracing in internal company environments thanks to its App and Beacon approach.
Digital Hub Logistics Dortmund
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Find out more about
Digital Hub Berlin
The FinTech Hub Berlin is located in the Hardenbergstraße 32 and is considered as the center of the Berlin
based FinTech ecosystem. Finleap has a focus on the finance and insurance technology and was selected as a
partner for the FinTech Hub. The hub offers office space for FinTech and InsurTech startups as well as for com
panies from the financial service sector on more than 11,000 sqm, allocated on eight floors. Beyond that, the
Hub stimulates the ecosystem by organizing industry-specific events. In the face of the Corona pandemic and
its effects on the economy, lots of FinTech startups have developed activities and solutions that help particu
larly SMEs to overcome the crisis.
Digital Hub Berlin
PAIR Finance
PAIR Finance helps companies to mitigate risks in uncertain times
Due to the economic uncertainty, debt collection stands to become a focus for companies. Managing cash flows be
comes critical, effective collections directly improves the bottom-line. With PAIR Finance companies are well prepared
for an increased number of collections by leveraging AI & building trust of their customers.
Find our more about
PAIR Finance
Penta
PAIR Finance
MotionMiners
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Penta
Penta helps its SME customers through the application jungle
Penta, the digital business banking platform for SMEs, built a Corona Help Page for their customers, in order to give
them the right informations for the application of Soforthilfe or loans from the government.
Find out more about
Digital Hub Köln
The initiative InsurLab Germany was founded in 2017 by the City of Cologne, the Chamber of Commerce and
Industry Cologne, the University of Cologne, the Technical University of Cologne, established insurance com
panies, and startups. Our aim is to promote the digitization in the insurance sector and to shape the industry
´s future by generating new impulses and ways of working.
As part of the Digital Hub Initiative, founded by the German Federal Ministry For Economic Affairs and Ener
gy, we are the competence center for InsurTech in Cologne. Currently, our association has more than 80 mem
bers, among them major insurance companies and service providers, universities, and startups.
Digital Hub Köln
audeamusrisk
BEYONDMINDS
Chatvisor
manoa + pathmate
Feel
mynd:way
Surfly
Penta during times of Corona
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audeamusrisk
Resilience Intelligence Platforms that provides real-time monitoring,
profiling and auditing of organisational resilience against operational risks,
which may cause protracted business interruption.
Find out more about
BEYONDMINDS
The lockdown brought overuse of digital communication; call centers are collapsing. We offer a unique AI-driven email
analysis platform, which boosts communication and improves customer churn and sales.
Find our more about
Twingz
Yellow May
UBIRCH
BEYONDMINDS
audeamusrisk
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Chatvisor
No matter if support or consultation – Chatvisor makes any remote communication between companies and cus
tomers easy and lets it match an in-person offline experience
Find out more about
manoa + pathmate
Chatvisor
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Those with high blood pressure are at a greater risk for Covid-19 and self-management is more important than ever.
Our digital coach Manoa provides personalised support and reduces COVID-19 related risk factors.
Find out more about and
Feel
Feel and Feel Relief are the only data-driven, digital mental health programs designed to improve people's situational
and longer-term distress accentuated during C-19.
Find out more about
mynd:way
pathmate
Feel
manoa
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By offering webinars to topics like building resilience, leading over distance and collaborating in virtual teams, we ad
dress topics of emotional distress and leadership actively.
Find out more about
Surfly
Surfly provides a leading co-browsing and videochat solution that helps social distancing feel less distant. See how we
helped 1,000 AXA agents connect with customers in one week.
Find out more about
Twingz
Surfly
mynd:way
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COVID19 causes legionella infestation in unused objects. - Our anomaly detection helps by indicating anytime and
even remotely if the conditions for regular flushing are met. Join the predictive world of twingz!
Find out more about
Yellow May
We are all online solution to insurance companies to market their products online (and we only connect buyers to in
surance companies being able to sell online). Support the insurance companies to reach new customers.
Find out more about
UBIRCH
Yellow May
twingz
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UBIRCH creates trust for IoT devices through Cyber Security Technology and Blockchain. Now, for the first time, using,
sharing and trading IoT data is secure and, above all, scalable.
