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Venture Capital

Since 2026, we have been investing a portion of our endowment capital in early-stage deep tech startups through our own venture capital fund, with a…

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LEC Legal Playbook

A practical guide to launching a startup, initial funding rounds, and more—designed for startup incubators and mentors.

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2026 Joachim Herz Award: Shortlist

How can water be used in a smart, sustainable, and resilient way? This is the question being addressed by the researchers nominated for the 2026…

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We support deep tech

We are funding two nonprofit projects, each with up to 1,000,000 euros, that aim to create better conditions for deep-tech startups.

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We support risky, interdisciplinary and application-oriented research projects at the interfaces between engineering and the natural sciences, because we can only meet the challenges of our present with innovative ideas from science.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr. Sabine Kunst
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