TUM Venture Lab Mobility x TUM Venture Labs

About Us

At the Venture Lab Mobility, our mission is to establish the world's #1 startup engine for mobility ventures, driving impact economically, ecologically, and socially.

The combination of the following six elements - each one outstanding on a global level - define our USP:

Research Excellence & Talents: Innovation often starts with research, for sure with talents! World class research in AI, Electrical Engineering & Automation makes TUM the best university in mobility! TUM alone has more than 52,500 talents and over 7,000 researchers which are absolute elite. 18 Nobel prizes were won and 20 unicorn created. And then there are some more world class universities we consider our partners, such as LMU.
Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center: Our key partner, UnternehmerTUM, is awarded as Europe’s best Innovation & Entrepreneurship Center. It provides perfect conditions for innovative minds to develop, refine, and launch their groundbreaking ideas.
Living Labs: Bringing ideas onto the road. Offering real-world environments where new mobility solutions can be tested and validated.
Regional Factors & Infrastructure: Munich being not only our home but is also known as THE deeptech hub in europe. As such, it provdes a vast investor’s base for deeptech ventures. Though as Munich is often among the most favoured metropolises in the world, it easily attracts talents and new industries. Last but not least, we have one of the most progressive legislations w.r.t. autonomous driving, which fosters innovation in the area of mobility.
Industry & Experts: Southern Germany provides the highest density of automotive companies in the world. Thus we have unique conditions to collaborate with leading experts to jointly develop cutting-edge technologies and solutions.
Domain Expertise^12: As non-for-profit organization we may provide our services without any compromises - whatever helps the startups most. This is globally unique. Despite our domain-specific mobility network we also maintain similar structures in 11 other domains such as Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Aerospace etc. We are convinced this is the secret source to form the next unicorns.

Our Offering

We are dedicated to jointly building the next generation's DeepTech champions. Our structured and comprehensive approach ensures we identify and nurture the most promising talents and ideas. This approach benefits many stakeholders simultaneously!

Communities

(Schum)Peter's Open Innvoation Platform

We bring researchers, talents, startups, corporates, investors, politics, customers and all relevant stakeholders together and form the world's biggest open innovation platform. Together living and celebrating Schumpeter's 'creative destruction', jointly building the global players of tomorrow!

Mentor, Expert & Advisory Board Network

We believe our strongest competitive advantage globally is our collective expertise - thanks to our rich automotive industry. Please join our network and help us to jointly build startups which will form the next generation of global players. Your individual expertise & network will make a difference!

Expert Group on Software-Defined Vehicle

The Expert Group on Software-Defined Vehicles intends to elaborate methodologies & trainings on how to develop safe & secure code for Software-Defined Vehicles. We believe this skill will be crucial to form next generation's DeepTech champions/unicorns.

Water Mobility & Sustainability Community

More than 20 startups and established companies push water mobility to a new level - building a new industry and thus making an impact economically, ecologically and in the end socially. In this community we exchange on anything related to water & sustainability, meeting twice a year in person.