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Become a part of Europe’s largest open innovation platform.

Is your company eager to make an impact with innovation? Collaborate with major industry players to attract the best international startups and solve the challenges of the future, today.

 

Meet our Partners!

3 Key benefits of being a partner

Scouting

Discover applicable technologies to innovate, extend or improve your business model efficiently and effectively. Utilize the strong global network and reputation of Startup Autobahn to scout startups that could be the perfect match for your idea or challenge, and meet them face-to-face in curated deep dives and deal-flows.

Collaboration

Our strong network allows us to attract the best startups worldwide, and in addition, our platform promotes cross-collaboration between partners, supporting joint projects with other partners, right from the start.

Mindset Shift

Innovation requires an open mindset. We will support you in activating or furthering a culture of innovation within your organization. This can be achieved through exposing your organization to a broad range of activities and tech-topic-focused monthly events, and a continued dialogue with key stakeholders.

Our Partners

We – Daimler, Plug and Play, the University of Stuttgart and ARENA2036 as founding partners, as well as DXC, Porsche, BASF, ZF, DPDHL, RRPS, Webasto, Motherson, T-Systems, Wabco and Bosch as anchor partners of STARTUP AUTOBAHN – believe in a culture of open doors, disruptive thinking and the open exchange of ideas, technologies and contacts to get startups moving faster.

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STARTUP AUTOBAHN already includes 30 renowned partners! You want to become a part of this growing community? Learn more about ways to get involved below!

Question the fundamental things

What we‘re aiming for is to systematically generate ideas across all areas, and for these to put into practice quickly and flexibly. We want responses to urgent questions, without being blinkered in our approach. What we don‘t want is a culture of avoidance, but an enterprise culture in the truest sense of the word. We don‘t want to be any different, we want to be better. Our collaborations, such as those arising from the STARTUP AUTOBAHN project, can only help us to achieve this.

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Oliver Blume

CEO

Dr. Ing. Hc F. Porsche AG

To fosters the spirit of entrepreneurship

The University of Stuttgart supports STARTUP AUTOBAHN, because we are convinced that the project fosters the spirit of entrepreneurship on campus.

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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfram Ressel

Rector

University of Stuttgart

Become a partner

STARTUP AUTOBAHN powered by Plug and Play, became the biggest Innovation platform facilitating more than 100 innovation projects between startups and corporations per year. We give major industry players the possibility to source, pilot and implement technologies with efficiency and effectiveness. The crucial factor for startups worldwide to travel to Stuttgart, or wherever our partners are located, is a strong network of active corporate partners. Throughout our journey we managed to build up a strong network and we are constantly working at expanding it. Become a partner of STARTUP AUTOBAHN and bring your Innovation activities to the next level.

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Anchor Partners

Our Anchor Partners shape the technological focus of each program by hosting monthly industry events. Our team scouts startups based on the partners’ focus topics and personally introduces all startups to them during our “Deep Dives/Meetups” and within private “Dealflows”.

Ecosystem Partners

Our Ecosystem Partnership model includes the access to our program startups as well as to our official monthly events. Additionally, our team scouts and introduces hand-picked startups within private “Dealflows”, usually to solve a specific technological use case or pain point of our Ecosystem Partners.

Strategic Partners

Our Strategic Partnership model includes access to our platform as well as to our official monthly events. Additionally, both sides support each other in individual defined fields. We are happy to welcome universities, VCs, government, media, institutes or delegations.

Join a growing network

STARTUP AUTOBAHN already includes 30 renowned partners. Are you interested in joining this fast growing community? Then click on the button below!

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Questions?

Contact for Partnerships
Sascha Karimpour
Partner
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Contact for Startups
Theodora Preda
Ventures Director
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