Start2 Group

Name: Start2 Group
Address: Balanstraße 73, Munich, 81541, DE
Telephone: +498937014362

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From innovating to going global, Start2 Group is your partner on the journey to success. We Are The Start Up Journey.

07/09/2026

We've been doing 𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙚-𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙥 𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙥𝙨 since before it had a name.

Since 2008, Start2 Group has worked with 6,000+ startups. What we learned: access alone doesn't create innovation impact. Corporates need a systematic way to identify the right problems, validate the right solutions, and scale what works.

That's why we doubled down on 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 and joined forces with GlassDollar: our hands-on startup expertise and global network, combined with their leading 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 software. One scalable, end-to-end service, from challenge to measurable business impact.

In practice:
✅ Systematic challenge identification and prioritization
✅ Comprehensive startup sourcing and validation
✅ PoC design and management from challenge to rollout
✅ Adoption and scaling support with dedicated KPIs
✅ Continuous stakeholder coordination and impact tracking

150+ people. 20 locations. 33 markets.
Modular by design: the full process, or just where your team needs support.

Corporate innovator looking to find better startups faster? Let's talk.

Learn more: https://www.start2.group/blog/start2group-x-venture-clienting
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Join our invite-only 𝗩𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘚𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵 at Bits & Pretzels,
🗓️ Sept. 29
🕕 18:00 to 21:00
📍 Start2 Group, Munich

⚠️ Space is limited.
👉 Request to join here: https://luma.com/wxm7ynri

07/09/2026

🚀 Start2 Group x S-Tron China

We’re excited to officially partner with -Tron China (S创中国), a long-standing partner and supporter of the Start2 ecosystem.

Over the past years, S-Tron has helped create valuable connections between startups, investors, and innovation leaders, and we’re looking forward to building on this strong collaboration to create even more opportunities for global startups in China 🤝.

Through this partnership, Start2 and S-Tron China will create more opportunities for:

🌏 Global startups to explore the Chinese market
🤝 Cross-border connections with investors, corporates, and ecosystem partners
💡 Exchange and collaboration around emerging technologies and innovation

📅 S-Tron Shanghai 2026 | September 22–23, Shanghai

🎟️ Limited free tickets are available for the Start2 community!

If you’re a global startup interested in exploring China and connecting with the local innovation ecosystem, register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/s-tron-shanghai-2026-tickets-1979297181150?discount=start2group

07/09/2026

German Accelerator is launching its first cohort to France, starting with 𝙁𝙪𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨!

France is actively reindustrializing: strengthening its manufacturing base, decarbonizing production, building sovereignty in critical inputs, and backing the technologies to make it happen.

The catch: it's not a copy-paste of the German playbook. French decisions run through longer, more hierarchical chains, and buyers expect more proof and formality before they trust a new partner.

𝗙𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀 is built to turn that months-long process into a few effective weeks, with direct access to the people who actually decide:
▪️ Pre-arranged meetings in different formats with experts, potential buyers, investors, partners, and integrators
▪️ Roundtables inside France's key industrial clusters
▪️ Participation at STEP by Pollutec in Paris

Open to German B2B startups and scaleups helping industries with productivity, resilience, and sustainability, seed stage or beyond, funded and ready to scale internationally.

📍 Paris, France
🗓️ Nov. 2 – Dec. 18, 2026
🛫 Onsite Nov. 30 – Dec. 4, 2026
🚨 Deadline: Sept. 18, 2026

✍ Apply: https://start2.acceleratorapp.co/apply/program/france-market-discovery-future-industries
Learn more: https://www.germanaccelerator.com/our-programs/europe/france-market-discovery-future-industries
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06/09/2026

𝘞𝘦’𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘴 𝘣𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘴 𝘌𝘶𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦’𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘱 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥…𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘸𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘺’𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘨𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰𝘭𝘥.
— Matthias Notz, CEO .group

Nobody scales alone. For 18 years, that’s meant building bridges: raw idea to real company, Munich to São Paulo, first-time founder to mentors who’ve already done it.

The Financial Times and Statista's Europe’s Leading Start-Up Hubs 2027 ranking is written largely by the people who crossed those bridges.

Went through German Accelerator, Scaler8, , .nrw, Cashwalk, Cashcamp, or Start2Explore UAE? This is where that story gets told.

🗳️ Cast your vote: https://tinyurl.com/yydcpjz7

📌 Joined from an international location (LatAm, Singapore, India, Silicon Valley)?

Select Germany/Europe as the program’s country of origin so it counts.

💾 Save this.
📲 Share it with a founder who should vote.
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05/09/2026

Europe is getting better at funding innovation. Scaling it is the opportunity in front of us.

At the last Rise & Scale, ecosystem leaders agreed on two things: bring public and private capital together, and get corporates involved with startups earlier.

For Lotta Partanen, Head of Incubation and Acceleration at VTT LaunchPad, seeing that shared view across European ecosystems was one of her biggest takeaways from the day.

