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Great news from our alumni startup Sub Capitals: the shareholders of Orca Capital AG have acquired 100% of Sub Capitals GmbH. This marks the start of a new chapter for the young Munich-based AI company.

We are delighted to support our startup DRIK 17 on the way to their first Kickstarter campaign. On 01.09.2025 the time has come - then you can pre-order the DRIK 17 Carrier, a clever combination of bicycle water bottle and storage space, exclusively as the first:r. Campaign link (live from 01.09.): DRIK 17 Carrier on Kickstarter

The application phase for the SCE ideas competition at Munich University of Applied Sciences is open!

We are now looking for exciting ideas for the SCE Strascheg Award, which is endowed with prize money totaling 30,000 euros. All students, professors, employees and alumni of HM can apply online with their business ideas for the first two categories until September 12, 2025. For the first time, the award is also open to new external teams with initial market proof in a third category. APPLY NOW!

In less than four weeks, the time has come: the drinktecthe world's leading trade fair for the beverage and liquid food industry, opens its doors in Munich (September 15-19). And our innovation ecosystem for the beverage industry, DICA - Dynamic Innovation Campus Drinks & Food Techis right in the middle of it!

The third and final call for applications for the part-time doctoral program Doctorate in Business Innovation (DBI) will run from 2 to 5 September 2025. Interested parties only have a few days to apply for the program in the current academic year. The program is scheduled to start at the beginning of November. The DBI is offered by the Strascheg Center for Entrepreneurship (SCE) together with the University of Aveiro (Portugal) and is aimed at professionals with a Master's degree who would like to deepen their academic qualifications in the field of business innovation.

Dear alumni, SCE is once again taking part in the Financial Times evaluation of "Europe's Leading Start-up Hubs" - and we are counting on your support! The Financial Times - together with their research partner Statista and their colleagues at Sifted, the content platform for entrepreneurs - would like to evaluate accelerator and incubator programs in Europe.

Germany is facing a major challenge: while traditional strengths such as the automotive industry and mechanical engineering are coming under pressure, the country is increasingly losing out when it comes to digital innovations - especially generative AI.

But there is hope: the new study Collaborate to Innovate Making Partnerships Work in Uncertain Times by the Startup Association and Accenture shows that collaboration between startups and established companies has enormous potential for the future.

Our good friends from the Social Entrepreneurship Academy (SEA) have reason to celebrate: The Social Startup Hub Bavaria is featured on four pages of the renowned StartingUp magazine. The article impressively shows how entrepreneurship with a social impact is shaping the economy of the future - and how founders throughout Bavaria are benefiting from it.

The digital transformation poses major challenges for companies in the agricultural and food sector - but also offers enormous opportunities. How can data be used strategically to drive innovation and enable sustainable value creation? This is exactly what our exclusive webinar series "Data to Value - Innovation meets Tradition", organized by the SCE's Dynamic Innovation Campus (DICA), sheds light on. The next seminar on 26 September will be all about agriculture and its digitalization with "AgTech". Register now!

Food Harbour Hamburg and EDEKA Nord are entering into a partnership that offers food companies - especially start-ups and innovative manufacturers - a unique opportunity to test new products under real sales conditions. The cooperation makes it possible to present new products in selected EDEKA test stores and to analyze the purchasing behavior of customers directly and unadulterated in the store.

The application phase for SFF START is officially open! START is the first phase of the international SFF Open Incubator - a 10-week intensive program that supports founders in developing their ideas into viable, incubation-ready business models. Until September 21, 2025 (11:59 PM CEST), founders, teams and solopreneurs have the chance to apply for the international program.

The application window for our Academic Program for Entrepreneurship (APE) is open again. APE is a 2-semester additional qualification program in the field of entrepreneurship, design thinking, lean startup, prototyping and business modeling at Munich University of Applied Sciences and SCE and is open to students of all universities and professionals. Imagine the future will be wonderful - and it's your fault! Expand your key skills and apply now at: www.sce.de/ape.

Three years after its foundation, SCE Alumni Startup Omegga launches its first OmeggaOne system. OmeggaOne is a completely new solution for the poultry industry that makes it possible to determine the sex of laying hen chicks in the egg before the seventh day of incubation non-invasively and without damaging the embryo.

The Bavaria Israel Partnership Accelerator (BIPA) is entering the next round: From October 13 to December 18, 2025, the 14th edition of the program will once again bring together students and young professionals from Bavaria, Israel and, for the first time, the USA to work together on real innovation challenges posed by Bavarian companies and public institutions.

After stops in Heilbronn and Berlin, THE POOL, the successful format for co-founder matching and AI startup building initiated in Munich, is coming back home: The next edition will take place at Google in the 10X Area from September 15 to 19, 2025.

The latest Next Generation Report by the Startup Association and startupdetector shows a sustained upward trend in new startups in Germany in the first half of 2025. With a total of 1,500 new startups nationwide, an increase of 9% was recorded compared to the second half of 2024.

Growth is particularly strong in Bavaria: With 343 new start-ups, the state is once again ahead of Berlin, recording growth of around 23%. This confirms the trend of recent years, in which Bavaria has played a central role in the German startup ecosystem.

Every year at the end of the summer semester, around 120 students from various faculties come together in the SOCIAL X-FACTOR real project to work on a social challenge in a block seminar in interdisciplinary teams. The theme of this semester was Rethinking Education: Rethinking Education Entrepreneurially. In just one week, a total of 24 teams developed innovative ideas and functioning prototypes. We present the winners of the Social X-Factor 2025 here.

The rapid rise of start-ups in the defense sector shows how the image is changing from a taboo area to a technology of the future. Between agility, dual-use innovations and ethical gray areas, a dynamic ecosystem is emerging - with many unanswered questions.