With a new consortium, we will be able to offer NXTGN!

In the future, startup factories will be the central contact points for innovations in Germany. As NXTGN, we are striving to become one of these startup factories.

The lighthouse competition

Federal government promotes startup factories

The German government is expanding EXIST funding to include the "Startup Factories Lighthouse Competition" (dt. Leuchtturmwettbewerb Startup Factories). The aim is to establish supra-regional and internationally visible startup factories as lighthouses and thus increase the number and quality of knowledge-based spin-offs.

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Our consortium

NXTGN applies as Startup Factory

As an association from Baden-Württemberg, we are applying to become a Startup Factory. This newly formed consortium bears the name NXTGN - derived from Next Generation. It emphasises the goal we are all working towards: a successful, innovative and closely connected next generation of companies and their contribution to a sustainable society.

consortium partner

A strong alliance from Baden-Württemberg

For the Startup Factory application, we have teamed up with strong partners from science and business.

The academia partners are represented by the KIT Gründerschmiedethe Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Research and Traces of the University of Stuttgart, hei_INNOVATION the University of Heidelberg, Entrepreneurs Campus the University of Ulm and the Institute for Applied Research of the Hochschule der Medien.

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OUR GOALS

We want to make a major contribution to the transformation by 2030

300

tech spin-offs 

10.000

new jobs

1 billion

brokered venture capital

MILESTONES

This is our path to the Startup Factory

2025

On to the final project phase

By summer 2025, we will develop a convincing concept with which we will apply for the final, 5-year funding of the federal competition. The start of the project phase is dependent on the 2025 budget coming into force. ….

06.06.2024

We are concept phase winners

At the EXIST Congress 2024 in Berlin, it was announced that the NXTGN network will receive funding for the concept phase.

10.04.2024

Our application has been officially submitted

The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) has successfully submitted our project outline.

21.09.2023

Introducing our association

It's official: we are joining forces and will be submitting an application for the lighthouse competition.

CONTACT US

Do you have questions about NXTGN?

Use our general contact form or get in touch with the Startup Factory project team.

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