Same challenges across Europe, different approaches to solving them. That’s what Rise & Scale is for: bringing ecosystem leaders together to compare notes and find ways to collaborate across borders.

🎥 Lotta, in her own words.

More to come from Rise & Scale.
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04/09/2026

Start2 Group is giving Venture Clienting a much deserved space on this year’s Bits & Pretzels Side Event agenda.

A mixer for innovation leaders with one shared focus: Venture Clienting.

We’ve spent 17+ years enabling corporate-startup partnerships and rooms like this one, long before “Venture Clienting” had a name.

Whether you’re on day one or year five, you belong here. The mix is intentional.

Space is limited, invite-only.
Free to attend, food and drinks on us.

🗓️ September 29, 2026
🕕 18:00 - 21:00
📍 Start2 Group Office, Munich

Interested?

Request to join via 🔗 in bio ⬆️.

01/09/2026

Wellness is becoming a serious growth market in India, and founders like HypnoBox - The Hypnosis App are taking notice. 🌱

They are building one of the most comprehensive English-language hypnosis apps, helping users create personalized sessions for their mental wellness journey.

Through German Accelerator, the team gained direct access to India's mental wellness and corporate wellbeing ecosystem, connecting with mentors, industry experts, and key stakeholders who helped them decode Indian customer behavior and market positioning.

"𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘶𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵, 𝘦𝘤𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘰𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘸𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘶𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺," share Sebastian Meckelmann and Christian Meckelmann, Co-Founders of HypnoBox - The Hypnosis App.

The 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝗰𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 program gives founders this same direct access to India's ecosystem. It connects you with the right mentors and stakeholders and gives you the market intelligence that would otherwise take years to build.

If India is part of your growth plans, this is the opportunity to get there faster.

👉 Register now for the October 2026 cohort: https://www.germanaccelerator.com/our-programs/asia/india-market-discovery...

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28/08/2026

Start2 Group is proud to be a community partner for Aspire's flagship event, 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁.

𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗡𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: 𝘽𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙊𝙧𝙗𝙞𝙩 happening on 3 September, celebrates the entrepreneurs who dare to defy gravity, the ones who push beyond expectation and prove the future belongs to those willing to reach for it first.

What to expect:
🚀 300+ founders, VCs and startup ecosystem leaders
🚀 Dinner and drinks to fuel quality conversations
🚀 Surprise experiences in true Founders Night fashion

This is for the founders who aren't waiting for permission to take off. They're breaking orbit.

Spots are limited and approval-based.

RSVP with the link below and we look forward to seeing you there!
➡️ https://luma.com/y2lubnu1?utm_source=START2...

Aspire Hong Kong

26/08/2026

Marius Rosenberg built and exited a Life Sciences hardware company, Adhesys Medical, in 2017.

Now .group’s CPO, Ecosystem Architect, and Program Lead of .nrw, he’s a familiar name to founders, investors, academia, and policymakers across the innovation landscape.

Today he has one ask: “If you’ve ever received help from Start2 or from me personally, please fill out the survey to help us be recognized as one of Europe’s leading startup hubs.”

His message to every founder: being good isn’t the job, being seen is. Capital and visibility go to the companies on the radar, not just the ones that deserve to be.

Same logic applies to ecosystems.

The and Leading Start-Up Hubs 2027 ranking is built from surveys of founders, investors, and researchers, plus each hub’s actual economic performance. It’s what signals to international VC where real deal flow and mentorship infrastructure exist.

Three years ago, Start2 was #3. Last year, #2, with #1 in Hub Network and Alumni Track Record.

The next number is yet to be written.

If Start2 was part of your journey, through German Accelerator, Scaler8, Scale-up.NRW, Gateway Factory, MPF Start-up Accelerator, Cashwalk, Cashcamp, or Start2Explore UAE, two minutes is your input toward that score.

🗳️ Vote here: https://tinyurl.com/yydcpjz7

📌 *Joined us abroad (LatAm, Singapore, Silicon Valley, Japan, India, etc.)? Select Germany/Europe as your program’s origin so your voice counts.
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*German Accelerator is a program of the

**MPF Start-up Accelerator is hosted by 𝗠𝗣𝗙 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁-𝘂𝗽 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗺𝗯𝗛, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Max-Planck-Förderstiftung.

25/08/2026

All roads lead to San Francisco, CA!

Join us on Wednesday, September 23, for an evening of startup pitches and networking, where founders, investors, and members of the German-American community come together to celebrate university-driven innovation.

Five German startups from the TU München University U.S. Venture program will take the stage to share their innovations and entrepreneurial journeys.

We're thrilled to hear from 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗵, 𝗡𝗮𝘃𝘃𝗲𝗴𝗼, 𝗡𝗘𝗪 𝗘𝗥𝗔 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗗, 𝗦𝗜𝗙, and 𝗧𝗲𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰!

📍 SAP Labs
🗓️ September 23 | 6:00 – 8:30 PM PDT

Hope to see you there!

Register here: https://luma.com/tr6jtx8j

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