Entrepreneurship News
Interview with President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann and Prof. Annette Diefenthaler
"Making innovations trustworthy and socially acceptable"
As an Integrative Research Institute, the Munich Design Institute (MDI) brings together various academic disciplines and incorporates perspectives from the public through design and design research. In this interview, President Prof. Thomas F. Hofmann and Prof. Annette Diefenthaler, founding director of the MDI, discuss what design can achieve in the context of rapid social change and how society-centered research can succeed.
New biotech hub
BioLabs|TUM launched to foster start-ups
TUM Venture Labs, BioLabs and Eli Lilly and Company (Lilly) today launched BioLabs|TUM, a new biotechnology innovation hub in central Munich. The initiative aims to empower early-stage biotech start-ups by providing access to state-of-the-art lab infrastructure, expert mentoring, and global industry networks.
Start-up FAST AI Movies
Starting a company while still at school
The day before his high school diploma math exam, Florian Scherl was not studying at home. Instead, he was in a notary’s office, founding his own company aged just 18. Now, three years later, the Informatics student is recruiting his first employees.
Entrepreneurship Day brings together Munich ecosystem
Presidential Award goes to AI start-up
For the development of an AI tool that translates complex texts into plain language, the start-up SUMM AI has received the TUM Presidential Entrepreneurship Award. The other finalists for this year’s award were KEWAZO, with a robot for the construction industry, and Phlair, with a new technology for CO2 capture.
TUM spin-off worth over a billion dollars
Isar Aerospace becomes a unicorn
Isar Aerospace, a space company spun off from the 91ÌÒÉ« (TUM), has achieved a company valuation of over a billion dollars and thus unicorn status. This brings the number of TUM unicorns to 22. Isar Aerospace has developed and built its own commercial rocket technology and will transport small and medium-sized satellites into space in the future. The start-up, founded by three graduates, received intensive support from TUM.