DISCOVER Cologne Startups

Funding data and any possible statistic on Cologne Startups and the local ecosystem. See how the local ecosystem scores against the European competition of startup hubs in the statistics below. If you have your own startup company find funding calls and accelerator programs to apply to, see statistics on previous participants of these programs. You can see the statistics on total investment raised, female founders or foreign-born and migrant founders in this tech hub.

All of the data is curated by the DEEP research team and comes from 1st party sources like the Annual Startup Heatmap Survey or our monitor for job creation, news mentions and female founders. Other data comes from 3rd party sources like Dealroom, Crunchbase or Stackoverflow.

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Scores
Popularity Score:36/100
1% of founder vote52nd Rank
Global Connectivity:15/100
6 connectivity points55th Rank
Brand Visibility:5/100
5 visibility points25th Rank
Foreign Founders:6/100
4% foreign-born founders60th Rank
Expansion Destination:3/100
1 local offices of unicorns41st Rank
Female Founders:48/100
9% female founders49th Rank
Developer Availability:12/100
2,499 developers37th Rank
Industry Connections:65/100
46% endorsements by founders38th Rank
Investment Raised:10/100
272mn € avg./yr.27th Rank
Investment Growth:87/100
180% growth of 3yr average12th Rank
Exits:10/100
272mn € avg./yr.27th Rank
Value for Money:60/100
42% founder endorsements46th Rank
Jobs Creation:61/100
284 jobs created last month10th Rank
Purpose Orientation:7/100
85% signal strength24th Rank
Ease of Doing Business:43/100
30% founder endorsements52nd Rank
Entrepreneurial Universities:5/100
134 university founders53rd Rank
LogoOpportunityTypeDateDeadlineWebsite
DMEXCO - Digital Marketing Exposition & ConferenceConference2025-09-1717/09/2025
Program NameCityEquityFunding
Gateway AcceleratorCologne0
STARTPLATZ AcceleratorCologne0
Showing 1 to 2 of 2 entries (filtered from 148 total entries)
ProgramName/StartupCity/AcceleratorAccelerated/year
Gateway Accelerator
Gateway Accelerator Beautinda Cologne 2020
Gateway Accelerator AutLay Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator Bipolymer Systeme Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator Catch Talents Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator ColFerroX Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator EIDOdata Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator goFLUX Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator Humeo Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator Mecorad Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator MyDaylivery Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator Phytolinc Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator R(h)eingarnelen Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator Touching Points / Kovibri Cologne 2018
Gateway Accelerator LOLOCO Cologne 2019
Gateway Accelerator Mooncamp Cologne 2019
Gateway Accelerator Plastic2Beans Cologne 2019
Gateway Accelerator DynAmaze Cologne 2019
Gateway Accelerator Green for me Cologne 2019
Gateway Accelerator kauri. Cologne 2019
Gateway Accelerator DronOSS Cologne 2019
Gateway Accelerator RE:Charge (YOMOLOPO UG) Cologne 2019
Gateway Accelerator Genomify Cologne 2019
Gateway Accelerator DocuDiet Cologne 2019
Gateway Accelerator Co-Leader Cologne 2020
Gateway Accelerator fimo Health Cologne 2020
Showing 1 to 25 of 79 entries (filtered from 5,999 total entries)


ECOSYSTEM Data and statistics on Cologne Startups

What do I see here?Ecosystem Data is based on 1st and 3rd party research. Each source is individually checked and validated.

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