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For the Next Generation Mittelstand

The transformation to a sustainable society can only succeed with a vital startup ecosystem. To create the right conditions for this, we connect startups, science and business. Our goal: a Next Generation Mittelstand that are diverse, successful, innovative and collaborative.

Find out more about the topics that occupied us in 2024 and download our Delta Report '24 (6 MB) down.

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Guests at the Match Arena
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Guests at the Match Arena
Lighthouse competition

On the way to the Startup Factory with a strong consortium

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The federal government's lighthouse competition

Five to ten lighthouses (Startup Factories) are to be established throughout Germany as central contact points for innovations. We are applying to be one of these Startup Factories in a new, strong consortium of institutions from academia and industry.

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University of Stuttgart
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University of Stuttgart
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Locations

At home in THE LÄND

Our head office is currently ARENA2036 in Stuttgart - the research campus for startups, industry and academia. Further locations will be added in the future by our partners within the consortium. This will enable us to strengthen the startup ecosystem across different regions.

Several people can be seen chatting at the CXO DINNER 2023.
Several people can be seen chatting at the CXO DINNER 2023.
Our team

At NXTGN we are team players

As a large, colourful team, we are constantly working on the transformation to a sustainable society.

Are you motivated to grow with us? Then take a look at our job advertisement. We look forward to receiving your application!

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Past From the Gründermotor

In the course of the new alliance, the Gründermotor became NXTGN

The consortium behind NXTGN was formed in 2023, but the history of the institutions involved in the merger goes back several years. This also applies to the Gründermotor Landesinitiative and Gründermotor GmbH, which are now known under their new names, NXTGN Landesinitiative and NXTGN GmbH.

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July 2024

Our Startup Factory application has moved on to the next round, the concept phase. As part of this process, we are adopting a new name as a joint venture: NXTGN. From now on, the Gründermotor Landesinitiative and Gründermotor GmbH will also bear the new name NXTGN.

All information and news about the Startup Factory application is now available on the Lighthouse competition to find.

The Gründermotor team

September 2023

Introducing our new alliance! Together with strong partners from academia and industry, we are now starting to build our joint venture. Together, we will submit a project outline in April 2024 for the Lighthouse competition .

The common goal of the new alliance is to promote and network startups, academia and industry for a sustainable and innovative Next Generation Mittelstand. 

The Gründermotor team

June 2023

The startup engine expands! With "Mätch VC", we have now launched a venture capital fund in which Gründermotor also holds shares. This expands the scope of Gründermotor through Mätch VC's mission to support technology startups in the fields of industrial B2B, sustainable change and climate tech. Mätch VC was created out of the motivation to offer financing to the most promising startup teams from Gründermotor.

The Gründermotor team

March 2023

In order to better fulfil the growth of Gründermotor and our goal of establishing an innovation and startup platform with European appeal, the underlying structure of Gründermotor is also changing: the private side of Gründermotor is establishing an independent limited company with a statute oriented towards the common good and without any commercial interests of its own, and is breaking away from Pioniergeist.

October 2021

The startup program ASAP BW as well as other exchange and further training formats for educators become part of the Gründermotor Initiative. A cooperation agreement is signed between Gründermotor GmbH & Co. KG, the Institute for Entrepreneurship at the University of Stuttgart and the Stuttgart Media University. This cooperation turns the Gründermotor into a public private partnership!

May 2021

In conjunction with Start-up BW the state of Baden-Württemberg initiates the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research The "Gründermotor Entrepreneurship Education" project group was established at the University of Stuttgart. Since then, under the leadership of Dr. Eric Heintze, this group has been working on connecting universities and colleges to the Gründermotor Initiative, training startup coaches and accompanying entrepreneurial research.

February 2018

Kretschmann, State Premier of Baden-Württemberg, provides the initial impetus for the launch of the Gründermotor Initiative. The idea is supported by Dr. Helmut Schelling, founder ofVector Informatik and founder of the Vector Foundation and together with Adrian Thoma, founder of the Stuttgart Venture Builder & Startup Hub Pioneering spirit realised as a general contractor. Gründermotor is now financed by many other business partners in order to establish a dynamic startup scene in Baden-Württemberg.

Up to something new?

Then take a look at the job advertisements in our jobportal.

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