Find out more about
Digital Hub Nürnberg / Erlangen
Driving profound solutions for sustainable, high-quality and accessible health care has been in the region’s
DNA for many years. Nuremberg & Erlangen build a strong historically grown health ecosystem with more
than 500 med tech companies, 65 hospitals and 80 research institutions. This extraordinary concentration of
players, combined with the international market and competitive position of individual players, the unique
infrastructures and services, all provide the conditions that allow ideas to be turned into products, processes
and services more quickly. ZOLLHOF, Medical Valley and Health Hackers e. V. contribute to the realization of
digital healthcare solutions to tackle the current and future challenges of healthcare jointly and successfully.
Digital Hub Nürnberg / Erlangen
BOTfriends
BOTfriends
Climedo
Cliniserve
VITAS.ai
UBIRCH
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BOTfriends is specialized in chat- and voicebots. At the moment, institutions are overwhelmed by the volume of re
quests. Hence, we developed a Corona chatbot, e.g. for the city of Würzburg that delivers information fast.
Find out more about
Climedo
Climedo empowers healthcare professionals with intelligent software solutions. In the face of COVID-19, they have de
veloped an innovative eDiary to help doctors and researchers monitor cases and data trends remotely to make in
formed decisions.
Find our more about Climedo
BOTfriends
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Cliniserve
Cliniserve helps to solve the nursing gap with a smart staff disposition solution. Especially during CoVid it ensures suf
ficient staff availability through coordinating external and internal staff.
Find out more about or in general
VITAS.ai
VITAS.ai develops intelligent voice assistants for standard requests via phone. E.g., an FAQ bot is currently answering
questions about corona for the German medical hotline 116117.
Find out more about
Digital Hub Potsdam
Cliniserve
VITAS.ai
Cliniserve during Corona
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The rapid spread of the COVID-19 virus has turned the world upside down. Many companies had to restructure
their businesses and the way how people work together. MediaTech is a driving force in those transitions and
can be very helpful. It is any audio- or video related technology and business in a digital world.
Potsdam enjoys worldwide renown as a location for the media and film industry. The MediaTech Hub Pots
dam is a center of excellence that connects medium-sized businesses and larger corporates with new innova
tion partners from the scientific and startup communities specifically targeting technology-driven and indus
try agnostic media technologies. With its start-up accelerator, lab, conference and an interdisciplinary com
munity, the MediaTech Hub Potsdam provides the ideal ecosystem to turn an idea into a successful business.
Digital Hub Potsdam
CI HUB
CI HUB is a platform for content integration and efficient marketing production. It creates open, seamless branding
processes within tools like Adobe CC or Microsoft Office.
Find our more about
Feelbelt
CI HUB
Feelbelt
XR Bootcamp
visionYOU
Yoona Technology Solution
CI HUB
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Feelbelt is THE gadget to bring your favorite live events back to life. Just plug it into your smartphone, home cinema
or gaming console, and FEEL your beloved songs, movies and game.
Find out more about
XR Bootcamp
XR Bootcamp makes companies ready for their next XR project by teaching employees the skills they need to develop
VR/AR projects in-house. In an economy that relies on remote working tools now more than ever, the demand for VR/
AR skills and tools is rising steeply. With us, companies don't have to outsource to expensive agencies, but can save
time and cost by upskilling their development teams and developing VR/AR solutions in-house.
Find out more about XR Bootcamp
Feelbelt
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visionYOU
visionYOU supports schools in digitizing their classes and providing the necessary infrastructure. The company also de
velops its own apps, educational films and interactive learning units.
Find out more about
Yoona Technology Solution
YOONA Tech is a scalable Artificial Intelligence based B2B software solution, which shortens the fashion design process
to some simple clicks. By using design, sales and trend data YOONA proposes new promising designs data.
