Investments

693mn €

raised by Hamburg startups in 2022

Talent Pool

24,192

STEM students at Hamburg universities

Community

8th

largest tech community per capita with >35,000 meetup participants

DISCOVER Hamburg startups

Funding data and any possible statistic on Hamburg startups and the local ecosystem. See how the local ecosystem scores against the European competition 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:71/100
2% of founder vote28th Rank
Popularity Growth:1/100
0% increase YoY29th Rank
Global Connectivity:42/100
16 connectivity points27th Rank
Brand Visibility:15/100
15 visibility points15th Rank
Foreign Founders:39/100
26% foreign-born founders32nd Rank
Expansion Destination:19/100
8 local offices of unicorns8th Rank
Female Founders:59/100
12% female founders43rd Rank
Developer Availability:29/100
6,186 developers15th Rank
Industry Connections:80/100
57% endorsements by founders17th Rank
Investment Raised:26/100
738mn € avg./yr.16th Rank
Investment Growth:80/100
152% growth of 3yr average13th Rank
Exits:14/100
1,128mn € avg./yr.26th Rank
Value for Money:63/100
44% founder endorsements44th Rank
Jobs Creation:41/100
406 jobs created last month8th Rank
Purpose Orientation:9/100
90% signal strength24th Rank
Ease of Doing Business:63/100
44% founder endorsements39th Rank
Entrepreneurial Universities:14/100
356 university founders32nd Rank
LogoOpportunityTypeDateDeadlineWebsite
UITP SummitConference2025-06-1515/06/2025
nextMedia.festivalConference2025-06-1717/06/2025
Foodlab Hamburg AcceleratorAccelerator2025-09-2830/06/2025
NEXT ConferenceConference2025-09-1818/09/2025
Hydrogen Technology Expo EuropeConference2025-10-2121/10/2025
Program NameCityEquityFunding
comdirect Startup GarageHamburg02,000.00
Start-up Labs BahrenfeldHamburg
Cross Innovation HubHamburg0
Food HarbourHamburg0
foodlabHamburg0unknown
Scaleup Landing Pad HamburgHamburg50,000.00
Games Lift IncubatorHamburg015,000.00
Hanse VenturesHamburgunknownunknown
HK100Hamburg0
Holistic Impact AcceleratorHamburg0
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ECOSYSTEM Data and statistics on Hamburg startups

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

TOP ACCELERATORS FOR Hamburg startups

Program NameTrust ScoreFundingEquityBusiness Model
Next Commerce Accelerator 96.33 25,000 4 Equity
Next Media Accelerator 92.14 0 3 Equity
Media Lift 92.14 15,000
AI.STARTUP.HUB Hamburg 89.73 0 0 no costs
comdirect Startup Garage 89.73 2,000 0 no costs
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TECH NEWS

FOUNDERS’ VIEWS

Andreas Kitzing, CEO at Sponsoo

“Hamburg is like the perfect mash-up of different startup scenes in Germany. It has a vibrant startup culture and creative / media scene (like Berlin), but it also has the close connections to industry and large corporations (like Düsseldorf). It’s a beautiful city with an enormously high living standard (like Munich), though with a bit fairer rent prices. Overall, for us Hamburg was and still is the perfect place to found our company.”

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Veronika Reichboth

Veronika Reichboth

Director Startup-Unit, Hamburg Invest

startup-unit(at)hamburg-invest.com
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The Startup Unit serves as the central point of contact for anyone looking for information on innovative startups, events and conferences, universities, public funding agencies, economic clusters, as well as incubator and accelerator programmes.

 

HIW Hamburg Invest
Wirtschaftsförderungsgesellschaft mbH
Wexstraße 7
20355 Hamburg
Germany

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Phone: +49 40 – 227019 – 0
E-mail: info(at)hamburg-invest.com

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