We support you to turn your deep tech or life science idea into entrepreneurial impact - across the entire early life-cycle from idea generation to seed-capital for business launch.
To do that we combine deep domain expertise with entrepreneurial experience and a large ecosystem.
We are a joint initiative by TUM, the top-ranked technical university in the EU, and UnternehmerTUM, Europe’s largest entrepreneurship center.
Explore your core domains of interest and the opportunities our cross-functional support provides for your tech and life sciences start-up.
Whether you are a student, researcher or professional, an aspiring individual or already a team – the TUM Venture Labs will support you on your way to apply your idea and become a scalable business.
Education
You can choose from an extensive range of courses and modules where you can grow your entrepreneurial expertise, sharpen your start-up idea and develop new skills.
Network
Our network of top-class entrepreneurs, mentors, industry partners, science and domain experts and investors will support you with advice.
Venturing
With domain-specific support we accompany you on your journey from the first idea or early stage technology to the foundation of your company.
Infrastructure
We offer qualified teams access to spaces and infrastructure in the form of office space and labs with domain-specific equipment.
Additive Manufacturing is fostering groundbreaking developments in disruptive materials, shapes and production processes.
We actively support individuals and teams that want to leverage their ideas and research to build innovative, scalable businesses in additive manufacturing (AM). We also work with teams across all venture labs to understand and apply the full potential of AM to boost their engineering and business potential.
Academic Director: Prof. Dr. Peter Mayr, Venture Director: Tim Lüken
The World is Quantum, and finally we can scale Quantum2.0 applications for real world impact.
We are the center for entrepreneurial action in quantum technologies in Munich. We support the translation of world-class ideas and research across nanoscale quantum technologies into scalable businesses with impact. Through our additional Chip Innovation program, we help you to conquer the emerging megamarket of RISC-V and to drive semiconductor innovation.
Academic Directors: Prof. Dr. Rudolf Gross, Prof. Dr. Stefan Filipp, Venture Directors: Philipp Gerbert, Benjamin Erhart
Urban tech, future construction, AI-powered and planet-centered system design will secure our sustainable environments.
We support scalable, disruptive business ideas and scalable start-ups in the fields of civil and environmental engineering, as well as architecture and design, with societal impact and a special focus of AI in the Built World.
Academic Directors: Prof. Dr. Kathrin Dörfler, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Konrad Nübel, Venture Director: Dr.-Ing., MBA Manuel Götzendorfer
The fusion of future Biotech and Digital/AI will enable us to address critical challenges and changes accelerated by climate change.
We are the breeding ground for scalable business ideas and start-ups in the fields of agriculture, food technology and biotechnology. We closely partner with the entire TUM Venture Labs Network to leverage talents and methods for disruptive business approaches.
Academic Director: Prof. Dr. Arne Skerra, Venture Directors: Ingo Potthof, Dipl. Kfm. Stefan Drüssler
Real impact to prevent and mitigate climate change and use of planetary resources is the imperative of the 21 century.
We strive to unlock the entrepreneurial potential of the NextGen for real world impact in climate action and planetary resource management: We enable you to turn leading edge CleanTech ideas and research into innovative, scalable businesses with global reach. We also help build sustainable and circular skills across all TUM Venture Labs to shape the businesses of tomorrow.
Academic Directors: Prof. Dr. Claudia Doblinger & Prof. Dr.-Ing. Johannes Fottner, Venture Director: Johannes von Borries
Chemistry is powering global advances in Life Sciences, Catalysis and Energy, critical for future life on this planet.
We offer unique support for ideas and start-ups aiming to create scalable and successful businesses in the chemical domains of Drug Design, Protein Assembly, Catalysis and Energy, as well as analytics leveraging a strong collaboration with the entire TUM Venture Labs network.
Academic Directors: Prof. Dr. Stephan Sieber, Prof. Dr. Jennifer L.M. Rupp FRSC, Venture Director: Dipl. Kfm. Stefan Drüssler
Two coding tsunamis, one based on genes and the other one based on AI are revolutionizing healthcare.
We support you in turning your ideas into a scalable, global business, improving prevention and treatment of diseases. We guide you through all entrepreneurial, development, regulatory and safety hurdles in Pharma, MedTech and Digital Health.
Academic Directors: Prof. Dr. Markus Gerhard, Prof. Dr. Oliver Hayden, Priv.-Doz. Dr. Dominik Pförringer, Venture Director: Philipp Gerbert
The venture lab specializes in robotics and AI innovation and supports startup teams in achieving their goals by providing guidance and technical expertise. The lab aims to drive innovation and create value for both investors and portfolio companies by leveraging business acumen and strategic thinking. Additionally, the lab has a program that focuses on 6G communication technology, particularly for cloud robotics.
Academic Directors: Prof. Dr. Sami Hadaddin, Prof. Wolfgang Kellerer, Prof. Eckehard Steinbach, Venture Director: Florian Küster, Philip Prestele
NewSpace, advanced air mobility and geoinformation are disrupting the aerospace industry and enable radical, new solutions to existing and new markets verticals.
We support scalable, disruptive business ideas and start-ups in the fields of aviation, space and geodesy. As an integrative discipline we closely collaborate with the other venture labs on various cross-domain topics such a quantum sensors, battery technologies, generative design, AI for earth observation, sustainable aircraft fuels, sustainability models and others.
We provide access to aerospace specific infrastructure and are collaborating with an expanding network of industry partners, mentors, investors, international accelerator programs and associations to provide the best aerospace start-up ecosystem.
Academic Director: Prof. Klaus Drechsler, Venture Director: Prof. Helmut Schönenberger
SW and AI the most powerful tool we have, critical for addressing all societal, planetary and business challenges.
We help you build your SW and AI venture to sharpen your value proposition and successfully compete in global markets.
We also support interdisciplinary innovation with other TUM Venture Labs (SW and AI in deep tech and life sciences). To achieve this, various educational courses, venturing programs, networking events, and access to resources and funding are offered.
We allow you to connect with the best and most relevant Venture Capitalists as well as early adopters who can help you co-develop your ideas so that you get product market fit.
Venture Director: Andreas Unseld (UVC Partners)
The vision of TUM Venture Labs is to leverage the unique research power of TU Munich and increase the quality and quantity of scalable technology spin-offs and ventures in the region by a factor of ten. To reach this ambitious goal we bundle and expand the existing activities and expertise in start-up support by TUM and UnternehmerTUM with complementary offerings.
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