Find out more about YOONA Tech
visionYOU
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Digital Hub Mannheim / Ludwigshafen
The 5-HT Digital Hub Mannheim/Ludwigshafen is Europe’s fastest growing „Digital chemistry & health
ecosystem” and located in the Rhine-Neckar region, in South-West Germany. Besides its corporate founding
members and shareholders BASF, the world’s largest chemical company, hidden champion Pepperl+Fuchs and
tech-giant SAP, more corporates like Merck, Phoenix Pharma, Roche and Gelita became active sponsors of the
5-HT Digital Hub. In addition, the regional startup support institutions Heidelberg Technology Park, Startup
Mannheim (mg:gmbh) and Technology Center Ludwigshafen (TZL) are network partner and shareholders. The
5-HT Digital Hub is offering various programs to support entrepreneurial activities.
Digital Hub Mannheim / Ludwigshafen
Atrigam
Atrigam empowers everyone to build tailored solutions for a specific task in minutes,
collaborate with others immediately on-demand and adjust as needed on the go, e.g. in crisis.
Find our more about
Atrigam
Bosetein
Medical Cooling
PosterLab
QYOBO
Raccoon World
Treye Tech
Atrigam
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Bosetein
Bosetein is a Stuttgart based emerging startup that has developed an autonomous hygiene inspection sensor ‘ReBIS’
to keep track of the hygiene condition of meat products and the production lines in real-time.
Find out more about
Medical Cooling
Our Ventilator offers cooling to reduce the brain damage of resuscitation and stroke patients, where through COVID
related blood cloth might be more cases, it helps to manage fever.
Find out more about Medical Cooling
Bosetein
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PosterLab
"Spread & Feed": PosterLab Provides the right tools to researchers and the university communication departments to
multiply the reach, funding & impact of early-stage research, in 1-click.
Find out more about
QYOBO
QYOBO is a Munich-based big data analytics startup in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry. Its market analytics
platform supports partners with crucial insights on market participants, trade flows and supply chains to navigate
lockdown-related bottlenecks and supply shortages.
Find out more about QYOBO
PosterLab
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Raccoon World
Raccoon.Recovery makes engaging physical rehab available for everyone in need. This startup helps people after in
juries and neurological diseases not to drop a course and recover with fun.
Find out more about
Treye Tech
Take control at a glance: Innovative Treye Tech technology (Pat. pend.) based on multiple years of research in eye ges
ture control, brings the opportunity to herald a new, touchless era of human-machine-interaction.
Find out more about
Digital Hub Karlsruhe
Treye Tech
Raccoon World
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builds upon the region’s unique set of competences in the field of applied AI and drives adoption of AI in business. Honoured by the German federal government in 2017, the digital hub has its
focus on four major issues: Increasing visibility and cooperation of AI experts from business and academia.
Providing the best ecosystem for AI start-ups. Enabling SMEs and corporates to adopt AI solutions in their
business models and to ensure hands-on learning tools & demonstrators of applied AI. Since July 2019, the
digital hub receives also funding from the Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labour and Housing Baden-Württem
berg.
Digital Hub Karlsruhe
Neohelden
Neohelden offers an AI-assistant that can be used to answer questions at scale. They currently have deployed 3 Coro
navirus-chatbots that support citizens and SMEs in the crisis.
Find our more about .
Evoach
Neohelden
Evoach
10erKarte
Neonhelden
Digital Hub Karlsruhe
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evoach is a web-based, intelligent self coaching application without a real coach involved. No need to stop reflecting
and evolving on critical topics while working remotely. Try our conflict resolution module for free during Covid-19 cri
sis.
Find out more about
10erKarte
10er Karte offers an online marketplace with its integrated payment functionality lowers the barriers for customer ac
quisition and retention. The sections payment model helps local businesses to bridge the tight financial reality of to
day.
Find out more about 10erKarte
Evoach
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Digital Hub Hamburg
As Covid-19 is taking the world by storm, entire process chains and business areas are paralyzed. At the same
time, the logistics industry is working at full speed to secure an adequate supply of supermarkets, pharma
cies, hospitals and other critical industries. Thus, now is not the time to raise the white innovation flag - quite
the contrary!
