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Together for the start-up region

We want to strengthen the start-up spirit in Dortmund, the Westphalian Ruhr region and South Westphalia. In addition to the TU Dortmund, the region is home to more than 30 scientific institutions as well as numerous innovative start-ups and medium-sized global market leaders. Our activities radiate out into a region with a total of 2.4 M inhabitants, 68,800 students, 8,900 scientific employees and 83,000 companies. Since we will only achieve our goals with broad networking and cooperation, we have gained numerous partners who actively support the start-up region.

Our strategic partners

Our network partners

  • adesso AG
  • b.experts
  • b.value
  • Bechtle
  • BIO-Securtiy
  • Business Angels Agency Ruhr
  • College of Management of Technology
  • Think tank
  • em lyon business school
  • Freundlieb
  • GRIP GmbH
  • Founder fund Ruhr
  • Founder alliance Ruhr
  • Hamtec
  • HELLA
  • High-Tech Founder Fund
  • Initiativkreis Ruhr
  • International Data Spaces
  • inQventures GmbH
  • IVAM e. V.
  • LDC GmbH
  • Lüntec
  • Materna Information & Communications SE
  • Meta Shelf Construction GmbH
  • Murtfeldt
  • NRW.bank
  • ruhrgründer
  • sdc.ventures
  • SeedCapital Dortmund
  • Signal Iduna Group
  • Savings Bank Dortmund
  • Startup Center Dortmund
  • Tec5Plus
  • TMM
  • TRILUX
  • TWS
  • UA Ruhr New York
  • volterion
  • Wilo Foundation