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HafTea is the first cannabis iced tea in a can with green tea, lemon and hemp flavor and was awarded gold in the category iced tea at the Beverages Award 2021. We say: Honor to whom honor is due and if even rapper Haftbefehl recommends it, you should not miss the first cannabis iced tea - Baba HafTea Lemon OG! HafTea comes from Canlife and Canlife is part of our Drink Innovation Campus (DICA).

E-mobility startup ChargeX has successfully closed its €4.5 million Series A financing round. The newly acquired investors are Munich-based high-impact investor BonVenture, Hamburg-based investor Hevella Capital and the Smart Energy Innovation Fund of Swiss utility Energie 360°.

"Real Time Innovation" is an innovation approach that illuminates implicit knowledge and success patterns for innovation processes in the social and entrepreneurial environment and makes them usable through a set of cards and a canvas. Today we present the next card: "Open to other ideas". Each card represents a success pattern for one dimension in the innovation process. More info here.

For the fourth time, the City of Munich is organizing an innovation competition in the field of smart cities. Students, founders and all players from the startup community are called upon to develop viable, innovative solutions for given municipal issues.

DICA Batch#06 startup Nix&Kix "Raspberry & Rhubarb" voted best adult soft drink by Snackfully for Dry January 2022!????

Florian Stark, Sebastian Lieder and Matthias Hamborg are part of Batch #6 of the Start-up Certificate since 2021 with their start-up AgraCheck, a smart comparison platform for agricultural technologies. The Strascheg Award winning team of 2021 (3rd place in category "Best Business Idea from Science and Practice") came into contact with the SCE early on as a student of the first year of the study program "Entrepreneurship & Digital Transformation" with Florian Stark. This contact was then deepened through participation in the Start-up Certificate. If you also have a great idea and are still looking for a start-up home , then let Florian, Sebastian and Matthias convince you in the following interview to come to HM SCE and apply with your idea for the Start-up Certificate.

In the first episode of the new year, we welcome Penny Schiffer. Penny is Co-Founder & CEO Raized.ai. Venture capital, bootstrapping or when is the best time to invest in a startup? In this informative episode, we dive into the world of venture capital and what matters to investor:s when investing in startups. Penny Schiffer, who co-founded Raized.ai with Thomas Schulz, was previously an investor herself and knows what matters in the screening process. Penny explains all the technical terms in an easy-to-understand way and shares with us exciting impressions from her own investor roadshow in Silicon Valley.Listen now!

Apply until January 10, 2022 with your innovative project and receive competent and individual support for the realization of your own start-up and also receive a university certificate free of charge. Apply now for our Start-up Certificate Program and become part of the Start-up League.

Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences (HM) with its Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) has also been successful in the competitive second stage of the "Entrepreneurial Skills" program of the Stifterverband. Out of a total of 69 submissions from German colleges and universities, HM and SCE were able to prevail with their concept "Entrepreneurship & Innovation Introduction Days" as one of four successful submissions.

Michael Fried, Silvan Armbruster and Ansgar Dirscherl were part of Batch #5 of the Start-up Certificate Program in 2021 with their start-up santic, a digital trade fair platform. The idea for the start-up was developed by the three students of the Munich University of Applied Sciences in a study project, and was then further developed and marketed with the help of the Start-up Certificate Program. Do you also have a great idea and are still looking for a start-up home? Then let the three convince you in the following interview to come to the SCE of the HM and apply with your idea for the Start-up Certificate until January 10, 2022.

The Munich model project AI+Munich receives 5.9 million euros as part of the EXIST "Start-ups from Science" funding program of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Climate Protection (BMWi) to promote start-ups in the field of artificial intelligence. The Munich Center for Digital Sciences and Artificial Intelligence (MUC.DAI) and the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) of the HM - Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, the TUM Venture Labs "Robotics/AI", "Software/AI" and UnternehmerTUM as well as MUC Summit GmbH, which is in the project lead, have developed a joint AI start-up process as partners, which is intended to establish Munich as an AI start-up lighthouse. In the future, they will promote the AI ecosystem in the region, which is embedded in the diverse entrepreneurship activities at the innovation location Munich.

Great news at Start-up Team NAOTILUS, which is currently participating in Batch #6 of our Start-up Certificate Program. The Start-up League team was able to secure the funding decision from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and is funded by an EXIST-Gründerstipendium starting in February 2022. The SCE is happy for the founders, their mentor Prof. Dr.-Ing. Simon Schramm from the Faculty 04, their coach Jana Hollmann and all other supporters of the SCE.

On December 14th we celebrated the closing of the 10th edition of our Bavaria Israel Partnership Accelerator (BIPA). Over 40 students from Bavaria, Israel and for the first time ever - the United Arab Emirates, did an outstanding job working on challenges coming from 9 Bavarian company partners, and worked on solutions that will go long into the future, all with the help of their experienced mentors.

Matthias Babsek, Robin Hamann and Dennis Elflein are part of Batch #5 of the Start-up Certificate since 2021 with their start-up "Re-Tire". The product idea of Re-Tire is a marketplace for verified used tires. Matthias (BA & MA) and Dennis (MA) both studied at the University of Applied Sciences Munich. They were aware of the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship early on through Dennis, who has won the Strascheg Award before, and Matthias, who was in the SCE's startup advisory service. Through a precelerator event, Matthias and Dennis eventually started discussions for their joint startup. With Robin, with whom Matthias comes from the same place and knew from work, the team was completed. They then developed their idea further with the help of the SCE and the HM in the Start-up Certificate. Do you also have a great idea and are still looking for a start-up home? Then let Matthias, Robin and Dennis convince you in the following interview to come to the SCE of the HM and apply with your idea for the Start-up Certificate until January 10, 2022.

Learn more about entreTime - teaching through entrepreneurship and get the latest insight on our activities for boosting entrepreneurship in Europe, here on the last entreTime Newsletter Issue III – December 2021.

In our December episode we welcomeAnastasia Barner, founder of FeMentor, a reverse mentoring platform for women. At 22, she is one of the youngest founders in Germany and has managed to turn a matter of the heart into a successful social start-up in just under 2 years. This episode is all about the topic: mentoring. Anastasia shares with us her story - why she never wanted to be a founder and yet is now, what mentoring means to her and how it has helped her on her personal life journey and why she thinks FeMentor can make a contribution to supporting women on their way. Listen now!

The start-up Team WechselGott receives around 5.6 million euros in a financing round, bringing its total valuation to 28 million. The investors include the broker pool Fonds Finanz and Volksbank Mittelhessen. The insurtech wants to use the investment to develop new products and expand its range.

Michaela Stauch, Lucas Egglseder and Alexander Schöllkopf are part of Batch #5 of the Start-up Certificate since 2021 with their start-up "aephus". Lucas, Bachelor graduate (FK12 Design), and Michaela got to know each other in the joint Master "Entrepreneurship and Digital Transformation"  of HM and SCE. In this, the Strascheg Award winning team of 2020 (3rd place in the category "Best Business Idea from a Course") started working on their idea of a modular jewelry with automatic fall detection and notification function to improve the quality of care.If you also have a great idea and are still looking for a start-up home , let Michaela, Lucas and Alexander convince you in the following interview to come to HM's SCE to start up and apply with your idea for the Start-up Certificate until January 10, 2022.