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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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
Logo | Program Name | Trust Score | Funding | Equity | Business Model |
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Next Commerce Accelerator | 96.33 | 25,000 | 4 | Equity |
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Next Media Accelerator | 92.14 | 0 | 3 | Equity |
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Media Lift | 92.14 | 15,000 | ||
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AI.STARTUP.HUB Hamburg | 89.73 | 0 | 0 | no costs |
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comdirect Startup Garage | 89.73 | 2,000 | 0 | no costs |
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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
Director Startup-Unit, Hamburg Invest
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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
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20355 Hamburg
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