And for that reason the launched the Fast Mover Support campaign; to in
spire Startups to come up with solutions to improve the currents situation. include three areas of innovation: Last Mile & Retail, Global Supply Chain and Health Infrastructure. A jury - consist
ing of various experts from official Hub Partners - selected the winner of each category. The three winning
Startups received 3000 Euros to further support their ideas.
Digital Hub Hamburg
Breeze: indoor air quality
Breeze is developing the future of environmental sensing and analysis software. Their miniature air quality sensors
measure all important pollutants - for example soot, nitrogen oxides, ozone, fine dust and many more.
Find our more about
Breeze: indoor air quality
NautilusLog: digital logbook for shipping
BOXXPORT: best container prices
CloseLink: technology for the maritime industry
DuckTrain: shaping future transportation
Breeze
The Fast Mover Support
Digital Hub Logistics Hamburg
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NautilusLog: digital logbook for shipping
NautilusLog is a digital logbook adapted to the needs of the maritime industry. Especially in times of Covid-19 the rel
evance of such digital solutions becomes apparent once again.
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BOXXPORT: best container prices
BOXXPORT brings it all together to help you buy, sell, lease, auction and manage your containers online.
Find out more about
CloseLink: technology for the maritime industry
BOXXPORT
NautilusLog
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CloseLink is an online procurement platform for leading ship supplies. The platform combines an online software to
optimize operations with a broad network of suppliers globally – no face to face contact necessary.
Find our more about
DuckTrain: shaping future transportation
Ducktrain elevates short haul logistics to a new level of efficiency: it's electric, automated, flexible and highly maneu
verable – this offers many advantages, particularly in times of Covid-19.
Find out more about
Digital Hub Leipzig
Find out more about the start-ups from the Smart Infrastructure Hub in Leipzig. The hub focuses on energy,
smart city and e-health and connects academia, corporates and startups.
DuckTrain
CloseLink
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Digital Hub Leipzig
Air-Q and Solaga: healthy air in the home office
Class 8 alumni air-Q has developed a smart device for monitoring air quality, and notifying you of potential harmful
impurities in your air. Meanwhile class 9 alumni Solaga has developed a picture frame containing natural algae, which
can actively clean the air in your space.
The combination of both innovations delivers better air quality indoors.
Air-Q and Solaga: healthy air in the home office
Keleya: Pregnancy App
Mementor: sleep better in sleepless times
Mindance: Well-being in difficult times
Tex-lock: bicycle lock made of high-tech fibers
Vizzlo: The graph to communicate every idea from the homeoffice
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Keleya: Pregnancy App
Not only do you have to keep yourself and others safe, you have to ensure the well-being of that baby developing in
side your body.
Class 6 alumni Keleya is a Berlin-based startup that has developed an app to help coach you through the phases of
pregnancy.
Find out more about
Mementor: sleep better in sleepless times
Keleya
Solaga
air-Q
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In these sleepless times, it is important to ensure that our immune system works optimally. A good night's sleep is a
key prerequisite for this. mementor has developed an online training developed by sleep researchers that helps to
cope with sleep disorders: A clinical study shows that problems with falling asleep and staying asleep can be success
fully treated with the digital application.
Find out more about
Mindance: Well-being in difficult times
In a world that is currently only breeding chaos, well-being is no longer a matter of course.
Class 6 alumni MINDANCE has developed an app that focuses on helping people achieve more mindfulness and
strength mental health.
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Tex-lock: bicycle lock made of high-tech fibers
Class 4 Alumni Tex-lock has developed a bicycle lock made of high-tech fibers. The ART 2 security certified lock carries
many obvious advantages: soft surfaces protect the bicycle frame, and the high flexibility allows secure connections
to solid objects.
Tex-lock bicycle locks are manufactured in Leipzig, and the company is one of the few startups with a female founding
team.
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Vizzlo: The graph to communicate every idea from the homeoffice
Vizzlo is a class 3 alumni that has developed a SaaS product to help create beautiful graphics and charts, in much less
time than traditional products such as PowerPoint.
We don’t know how long we’re going to be in this mess. From the simplest pie chart to complex data visualizations,
Vizzlo has the graph to communicate every idea from the Homeoffice.
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